Daily Update - dpkg problem?

[lowey23]

Updgraded Breezy to Dapper a couple of weeks ago (against all advice and better judgement) and all has been going well. I downloaded todays 92 package update and it doesn't appear to work. It seems like it has downloaded but doesn't want to dpkg things. Here is the console print after apt-get upgrade

Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
flashplugin-nonfree fontconfig gstreamer0.8-a52dec gstreamer0.8-aa
gstreamer0.8-alsa gstreamer0.8-artsd gstreamer0.8-audiofile
gstreamer0.8-caca gstreamer0.8-cdio gstreamer0.8-cdparanoia
gstreamer0.8-dv gstreamer0.8-dvd gstreamer0.8-esd
gstreamer0.8-festival gstreamer0.8-flac gstreamer0.8-gsm
gstreamer0.8-gtk gstreamer0.8-hermes gstreamer0.8-jpeg
gstreamer0.8-mad gstreamer0.8-mikmod gstreamer0.8-misc
gstreamer0.8-mms gstreamer0.8-mpeg2dec gstreamer0.8-musepack
gstreamer0.8-oss gstreamer0.8-plugin-apps gstreamer0.8-sdl
gstreamer0.8-sid gstreamer0.8-speex gstreamer0.8-swfdec
gstreamer0.8-theora gstreamer0.8-vorbis gstreamer0.8-x
gtk2-engines-gtk-qt kate kcontrol kde-guidance kdebase-bin
kdebase-data kdebase-doc-html kdebase-kio-plugins kdelibs-bin
kdelibs-data kdelibs4c2a kdepasswd kdeprint kdesktop kdm kfind
khelpcenter kicker kio-apt kivio-data klipper kmenuedit koffice-data
koffice-libs konqueror konqueror-nsplugins konsole krita krita-data
ksmserver ksplash ksysguard ksysguardd kubuntu-artwork-usplash
kubuntu-default-settings kwin libfontconfig1 libfontconfig1-dev
libgstreamer-gconf0.8-0 libgstreamer-plugins0.8-0 libkonq4 libwavpack0
screen shared-mime-info system-tools-backends ubuntu-base
ubuntu-minimal ubuntu-standard vim vim-common vim-gtk vim-gui-common
vim-runtime x-window-system-core x11-common xbase-clients xserver-xorg
xutils
92 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/74.8MB of archives.
After unpacking 24.6kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process
(Reading database ... 128159 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace screen 4.0.2-4.1ubuntu4 (using .../screen_4.0.2-4.1ubuntu5_i386.deb) ...
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/screen_4.0.2-4.1ubuntu5_i386.deb (--unpack):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Preparing to replace x11-common 7.0.0-0ubuntu30 (using .../x11-common_7.0.0-0ubuntu32_i386.deb) ...
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_7.0.0-0ubuntu32_i386.deb (--unpack):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/screen_4.0.2-4.1ubuntu5_i386.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_7.0.0-0ubuntu32_i386.deb
Running prelink, please wait...
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Has anyone else had this? If not, does someone know what I can do to fix this, or should I just wait for a new updated package of something.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Cheers

Lowey

[davebgimp]

Re: Daily Update - dpkg problem?

If the problem's not resolved by now, log out and reboot in recovery mode and then run apt-get upgrade. Reboot again and you should be fine. I had the same problem yesterday and that fixed it.

[lowey23]

Re: Daily Update - dpkg problem?

Hello, davebgimp,

That worked perfectly for me.

You are one of the reasons that K/ubuntu will do great things.

Thank you so much

Cheers

Lowey