Cannot delete apt-fast for a clean install
- by colby
This is my problem:
$ destroy apt-fast
[sudo] password for colbyryptos:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package apt-fast is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 14 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable
Setting up man-db (2.6.1-2) ...
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable
dpkg: error processing man-db (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
man-db
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
I have also tried sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock, followed by sudo dpkg --configure -a.
It then gives me this
$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
[sudo] password for colbyryptos:
Setting up man-db (2.6.1-2) ...
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable
dpkg: error processing man-db (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
man-db