Re: [Puppet Users] apt-get lock the administration directory

Jo Rhett
Wed, 28 Sep 2011 03:24:17 -0000

On Sep 27, 2011, at 7:35 PM, Rafael Chacon wrote:
> So, in theory there are no dependencies between both module, but what
> would happen if both modules begin to use apt-get at the same time,
> one of them it''s going to have an error like:
>
> E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource
> temporarily unavailable)
> E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is
> another process using it?
>
> Or is puppet going to check that some one is already using apt-get and
> wait for it??

Puppet client is single-threaded, that won''t be a problem.

> I''m asking this because I have a big configuration and when I run
it
> from scratch I get some 255 errors when installing some packages. Then
> I re-run the agent and it installs everything.

It''s not that problem.  Run it with "--debug" and
you''ll learn why they are failing.

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Jo Rhett
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