during installing and configuring arno-iptables-firewall, i pressed ctrl+c to cancel it and almost everything related to debconf and package management not working anymore. Examples:
Code:
# aptitude remove arno-iptables-firewall
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
W: Could not lock the cache file; this usually means that dpkg or another apt tool is already installing packages. Opening in read-only mode; any changes you make to the states of packages will NOT be preserved!
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
Code:
# dpkg --configure -a
Setting up arno-iptables-firewall (1.8.8.o-2) ...
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable
dpkg: error processing arno-iptables-firewall (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
arno-iptables-firewall
I googled a bit and most of the posters haven't got any real answer for this problem.