can anyone assist with a workaround for error message below?
I have a fresh M11 install and this is what I get when I try to update.
Thanks.
846 upgraded, 272 newly installed, 6 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
13 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/679 MB of archives.
After this operation, 486 MB 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: Resource temporarily unavailable
Setting up tzdata (2011n-2) ...
debconf: DbDriver"config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable
dpkg: error processing tzdata (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
configured to not write apport reports
Errors were encountered while processing:
tzdata
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
topic title: Can't complete dist-upgrade
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may help (except use su or sux rather than sudo)
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debconf/+bug/349469"
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may help (except use su or sux rather than sudo)