[chef] Re: transient dpkg lock issues?

[Bryan McLellan < >]

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Matthew 
Todd<
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 wrote:
> E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another
> process using it?

That's apt that's failing, and Chef is just letting you know.

Any change you are running apt elsewhere?

Is this a workstation? Left synaptic open?

Chef shouldn't be doing anything in parallel, so it shouldn't be
stepping on itself via the apt provider.