ibc6-dev: Depends: libc6 (= 2.35-0ubuntu3.7) but 2.35-0ubuntu3.6 is installed

[Raval]

[Raval]

$ sudo apt --fix-broken install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libgsoap-2.8.117 liblzf1
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libc6 libc6:i386
Suggested packages:
  glibc-doc glibc-doc:i386 locales:i386
Recommended packages:
  libnss-nis libnss-nisplus
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libc6 libc6:i386
2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 104 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/6,248 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B 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
(Reading database ... 230731 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libc6_2.35-0ubuntu3.7_amd64.deb ...
De-configuring libc6:i386 (2.35-0ubuntu3.6), to allow configuration of libc6:amd64 (2.35-0ubuntu3.6) ...
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.35-0ubuntu3.7_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 new libc6:amd64 package pre-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Preparing to unpack .../libc6_2.35-0ubuntu3.7_i386.deb ...
De-configuring libc6:amd64 (2.35-0ubuntu3.6), to allow configuration of libc6:i386 (2.35-0ubuntu3.6) ...
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.35-0ubuntu3.7_i386.deb (--unpack):
 new libc6:i386 package pre-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.35-0ubuntu3.7_amd64.deb
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.35-0ubuntu3.7_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[halogen2]

The image you meant to post in post #11 did not post?

Based on your terminal outputs, the fix will likely be to run

sudo apt install libc6:amd64=2.35-0ubuntu3.7 libc6:i386=2.35-0ubuntu3.7

or, alternatively,

sudo apt --fix-broken install

But you still have something else running interfering with apt/dpkg package operations. These fixes (or anything else involving apt) will not work while that process is running.

Could you please try running

sudo lsof /var/cache/debconf/config.dat

to get the numeric process ID (PID) of the culprit, then to help identify why this process is running, run

pstree -s <PID>

replacing <PID> with the numeric PID from the lsof command?

[Raval]

The image you meant to post in post #11 did not post?

Based on your terminal outputs, the fix will likely be to run

sudo apt install libc6:amd64=2.35-0ubuntu3.7 libc6:i386=2.35-0ubuntu3.7

or, alternatively,

sudo apt --fix-broken install

But you still have something else running interfering with apt/dpkg package operations. These fixes (or anything else involving apt) will not work while that process is running.

Could you please try running

sudo lsof /var/cache/debconf/config.dat

lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.portal file system /run/user/1000/doc
      Output information may be incomplete.
lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.gvfsd-fuse file system /run/user/1000/gvfs
      Output information may be incomplete.
COMMAND   PID USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF   NODE NAME
frontend 7863 root    4uW  REG    8,2    47694 537324 /var/cache/debconf/config.dat

to get the numeric process ID (PID) of the culprit, then to help identify why this process is running, run

pstree -s <PID>

replacing <PID> with the numeric PID from the lsof command?

$ pstree -s <PID>
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'

[halogen2]

$ pstree -s <PID>
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'

Sorry I wasn't clear. That last command wasn't meant to be copy-pasted literally. According the output of your lsof command, replace <PID> with 7863

This PID number is not a permanent part of the system, so please re-run the lsof command to check that the relevant PID is still 7863 before substituting it in the pstree command.

[Raval]

Sorry I wasn't clear. That last command wasn't meant to be copy-pasted literally. According the output of your lsof command, replace <PID> with 7863

This PID number is not a permanent part of the system, so please re-run the lsof command to check that the relevant PID is still 7863 before substituting it in the pstree command.

$ sudo lsof /var/cache/debconf/config.dat
lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.portal file system /run/user/1000/doc
      Output information may be incomplete.
lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.gvfsd-fuse file system /run/user/1000/gvfs
      Output information may be incomplete.
COMMAND   PID USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF   NODE NAME
frontend 7863 root    4uW  REG    8,2    47694 537324 /var/cache/debconf/config.dat

$ sudo pstree -s 7863
systemd───frontend───update-securebo

[Raval]

same issue updating

[halogen2]

The problem is there is a loose debconf process stuck trying to run what is probably update-secureboot-policy from shim-signed package. Sorry I don't know how or why this can happen, I'm not familiar with secure boot & don't feel I have the right knowledge to advise further here

[Raval]

anyone you can share this thread with who may know?