Topic: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend: sogo setup failed
==== REQUIRED BASIC INFO OF YOUR IREDMAIL SERVER ====
- iRedMail version (check /etc/iredmail-release): 1.6.2
- Deployed with iRedMail Easy or the downloadable installer? download
- Linux/BSD distribution name and version: ubuntu 20.04
- Store mail accounts in which backend (LDAP/MySQL/PGSQL): mysql
- Web server (Apache or Nginx):nginx
- Manage mail accounts with iRedAdmin-Pro? no
- [IMPORTANT] Related original log or error message is required if you're experiencing an issue.
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I was installing a new iredmail setup and after the wizard, it ended with the error:
[ INFO ] Installing package(s): python3-setuptools python3-pip python3-wheel python3-requests uwsgi uwsgi-plugin-python3 postfix postfix-pcre libsasl2-modules mariadb-client mariadb-server postfix-mysql libdbd-mysql-perl php-cli php-fpm php-json php-gd php-curl mcrypt php-intl php-xml php-mbstring php-zip php-mysql nginx-full dovecot-imapd dovecot-pop3d dovecot-lmtpd dovecot-managesieved dovecot-sieve dovecot-mysql amavisd-new libcrypt-openssl-rsa-perl libmail-dkim-perl clamav-freshclam clamav-daemon spamassassin altermime arj nomarch cpio lzop cabextract p7zip-full rpm libmail-spf-perl unrar-free pax lrzip gpg-agent libclamunrar9 mlmmj python3-pymysql memcached sogo sogo-activesync sope4.9-gdl1-mysql python3-sqlalchemy python3-dnspython python3-pymysql python3-jinja2 python3-netifaces python3-bcrypt python3-dnspython python3-simplejson python3-pymysql fail2ban geoip-bin geoip-database zlib1g libuuid1 libmnl0 curl lm-sensors netcat bzip2 acl patch cron tofrodos logwatch unzip bsdutils liblz4-tool rsyslog nftables
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend. It is held by process 3341 (unattended-upgr)
E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), is another process using it?
<< ERROR >> Installation failed, please check the terminal output.
<< ERROR >> If you're not sure what the problem is, try to get help in iRedMail
<< ERROR >> forum: https://forum.iredmail.org/In this new fresh setup I asked to setup sogo. Then i tried to execute the iRedMail.sh file and same error. So I cheked the processes running and I saw that some python script is installing packages... so seems to me that iRedMail.sh installer is trying to execute sogo setup in parallel with previous services.
By the way, I did not ask in anywhere to execute apt upgrade (and is not set to be automatic), but seems thar iRedMail.sh did that, because I saw the kernel being upgraded.
I waited the upgrade procedure finish and then I executed iRedMail.sh again. Now it is able to conginue sogo setup.
ps: I was just doing this new fresh setup to recover sogo.conf file to another server. we need a better way to do that, as iredmail.sh do this from standardized sogo.conf.
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