Ubuntu updates blocked apt-get

Question

Problem:

$ git status -s
MM myfile
$ git stash save
$ git show stash@{0}
# Only shows unstaged changes NOT staged changes

# To debug:
$ GIT_TRACE=2 git stash show
trace: exec: 'git-stash' 'show'
trace: run_command: 'git-stash' 'show'
trace: built-in: git 'rev-parse' '--git-dir'
trace: built-in: git 'rev-parse' '--show-toplevel'
trace: built-in: git 'config' '--get-colorbool' 'color.interactive'
trace: built-in: git 'config' '--get-color' 'color.interactive.help' 'red bold'
trace: built-in: git 'config' '--get-color' '' 'reset'
trace: built-in: git 'rev-parse' '--no-flags' '--symbolic' '--sq'
trace: built-in: git 'rev-parse' '--symbolic-full-name' 'refs/stash'
trace: built-in: git 'diff' '--stat' 'aaaa' 'bbbb'
trace: run_command: 'pager'
trace: exec: 'pager'
$ git diff --stat aaaa bbbb
# Shows both staged and unstaged changes
$ git stash apply --index
$ git status -s
MM myfile

Why doesn't git show stash@{0} not show the staged changes that were supposed to be part of the stash? It appears that git-stash is silently hiding the staged changes in a stash.

Solution 1

I fixed the problem by doing

sudo rm -f /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*

sudo dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb

sudo dpkg --configure -a

Solution 2

A part of the error report clearly shows that,

debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable

means /var/cache/debconf/config.dat was locked by another process which prevents the current process from configuring packages.So wait for the process to freeup /var/cache/debconf/config.dat this resource. If no other process is using this resource, a simple restart will solve your problem.

Comments

[saiarcot895]

I blame this file: /var/cache/debconf/config.dat. Also, you have 25 packages that aren't fully installed/removed, which is a little bad. Can you try restarting and running apt-get install -f?