Ansible 1.9.4 : Failed to lock apt for exclusive operation

Question

I bumped into Failed to lock apt for exclusive operation issue: https://github.com/geerlingguy/ansible-role-apache/issues/50

I posted a lot of details in Gi

Answer 1

I know this question has been answered a long time ago, but for me, the solution was different. The problem was the update_cache step. I had this with every install step, and somehow that caused the "apt failed lock error". the solution was adding the update_cache as a seperate step, like so:

- tasks:
  - name: update apt list
    apt:
      update_cache: yes