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 had remote_user: root in my playbook, and this happened a lot. I couldn't figure out why, it was happening only on some roles but not others (but always at the same place.) I removed remote_user: root and it stopped happening. I just use --become and --become-user=root. (Which I was using, but it still was randomly failing to get a lock for some reason.)