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'm also getting this error, while setting up a couple of new boxes. I'm connecting as root, so I didn't think it was necessary, but it is:

become: yes

Now everything works as intended.

Answer 2

https://serverfault.com/questions/716260/ansible-sudo-error-while-building-on-atlas

Check ps aux | grep apt output for suspicious processes.