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

On my hosts file, I have some hosts that use a different user for sudo than the one Ansible uses for SSH so I had ansible_user and ansible_become_user specified for every host in the inventory.

In those hosts where ansible_user == ansible_become_user I got Failed to lock apt for exclusive operation.

The solution for me was to remove ansible_become_user line for those cases where the user is the same in both parameters.