codedeploy-agent randomly fails to install on AL2023 (can't create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/.rpm.lock)

[jocel1]

Hi!

I'm installing codedeploy-agent at the very end of my user_data content:

wget https://aws-codedeploy-eu-west-1.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/latest/install; chmod +x ./install; ./install auto

However this fails from time to time on my amazon linux 2023 instance:

2024-07-24T21:55:33+0200 DEBUG --> Starting dependency resolution
2024-07-24T21:55:33+0200 DEBUG ---> Package codedeploy-agent.noarch 1.7.0-92 will be installed
2024-07-24T21:55:33+0200 DEBUG --> Finished dependency resolution
2024-07-24T21:55:33+0200 DDEBUG timer: depsolve: 118 ms
2024-07-24T21:55:33+0200 INFO Dependencies resolved.
2024-07-24T21:55:33+0200 INFO ================================================================================
 Package                Architecture Version           Repository          Size
================================================================================
Installing:
 codedeploy-agent       noarch       1.7.0-92          @commandline       2.8 M

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install  1 Package

2024-07-24T21:55:33+0200 INFO Total size: 2.8 M
2024-07-24T21:55:33+0200 INFO Installed size: 13 M
2024-07-24T21:55:33+0200 INFO Downloading Packages:
2024-07-24T21:55:33+0200 INFO Running transaction check
2024-07-24T21:55:33+0200 INFO Transaction check succeeded.
2024-07-24T21:55:33+0200 INFO Running transaction test
2024-07-24T21:55:34+0200 INFO Transaction test succeeded.
2024-07-24T21:55:34+0200 DDEBUG timer: transaction test: 788 ms
2024-07-24T21:55:34+0200 INFO Running transaction
2024-07-24T21:55:34+0200 DEBUG RPMDB altered outside of YUM.
2024-07-24T21:55:34+0200 DDEBUG RPM transaction start.
2024-07-24T21:55:34+0200 DDEBUG RPM transaction over.
2024-07-24T21:55:34+0200 CRITICAL RPM: error: can't create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/.rpm.lock (Resource temporarily unavailable)
2024-07-24T21:55:34+0200 DDEBUG Cleaning up.
2024-07-24T21:55:34+0200 SUBDEBUG 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/dnf/cli/main.py", line 67, in main
    return _main(base, args, cli_class, option_parser_class)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/dnf/cli/main.py", line 106, in _main
    return cli_run(cli, base)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/dnf/cli/main.py", line 130, in cli_run
    ret = resolving(cli, base)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/dnf/cli/main.py", line 176, in resolving
    base.do_transaction(display=displays)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/dnf/cli/cli.py", line 246, in do_transaction
    tid = super(BaseCli, self).do_transaction(display)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/dnf/base.py", line 1034, in do_transaction
    tid = self._run_transaction(cb=cb)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/dnf/base.py", line 1153, in _run_transaction
    raise dnf.exceptions.Error(msg)
dnf.exceptions.Error: Could not run transaction.
2024-07-24T21:55:34+0200 CRITICAL Error: Could not run transaction.