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Processes locked on newly created droplet (terraform)

Hey guys im using terraform to create some resources in my script i have setup a couple scripts to auto run once the droplets been created but it seems when i try to do any that are apt related i get the error saying its locked out

Error Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend. It is held by process 1348 (apt-get)

Terraform Script ` resource “digitalocean_droplet” “Test-Server” { image = “docker-20-04” name = “Test-Server” region = “ams3” size = “s-1vcpu-2gb” ssh_keys = [ data.digitalocean_ssh_key.terraform.id ]

connection { host = self.ipv4_address user = “root” type = “ssh” private_key = file(var.pvt_key) timeout = “2m” }

provisioner “remote-exec” { inline = [ “sudo ufw allow 25565”, “sudo apt-get install -y s3cmd s3fs curl”, “do more…” ] } } ` Im using the docker image ISO on the droplet

any thoughts on how to fix this?

thanks!


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