if i unlock apt when i stalls i get the following, traceback included
and i didnt have to use ^C to get the traceback this happened on its own
this time:

gnomefr...@development:~$ sudo fuser -vki /var/lib/dpkg/lock;sudo dpkg 
--configure -a
[sudo] password for gnomefreak: 
                     USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
/var/lib/dpkg/lock:  root       2065 F.... dpkg
Kill process 2065 ? (y/N) y
Setting up software-center (3.1.2) ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/update-software-center", line 131, in <module>
    rebuild_database(pathname)
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/db/update.py", line 582, in 
rebuild_database
    db = xapian.WritableDatabase(pathname, xapian.DB_CREATE_OR_OVERWRITE)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/xapian.py", line 3195, in __init__
    _xapian.WritableDatabase_swiginit(self,_xapian.new_WritableDatabase(*args))
xapian.DatabaseLockError: Unable to acquire database write lock on 
/var/cache/software-center/xapian: already locked
Processing triggers for python-central ...
Setting up ubuntu-desktop (1.208) ...
Setting up xulrunner-2.0 (2.0~b8~hg20101122r57984+nobinonly-0ubuntu1~umd1) ...
^Cdpkg: error processing xulrunner-2.0 (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script killed by signal (Interrupt)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 xulrunner-2.0

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Software-center is not configuring but instead i get a trace back
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/677431
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