diff --git a/src/commands/init.ts b/src/commands/init.ts
index 4bac8d5..b421ae5 100644
--- a/src/commands/init.ts
+++ b/src/commands/init.ts
@@ -200,6 +200,10 @@ async function installDockerIfNeeded({
     try {
       await installDocker({ssh, verbose, progressBar})
     } catch (error) {
+      if ((error as Error).toString().includes('Could not get lock')) {
+        throw new Error(`Package manager already busy. Try again in a few minutes.`)
+      }
+
       throw new Error(`Failed to install Docker\n${error}`)
     }
   } else if (verbose) {
@@ -569,6 +573,14 @@ async function uploadRootSshPublicKey({
     stdin: password,
     progressBar: undefined,
   })
+  // on AWS EC2 Ubuntu, they have this preventing you from logging in as root, remove it.
+  await runSshCommand({
+    ssh,
+    command: `sudo sed -i '/Please login as the user/d' /root/.ssh/authorized_keys`,
+    verbose,
+    stdin: password,
+    progressBar: undefined,
+  })
   let keyAlreadyAuthorized
   try {
     await runSshCommand({