Hi, On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 11:04:55AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-08-12 10:35 +0200, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: > > > Package: dpkg > > Version: 1.15.3.1 > > Severity: serious > > > > Hi, > > > > today I noticed something that I consider really serious: > > I've started an aptitude purge gimp, without noticing that I had > > an aptitude dist-upgrade (waiting for input, because of apt-listchanges) > > running in another terminal, which I forgot to finish the day before. > > Now would I have expected would be to stop and warn me about > > the locked dpkg database. > > If it did not do that, then the database was almost surely not locked in > the first place. Here is what I got after starting aptitude's TUI as > root:
well, at least, this was the case: p...@lisa ~ % ls -l /var/lib/dpkg/lock -rw-r----- 1 root root 0 12. Aug 11:17 /var/lib/dpkg/lock (there was also an aptitude lock file, but this is of little relevance for this). Notable is that dpkg was not doing much, except waiting for apt-parsechanges to finish. So probably the lock handling is somewhat borked with respect to Dpkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs commands. > | % LANG=C sudo dpkg -P ed > | dpkg: status database area is locked by another process > `---- Yeah, but this is somewhat the wrong testcase. Regards, Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
