On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 02:12:51PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Sun, 15 Sep 2002, Marc Singer wrote: > > > Interesting. Using strace, I can tell that the update command is > > spawning something, I assume it is dpkg. I still get nothing when I > > add the debug message: > > That is not a message from dpkg though, you also need to tell apt where to > find your new lock file. I think the option is dir::state::lock, but you > should check..
I see the problem now. The fork was a red-herring. Once I set Dir::State::staus to point to an empty file, it works. Thanks.
