Bug#800501: SystemError on missing files in /var/lib/apt/lists

2015-09-30 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 10:59:26AM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > > You're probably opened the cache without holding a lock, and > > an update ran in parallel. That's really the only possible > > explanation I could think of. > > Is there a way to hold a lock as a normal user process? (oneconf i

Bug#800501: SystemError on missing files in /var/lib/apt/lists

2015-09-30 Thread Sebastien Bacher
> You're probably opened the cache without holding a lock, and > an update ran in parallel. That's really the only possible > explanation I could think of. Is there a way to hold a lock as a normal user process? (oneconf is an user session service) If not is there a standard way to detect that som

Bug#800501: SystemError on missing files in /var/lib/apt/lists

2015-09-30 Thread Julian Andres Klode
Control: tag -1 unreproducible moreinfo On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 10:12:52AM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > Package: python-apt > Version: 1.1.0~alpha3 > > Unsure when/how that is triggered but oneconf seems to hit that often in > Ubuntu > > example > > "Traceback (most recent call last): > F

Bug#800501: SystemError on missing files in /var/lib/apt/lists

2015-09-30 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Package: python-apt Version: 1.1.0~alpha3 Unsure when/how that is triggered but oneconf seems to hit that often in Ubuntu example "Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/oneconf/packagesethandler.py", line 63, in update newpkg_list = self.distro.compute_loc