Bug#1062190: packagekit: locks the dpkg frontened in the middle of a running update by synaptic package manager

Hi Julian (now CC'ed)! Do you have any idea how this would be possible? Both PK and Synaptic should hold the APT frontend lock, so they should never be able to run at the same time. I also have never once observed this behavior... Cheers, Matthias -- I welcome VSRE emails. See http://vsre.i

Bug#1062190: packagekit: locks the dpkg frontened in the middle of a running update by synaptic package manager

Package: packagekit Version: 1.2.6-5 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software X-Debbugs-Cc: blasc...@hep.itp.tuwien.ac.at Dear Maintainer, every other time when I install updates using the synaptic package manager, it gets interrupted by packagekitd locking the dpkg frontend le