Parallel invocation of postinst script causing a bug?

2006-11-06 Thread Frank Küster
Dear all, recently a bug was reported against teTeX which I can't understand and fix, #396835. I wasn't able to reproduce it so far (although I maybe encountered it myself months ago, #315762), but the submitter provided helpful information, among others an output of ps axf which really puzzles

Re: Parallel invocation of postinst script causing a bug?

2006-11-06 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Dear Frank, On Mon, 06 Nov 2006, Frank Küster wrote: So it seems two postinst script were running at the same time (note that tetex-bin depends on tetex-base). Furthermore, the second one seems to have no parent except init, while the other one has dpkg --configure tetex-base tetex-bin...