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Re: Parallel invocation of postinst script causing a bug?



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..."  as its parent.
> 
> Does anyone have an idea which kind of error in our packages could have
> such a strange effect?

One possibility is that the user killed one instance of "dpkg --configure"
since it appeared to be hung (the fmtutil step can take a while) and
then started another one.

Regards,

Kapil.
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