Bug#869546: apt fails updating itself
On 2017-07-24 10:38:11 +0200, mk@koben.de wrote:
> Agree that it is spurious, now it worked for me.
>
> Not agree about the proposed reason.
> If it was a race with something independently accessing dpkg, it should
> happen more often, and during upgrade of an arbitrary package..
>
> But both cases failed when upgrading apt or dpkg itself.
In my case (bug 850417), it was also an upgrade of a package from
the apt source (libapt-pkg5.0).
> So doesn't it look as if the running upgrade somehow locks itself out?
In your case (a bit like in my case), one has:
>Unpacking apt (1.4.7) over (1.4.6) ...
>Setting up apt (1.4.7) ...
>dpkg: error: dpkg status database is locked by another process
The "Unpacking apt (1.4.7) over (1.4.6)" requires a lock, right?
Could the error be due to this lock (because of some race condition
somewhere)?
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