Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.11-1 Severity: normal Usertags: warnings race-condition
I run several cron jobs each doing aptitude searches and I often get this warning from aptitude: E: Unable to replace /home/pabs/.aptitude/config with new configuration file - apt_init (2: No such file or directory) Looking at the code it seems that there is a race condition when multiple aptitude instances are running: http://sources.debian.net/src/aptitude/0.6.11-1/src/generic/apt/apt.cc?hl=247#L247 Every instance is using ~/.aptitude/config.new instead of creating a temporary unique filename. This means that one process can rename the .new file before another process gets a chance to do that, which means the .new file disappears, rename fails and a warning is given. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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