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 leading to error messages like this one I got today: Preparing to unpack .../locales_2.36-9+deb12u4_all.deb ... Unpacking locales (2.36-9+deb12u4) over (2.36-9+deb12u3) ... dpkg: error: dpkg frontend lock was locked by another process with pid 567573 Note: removing the lock file is always wrong, can damage the locked area and the entire system. See <https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/FAQ#db-lock>. E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: dpkg: error: dpkg frontend lock was locked by another process with pid 567573 Note: removing the lock file is always wrong, can damage the locked area and the entire system. See <https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/FAQ#db-lock>. This was the error message in synaptic package manager and when I looked up pid 567573 it turned out to be packagekitd Please do not ever lock dpkg while it is in use by another program! Thanks, Daniel -- System Information: Debian Release: 12.4 APT prefers stable-security APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-17-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages packagekit depends on: ii init-system-helpers 1.65.2 ii libappstream4 0.16.1-2 ii libapt-pkg6.0 2.6.1 ii libc6 2.36-9+deb12u4 ii libgcc-s1 12.2.0-14 ii libglib2.0-0 2.74.6-2 ii libglib2.0-bin 2.74.6-2 ii libgstreamer1.0-0 1.22.0-2 ii libpackagekit-glib2-18 1.2.6-5 ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 122-3 ii libsqlite3-0 3.40.1-2 ii libstdc++6 12.2.0-14 ii libsystemd0 252.19-1~deb12u1 ii polkitd 122-3 Versions of packages packagekit recommends: ii appstream 0.16.1-2 ii packagekit-tools 1.2.6-5 ii systemd 252.19-1~deb12u1 packagekit suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
