Mike Kuhar, 2002-Sep-10 16:35 -0400:
> I've checked, and there are no other instances of either apt-get or aptitude
> running. Further, the appropriate permissions are set to the directories
> /var/cache/apt and /var/cache/apt/archives.
>
> One question, however. Is the pid of either apt-get or aptitude stored in a
> *.pid file that either may check?
>
> -mk
I don't see a pid file for apt-get, dpkg or aptitude in /var/run
(which is where it should be). I also found lock files in
/var/lib/aptitude and /var/lib/dpkg, but they don't change when I
start aptitude or dselect.
I ran an strace on aptitude without any other instance and once with
another instance running and diff'd the output and found this:
aptitude:
< fcntl64(3, F_SETLK, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0})
= 0
< open("/var/lib/dpkg/updates/", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = 4
aptitude Readonly:
> fcntl64(3, F_SETLK, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0})
= -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
and there's no attempt to open /var/lib/dpkg/updates at all. I check
that dir and found no files.
I don't know what this means, but I thought I'd post it incase someone
does understand this.
jc
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