On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 12:42:47PM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > There's another process doing things with dpkg at the time this loop > happens. I don't know what process that is or I'd kill it and let it > come to life later. The ps command isn't showing anything out of the > ordinary.
There is some widget in gnome that does this. It is located in the "tray" area in a standard gnome setup and it notifies of updates. I'm not at a gnome machine at the moment to give you specifics, but this is likely the cause. It will automatically check for and download (but not install) updates at a specified time every day. A
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