Public bug reported:
When I run synaptic, select Settings/Repositories, then select the
Additional Drivers tab, I see X.Org X server (Nouveau) is selected. If I
select one of the NVIDIA drivers, and click Apply Changes, I get an
error popup: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend. It is held
by process 18471 (synaptic).
I have only one instance of synaptic. If I run “ps guax | grep 18471”,
it lists the one synaptic process. If I exit synaptic, then that process
disappears.
So, it seems that synaptic won’t allow me to change the video driver
because synaptic is running!
If I run sudo lsof /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend, I get:
lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.portal file system /run/user/1010/doc
Output information may be incomplete.
lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.gvfsd-fuse file system
/run/user/1010/gvfs
Output information may be incomplete.
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
synaptic 18471 root 12uW REG 259,5 0 112591441
/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend
So, nothing else appears to be using lock-frontend.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04
Package: synaptic 0.91.3build4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.8.0-31.31-generic 6.8.1
Uname: Linux 6.8.0-31-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.28.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sat May 18 22:43:07 2024
InstallationDate: Installed on 2024-05-16 (3 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS "Noble Numbat" - Release amd64 (20240424)
SourcePackage: synaptic
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: synaptic (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug noble wayland-session
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synaptic won't upgrade video drivers because synaptic is running
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