Control: forcemerge 933335 -1
Am 22.09.2019 um 14:39 schrieb Oswald Buddenhagen:
> Package: aptitude
> Version: 0.8.12-1
> Severity: normal
>
> while upgrading apt from within aptitude, i got this error:
>
> [...]
> Setting up libapt-pkg5.0:amd64 (1.8.4) ...
> (Reading database ... 316101 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to unpack .../libapt-inst2.0_1.8.4_amd64.deb ...
> Unpacking libapt-inst2.0:amd64 (1.8.4) over (1.8.3) ...
> Preparing to unpack .../archives/apt_1.8.4_amd64.deb ...
> Unpacking apt (1.8.4) over (1.8.3) ...
> dpkg: error: dpkg frontend lock is locked by another process
This appears to be the same problem as #933335. Quoting dpkg maintainer
Guillem Jover:
> This is a problem with aptitude, which I'm told has not been modified
> to make use of the new frontend locks, so it suffers from the
> historical race conditions when more than one frontend are running
> concurrently.
Cheers,
Sven
