Feature Request - have apt-get report which program is locking the repository
Bug #191386 reported by
Eric Christiansen
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #74134: Apt's unable to acquire lock message isn't user friendly.
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| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| apt (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
I have configured my system to download and install security updates automatically. When the automatic updates are installing, apt-get will complain that it cannot lock the repositories and will fail. This is all well and good.
What isn't good is that no reason is given for the repositories being locked. Since the updates run silently, and I wasn't running apt-get in any windows that I had open, my first thought was that I was looking at an apt-get bug. It would be nice if apt-get could tell the user which program is locking the file, and even better if it could say something like "the repository is currently locked because automatic update is running".
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| Murat Gunes (mgunes) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in apt: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
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Thanks for your report. I'm marking this as a duplicate of bug #74134. You may want to edit the description of that bug to include some details you have presented.