Control: severity -1 normal On 2017-01-06 13:15:18 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > On Fri, 2017-01-06 at 11:33:08 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Package: dpkg > > Version: 1.18.18 > > Severity: grave > > Justification: renders package unusable > > I don't think this severity is right here, at least for dpkg, but > let's see.
Lowering to normal since after several upgrades, I can't reproduce the problem. > I'm assuming that cannot easily reproduce the problem? I couldn't reproduce it yet. > That the system probably has some unnattended async calls to a > command that locks the dpkg database? Such as? In any case, there is nothing in the dpkg/apt logs that would suggest that. In the journalctl logs at this time, I only have: Jan 06 11:24:38 cventin systemd[1]: Reloading. Jan 06 11:24:38 cventin systemd[1]: apt-daily.timer: Adding 8h 48min 32.153121s random time. Jan 06 11:24:38 cventin systemd[1]: Reloading. Jan 06 11:24:38 cventin systemd[1]: apt-daily.timer: Adding 11h 35min 4.281611s random time. Jan 06 11:24:38 cventin systemd[1]: Stopped Daily apt activities. Jan 06 11:24:38 cventin systemd[1]: Stopping Daily apt activities. Jan 06 11:24:38 cventin systemd[1]: apt-daily.timer: Adding 5h 4min 59.261844s random time. Jan 06 11:24:38 cventin systemd[1]: Started Daily apt activities. Jan 06 11:24:38 cventin systemd[1]: Starting Daily apt activities... Jan 06 11:24:40 cventin systemd[1]: Started Daily apt activities. Jan 06 11:24:40 cventin systemd[1]: apt-daily.timer: Adding 10h 35min 58.916108s random time. Jan 06 11:24:40 cventin systemd[1]: apt-daily.timer: Adding 9h 54min 24.332138s random time. This is due to the apt upgrade, I assume. This looks strange, though: e.g. Started, then Starting, then Started. > Either that, or if it's a multi-admin system perhaps someone else > started an aptitude instance just between the time apt/aptitude > release the dpkg lock so that dpkg itself can take it? No, I'm the only user (and admin) of the machine. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
