On Sun, Mar 23, 2025 at 11:22:43AM +0100, Paul Gevers wrote: > On Wed, 31 Jan 2024 17:15:41 +0100 Matthias Klumpp <m...@debian.org> wrote: > > Do you have any idea how this would be possible? Both PK and Synaptic > > should hold the APT frontend lock, so they should never be able to run > > at the same time. > > If packagekit checks for the lock (I assume you claim it does), isn't it > synaptics fault to not grab the lock? I.e. isn't this bug filed against the > wrong package?
Both synaptic and PackageKit need to support the frontend lock, I don't know if they do, that may involve calling UnLockInner() rather than UnLock(), and LockInner() rather than Lock() to regain released inner locks in some places. -- debian developer - deb.li/jak | jak-linux.org - free software dev ubuntu core developer i speak de, en
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