The problem is that apt-mirror is not handling SIGINT, SIGHUP, or SIGTERM correctly thereby leaving a stale lock file around and does not actually check for a running process before reporting that one is already running. It should trap these and clean up before exiting or at the very least report something such as "apt-mirror is dead, but lockfile /path/to/lockfile/apt-mirror.lock exists: exiting" instead of just reporting that the process is already running.
You will not see this behavior if the process completes normally. -- apt-mirror won't delete it's lock-file on exit https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/424462 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs