Thanks for the responses. I uploaded a fix for this a couple of days ago, but failed to set the bugreport to fix commited (sorry for that). It was waiting in the unapproved queue since. I attach the debdiff for the upload now.
@Cody: Thanks for reviewing the verification instructions, those are indeed not good, I will update them. ** Attachment added: "debdiff for my upload" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/15170838/motion.debdiff ** Description changed: Situation: Upgrading from 7.10 to A5 with motion package installed. motion starts executing during upgrade and upgrade process halts until motion is killed. TEST CASE: - 1. install hardy + 1. use a hardy install without hardy-proposed enabled 2. get a supported webcame that shows as /dev/video0 3. run "sudo apt-get install motion" - 4. watch it hang + 4. watch it hang (and press ctrl-c after some minutes when you are sure it hangs) - 5. repeat steps 1-3 - 6. verify that it does not hang after step 3 + 5. run "dpkg --purge motion" + 6. enabled hardy-proposed + 7. run "sudo apt-get install motion" and verify that a new version gets installed + 8. verify that it does not hang this time -- Hardy upgrade - motion halts upgrade https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/198292 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
