Ubuntu
tiger package

consider stopping/warning about cron when doing system upgrade

Bug #573835 reported by georgi
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: upgrade-system

cron jobs started during system upgrade are nondeterministic.

on a system i was upgrading "tiger auditing tool" was started by cron and tried to calculate md5 sum of changing files :)

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georgi (guninski) wrote :

i mean "distribution upgrade"

Martin-Éric Racine (q-funk)
affects: upgrade-system (Ubuntu) → tiger (Ubuntu)
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georgi (guninski) wrote :

huh, why affecting specific package?

the graphic updater warns "close all applications" and *CRON* starts new ``applications''

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Kenyon Ralph (kralph) wrote :

This is also a problem with apticron, for example. It will try to update package lists in the middle of an upgrade, causing the upgrade to fail because it can't lock the dpkg database.

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