locking issues
Thomas Wood
thomas at openedhand.com
Thu Jun 26 14:09:19 CEST 2008
On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 13:41 +0200, Holger Freyther wrote:
> On Thursday 26 June 2008 13:23:33 Holger Freyther wrote:
> > Hey,
> > the following is the recipe to mess up your system.
> >
> > 1. start assassin
>
> Okay, you can simply close it. packagekitd will keep the lock open. Killing
> packagekitd allows one to use opkg again.
>
> z
Yes, it's important to note that the locking allows only one instance of
opkg to be running, and packagekitd will open an instance of opkg.
Packagekitd does have a timeout mechanism as well, which should release
the lock if it decides packagekitd is no longer required, but I don't
know if this is enabled in your builds.
Regards,
Thomas
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