[Bug 658226] Re: Shutdown or reboot should be postponed, when apt lock is active

[Raphaël Hertzog]

I would argue that the user should be somewhat responsible here... I
don't plan to fix this at the dpkg level at least. Maybe you can
reaffect the bug to upstart if you really believe that it deserves some
more consideration.

Note that it's pretty rare that the system ends up entirely unusable
even when interrupted in the middle of an upgrade.

** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Won't Fix

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Title:
  Shutdown or reboot should be postponed, when apt lock is active

Status in “dpkg” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  1. Start system upgrade
  2. Wait until downloading of packages is complete and configuring starts
  3. Shutdown or restart your computer
  4. See, how upgrade process gets killed and you are left with unusable or broken system

  Expected behaviour:
  First stopping script should check if the apt lock is active and wait until the lock is freed. It should also check if the process is still running, to see if the lock isn't stale. Until then user should be notified about the ongoing upgrade process.

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