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Thread: E: waiting for unattended-upgr to exit

  1. #11
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    Re: E: waiting for unattended-upgr to exit

    Quote Originally Posted by Impavidus View Post
    Processes can communicated with each other. It's fairly simple on Linux. However, to communicate, the processes (an their developers) have to agree on a communication protocol and as the number of possible interactions increases with the square of the number of processes, this quickly gets problematic. There will be bugs. So to keep things reliable, it's best to keep the number of interactions low. In this case, that means a simple lock. As long as one tool is working with software packages, a different tool is blocked. It's more reliable than giving Gnome Software (or whatever) a button to interupt unattended-upgrades. And there are many more tools dealing with package management.
    Thanks. But the lock is not the problem though is it?

    The error message referring to a lock is a failure in this case. Pushing the user to go online to find all sorts of over-complicated or non-recommended and maybe dangerous suggestions. Instead of giving information to help the user progress.
    Last edited by ianp5a; December 31st, 2020 at 02:23 PM.

  2. #12
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    Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa

    Re: E: waiting for unattended-upgr to exit

    I have changed the Unattended-Upgrade on Ubuntu from every day to 14 days:

    /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10periodic
    /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20auto-upgrades

    Code:
    APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade "14";
    "0": means is disabled

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