Confusing message while manually updating during an automatic update

Bug #1488114 reported by Rick Spencer
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Snappy
Fix Released
Critical
Michael Vogt

Bug Description

I plugged in my BBB while away of a few weeks. The first thing I tried was to update it. The update command resulted in this message:

(BeagleBoneBlack)ubuntu@localhost:~$ sudo snappy update
another snappy is running, try again later

Apparently, this was because snappy was automatically updating itself in the background. It would be nice if the information message was more informative about specifically what snappy was doing while it was running so that the user would know that it is being updated for them.

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Michael Vogt (mvo)
Changed in snappy:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Critical
Michael Vogt (mvo)
Changed in snappy:
status: Triaged → In Progress
Michael Vogt (mvo)
Changed in snappy:
assignee: nobody → Michael Vogt (mvo)
Revision history for this message
Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

The message is now for autopiilot is now:
"""
The snappy autopilot is updating your system in the background. This may
take some minutes. Will try again in %d seconds...
Press ctrl-c to cancel.
"""

and the generic message is:
"""
Another snappy is running in the background, will try again in %d seconds...
Press ctrl-c to cancel.
"""

happy to tweak of course.

Leo Arias (elopio)
Changed in snappy:
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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