Actually no, it seems you didn't read #1 or fully comprehend the issue caused by it. It isn't that something is still running somewhere. As I stated, if power is lost while apt is running, on a reboot that file will still be there, and the owner of the system will be unable to use APT to install or upgrade packages until they manually delete that file.
Actually no, it seems you didn't read #1 or fully comprehend the issue caused by it. It isn't that something is still running somewhere. As I stated, if power is lost while apt is running, on a reboot that file will still be there, and the owner of the system will be unable to use APT to install or upgrade packages until they manually delete that file.