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  1. Bug #2003851
  2. Comment #15

Comment 15 for bug 2003851

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Mikko Rantalainen (mira) wrote :

I'm seeing the same problem on Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS:

$ ps -eHo pid,ppid,etimes,command | grep -w [a]pt
3162391 1 3033258 /bin/sh /usr/lib/apt/apt.systemd.daily update
3162395 3162391 3033258 /bin/sh /usr/lib/apt/apt.systemd.daily lock_is_held update
3162423 3162395 3033257 apt-get -qq -y update
3162432 3162423 3033257 /usr/lib/apt/methods/http
3163221 3162423 3033222 /usr/lib/apt/methods/gpgv

And since /usr/lib/apt/apt.systemd.daily is from package apt, this is definitely a bug in apt. A pretty simple workaround would be to run

  /usr/bin/timeout 15m /usr/lib/apt/apt.systemd.daily lock_is_held update

instead. Of course, that wouldn't fix the underlying problem but it would automatically release the lock after 15 minute delay.