Emacs upgrade hangs: preinst should avoid lsof

Bug #558592 reported by Björn Lindqvist
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Bug Description

In Ubuntu 9.04, apt-get upgrade of emacs fails and hangs:

(Läser databasen ... 237426 filer och kataloger installerade.)
Förbereder att ersätta emacs22-gtk 22.2-0ubuntu2 (med .../emacs22-gtk_22.2-0ubuntu2_i386.deb) ...

And then hangs. This is what the process tree looks like:

root 30393 0.1 0.6 22388 18628 pts/3 S+ 19:36 0:00 | \_ apt-get autoremove
root 30410 0.0 1.3 45472 42836 pts/4 Ss+ 19:36 0:00 | \_ /usr/bin/dpkg --status-fd 22 --unpack --auto-deconfigure /var/cache/apt/archives/emacs22-gtk_22.2-0ubu
root 30417 0.0 0.0 1872 508 pts/4 S+ 19:36 0:00 | \_ /bin/sh -e /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst upgrade 22.2-0ubuntu2
root 30418 0.0 0.0 1872 268 pts/4 S+ 19:36 0:00 | \_ /bin/sh -e /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst upgrade 22.2-0ubuntu2
root 30419 0.0 0.0 2300 912 pts/4 D+ 19:36 0:00 | \_ lsof -F p /usr/bin/emacs22-gtk
root 30420 0.0 0.0 2168 228 pts/4 S+ 19:36 0:00 | | \_ lsof -F p /usr/bin/emacs22-gtk
root 30421 0.0 0.0 3344 680 pts/4 S+ 19:36 0:00 | \_ wc -l

It is obviously waiting for lsof which never returns.

affects: ubuntu → emacs22 (Ubuntu)
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Björn Lindqvist (bjourne) wrote :

The lsof -F p /usr/bin/emacs22-gtk call hangs because an unrelated process was stuck waiting on an nfs server that had disappeared. So in essence, the problem is a symptom of nfs being very stupid, see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=131712.

But the lsof call is only used to check if emacs is running and print a warning, so it would be simple to replace it with something that does not risk hanging. pidof /usr/bin/emacs22-gtk for example could be used as a drop-in replacement.

era (era)
summary: - Emacs upgrade hangs
+ Emacs upgrade hangs: preinst should avoid lsof
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