I don’t want the system to shutdown in the middle of the upgrade, but I’ve already started the upgrade in the GUI.

Is there a better way, maybe involving the apt lock?

EDIT: Thank you for all the helpful suggestions. Hopefully this helps the next person. My upgrade actually finished on its own while I was posting. 😂

  • TwilightKiddy@programming.devEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    I suppose it would be useful for flakey internet connection, then your update would restart 5 minutes after losing the connection. It surely has a yucky aftertaste, though.

    • fruitcantfly@programming.dev
      4·
      2 days ago

      No, the idea was that apt update would keep failing while the system upgrade was running (and holding the lock):

      $ apt update
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/apt/lists/lock. It is held by process 1704856 (apt)
N: Be aware that removing the lock file is not a solution and may break your system.
E: Unable to lock directory /var/lib/apt/lists/

      But there are better ways of waiting for a process to finish, that other people have shared