Bug 31245

Summary: univention-upgrade doesn't display anything when called with --help switch
Product: UCS Reporter: Jan Christoph Ebersbach <ebersbach>
Component: Update - univention-updaterAssignee: Philipp Hahn <hahn>
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Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P5 CC: hahn
Version: UCS 3.2   
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Hardware: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Jan Christoph Ebersbach univentionstaff 2013-04-30 14:02:48 CEST 
As long as univention-upgrade is running, it's not possible to display any information about the program.

$ univention-upgrade --help
Another updater process is currently running - abort
Locked by PID 8632. Check lockfile /var/lock/univention-updater
Comment 1 Stefan Gohmann univentionstaff 2014-02-18 21:29:26 CET 
This issue has been filed against the UCS version "unstable" which does not really exist. Please change the version value.
Comment 2 Philipp Hahn univentionstaff 2014-02-19 09:13:40 CET 
This is still unfixed as of UCS-3.2-1
Comment 3 Philipp Hahn univentionstaff 2016-12-08 12:56:17 CET 
ucs-4.1-1@67586 | Bug #40338 up: Allow check without locking

# nohup univention-upgrade --ignoressh --ignoreterm --noninteractive </dev/null &
# univention-upgrade --help
Usage: univention-upgrade [options] 

 Install UCS release and errata updates.

Options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --updateto=UPDATETO   update up to specified version
  --check               check if updates are available
  --setucr              if set, variable update/available will be updated
  --ignoressh           pass --ignoressh to univention-updater
  --ignoreterm          pass --ignoreterm to univention-updater
  --noninteractive      Perform a non-interactive update
  --iso=ISO             ISO image for the repository update
  --cdrom=CDROM         CDROM device for the repository update

  App updates:
    --enable-app-updates
                        Skip updating installed Apps
    --disable-app-updates
                        Skip updating installed Apps
    --username=USERNAME
                        Name of the user used for registering the app
    --pwdfile=PWDFILE   Name of the file containing the user password

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 40338 ***