[Bug 2092616] Re: during upgrade, attempting to modify the package maintainer's version via a shell leads to aborting the upgrade

[John Ruiz]

jar349 at kn1:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
dpkg: error: dpkg database lock was locked by another process with pid 18070
Note: removing the lock file is always wrong, can damage the locked area
and the entire system. See <https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/FAQ#db-lock>.

jar349 at kn1:~$ ps aux | grep 18070
root       18070  0.0  0.0  11560  6608 pts/3    Ss   05:58   0:00 /usr/bin/dpkg --force-overwrite --status-fd 83 --configure --pending

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Title:
  during upgrade, attempting to modify the package maintainer's version
  via a shell leads to aborting the upgrade

Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  using `do-upgrade-release` to upgrade from 22.04 LTS to 24.04 LTS, I
  was informed that /etc/sysctl.conf was modified by me since its
  installation. I viewed the differences and decided that I wanted to
  edit the maintainer's version and then accept it. I chose to start a
  shell and ran `vim $DPKG_CONFFILE_NEW` and made my edit and then
  pressed CTRL-C to exit insert mode in vim. That is when the process
  aborted and then hung.

  See the attached image.

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