Hi! For the last few days I've been trying to upgrade my veteran SS1 to Woody, now that that's stable. But: as soon as it's done fetching packages and starts to configure them, load goes tits-up until it completely stops responding. Well, it continues to answer ICMP and TCP, but no service behind responds, until the TCP-session finally timeouts. I can get to PROM via the console, but nothing else responds there also. Running `while true; do sleep 60; uptime; free; done` in another shell, I can watch it grind to a halt: 2:38pm up 21:18, 2 users, load average: 6.15, 6.67, 5.71 total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 13980 13372 608 4508 1064 5320 -/+ buffers/cache: 6988 6992 Swap: 179252 22144 157108 <...> 3:52pm up 22:33, 2 users, load average: 26.43, 25.91, 22.91 total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 13980 13704 276 4364 1064 4600 -/+ buffers/cache: 8040 5940 Swap: 179252 39828 139424 (Well, actually one iteration through the loop takes some 20 minutes now) I've let it run for over 2 days the last time until I finally gave in and rebooted. AH, yes, since I interrupted dpkg I'm now running `dpkg --configure -a`, which came this far since starting 5 hours ago: gonzales:/home/waldner# dpkg --configure -a Setting up locales (2.2.5-10) ... Installing new version of config file /etc/locale.alias ... Generating locales... de_AT.ISO-8859-1... done de_AT.ISO-8859-15@euro... done en_US.ISO-8859-1... done en_US.UTF-8... Heck, even upgrading ssh incl. generating a shitload of new keys was faster. If you have suggestions, my thankfulness will haunt you ;) cheers+TIA, &rw -- -- "I'll get a life when someone demonstrates to me that it would -- be superior to what I have now..." (Taki Kogoma)
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