Re: dselect hangs
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 02:23:51PM -0500, Brian Stults wrote:
> Dselect is hanging when I do an update. I get the following:
>
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Merging Available information
> Replacing available packages info, using /var/cache/apt/available.
>
> And it just hangs there. apt-get upgrade works fine, so I've been doing
> that, but I wondered if anyone has any suggestions. Also, when it hangs
> and I try to kill it, I can't kill the following process using kill -9:
>
> /usr/bin/dpkg --update-avail /var/cache/apt/available
Does ps show the process in a 'D' state? If so, then it means this is an
IO problem (most likely in the kernel).
Ben
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