Re: apt-get locks machine.

[Falk Hueffner <falk.hueffner@student.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Richard Heycock <rgh@roughage.com.au> writes:

> apt-get has been causing my machine to completely lock up -- there
> is no response on the console and I cannot log in from another
> machine, the only sign of life is that the modem lights indicate
> that the line has not been dropped . It seems to be random;
> sometimes it happens 3 time on the trot and other times I can go for
> weeks without any problems.

Weird, I don't see that. Perhaps it's dile system corruption somewhere
in apt's database, although in theory that shouldn't hang the
kernel... Have you tried a complete fsck?

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	Falk