Re: Bug#2523: configuring netstd 2.01-1 freezes up dpkg
> I was upgrading from netstd 1.25 and when it got to setting up it just froze
> up. Checking out what processes were running I saw that a perl process
> that was running /var/lib/dpkg/info/netstd.postinst was out of control, i.e
> using all the CPU it could get it's greedy hands on. :)
I noticed this myself with a different version of netstd (a.out, 1.26-1),
and thought it had stuffed up (because of other things that had happened).
I tried uninstalling, and then purging, to no effect. Then one time I left
it running a little longer than before (maybe 10 minutes) and it completed
(apparently) fine. At the time I thought a warning message saying "this may
take a while" could have been in order, but soon was distracted by other
things.
Warwick
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