Re: apt hangs for ever

[Peter Palfrader <peter@palfrader.org>]

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Brian May wrote:

> >>>>> "Henrique" == Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> writes:
> 
>     Henrique> Use --save-after-login and pbuilder login to open the
>     Henrique> chroot, add the new apt key, and only then run the
>     Henrique> update.
> 
> I tried that, it didn't help.
> 
> The only solution I found when I checked last was to run apt-get via
> strace...

I've seen this often in recent weeks.  Disabling pdiffs works around the
issue most of the time.  ^Cing apt-get update and restarting it usually
works too.

Peter
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