Bug#34397: dpkg: Upgrade from hamm, via apt-get, hangs when selecting xserver-common
Ian Jackson wrote:
>
> scottkj@londo.prl.research.philips.com writes ("Bug#34397: dpkg: Upgrade from hamm, via apt-get, hangs when selecting xserver-common"):
> > Selecting previously deselected package xserver-common.
> >
> > It remained at this point for about 10 mins, so I killed the dpkg process.
> > After that I had to run "dpkg --configure -a" to tidy up after the kill,
> > then re-run "apt-get -f dist-upgrade", which proceeded to completion with
> > no further problems.
>
> Can you reproduce this problem ? I've not heard of such a bug before;
> it seems likely that (eg) the xserver-common maintainer scripts might
> have been waiting for input.
>
Unlikely in the short term as I only had the one machine to upgrade. I
did look at CPU-usage before killing dpkg and it was clocking up time
according to ps - I let it get up to 10 mins before killing it.
It may just be that I had a weird combination of packages - originally
hamm (clean install of workstation set of packages), but with a number
of packages from slink/potato eg wine, some of gnome. If no-one else
runs into the problem this seems likely! I don't, unfortunately, have
a detailed list of everything (packages and versions) installed before
I tried the upgrade.
Also, the upgrade was trouble-free apart from this one glitch, for which
I am very impressed! Thanks to you all for your efforts.
If I can provide any more useful details, let me know.
Kevin
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