Philip Charles <philipc@copyleft.co.nz> writes: > I am having problems with apt and I would like to know if people are > having the same difficulties using apt with the Hurd. > > After rebooting, apt-get update works well, as does apt-get install foo - > once. The next time it locks up at "Reading Package lists ... 0" and I > have to reboot. It seems to be getting worse. This seems akin to the problem I reported 11 months ago as #1 in <URL:http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2000/debian-hurd-200010/msg00265.html> > My test machine is an AMD 5 with 32 Mb RAM and 100MB swap. I am beginning > to suspect my hardware. I saw it on a AMD Athlon as well as on a Pentium. One machine did have quite limited amounts of VM, but the other had enough, and out-of-memory crashes usually run differently. Pruning my /etc/apt/sources.list to the minimum has made the problem go away almost completely. Before I had a rather long list (the two nearest Debian mirrors, plus my personal package repository, one mirror for sources, all duplicated for non-US ... about 10 lines altogether), and had run into the bug almost every time. After shortening the list, I only saw the problem every few weeks or so. So this may be (a) a viable work-around, and (b) an option for Hurd-hackers to reliably reproduce this bug (just stuff your sources.list with all matter of entries). Note that the TCP stack stopped working as well, so I suspect Mach was freezing. -- Robbe
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