Hi there. I recently updated my system - here's the update log: Commit Log for Sat Jan 29 15:01:33 2011 Upgraded the following packages: dpkg (1.15.8.8) to 1.15.8.9 dpkg-dev (1.15.8.8) to 1.15.8.9 grub-common (1.98+20100804-13) to 1.98+20100804-14 grub-pc (1.98+20100804-13) to 1.98+20100804-14 ia32-libs (20101129) to 20110117 libc-bin (2.11.2-9) to 2.11.2-10 libc-dev-bin (2.11.2-9) to 2.11.2-10 libc6 (2.11.2-9) to 2.11.2-10 libc6-dbg (2.11.2-9) to 2.11.2-10 libc6-dev (2.11.2-9) to 2.11.2-10 libc6-i386 (2.11.2-9) to 2.11.2-10 libdpkg-perl (1.15.8.8) to 1.15.8.9 locales (2.11.2-9) to 2.11.2-10 I rebooted and ran the "./reproduce-bug.sh v3c-repo" test. The machine failed to respond while all available memory was consumed, but after a minute or two the process was killed and the operating system and desktop were paged back in. I would consider this bug as solved, providing there aren't any others out there who continue to experience the problem after these updates. Philip |