Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Slight bugs in programs used in the build process; I've seen it happen. > I also have a report of a program hanging if you strace it. Funnily > enough that was noticed when somebody straced a package build. Could > be an strace bug, program bug or kernel bug, but definitely very hard > to track down. FWIW, I have had good reliability at locking up a straced program by stracing apt-get install libc5. -- see shy jo