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Re: apt-cache hang! on IPX



On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 04:13:41PM +1000, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running slink on IPX. I just upgrade apt to apt in slink-proposed-updates. After that apt acts weird. apt-cache will stay forever. I've read some discussion about apt on IPC weeks ago. But here apt-get ?????? work fine except upgrade which I think i
t call apt-cache.
> 
> On the other hand, I have another slink on sparcstation 4. With same apt package, it doesn't have this problem.

This is a known issue with apt-cache on sun4c systems. The apt author has compiled
a version without pthreads and it seems to have fixed the problem. I might just make
an NMU for this so we can resolve this problem until a permanent fix is produced
(which is a pthread problem).

Ben


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