problems with apt-get upgrading from slink to potato

[Ari Heitner <aheitner@andrew.cmu.edu>]

I installed debian slink with no problems on my SPARCStation 1+, but I've
been having problems moving to potato.

apt-get tends to sit there sucking cpu cycles without accomplishing much.
For some time now, it's been at:

309 packages upgraded, 57 newly installed, 9 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/136MB of archives. After unpacking 87.7MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

(yes, after I hit enter :). It's been sitting there for about 10-15
minutes. It's definitely trying to do _something_:

$ ps aux
USER       PID %CPU %MEM  SIZE   RSS TTY STAT START   TIME COMMAND
...
root       825  3.2 22.8  4856  3228   1 S    18:30   0:57 apt-get
dist-upgrade
root       826 98.2 22.8  4856  3228   1 R    18:32  27:41 apt-get
dist-upgrade
...

I don't see any other processes running that appear related. My apt
sources are:

deb     ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free
deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free
deb     ftp://pandora.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib
non-free
deb-src ftp://pandora.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib
non-free

Any suggestions welcome.





Cheers,


Ari Heitner
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