Hi!
For the last few days I've been trying to upgrade my veteran SS1 to
Woody, now that that's stable.
But: as soon as it's done fetching packages and starts to configure
them, load goes tits-up until it completely stops responding. Well, it
continues to answer ICMP and TCP, but no service behind responds,
until the TCP-session finally timeouts. I can get to PROM via the
console, but nothing else responds there also.
Running `while true; do sleep 60; uptime; free; done` in another shell,
I can watch it grind to a halt:
2:38pm up 21:18, 2 users, load average: 6.15, 6.67, 5.71
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 13980 13372 608 4508 1064 5320
-/+ buffers/cache: 6988 6992
Swap: 179252 22144 157108
<...>
3:52pm up 22:33, 2 users, load average: 26.43, 25.91, 22.91
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 13980 13704 276 4364 1064 4600
-/+ buffers/cache: 8040 5940
Swap: 179252 39828 139424
(Well, actually one iteration through the loop takes some 20 minutes
now)
I've let it run for over 2 days the last time until I finally gave in
and rebooted.
AH, yes, since I interrupted dpkg I'm now running
`dpkg --configure -a`, which came this far since starting 5 hours ago:
gonzales:/home/waldner# dpkg --configure -a
Setting up locales (2.2.5-10) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/locale.alias ...
Generating locales...
de_AT.ISO-8859-1... done
de_AT.ISO-8859-15@euro... done
en_US.ISO-8859-1... done
en_US.UTF-8...
Heck, even upgrading ssh incl. generating a shitload of new keys was
faster. If you have suggestions, my thankfulness will haunt you ;)
cheers+TIA,
&rw
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-- "I'll get a life when someone demonstrates to me that it would
-- be superior to what I have now..." (Taki Kogoma)
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