Re: potato and dselect issues
On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 08:37:35AM -0400, shadgun@antidisestablishment.org wrote:
> I am running a potato system, and recently when I update or install
> packages through dselect, I see many errors concerning fsync and also
> errors unpacking the debs. Is this limited to my system or a global issue?
If you are referring to yesterday's potato update, you are not alone.
As apt-get was installing replacement packages, I received an
'out-of-memory' error (system has 64 MB plus 130 MB of swap). I
suffered an extreme slowdown and wasn't sure from the error messages
whether things were getting installed or not.
I tried to find the offender with 'ps aux' but that dumped core. I
tried to halt the system, but that wouldn't work either. I finally had
to hit the power switch and on reboot, the system wouldn't fsck cleanly.
A manual fsck worked, but resulted in a lot of messages which left me
worried.
'apt-get clean' doesn't indicate any problems with the installation, but
I wouldn't be surprised if there are some problems I haven't found yet.
I used 'apt-get upgrade' instead of dselect to avoid removing netscape,
etc.
I guess we occasionally need a reminder why there are warnings about
running unstable.
Bob
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