Re: dselect hangs

[Brian Stults <bs7452@csc.albany.edu>]

Ben Collins wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 02:23:51PM -0500, Brian Stults wrote:
> > Dselect is hanging when I do an update.  I get the following:
> >
> > Reading Package Lists... Done
> > Building Dependency Tree... Done
> > Merging Available information
> > Replacing available packages info, using /var/cache/apt/available.
> >
> > And it just hangs there.  apt-get upgrade works fine, so I've been doing
> > that, but I wondered if anyone has any suggestions.  Also, when it hangs
> > and I try to kill it, I can't kill the following process using kill -9:
> >
> > /usr/bin/dpkg --update-avail /var/cache/apt/available
>
> Does ps show the process in a 'D' state? If so, then it means this is an
> IO problem (most likely in the kernel).
>
> Ben

Yes, ps shows a 'D' state.  Do you suggest recompiling the kernel?

Thanks,
Brian