Re: dselect hangs
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 05:46:33PM -0500, Brian Stults wrote:
> 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?
If this is a 2.3.x kernel, I suggest reporting the bug to the kernel
list, and then switching back to a known good kernel (2.2.x prefered).
Ben
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