dpkg doesn't exit

[steve@njord.org (Steve Wollkind)]

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Hi, I'm running the testing on my machine here at home, and starting a
couple of weeks ago I'm having a really odd dpkg problem.  dpkg never
exits, and goes into an unkillable D (uninterrupatble sleep) mode.

This occurs whether I run dpkg directly of via apt-get.  When running
via apt-get it fires off the first dpkg command (unpack foo.deb) and
then hangs.  Then if I remove the locks and run apt-get again it will
do the next step (setting up foo).  Then it hangs again.  To upgrade
20 packages like this requires 40 runs of apt get and killings of lock
files.

This is beginning to get very annoying.  I asked in #debian and no one
had ever had a similar problem.  Can someone help me with this?

Thanks
Steve Wollkind

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