Re: dpkg doesn't exit
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 10:14:52AM -0500, Steve Wollkind wrote:
> 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?
You might try stracing the execution of dpkg, it may provide some useful
information to someone regarding where dpkg is falling.
strace -f -o /tmp/dpgk.log dpkg -i package-to-install.deb
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