Re: apt hangs

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

martin f krafft wrote:

> I have a system which seems very healthy, and it's been
> unproblematic for the past year. Uptime is around 450 days!
>
> I don't seem to be able to apt-get update anymore. This is a new
> problem, I have been keeping the system up to date up until now.
>
> The symptoms are that apt-get hangs on 
>
>  Building Dependency Tree... 50%
>
> indefinitely. what's kind of curious is that if I attach strace, it
> hangs at 67%.
>
> strace output is at
>  
>  ftp://ftp.madduck.net/scratch/strace.apt-get.hangs.gz [62 Kb]
>
> aptitude, btw, hangs during "Loading cache".
>
> I'd appreciate any tips and hints...
>
>  
This will be of absolutely no value to you, but I'm seeing similar hangs 
with apt on the Hurd. I can run apt (or dselect) successfully once, but 
the second time, every time, it hangs and I have to power cycle the 
computer. It usually happens on the "Reading database..." phase. As soon 
as I can figure out enough of what I'm doing to adequately report it as 
a bug, I will, but that's likely to be a while, as the Hurd only gets a 
small amount of my attention (rats! I rather enjoy tinkering -- just 
don't have the time).

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Kent