Re: apt-get install hangs while unpacking

["s. keeling" <keeling@spots.ab.ca>]

Incoming from David Hattery:
> 
> About 90 percent of the time apt-get install hangs while unpacking.  This
> requires a ctl_c to stop, and a dpkg --configure -a before retrying.
> 
> There are 4 related processes so I am wondering if my setup is starting
> too many.  Example from on a reinstall after an aborted try (ps ax):
> 
>  4839 pts/0    S      0:00 apt-get --reinstall install gimp1.2
>  4849 pts/0    S      0:00 /usr/bin/dpkg --unpack
> /var/cache/apt/archives/gimp1.2_1.2.3-2_i386.deb
>  4856 pts/0    S      0:00 dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile
> /var/cache/apt/archives/gimp1.2_1.2.3-2_i386.deb
>  4857 pts/0    S      0:00 dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile
> /var/cache/apt/archives/gimp1.2_1.2.3-2_i386.deb
>  4858 pts/0    S      0:00 dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile
> /var/cache/apt/archives/gimp1.2_1.2.3-2_i386.deb

Are you running out of space in /var?


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