>Please post the current contents of "/etc/apt/sources.list".
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian sarge main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free
>Also please post the contents of "/etc/hostname" (and make sure it
>matches the output of "hostname"), and post the line in "/etc/hosts"
>that refers to "localhost". (You don't have debian.org listed in
>"/etc/hosts" or "/etc/hosts.deny", do you?)
The hostname is "debian" in both the cases
the contents of /etc/hosts is
127.0.0.1 debian localhost
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
# (added automatically by netbase upgrade)
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
>Please post the exact session from the time you enter "apt-get update"
>until the hang occurs.
????
>Try "aptitude" instead of "apt", and if that doesn't work, look in
>"/var/log/aptitude" for any clues.
>Try "dselect"/"update"; what's the results?
ok I will give it a try.
>Oh-h-h-h, wait wait. I just reread your post above. Is this happening
>when you do an "apt-get update" or an "apt-get dist-upgrade"? Again,
>posting the exact session as mentioned above might be enlightening
what do you mean by the session ???
One thing that has struck my notice is dmesg. please have a look how 2 eth connections are coming in the output as eth0 and eth1, when I have only 1 lan card (in slot 1) and a 56kbps modem (in slot 0) attached to my box. I cant see why the system detects 2 eth cards
contents of dmesg
Linux version 2.2.20-idepci (herbert@gondolin) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #1 Sat Apr 20 12:45:19 EST 2002
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
<<snip>>
pcnet32.c: PCI bios is present, checking for devices...
rtl8139.c:v1.07 5/6/99 Donald Becker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/rtl8139.html
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xd400, IRQ 9, 00:08:a1:32:e1:7e.
via-rhine.c:v1.08b-LK1.0.1 12/14/2000 Written by Donald Becker
http://www.scyld.com/network/via-rhine.html
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 > hda3 hda4
apm: BIOS not found.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 72k freed
Adding Swap: 506036k swap-space (priority -1)
eth1: 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.18-pre4 Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
eth1: Linux-2.2 bug reports to Jens David <dg1kjd@afthd.tu-darmstadt.de>
eth1: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet board found at 0xd004cc00, IRQ 9
eth1: Chip is 'RTL-8139C' - MAC address '00:08:a1:32:e1:7e'.
NTFS version 000607
Any clues
bbye