Re: aptitude purge flashplugin-nonfree hang

["Oleg Batrashev" <ogbash@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I've already answered in private but forgot to click "reply all"
instead of "reply".

>>
>> I can't to purge nor remove flashplugin-nonfree with aptitude.
> Paul , please provide details of what happens when you attempt to
> remove aptitude. Preferably, copy and paste the console output
> including the initial command line used.
>
I had the same problem. It is because people.debian.org was not
accessible but now it works. There was no meaningful output, just some
message about the start of installation.
The output of "ps -efHww" that was during the hang is in the attachment.

Oleg

root     18381  4166  0 Jun14 tty1     00:00:05       aptitude
root     21769 18381  0 10:10 pts/1    00:00:00         /usr/bin/dpkg --status-fd 59 --force-depends --force-remove-essential --remove flashplugin-nonfree
root     21770 21769  0 10:10 pts/1    00:00:00           /bin/sh /var/lib/dpkg/info/flashplugin-nonfree.prerm remove
root     21771 21770  0 10:10 pts/1    00:00:00             /bin/sh /usr/sbin/update-flashplugin-nonfree --uninstall
root     21778 21771  0 10:10 pts/1    00:00:00               sh flashplugin-nonfree-get-lastminute
root     21782 21778  0 10:10 pts/1    00:00:00                 wget -q -P . http://people.debian.org/~bartm/flashplugin-nonfree/flashplugin-nonfree-lastminute.gz.asc