Re: Aptitude hangs machine
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 11:00:11AM -0400, Ken Heard <ken@heard.name> was heard to say:
> I recently installed in a new Lenovo ThinkPad R61 Lenny using the Lenny
> Beta2 installer. The installation went -- as far as I could see -- as
> it should have.
>
> Soon after installation I wanted to upgrade the installed packages.
> First I updated /etc/apt/sources.list, including adding to it
> debian-volatile so that I could install the clamav set of anti-virus
> packages and get the periodic updates to tzdata. Then I ran (as root)
> "aptitude update", followed by "aptitude upgrade". It downloaded some
> 33 package upgrades, including a new kernel (2.6.25-2-686 to replace
> 2.6.24) and tzdata.
>
> The package setup only got as far as tzdata, when the machine hung. To
> get the machine going again I had to turn it off using the on/off button
> and do a cold boot without a proper shutdown.
>
> After rebooting I ran aptitude again. It returned the message that
> aptitude had been interrupted, and to get it running again I had to run
> "dpkg --reconfigure -a". I tried to do so several times; each time it
> tried to set up tzdata, only getting as far as to say what the current
> time zone is before hanging up the machine.
After it shows you your current time zone, it runs "date". Does
running that command at the prompt crash the machine for you?
Daniel
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