Re: Strange behaviour of aptitude
On Tuesday 2008 December 16 02:59:01 Alan Chandler wrote:
>Now, when I run aptitude interactively (over ssh from another machine),
>after it has gone off to perform some action - such as installing
>upgrades to packages, when it completes, it redisplays the screen, but
>is not accepting any keyboard commands.
I'm certainly seeing something similar.
>I can recover with a "reset terminal" command (running gnome terminal),
>which kills aptitude and then spews out all the key presses that
>aptitude hadn't taken.
I just hit Ctrl-C which works for me.
>I can then immediately restart aptitude with no side effects (it doesn't
>complain that the lock is held for instance - which it would do if it
>had just been killed off)
Does it work at that point? Mine stays frozen.
>Anyone else seeing this?
Yes, I am. It's a bit tough to reproduce though. It's definitely related to
gpm here. It also affects htop, but not top and vim. Attaching strace to
the process shows it stuck and a read or write call some gpm socket.
Restarting the gpm daemon allows the processes to continue.
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