Re: Strange behaviour of aptitude
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 09:18:17AM -0600, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss@iguanasuicide.net> was heard to say:
> 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've had sporadic reports of this, but I've never been able to track
it down. It happened once for me for about a week, then stopped and
hasn't happened since. I assumed it was a race condition that was
triggered by something not in my environment, but I haven't been able
to figure out the common thread. (I thought it might have to do with
dual-core processors, but now I have one and I don't see this)
> >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.
I hoped for a moment that this was the explanation, but installing gpm
doesn't trigger the bug for me.
Daniel
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