Re: aptitude safe-upgrade stops with a timeout.

[songbird <songbird@anthive.com>]

Guo Yixuan wrote:
>Hendrik Boom wrote:
>> I just did a routine
>>
>> aptitude safe-upgrade
>>
>> from the root command-line on an 1386 Debian testing system.  Here are
>> the past few lines in its output.  Is this anything to worry about?  Or
>> just an  unimportant problem that will fix itself in some future upgrade?
>>
>> setting up tassksel-data
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  if this is not a typo on your part then
this could be a problem elsewhere:

  "tassksel-data" is not a package, but "tasksel-data" is...


>> setting up tasksel
>> Processing triggers for mane ...
>> Processing triggers for python-support ...
>> Error: Timeout was reached
>>
>> Current status: 328 updates [-159]
>> notlookedfor:~ #
>>
>> "notlookedfor" is the machine name, part of the root shell prompt.
>>
>> -- hendrik
>
> Hi,
>
> I also get warnings like this recently. It starts about two weeks ago, 
> and a internet search doesn't turn up many useful results on this 
> problem, only with some similar report for ubuntu.
>
> Searching "Timeout was reached" in aptitude's source code doesn't have 
> any results either... maybe its a bug in something that aptitude depends 
> on (such as apt or dpkg).


  songbird