Bug#602354: base: apt-get runs in top consuming 90% cpu. 0% idle. uptime 18:45.

[David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies+debian@gmail.com>]

Hi olson,

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 11:49, Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> wrote:
>> apt-get is top process consuming 90 percent cpu after the update manager
>> runs. The system idle is 0.0%.  The system has been up for 18 hours.  This
>> can be reproduced.  I have to kill the apt-get process with a minus one to
>> resolve. The parent process is /bin/sh /etc/cron.daily/apt.

Could you run
apt-get update
by hand as root, so we can see where apt hangs, please?


Attaching your sources.lists could be useful, too:
find /etc/apt -name '*.list' -exec cat {} \;

Specifically: Do you have a CD/DVD/USB-{stick,disk} as a source?
(I remember skipping over a similar sounding bug in report in launchpad…)


Best regards

David Kalnischkies