On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 11:13:31AM +0100, Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Package: aptitude > Version: 0.4.4-1 > Severity: grave > > Hi, > > very often when I update systems wich have not been updated for a while > (> 1 week) I notice that aptitude hangs while dowhloading the new > Package-lists (not the packages). I have to kill aptitude and use > apt-get update (which works fine).
I've heard of some problems with apt-get as well in this department, but
I haven't seen it myself with either aptitude or apt-get.
Two quick questions:
(1) When aptitude crashes, does it repeatedly crash? (i.e., does it
crash every time you try to update, or just the first time?)
(2) If you use apt-get instead of aptitude *before* trying aptitude
update, does it ever crash?
Also, it would be greatly helpful if you could compile the program with
debugging support, then -- when it hangs -- attach with gdb and get a
backtrace (preferably a backtrace of all threads -- i.e., run "info threads"
and "thread 0", "thread 1", etc, getting a backtrace for each).
Otherwise, I guess I'll just wait to see if it ever happens to me. The
updating code has been more or less the same for over a year, though, and
I have yet to see a lockup.
Thanks,
Daniel
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