On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 11:13:31AM +0100, Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > 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). > > Today I noticed this problem again and decided to provide an strace. > Please note that the strace does not stop (the same block repeats again > and again until I killed strace. > > This bug happens to appear quite often (with a better chance when you > haven't updated your packages for a while), while it does almost never > happen on systems which I update daily.
One factor I just remembered: Are you updating these systems from the curses UI or from the command-line? Daniel
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