On 06.01.2007 16:52 schrieb Daniel Burrows: > 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?
>From the UI: $ sudo aptitude *press u* [downloading the package diffs] -> hangs while downloading HTH Bastian -- Bastian Venthur http://venthur.de Debian Developer venthur at debian org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
