Daniel Burrows schrieb: > On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 08:11:22PM +0100, Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: >> 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 > > OK, that's usually what I do too. Another variable would be connection > speed -- is yours particularly slow or fast?
I'm currently on a 2MBit DSL line. Nothing spectacular. It may have something to do with the new pdiffs introduced a half year ago. Before the pdiff-age it took only a few seconds to download the package list, but today it takes literally ages to get all the stuff when you don't have updated your box for a while (> 1 week). I don't know what exactly takes all the time (usually a few minutes) -- I doubt this is the raw download time for all the small files. I guess after aptitude downloaded each pdiff it does something fishy which takes longer the more pdiffs it has downloaded and under some circumstances even hangs... Ok, I guess I'm not really helping with my wild speculations. I've prepared a sid system and plan to let it rot a few days in oder provoke a long package list download. I hope I can reproduce this bug with a debugging version of aptitude. Cheers, Bastian BTW: Am I the only one who noticed this bug? -- 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]
