On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 11:54:32PM +0100, Benoît Dejean wrote: > Le jeudi 28 février 2008 à 14:48 -0500, Justin Pryzby a écrit : > > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 08:09:22PM +0100, Benoît Dejean wrote: > > > > no, everything is frozen. ^Z won't work until the system gets back to > > > normal. > > What about top output? Starting from top defaults (no .toprc), press: > > It can't help. System is frozen for 5s, so top is not updated. When it > unlocks, i can only see aptitude jump and stay at the 1st place (wchan = > start), but because it's computing what packages are to be upgraded, > etc. What is your path under sudo? /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin ?
How fast do your PIDS grow during the aptitude run? run: watch 'echo $$'