On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 06:56:44PM +0100, Michael Prokop wrote: > * Bill Allombert <bill.allomb...@math.u-bordeaux1.fr> [20090323 18:27]: > > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 04:32:20PM +0100, Michael Prokop wrote: > > > > Do you have any idea what's going on here? > > > I wonder if your system somehow set signal handling to non-default > > value and that interfer with update-menus. > > Basically a kvm system with Debian's defaults. Used to work just > fine until a few days ago.
Can you check the list of package you changed recently (if any) via /var/log/dpkg.log and maybe try to downgrade them ? What kernel do you run ? > > Maybe this bug is related to bug 511698 (in experimental). > > Ah ok. ... so it is conceivable that some update break update-menus. > > > Please let me know if you need any further information, I've a > > > chroot available where I can easily reproduce/work on the problem. > > > 1) does 'update-menus --stdout' work ? > > No, hanging as well. So that narrow the issue to update-menus proper. > Would it help if I'd provide you the affected chroot as tar.gz? Sure, but please check you can reproduce the problem using the tar.gz. Cheers, Bill. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
