tags 545701 + moreinfo quit Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Alvaro Herrera wrote on 2009-09-08: >> I started an aptitude safe-upgrade and left the computer for half an >> hour. Upon return I find that there's a suspicious process eating 100% >> of a CPU for a long time. [...] >> /usr/bin/perl-w/usr/share/debconf/frontend/var/lib/dpkg/info/dash.postinstabort-upgrade0.5.5.1-2.3 [...] >> ioctl(0, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {B0 -opost -isig icanon -echo ...}) >> = 0 >> <repeats ad nauseam> > > (isatty, I think.)
If I had to guess, this loop is somewhere in the guts of debconf machinery. So I fear it was probably silently fixed. But still: - do you remember anything more about what was happening when this occured (for example, did you interrupt any previous upgrade, and was there a terminal available)? - did it ever happen again? - any other clues or symptoms? Sorry we didn't get to this in time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org