SUCCESS! Note: The 11/01 debs were on the backup machine (in '/var/cache/apt/archives') which hadn't been updated in awhile, and used the test machine to fetch upgrades via apt-cacher. I copied the debs over to the test machine then apt-cacher-imported them after purging the libav* packages from 11/29. Using 'aptitude' to install the three packages went fetched and installed the latest (11/29) versions, so I had to purge again and install the debs with 'dpkg'.
Question: How did you know that libavcodec52, et. al. were at fault? Did you deduce anything from the trace, or did something else give you a clue? From the trace I saw a lot of waiting on FUTEX, but had no idea which component was doing that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org