Ben Collins wrote: > On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 02:23:51PM -0500, Brian Stults wrote: > > Dselect is hanging when I do an update. I get the following: > > > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > Building Dependency Tree... Done > > Merging Available information > > Replacing available packages info, using /var/cache/apt/available. > > > > And it just hangs there. apt-get upgrade works fine, so I've been doing > > that, but I wondered if anyone has any suggestions. Also, when it hangs > > and I try to kill it, I can't kill the following process using kill -9: > > > > /usr/bin/dpkg --update-avail /var/cache/apt/available > > Does ps show the process in a 'D' state? If so, then it means this is an > IO problem (most likely in the kernel). > > Ben
Yes, ps shows a 'D' state. Do you suggest recompiling the kernel? Thanks, Brian
