On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 06:46:15PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > Celejar([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > Hi, > > > > My aptitude (uptodate Sid) has been behaving rather strangely lately. When > > doing updates, it seems to always hang for long periods of time while > > displaying the line: > > > > 99% [5 Packages 4308] > > > > or similar. No processor, network or HDD usage seems to be occurring. > > It subsequently generally finishes okay, although I'm not sure it is > > always completing the update successfully (all packages I have manually > > checked against p.d.o seem to be at the latest version, but I haven't > > been very systematic about it). It also seems to be overall more > > sluggish and erratic. I know this is very vague and unhelpful, but I > > was just wondering if anyone has been seeing anything like this. I've > > tried playing with sources.list, but I get similar results no matter > > which mirror I use (I've only tried a few), and even with apt-get. > > > Yes. Started yesterday, here. I tried again then morning and it was > still hanging at 12 PM EST when I finally was able to finish the upgrade.
hmmm... this may explain why my cron-apt bombed last night. In fact I found 2 instances of cron-apt running and an aptitude that appeared to have been in existence for quite a while. note that this is an etch install though. But I wonder if its something on the server side? A
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