Re: VERY Strange Problem since last update

1999-10-05 Thread Laurent Martelli
> "Joey" == Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joey> Todd Suess wrote: >> 1. Apt-get action completes. >> >> 2. pdmenu fires up and proceeds to thrash the hard drive for >> about 30 minutes, slowly chewing up all available system >> resources (RAM and SWAP), until SWAP is down

Re: VERY Strange Problem since last update

1999-10-05 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 07:09:13PM -0400, Todd Suess wrote: > > > > >You mean a process _named_ pdmenu is doing this, I'll bet. > > Yes > > > >I'll also bet you'll find several dozen update-menus processes running. If > >you do, tell me what version of menu you have installed. I had one proces

Re: VERY Strange Problem since last update

1999-10-05 Thread brian moore
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 07:21:16PM -0400, Todd Suess wrote: > At 04:15 PM 10/4/1999 -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > >Todd Suess wrote: > > > >I'll also bet you'll find several dozen update-menus processes running. > > > >If > > > >you do, tell me what version of menu you have installed. > > > >No, of _m

Re: VERY Strange Problem since last update

1999-10-04 Thread Todd Suess
At 04:15 PM 10/4/1999 -0700, Joey Hess wrote: Todd Suess wrote: > >I'll also bet you'll find several dozen update-menus processes running. If > >you do, tell me what version of menu you have installed. No, of _menu_ , not _pdmenu_. tsuess:~# dpkg --status menu Package: menu Status: install ok

Re: VERY Strange Problem since last update

1999-10-04 Thread Joey Hess
Todd Suess wrote: > >I'll also bet you'll find several dozen update-menus processes running. If > >you do, tell me what version of menu you have installed. No, of _menu_ , not _pdmenu_. > Not several dozen, but I have noticed a few running, others may be running at > a lower priority or something

Re: VERY Strange Problem since last update

1999-10-04 Thread Todd Suess
You mean a process _named_ pdmenu is doing this, I'll bet. Yes I'll also bet you'll find several dozen update-menus processes running. If you do, tell me what version of menu you have installed. tsuess:~# pdmenu --version Pdmenu 1.2.47 GPL Copyright (c) 1995, 1996, 1997 by Joey Hess <[

Re: VERY Strange Problem since last update

1999-10-04 Thread Joey Hess
Todd Suess wrote: > 1. Apt-get action completes. > > 2. pdmenu fires up and proceeds to thrash the hard drive for about > 30 minutes, slowly chewing up all available system resources > (RAM and SWAP), until SWAP is down to 0k available. You mean a process _named_ pdmenu is doing this, I

Re: VERY Strange Problem since last update

1999-10-04 Thread Herbert Ho
Hm. that's interesting, i thought it was only me! =) I've been running a updated potato for a good while now, but last night when the update and then upgrade (apt-get upgrade) i did was done, it would start running some of the same programs you have. It would fun up afterstep and thrash and eat re