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

VERY Strange Problem since last update

1999-10-04 Thread Todd Suess
Ok, this is a good one. I ran a recent apt-get dist-upgrade to complete the upgrade needed to fully bring my slink system up to potato. Since then, I have noticed some very strange activity on my system. Every time I run an apt-get anything (update, upgrade, etc), the following happens: 1. Apt