It seems that even a slow USB drive causes dpkg to hang. I was copying about 4 Gb of data to a slow (but otherwise intact) USB drive, and dpkg hung until cp finished. I'm guessing the same could happen for a slow NFS mount etc. This is not a good situation.
-- dpkg hangs while unpacking replacement https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/624229 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
