Today I started an update of many packages and muon hung on 71%. This is not related to etckeeper, but looks related to the pseudoterminal output, similarly to comment #10. The actually hung process is /bin/sh (dash), trying to write to stdout.
$ ps -e f #only a relevant part 20736 ? Sl 1:04 /usr/bin/muon-updater 20794 ? Sl 0:16 /usr/bin/qaptworker 20902 pts/22 Ss+ 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/qaptworker 26578 pts/23 Ss+ 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/dpkg --status-fd 47 --configure libudev0 libcurl3 libcurl4-openssl-dev libcurl3:i386 libcurl3-gnutls libgudev-1.0-0 li 4575 pts/23 S+ 0:00 \_ /bin/sh /var/lib/dpkg/info/initramfs-tools.postinst triggered update-initramfs 4576 pts/23 S+ 0:00 \_ /bin/sh /usr/sbin/update-initramfs -u 4589 pts/23 S+ 0:00 \_ /bin/sh /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs -o /boot/initrd.img-3.0.0-15-generic.new 3.0.0-15-generic 10174 pts/23 S+ 0:00 \_ /bin/sh /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/framebuffer $ sudo strace -p 10174 Process 10174 attached - interrupt to quit write(1, "\n", 1 ^C <unfinished ...> Process 10174 detached $ sudo lsof -p 10174 COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME framebuff 10174 root cwd DIR 253,1 4096 2 / framebuff 10174 root rtd DIR 253,1 4096 2 / framebuff 10174 root txt REG 253,1 109768 524297 /bin/dash framebuff 10174 root mem REG 253,1 1677624 1061598 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.13.so framebuff 10174 root mem REG 253,1 141088 1061605 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.13.so framebuff 10174 root 0u CHR 136,23 0t0 26 /dev/pts/23 framebuff 10174 root 1u CHR 136,23 0t0 26 /dev/pts/23 framebuff 10174 root 2u CHR 136,23 0t0 26 /dev/pts/23 framebuff 10174 root 10r REG 253,1 492 395156 /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/framebuffer framebuff 10174 root 11u CHR 136,23 0t0 26 /dev/pts/23 framebuff 10174 root 45w REG 253,2 39619 57 /var/log/apt/history.log $ sudo lsof /dev/pts/23 COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME initramfs 4575 root 0u CHR 136,23 0t0 26 /dev/pts/23 initramfs 4575 root 1u CHR 136,23 0t0 26 /dev/pts/23 initramfs 4575 root 2u CHR 136,23 0t0 26 /dev/pts/23 update-in 4576 root 0u CHR 136,23 0t0 26 /dev/pts/23 update-in 4576 root 1u CHR 136,23 0t0 26 /dev/pts/23 update-in 4576 root 2u CHR 136,23 0t0 26 /dev/pts/23 mkinitram 4589 root 0u CHR 136,23 0t0 26 /dev/pts/23 mkinitram 4589 root 1u CHR 136,23 0t0 26 /dev/pts/23 mkinitram 4589 root 2u CHR 136,23 0t0 26 /dev/pts/23 framebuff 10174 root 0u CHR 136,23 0t0 26 /dev/pts/23 framebuff 10174 root 1u CHR 136,23 0t0 26 /dev/pts/23 framebuff 10174 root 2u CHR 136,23 0t0 26 /dev/pts/23 framebuff 10174 root 11u CHR 136,23 0t0 26 /dev/pts/23 dpkg 26578 root 0u CHR 136,23 0t0 26 /dev/pts/23 dpkg 26578 root 1u CHR 136,23 0t0 26 /dev/pts/23 dpkg 26578 root 2u CHR 136,23 0t0 26 /dev/pts/23 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to qapt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/840306 Title: Muon hangs when using etckeeper To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qapt/+bug/840306/+subscriptions -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-b...@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs