Public bug reported:
If I use aptitude with the -d option it consumes a lot of CPU power and takes a
while to finish
(give me the prompt) after the download. Before aptitude give me back the
prompt print the following
error message:
E: Failed to write temporary StateFile /var/lib/apt/extended_states.tmp
Until today I haven't encountered with this phenomenon. So aptitude with the -d
option worked well
when Ubuntu 12.04 Beta1 released.
Without the -d option everything is just fine.
I've created a strace output with the following way:
root@penge:~# strace -o aptitude.strace aptitude -d install vim
The following NEW packages will be installed:
vim vim-runtime{a}
0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 6,872 kB of archives. After unpacking 24.8 MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
Get: 1 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main vim-runtime all
2:7.3.429-2ubuntu2 [5,893 kB]
Get: 2 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main vim i386
2:7.3.429-2ubuntu2 [979 kB]
Fetched 6,872 kB in 11s (610 kB/s)
E: Failed to write temporary StateFile /var/lib/apt/extended_states.tmp
I will try to upload the strace file later (48M without compression).
Here's a typical top output when aptitude -d run after the donwload has
been finished:
top - 19:59:06 up 14 min, 3 users, load average: 1.69, 1.82, 1.05
Tasks: 153 total, 3 running, 150 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 57.1%us, 13.8%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 23.3%wa, 0.0%hi, 5.8%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 1024800k total, 788808k used, 235992k free, 21360k buffers
Swap: 1046524k total, 58424k used, 988100k free, 245972k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
2527 root 20 0 59552 22m 9.8m S 47.7 2.3 3:15.38 aptitude
2654 test 20 0 425m 344m 70m S 13.9 34.5 1:20.56 oneconf-service
2526 root 20 0 2384 720 624 S 1.7 0.1 0:11.85 strace
2084 test 20 0 90956 11m 5728 S 1.0 1.1 0:06.74 gnome-terminal
2153 test 20 0 54616 7764 4780 S 0.7 0.8 0:03.84 update-notifier
12259 root 20 0 8776 4436 732 R 0.7 0.4 0:00.02 dpkg
12261 root 20 0 8120 3876 1916 R 0.7 0.4 0:00.02 dpkg-preconfigu
7 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 0:02.01 watchdog/0
20 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 0:03.86 kworker/0:1
40 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 0:01.36 kworker/u:3
1045 root 20 0 102m 54m 9184 S 0.3 5.4 0:10.33 Xorg
1781 test 20 0 20512 1428 1428 S 0.3 0.1 0:02.72 gvfs-afc-volume
12103 root 20 0 2832 1160 872 R 0.3 0.1 0:00.02 top
1 root 20 0 3504 1312 1020 S 0.0 0.1 0:01.38 init
2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
The aptitude process state not always "S" it's sometimes "R".
Please fix this problem! If you need more details I'm glad to help you.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: aptitude 0.6.5-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-19.30-generic-pae 3.2.11
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-19-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 1.94.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Mar 20 20:05:51 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta i386 (20120301)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: aptitude
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: aptitude (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug i386 precise
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aptitude -d Failed to write temporary StateFile
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while to finish the operation after download
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