2017-01-01 15:12 GMT+01:00 Andreas Neudecker <zap...@gmx.net>: > Hi Manuel, > > I did not find this setting > >> Do you have GzipIndexes indexes enabled in apt/aptitude config? > > anywhere. root's ~/.aptitude/config is: > > ----8<---- > aptitude ""; > aptitude::Keep-Unused-Pattern ""; > aptitude::Delete-Unused-Pattern ""; > aptitude::Delete-Unused "false"; > aptitude::Auto-Upgrade "true"; > aptitude::UI ""; > aptitude::UI::Pause-After-Download "OnlyIfError"; > aptitude::UI::InfoAreaTabs "false"; > ----8<---- > > I also checked in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/* and a grep on GzipIndexes yielded > nothing. > > Where else should I look?
What you cited is everywhere where you can look, I think. I think that "apt-config dump -c /root/.aptitude/config" would also achieve the same results, but basically you looked into the right places. I was asking because several reports related with "freezes" when changing the states of the packages were due to the gzipped indices. <note for future investigations> I could safely try this today in another machine, and with strace it looks like there's an endless loop looking for a apt-xapian file that does not exist. [pid 28407] stat("/var/lib/apt-xapian-index/index", 0x7ffc41affc40) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) [pid 28407] stat("/var/lib/apt-xapian-index/index", 0x7ffc41b00330) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) [pid 28407] stat("/var/lib/apt-xapian-index/index", 0x7ffc41affc40) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) [pid 28407] stat("/var/lib/apt-xapian-index/index", 0x7ffc41b00330) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) [pid 28407] stat("/var/lib/apt-xapian-index/index", 0x7ffc41affc40) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) When installing "apt-xapian-index" and then running "update-apt-xapian-index" the strace changes but it also seems to get caught in another kind of endless loop. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>