On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 04:46:36AM -0700, Bruce Sass wrote: > On Mon January 22 2007 01:01, you wrote: > > Otherwise, I am kind of stumped as you seem to be the only one > > experiencing this and this is only a "heisenbug". > > races can look like this...
Yes, but they're also awfully hard to debug. > /usr is an NFS mount, as is /var/cache apt/archives, and dselect (in > addition to KDE and probably a torrent) would be running off the same > drive on the box which exports both (a 350MHz, P3, 128M RAM, over a > 100Mbps LAN) But your box has its own /var/cache/apt/archives and /usr? And /var/run and /var/lib are local? > The only thing I can think of which is likely to get at this bug would > be a series of packages designed to troubleshoot the upgrade process. > If you were to design such a package, put it in an apt-gettable > archive, then give it a new version number every day (simply mv-ing > the .deb), I would be able to do a realistic "upgrade" every day. Sorry, I don't see that I'll have time to do this in the foreseeable future. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 72739835 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
