On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 09:35:23AM +0100, Benoît Dejean wrote: > > Le mardi 26 février 2008 à 16:54 -0700, Bdale Garbee a écrit : > > On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 23:01 +0100, Benoît Dejean wrote: > > > Package: sudo > > > Version: 1.6.9p11-1+b1 > > > > I don't recognize that version number. Where did you get this package > > from? > > sid from ftp://ftp.proxad.net/mirrors/ftp.debian.org/ > (secondary mirror) > > > > When i run in a root shell "aptitude safe-upgrade", it works fine, no > > > freeze, aptitude outputs normally and immediately. > > > > > > But if i do from my current user "sudo aptitude safe-upgrade", the > > > whole system freezes for 5s, then it unlocks and everything gets back > > > to normal. > > > > Offhand, and without any other info, this sounds like it might be a DNS > > timeout. Do you have domain names in your sudoers file that aren't > > resolvable? Running an strace might be instructive. > > Guess what ? > sudo strace aptitude safe-upgrade doesn't have any problem. > > I've attached my sudoers file. No DNS names. > I can't think of any DNS issue that would lock all but root processes for 5s. > > I've upgraded to 1.6.9p12-1 and can reproduce. Same kind of vmstat output. Can you describe what you mean by "freeze"? Are you running in X11? Can you move the cursor/pointer at all?
How many sources.list lines do you have?
