package apt tags 505092 +unreproducible thanks Ivan Shmakov wrote: > I guess I might be experiencing the same problem. In my case, > `apt-get' stops when started within `nohup', i. e., without > stdandard I/O. The last line output is typically something > like: > > Fetched 49.8MB in 4s (11.3MB/s) > > but it may go a bit further. Attaching to the `apt-get' process > with `strace -p' revealed that it's get stuck on a something > like `write' of a big NUL-filled (preasumably) buffer to > `/dev/ptmx'. > > Everything seems to work fine when running from a terminal, and > from `script' in particular. > > Can it be that `apt-get' allocates a pseudo terminal for running > `dpkg' when its own stdandard I/O is not a terminal, and then > fails to behave correctly? Thanks for providing info. But I still cannot reproduce it. Both 'nohup apt-get update' and 'nohup apt-get -y install abcde' (last actually calls dpkg for work) works fine for me.
Ivan, please also try the version from experimental (0.7.19~exp2). -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com Ukrainian C++ developer, Debian APT contributor
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