On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 04:24:38PM -0800, Mark Lundeberg wrote: > On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, M.C. Vernon wrote: > > > When running debian-source -x on ud (a small package), it gets as > > far as unpacking ud-fooo in ud-0.7.1/, and then hangs. If I ^c or ^z it, > > then I get bash back again, but cd .. or ls, or anything like that will > > hang...... > > I once got the same results from > ls -l /linux/dev | less > (actually, I was in the /linux/dev dir) > When I tried to run any program, it just hung until I pressed ^C a > gazillion times. I finally had to boot the computer hard.
What you are experiencing is a very weired bug in the Hurd or GNU Mach. It is not reproducible by special command sequences (Matthew, try dpkg-source again, you may see that it is not at fault). It happens sometimes, under which circumstances is unclear to me. Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
