On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Andrew Howell wrote: > Hi, > > I'm just new to sparc linux and have come across a problem with apt and > my sparcstation IPC which others seem to have as well. So I'm hoping someone > has figured out how to fix it now :) > > Basically the potato version of apt-get just uses up 100% CPU and sits then > doing not much when you do a 'apt-get update' I left it there for a couple > of hours and when I came back it had fetched 99% of the main packages file. > > Note: The IPC is 10 Meg ethernet to the place I was fetching packages from. > > This happens with debian 2.2.1, 2.2.9 and my own 2.2.10 kernels. > > It didn't happen with the slink version of apt, only started happening > with the potato version. > > Any ideas. I see an open bug where the package maintainer (I think > it was him, Jason?) claimed that it wasn't a problem with apt but a network > problem. I don't see any network problems. I'm ftping and nfs mounting stuff > fine. >
No problems here. I'm running potato on an IPC with a 2.2.9 kernel... so maybe the maintainer is right? Teun -- Teun Vink [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.vsts.nl icq: 15001247 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.moonblade.net "Pitr is killing himself howling over how Stef has given credit for borrowing code from 'Hello World'" - Mike, User Friendly, 23-7-99
