On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Andrew Howell wrote: > 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.
It's a bit early for me.. but get a non-defective strace (from potato) and strace the spinning process. Sparc seems to have lots of weird problems with APT that are just not explainable by anything other than a bad kernel/libc. I looked at something like the once ahh how did it go - apt calles timegm and it goes in libc and starts spinning on a mutex from pthreads and never returns. That was on some weird glibc, it wasn't 2.1. Jason
