On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 04:13:41PM +1000, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running slink on IPX. I just upgrade apt to apt in > slink-proposed-updates. After that apt acts weird. apt-cache will stay > forever. I've read some discussion about apt on IPC weeks ago. But here > apt-get ?????? work fine except upgrade which I think i t call apt-cache. > > On the other hand, I have another slink on sparcstation 4. With same apt > package, it doesn't have this problem.
This is a known issue with apt-cache on sun4c systems. The apt author has compiled a version without pthreads and it seems to have fixed the problem. I might just make an NMU for this so we can resolve this problem until a permanent fix is produced (which is a pthread problem). Ben
