Incoming from David Hattery: > > About 90 percent of the time apt-get install hangs while unpacking. This > requires a ctl_c to stop, and a dpkg --configure -a before retrying. > > There are 4 related processes so I am wondering if my setup is starting > too many. Example from on a reinstall after an aborted try (ps ax): > > 4839 pts/0 S 0:00 apt-get --reinstall install gimp1.2 > 4849 pts/0 S 0:00 /usr/bin/dpkg --unpack > /var/cache/apt/archives/gimp1.2_1.2.3-2_i386.deb > 4856 pts/0 S 0:00 dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile > /var/cache/apt/archives/gimp1.2_1.2.3-2_i386.deb > 4857 pts/0 S 0:00 dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile > /var/cache/apt/archives/gimp1.2_1.2.3-2_i386.deb > 4858 pts/0 S 0:00 dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile > /var/cache/apt/archives/gimp1.2_1.2.3-2_i386.deb
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