Hello. I'm using a Debian Woody with apt version 0.3.17. Sometimes during updating (dselect with method apt and sources.list pointing to cdroms and local files) I think I get a deadlock situation: just before asking "Yes" to update/install confirmation (after [I]nstall's dselect option) or just before asking to replace cdrom, I see a blocking situation; this is the process-tree (for the latter case):
15869 tty2 S 0:00 \_ sh /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/install /var/lib/dpkg apt apt 15872 tty2 S 0:02 \_ /usr/bin/apt-get -f dselect-upgrade 15885 tty2 S 0:00 \_ /usr/lib/apt/methods/cdrom "strace -p 15885" shows: select(1, [0], NULL, NULL, NULL <unfinished ...> That never unblocks... since all coditions are NULL. I usually "unblock" the situation with a "kill -PIPE 15885" but I think this is not normal. :) Thanks in advance, Leonardo Macchia. -- Leonardo Macchia [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://WWW.Students.CS.UniBO.IT/~macchia/ IK4PKV System Administrator of Cantina's cluster (IPv4: 130.136.{3,5,30,31}.0/24)
