On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Ken R. Dye wrote:
> Tried killing the apt-get pid, all attempts from -3, -15 and even -9 were > unsuccessful and yielded no strace output either. Tried > "gdb /usr/bin/apt-get pid#", which worked but hung as well. Sounds like it was stuck in the 'D' state, kernel problem, possibly faulty hardwxare. Nothing to do with APT. > Could you get the package-maintainer to look at this? My guess is the > cache-scanning code is under interrupt lock (though I don't know how kill > -9 didn't work) and getting hung by a corrupted cache. No. Jason
