reassign 227447 strace thanks On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 08:42:08PM +0100, Thomas Fischbacher wrote: > > > Can you be a bit more specific? stracing apt works fine for me. > > Here is a log (generated from within an emacs shell) of what happens when > I call strace on apt... Final result is a hanging process that does not > return to the shell and can only be killed by a -9. But I also have seen > different results where even starting the http apt access method did not > work. > > System is a recent Debian Woody, kernel 2.4.24-grsec, grsecurity ACLs > disabled for update, platform i386. > > However, I also just managed to strace an "apt-get install binstats" - > this gave a few I/O errors like the one below, but seemed to work > otherwise.
Reassigning to strace. Since you are running Woody, this is probably a bug which has since been fixed in unstable (where I did my test). The strace maintainer should be able to confirm this if so. -- - mdz
