Hello,
I seem to be suffering an intermittent problem with fink. Every
now and then I use 'fink install' to install something and the
point at which 'patch' gets run to patch the sources, it hangs,
severely.
I can't CTRL-C out of it. So, I close the terminal window and
tell it to kill its contained processes.
Only it doesn't. ps -aux reveals that the 'patch' process is
still hanging around. To make matters worse, it's unkillable.
To make matters even worse, shortly after this, my entire machine
locks up, and a hard reset is the only thing that recovers it.
I suspect that the problem *may* actually be with the tar used to
unpack the sources: perhaps it corrupts a file when it unpacks
it, and this sends patch into a tailspin?
I have also noticed, when restarting the machine, that cd'ing and
ls'ing the source directory for the attempted install can cause
the ls/cd process to lock up (which is what caused me to think
that perhaps it wasn't patch itself that was at fault, but rather
the tar that unpacked the sources in the first place).
Is this a known problem? Is there an established workaround?
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Viktor Haag : Software & Information Design : Research In Motion
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