As I haven't received any response, I'm trying with a more evident subject,
just in case the mail went unnoticed :-)
There is a bug in dhelp (#487722) that makes dhelp wait for hours when
upgrading packages that have a lot of documentation. That might be just
doc-linux-html or similar, or
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 09:18:29AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 15:02 +1000, Andrew Vaughan wrote:
I actually think that the best work-around for Lenny would be
Esteban Manchado Velázquez's suggestion in bug 497139 of *not* reindexing
documentation (just
On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 15:02 +1000, Andrew Vaughan wrote:
I actually think that the best work-around for Lenny would be
Esteban Manchado Velázquez's suggestion in bug 497139 of *not* reindexing
documentation (just register the documents) when doc-base calls dhelp with
more than, say,
On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, Esteban Manchado Velázquez wrote:
Cc'ing debian-release, seeking advice...
Intro for debian-release: this bug makes dhelp wait for potentially
*hours* when upgrading (many packages). That means that if someone
upgrades from Etch to Lenny, they will have to wait for a
On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 14:32 +0200, Miguel Aguado wrote:
Ross Boylan is right in that indexing should not stop the upgrade of
other packages.
Originally I thought it was hung up; however the problem seems to be
that it takes a long time, like several hours.
It is possible the slow speed is a
Cc'ing debian-release, seeking advice...
Intro for debian-release: this bug makes dhelp wait for potentially
*hours* when upgrading (many packages). That means that if someone upgrades
from Etch to Lenny, they will have to wait for a couple of hours for the dhelp
postinst, while it's asking
On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 23:04 +0200, Esteban Manchado Velázquez wrote:
Cc'ing debian-release, seeking advice...
It would be very interesting to hear what they have to say, and whether
testing has turned up this problem.
Intro for debian-release: this bug makes dhelp wait for potentially
In a recent upgrade the terminal said there were about 600 updated
documents, and dhelp ran for a long time, perhaps 2 hours (might have
been more), but did eventually complete. This was on fairly decent
hardware, though a few years old.
Perhaps in earlier cases the index process would have run
reopen 487722
found 487722 0.6.10
thanks
installation got hung up again at
Registering documents with dhelp...
It kept running index++ until I killed the parent:
iron:~# ps -lC index++
F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN TTY TIME CMD
4 R 0 4587 2899 99 80 0 - 13908
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