Re: Re: apt-get install hangs while unpacking

2004-07-01 Thread Salman Haq
The root (var) partition has lots of space (only 4% used). I think there > is a problem with unpacking. Is there a package besides dpkg involved in > unpacking? > > David > > s. keeling said: >> Incoming from David Hattery: >>> >>> About 90 percent

Re: apt-get install hangs while unpacking

2004-04-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 03:11:06PM -0500, David wrote: > The problem is most likely to occur on large deb files. Small one are > much more likely to install OK. The problem is not limited to any one > particular file. Also, dpkg -i is more likely to work than apt-get. > > Somewhere someone said

Re: apt-get install hangs while unpacking

2004-04-03 Thread David
The problem is most likely to occur on large deb files. Small one are much more likely to install OK. The problem is not limited to any one particular file. Also, dpkg -i is more likely to work than apt-get. Somewhere someone said that it may be a corrupt library. I reinstalled lots of package

Re: apt-get install hangs while unpacking

2004-04-02 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 01:02:28PM -0500, David wrote: > When I ran the apt-get inside strace, it was killed by SIGSEGV and left > the three dpkg-deb processes orphans. Those three processes seem to be > trying to unpack the same file. Why am I getting three processes? I > tried to capture the u

Re: apt-get install hangs while unpacking

2004-04-02 Thread David
>> About 90 percent of the time apt-get install hangs while unpacking. >>> This >>> requires a ctl_c to stop, and a dpkg --configure -a before retrying. >>> >>> There are 4 related processes so I am wondering if my setup is starting >>> too many. Ex

Re: apt-get install hangs while unpacking

2004-04-02 Thread David
The root (var) partition has lots of space (only 4% used). I think there is a problem with unpacking. Is there a package besides dpkg involved in unpacking? David s. keeling said: > Incoming from David Hattery: >> >> About 90 percent of the time apt-get install hangs while unp

Re: apt-get install hangs while unpacking

2004-04-01 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from David Hattery: > > About 90 percent of the time apt-get install hangs while unpacking. This > requires a ctl_c to stop, and a dpkg --configure -a before retrying. > > There are 4 related processes so I am wondering if my setup is starting > too many. Example f

apt-get install hangs while unpacking

2004-04-01 Thread David Hattery
All, About 90 percent of the time apt-get install hangs while unpacking. This requires a ctl_c to stop, and a dpkg --configure -a before retrying. There are 4 related processes so I am wondering if my setup is starting too many. Example from on a reinstall after an aborted try (ps ax): 4839