Re: can't finish update: dpkg hangs installing xulrunner

2011-05-09 Thread Michael Shiloh
I tried removing xulrunner and that worked, so this is no longer an issue. Thanks for your help! On 05/08/2011 09:50 PM, guy keren wrote: try to look back at the file, and see if this futex (0xb775e890) was acquired earlier in the strace output, and not released. these futexes are used to

can't finish update: dpkg hangs installing xulrunner

2011-05-08 Thread Michael Shiloh
apt-get update hangs at Setting up xulrunner-1.9.1 I can kill this, but then I can't finish the update because it says that dpkg was interrupted. Trying to let dpkg repair with sudo dpkg --configure -a hangs setting up xulrunner so I'm stuck. Any ideas? -- Michael Shiloh

Re: can't finish update: dpkg hangs installing xulrunner

2011-05-08 Thread guy keren
On Sun, 2011-05-08 at 17:04 -0700, Michael Shiloh wrote: apt-get update hangs at Setting up xulrunner-1.9.1 I can kill this, but then I can't finish the update because it says that dpkg was interrupted. Trying to let dpkg repair with sudo dpkg --configure -a hangs

Re: can't finish update: dpkg hangs installing xulrunner

2011-05-08 Thread Michael Shiloh
On 05/08/2011 08:10 PM, guy keren wrote: On Sun, 2011-05-08 at 17:04 -0700, Michael Shiloh wrote: apt-get update hangs at Setting up xulrunner-1.9.1 I can kill this, but then I can't finish the update because it says that dpkg was interrupted. Trying to let dpkg repair with

Re: can't finish update: dpkg hangs installing xulrunner

2011-05-08 Thread guy keren
try to look back at the file, and see if this futex (0xb775e890) was acquired earlier in the strace output, and not released. these futexes are used to implement pthread mutexes, and if a an application attempts to lock the same mutex twice - it will deadlock - and you'll see it blocked on the