Hi all I'm hoping somone can help me with a little Debian problem.
The problem is that when I try to install packages (either through apt-get or using dpkg directly), dpkg seems to take a *long* time at the "Unpacking" stage. (Long == many minutes). When I do a "top" it shows that the dpkg process is almost always in the Sleeping state, although it does seems to make _some_ progress. My best guess is that it is constantly waiting for some type of I/O. Other IO operations (unpacking a tarball for example), seem to work fine. My only other guess is that it is waiting from some lock. It doesn't look like dpkg has a verbose mode, and I don't really want to debug the dpkg source to find out what is going on, so if any one has seen thise before, or has any idea what the problem might be I'd really appreciate it. Versions: Debian - sid (although i was having similar problem on a stable box) Dpkg - 1.9.21 Linux - 2.2.20-idepci (from the bootdisk) H/W: Athlon 1900, 512MB ram, 40GB ide hdd. Cheers, Benno -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
