A possible cause of this problem, is bug LP#1311056 ** Tags added: field-medium
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to software-properties in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1841525 Title: apt-add-repository can take machine down Status in software-properties package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: If apt-add-repository has to work with a file with 20000 entries, even when all but 20 are commented out, it will bring a machine slowly to a halt. IO writes of >100MB/s will happen, so basically saturating all available bandwidth of a rotating disk. This will bring a machine to a stand still due to extreme load. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-properties/+bug/1841525/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp