P.S. I take it back, I don't think screen is involved... just did another install (not inside of screen) and it hangs.
$ sudo apt-get install texinfo Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Suggested packages: texlive-latex-base texlive-generic-recommended texinfo-doc-nonfree The following NEW packages will be installed: texinfo 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 553kB of archives. After this operation, 2,666kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main texinfo 4.13a.dfsg.1-5ubuntu1 [553kB] Fetched 553kB in 1s (290kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package texinfo. (Reading database ... 89238 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking texinfo (from .../texinfo_4.13a.dfsg.1-5ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ... [hangs here] -- INFO: task dpkg:23317 blocked for more than 120 seconds. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/624877 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
