FWIW, here is the command set for what I'm doing on my Lucid systems: # make it so that lucid packages have default priority over natty ones cat << EOF > /etc/apt/preferences.d/prefsources Package: * Pin: release a=natty Pin-Priority: -10
Package: * Pin: release a=lucid Pin-Priority: 900 EOF # create a natty sources list based on the existing lucid list grep ^deb /etc/apt/sources.list|sed 's/lucid/natty/' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/natty.list # double the default apt cache limit to allow for more/larger repositories echo 'APT::Cache-Limit "50331648";' > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/98cache-limit # issue an apt-get update to cache the new repository apt-get update aptitude -y install dpkg/natty echo "force-unsafe-io" > /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/force-unsafe-io As for the best course of action on killing dpkg, it goes into a D state (uninterruptible sleep) and won't respond to even a kill -9. To get it gone, a couple of your options: wait for all the filesystems to finish syncing (reducing filesystem activity will expedite it), or reboot the system. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/624877 Title: INFO: task dpkg:23317 blocked for more than 120 seconds. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
