Re: Aptitude behaving strangely

Celejar(celejar@gmail.com) is reported to have said:
> Hi,
>
> My aptitude (uptodate Sid) has been behaving rather strangely lately. When doing updates, it seems to always hang for long periods of time while displaying the line:
>
> 99% [5 Packages 4308]
>
> or similar. No processor, network or HDD usage seems to be occurring.
> It subsequently generally finishes okay, although I'm not sure it is
> always completing the update successfully (all packages I have manually
> checked against p.d.o seem to be at the latest version, but I haven't
> been very systematic about it). It also seems to be overall more
> sluggish and erratic. I know this is very vague and unhelpful, but I
> was just wondering if anyone has been seeing anything like this. I've
> tried playing with sources.list, but I get similar results no matter
> which mirror I use (I've only tried a few), and even with apt-get.
>

Yes. Started yesterday, here. I tried again then morning and it was still hanging at 12 PM EST when I finally was able to finish the upgrade.

Wayne

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