Re: Aptitude behaving strangely

Celejar(celejar@gmail.com) is reported to have said:
> On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:46:15 -0400
> Wayne Topa <linuxone@intergate.com> wrote:
>
> > 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.

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> > >
> > 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
>
> I don't seem to have it quite as bad as you; my updates often do
> finish (I sometimes kill them and just try again) after mysteriously
> hanging for a couple of minutes. Today I did a (possibly)
> successful one and pulled in about 64MB of upgrades.
>

Did a testing and etch upgrade yesterday and overnight. Both completed in about the normal time, for me. Seems the problem (?) has been fixed. /* cross fingers */

Wayne

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