On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 08:16:00AM +0200, Frank Petzold wrote: > After my upgrade yesterday, I was hoping that the new Anacron package would > not hang anymore, but it does on my machine.
Ditto. I finally wound up uninstalling it. The following might prove useful: # strace anacron -s execve("/usr/sbin/anacron", ["anacron", "-s"], [/* 28 vars */]) = 0 brk(0) = 0x10015730 open("/etc/ld.so.preload", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat(3, {st_mode=0200000, st_size=938524676, ...}) = 0 mmap(ptrace: umoven: Input/output error ) = 0x30014000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat(3, {st_mode=0200000, st_size=938524676, ...}) = 0 read(3, "\177ELF\1\2\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 4096) = 4096 mmap(ptrace: umoven: Input/output error ) = 0x30018000 mmap(ptrace: umoven: Input/output error ) = 0xfee9000 mprotect(0xffc9000, 156552, PROT_NONE) = 0 mmap(0, 0, PROT_NONE, MAP_FILE, 0, 0) = 0xffc9000 mmap(0, 0, PROT_NONE, MAP_FILE, 0, 0) = 0xffeb000 close(3) = 0 munmap(0x30014000, 13327) = 0 getpid() = 1752 brk(0) = 0x10015730 brk(0x100158d0) = 0x100158d0 brk(0) = 0x100158d0 brk(0x10016000) = 0x10016000 At this point it simply stops. -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern /(?:(?:(1)[.-]?)?\(?(\d{3})\)?[.-]?)?(\d{3})[.-]?(\d{4})(x\d+)?/i