On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 08:37:35AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am running a potato system, and recently when I update or install > packages through dselect, I see many errors concerning fsync and also > errors unpacking the debs. Is this limited to my system or a global issue?
If you are referring to yesterday's potato update, you are not alone. As apt-get was installing replacement packages, I received an 'out-of-memory' error (system has 64 MB plus 130 MB of swap). I suffered an extreme slowdown and wasn't sure from the error messages whether things were getting installed or not. I tried to find the offender with 'ps aux' but that dumped core. I tried to halt the system, but that wouldn't work either. I finally had to hit the power switch and on reboot, the system wouldn't fsck cleanly. A manual fsck worked, but resulted in a lot of messages which left me worried. 'apt-get clean' doesn't indicate any problems with the installation, but I wouldn't be surprised if there are some problems I haven't found yet. I used 'apt-get upgrade' instead of dselect to avoid removing netscape, etc. I guess we occasionally need a reminder why there are warnings about running unstable. Bob -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
