On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 10:14:52AM -0500, Steve Wollkind wrote: > Hi, I'm running the testing on my machine here at home, and starting a > couple of weeks ago I'm having a really odd dpkg problem. dpkg never > exits, and goes into an unkillable D (uninterrupatble sleep) mode. > > This occurs whether I run dpkg directly of via apt-get. When running > via apt-get it fires off the first dpkg command (unpack foo.deb) and > then hangs. Then if I remove the locks and run apt-get again it will > do the next step (setting up foo). Then it hangs again. To upgrade > 20 packages like this requires 40 runs of apt get and killings of lock > files. > > This is beginning to get very annoying. I asked in #debian and no one > had ever had a similar problem. Can someone help me with this?
You might try stracing the execution of dpkg, it may provide some useful information to someone regarding where dpkg is falling. strace -f -o /tmp/dpgk.log dpkg -i package-to-install.deb -- Jamin W. Collins Remember, root always has a loaded gun. Don't run around with it unless you absolutely need it. -- Vineet Kumar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
