On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:46:15 -0400 Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Celejar([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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 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. Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
