Dear all, I've been trying to fix this problem, but have not found a solution yet. (I've also asked at the aptosid list without success.)
Before I resigned myself to a reinstall, I thought I'd post the output of strace apt-get dist-upgrade (I killed the process a few seconds after it got stuck.) The first 4000 lines are here: http://www.math.utk.edu/~finotti/misc/DU.log At line 37886, we start to see pselect6(43, [0 40 42], NULL, NULL, {0, 500000}, {[], 8}) = 0 (Timeout) wait4(8948, 0x7ffd2430a5c0, WNOHANG, NULL) = 0 repeat over and over. At line 38006, we see: select6(43, [0 40 42], NULL, NULL, {0, 500000}, {[], 8}) = 1 (in [40], left {0, 264028}) read(40, "(Reading database ... \r", 1024) = 23 write(1, "(Reading database ... \r", 23) = 23 write(4, "(Reading database ... \r", 23) = 23 wait4(8948, 0x7ffd2430a5c0, WNOHANG, NULL) = 0 before the pattern above starts to repeat again. Of the last 117592 lines, most are the (repeating ones) above, only 1012 are different. I've post these different ones, i.e., the result of tail -117592 DU.txt | grep -F -v 'wait4(8948, 0x7ffd2430a5c0, WNOHANG, NULL) = 0' | grep -F -v 'pselect6(43, [0 40 42], NULL, NULL, {0, 500000}, {[], 8}) = 0 (Timeout)' here: http://www.math.utk.edu/~finotti/misc/DU2.log Again, just a last attempt. Best to all, Luis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAMo809V9Rm8yz2KR=sstayayephvknjaywufl+ttveqmsy4...@mail.gmail.com