[I'm hoping this isn't a duplicate post, but my first attempt was rejected by bendel.debian.org as forged.]
Quoting Luis Finotti (luis.fino...@gmail.com): > 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 I took a look at this and I notice that apt is trying to upgrade 126 packages which is quite a mouthful. I also noticed that there are a lot of lines matching /etc/apt/sources.list.d/... In that situation, my first course of action would be to hide anything but the essential sources.list contents of, basically, something like # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.1.0 _Wheezy_ - Official i386 NETINST Binary-1 20130615-21:53]/ wheezy main deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main non-free contrib deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main non-free contrib deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib non-free Then I would apt-get update which will clear out /var/lib/apt/lists/ (AFAIK there's no point doing this until you've pruned /etc/apt/sources.list because apt-get update will repopulate it.) Then see if apt-get upgrade will work (ie not hang or crash) and see what error messages it emits. If apt is screwed, then the only way I know (not being an expert) of trying to recover is to see if dpkg itself can install things, perhaps by trying to reinstall the apt packages. (Obviously no dependency problems in doing that.) If apt is working but emitting errors, then it may be that you need to look at whether the files in / var/lib/dpkg are ok. There is one level of backup in there. Cheers, David. -- 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/20150412165040.gd8...@alum.home
