On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 3:38 PM, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Albert Hopkins <marduk <at> letterboxes.org> writes: > > >> Perhaps you can run strace (or bash -x) on it to see where it's hanging. > > Oh, I would not know the syntax. No man page for strace. more info? > syntax suggestions? The machine hoses everytime I run python-update.
Weird, it has a man page on my system. Have you got strace installed at all? dev-util/strace strace --help will show you commands as well.
