Bug#639770: Apt-move is useless with fast systems

2016-05-30 Thread Martin Hodges
Addition of /bin sync on its own line after line 1221 appears to fix the fifo problem. The process would always choke is run from the command line. The run during the cron job would usually run correctly, assumingly as the machine was under heavier load. Also observed that the crashing was mor

Bug#639770: apt-move: fails to open fifo-file and hangs

2014-09-18 Thread Martin Hodges
Hi, I have had this bug on and off since it started in 2011. Crash on line 1232. It is worse on faster machines with local fast disks. Slower cpus, single cpus and remote (nfs) disks help. I recently 'upgraded' the home server to a Core 2 Duo 3GHz with a 4 disk RAID5 and it hangs every