chombee at 2006-05-19 wrote: > I got the behaviour again when updating dapper today, though only for a small > portion of the update this time. > > cat /proc/swaps > > always seems to produce no output
So, you have no swap and because of this you are running out of RAM (memory). It seems this issue is duplicate of bug #44829 -- Dapper: Add/Remove applications and Update Manager make the system unresponsive https://launchpad.net/bugs/45250 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs