On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 08:11:22PM +0100, Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On 06.01.2007 16:52 schrieb Daniel Burrows: > > On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 11:13:31AM +0100, Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > >> very often when I update systems wich have not been updated for a while > >> (> 1 week) I notice that aptitude hangs while dowhloading the new > >> Package-lists (not the packages). I have to kill aptitude and use > >> apt-get update (which works fine). > >> > >> Today I noticed this problem again and decided to provide an strace. > >> Please note that the strace does not stop (the same block repeats again > >> and again until I killed strace. > >> > >> This bug happens to appear quite often (with a better chance when you > >> haven't updated your packages for a while), while it does almost never > >> happen on systems which I update daily. > > > > One factor I just remembered: > > > > Are you updating these systems from the curses UI or from the > > command-line? > > From the UI: > > $ sudo aptitude > *press u* > [downloading the package diffs] -> hangs while downloading
OK, that's usually what I do too. Another variable would be connection speed -- is yours particularly slow or fast? Daniel
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