On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 02:23:51PM -0500, Brian Stults wrote: > Dselect is hanging when I do an update. I get the following: > > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Merging Available information > Replacing available packages info, using /var/cache/apt/available. > > And it just hangs there. apt-get upgrade works fine, so I've been doing > that, but I wondered if anyone has any suggestions. Also, when it hangs > and I try to kill it, I can't kill the following process using kill -9: > > /usr/bin/dpkg --update-avail /var/cache/apt/available
Does ps show the process in a 'D' state? If so, then it means this is an IO problem (most likely in the kernel). Ben
