I believe that apt hang when the newest cvs (1.10.7-5, unstable) is one of the packages that it has to install.
Package: cvs Version: 1.10.7-5 Severity: normal [20:23:22 /tmp]# apt-get install cvs Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Sorry, cvs is already the newest version 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Setting up cvs (1.10.7-5) ... And that is it. I had to ctrl-C it. - -- System Information Debian Release: woody Kernel Version: Linux rakefet 2.2.14 #1 Mon Jan 17 00:58:37 EST 2000 i586 unknown Versions of the packages cvs depends on: ii debconf 0.2.104 Debian configuration management system ii libc6 2.1.3-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone ii zlib1g 1.1.3-5 compression library - runtime ^^^ (Provides virtual package libz1) - --- Begin /etc/cvs-cron.conf (modified conffile) ROT_HIST="yes" REPOS="/var/cvs" ROTKEEP="no" - --- End /etc/cvs-cron.conf -- Shaul Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] An elephant is a mouse with an operating system.