Hello . . . Running Sid (amd-64) on standard x86-64 hardware, conventional software setup, nothing unusual.
For several days now, after I do: sudo aptitude -Pvv update If there is anything to upgrade, if I do: sudo aptitude -Pvv safe-upgrade (or) sudo aptitude -Pvv full-upgrade it will "Get: " the new and/or update package(s), then it will STALL FOR UP TO 5 MINUTES at: Retrieving bug reports... 0% then followed by: Retrieving bug reports... Done Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done Reading changelogs... Done before finally "Unpacking, Preparing and Setting up" the packages to complete the upgrade. [See example fragment: . . . Get: 15 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 libspice-client-glib-2.0-8 amd64 0.35-2 [528 kB] Get: 16 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 libspice-client-gtk-3.0-5 amd64 0.35-2 [274 kB] Get: 17 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 redshift amd64 1.12-1 [108 kB] Fetched 5,625 kB in 5s (1,134 kB/s) Retrieving bug reports... Done Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done Reading changelogs... Done (Reading database ... 208745 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../00-aptitude_0.8.11-3_amd64.deb ... Unpacking aptitude (0.8.11-3) over (0.8.10-9) ... Preparing to unpack .../01-aptitude-common_0.8.11-3_all.deb ... Unpacking aptitude-common (0.8.11-3) over (0.8.10-9) ... . . . ] Note: sources list is okay: cat /etc/apt/sources.list # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 9.4.0 _Stretch_ - Official amd64 NETINST 20180310-11:21]/ buster contrib main non-free deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free # deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main contrib non-free # deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main contrib non-free # buster-updates, previously known as 'volatile' # deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ buster-updates main contrib non-free # deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ buster-updates main contrib non-free and I have run netselect-apt to find the fastest mirror: sudo netselect-apt -s -n sid (trimmed for result only:) The fastest 10 servers seem to be: http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ http://mirror.us.leaseweb.net/debian/ http://debian.ec.as6453.net/debian/ http://mirror.us.oneandone.net/debian/ http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ http://mirrors.advancedhosters.com/debian/ http://mirror.cogentco.com/debian/ http://mirrors.gigenet.com/debian/ http://mirror.steadfast.net/debian/ http://ftp.utexas.edu/debian/ Of the hosts tested we choose the fastest valid for HTTP: http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ Writing sources.list. sources.list exists, moving to sources.list.1536427463 Done. (As expected.) So . . . 1 - Has anyone else seen this "stall" during updating. 2 - any clue as to the cause? Maybe just a problem with whatever site provides "bug reports" information to the aptitude updating mechanism?
