Package: apt Version: 0.6.42.3 Severity: normal Hello dear apt maintainer,
I noticed that daily apt update was hanging: # ps -ef | grep apt root 15277 15260 0 07:35 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh /etc/cron.daily/apt root 15287 15277 0 07:35 ? 00:00:00 apt-get -qq update root 15289 15287 0 07:35 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/apt/methods/http root 15290 15287 0 07:35 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/apt/methods/http root 15291 15287 0 07:35 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/apt/methods/http root 15292 15287 0 07:35 ? 00:00:01 /usr/lib/apt/methods/http root 15294 15287 0 07:35 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/apt/methods/gpgv root 15302 15287 0 07:35 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/apt/methods/bzip2 root 15305 15287 0 07:35 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/apt/methods/gzip root 15387 3298 0 08:48 pts/1 00:00:00 more /etc/apt/apt.conf (oth top showing: top - 08:51:52 up 1 day, 16:56, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00 Tasks: 108 total, 1 running, 107 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 1.5% us, 1.5% sy, 0.0% ni, 97.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 251844k total, 228524k used, 23320k free, 12768k buffers Swap: 255928k total, 4k used, 255924k free, 162680k cached Change delay from 3.0 to: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 15404 root 16 0 2952 1352 1024 R 1.5 0.5 0:00.21 top 13824 root 16 0 5308 1396 812 S 0.8 0.6 0:01.91 screen 1 root 16 0 2292 808 664 S 0.0 0.3 0:12.16 init [...]) this even thought my archives are supposed to stand in another fs: - from apt.conf: // Directory layout Dir "/" { // Location of the cache dir Cache::archives "/Sources/Debian4hppa/archives/"; }; (btw an actual subdir: # cd /Sources/Debian4hppa/archives # /bin/pwd /Sources/Debian4hppa/archives ;-) - df: patst005:/var/tmp # df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on [...] /dev/md3 247791 245681 0 100% /var [...] /dev/md7 2015696 699256 1295964 36% /Sources [...] Why gzip/bzip2 didn't failled in such case? And fwiw, even after that I cleaned up a bit /var fs, the processes didn't continue? Thanks in advance, Joel PS: here it's a hppa box but the same occured on some other i386 boxes -- Package-specific info: -- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) -- -- /etc/apt/sources.list -- #deb file:/instmnt sid main #deb cdrom:[palinux-0.9.1]/ unstable main # deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main #deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian experimental main contrib non-free # deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian experimental main contrib non-free # deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free # parisc-linux.org # deb http://ftp.parisc-linux.org/ unofficial-debs/ # Os-cillation (Xfld) # deb http://www.os-cillation.de/debian/ binary/ #deb-src http://www.os-cillation.de/debian/ source/ deb-src http://www.os-works.com/debian unstable main # Progeny src deb-src http://archive.progeny.com/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb-src http://archive.progeny.com/debian experimental main contrib non-free # Some Alioth stuff: deb http://rapt-proxy.alioth.debian.org/debian ./ deb-src http://rapt-proxy.alioth.debian.org/debian ./ -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: hppa (parisc) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-rc3-pa2mm-b2k32 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.3.5-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgcc2 4.0.2-4 GCC support library ii libstdc++6 4.0.2-4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 apt recommends no packages. ------------------------------------------------------- NOTE! My email address is changing to ... @scarlet.be Please make the necessary changes in your address book.