Are you able to reproduce this? Looks like you are running into a Linux scheduler bug that is freezing dpkg for long periods of time and iotop is the package that just happened to be the one being installed at the time.
I'm inclined to mark this as invalid. ** Changed in: iotop (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- package iotop 0.4-1 failed to install/upgrade: error writing to '<standard output>': Success https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/629294 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs