found why. It is asking silently for the CDrom Media change: please insert the disc labeled 'Ubuntu 10.10 _Maverick Meerkat_ - Release i386 (20101007.1)' in the drive '/media/cdrom/' and press enter
and of course it can't stop because no one is giving a cdrom. Apparently there is no time out either. -- apt-get -qq -y update never stops https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/672436 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