*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 134858 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/134858
Hi, I've gone from having this problem every day to not having it at all. Significantly I've reformatted my drive and installed Tribe 4 + recent updates. Unfortunately it's difficult to know what fixed the problem. Chris LGB [Gábor Lénárt] wrote: > *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 134858 *** > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/134858 > > It seems bug #134858 marked as fix released (and also originally it's > about update-manager and not apt-get), though I still have got this bug, > so I've decided to include my comment here as well (with some > modifications): > > I've also got this bug, it's ubuntu gutsy on AMD64 (but I've seen this > on an i386 box too at my workplace, with the same version numbers), > version of apt package is 0.7.6ubuntu12, version of dpkg is > 1.14.5ubuntu16. From time to time using "apt-get" causes to "freeze", I > can see process "dpkg" in defunct state with command ps. It seems it's > just after unpacking packages, since killing apt-get than running "dpkg > --configure -a" does the trick (eg furthet "apt-get dist-upgrade" does > not find any more task to do). > > Also (don't it's related or not) I've discovered that I can't stop apt- > get (when unpacking packages) with CTRL-Z even before the freeze however > I've used this to stop installing packages for a while if I need more > disk I/O bandwidth for an urgent task or such (I've got very slow disk > ....) which can be continued with command 'fg' from the shell where I > had ran apt-get from. > > As I've written in my latter comment of mine, even CTRL-C does not work. > I've met with this problem from issuing apt-get from gnome-terminal and > text console as well (without starting X) if it counts ... > > -- [Gutsy] error in select making regular upgrade https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/133791 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs