That didn't fix it. So, next I uninstalled nscd. At this point, nothing else in apt's purview explicitly depended on it - though it was still showing up in straces.
After that, the behavior has been significantly better so far. So... maybe a bug in nscd? On that note, just curious: why is nscd showing up in an strace when the root user - having logged in at the console at ctrl-alt-F2, with no GUI - is trying to open a file using vim in its home directory? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1886022 Title: multiple processes intermittently stall at same point in strace To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1886022/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
