I logged in as root on a server of mine and did aptitude saf-upgrade >From one hour I am seeing the server is just doing an openjdk update and after installing it ,it starts downloading that again and keeps on doing I have no idea as what has caused this error.
aptitude safe-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Writing extended state information... Done Resolving dependencies... The following NEW packages will be installed: linux-image-2.6.32-28-server{a} The following packages will be upgraded: at icedtea-6-jre-cacao libwbclient0 linux-firmware linux-image-server linux-server openjdk-6-jre-headless samba samba-common samba-common-bin smbfs The following partially installed packages will be configured: avahi-daemon avahi-utils consolekit dbus dbus-x11 eucalyptus-cc eucalyptus-cloud eucalyptus-common eucalyptus-gl eucalyptus-java-common eucalyptus-nc eucalyptus-sc eucalyptus-walrus gnome-keyring grub-pc hal libvirt-bin udisks uec-component-listener 11 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 79.6MB/82.6MB of archives. After unpacking 135MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Y Writing extended state information... Done Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main openjdk-6-jre-headless 6b20-1.9.5-0ubuntu1~10.04.1 [25.6MB] Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main openjdk-6-jre-headless 6b20-1.9.5-0ubuntu1~10.04.1 [25.6MB] Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main openjdk-6-jre-headless 6b20-1.9.5-0ubuntu1~10.04.1 [25.6MB] Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main openjdk-6-jre-headless 6b20-1.9.5-0ubuntu1~10.04.1 [25.6MB] Get:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main openjdk-6-jre-headless 6b20-1.9.5-0ubuntu1~10.04.1 [25.6MB] Get:6 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main openjdk-6-jre-headless 6b20-1.9.5-0ubuntu1~10.04.1 [25.6MB] Get:7 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main openjdk-6-jre-headless 6b20-1.9.5-0ubuntu1~10.04.1 [25.6MB] Get:8 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main openjdk-6-jre-headless 6b20-1.9.5-0ubuntu1~10.04.1 [25.6MB] Get:9 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main openjdk-6-jre-headless 6b20-1.9.5-0ubuntu1~10.04.1 [25.6MB] Get:10 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main openjdk-6-jre-headless 6b20-1.9.5-0ubuntu1~10.04.1 [25.6MB] Get:11 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main openjdk-6-jre-headless 6b20-1.9.5-0ubuntu1~10.04.1 [25.6MB] Get:12 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main openjdk-6-jre-headless 6b20-1.9.5-0ubuntu1~10.04.1 [25.6MB] Get:13 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main openjdk-6-jre-headless 6b20-1.9.5-0ubuntu1~10.04.1 [25.6MB] Get:14 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main openjdk-6-jre-headless 6b20-1.9.5-0ubuntu1~10.04.1 [25.6MB] Like this the above output grows till I got 70th time Get:70 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main openjdk-6-jre-headless 6b20-1.9.5-0ubuntu1~10.04.1 [25.6MB] then I had to forcefully stop the update from happening. What is causing this problem? -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam