Re: Re: apt-get install hangs while unpacking

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To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 11:16:40 -0400

Hi,

  I'm experiencing similar problems when trying to install libgtk2.0-dev
from our local mirror. Doing apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev lists all
the dependencies it is going to install and proceeds to download and
unpack libexpat1-dev. After this package is installed, the whole
process just slows down and eventually the connection times out. The
overall progress stays at 1%.

On the server, the process continues to run as an orphan and continues
to use the connection.

Can somebody give me pointers to how I can start debugging this issue?

Thanks,

Salman

When I ran the apt-get inside strace, it was killed by SIGSEGV and left
the three dpkg-deb processes orphans. Those three processes seem to be
trying to unpack the same file. Why am I getting three processes? I
tried to capture the unpacking on another debian computer and it only
seems to have one.

David

David said:
> The root (var) partition has lots of space (only 4% used). I think
there
> is a problem with unpacking. Is there a package besides dpkg
involved in
> unpacking?
>
> David
>
> s. keeling said:
>> Incoming from David Hattery:
>>>
>>> About 90 percent of the time apt-get install hangs while unpacking.
>>> This
>>> requires a ctl_c to stop, and a dpkg --configure -a before retrying.
>>>
>>> There are 4 related processes so I am wondering if my setup is
starting
>>> too many. Example from on a reinstall after an aborted try (ps ax):
>>>
>>> 4839 pts/0 S 0:00 apt-get --reinstall install gimp1.2
>>> 4849 pts/0 S 0:00 /usr/bin/dpkg --unpack
>>> /var/cache/apt/archives/gimp1.2_1.2.3-2_i386.deb
>>> 4856 pts/0 S 0:00 dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile
>>> /var/cache/apt/archives/gimp1.2_1.2.3-2_i386.deb
>>> 4857 pts/0 S 0:00 dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile
>>> /var/cache/apt/archives/gimp1.2_1.2.3-2_i386.deb
>>> 4858 pts/0 S 0:00 dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile
>>> /var/cache/apt/archives/gimp1.2_1.2.3-2_i386.deb
>>
>> Are you running out of space in /var?
>>

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