[Gutsy] error in select making regular upgrade

[marcobra (Marco Braida)]

Today perfoming regular upgrade as i usually do from root: apt-get update; apt-get -y upgrade

i see a this error:

Mi preparo a sostituire gnome-screensaver 2.19.6-0ubuntu1 (con .../gnome-screensaver_2.19.6-0ubuntu2_i386.deb) ...
Error in select()
           Spacchetto il sostituto di gnome-screensaver ...

The upgrade freeze and it go on only when i press ctrl+c.

HTH

[LGB [Gábor Lénárt] (lgb)]

Similar issue, but even CTRL-C does not work I have to "killall apt-get" from another terminal. i've commented the situation at bugreport #134858

[LGB [Gábor Lénárt] (lgb)]

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 ...

[Chris McCauley (chris-avondalepark)]

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 ...
>
>

[LGB [Gábor Lénárt] (lgb)]

Well, I will not reinstall an OS just because an issue like this, I've ran debian for somewhat 10 years without reinstall before starting use ubuntu :) However, I haven;t got this bug every time, but only sometimes. And I still have got.

[Chris McCauley (chris-avondalepark)]

I wasn't suggesting that you should. You should however keep in mind
that you are running a beta product.

Good luck,

Chris

LGB [Gábor Lénárt] wrote:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 134858 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/134858
>
> Well, I will not reinstall an OS just because an issue like this, I've
> ran debian for somewhat 10 years without reinstall before starting use
> ubuntu :) However, I haven;t got this bug every time, but only
> sometimes. And I still have got.
>
>