Comment 8 for bug 838038

Hello, the process command line (as seen in ps, along with the output) is below:

rtg@buzz:~$ sudo /usr/bin/python /usr/share/smart/smart update --after=60
Loading cache...
Updating cache... ######################################## [100%]

Fetching information for 'oneiric-backports - universe main multiverse restricted'...
-> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/oneiric-backports/Release
Release ######################################## [ 2%]
-> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/oneiric-backports/Release.gpg
Release.gpg ######################################## [ 4%]

Fetching information for 'stable - main'...
-> http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb/dists/stable/Release
Release ######################################## [ 15%]
-> http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb/dists/stable/Release.gpg
Release.gpg ######################################## [ 17%]

Fetching information for 'oneiric - partner'...
-> http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/dists/oneiric/Release.gpg
Release.gpg ######################################## [ 22%]
-> http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/dists/oneiric/Release
Release ######################################## [ 24%]

Fetching information for 'oneiric - main universe restricted multiverse'...
-> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/oneiric/Release.gpg
Release.gpg ######################################## [ 28%]
-> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/oneiric/Release
Release ######################################## [ 31%]

Fetching information for 'oneiric-security - universe main multiverse restricted'...
-> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/oneiric-security/Release.gpg
Release.gpg ######################################## [ 42%]
-> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/oneiric-security/Release
Release ######################################## [ 44%]

Fetching information for 'oneiric-updates - universe main multiverse restricted'...
-> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/oneiric-updates/Release.gpg
Release.gpg ######################################## [ 55%]
-> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/oneiric-updates/Release
Release ######################################## [ 57%]

Fetching information for 'oneiric - main'...
-> http://ppa.launchpad.net/novacut/daily/ubuntu/dists/oneiric/Release.gpg
-> http://ppa.launchpad.net/novacut/daily/ubuntu/dists/oneiric/Release
Release ######################################## [ 68%]
Release.gpg ######################################## [ 71%]

Fetching information for 'stable - main'...
-> http://dl.google.com/linux/talkplugin/deb/dists/stable/Release
Release (0% Stalled Unknown)

^-- at this point the CPU usage goes to 100% and the process does not terminate for hours.
The deb entry comes from google-talkplugin.list which was in the concatenated file:
deb http://dl.google.com/linux/talkplugin/deb/ stable main

There is no proxy in between me and the internet and there are no traffic shaper/firewall rules that could restrict the access to the host.