Comment 4 for bug 45250

I got the behaviour again when updating dapper today, though only for a small portion of the update this time.

cat /proc/swaps

always seems to produce no output, and

strace -p $(pidof gnome-app-install)

just printed out help information for the strace command, looks like there's a mistake in the command. I also tried $(pidof gnome-app-install) and pidof gnome-app-install on their own in case there was some number you meant me to substitute into the command, but they produced no output. I ran ps and noted that, since I was logged in on a seperate virtual terminal, gnome-app-install was not running in my session. I also tried the commands from a gnome-terminal within the gnome session though, once the system was more responsive again but while the update was still running, and still got no results.