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Comment 12 for bug 165181

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Phil Hord (phil-phord) wrote :

Happens to me; also running x64. Is anyone seeing this in 32-bit mode?

More detail, though this should be easy enough for a developer to do as well.

strace shows that during this "hang" Synaptic is furiously fstatting the repository caches:

stat("/var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_lucid_main_binary-amd64_Packages", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=8595099, ...}) = 0
stat("/var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_lucid_restricted_binary-amd64_Packages", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=29002, ...}) = 0
stat("/var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_lucid_universe_binary-amd64_Packages", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=26734222, ...}) = 0
stat("/var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_lucid_main_binary-amd64_Packages", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=8595099, ...}) = 0
stat("/var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_lucid_restricted_binary-amd64_Packages", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=29002, ...}) = 0
stat("/var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_lucid_universe_binary-amd64_Packages", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=26734222, ...}) = 0
stat("/var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_lucid_main_binary-amd64_Packages", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=8595099, ...}) = 0
stat("/var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_lucid_restricted_binary-amd64_Packages", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=29002, ...}) = 0
stat("/var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_lucid_universe_binary-amd64_Packages", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=26734222, ...}) = 0
stat("/var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_lucid_main_binary-amd64_Packages", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=8595099, ...}) = 0