Comment 3 for bug 525674

I was about to file this bug, so I'll confirm it. I have not seen the apt-check hang entirely, but it is very slow to run, and blocks initial.

Note, you may have seen what appeared to be a hang due to the very bad performance of security.ubuntu.com in the past few days. That performance was due to it being slammed by openoffice.org security update.

This is quite an annoyance on a newly booted ec2 instance.