Re: aptitude hangs

[Justus Winter]

Quoting Riccardo Mottola (2015-03-15 13:14:31)
> I am now in the same situation that brought previously my hurd VM to a 
> hang. I attach a screenshot of the xterm.
> 
> After having downloaded a number of packages, it just hangs. No hight 
> cpu usage.
> [...]
> I hit ctr-c, restart aptitude, reissue "g" and it just stays there. 

I sometimes see /hurd/netdde getting stuck.  Try to ping your system.
If that's the problem, you could to try a different NIC.

Justus