Re: aptitude not working

[Richard Braun]

On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 03:51:26PM +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> I did try checking top in a second terminal.
> On opening, aptitude has 66mb RES 132MB virtual
> after "g" it grows just a little more, I hit gh once again and It ramps up
> to 72Mb RES, 128 VIRT... and staus there, 9% of memory.
> The virtual machine is configured with 768MB of RAM.

Don't look at aptitude alone, look at the system globally.

> No network activity: there are no packages scheduled to download, the hang
> happens *after* the download. In case of a crash, I restart and there is
> nothing to download and it will hang again.

Are you logged in locally or through SSH ?

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Richard Braun