Re: aptitude not working

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

Richard Braun wrote:
> 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.

it still had plenty of free RAM, the system wasn't doing anything else.

> > 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 ?

I was using telnet to the system. It happens also when I use the local 
console though.

Riccardo