bug#6368: 24.0.50; installation stalls at bbdb

bug#6368: 24.0.50; installation stalls at bbdb

[jidanni]

Installation stalls here.
$ pstree -alA
init
  |-init
  |   `-bash
  |       |-aptitude reinstall ~i~nemacs
  |       |   |-dpkg --status-fd 25 --configure emacs-snapshot emacs-snapshot-bin-common emacs-snapshot-common emacs-snapshot-el emacs-goodies-el emacsen-common
  |       |   |   `-emacs-snapshot. /var/lib/dpkg/info/emacs-snapshot.postinst configure 1:20100602-1
  |       |   |       `-emacs-install -w /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install emacs-snapshot
  |       |   |           |-bbdb /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/bbdb emacs-snapshot
  |       |   |           |   `-bbdb /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/bbdb emacs-snapshot
  |       |   |           |       `-make rmail mhe gnus bbdb EMACS_PROG=emacs-snapshot VMDIR=/usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/vm GNUSDIR=/usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/../lisp/gnus MHEDIR=/usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/../lisp/mail
  |       |   |           |           `-sh -c cd lisp; make rmail
  |       |   |           |               `-make rmail
  |       |   |           |                   `-emacs-snapshot -batch -q -eval (setq load-path (append (list\012(expand-file-name ".") \012) load-path)) -l ./bbdb.elc -eval (and (not (string= "/usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/vm" "")) \011    (setq load-path (cons "/usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/vm" load-path)) \011    (load "vm" t t) \011    (load "vm-vars" t t)) -f batch-byte-compile bbdb-hooks.el
  |       |   |           |                       `-gpg --with-colons --list-config
  |       |   |           `-(emacs-install)
  |       |   `-2*[{aptitude}]
  |       |-emacs /var/cache/apt/archives/
  |       |   `-bash --noediting -i
  |       `-emacs --debug-init

In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1)
 of 2010-06-03 on elegiac, modified by Debian
 (emacs-snapshot package, version 1:20100602-1)

bug#6368: Temporary

[Alok G. Singh]

It's due to the libc6 upgrade in sid that happened recently. The problem
went away after a reboot.

HTH.
-- 
Alok

BOFH excuse #183:

filesystem not big enough for Jumbo Kernel Patch

bug#6368: Temporary

[Glenn Morris]

"Alok G. Singh" wrote:

> It's due to the libc6 upgrade in sid that happened recently. The problem
> went away after a reboot.

In any case problems installing Debian packages should not be reported
here.