[wellylug] Debain aptitude causes various tasks to stop

[Peter Lynch]

I run a Debian server, and most days log in and run sudo aptitude update
and, if necessary, sudo aptitude safe-upgrade.  My problem is that quite
often a number of tasks (from one or two to almost everything) dies.
Today, after running update, nscd and clamav-daemon died.  I use monit
to keep track of these and other tasks, and it restarted them a couple
of minutes later.  About 15 minutes later, I ran safe-upgrade and this
time, nscd, clamav-daemon and named all died.  Again, monit restarted
them all after a couple of minutes.  On other occasions in the past, so
many tasks have been killed that (a) I loose my ssh session, and (b) I
have to restart my server to get everything up and running again.

 

Does anyone know what the cause of this behaviour might be?  Are there
any log files I should be checking?

 

Peter Lynch

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