[wellylug] Debain aptitude causes various tasks to stop

[Daniel Reurich]

On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 09:26 +1100, Peter Lynch wrote:
> 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?
> 
What version are you running.

I'd guess that services aren't being properly restarted after upgrading
base components like libc.  Another thought is hardware.  It could be
the upgrade process is triggering corruption possibly in the memory or
cpu overheating.  Have you tried using apt-get instead of aptitude?

I use Debian on a number of servers and have not seen this issue before.
If you'd like more help, contact me off-list.  If you manage to solve
this issue, please post here so we can all benefit from your solution.

Regards,

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