Re: VERY Strange Problem since last update
>>>>> "Joey" == Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> writes:
Joey> Todd Suess wrote:
>> 1. Apt-get action completes.
>>
>> 2. pdmenu fires up and proceeds to thrash the hard drive for
>> about 30 minutes, slowly chewing up all available system
>> resources (RAM and SWAP), until SWAP is down to 0k available.
Joey> You mean a process _named_ pdmenu is doing this, I'll bet.
I had a similar problem yesterday. And it happened again today.
A process named pdmenu was up to 30M and one named gnome-panel peaked
at 47M (I do not use gnome-panel).
Joey> I'll also bet you'll find several dozen update-menus processes
Joey> running. If you do, tell me what version of menu you have
Joey> installed.
ii menu 2.1.3-2 provides update-menus functions for some app
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Laurent Martelli
martelli@iie.cnam.fr
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