Ubuntu
dpkg package

  1. Bug #624229
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 624229

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danmb (danmbox) wrote :

It seems that even a slow USB drive causes dpkg to hang. I was copying about 4 Gb of data to a slow (but otherwise intact) USB drive, and dpkg hung until cp finished. I'm guessing the same could happen for a slow NFS mount etc. This is not a good situation.