Comment 4 for bug 272509

i have the same problem. aptoncd just vanishes in the middle while reading the packages at around 40-60%.
it has made this software pretty useless . it used to be fine in hardy.

But this behavior is typically seen when the number of packages are very high eg. around 700.

on running aptoncd in the terminal i get the following output.

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
FATAL -> Failed to fork.

i ran the command touch /var/crash/_usr_bin_aptoncd.*.crash
nothing happens. and the file is empty.