Re: More problems with using apt-get

On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 04:36:40PM +0100, Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote:
> Still I have to find out why the apt-get process
> crashes so often. I had to reboot (ie. remove battery)
> multiple times.

My guess would be that this is due to a flaky storage card. Many of the
cheap ones don't seem to be designed for any type of access pattern more
complex than storing the occasional photograph. If you have the chance I
suggest that you try a different brand.

The SL-5x00 models had a fairly unreliable SD driver which made the
problem worse, but I haven't had disk IO related crashes on my SL-C750
using a Panasonic SD card.

You may want to try running "while true; do sync; sleep 1; done &" in the
background which had apparently improved things for some people.

-Klaus