[Wylug-help] Should apt be running constantly?

[James Holden]

On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 06:05:16PM +0100, Howard Close wrote:
> I find that background processes are using about 50% of my processor. Top
> reveals that this is almost exclusively caused by apt-get.

Well, 100% of one of your CPU cores at a guess :-)

> Is this normal behaviour for apt? What is it doing to consume so much of my
> processing power?

No, I suspect it's stuck. Did you install from CD by any chance?

There was a bug some time ago where apt was polling for the CD to check the
package list.

Check /etc/apt/sources.list for lines starting "deb cdrom:" and comment them
out by placing a # character at the start of the line.



James


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