/etc/cron.daily/apt hangs

[Markus Schönhaber]

Daevid Vincent:

> If I try to run /etc/cron.daily/apt, it just hangs.
[...]
> stat64("/bin/sleep", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=26060, ...}) = 0
> clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|
> SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0xb7e22908) = 16082
> wait4(-1,

Looks pretty normal to me. Among the first things the apt script does is to 
sleep for a random amount of time.
If you check the process list, you'll probably see that there's a "sleep" 
process that was started by the script - something that the above output from 
strace also indicates.

Regards
  mks