[plug] apt-get remove fails

[James Devenish]

In message <200404022024.09035.russ at powerstech.com>
on Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 08:24:09PM +0800, Russ Powers wrote:
> I tried to install deborphan a couple of days ago and it failed. It just 
> stopped and sat there for hours. I tried to kill it but it wouldn't die. I 
> had to reboot.

(In my experience, deborphan takes far less than a second on all systems
I have to far tested.) If the process was (and still is) truly
unkillable -- that is, it falls into Linux's "uninterruptable" state --
I would think that you should suspect a hardware problem (or maybe a
corrupted filesystem).