[Bug 947664] Re: Unpacking linux-headers unbelievably slow in Lubuntu Precise (Beta 1)

[Craig Langman]

Thanks much @~s-chriscollins!  For me that setting in virtualbox was it.

When I started reading this thread and see similar issues since 2012 I
wasnt very optimistic... but 7 years later you provide a solution!  I
don't understand if it's a problem in virtualbox or problem with dkpg,
but this is great.  I was using hwe in ubuntu 18 based VM and every
friggen time I use it there seems to be a kerel update, and waiting an
hour each time was ridiculous, thank you so much for posting this, back
to a a couple minutes for updates like it should be.

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Title:
  Unpacking linux-headers unbelievably slow in Lubuntu Precise (Beta 1)

Status in dpkg:
  New
Status in dpkg package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  The below is an example line in an apt-get dist-upgrade which seems to
  take 30 minutes or more on a 2.1GHz CPU (one core of a quad core
  through Virtualbox). I've been looking at it for ages, and even had
  time to log in here and file the bug  - the line is still 'hung'.

  Unpacking linux-headers-3.2.0-18 (from .../linux-
  headers-3.2.0-18_3.2.0-18.28_all.deb)

  Can anyone explain this, or is it a bug in the configuration of
  Lubuntu, Apt-get or something. I read that there was a similarly
  behaving bug to do with dpkg using paranoid file synchronization but
  this length of delay is frankly a bit crazy.

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