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Just by chance, do you have any proprietary drivers or other kernel dependent modules that were installed outside of the debian repository? It's possible that if something like that is loaded, it's causing it to hang. I would also run that dpkg command again, but set the debug level to 3773 instead.

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Originally Posted by angryfirelord (Post 4954607)

This is my /var/tmp direcctory. If it's something I installed from source then it would be here.

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root@lenny:/var/tmp# ls

dkms                libevent-2.0.21-stable  Transmission  undvd-0.7.5.tar.gz

dkms-2.2.0.3.tar.gz  tivodecode-0.2pre4      undvd-0.7.5  webmin-current.deb

My source list...

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# 



# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.0.0 _Wheezy_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 20130504-15:20]/ wheezy contrib main



deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main non-free contrib

deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main non-free contrib



deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free

deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free



# wheezy-updates, previously known as 'volatile'

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib non-free

deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib non-free



deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org wheezy main non-free

deb-src http://www.deb-multimedia.org wheezy main non-free



deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy-proposed-updates contrib non-free main

# deb http://cdn.debian.net/debian experimental main



deb http://shell.ninthgate.se/packages/debian squeeze main



#Debian Multimedia

deb http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/debian-multimedia/ wheezy main

You shouldn't have any squeeze repos in your list.

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deb http://shell.ninthgate.se/packages/debian squeeze main

I would remove dkms first since that's possibly causing the hangs. If you need dkms later, you can get it from the Debian repository. You have to be careful when installing upstream libraries that interact with the kernel since Debian does a lot of "automagick" configuration.

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Originally Posted by EDDY1 (Post 4954838)

You shouldn't have any squeeze repos in your list.

Right you are, I didn't see that but have corrected my list. All that repository installs is plex media server which I don't believe does anything to the kernel.

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Originally Posted by angryfirelord (Post 4954917)

This is good too know, I didn't know I could remove dkms or what it really is there for for that matter. I think it installed automatically or with some other package I installed. I know I didn't intentionally install it. Especially because this is just a media I really leave it as stock as possible because it sits there and serves video's and houses my bittorrent downloads. I needed libevent to get the latest version of Transmission and the only other thing I added was Tivodecode, which, decodes my tivo files lol...

Dkms is to make different modules for the kernel, if you end up needing it, it'll be installed automatically as a depend.

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Originally Posted by EDDY1 (Post 4955178)

Dkms is to make different modules for the kernel, if you end up needing it, it'll be installed automatically as a depend.

Ok, well, the version that installs with wheezy seems to be faulty. At least it was in my situation. Not sure what in that file is causing the bug but replacing it got me running like a champ...

Congrats glad you got it working, you'll know for sure on next update.