Jay <slushpupie at gmail.com> wrote: > On 9/18/05, Tom Marble <tmarble at info9.net> wrote: >>I'm trying to upgrade libc6 in my UML session at Real-Time >>from libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 to libc6_2.3.5-6 but this never >>completes successfully. > > this wont work, since when SSH disconnects, your terminal goes away. > Backgrounding a process dosnt detach it from the terminal. > > Take a look at screen. It will let you truely leave a session detached. It's a good point.. I did write a python script that does the fork twice trick to insure detachment. But ultimately it was a lack of swap space that caused dpkg to fail. The Real-Time guys found this and fixed it (and I've learned a lot about UML in the process). Thanks! --Tom