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On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 3:38 PM, James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> Albert Hopkins <marduk <at> letterboxes.org> writes:
>
>
>> Perhaps you can run strace (or bash -x) on it to see where it's hanging.
>
> Oh, I would not know the syntax. No man page for strace. more info?
> syntax suggestions? The machine hoses everytime I run python-update.

Weird, it has a man page on my system. Have you got strace installed
at all? dev-util/strace

strace --help will show you commands as well.