slapt-get does something strange when installing...

[thenktor]

slapt-get and slapt-src should use spkg which is much faster than installpkg. Did you replace your slapt-get by some third party package? Please post output of ls -l /var/log/packages/slapt-*

[GJones]

No I did not. And I believe the permissions are correct:

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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4848 Aug 15 12:55 /var/log/packages/slapt-get-0.10.2i-i486-1gv
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1865 Aug 16 13:16 /var/log/packages/slapt-src-0.3.2-i486-1gv

[GJones]

Update: problem solved, by adding 'nopat' to the boot parameters in lilo.conf. I did this in an attempt to fix the slow application startup in KDE, since nopat is supposed to help with graphics problems on certain cards... It didn't fix that, but it did cause Firefox and other GTK apps to stay responsive during updates.

Edit: this is an ugly workaround though, because PAT is apparently a security feature that protects against certain types of memory exploits...