I‘m 
not the only one who noticed that doing ‘apt-get update’ on my Debian system is hanging frequently: I’ve been carefully updating and upgrading my system, only selecting the pieces I actually need.
Today, I decided to try a complete ‘apt-get distupdate’, knowing that I might just as well do the complete distribution update: ‘Fetched 133MB in 25m37s (86.6kB/s)’. Not bad. However:
Retrieving bug reports… 0% [0/153]/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:42:in `timeout’: execution expired (Timeout::Error)
from /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs:1087:in `join’
from /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs:1087:in `create’
from /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs:1059:in `each_key’
from /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs:1059:in `create’
from /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs:1317
Warning: apt-listbugs exited abnormally, hit enter key to continue.
Aha. It’s actually listbugs that is bugging apt.
Update: Picture added (see above): After restart, for some kind of reason, I expected to see KDE load up in my terminal. Ha-ha. Funny. Not.
Update 2: Hey: at least my terminal closes normally instead of hanging…