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Bug#450661: marked as done (Installation report Debian Lenny under VMware takes a long time looking for nonexistent disks)

Your message dated Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:08:38 +0100
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and subject line Bug#450661: Installation report Debian Lenny under VMware takes a long time looking for nonexistent disks
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Package: installation-reports

Boot method: <How did you boot the installer? CD? floppy? network?>

running vmware under Windows XP.
Using the default vmware setup for "other" OS.

Virtual CD drive connected to the Debian Lenny daily "netinst" iso
from November 4th (see attached file "WhereWeGotIt.txt")


Image version: <Full URL to image you downloaded is best>

from cdimage.debian.org
Daily build #1 for i386, using installer build from sid
debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso               04-Nov-2007 11:07  176M


Date: <Date and time of the install>
Thursday, Nov 8, 2007 3:00PM US Eastern time

Machine: <Description of machine (eg, IBM Thinkpad R32)>
Partitions: <df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred>
see attached file hardware-summary.gz


Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot:           [o]
Detect network card:    [o]
Configure network:      [o]
Detect CD:              [o]
Load installer modules: [o]
Detect hard drives:     [e] see note
Partition hard drives:  [o]
Install base system:    [o]
Clock/timezone setup:   [o]
User/password setup:    [o]
Install tasks:          [o]
Install boot loader:    [o]
Overall install:        [o]

Comments/Problems:

For some reason it insisted on making extensive checks on each of a
hundred or more non-existent scsi disk devices.  This took a *very*
long time.  For purposes of being able to make this bug report, I let
it run to completion.  Normally, I would have lost patience and
aborted the installation.

This behavior is repeated every reboot.  The kernel seems to insist
that those disks *must* be there somewhere, and spends a *long* time
looking for them.


<Description of the install, in prose, and any thoughts, comments
      and ideas you had during the initial install.>


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Please make sure that the hardware-summary log file, and any other
installation logs that you think would be useful are attached to this
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Daily build #1 for i386, using installer build from sid

These images will install the testing version of Debian, currently Lenny.

See the top-level daily directory for more information about the daily builds.

This build finished at Sun Nov 4 10:07:51 UTC 2007.

Icon  Name                                          Last modified      Size  [DIR] Parent Directory                                                   -   
[   ] MD5SUMS                                       04-Nov-2007 11:07  137   
[   ] debian-testing-i386-businesscard.iso          04-Nov-2007 11:06   36M  
[   ] debian-testing-i386-businesscard.iso.zsync    04-Nov-2007 11:07  126K  
[   ] debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso               04-Nov-2007 11:07  176M  
[   ] debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso.zsync         04-Nov-2007 11:07  308K  

Apache/2.2.6 (Unix) Server at cdimage.debian.org Port 80

Attachment: hardware-summary.gz
Description: GNU Zip compressed data

Attachment: lsb-release.gz
Description: GNU Zip compressed data

Attachment: partman.gz
Description: GNU Zip compressed data

Attachment: status.gz
Description: GNU Zip compressed data

Attachment: syslog.gz
Description: GNU Zip compressed data


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On Thursday 08 November 2007, Rick Thomas wrote:
> Comments/Problems:
> For some reason it insisted on making extensive checks on each of a
> hundred or more non-existent scsi disk devices.  This took a *very*
> long time.  For purposes of being able to make this bug report, I let
> it run to completion.  Normally, I would have lost patience and
> aborted the installation.
>
> This behavior is repeated every reboot.  The kernel seems to insist
> that those disks *must* be there somewhere, and spends a *long* time
> looking for them.

Right. This is clearly an issue in vmware itself or maybe a kernel issue; 
it's certainly not an issue in the installer.

See also for example:
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/105970

I don't think there is anything the D-I team or even the Debian kernel team 
can do for this issue, nor any real reason why they should be involved.
I doubt anyone of us still actively uses vmware. I have stopped using vmware 
myself since version 5 no longer works with recent kernels.

Therefore closing your report.

Cheers,
FJP

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