Package: installation-reports
Boot method: CD
Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/wheezy_di_beta1/i386/iso-cd/debian-wheezy-DI-b1-i386-netinst.iso
Date: Aug 22, 15:37
Machine: HP Omnibook 6000
Partitions:
Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted
on
rootfs rootfs 154082676 5548756 140819104 4% /
udev devtmpfs 10240 0 10240 0%
/dev
tmpfs tmpfs 25452 264 25188 2% /run
/dev/disk/by-uuid/1244a110-6ee7-4f63-a8bf-330c425ff71c ext4 154082676 5548756 140819104 4% /
tmpfs tmpfs
5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock
tmpfs tmpfs 50904 24 50880 1% /tmp
tmpfs tmpfs 50904 68
50836 1% /run/shm
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: [0]
Clock/timezone setup: [0]
User/password setup: [0]
Detect hard drives: [0]
Partition hard drives: [0]
Install base system: [O]
Install tasks: [0]
Install boot loader: [0]
Overall install: [E]
Comments/Problems:
The overall LXDE install was successful including encryption of
the swap partition.
However, after the first boot and after a few moments, package apt-xapian-index
rebuild it's index. At that very moment the HP laptop simply becomes very unresponsive.
256 MB RAM is not enough for apt-xapian-index as seen from below 'free'
outputs, with and after removal (in recovery mode!) of apt-xapian-index. This is
somewhat disappointing considered that LXDE should be the lean desktop and
that other application like an IDE and iceweasel runs ok.
Output of free and with apt-xapian-index running:
-------------------------------------------------
total used free
shared buffers cached
Mem: 254508 250776 3732 0 92 4324
-/+ buffers/cache: 246360 8148
Swap: 1991676 129112 1862564
After removal of package apt-xapian-index:
------------------------------------------
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 254508
225000 29508 0 20424 129328
-/+ buffers/cache: 75248 179260
Swap: 1991676 0 1991676
A few possible solutions in respect to the installer and the package itself.
(i) Debian installer:
In the installer task (Debian Desktop), one can consider to exclude the
package as default.
(ii) apt-xapian-index install: In the 'Setting up apt-xapian-index', do not
automatically start the background task ..rebuilding index..
since the processor will shuffling data between physical memory and swap and
not finish the task.
(iii) apt-xapian-index: The program could check for sufficient memory and not
start the rebuild task if memory low or
should not run at all.
Unfortunately the scarcity of really compatible laptop RAM is hard to find.
I have included hardware-summary and the 'cat /proc/meminfo' for above cases.
Cheers
Bertil