Bug#117676: Woody installation hangs on SparcStation 5/110
reassign 117676 sysvinit
severity 116829 serious
merge 117676 116829
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Derrick J Brashear <shadow@dementia.org> writes:
> Installation hangs during install of essential packages. tty4 shows:
> Setting up whiptail (0.50.17-7) ...
>
> Setting up sysvinit (2.83-1) ...
> Creating /dev/initctl
>
> tty2 allows keyboard input but never offers a shell.
This is a bad interaction between sysvinit and busybox init during
installation when there's initrd stuff going on -- it's sending a HUP
to the swapper, causing the kernel to hang.
I've merged this with the existing bug on sysvinit and raised the
severity of the latter. I hope there is no question that this bad
interaction must be fixed for the Woody release.
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...Adam Di Carlo..<adam@onshore-devel.com>...<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>
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