Bug#247216: still broken
The pre-rc2 netinstall image is still broken for hppa.
I repeated my previous attempt on a slightly different machine. This
one was a B132L+ instead of a 700, and it had a different CD-ROM in it,
and less memory. It made no difference. The installer still hangs on
coreutils. The only visible difference on tty1 was that it was stuck
at 8% instead of 9%.
ps auxw (on tty2) gives this (modulo whitespace; I wrote it down on paper
because there's no ssh, no telnet, no ftp, no ping in the installer):
PID Uid VmSize Stat Command
17309 root 432 D cp /cdrom/pool/main/c/coreutils/coreutils_5.2.1-2_hppa.deb /target/var/cache/apt/archives/coreutils_5.2.1-2_hppa.deb
The file is partially copied:
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 335872 Oct 19 17:28 coreutils_5.2.1-2_hppa.deb
Compared to the original on the CD-ROM:
-r--r--r-- 6 root root 2778648 Jul 16 14:17 coreutils_5.2.1-2_hppa.deb
I attempted to run "wc /cdrom/pool/main/c/coreutils/coreutils_5.2.1-2_hppa.deb"
to see whether it could actually read the file. The wc process hung, and
could not be interrupted by ^C, DEL, ^\ or ^Z. At that point, I powered off.
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