Bug#388769: installer hangs when installing packages; no abort possible
Package: debian-installer
Version: no idea. Netinstall image was DL'ed on 22-Sep-2006
During the installation step "Select and install software", progress
ground to a halt. It said "running tasksel", the progress bar remained
at 1% for several minutes.
A motionless progress bar doesn't convey much information; there is no
hint as to what actually went wrong.
Even if I knew, there is no way to abort / go back at this point (short
of switching to another console and applyig some l33t linux skillz. Due
to insufficient knowledge of what I was doing, this only raised even
more issues).
So much for the actual complaint. Here's what I was doing:
According to ALT-F4, it was trying to download the popularity-contest
package at that time. After killing apt-get, the log said "Failed to
fetch
http://zwerg:9999/main/pool/main/p/popularity-contest/popularity-contest_1.34_all.deb Connection failed"
zwerg happens to be the local apt-proxy machine; a subsequent attempt to
retrieve that file from another box on the network was sucessful, so I
don't think it's he proxy's fault.
---snip---
schnobs@pferd:~$ wget http://zwerg:9999/main/pool/main/p/popularity-contest/popularity-contest_1.34_all.deb
--14:02:48-- http://zwerg:9999/main/pool/main/p/popularity-contest/popularity-contest_1.34_all.deb
=> `popularity-contest_1.34_all.deb'
Resolving zwerg... 192.168.30.1
Connecting to zwerg[192.168.30.1]:9999... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 48,774 [application/dpkg]
100%[=============================================================>] 48,774 215.45K/s
14:02:49 (215.45 KB/s) - `popularity-contest_1.34_all.deb' saved [48774/48774]
---snap---
Or maybe it was the proxy's fault, after all, because currently the
restarted installer is busy downloading stuff from ftp.de.debian.org --
but that's beside the point. I'm filing a bug report because I couldn't
abort the stalled installation and just go back to selecting another
mirror. I had to reboot the box and start over from scratch.
regards,
Schnobs
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