Bug#411319: Hang at "Creating device files"

[David Härdeman <david@hardeman.nu>]

On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 11:07:04PM +0100, Kjell Rune Skaaraas wrote:
> Sounds very strange that I'd get the same error on two
> different images burned to two different discs, but I
> ran the CD check anyway and it too says the CD is
> perfectly OK. I haven't had any hardware trouble with
> the burner before, and it seems unlikely that I'd
> error out on the same place over a random HW issue.
> The kernel somehow managing to put it in an invalid
> state?

Ok, perhaps you could try this:

When apt hangs, change to VT2, then run "anna-install strace-udeb", now 
run "ps axwww" and find the last apt process in the list, then run 
"strace -p <process id of that process>" and send the output.

Also, have you run any version of Linux on this machine before? And if 
so, did the CD-ROM work as expected?

> Anyway, just looking at the log is this normal for a
> DVD-burner ND-3550 IDE Black OEM?:

I saw nothing that looked out of the ordinary...

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David Härdeman