Bug#416944: dist-upgrade stuck
Package: installation-reports
Trying to upgrade from sarge to etch, not doing well.
I net-installed sarge a couple weeks ago, and got it working mostly well,
with gdm X desktop and kernel 2.6.8. I was having some minor ethernet
driver problems which googling suggested might be fixed by a newer kernel.
I was encouraged by the reports of successful dist-upgrades to etch,
so I went through the "Method C" process. I am now running etch on
this machine, with kernel 2.6.18-4-686, but many things seem to no
longer be installed -- notably the X desktop (and I just noticed also
no ssh). I found that X wasn't starting because gdm was not installed,
so I [re-]installed gdm from aptitude. This got me into X, but after
I login to gdm I get only a little shell window, probably an xterm.
I stopped gdm, and last night started: tasksel install desktop
It started downloading, and I went to bed with it showing 1hr30min
more download time. When I came back to the machine after my nap,
I find it stuck in tasksel. The screen shows "Package configuration"
on the very top line, and a text box in the middle saying:
"Installing packages \ Installed libdiscover1 "
and a status bar stuck at 75%.
I don't know what to try next.
I looked for any logs which might show what is happening, but didn't find
them. Below is some output from ps and df. If someone wiser than me
can suggest what I might do next, I would appreciate it. Right now
I'm just leaving the stuck tasksel as it is.
If it would be easier, I don't mind nuking this installation,
and just installing etch from scratch.
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 1 0.0 0.1 1940 636 ? Ss Mar30 0:01 init [2]
root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Mar30 0:00 [migration/0]
root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SN Mar30 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0]
root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar30 0:00 [events/0]
root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar30 0:00 [khelper]
root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar30 0:00 [kthread]
root 9 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar30 0:00 \_ [kblockd/0]
root 10 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar30 0:00 \_ [kacpid]
root 63 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar30 0:00 \_ [kseriod]
root 97 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Mar30 0:00 \_ [pdflush]
root 98 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Mar30 0:01 \_ [pdflush]
root 99 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar30 0:02 \_ [kswapd0]
root 100 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar30 0:00 \_ [aio/0]
root 567 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar30 0:00 \_ [khubd]
root 982 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar30 0:00 \_ [kjournald]
root 1477 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar30 0:00 \_ [kpsmoused]
root 1498 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar30 0:00 \_ [kgameportd]
root 1786 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar30 0:00 \_ [kmirrord]
root 1824 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar30 0:00 \_ [kjournald]
root 1826 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar30 0:00 \_ [kjournald]
root 1828 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar30 0:00 \_ [kjournald]
root 1830 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar30 0:00 \_ [kjournald]
root 1832 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar30 0:00 \_ [kjournald]
root 1834 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar30 0:00 \_ [kjournald]
root 1836 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar30 0:00 \_ [kjournald]
root 1838 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Mar30 0:01 \_ [kjournald]
root 1143 0.0 0.2 2196 784 ? S<s Mar30 0:00 udevd --daemon
daemon 1961 0.0 0.0 1684 372 ? Ss Mar30 0:00 /sbin/portmap
root 2234 0.0 0.2 2556 928 ? Ss Mar30 0:00 /sbin/syslogd
root 2240 0.0 0.0 1576 384 ? Ss Mar30 0:00 /sbin/klogd -x
bind 2252 0.0 0.7 30272 2772 ? Ssl Mar30 0:00 /usr/sbin/named -u bind
root 2266 0.0 0.7 30276 2788 ? Ssl Mar30 0:00 /usr/sbin/lwresd
root 2306 0.0 0.5 5440 2040 ? Ss Mar30 0:00 /usr/sbin/cupsd
root 2359 0.0 0.2 2808 976 ? S Mar30 0:00 /usr/sbin/inetutils-inetd
root 2403 0.0 0.2 3200 1136 ? Ss Mar30 0:00 /usr/sbin/xinetd -pidfile /var/run/xinetd.pid -stayalive
statd 2428 0.0 0.2 2684 1048 ? Ss Mar30 0:00 /sbin/rpc.statd
ntp 2449 0.0 0.4 5060 1608 ? Ss Mar30 0:00 /usr/sbin/ntpd -p /var/run/ntpd.pid -u 106:115 -g
daemon 2461 0.0 0.1 1824 412 ? Ss Mar30 0:00 /usr/sbin/atd
root 2468 0.0 0.2 2196 876 ? Ss Mar30 0:00 /usr/sbin/cron
root 2526 0.0 1.4 13668 5648 ? Ss Mar30 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data 2571 0.0 0.9 13668 3644 ? S Mar30 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data 2572 0.0 0.9 13668 3644 ? S Mar30 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data 2573 0.0 0.9 13668 3644 ? S Mar30 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data 2574 0.0 0.9 13668 3644 ? S Mar30 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data 2575 0.0 0.9 13668 3644 ? S Mar30 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
root 2576 0.0 0.2 2664 1156 tty1 Ss Mar30 0:00 /bin/login --
root 3582 0.0 0.4 3108 1700 tty1 S Mar30 0:00 \_ -bash
root 3594 0.0 1.8 8944 7116 tty1 S+ Mar30 0:02 \_ /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/tasksel install desktop
root 3682 0.4 3.1 13976 12100 tty1 S+ Mar30 2:59 \_ /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/share/debconf/frontend /usr/bin/debconf-apt-progress -- aptitude -q --without-recommends -y install ~t^desktop$ ~t^gnome-desktop$
root 3688 0.0 0.9 5492 3740 tty1 S+ Mar30 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/bin/debconf-apt-progress -- aptitude -q --without-recommends -y install ~t^desktop$ ~t^gnome-desktop$
root 3691 0.0 4.9 31368 19124 tty1 Sl+ Mar30 0:09 | \_ aptitude -o APT::Status-Fd=4 -o APT::Keep-Fds::=5 -o APT::Keep-Fds::=6 -q --without-recommends -y install ~t^desktop$ ~t^gnome-desktop$
root 8576 0.0 1.5 7540 6156 tty1 S+ Mar30 0:01 | \_ /usr/bin/dpkg --status-fd 18 --configure twm dhcp3-common dhcp3-client python-numeric python-cairo python-gtk2 python-glade2 python-pyorbit python-gnome2 python-libxml2 python-xdg alacarte anacron libavahi-core4 libdaemon0 dbus avahi-daemon bittorrent libnotify1 bluez-gnome libgnome-desktop-2 libgnome-menu2 bug-buddy capplets-data libao2 libvorbisfile3 cdrdao dbus-1-utils libedataserver1.2-7 libcamel1.2-8 libebook1.2-5 gnome-media-common libgnome-media0 libgnomecups1.0-1 libgnomeprint2.2-data libgnomeprint2.2-0 libgnomeprintui2.2-common libgnomeprintui2.2-0 libgtksourceview-common libgtksourceview1.0-0 metacity-common libmetacity0 libnautilus-burn3 libpanel-applet2-0 libtotem-plparser1 libxres1 libwnck-common libwnck18 python-gnome2-desktop deskbar-applet desktop-file-utils dhcdbd discover1-data libdiscover1 discover1 genisoimage mkisofs dvd+rw-tools libdirectfb-0.9-25 libsvga1 svgalibg1!
libsdl1.2debian-alsa libsdl1.2debian libpt-1.10.0 libopal-2.2.0 libpt-plugins-alsa libpt-plugins-v4l libecal1.2-6 libedata-book1.2-2 libedata-cal1.2-5 libsoup2.2-8 libegroupwise1.2-10 evolution-data-server-common evolution-data-server libmozjs0d libxul-common libxul0d libxml2-utils xsltproc gnome-doc-utils yelp ekiga eog gnome-icon-theme iso-codes xulrunner-gnome-support epiphany-browser libosp5 w3c-dtd-xhtml epiphany-extensions esound libdjvulibre15 libkpathsea4 libnautilus-extension1 libpoppler0c2 libpoppler0c2-glib evince libedataserverui1.2-6 libexchange-storage1.2-1 libgnome-pilot2 libgail17 libgail-common libgtkhtml3.8-15 libnm-glib0 libpisock9 libpisync0 evolution-common gtkhtml3.8 evolution evolution-exchange evolution-plugins evolution-webcal gnome-panel-data libxklavier10 libgnome-window-settings1 python-gmenu gnome-menus gnome-control-center gnome-about menu-xdg gnome-panel system-tools-backends gnome-system-tools fast-user-switch-applet unzip zip file-roller li!
bgda2-common libgda2-3 libgdl-1-0 libgdl-1-common libgksu1.2-0!
libgksu
ui1.0-1 libgtkhtml2-0 python-gnome2-extras foomatic-gui gcalctool gconf-editor python-apt libvte-common libvte4 python-vte gdebi gedit-common gedit powermgmt-base libapm1 libgucharmap4 gnome-applets-data gnome-applets gnome-backgrounds gnome-btdownload gnome-cards-data gnome-session gnome-terminal-data gnome-terminal metacity libeel2-data libeel2-2.14 nautilus-data nautilus gnome-core libgnomecupsui1.0-1c2a gnome-cups-manager libxp6 iceweasel iceweasel-gnome-support libguile-ltdl-1 libqthreads-12 guile-1.6-libs gnome-games-data gnome-games gnome-keyring-manager gnome-media gnome-netstatus-applet gnome-nettool gnome-system-monitor gtk2-engines gtk2-engines-pixbuf gnome-themes gnome-utils hal pmount gnome-volume-manager gucharmap industrial-cursor-theme wodim nautilus-cd-burner libmusicbrainz4c2a gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs sound-juicer liblircclient0 liba52-0.7.4 libgsm1 libavcodec0d libmad0 libmodplug0c2 libpostproc0d libxvmc1 libxine1 totem-xine totem vino gnome-user-guide libgl!
ib-perl libcairo-perl libgtk2-perl libgnome2-canvas-perl libgnome2-vfs-perl libgnome2-perl libgnomevfs2-bin gnome-desktop-environment libenchant1c2a libsexy2 notification-daemon gnome-power-manager gnome-screensaver gtk2-engines-spherecrystal gnome-themes-extras icedax libdvdread3 libid3tag0 libmpeg2-4 libsidplay1 gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gnomebaker libglibmm-2.4-1c2a libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a gparted rdesktop grdesktop hotkey-setup libqt3-mt python-sip4 python-qt3 hplip-data hplip libgphoto2-port0 libgphoto2-2 libgpod0 libieee1284-3 libnl1-pre6 libnm-util0 libnss-mdns libsane liferea-xulrunner liferea iputils-arping wpasupplicant network-manager network-manager-gnome openoffice.org-evolution openoffice.org-gcj openoffice.org-gtk openoffice.org-gnome python-gnupginterface rhythmbox synaptic totem-mozilla lsb-release update-manager update-notifier xdg-utils xsane-common xsane
root 3690 0.0 0.5 3916 2036 tty1 S+ Mar30 0:01 \_ whiptail --backtitle Package configuration --title Installing packages --output-fd 7 --nocancel --gauge -- 8 77 0
root 2577 0.0 0.2 2668 1160 tty2 Ss Mar30 0:00 /bin/login --
root 17353 0.0 0.4 3108 1704 tty2 S 08:50 0:00 \_ -bash
root 17389 0.0 0.2 2528 952 tty2 R+ 09:27 0:00 \_ ps -afxu
root 2578 0.0 0.1 1576 496 tty3 Ss+ Mar30 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty3
root 2579 0.0 0.1 1576 496 tty4 Ss+ Mar30 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty4
root 2580 0.0 0.1 1572 492 tty5 Ss+ Mar30 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty5
root 2581 0.0 0.1 1576 492 tty6 Ss+ Mar30 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty6
root 6005 0.0 0.0 3304 312 tty1 S+ Mar30 0:00 /usr/bin/update-menus
103 8686 0.0 0.2 2252 980 ? Ss Mar30 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system
avahi 8735 0.0 0.3 2560 1312 ? Ss Mar30 0:00 avahi-daemon: running [legba.local]
avahi 8736 0.0 0.1 2560 468 ? Ss Mar30 0:00 \_ avahi-daemon: chroot helper
root 10486 0.0 0.1 1864 652 ? Ss Mar30 0:00 /usr/sbin/dhcdbd --system
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2 9614148 153944 8971828 2% /
tmpfs 193436 0 193436 0% /lib/init/rw
udev 10240 80 10160 1% /dev
tmpfs 193436 0 193436 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hdb2 239399168 76148340 151090028 34% /big
/dev/hda1 90297 16929 68551 20% /boot
/dev/hda5 19228276 71796 18179732 1% /home
/dev/hda10 6641324 32860 6271104 1% /small
/dev/hda9 1829159 8243 1723323 1% /tmp
/dev/hda6 9614116 2638036 6487708 29% /usr
/dev/hda8 14421344 32960 13655824 1% /usr/local
/dev/hda7 14421344 1357644 12331140 10% /var
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