Bug#425397: Bug #425397
Hi Joey
Many thanks for taking a look at this. I shall of course follow your
suggestions and provide response on the ticket.
> Looking over this bug, it's starting to look like some kind of a race
somehow only triggered by the one
> set of processors. The fact that multiple apt runs are hanging
suggests that it is not caused by one
> single broken package.
> The only debugging step I can think of from here is install strace
(anna-install strace-udeb) and
> strace one of the hanging dpkg-preconfigure processes. Simply
attaching strace to it after it's hung
> may not be enough; you might need to modify
/var/lib/dpkg/info/pkgsel.postinst:
> - in-target sh -c "$config tasksel --new-install
--debconf-apt-progress='--from 5 --to $tasksel_end
> --logstderr'" || ret=$?
> + strace -o /tmp/strace.log -ff in-target sh -c "$config tasksel
--new-install --debconf-apt-progress='
> --from 5 --to $tasksel_end --logstderr'" || ret=$?
In your instructions do you mean to modify the debian installer netboot
image? Or to modify and rebuild some other package used by debian
installer? Or to modify the debian installer environment once it has
booted priority=low?
Cheers!
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joey Hess [mailto:joeyh@debian.org]
> Sent: 23 May 2007 18:17
> To: Oakley, Will
> Cc: Frans Pop; 425397@bugs.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Bug #425397
>
> Looking over this bug, it's starting to look like some kind
> of a race somehow only trggered by the one set of processors.
> The fact that multiple apt runs are hanging suggests that it
> is not caused by one single broken package.
>
> The only debugging step I can think of from here is install
> strace (anna-install strace-udeb) and strace one of the
> hanging dpkg-preconfigure processes. Simply attaching strace
> to it after it's hung may not be enough; you might need to modify
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/pkgsel.postinst:
>
> - in-target sh -c "$config tasksel --new-install
> --debconf-apt-progress='--from 5 --to $tasksel_end
> --logstderr'" || ret=$?
> + strace -o /tmp/strace.log -ff in-target sh -c "$config
> tasksel --new-install --debconf-apt-progress='--from 5 --to
> $tasksel_end --logstderr'" || ret=$?
>
> --
> see shy jo
>
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