Bug#882732: powerpc net installer stalling at 16% in "install software"

[junk@ysengrin.com]

I forgot to mention that when the installer asked for a mirror, it can't find one

with the daily files, so it uses sid-unstable instead.

when it stalls, with the hard drive still busy (I can hear it),

on ctrl-alt-F4 it displays a log. the last 4 lines being:

pkgsel: starting tasksel

in-target: Reading package lists...

in-target:

in-target: Building dependency tree...

on ctrl-alt-F2, I type ps, the last line says:

apt-get - o APT::Status-Fd=4 -o APT::Keep-Fds::5 -o ......

On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 4:04 PM, Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> wrote:

Hi,

junk@ysengrin.com <junk@ysengrin.com> (2017-11-26):
> > Any chance you could switch to a console (tty4) and check what's being
> > worked on when it stops? The output of “ps” might be interesting as
> > well.
> I can try. How do I switch to this console ?

That would be (Ctrl+)Alt+F4 to switch to the console showing tail -f
/var/log/syslog. You can also use (Ctrl+)Alt+F2/F3 to get a shell.

Please post your findings to the bug report as well (by putting
882732@bugs.debian.org back in copy of your mail).

Thanks!


KiBi.