Updating hurd hangs in VirtualBox when creating device nodes
When I run `sudo apt-get full-upgrade` the VM grinds to a halt when
it starts creating device nodes. It gets slower and slower as it
progresses. 100% CPU usage and no disk activity.
This is on a VirtualBox 7.1 VM on a Linux host.
Preparing to unpack .../hurd_1%3a0.9.git20251029-2+b1_hurd-i386.deb ...
Unpacking hurd (1:0.9.git20251029-2+b1) over (1:0.9.git20250801-5) ...
Setting up hurd (1:0.9.git20251029-2+b1) ...
update-alternatives: warning: forcing reinstallation of alternative /usr/bin/w-hurd because link group w is broken
update-alternatives: warning: not replacing /usr/bin/w with a link
Restarting Hurd console multiplexer: hurd-console.
Setting up translators: /hurd/exec /hurd/proxy-defpager /hurd/pflocal (+link) inet (+link) inet6 (+link) /hurd/pci-arbiter
/hurd/acpi /hurd/shutdown /hurd/password crash-kill crash-suspend crash-dump-core crash.
Creating device nodes: fd fdX std vcs hdX hdXsY hdXs1Y sdX sdXsY sdXs1Y rumpdisk wdX wdXsY wdXs1Y rumpusbdisk udX udXsY udXs1Y cdX
ucdX netdde ethX pseudo-root rtc loopX
I'm running top in a separate SSH session, it hasn't updated in five minutes
top - 21:53:47 up 24 min, 10 users, load average: 8.84, 7.47, 7.61
Tasks: 86 total, 6 running, 80 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 100.0 user, 0.0 system, 0.0 nice, 0.0 idle
MiB Mem : 993.0 total, 104.6 free, 360.7 used, 527.7 buff/cache
MiB Swap: 975.0 total, 975.0 free, 0.0 used. 104.6 avail Mem
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
3 root -2 -22 933344 15840 0 R 23.1 1.6 2:40.29 gnumach
554 root -1 -21 187648 1168 0 R 16.3 0.1 0:37.23 pfinet
5295 root 20 0 156856 328 0 R 12.2 0.0 0:03.33 bash
14 root -3 -23 171856 1088 0 S 9.2 0.1 0:55.63 pflocal
10 root 2 -18 161460 516 0 S 8.5 0.1 0:42.73 auth
12 root 20 0 171188 612 0 R 7.8 0.1 0:56.67 random
4 root -3 -23 153892 724 0 R 5.8 0.1 0:22.26 proc
752 root 20 0 163616 400 0 S 4.8 0.0 0:02.56 cron
6 root 10 -10 168152 880 0 S 4.1 0.1 0:28.27 acpi
1 root 20 0 150700 296 0 H 3.5 0.0 0:07.50 init
145 root 4 -16 161520 496 0 S 3.4 0.0 0:32.56 proxy-def+
28 root 8 -12 160136 188 0 S 3.3 0.0 0:11.17 storeio
26 root 8 -12 160140 188 0 S 3.1 0.0 0:11.42 storeio
27 root 8 -12 161164 188 0 S 2.9 0.0 0:11.78 storeio
13 root 2 -18 161688 84 0 S 2.4 0.0 0:17.70 term
30 root 8 -12 162184 244 0 S 2.2 0.0 0:12.26 storeio
5294 root 20 0 156856 1872 0 S 1.3 0.2 0:00.35 bash
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