Bug#743670: [jenkins.d.n] Hurd support on g-i-installation jobs

[Gabriele Giacone <1o5g4r8o@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 2:19 PM, Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> wrote:
> are you subscribed to the qa list or should I continue to cc: you? (I'd also
> appreciate if you wouldn't cc: me...)

Just subscribed this bug.

> On Samstag, 12. April 2014, Gabriele Giacone wrote:
>> > I didnt see this commit anywhere?!
>> diskimage_poweroff branch.
>
> +                                                       *_hurd*)
> +                                                               do_and_report
> type "echo 'In tight loop: hit ctl-alt-del to reboot'
> +                                                       ;;
>
> ? Please explain...
>
> Still, merged.

See 2d5d184 Add serial console to file to hurd VMs.
         Hurd lacks ACPI support so it can't poweroff itself. Host polls
         presence of shutdown string in serial console file to power it
         off. (At the moment serial console can't be enabled because it
         makes grub-install get stuck, see preseed/early_command
         workaround).
What you just merged applies the same workaround to power diskimage off too.
Whenever serial console bug is fixed, we could enable serial console,
remove preseed/early_command and revert this one.

>> Install process got stuck at connecting to time server. If I had
>> access I'd probably look for any useful message on console #4 and
>> check network connectivity. Sometimes netdde gets stuck and needs to
>> be restarted. If that's the case it probably won't get stuck at next
>> run.
>
> netdde is running inside hurt? And if its that unreliable I'm not sure we
> should workaround it in jenkins.d.n, it seems better to fix it in hurd?!

netdde are linux network drivers in user-space. See netdde package and
http://darnassus.sceen.net/~hurd-web/hurd/dde/
Yes it's a known hurd bug.

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