RE: Installation - deselect "standard" task ???
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joey Hess [mailto:joeyh@debian.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 12:40 PM
> To: Erik Cummings
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Installation - deselect "standard" task ???
>
> Erik Cummings wrote:
> > - 'ps' output from the period of hung install below.
> > - on a whim, I killed the last process (31402). Especially
> > since I knew the install was whacked anyhow.
> > - After the kill, the install proceeded perfectly...too bad I
> > hadn't actually chosen all the right things and partitioned
correctly!
> > - Wonder at this point, whether it's better to kill the apt
> > preconfigure perl process, or to deselect standard???
> > - And what should be reported to bugs?
>
> It's actually entirely safe to kill the dpkg-preconfigure process, but
> of course it should not be hanging.
>
> To try to track down why it's hanging I'd probably need some serious
> logs. Like the logs you get from booting the installer with
> "install DEBCONF_DEBUG=5" , which will end up in /var/log/installer in
the
> installed system.
>
> --
Joey (et al),
This is now extremely frustrating! One machine which failed 3
installs in the last two days now installed correctly.
Another machine immediately after hung...
I rebooted and started with the debug info above, and it did not
hang.
I have one more machine which I will start install shortly.
Erik
P.S. Any theories about perhaps the install is "going too fast". The
only thing I seem to anecdotally be able to say is that the installs
which have worked have taken slightly longer to download...although we
are using same switches, routers, network, and mirrors! I'm wondering
if we are getting a lost final ack packet or something???
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