Re: Aptitude hangs machine
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 11:00:11 -0400, Ken Heard wrote:
> I recently installed in a new Lenovo ThinkPad R61 Lenny using the Lenny
> Beta2 installer. The installation went -- as far as I could see -- as
> it should have.
>
> Soon after installation I wanted to upgrade the installed packages.
> First I updated /etc/apt/sources.list, including adding to it
> debian-volatile so that I could install the clamav set of anti-virus
> packages and get the periodic updates to tzdata.
Do you really need volatile when you run Lenny? I thought it was only
necessary to keep certain fast-moving packages up to date for Etch
users. Are volatile packages even supposed to work on Lenny already?
(Of course, things will be different after Lenny goes stable and new
volatile updates become available.)
> packages and get the periodic updates to tzdata. Then I ran (as root)
> "aptitude update", followed by "aptitude upgrade". It downloaded some
> 33 package upgrades, including a new kernel (2.6.25-2-686 to replace
> 2.6.24) and tzdata.
>
> The package setup only got as far as tzdata, when the machine hung. To
> get the machine going again I had to turn it off using the on/off button
> and do a cold boot without a proper shutdown.
Side note: Check out Alt-SysRq to shut down the system more cleanly in
such situations:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tips.en.html#s8.5.2
> After rebooting I ran aptitude again. It returned the message that
> aptitude had been interrupted, and to get it running again I had to run
> "dpkg --reconfigure -a". I tried to do so several times; each time it
> tried to set up tzdata, only getting as far as to say what the current
> time zone is before hanging up the machine.
We need to see the complete output of the ""dpkg --reconfigure -a"
command. You can try to redirect it to a file (both STDOUT and STDERR),
which hopefully will be usable if you sync the drives with Alt-SysRq-s
before rebooting the frozen machine. If this does not work then you have
to write the messages down and type them yourself, or you could
photograph them and make the picture available somewhere.
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