Package: installation-reports Boot method: CD Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/wheezy_di_beta1/i386/iso-cd/debian-wheezy-DI-b1-i386-netinst.iso Date: Aug 22, 15:37
Machine: HP Omnibook 6000 Partitions: Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on rootfs rootfs 154082676 5548756 140819104 4% / udev devtmpfs 10240 0 10240 0% /dev tmpfs tmpfs 25452 264 25188 2% /run /dev/disk/by-uuid/1244a110-6ee7-4f63-a8bf-330c425ff71c ext4 154082676 5548756 140819104 4% / tmpfs tmpfs 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock tmpfs tmpfs 50904 24 50880 1% /tmp tmpfs tmpfs 50904 68 50836 1% /run/shm Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot: [O] Detect network card: [O] Configure network: [O] Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [0] Clock/timezone setup: [0] User/password setup: [0] Detect hard drives: [0] Partition hard drives: [0] Install base system: [O] Install tasks: [0] Install boot loader: [0] Overall install: [E] Comments/Problems: The overall LXDE install was successful including encryption of the swap partition. However, after the first boot and after a few moments, package apt-xapian-index rebuild it's index. At that very moment the HP laptop simply becomes very unresponsive. 256 MB RAM is not enough for apt-xapian-index as seen from below 'free' outputs, with and after removal (in recovery mode!) of apt-xapian-index. This is somewhat disappointing considered that LXDE should be the lean desktop and that other application like an IDE and iceweasel runs ok. Output of free and with apt-xapian-index running: ------------------------------------------------- total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 254508 250776 3732 0 92 4324 -/+ buffers/cache: 246360 8148 Swap: 1991676 129112 1862564 After removal of package apt-xapian-index: ------------------------------------------ total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 254508 225000 29508 0 20424 129328 -/+ buffers/cache: 75248 179260 Swap: 1991676 0 1991676 A few possible solutions in respect to the installer and the package itself. (i) Debian installer: In the installer task (Debian Desktop), one can consider to exclude the package as default. (ii) apt-xapian-index install: In the 'Setting up apt-xapian-index', do not automatically start the background task ..rebuilding index.. since the processor will shuffling data between physical memory and swap and not finish the task. (iii) apt-xapian-index: The program could check for sufficient memory and not start the rebuild task if memory low or should not run at all. Unfortunately the scarcity of really compatible laptop RAM is hard to find. I have included hardware-summary and the 'cat /proc/meminfo' for above cases. Cheers Bertil
omnibook6000.apt_xapian_index.tar.gz
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