Hi, you filed three reports of apparently three different installs to the same laptop, and reported hangs at three different places:
#1 while running fdisk, which could not see your drive
#2 "while performing a usb-discover", apparently in the middle of
downloading d-i components from the net; except usb-discover should
not be downloaded then, and would not be run; it is run while the
installer boots up long before that
#3 just after loading the driver for your network card, which
apparently failed, and then it hung
This leaves me wondering what exactly you mean by the installer hanging.
Is it completly frozen, so that caps lock and num lock cannot be turned
off or on, and nothing you type has an effect, even alt-f2 to switch
virtual consoles? Or is this some other variety of problem? Do you get a
kernel oops message on the screen?
Having three kernel crashes at the three spots you described would be
most strange. In install #1 you got way past where you did in #2, which
is in turn quite further than #3. The three actions the installer would
be performing at those three points are quite different, and do not even
involve the same hardware in #1 as in #2 and #3. It also should not even
really be accessing hardware in #1 and #3, as you describe it as just
displaying an error message after an attempt to access the hardware
hung. It's possible that the kernel just likes to hang on your laptop
after X minutes of uptime, or semi-randomly, of course.
Without more information, it's unlikely anyone can help.
- Where did you get the daily version of the installer that you are
using, and what was the build date?
- Was there anything else different between the three installation
attempts besides the different means you used to boot the installer?
- What exactly was on the screen during hang #2?
- Can you reproduce any of these hangs, or does it hang in other
strange and unlikly places?
- Can you boot up the installer, and, before it hangs, use the second
virtual console to write a copy of the dmesg output to a floppy, and
send it to us?
- If you can reproduce any of the hangs, then right before you know
it's going to hang, press alt-f4 to switch to the virtual console
displaying the logs. Watch the logs, and right after it's hung, copy
down the last three or four lines of information for us.
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see shy jo
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