I got some help from gg0 on IRC to debug this issue. He proposed to
upgrade everything except hurd first, and this worked:
apt-get update
apt-mark hold hurd
apt-get dist-upgrade
apt-mark unhold hurd
This reduced the amount of packages to upgrade to the minimum.
Upgrading using apt-get dist-upgrade now also hung, but it was a lot
quicker to test as I had snapshotted the freshly upgraded system.
We tried adding a serial console (adding
GRUB_CMDLINE_GNUMACH="console=com0" in /etc/default/grub and running
update-grub) and see if anything showed up there. No messages showed
up in the serial console when the system got stuck. I did however
notice that the hang caused the machine to no longer respond to ping,
and my ssh connections would stop working too.
Last, I tried to upgrade over ssh (instead of the console I had tried
initially, and then I got a bit more text before the machine went
dead:
root@debian:~# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libdb5.1
The following NEW packages will be installed:
login
The following packages will be upgraded:
db5.1-util hurd hurd-dev hurd-libs0.3
4 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1351 kB/6117 kB of archives.
After this operation, 2894 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Get:1 http://cdn.debian.net/debian/ sid/main login hurd-i386 1:4.1.5.1-1.1
[695 kB]
Get:2 http://cdn.debian.net/debian/ sid/main db5.1-util hurd-i386 5.1.29-8
[656 kB]
Fetched 1351 kB in 7s (177 kB/s)
Reading changelogs... Done
(Reading database ... 38608 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../hurd-dev_1%3a0.5.git20140320-1_hurd-i386.deb ...
Unpacking hurd-dev (1:0.5.git20140320-1) over (1:0.5.git20140203-1) ...
Preparing to unpack .../hurd-libs0.3_1%3a0.5.git20140320-1_hurd-i386.deb ...
Unpacking hurd-libs0.3:hurd-i386 (1:0.5.git20140320-1) over
(1:0.5.git20140203-1) ...
Setting up hurd-libs0.3:hurd-i386 (1:0.5.git20140320-1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.18-3) ...
(Reading database ... 38608 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../hurd_1%3a0.5.git20140320-1_hurd-i386.deb ...
Unpacking hurd (1:0.5.git20140320-1) over (1:0.5.git20140203-1) ...
Setting up hurd (1:0.5.git20140320-1) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/hurd/rc ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/hurd-console ...
Not sure how to continue, as gg0 is not able to reproduce the problem,
but at least here it happen every time.
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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen
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