Joey (et al),
Top post here...cause I'm just WAY too tired to scroll down.
I've been beaten. I can CONSISTENTLY recreate this hang every
install EXCEPT when I set DEBCONF_DEBUG. So, using 'install
DEBCONF_DEBUG=5' the install does not hang.
I can do this back-to-back, day-to-day, 10 times a day...
At this point my systems are being installed just fine, and
everything is running smoothly.
I have reserved this one last blade (my engineers are griping!)
and can hold it for a few more days we have any more good ideas. I
really want to help here - but other than the fact that I can recreate
the problem WITHOUT any logs, or log without any problems...I'm stumped!
Erik "Maybe It's Solar Flares" Cummings
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joey Hess [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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.
>
> --
> see shy jo
