This should help a little: I can confirm that this is a problem in rootstock, not just inside qemu or qemu/kvm. Reproducible on host system. System output from uname :
u...@lucid:~/kvm$ uname -a Linux lucid 2.6.32-25-generic #44-Ubuntu SMP Fri Sep 17 20:05:27 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux Rootstock command used : u...@lucid:~/kvm$ sudo rootstock --fqdn nexus --login user --password psswd --imagesize 8G --seed ubuntu-netbook,build-essential,openssh- server,nano This has failed three times in a row, hanging upon : Unpacking iso-codes (from .../iso-codes_3.12.1-1_all.deb) ... This essential just hangs the bash shell, terminal still responsive to ctrl-C, utilizes 100% of 1 (one) of my dual cores. Is there any open issues on rootstock related to this? Thanks- DrTheFugitive -- apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is installed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532733 You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. Status in QEMU: Invalid Status in “qemu-kvm” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in “qemu-kvm” source package in Lucid: Incomplete Bug description: Binary package hint: qemu-kvm running rootstock and installing ubuntu-netbook^ makes the VM hang in "unpacking iso-codes" this is reproducable every time in rootstock as well as in a standard qemu-system-arm vm that contains a minimal ubuntu with running apt-get install ubuntu-netbook
