Re: boot hangs, corruption at every attempt

2015-04-08 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Riccardo Mottola wrote: They are just a few kb, but of course inconvenient to read, sorry. Does this help? can we know which process is hanging? I forgot to mention that I have frozen the virtual machine in the kernel debugger, so I could in case resume it and ive more information. Ri

Re: boot hangs, corruption at every attempt

2015-04-08 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Justus Winter wrote: Use `show all tasks' then. >I do not want to spam the list, so I can send them if somebody finds >useful checking them. Don't send screenshots. If you must, copy the text. Use qemu's `-curses'. Since I have virtualbox, I cant copy the text, I did not find anything

Re: boot hangs, corruption at every attempt

2015-04-01 Thread Justus Winter
Quoting Riccardo Mottola (2015-04-01 18:03:39) > Hi, > > (no need to put me in CC everytime, I'm subscribed) I'm not. I'm putting you in `To' because I'm writing a mail to you. > Justus Winter wrote: > > No. Although the shutdown sometimes hangs, it is quite reliable > > nowadays. Just do a n

Re: boot hangs, corruption at every attempt

2015-04-01 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, (no need to put me in CC everytime, I'm subscribed) Justus Winter wrote: No. Although the shutdown sometimes hangs, it is quite reliable nowadays. Just do a normal sysvinit shutdown (e.g. use halt, or shutdown). I did a shutdown -hP now. I did a "sync" before... and I had no ssh/telnet l

Re: boot hangs, corruption at every attempt

2015-04-01 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Justus Winter wrote: Quoting Riccardo Mottola (2015-04-01 16:17:10) Since it appears tightly related with the FS (I was able to boot with one or several reboots into recovery and forcing fsck) I am clearly concerned that the shutdown is never clean, so it all adds up creating uncertainty.

Re: boot hangs, corruption at every attempt

2015-04-01 Thread Justus Winter
Quoting Riccardo Mottola (2015-04-01 16:17:10) > Since it appears tightly related with the FS (I was able to boot with > one or several reboots into recovery and forcing fsck) I am clearly > concerned that the shutdown is never clean, so it all adds up creating > uncertainty. > > Can we underst

Re: boot hangs, corruption at every attempt

2015-04-01 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Justus Winter wrote: Quoting Samuel Thibault (2015-04-01 13:25:27) Riccardo Mottola, le Wed 01 Apr 2015 13:20:05 +0200, a écrit : using my HURD instance in VirtualBox shows it is extremely unreliable. It almost always hangs at boot. A also see the occasional hang at boot, not at this poin

Re: boot hangs, corruption at every attempt

2015-04-01 Thread Justus Winter
Quoting Samuel Thibault (2015-04-01 13:25:27) > Riccardo Mottola, le Wed 01 Apr 2015 13:20:05 +0200, a écrit : > > using my HURD instance in VirtualBox shows it is extremely unreliable. It > > almost always hangs at boot. A also see the occasional hang at boot, not at this point though, but either

Re: boot hangs, corruption at every attempt

2015-04-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Riccardo Mottola, le Wed 01 Apr 2015 13:20:05 +0200, a écrit : > using my HURD instance in VirtualBox shows it is extremely unreliable. It > almost always hangs at boot. Note: I don't recommend using VirtualBox. It tends to implement hacks to make simulation faster at the expense of correctness.