Problem with the port of Debian/kfreeBSD Installer

[Anton Andreev-5]

Hello,

I have experienced a problem with the debian installer for Debian/kfreeBSD
The install process is from a mounted ISO file and it is a network install.
I think I have used this build: http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/kfreebsd-i386/20091028-11:20/monolithic/mini.iso

System is 7.2-1-486

It all worked well until it reached "apt-get config" -> "Select and Install software" and then freezed at 1% for a long time and it does nothing. I do not think it will ever reach 2%. The system is still responsive, but seems like nothing is happening - nor disk or network activity.

The system is a Virtual Box image, but a previous image of the mini.iso have worked fine before and I haven't changed anything to the virtual machine, neither I have upgrade it.

hth,

Anton Andreev


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[Luca Favatella]

On 29/10/2009, antonandreev@...
<antonandreev@...> wrote:
> Hello,

Hi.


> I have experienced a problem with the debian installer for Debian/kfreeBSD
[...]
> It all worked well until it reached "apt-get config" -> "Select and Install
> software" and then freezed at 1% for a long time and it does nothing. I do
> not think it will ever reach 2%. The system is still responsive, but seems
> like nothing is happening - nor disk or network activity.

I started trying to reproduce this on qemu.


> The system is a Virtual Box image, but a previous image of the mini.iso have

"previous image"...
Do you please remember the date? Before 5 October 2009 [0]?

> worked fine before and I haven't changed anything to the virtual machine,
> neither I have upgrade it.



Cheers,
Luca Favatella



[0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2009/10/msg00028.html


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[Thorsten Glaser-3]

antonandreev@... dixit:

>The system is a Virtual Box

VirtualBox does not emulate the i386 platform proper. It is
barely enough to get Windows® and Linux run, and some other
OSes may or may not work (MirBSD for example gets SIGILL or
even SIGSEGV some time in the installation process). There
is the "VT-x" option, which seems to help some, but makes
trouble for others.

Do not use VirtualBox.

//mirabilos (not speaking for Debian GNU/kFreeBSD)
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16:47⎜«mika:#grml» .oO(mira ist einfach gut....)      23:22⎜«mikap:#grml»
mirabilos: und dein bootloader ist geil :)    23:29⎜«mikap:#grml» und ich
finds saugeil dass ich ein bsd zum booten mit grml hab, das muss ich dann
gleich mal auf usb-stick installieren -- Michael Prokop über MirOS bsd4grml


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[Luca Favatella]

On 29/10/2009, Luca Favatella <slackydeb@...> wrote:
> On 29/10/2009, antonandreev@...
> <antonandreev@...> wrote:
[...]

>> I have experienced a problem with the debian installer for
>> Debian/kfreeBSD
> [...]
>> It all worked well until it reached "apt-get config" -> "Select and
>> Install
>> software" and then freezed at 1% for a long time and it does nothing. I
>> do
>> not think it will ever reach 2%. The system is still responsive, but
>> seems
>> like nothing is happening - nor disk or network activity.
>
> I started trying to reproduce this on qemu.

Both versions of qemu in lenny and squeeze have problems.
I switched to VirtualBox too.


I get the same problem.
Perhaps it is in pkgsel?

Last part of log (alt-f4) is following.

--8<----
Oct 29 18:55:20 main-menu[106]: INFO: Falling back to the package
description for auto-install
Oct 29 18:55:20 main-menu[106]: INFO: Menu item 'pkgsel' selected
Oct 29 18:55:24 in-target: Reading package lists...
Oct 29 18:55:31 in-target:
Oct 29 18:55:31 in-target: Building dependency tree...
Oct 29 18:55:31 in-target: Reading state information...
Oct 29 18:55:31 in-target: Initializing package states...
Oct 29 18:55:31 in-target:
Oct 29 18:55:31 in-target: Writing extended state information...
Oct 29 18:55:32 in-target:
Oct 29 18:55:32 in-target: Reading task descriptions...
Oct 29 18:55:32 in-target:


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[Anton Andreev-5]

Hi, Luca

I have posted before in this mailing list the exact image that worked for me: 12.09.2009
Seems like VirtualBox is not causing the problem this time.

Cheers,
Anton

----- Original Message -----
From: "Luca Favatella" <slackydeb@...>
To: antonandreev@...
Cc: debian-boot@..., debian-bsd@...
Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 8:23:08 PM GMT +02:00 Athens, Bucharest, Istanbul
Subject: Re: Problem with the port of Debian/kfreeBSD Installer

On 29/10/2009, antonandreev@...
<antonandreev@...> wrote:
> Hello,

Hi.


> I have experienced a problem with the debian installer for Debian/kfreeBSD
[...]
> It all worked well until it reached "apt-get config" -> "Select and Install
> software" and then freezed at 1% for a long time and it does nothing. I do
> not think it will ever reach 2%. The system is still responsive, but seems
> like nothing is happening - nor disk or network activity.

I started trying to reproduce this on qemu.


> The system is a Virtual Box image, but a previous image of the mini.iso have

"previous image"...
Do you please remember the date? Before 5 October 2009 [0]?

> worked fine before and I haven't changed anything to the virtual machine,
> neither I have upgrade it.



Cheers,
Luca Favatella



[0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2009/10/msg00028.html



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[Luca Favatella]

On 29/10/2009, antonandreev@...
<antonandreev@...> wrote:
> Hi, Luca
>
> I have posted before in this mailing list the exact image that worked for
> me: 12.09.2009

Sorry, I missed it. Thanks for the reminder.

> Seems like VirtualBox is not causing the problem this time.


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[Christian Perrier]

Quoting antonandreev@... (antonandreev@...):

> It all worked well until it reached "apt-get config" -> "Select and Install software" and then freezed at 1% for a long time and it does nothing. I do not think it will ever reach 2%. The system is still responsive, but seems like nothing is happening - nor disk or network activity.


You should switch to VT4 and look at what's displayed there. It is
very likely that this is due to a package installation that's waiting
for some input.

[Anton Andreev-5]

Sorry but what is "VT4"? Is it tty4?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christian Perrier" <bubulle@...>
To: antonandreev@...
Cc: debian-boot@..., debian-bsd@...
Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 7:53:55 AM GMT +02:00 Athens, Bucharest, Istanbul
Subject: Re: Problem with the port of Debian/kfreeBSD Installer

Quoting antonandreev@... (antonandreev@...):

> It all worked well until it reached "apt-get config" -> "Select and Install software" and then freezed at 1% for a long time and it does nothing. I do not think it will ever reach 2%. The system is still responsive, but seems like nothing is happening - nor disk or network activity.


You should switch to VT4 and look at what's displayed there. It is
very likely that this is due to a package installation that's waiting
for some input.

[Jakob Eriksson-2]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 10:02:30AM +0200, Anton Andreev wrote:
>
> Sorry but what is "VT4"? Is it tty4?
>


Virtual terminal 4. (Hit ALT-F4, I guess.)


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[Anton Andreev-5]

It says after "pkgsel":
"Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Initializing package states...
Writing extended state information...
Reading task descriptions..."

and starts doing nothing.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jakob Eriksson" <jakob@...>
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Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 11:33:00 AM GMT +02:00 Athens, Bucharest, Istanbul
Subject: Re: Problem with the port of Debian/kfreeBSD Installer




On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 10:02:30AM +0200, Anton Andreev wrote:
>
> Sorry but what is "VT4"? Is it tty4?
>


Virtual terminal 4. (Hit ALT-F4, I guess.)


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is.  If you don't, it's its.  Then too, it's hers.  It isn't her's.  It
isn't our's either.  It's ours, and likewise yours and theirs.
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[Christian Perrier]

Anton Andreev a écrit :
> Sorry but what is "VT4"? Is it tty4?

Yes


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