Mattia Dongili ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi there Ardo! > > On Tue, September 5, 2006 5:20 am, Ardo van Rangelrooij said: > > Mattia Dongili ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> Hello! > [...] > >> Ardo: it seems very similar to your old diff (a couple of months ago), > >> have you benn able to go further with the amd64 experiment? > > > > I played some more with this evening. I got quite a lot further, but it > > still > > didn't make it through a successful rootstrap run: It hung at the 'sync' > > step > > "hung" as in "it sits there forever"? oooh so sad... this is not very easy > to debug then.
Yep. One moment the various 'linux' processes are at the top in `top`, the next moment they're gone and nothing happens anymore. > > in debootstrap most of the times, but occaisionally I had it hung already > > some > > time earlier during the package unpack/install/configure. > > Hummm... things to check/try out popping out of my head: > - /dev/shm usage (use df -h), if it goes low (very low) increase it > - set debug=true, put an "exit 1" before debootstrap then run debootstrap > manually from the provided shell (well... probably not that useful), be > careful, no Ctrl-C there :) > - start uml_mconsole and send a sysrq+t and see who is hung and where > - add "set -x" to all rootstrap modules :) > - strace deboostrap in the "debian" module I'll try these and let you know what's up. In the cases where I got the farthest, it's the 'sync' process that hung, called from debootstrap. In other cases it was 'dpkg-deb' that hung, also called from debootstrap. > > I've been using the latest user-mode-linus and rootstrap 3.22. Later this > > week I'll try with rootstrap 3.23. Let's see whether that makes a > > difference. > > eh, I don't think it'll change that much, but let's see. Yeah... > > I wish there was a way to get somore debugging going... > > me too :) > > Thanks a lot You're welcome. Thanks, Ardo -- Ardo van Rangelrooij Debian XML/SGML Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://people.debian.org/~ardo/ http://debian-xml-sgml.alioth.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
