Mattia Dongili ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 06:11:23AM -0500, Ardo van Rangelrooij wrote: > > Mattia Dongili ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > [...] > > > "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. > > believe it or not I got my hands on an amd64 laptop (authentic AMD > 3200+ something), rebuilt u-m-l and rootstrap for amd64 and tested: > the rootfs image creation went totally smooth. I didn't have any > problem.
Interesting. Then I'm really wondering what I'm doing wrong... I've also rebooted to a kernel with no vserver stuff (in case that would matter...; one never knows) but that didn't help either. What are your settings in the rootstrap config file? Maybe something is amis in there on my side. > I had some problems with threaded apps (that of TLS/NTPL stuff but on > amd64 there's no /lib/tls to move away...) > > [...] > > 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 > > these symptoms resemble a /dev/shm-too-small[1] I had here on i386 but > waiting some time (a few minutes) I could see the thing go on. Well, I'm only using 30M out of 1G. Seems plenty to me... > [1]: as said previously you should note /dev/shm short in available > space or your computer should already be swapping... No swapping at all. > I'm quite inclined to upload the packages with the modified Architecture > field, what do you think? Please go ahead. The more people get their hands on this the better... 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]
