Hi Joey Many thanks for taking a look at this. I shall of course follow your suggestions and provide response on the ticket.
> Looking over this bug, it's starting to look like some kind of a race somehow only triggered by the one > set of processors. The fact that multiple apt runs are hanging suggests that it is not caused by one > single broken package. > The only debugging step I can think of from here is install strace (anna-install strace-udeb) and > strace one of the hanging dpkg-preconfigure processes. Simply attaching strace to it after it's hung > may not be enough; you might need to modify /var/lib/dpkg/info/pkgsel.postinst: > - in-target sh -c "$config tasksel --new-install --debconf-apt-progress='--from 5 --to $tasksel_end > --logstderr'" || ret=$? > + strace -o /tmp/strace.log -ff in-target sh -c "$config tasksel --new-install --debconf-apt-progress=' > --from 5 --to $tasksel_end --logstderr'" || ret=$? In your instructions do you mean to modify the debian installer netboot image? Or to modify and rebuild some other package used by debian installer? Or to modify the debian installer environment once it has booted priority=low? Cheers! -- William Oakley Hosting Systems Engineer NTT Europe Online Direct:+44 207 767 3765 Mobile:+44 779 661 0334 Fax: +44 207 767 3701 E-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________ Proprietary, privileged and/or confidential information may be contained within this communication. If you are not the intended recipient of this communication, please destroy it without copying, disclosing or otherwise using its contents and please promptly advise the sender at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of NTT Europe Online or of NTT Communications. Thank you. > -----Original Message----- > From: Joey Hess [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 23 May 2007 18:17 > To: Oakley, Will > Cc: Frans Pop; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Bug #425397 > > Looking over this bug, it's starting to look like some kind > of a race somehow only trggered by the one set of processors. > The fact that multiple apt runs are hanging suggests that it > is not caused by one single broken package. > > The only debugging step I can think of from here is install > strace (anna-install strace-udeb) and strace one of the > hanging dpkg-preconfigure processes. Simply attaching strace > to it after it's hung may not be enough; you might need to modify > /var/lib/dpkg/info/pkgsel.postinst: > > - in-target sh -c "$config tasksel --new-install > --debconf-apt-progress='--from 5 --to $tasksel_end > --logstderr'" || ret=$? > + strace -o /tmp/strace.log -ff in-target sh -c "$config > tasksel --new-install --debconf-apt-progress='--from 5 --to > $tasksel_end --logstderr'" || ret=$? > > -- > see shy jo >
