Package: hurd Version: 1:0.5.git20140320-1 Severity: grave I am unable to upgrade my virtual test hurd machine because it hang completely during apt-get upgrade. I have to "cut the power" on the machine and reboot it to try to get going. After the boot, the machine hang again during boot. As the file system is messed up, I run fsck outside the virtual machine like this to fix it:
kpartx -sa debian-hurd-20140211.img fsck -f -y /dev/mapper/loop0p1 kpartx -d debian-hurd-20140211.img To reproduce this, I start by downloading the debian-hurd-20130504.img.tar.gz file, unpack the image and boot it using virt-manager. In the booted image, I run 'dhclient /dev/eth0' to get a IP address, 'apt-get update' to fetch the package lists, install etckeeper to track changes in /etc, edit /etc/apt/sources.list to drop the CD source, and next try 'apt-get upgrade'. After a while the upgrade hang and the machine uses lots of CPU. To try to figure out exactly what went wrong, I tried instead of 'apt-get upgrade' to use apt-get --download-only upgrade' and then used dpkg -i on individual debs to see if I could find the trigger. Upgrading the hurd package caused the hang after the unpack message is printed. Run these commands on a fresh image to reproduce it: dhclient /dev/eth0 apt-get update apt-get install -y etckeeper vi /etc/apt/get/sources.list dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/packages/hurd_*.deb As far as I know, etckeeper is not vital to reproduce it, but mentioning it here in the hope that you consider installing it by default. :) I'm setting severity to grave, as this make the package useless and can cause data loss when I have to power off the machine and leave the file system in an inconsistent state. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
