After some tests I was able to reproduce the issue on Maverick and with upstream Qemu (08218b3527301760393b0b4ec732fcdfb7ff6cda).
Also tried stressing the disk with fsstress and dd for many hours, but couldn't reproduce the issue. The easier way to reproduce it is with dpkg, but hard to find the exact cause. My cmd line: ./rootstock --fqdn beagleboard --login ubuntu --password temppwd --seed ubuntu-netbook -i 3G --dist lucid --serial ttyS2 --components "main universe multiverse" --keepimage The only thing I changed was the path of qemu-system-arm inside rootstock, to get the upstream one. -- apt/dpkg in qemu-system-arm hangs if a big task is installed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532733 You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. Status in QEMU: Invalid Status in “qemu-kvm” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in “qemu-kvm” source package in Lucid: Incomplete Bug description: Binary package hint: qemu-kvm running rootstock and installing ubuntu-netbook^ makes the VM hang in "unpacking iso-codes" this is reproducable every time in rootstock as well as in a standard qemu-system-arm vm that contains a minimal ubuntu with running apt-get install ubuntu-netbook
