Re: upgrade failed debian 8.7

2017-02-07 Thread Mike Nunn
On 5 February 2017 at 17:08, Sven Hartge wrote: > Knowing Hetzner, I doubt they will be helpful. They suggested changing the nvme disks though I thought this should only be a last resort. I tried your earlier suggestion and upgraded to 4.9 kernel from backports all seems well with sync! Thanks

Re: upgrade failed debian 8.7

2017-02-05 Thread Mike Nunn
On 5 February 2017 at 15:31, Sven Hartge wrote: > You can unfuzz your package system by temporarily commenting the call to > "sync" in update-initramfs to get it to complete, but you really should > try to find out the real problem. Package system unfuzzed, thanks! It's Hetzners standard build o

Re: upgrade failed debian 8.7

2017-02-05 Thread Mike Nunn
On 5 February 2017 at 14:47, Sven Hartge wrote: > Can you please check if process 12056 is "/bin/sync"? Search for a line > above looking like > 3400 execve("/bin/sync", ["sync"], [/* 23 vars */]) = 0 Yes it is: 12056 execve("/bin/sync", ["sync"], [/* 18 vars */]) = 0 > Please test if just ca

Re: upgrade failed debian 8.7

2017-02-05 Thread Mike Nunn
On 5 February 2017 at 13:33, Lisi Reisz wrote: > In addition to Ric's "Please don't top post". OK will do Thanks, Is it worth starting a new thread as the problem is now much more specific? Mike

Re: upgrade failed debian 8.7

2017-02-05 Thread Mike Nunn
I have an strace output for the following: strace -f -o foo update-initramfs -u -v It stopped at the following line as usual: Building cpio /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-4-amd64.new initramfs The last few lines of the strace output: 12056 open("/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) =

Re: upgrade failed debian 8.7

2017-02-04 Thread Mike Nunn
update-initramfs pid 1373 sudo lsof -p 1373 COMMANDPID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME update-in 1373 root cwdDIR9,2 4096 16515073 /root update-in 1373 root rtdDIR9,2 40962 / update-in 1373 root txtREG9,2 125400 23461891 /bin/dash upd

Re: upgrade failed debian 8.7

2017-02-04 Thread Mike Nunn
0 0 proc /run/docker/netns/be28a4421d53 proc rw,relatime 0 0 On 4 February 2017 at 20:41, Sven Hartge wrote: > Mike Nunn wrote: > > > can't install strace as apt suggests running dpkg --configure -a , prob > due > > to the failure of the upgrade > > > with

Re: upgrade failed debian 8.7

2017-02-04 Thread Mike Nunn
can't install strace as apt suggests running dpkg --configure -a , prob due to the failure of the upgrade with update-initramfs -u -v -k 3.16.0-4-amd64 hung there doesn't seem to be a cpio process running On 4 February 2017 at 19:02, Sven Hartge wrote: > Mike Nunn wrote: &g

upgrade failed debian 8.7

2017-02-04 Thread Mike Nunn
Sven Hartge wrote: > Hmm. How long did you wait for it to complete? Is "/boot" full? > Or is the disk /boot is on just abysmally slow? It's still stuck, been over an hour now. Everything else seems fast, no obvious slowdown. Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/md1 488M 52M 411

upgrade failed debian 8.7

2017-02-04 Thread Mike Nunn
Thanks for the reply, It seems to stop after the last line shown below. update-initramfs -u -v -k 3.16.0-4-amd64 Keeping /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-4-amd64.dpkg-bak update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-4-amd64 Copying module directory kernel/drivers/hid Calling hook zz

upgrade failed debian 8.7

2017-02-04 Thread Mike Nunn
Thanks for the reply, It seems to stop after the last line shown below. update-initramfs -u -v -k 3.16.0-4-amd64 Keeping /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-4-amd64.dpkg-bak update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-4-amd64 Copying module directory kernel/drivers/hid Calling hook zz-busy

upgrade failed debian 8.7

2017-02-04 Thread Mike Nunn
uname -a 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.36-1+deb8u2 (2016-10-19) x86_64 GNU/Linux I ran sudo apt update followed by upgrade it hangs at the following point: Setting up linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64 (3.16.39-1) ... /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools: update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.