[parisc-linux] .9 install problems on a 735

[Richard Hirst]

On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 05:12:56PM -0400, Jim Buttafuoco wrote:
> Richard,
> 
> It worked this way,  so I tried it again via the menus,  it still hung
> for a VERY long time and didn't finish.  Other than the debootstrap.log
> log file is there any way to debug this...

I don't have any ideas at the moment, I'll get back you if I think
of something.

If it worked invoking debootstrap manually, I guess you might be able
to complete the install, by selecting 'configure the base system',
'make system bootable' and 'reboot system' from the menu.  Havn't
tried that myself though.

When debootstrap is invoked directly from the installer it writes
a log to /target/tmp/debootstrap.log (i.e. tmp on the installed
system).  Can you get at that somehow and tell us what it contains?
probably just the last few lines will be enough.  You might be able
to ctrl-c back to the menu once it has hung, and then execute a
shell. Otherwise restart the installer, execute a shell, and mount
the partition.

Richard


> 
> Let me know
> Jim
> 
> > On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 12:56:03PM -0400, Jim Buttafuoco wrote:
> > > I am trying to install the .9 CD image via NFS on my 735.  The
> system
> > > boots into the installer fine.  I partitioned my disk and then the
> > > installed downloaded some packages.  After the download was complete
> the
> > > screen is displays a message "Installing essential packages".  I
> have
> > > left it there for over an hour now.  Is this normal.  If not what
> can I
> > > do...
> > 
> > Hi Jim,
> >   That is not normal, 5 or 10 minutes on a slow machine at most, I'd
> > guess.
> > 
> > The installer runs a script called debootstrap which downloads the
> > packages and then unpacks and configures them.  Sounds line something
> > has hung in the process.
> > 
> > I had it hang on my 715/old, because of problems with the alignment
> > of locks in glibc 2.2.1.  The installer is based on glibc 2.2.1 at
> > the moment, although you would typically upgrade to glibc 2.2.3
> > (which is also on the CD), after install.  That problem is processor
> > specific, and I wouldn't have expected it to affect the 735.
> > 
> > The base install uses slightly dated packages, because we had to
> > freeze the base package set early to have any chance of making the
> > installer work in time for release.
> > 
> > To find at what point it has hung the easiest thing to do is to
> > invoke debootstrap from a shell, rather than have the installer
> > do it automatically.  That way you see all the output.
> > 
> > You may just be able to ctrl-c back the the start of the installer,
> > otherwise start again.  Get to the point where the installer has
> > mounted your nfs source for you (I selected nfs source, and then
> > cancel when it asked me to choose the directory to install from).
> > Now scroll down the menu to 'execute a shell'.
> > 
> > You can use 'mount' and 'ls' to check that your nfs mount is ok.
> > Now do something like:
> > 
> >   debootstrap sid /target file:/instmnt/debian
> > 
> > /target is where the partition you are installing to is mounted.
> > There may be one or two prompts you have to hit return on, but
> > you should see a fairly steady stream of messages until
> > 
> >   I: Successfully completed
> >   umount: /dev/pts: not found
> > 
> > IIRC, my 715/old hung on unpacking or setting up ncurses5.
> > 
> > There are plenty of error msgs/warnings in the output, because
> > of unmet dependencies, etc, but debootstrap loops round a
> > number of times until everything is unpacked and configured and
> > dependencies are satisfied.
> > 
> > Let us know where it hangs,
> > 
> > Richard
> > 
> > 
> 
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