/tmp/target/apt-get clean stuck

[Ludwig Schwardt]

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Benjamin Constant wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to install a computer with the fai 2.5.5beta, everything is
> running well till the end of the install_packages script which seem to
> freeze...
>
> Here is the last commands I can see :
>
> /usr/sbin/install_packages: is executing chroot /tmp/target apt-get clean
> /usr/sbin/install_packages: is executing chroot /tmp/target apt-get clean
> /usr/sbin/install_packages: is executing chroot /tmp/target apt-get clean

Hi,

This is an old bug which frequently happens to me as well (using fai 2.4.1). It
has something to do with the huge list of packages being sent to apt-get, which
clogs it up somehow. You can make the install continue by killing off one of the
"tee"s that is running (ps aux | grep tee). This doesn't make the installation
very automatic, though... A better solution is to split the package list into
smaller chunks (IIRC Thomas has added support for this). Maybe I should upgrade
too :->

Regards,
Ludwig Schwardt