/tmp/target/apt-get clean stuck [FIXED]

[Benjamin Constant]

Thank you for your help, it solves my problems and certainly some headache !

I also forgot to says thx to Thomas (an the others) for this great tool :-)

Sorry for this stupid question but what means IIRC ?

Regards,

>
> 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
>