Installation hangs at TASKBEGIN instsoft

[Torsten Schlabach]

Dear list!

My automatic installation stops in the instsoft task. Here's what I see 
on my install server:

debian32m:~# faimond
FAI monitoring daemon started on port 4711
box-n-01 check
box-n-01 TASKEND confdir 0
box-n-01 TASKBEGIN setup
box-n-01 TASKEND setup 0
box-n-01 TASKBEGIN defclass
box-n-01 TASKEND defclass 0
box-n-01 TASKBEGIN defvar
box-n-01 TASKEND defvar 0
box-n-01 TASKBEGIN action
box-n-01 TASKBEGIN install
box-n-01 TASKBEGIN partition
box-n-01 TASKEND partition 0
box-n-01 TASKBEGIN mountdisks
box-n-01 TASKEND mountdisks 0
box-n-01 TASKBEGIN extrbase
box-n-01 TASKEND extrbase 0
box-n-01 TASKBEGIN mirror
box-n-01 TASKEND mirror 0
box-n-01 TASKBEGIN debconf
box-n-01 TASKEND debconf 0
box-n-01 TASKBEGIN prepareapt
box-n-01 TASKEND prepareapt 0
box-n-01 TASKBEGIN updatebase
box-n-01 TASKEND updatebase 0
box-n-01 HOOK instsoft.FAIBASE
box-n-01 TASKBEGIN instsoft

Nothing happening here for > 1 hour.

The last file the install client read from the install server:

May 15 00:05:31 localhost nfsd[20230]: 217.xx.xxx.xxx < 
/srv/fai/nfsroot/var/lib/dpkg/status
May 15 00:05:32 localhost nfsd[20230]: 217.xx.xxx.xxx < 
/srv/fai/config/package_config/DEFAULT
May 15 00:05:32 localhost nfsd[20230]: 217.xx.xxx.xxx < 
/srv/fai/config/package_config/FAIBASE


Please don't ask me to ssh to my install client, this still does not 
work. But I would like to understand what script gets executed for this 
task (I did not find anything with a corresponding name) so I could have 
a look at it.

Wild guess: Might this be the first time the install client needs to 
access a different server than the install server? (I'd guess the Debian 
mirror?) I am suspecting some DNS resolver issues.

Regards,
Torsten