Installation hangs at TASKBEGIN instsoft

[Oliver Osburg]

Hi,

you should be able to see what is going on on the client by loggin in
via ssh and looking at /tmp/fai/software.log

I'd guess that some software asks a question. If you know which pkg is
the cause for the hang, you can tune up debconf to do a true unattended
install.

Hth,

Oliver

* Torsten Schlabach <tschlabach at gmx.net> [070515 01:18]:
> 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
> 
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