aptitude getting stuck

[Rudy Gevaert]

Below is merely some 'interesting' information:

we have a fai server running sarge and fai 3.2.8.  It is being used  
and is exporting a Etch 32 nfsroot.
We have support for installations of Etch 32 and 64 bit, and Lenny 32  
and 64bit.

Previously, on occasion the FAI installations of Lenny 64bit with FAI  
would stop after the last package was downloaded!  Then aptitude would  
just wait, and wait.  And nothing would happen.  We are ofcourse using  
a LENNY 64 bit base image for that.  And last week it stopped  
functioning totally.

I set up a new FAI server (3.3.2+experimental4) and tried the  
installation (by default it took are lenny 64bit image) and it showed  
the strange problem.

However when I removed our own base image and used the default  
base.tgz it worked.

If I put base.tgz onto the old server and use that one, my  
installations work too.

So there must be an issue somewhere, but I don't know how.

Anyway, I have my old FAI server working again, and have a new one  
too.  Now it is time to migrate...

Rudy




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Rudy Gevaert          Rudy.Gevaert at UGent.be          tel:+32 9 264 4734
Directie ICT, afd. Infrastructuur  Direction ICT, Infrastructure dept.
Groep Systemen                     Systems group
Universiteit Gent                  Ghent University
Krijgslaan 281, gebouw S9, 9000 Gent, Belgie               www.UGent.be
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