instsoft hangs, same place for multiple nodes

[Steffen Grunewald]

I've got to re-install a couple of nodes, and started the usual FAI routine.
This time, all 5 nodes get stuck in the same place:

# tail fai.log
Get:248 http://10.100.200.98 lenny/main rstatd 4.0.1-3 [15.8kB]
Get:249 http://10.100.200.98 lenny/main rusers 0.17-7.1 [13.0kB]
Get:250 http://10.100.200.98 lenny/main rusersd 0.17-7.1 [11.0kB]
Get:251 http://10.100.200.98 packages.amd64/ smartmontools 5.38+svn091119-1sg [418kB]
Get:252 http://10.100.200.98 lenny/main sudo 1.6.9p17-2 [188kB]
Get:253 http://10.100.200.98 lenny/main wakeonlan 0.41-10 [11.4kB]
Get:254 http://10.100.200.98 lenny/main xfsprogs 2.9.8-1lenny1 [1376kB]
Get:255 http://10.100.200.98 lenny/main xfsdump 2.2.48-1 [306kB]
Get:256 http://10.100.200.98 lenny/main octave-plplot 5.9.0-8 [397kB]
Get:257 http://10.100.200.98 lenny/main rsh-server 0.17-14 [39.3kB]

tasks related:
root      4791  0.0  0.8  45236 17244 ttyS1    S+   10:42   0:00 install_packages
root      4792  0.0  0.0   3808   524 ttyS1    S+   10:42   0:00 tee -a /tmp/fai/software.log
root      4794  0.1  1.5  83788 32612 ttyS1    Sl+  10:42   0:03 aptitude -R -y -o Dpkg::Options::=--force-confdef -o Dpkg::Options::=--force-confold install rsh-server telnet sudo iotop ethtool
ethstatus smart
root      4798  0.1  0.0  18816  1968 ttyS1    S+   10:42   0:04 /usr/lib/apt/methods/http

# cat /proc/4794/cmdline | tr '\0' ' '
aptitude -R -y -o Dpkg::Options::=--force-confdef -o Dpkg::Options::=--force-confold install rsh-server telnet sudo iotop ethtool ethstatus smartmontools wakeonlan ipmitool parted at dash ash
rstat-client rstatd rusers rusersd module-init-tools cramfsprogs ntp ntpdate nfs-kernel-server exim4-daemon-light login wget w3m xfsdump xfsprogs autofs apt apt-doc apt-file apt-show-versions
apt-utils debian-keyring dpkg fakeroot aptitude alien g++ g++-4.1 g++-4.2 g++-4.3 gcc gcc-4.1 gcc-4.2 gcc-4.3 gfortran gfortran-4.2 gfortran-4.3 python python2.4 python2.5 python2.4-minimal
python2.5-minimal python-dev python2.4-dev python2.5-dev python-doc python2.4-doc python2.5-doc python-gtk2 python-matplotlib python-matplotlib-data python-matplotlib-doc python-numarray
python-numarray-ext python-numeric python-numeric-ext python-numeric-tutorial python-numpy python-numpy-doc python-numpy-ext perl libterm-readline-perl-perl libtimedate-perl octave octave2.1 octave3.0
octave-doc octave2.1-doc octave3.0-doc octave-headers octave2.1-headers octave3.0-headero444:/tmp/fai# tail fai.logforge octave-plplot octave-sp autoconf automake automake1.4 automake1.7 automake1.9
autotools-dev make pkg-config binutils

How can I find out what's going wrong? A serial-over-LAN connection to the
BMC stops transmitting even 31 lines before Get:257 :(

No changes made to the FAI configuration space.

Any ideas?

S
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