instsoft hangs, same place for multiple nodes

[Thomas Lange]

>>>>> On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 12:42:34 +0100, Steffen Grunewald <steffen.grunewald at aei.mpg.de> said:

    > 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]


    > 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.
Did the mirror of Debian packages changed? Sometimes I also got a
stuck installation, but mostly if too many packages are installed at
once. Therefore I set the variable MAXPACKAGES to a lower value. I use
500 or 300 here.

IMO this is a bug in apt, since the download stucks, not FAI itself.
-- 
regards Thomas