On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 05:01:53AM +0000, Paul Stoeber wrote: > On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 08:22:21PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > While we have had other reports of installer's chroot failing on powerpc, > > I haven't seen that myself. Perhaps the chroot version on the installer > > balks at nfs? Can you test whether the chroot command that is failing > > also fails if typed directly into the shell on console 2? (Assuming > > those debs are still laying around in /target/var/cache/apt/archives ) > > $ chroot /target dpkg --force-depends --install >/var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_3.0.2_powerpc.deb >/var/cache/apt/archives/base-passwd_3.4.1_powerpc.deb > dpkg: unable to lock dpkg status database > $ ### > > This is not powerpc specific. Any user who tries to install > Debian on an NFS root will experience this, no matter what his > machine arch. > > Look at dpkg-1.9.21/lib/lock.c to see where it fails. > > The programs rpc.lockd and rpc.statd (package nfs-common) must be > included in the initial ramdisk and used properly. If this can't be > done, dpkg must loosen its requirements (at least for boot-floppies), > but I think the maintainers of dpkg don't like this (see the earlier > messages I referenced in the original Bug#156308 message). > > The package nfs-common must be made part of the base installation > (at least if the user installs Debian on an NFS root), or else > dpkg will fail when the user makes his package selections after > the second boot.
I apologize for not reading through the messages you referenced in the initial bug. I think you had several good ideas; in particular using the ramdisk for the lockfile and providing a --no-lock option for dpkg seem like good options. Perhaps there's even a semaphore capability in the kernel that wasn't available when dpkg was written. Anyway, boot-floppies is now officially dead. This is definitely a bad bug for people installing to nfs; I guess the thing to do is document a workaround. What would you recommend? Have nfs-common available on your boot share so it can be manually installed into the ramdisk system sometime before base installation? -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual> | | debian-imac: <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | To Have, Give All to All (ACIM) | *----------------------------------------------------------------* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
