On 2016-08-25 16:34, Luca Boccassi wrote: > On Thu, 2016-08-25 at 22:31 +0800, 殷啟聰 wrote: >> This is not the problem of debconf. After dpkg started unpacking the >> package it froze, and some mimutes later the terminal gave "NMI watch >> dog soft lockup" errors. >> >> I added "acpi=off" to GRUB boot options and I succeeded in installing >> this package. >> >> Before turning off ACPI, runing "lspci" always stopped forever, and I >> noticed the preinstall scripts has "lspci" usage, so maybe that was >> the problem.
We should document this somewhere (and maybe even print it to the console from the respective maintainer script). Or can we try to kill lspci after a timeout? Is the hanging lspci process killable? Andreas