On Sat, 2016-09-10 at 19:21 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > 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
Unfortunately I have not been able to reproduce the issue, so I do not know if we can kill it. Perhaps documenting it is a good idea for now, until a better solution can be found. Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
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