On 07/18/2018 04:50 PM, Romain Dolbeau wrote: > debootstrap would then fails, trying to download some packages > upgraded during the night... after a while and multiple attempts it > worked. Dunno why.
Some essential packages like glibc will shortly disrupt the functionality of debootstrap. It resumes working once the FTP servers are in sync again. > Still can't boot, as the klibc stuff has been updated from -12+sparc64 > to -13, getting me back to square one. Still had the -12+sparc64 in > the ext4 install, so downgrade by hand and bypass that problem. Well, yes, this was very unfortunate. Ben Hutchings updated the klibc package again before I was able to open a pull request on SALSA to include the patch to fix the package. I'm sorry, but sometimes things are out of my control. We just need more hands. > At this stage (and probably some stuff I forgot), the new install will > boot single user :-) But multi-user hangs during start-up after: > ##### > (....) > [ OK ] Reached target Network is Online. > Starting LSB: exim Mail Transport Agent... > [ OK ] Started Permit User Sessions. > [ OK ] Started Getty on tty1. > [ OK ] Reached target Login Prompts. > [ OK ] Started LSB: exim Mail Transport Agent. > [ OK ] Reached target Multi-User System. > [ OK ] Reached target Graphical Interface. > Starting Update UTMP about System Runlevel Changes... > [ OK ] Started Update UTMP about System Runlevel Changes. > ##### > > A few minutes later, I also got: > > ##### > [ 318.639989] random: crng init done > [ 318.640079] random: 7 urandom warning(s) missed due to ratelimiting > ##### > So I guess the kernel still alive ... (no ping though, and > non-responsive console). Did you enable the console on the command line? Try adding "console=ttyS0" or whatever the name of the serial console on your SPARC machine is. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913