Hi all, Using SVN snapshot of September 2nd I get an error where, after the disk partitionning it hangs on the "apt-get update" call: root 3206 1 0 12:01 tty1 00:00:00 init boot root 3207 3206 0 12:01 tty1 00:00:00 \_ /bin/bash /etc/init.d/rcS root 3724 3207 0 12:02 tty1 00:00:00 \_ cat /proc/kmsg root 4290 3207 0 12:02 tty1 00:00:00 \_ /bin/bash /etc/init.d/rcS root 4527 4290 0 12:02 tty1 00:00:00 | \_ /bin/bash /usr/lib/fai/updatebase root 4561 4527 0 12:02 tty1 00:00:00 | \_ apt-get -y -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confold" update root 4563 4561 0 12:02 tty1 00:00:00 | \_ /usr/lib/apt/methods/http root 4564 4561 0 12:02 tty1 00:00:00 | \_ /usr/lib/apt/methods/http root 4566 4561 0 12:02 tty1 00:00:00 | \_ /usr/lib/apt/methods/gzip root 4569 4561 0 12:02 tty1 00:00:00 | \_ /usr/lib/apt/methods/gpgv root 4291 3207 0 12:02 tty1 00:00:00 \_ tee -a /tmp/fai/fai.log
Updating base Get:1 http://etch.apt.wul.qc.ec.gc.ca etch Release.gpg [386B] Ign http://sarge.apt.wul.qc.ec.gc.ca flash/all/i386/ Release.gpg Get:2 http://sarge.apt.wul.qc.ec.gc.ca flash/all/i386/ Release [95B] Get:3 http://sarge.apt.wul.qc.ec.gc.ca flash/all/i386/ Packages [901B] Get:4 http://etch.apt.wul.qc.ec.gc.ca etch/updates Release.gpg [189B] Get:5 http://etch.apt.wul.qc.ec.gc.ca etch-backports Release.gpg [189B] Ign http://etch.apt.wul.qc.ec.gc.ca envcan-ifw-testing/etch/all/ Release.gpg Ign http://etch.apt.wul.qc.ec.gc.ca envcan-ifw-testing/src/ Release.gpg Ign http://etch.apt.wul.qc.ec.gc.ca envcan-qc/etch/all/ Release.gpg Ign http://etch.apt.wul.qc.ec.gc.ca envcan-qc/etch/amd64/ Release.gpg Ign http://etch.apt.wul.qc.ec.gc.ca envcan-qc/src/ Release.gpg Ign http://etch.apt.wul.qc.ec.gc.ca envcan-qc-ati/etch/amd64/ Release.gpg Get:6 http://etch.apt.wul.qc.ec.gc.ca etch Release [58.2kB] Get:7 http://etch.apt.wul.qc.ec.gc.ca etch/updates Release [37.6kB] Get:8 http://etch.apt.wul.qc.ec.gc.ca etch-backports Release [43.7kB] Ign http://etch.apt.wul.qc.ec.gc.ca envcan-ifw-testing/etch/all/ Release Ign http://etch.apt.wul.qc.ec.gc.ca envcan-ifw-testing/src/ Release Ign http://etch.apt.wul.qc.ec.gc.ca envcan-qc/etch/all/ Release Ign http://etch.apt.wul.qc.ec.gc.ca envcan-qc/etch/amd64/ Release Ign http://etch.apt.wul.qc.ec.gc.ca envcan-qc/src/ Release Ign http://etch.apt.wul.qc.ec.gc.ca envcan-qc-ati/etch/amd64/ Release Get:9 http://etch.apt.wul.qc.ec.gc.ca envcan-ifw-testing/etch/all/ Packages [1385B] Get:10 http://etch.apt.wul.qc.ec.gc.ca envcan-ifw-testing/src/ Sources [3339B] Get:11 http://etch.apt.wul.qc.ec.gc.ca envcan-qc/etch/all/ Packages [2952B] Get:12 http://etch.apt.wul.qc.ec.gc.ca envcan-qc/etch/amd64/ Packages [20B] Get:13 http://etch.apt.wul.qc.ec.gc.ca envcan-qc/src/ Sources [2373B] Get:14 http://etch.apt.wul.qc.ec.gc.ca envcan-qc-ati/etch/amd64/ Packages [20B] Get:15 http://etch.apt.wul.qc.ec.gc.ca etch/main Packages [5534kB] Get:16 http://etch.apt.wul.qc.ec.gc.ca etch/main Packages [5534kB] Get:17 http://etch.apt.wul.qc.ec.gc.ca etch/contrib Packages [60.1kB] Get:18 http://etch.apt.wul.qc.ec.gc.ca etch/non-free Packages [76.7kB] Get:19 http://etch.apt.wul.qc.ec.gc.ca etch/updates/main Packages [351kB] Get:20 http://etch.apt.wul.qc.ec.gc.ca etch-backports/main Packages [450kB] Get:21 http://etch.apt.wul.qc.ec.gc.ca etch-backports/contrib Packages [3408B] Get:22 http://etch.apt.wul.qc.ec.gc.ca etch-backports/non-free Packages [5588B] ... _hung_here_ ... It does that very very often but not always... So I dived into the problem and found out that, when FAI install apt on the /target it copies all the files recursivelly from /etc/apt/* from the nfsroot to the target drive which is exactly the intended behaviour... With one exception... Somehow somewhere it also created a one-liner sources.list file with the content of what I presume being the content of FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP variable from the make-fai-nfsroot.conf. I think this file gets created when there is no default sources.list file in the nfsroot or something similar (I'm using sources.list.d/*.list files) .... What happends is that this one liner apt depot is a duplication of one of my configuration located under the sources.list.d/*.list files so APT hang due to a duplicate channel. It actually hang often but not always... To confirm this I've created a small patch to the usr/lib/fai/subroutines-linux: --- subroutines-linux 2008-09-04 08:31:52.000000000 -0400 +++ subroutines-linux.NEW 2008-09-04 08:31:25.000000000 -0400 @@ -236,6 +236,10 @@ EOF # during normal installation, we need sources.list from /etc/apt [ $do_init_tasks -eq 1 ] && FAI_ETC_DIR=/etc [ -d $FAI_ETC_DIR/apt ] && cp -r $FAI_ETC_DIR/apt/* $FAI_ROOT/etc/apt/ + # If there are sources.list.d/*.list files then remove the + # fai-created default sources.list in order to avoid conflicts + [ "`ls -1 $FAI_ROOT/etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list 2>/dev/null`" ] \ + && rm -f $FAI_ROOT/etc/apt/sources.list } # - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - task_updatebase() { This seems to solve the problem.... Although the original problem in my opinion is that it should create that sources.list file not only when it does not exist but also conditionnally with: does any *.list file exists in the sources.list.d/ directory? Although I have'nt found where it does that just yet. Anyhow, this patch completelly solves my problem for now.. I'm now wondering if this fix could be included in the next release (or the other approach of not creating the sources.list file conditionnally to the existence of sources.list.d/*.list files). Thnx! - vin
