Bug#771971: dpkg hangs installing init during upgrade from wheezy to jessie

2015-01-31 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 02:47:20AM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: Hi! On Sun, 2015-01-25 at 20:34:48 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: I still have my backup of the VM image at the time, so it should be possible to try upgrading it using snapshot.d.o from that time too, if it's likely to be useful.

Bug#771971: dpkg hangs installing init during upgrade from wheezy to jessie

2015-01-29 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Sun, 2015-01-25 at 20:34:48 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 09:11:57PM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: On Sun, 2015-01-25 at 14:18:03 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: Adding -D7 to the dpkg call through apt's DPkg::options would be helpful. It would also be helpful

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2015-01-25 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: tags -1 moreinfo Bug #771971 [upgrade-reports] dpkg hangs installing init during upgrade from wheezy to jessie Added tag(s) moreinfo. -- 771971: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=771971 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with

Bug#771971: dpkg hangs installing init during upgrade from wheezy to jessie

2015-01-25 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: tags -1 moreinfo On Thu, 4 Dec 2014 00:56:48 + Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com wrote: This is reproducible on demand \o/ I realised that the VM image had a few unneeded packages, so I did # apt-get remove --purge x11-common libx11-6 libx11-data then # apt-get update #

Bug#771971: dpkg hangs installing init during upgrade from wheezy to jessie

2015-01-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
Control: tags -1 -moreinfo On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 12:30:51PM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: Control: tags -1 moreinfo On Thu, 4 Dec 2014 00:56:48 + Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com wrote: This is reproducible on demand \o/ I realised that the VM image had a few unneeded packages, so I did

Processed: Re: Bug#771971: dpkg hangs installing init during upgrade from wheezy to jessie

2015-01-25 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: tags -1 -moreinfo Bug #771971 [upgrade-reports] dpkg hangs installing init during upgrade from wheezy to jessie Removed tag(s) moreinfo. -- 771971: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=771971 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org

Bug#771971: dpkg hangs installing init during upgrade from wheezy to jessie

2015-01-25 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Sun, 2015-01-25 at 12:30:51 +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: On Thu, 4 Dec 2014 00:56:48 + Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com wrote: This is reproducible on demand \o/ I realised that the VM image had a few unneeded packages, so I did # apt-get remove --purge x11-common libx11-6

Bug#771971: dpkg hangs installing init during upgrade from wheezy to jessie

2015-01-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 09:11:57PM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: On Sun, 2015-01-25 at 14:18:03 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: Adding -D7 to the dpkg call through apt's DPkg::options would be helpful. It would also be helpful to know which process hangs, and if it's dpkg itself an easy recipe

Bug#771971: dpkg hangs installing init during upgrade from wheezy to jessie

2015-01-25 Thread Guillem Jover
On Sun, 2015-01-25 at 14:18:03 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: On Sun, 2015-01-25 at 12:30:51 +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: Just to confirm, is this correctly understood? * If you purge x11-common libx11-6 libx11-data before upgrading, the upgrade hangs. * If you keep x11-common

Bug#771971: dpkg hangs installing init during upgrade from wheezy to jessie

2014-12-22 Thread bnewbold
Hello all, I also had this problem when upgrading my amd64 laptop from wheezy to jessie. My apt and general system configuration on this machine was not particularly hygienic or well documented, so mine might not be a very high signal datapoint, however I was ultimately able to complete

Bug#771971: dpkg hangs installing init during upgrade from wheezy to jessie

2014-12-16 Thread Dominik Schäfer
Hello Steve, I had the same issue with hanging dpkg as well on my VM. However: on i386, not amd64, and I did not remove/purge any packages before. Also, I used aptitude safe-upgrade (instead of apt-get). After quite some time I killed the hanging dpkg process (which used 100% CPU) and apitude

Bug#771971: dpkg hangs installing init during upgrade from wheezy to jessie

2014-12-03 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: upgrade-reports Severity: serious Hi, Doing and upgrade in a VM. Started from a fairly minimal wheezy system, then ran apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade to do the upgrade. Things appeared to be running smoothly, until dpkg hung at this point: ... Unpacking libsepol1:amd64 (2.3-2)

Bug#771971: dpkg hangs installing init during upgrade from wheezy to jessie

2014-12-03 Thread Steve McIntyre
This is reproducible on demand \o/ I realised that the VM image had a few unneeded packages, so I did # apt-get remove --purge x11-common libx11-6 libx11-data then # apt-get update # apt-get dist-upgrade and got the same result as my first run. On a *second* run I did not do that purge