> > You mean it stopped at the exact same point - where it was installing > UUCP in *ALL* your attempts ? I can't recall any known issue.
yes, In all attempts , nearly four ... > Another thing worth doing is to use the proc tools and figure out whats > stuck: Open a new terminal. Run a ptree command - see if there is a > pkgadd command running. Run truss on the pid and figure out what it is > doing. If its doing a waitpid(), follow its child and keep doing this > until you see a thread which seems to be blocked. That might be able to > give us some more clues about what is happening. > I could do a ptree and figure out that there was a "pkg-install" process running. I ran trussand found out , It did a waitpid . But when it reached to the point of installing Networking utilites , the system hangs totally. I am not able to do anything further. I switched off the machine and when i booted , I could find out the grub prompt , and the GNU grub couldn load the Debian GNU/Linux already installed. I had to do this, root (hd0,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz... root=/dev/hda4 boot to boot the system , even then it couldn boot and prompted an error that couldn mount the root partition.
