>> 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. >
Sigh. Looks like a kernel hang. Try an older release or a newer release. > 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. > GRUB allows you to cat your menu.lst from the GRUB prompt. Type those entries exactly as they appear and try. But if you had partitioned your drive such that the linux "/" partition's relative location on the disk has changed - your /dev/hda# would also have been changed. For a quick and dirty fix install grub again (http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/325) Cheers, Ananth
