Martin Michlmayr wrote:
* Ognyan Kulev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-05-26 14:31]:
My second install was with Linux 2.6. All went fine until all packages
are downloaded and debconf tried to configure xfree86 (XFree86 again,
huh?). The installation hangs just after all packages are downloaded
and they are started to be configured. The problem was that discover
hangs. I installed strace manually and run "strace discover" -- the
process hangs while trying to read from /proc/bus/usb/devices. "cat
/proc/bus/usb/devices" hangs too. I didn't continue with installation.
Does cat /proc/bus/usb/devices hang on 2.4 too? Now that you have a
Debian installation, can you install the 2.6.6 kernel from unstable
and check if that hangs a well?
I was surprised that when I logged into my installation, the problem was
gone. So I started new installation from the same CD. There was no
such problem, and configuring of xfree88 didn't hang!
But there was one difference with previous install -- in tasksel, I only
selected X stuff, so I started the installation again and in tasksel I
selected the following tasks (by memory): Desktop, LSB, Office, X, all
in Development, Cyrillic environment. In the 2nd stage, the configuring
of xfree86 (before any unpacking) hung again. I installed
kernel-image-2.6.5-686-smp and restarted. But I suspected that this
happens only in 2nd stage and not later on, so I again selected
kernel-image-2.6.5-386 and booted. The problem was gone! So hanging on
cat /proc/bus/usb/devices happens only in 2nd stage and not in the next
reboot, and it depends somewhat on selected tasks. Cyrillic environment
asks some questions before xfree86, so it's possible that it's the
source of the problem. I will check that.
I don't know if it's relevant, but here is some boot output:
Starting hotplug subsystem:
input
evbug: blacklisted
evdev: loaded successfully
evbug: blacklisted
evbug: already loaded
net
pci
...
** can't synthesize root hub events
To summarize, here are the conditions to reproduce the problem on my system:
1.
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/i386/20040525/sarge-i386-netinst.iso
2. linux26
3. in tasksel, the following tasks should be selected: Desktop, LSB,
Office, X, all in Development (probably this is not relevant), Cyrillic
environment (fortunately, I have a mirror with 400-600k/s)
Regards,
ogi