F12 installation stalled
Robert G. (Doc) Savage
dsavage at peaknet.net
Wed Nov 25 22:28:27 UTC 2009
On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 11:33 -0700, stan wrote:
> It could be that what your seeing is 'thrashing' as the system reaches
> its limits for memory use (how much swap is used?). It might be that
> after a very long time everything will be resolved. However, you might
> want to consider just reinstalling with a minimal install. After that
> is going, *then* install all the other stuff.
Stan,
I don't think the problem is thrashing. top in the F2 console:
top - 15:00:22 up 1 day, 17:39, 0 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Tasks: 77 total, 1 running, 74 sleeping, 0 stopped, 2 zombie
CPU(s): 0.3%us, 0.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.7%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 510192k total, 493620k used, 16572k free, 133120k buffers
Swap: 1049528k total, 492100k used, 557428k free, 77424k cached
Every 20-30 seconds 'hald-addon-stor' pops up in the list of COMMAND
tasks. Less frequently I'll see 'hald' and 'anaconda' appear for one top
cycle.
<engineer-geek>
It would be neat to know how to zoom in and watch anaconda at work. I
may have a rare opportunity here to, with expert guidance, gain some
insights into how anaconda actually works at the molecular level. If
it's possible to alter/repair its operation while running, that ability
could be of real value to remote installers.
</engineer-geek>
--Doc
More information about the users
mailing list