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Re: Solved (partially) Re: What happened?

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The Wanderer wrote on 4/21/22 17:14:
> On 2022-04-21 at 14:37, Dennis Wicks wrote:
> 
>> Dennis Wicks wrote on 4/16/22 18:16:
>>
>>> When I first installed Debian 10, I installed Win 10 in a
>>> virtual machine using KVM/QEMU and everything just worked. I
>>> could copy/paste between host and vm and access host disks
>>> in the vm. And zfs file systems worked.
>>>
>>> The main problem was that dpkg would kill the system trying
>>> to setup
>>> linux-image-4.19.0-18-amd64.
> 
>> Mark this SOLVED (partially): software problem.
>>
>> dpkg continued to kill the system trying to setup
>> linux-headers. I discovered that dpkg will purge the
>> linux-headers package and then I can try installing again.
>> On one try I was running pg on dkms in an attempt to see
>> what was going on that killed the machine. Two times I got a
>> long screen full of tasks running various types of cc just
>> before the crash.
> 
> What's "pg"? It doesn't appear to be e.g. a shell builtin ('type pg'
> reports 'bash: type: pg: not found'), and I don't find it in the
> archive. For example,
> 
> $ apt-file search -x /pg$
> 
> finds only two results, from the package grass-core, which appear to be
> (parts of? related to?) database drivers.
> 
>> I set up my pg to repeat every few secs and spooled the
>> output to a file. Then I started a tail on that spool file.
>> Surprise!! It ran to completion!
>>
>> Here is my analysis: I have a big system. An AMD 8 core
>> Ryzen running at 3.8GHz with 64GB of memory. I think that
>> without any other load on the machine some task is getting
>> started before it should and either steps on a task that
>> should have finished by that time or can't find something
>> that was supposed to be created by a task that hasn't run
>> yet. It has to be something serious because all the
>> screens/sessions are cleared and the system is frozen. I
>> have to use the reset button to re-start and once or twice I
>> have had to cycle the power to get re-booted.
> 
> This doesn't look like a terribly likely scenario to me, but if it *is*
> what's happening, that's definitely a bug - though a bug in what is less
> than clear.
> 
Sorry, pg = ps

That is the only thing I can think of that it might be. I 
have run dpkg --configure -a or with a specific package name 
and every time the package was linux-image-... or 
linux-headers-... it killed my machine. It happened with 
kernel 4.19.0-18-amd64 and 4.19.0-20-amd64. I ran it a dozen 
or more times with the same results. The two times that I 
caught any output from ps that was useful it was running 
many tasks of cc.

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What happened? Dennis Wicks <wix@mgssub.com> - 2022-04-17 01:20 +0200
  Re: What happened? Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2022-04-17 04:40 +0200
    Re: What happened? The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2022-04-17 05:10 +0200
      Re: What happened? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2022-04-17 07:30 +0200
        Re: What happened? The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2022-04-17 13:30 +0200
        Re: What happened? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2022-04-17 13:30 +0200
          Re: What happened? Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2022-04-17 23:30 +0200
            Re: What happened? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2022-04-18 01:50 +0200
  Solved (partially) Re: What happened? Dennis Wicks <wix@mgssub.com> - 2022-04-21 20:40 +0200
    Re: Solved (partially) Re: What happened? The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2022-04-22 00:20 +0200
      Re: Solved (partially) Re: What happened? Dennis Wicks <wix@mgssub.com> - 2022-04-23 04:50 +0200

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