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Re: upgrade failed debian 8.7

From Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: upgrade failed debian 8.7
Date 2017-02-05 16:40 +0100
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Mike Nunn <bonnie650@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5 February 2017 at 14:47, Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> wrote:

>> Please test if just calling "strace sync" as root hangs as well.

> Yes it does

> strace sync
> .................
> open("/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
> fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2855152, ...}) = 0
> mmap(NULL, 2855152, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x7fc63a03c000
> close(3)                                = 0
> sync(

> 20 minutes now, exits immediately on my local machine.

This should not take that long. On a normal system, sync times of over 2
seconds are rare and if you have something like a SSD or NVMe as storage
it should be nearly instant.

> Looks like you narrowed it down to an underlying problem.

You can unfuzz your package system by temporarily commenting the call to
"sync" in update-initramfs to get it to complete, but you really should
try to find out the real problem.

Maybe by using the latest kernel from backports.

S°

-- 
Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.

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upgrade failed debian 8.7 Mike Nunn <bonnie650@gmail.com> - 2017-02-04 19:50 +0100
  Re: upgrade failed debian 8.7 Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2017-02-04 20:10 +0100
    Re: upgrade failed debian 8.7 Mike Nunn <bonnie650@gmail.com> - 2017-02-04 21:30 +0100
      Re: upgrade failed debian 8.7 Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2017-02-04 21:50 +0100
        Re: upgrade failed debian 8.7 Mike Nunn <bonnie650@gmail.com> - 2017-02-04 22:00 +0100
        Re: upgrade failed debian 8.7 Mike Nunn <bonnie650@gmail.com> - 2017-02-04 22:00 +0100
      Re: upgrade failed debian 8.7 Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2017-02-05 06:10 +0100
        Re: upgrade failed debian 8.7 Mike Nunn <bonnie650@gmail.com> - 2017-02-05 12:30 +0100
          Re: upgrade failed debian 8.7 Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2017-02-05 14:40 +0100
            Re: upgrade failed debian 8.7 Mike Nunn <bonnie650@gmail.com> - 2017-02-05 15:00 +0100
          Re: upgrade failed debian 8.7 Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2017-02-05 15:50 +0100
            Re: upgrade failed debian 8.7 Mike Nunn <bonnie650@gmail.com> - 2017-02-05 16:20 +0100
              Re: upgrade failed debian 8.7 Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2017-02-05 16:40 +0100
                Re: upgrade failed debian 8.7 Mike Nunn <bonnie650@gmail.com> - 2017-02-05 18:10 +0100
                Re: upgrade failed debian 8.7 Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2017-02-05 18:10 +0100
                Re: upgrade failed debian 8.7 Mike Nunn <bonnie650@gmail.com> - 2017-02-07 13:40 +0100

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