Bug#336289: libgstreamer0.8-0: hangs during installation on m68k

[Loic Minier]

tags 336289 + unreproducible
thanks

        Hi,

On Sat, Oct 29, 2005, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> Version: 0.8.9-2

 Is there a particular reason for using 0.8.9-2 for this report?

> One of my m68k buildds is trying to build libgstreamer-perl_0.04-1, but
> since over 12 hours it is stuck with:
> Setting up libgstreamer0.8-0 (0.8.11-1) ...

 Other buildd seem to achieve this well, for example:
<http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=ruby-gnome2&ver=0.13.0-2&arch=m68k&stamp=1124114305&file=log&as=raw>
 ... hence unreproducible.

> This is not the first time this is happening on m68k, this is where it hangs:
> root      1760  0.0  0.8  2008 1088 ?        SN   Oct28   0:00 sh /var/lib/dpkg/info/libgstreamer0.8-0.postinst configure

 Since CPU usage is near zero (or maybe the gst-* processes eat CPU?), I
 suggest you strace the thing.

> Is there a way to install (and deinstall, IIRC the same thing happens again
> during package removal) streamer normally on m68k or does it really take
> more than 12h to setup?

 On i386, it takes a split second to setup, but the programs read a lot
 of files, so it might be caused by eg. a slow NFS mount of /usr for
 example, but it's hard to tell.

 I propose you simply run each of the two utilities in the postinst
 manually, and see for yourself what happens.  You will also get stdout
 output.  At all rates, strace should give you the solution, but it can
 of course be a loop in gstreamer/m68k.

   Cheers,
-- 
Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org>
"What do we want? BRAINS! When do we want it? BRAINS!"