[plug] Debugging an apt-get install.. (EXIM4!!!)

[Shayne O'Neill]

THANKS!

I did the strace,  and found that it was spending a massive amount of time
processing an input directory that had a stupendous amount of files in
it.

So I deep sixed the content (it all seemed to be undeliverable crap) and
it worked smoothly.

The problem now is when using exim4-daemon-heavy I get mysqllib glibc
compatability crashes.

So I'm on exim4-daemon light. So far so good. elists work and so do users
etc.

Now I just have to grok this problem.

But at least I know how to cope with these horrors from now on :)

Shayne.

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On Thu, 5 May 2005, Nick Bannon wrote:

> On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 04:51:32PM +0800, Shayne O'Neill wrote:
> [...]
> > It gets to the setting up exim4 prompt and kind of falls asleep. I've
> > waited for upgrades. No luck. Google tells me nothing, and I'm kinda
> > getting deeply flustered by this.
>
> Maybe that's during the exim4-base postinstall script. Have a look at
> what processes are running at the time with "pstree -p", or "ps auxwww".
>
> If you ^C it at that point, it may rerun that part when you do
> "dpkg --configure --pending" - if so, you can examine or change the
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/exim4-base.postinst or whichever script and try
> again.
>
> You can instrument the whole procedure with:
>
> # strace -fo /tmp/strace.log apt-get install exim4
>
> or similar, and see exactly which files get open()'ed or programs get
> exec()'ed.
>
> Nick.
>
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