[12:07] hello === bat0 [n=mcoz@n1-24-205.dhcp.drexel.edu] has left #ubuntu-installer [] === lemao [n=lemao@c-24-2-130-50.hsd1.ct.comcast.net] has joined #ubuntu-installer === rrittenhouse [n=tad@cpe-76-188-35-66.neo.res.rr.com] has joined #ubuntu-installer === ChanServ [ChanServ@services.] has joined #ubuntu-installer === thom [n=thom@amnesiac.heapspace.net] has joined #ubuntu-installer === cjwatson [n=cjwatson@82-69-40-219.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk] has joined #ubuntu-installer === yong [n=yong@221.200.217.226] has joined #ubuntu-installer === mark_ [i=mark@tilia.nedworks.org] has joined #ubuntu-installer === yong [n=yong@221.200.217.226] has joined #ubuntu-installer [08:04] heh === mark_ is now known as mark [04:55] cjwatson: I had our on-site tech investigate that "man-db" problem [04:55] which isn't man-db but most often occurs during that postinst [04:55] it seems to be a deadlock [04:55] perl seems to try to read from a dpkg pipe [04:55] and dpkg is wait4() for perl [04:56] at least that's what my on-site tech tells me, a little hard to get more info [05:23] I should just always run it in strace, then the deadlock does not happen due to other buffering/context switching ;) [07:51] perl would be debconf [07:52] so again, it's probably a failure to close some file descriptor, possibly racily [08:25] not the commonly made mistake of writing and reading from a child processes's pipes at the same time? :) [08:25] I sincerely hope not [08:25] no, more usual with debconf is spawning something from a debconf confmodule that daemonises but forgets to close the debconf fds [08:26] man-db does background itself under certain circumstances, but I thought that (a) it didn't do that under the noninteractive frontend to avoid pretty much this problem and (b) it disconnected properly anyway ... [08:28] ok [08:28] yeah but it's not just man-db [08:28] for example, today sometimes it got stuck on openssh [08:28] and occasionally on other stuff [08:28] just most often man-db [08:29] today we reinstalled 20 servers and only *one* went through without problems [08:29] your libc isn't spawning some weird NSS thing, is it? [08:43] ehm [08:43] our libc? [08:43] it's just the ubuntu installer :) [08:43] not doing anything special in that regard === BadMike [n=badmike@p54A4E024.dip.t-dialin.net] has joined #ubuntu-installer [10:30] hello can anyone help me installing software === BadMike [n=badmike@p54A4E024.dip.t-dialin.net] has left #ubuntu-installer []