F12 installation stalled
stan
gryt2 at q.com
Thu Nov 26 01:06:06 UTC 2009
On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:28:27 -0600
"Robert G. (Doc) Savage" <dsavage at peaknet.net> wrote:
> Stan,
>
> I don't think the problem is thrashing. top in the F2 console:
>
> top - 15:00:22 up 1 day, 17:39, 0 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00,
> 0.00 Tasks: 77 total, 1 running, 74 sleeping, 0 stopped, 2
> zombie CPU(s): 0.3%us, 0.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.7%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi,
> 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 510192k total, 493620k used, 16572k
> free, 133120k buffers Swap: 1049528k total, 492100k used,
> 557428k free, 77424k cached
>
> Every 20-30 seconds 'hald-addon-stor' pops up in the list of COMMAND
> tasks. Less frequently I'll see 'hald' and 'anaconda' appear for one
> top cycle.
I think you are right. :-)
>
> <engineer-geek>
> It would be neat to know how to zoom in and watch anaconda at work. I
> may have a rare opportunity here to, with expert guidance, gain some
> insights into how anaconda actually works at the molecular level. If
> it's possible to alter/repair its operation while running, that
> ability could be of real value to remote installers.
> </engineer-geek>
>
> --Doc
>
Can't help you with that. If it was C you could attach gdb to it, but
I don't think anaconda (python) has that option available, but maybe
someone knows how to do it.
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