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AzazeL
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 Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2002 2:50 am Post subject: Untar freeze |
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| During the process of untarring the stage*.tbz2 files, eventually the process comes to a stop at some random file. However the file it stops at seems to change whenever i try and has no pattern. I was wondering if anyone else had encountered this problem. It doesnt appear as though my computer freezes just the untarring doesnt continue. Any solutions? |
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Robert
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| Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2002 2:59 am Post subject: |
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| out of ram possibly?..is swap activated? have you verified the md5 for the archive? |
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Naan Yaar
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AzazeL
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| Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2002 3:37 am Post subject: Sweet |
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Robert: Chances of being out of ram is slim. And yes swap is activited.
Naan Yaar: Thanks for the link, am going to try that now |
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AzazeL
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| Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2002 5:24 am Post subject: hmm |
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| Nah that didnt help although it opened a number of other possibilties. If anybody else has any ideas they'll be greatly appreciated. |
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rac
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| Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2002 5:33 am Post subject: |
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What filesystem are you untarring into? If it's a journalling filesystem, could the journal be messed up?
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AzazeL
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| Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2002 5:33 am Post subject: filesystem |
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| an ext2 partition |
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rac
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| Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2002 5:45 am Post subject: |
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...and are you untarring from the CD, or from the hard disk, using a tarball downloaded from the network? What does 'top' show about CPU usage once the untar process seems to hang? (if that's not available in your environment, never mind).
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| Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2002 7:56 am Post subject: |
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| I am untarring from the CD but I have tried from my HDD as well. And yes its the standard tarballs from the standard iso. And no 'top' isnt available in my environment. |
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quantus
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| Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2002 9:16 am Post subject: Re: Untar freeze |
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| AzazeL wrote: | | ...the file it stops at seems to change whenever i try and has no pattern... |
When you say the system doesn't freeze, how are you verifying this? Are you switching to another virtual term and typing commands?
In all honesty, the randomness of the problems reminds me of a compiling issue I had a few years back... turned out to be a intermittent sick of el cheapo ram
I would run a ram checker just for sanity if nothing else... I believe www.memtest86.com was the one I used... |
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AzazeL
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| Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2002 12:07 am Post subject: Freezing |
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| I try to input a number of basic commands, however none of them work. What is interesting though is I am able to ctrl+alt+del out of the install so it musnt be totally frozen. I have left it to run for awhile and there has been so success so i will try your ram test thanks. |
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