[Serusers] Re: Help - ser won't start while installing

[Dana Olson]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:37:53 -0500, Dana Olson <rickaster at gmail.com> wrote:
> I downloaded the 0.8.14 Debian packages and tried installing them.
> 
> I know that they work, since they worked fine on my other system, but
> this one (which is almost identical, save for the NIC) doesn't work.
> 
> Here is what happens in the console:
> 
> # dpkg -i ser_0.8.14_i386.deb
> Selecting previously deselected package ser.
> (Reading database ... 10117 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking ser (from ser_0.8.14_i386.deb) ...
> Setting up ser (0.8.14) ...
> Restarting ser: ser
> 
> It just hangs there forever. I checked the end of /var/log/messages
> but there are no messages from ser there.
> 
> I would try reinstalling Debian from scratch, but the server itself is
> in another country, and I'm trying to install SER remotely over SSH.
> 
> I've tried rebooting which didn't help (although I didn't expect it would).
> 
> I searched on Google and the closest thing I could find was invalid
> syntax in the ser.cfg script, but this is the initial package
> install...
> 
> Please, please help me out.
> 
> --
> Dana



Okay, so if I hit CTRL+C to abort that, I get tossed back to the command prompt.

I checked the package lists against another system that is working
fine, and they are identical (aside from SER, since it won't fully
install).

If I try reinstalling SER, and this time if I try doing an strace dpkg
-i pkgname, I get this:

write(4, "#padding\n#padding\n#padding\n#padd"..., 4096) = 4096
write(4, "padding\n#padding\n#padding\n#paddi"..., 512) = 512
_llseek(4, 0, [0], SEEK_SET)            = 0
write(4, "Package: ser\nStatus: install ok "..., 1198) = 1198
ftruncate(4, 1198)                      = 0
fsync(4)                                = 0
close(4)                                = 0
munmap(0x40014000, 4096)                = 0
rename("/var/lib/dpkg/updates/tmp.i", "/var/lib/dpkg/updates/0009") = 0
open("/var/lib/dpkg/updates/tmp.i", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666) = 4
fcntl64(4, F_GETFD)                     = 0
fcntl64(4, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)         = 0
fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS,
-1, 0) = 0x40014000
write(4, "#padding\n#padding\n#padding\n#padd"..., 4096) = 4096
write(4, "padding\n#padding\n#padding\n#paddi"..., 512) = 512
_llseek(4, 0, [0], SEEK_SET)            = 0
stat64("/var/lib/dpkg/info/ser.postinst", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755,
st_size=2609, ...}) = 0
fork()                                  = 882
rt_sigaction(SIGQUIT, {SIG_IGN}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_IGN}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
wait4(882, Restarting ser: ser

And that's where it sits.... For a long, long time. Probably forever,
if I let it go that long, but I figure an hour at a time is long
enough.

So, if I try to CTRL+C out of that and then just run strace ser, I get
this and then it hangs:

0) = 0x40026000
old_mmap(0x40027000, 7968, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40027000
close(3)                                = 0
open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY)        = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\30\222"...,
1024) = 1024
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1153784, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS,
-1, 0) = 0x40029000
old_mmap(NULL, 1166560, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x4002a000
mprotect(0x4013d000, 40160, PROT_NONE)  = 0
old_mmap(0x4013d000, 24576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0x113000) = 0x4013d000
old_mmap(0x40143000, 15584, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40143000
close(3)                                = 0
munmap(0x40014000, 7662)                = 0
brk(0)                                  = 0x81d9878
brk(0x81d99f8)                          = 0x81d99f8
brk(0x81da000)                          = 0x81da000
open("/etc/ser/ser.cfg", O_RDONLY)      = 3
open("/dev/random", O_RDONLY)           = 4
read(4,


Does anyone know what's going on? Please help me...

--
Dana