Hangs after configuring timezone

[Tormod Volden]

Espresso hangs after I have gone back and forward a little, after configuring the time zone. The GUI is not responding or redrawing. From ps aux:
 7060 ? S 0:00 gksudo --desktop file:///home/ubuntu/Desktop/espresso-gtkui.desktop espresso gtkui
 7488 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/bin/debconf-communicate -fnoninteractive espresso
 7061 ? Ss 0:04 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/espresso gtkui
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo strace -p 7061
Process 7061 attached - interrupt to quit
waitpid(7488, <unfinished ...>
Process 7061 detached
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo strace -p 7488
Process 7488 attached - interrupt to quit
read(0, <unfinished ...>
Process 7488 detached
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$

Only process 7060 (gksudo) is busy, see attachment to follow.

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

Other than this, the CPU is 98% idle.

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

Maybe interesting how the last timestamp is 2 hours off the others (I am in timezone +2). Is anything in the code depending on the time?

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

This log has some Tracebacks.

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

(there must be fifty ways to hang espresso). Again, by going back and forth, changing timezones and keyboard layout, it ended up hanging just after I have tried the layout by entering some text in the layout test-field.

I discovered the / fs was full, because syslog, messages and user.log in /var/log were filling up with messages like this:

Apr 22 11:12:00 ubuntu kbd-chooser[8296]: INFO: default_keymap: check: at
Apr 22 11:12:00 ubuntu kbd-chooser[8296]: INFO: default_keymap: check: usb
Apr 22 11:12:00 ubuntu kbd-chooser[8296]: INFO: default_keymap: not found
Apr 22 11:12:00 ubuntu kbd-chooser[8296]: INFO: keymap_ask: no default map!
Apr 22 11:12:00 ubuntu kbd-chooser[8296]: INFO: default_keymap: have arch: <empty>
Apr 22 11:12:00 ubuntu kbd-chooser[8296]: INFO: default_keymap: check: at
Apr 22 11:12:00 ubuntu kbd-chooser[8296]: INFO: default_keymap: check: usb
Apr 22 11:12:00 ubuntu kbd-chooser[8296]: INFO: defroot@ubuntu:/var/log#

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Thanks, the last log was perfect. All the crashes there (apart from the last, due to running out of space on /) were due to a single class of bugs in the keyboard selector, for which I've now committed a fix. The workaround in the beta release is to select a country for which a default keyboard selection is available. :-(

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

ubiquity (0.99.63) dapper; urgency=low

  * Additional base build-dependencies need to go in d-i/update-control to
    survive 'debian/rules update'. Add python-kde3-dev there.
  * Fix 'debian/rules build' to notice when kdepyuic fails.
  * Fix crash in keyboard selector if no keyboard is selected (closes:
    Malone #40658).
  * Remove ubiquity/frontend/liveinstaller.py on clean.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 13:12:31 +0100