Installation freezes at "Configuring Infrared Devices"

[QA_manager]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

These are the logs for bug 543801; I couldn't get Launchpad to find it, so my only option was to create a new bug.

MythBuntu 10.04 Beta 1, installing a 'Primary Backend' only (and of course no remote control) hangs at 82%, every time I install.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Mar 22 20:47:33 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
LiveMediaBuild: Mythbuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta i386 (20100318)
Package: ubiquity 2.2.5
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-16.25-generic
SourcePackage: ubiquity
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-16-generic i686

[QA_manager (no-cats2000)]

(Copying my comments from the original defect, #543801):

Installing Mythbuntu 10.04 Beta 1. I am installing a standalone Backend, which doesn't have a remote control (no surprise there). Installation goes fine up to the 82% mark, then hangs displaying "Configuring Infrared Devices". This is on a system that runs 9.04 just fine. I tried the daily build a week ago (13 March) and it had the exact same bug, but I didn't know where to report daily build bugs.

Since this one will prevent just about anyone from building a Primary Backend, I think it should be a pretty high priority to fix.

If you have a daily build that you think fixes this and you would like me to test, please let me know.

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

Interestingly enough I tried to reproduce using your same inputs and a
recent daily build but couldn't. But that doesn't seem right - nothing has
changed in the recent daily builds that should cause such behaviors.

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 19:37, QA_manager <email address hidden> wrote:

> (Copying my comments from the original defect, #543801):
>
> Installing Mythbuntu 10.04 Beta 1. I am installing a standalone Backend,
> which doesn't have a remote control (no surprise there). Installation
> goes fine up to the 82% mark, then hangs displaying "Configuring
> Infrared Devices". This is on a system that runs 9.04 just fine. I tried
> the daily build a week ago (13 March) and it had the exact same bug, but
> I didn't know where to report daily build bugs.
>
> Since this one will prevent just about anyone from building a Primary
> Backend, I think it should be a pretty high priority to fix.
>
> If you have a daily build that you think fixes this and you would like
> me to test, please let me know.
>
> --
> Installation freezes at "Configuring Infrared Devices"
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/544711
> You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
> Installer Team, which is subscribed to ubiquity in ubuntu.
>

--
Mario Limonciello
<email address hidden>

[Evan (ev)]

Moved to mythbuntu. Mario, if you'd prefer I don't do this in the future, do let me know.

[QA_manager (no-cats2000)]

I tried with today's daily build and got the same result. I left it sitting at 'Configuring Infrared Devices' for about six hours and it never went past that.

The system is pretty common, an ASUS K8NE Deluxe motherboard with an PC-HDTV tuner card.

[MarcRandolph (mrand)]

QA_manager: I see the other bug has the steps you took to reproduce this. Could you try varying those responses? For example, on step #2, use a simple password, and/or try not enabling VNC (to make sure that part of Bug 363153 hasn't reappeared)?

Also, could you try not doing step #1 and if it succeeds, add the service after the install completes? If you have that bug number handy, it would be nice to check the status of it

Thank you!

[QA_manager (no-cats2000)]

I ran it again, taking almost all of the defaults. I made these selections:
 - I entered my name and a password
 - I entered a name for the system (rather than taking the default)
 - I did not change the services at all - so I left Samba installed, did not install VNC, and did not install the MythTV service. Does this remove the need for your suggestion of entering a password?
 - I told it to use the entire drive for installation (rather than taking the default)

Installation ran to 'Configuring Infrared Devices' and hung there.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package mythbuntu-live-autostart - 0.40-0ubuntu1

---------------
mythbuntu-live-autostart (0.40-0ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * Set the replaced file for background to be in
    /usr/share/images/mythbuntu (LP: #550088)
  * Ubiquity remote plugin:
    - Redirect stdin/stdout/stderr while running the lirc generation.
      (LP: #544711)
  * Merge with the ubiquity slideshow for ubuntu.
  * debian/control:
    P/C/R for ubiquity-slideshow.
  * Drop all the svg -> png conversion. Just ship pngs.
  * Rerender all pngs that are shipped.
  * Update all html pages to load images as exact size.
  * Update all html pages to use the new header div and wrap content better.
  * Override the css to not overflow on lists.
  * Add an icon to the documentation page.
 -- Mario Limonciello <email address hidden> Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:37:21 -0500

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

Hopefully that above commit to mythbuntu-live-autostart helps. I couldn't reproduce your scenario, but looking over the logs it seemed like debconf was getting interrupted by the stdout from mythbuntu-lirc-generator.
I tried to block stdout/stdin/stderr from being processed at that time, which looked liked where it was hanging.

If you still have problems on tomorrow (or later) media which should contain mythbuntu-live-autostart, please follow those same steps you used to file this bug by running ubiquity in debug mode again (ubiquity -d) and uploading logs using ubuntu-bug (ubuntu-bug ubiquity).

Thanks!

[QA_manager (no-cats2000)]

Yes, today's build installed; thank you!

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

Great! Thanks for helping out to get the logs we needed to fix it. Feel
free to file more bugs like that in the future :)

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 19:16, QA_manager <email address hidden> wrote:

> Yes, today's build installed; thank you!
>
> --
> Installation freezes at "Configuring Infrared Devices"
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/544711
> You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
> Installer Team, which is subscribed to ubiquity in ubuntu.
>

--
Mario Limonciello
<email address hidden>