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  • Bug#959221: [hurd] install UI slow to point of unusable, even text UI f

    From Samuel Thibault@21:1/5 to All on Sat Feb 6 10:50:01 2021
    XPost: linux.debian.bugs.dist

    Hello,

    Stephen Lyons, le sam. 06 févr. 2021 02:30:43 +0000, a ecrit:
    However, now I have found #959221

    I have to admit I had never noticed that bug report, I don't know why.

    I have to say that trying to install
    onto a real machine with this later and different image does not seem
    any better. Some parts of the UI work acceptably fast but others, like
    around disk partitioning are dangerously unresponsive,

    That's odd, I had never seen such behavior, be it in virtual environment
    or bare metal. Since you mention disk partitioning, I would guess a bad interaction between the ahci disk driver and the disk device. Nothing I
    can work on personally since on my systems I don't have the issue. Are
    there timeout logs being printed?

    If you got to the second console with ctrl-alt-f2, and run there

    ps | grep R

    which processus show up?

    Samuel

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  • From Samuel Thibault@21:1/5 to All on Wed Feb 10 00:50:01 2021
    XPost: linux.debian.bugs.dist

    Stephen Lyons, le mar. 09 févr. 2021 23:32:00 +0000, a ecrit:
    So I have worked around the problem - which seems to be confined to the installer and is a nuisance

    So you mean that the installed system does not have the keyboard issue?
    That is very surprising since that is supposed to be about the same
    kernel. Which ISO image had you used exactly?

    Samuel

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  • From Samuel Thibault@21:1/5 to All on Tue Feb 9 09:40:01 2021
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    Stephen Lyons, le mar. 09 févr. 2021 05:12:01 +0000, a ecrit:
    <Ctrl>+A eventually toggles only between screen 1 (installer)

    It's not control+A alone, but control+A then space.

    However it seems like pretty much all key strokes seem to be piling up somehow in parts of the installation process.

    As I answered privately, possibly the BIOS emulates your USB keyboard
    into the PC keyboard in a surprising way. Not something that somebody
    without the hardware can easily debug, unfortunately.

    Samuel

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  • From Samuel Thibault@21:1/5 to All on Wed Feb 10 01:10:01 2021
    XPost: linux.debian.bugs.dist

    Stephen Lyons, le mar. 09 févr. 2021 23:52:43 +0000, a ecrit:
    If I refer you back to: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=959221#15 it was the
    Debian Sid DVD image: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/latest/hurd-i386/current/debian-sid-hurd-i386-DVD-1.iso
    which report that it is:
    "DVD Binary-1 20200731-17:45".

    Ok, sorry for the duplicate question. Could you try a more recent image
    such as

    https://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/installer/cdimage/daily/debian-sid-hurd-i386-NETINST-1.iso

    ?

    Samuel

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