[SailfishDevel] Installation trouble with the SDK
Ove Kåven
ovek at arcticnet.no
Thu Dec 11 12:56:01 UTC 2014
On 11. des. 2014 10:06, kim at foder.dk wrote:
> The fact that the installation hangs (and freezes the desktop) at "Generating keys" and the entropy pool is very low, made me believe there was a connection.
Well, no. Running out of entropy should never freeze the desktop. (If it
did, that would be a DoS-class operating system bug.)
>> The symptoms sound more like what would happen if there was too much
>> I/O, too many programs running, too much memory used, and perhaps too
>> much swap space: the system would start swapping so heavily it would
>> become totally unresponsive.
>
> This is of course the first things I checked: Lots of memory free (> 2G), no disk access at all when installation hangs, 2 programs running system-monitor & installation.
In that case, the only other things *I* can think of that might freeze
the desktop are some problem with the X server (perhaps unlikely), or
some problem with the virtual machines. Virtualization involves both the
kernel and the CPU, and thus might hang your machine if it doesn't work
right. Does your virtualbox work at all with your new kernel?
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