I am running Debian Wheezy XFCE 32 bit and the installer of OSMC is very slow. The moment I get to the network
page the installer freezes for up to 5 or 8 minutes before continue? Same at the end when finalizing the SD-card.
I tried a fresh install of Debian but no luck.
Any thoughts?
Finalising SD card takes some time as it is flushing buffers (likely writeback is on).
A log would be useful (check your home directory)
Enclosed logfile. I edited the links to the various download pages as only 2 links are allowed in my post!
Tue Feb 10 08:01:31 2015 OSMC Installer running on Linux
Tue Feb 10 08:01:31 2015 Detected locale as en_US
Tue Feb 10 08:01:31 2015 Attempting to load translation for locale en_US
Tue Feb 10 08:01:31 2015 Could not load translation!
Tue Feb 10 08:01:31 2015 Resolving a mirror
Tue Feb 10 08:01:31 2015 Resolved mirror to xxxxxxxxxxx/osmc/download/
Tue Feb 10 08:01:31 2015 Enumerating supported devices
Tue Feb 10 08:01:31 2015 Added the following devices
Tue Feb 10 08:01:31 2015 Raspberry Pi
Tue Feb 10 08:01:31 2015 Raspberry Pi 2
Tue Feb 10 08:01:31 2015 Checking for updates
Tue Feb 10 08:01:31 2015 Checking for updates by downloading xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/osmc/download//installers/latest_linux
Tue Feb 10 08:01:32 2015 Acquired mirror file
Tue Feb 10 08:01:32 2015 No new update is available
Tue Feb 10 08:01:38 2015 The user has selected English as their language
Tue Feb 10 08:01:38 2015 The user has selected Raspberry Pi as their device
Tue Feb 10 08:01:38 2015 Attempting to download device versions file http://173.255.206.49/osmc/download/installers/versions_RBP
Tue Feb 10 08:01:38 2015 Found a build called Alpha1
Tue Feb 10 08:01:38 2015 Found a build called Alpha2
Tue Feb 10 08:01:38 2015 Found a build called Alpha3
Tue Feb 10 08:01:38 2015 Found a build called Alpha4
Tue Feb 10 08:01:42 2015 The user has selected an online image for Raspberry Pi with build URL : xxxxxxxxxxx/osmc/download/installers/diskimages/OSMC_TGT_rbp_20150201.img.gz
Tue Feb 10 08:01:42 2015 Disabling internal install for device Raspberry Pi as it does not support it
Tue Feb 10 08:01:44 2015 SD installation selected
Tue Feb 10 08:01:45 2015 Running partprobe to inform operating system about partition table changes
Tue Feb 10 08:06:15 2015 Enumerating imageable devices for Linux
Tue Feb 10 08:06:27 2015 New disk device entry created with entry point /dev/sdb, 300.1GB free space and label
Tue Feb 10 08:06:27 2015 New disk device entry created with entry point /dev/sda, 32.0GB free space and label
Tue Feb 10 08:06:27 2015 New disk device entry created with entry point /dev/sdc, 7742MB free space and label
Tue Feb 10 08:06:35 2015 Device selected: 48 /dev/sdc 7742MB
Tue Feb 10 08:06:39 2015 GPLv2 licence has been accepted
Tue Feb 10 08:06:39 2015 Downloading xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/osmc/download/installers/diskimages/OSMC_TGT_rbp_20150201.img.gz
Tue Feb 10 08:06:45 2015 Extracting /home/kees/OSMC_TGT_rbp_20150201.img.gz
Tue Feb 10 08:06:49 2015 Finished extraction. Going to write image
Tue Feb 10 08:06:49 2015 Requesting confirmation from user
Tue Feb 10 08:06:52 2015 User confirmed
Tue Feb 10 08:06:52 2015 Unmounting /dev/sdc
Tue Feb 10 08:06:52 2015 Running partprobe to inform operating system about partition table changes
Tue Feb 10 08:11:22 2015 Writing /home/kees/OSMC_TGT_rbp_20150201.img to /dev/sdc
Tue Feb 10 08:12:31 2015 Running partprobe to inform operating system about partition table changes
Tue Feb 10 08:17:01 2015 Image successfully written to device
Tue Feb 10 08:17:01 2015 Deleting the uncompressed image to save space
Tue Feb 10 08:17:01 2015 Creating preseeder
Tue Feb 10 08:17:01 2015 Adding preseed stringd-i target/storage string sd
Tue Feb 10 08:17:01 2015 Adding preseed stringd-i network/interface string eth
Tue Feb 10 08:17:01 2015 Adding preseed stringd-i network/auto boolean true
Tue Feb 10 08:17:01 2015 Writing preseeder
Tue Feb 10 08:17:01 2015 Running partprobe to inform operating system about partition table changes
Tue Feb 10 08:21:31 2015 Mounting the first filesystem on /dev/sdc
Tue Feb 10 08:21:31 2015 Trying to umount before we are remounting and writing the preseed.
Tue Feb 10 08:21:31 2015 Unmounting /dev/sdc1
Tue Feb 10 08:21:31 2015 Running partprobe to inform operating system about partition table changes
Tue Feb 10 08:26:01 2015 Unmounting /dev/sdc
Tue Feb 10 08:26:01 2015 Running partprobe to inform operating system about partition table changes
Tue Feb 10 08:30:30 2015 Mounting /dev/sdc1 to /tmp/osmc_mnt
Tue Feb 10 08:30:30 2015 Filesystem is mounted
Tue Feb 10 08:30:30 2015 Writing the preseeder to filesystem
Tue Feb 10 08:30:30 2015 Finished. Syncing…
Tue Feb 10 08:30:31 2015 Unmount in any case…
Tue Feb 10 08:30:31 2015 Unmounting /dev/sdc1
Tue Feb 10 08:30:31 2015 Trying to unmount /dev/sdc1 at /tmp/osmc_mnt
Tue Feb 10 08:30:31 2015 Partition unmounted successfully, continuing!
Tue Feb 10 08:30:31 2015 Running partprobe to inform operating system about partition table changes
Tue Feb 10 08:35:01 2015 Final sync.
It looks like everything completed fine, so I’m not sure why it was slow. I’ll keep an eye out
Sam
Just for fun I installed Open Suse and there the installer works like a charm.
Does the installer for Debian check for dependencies?
Yes, but those dependencies may not be right.
That said, if they were wrong, the installer would not launch at all
What are the dependencies?