Re: Debian 12 installation on iMac G3

Hi Adrian,

In order to be able to reproduce, I started all over again. Using the same
CD (
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2023-06-18/debian-12.0.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso
), booted and performed the installation. Formatted all the partitions
clean.
I skipped the mirror stage and stick to CD-only installation.
Came again to the point where powerpc-ieee1275 is being installed and the
system hangs there, waiting for the process to finish.
Again, in the system console, I get this:

INFO: task grub-install:7444 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
      Not tainted 6.3.0-1-powerpc #1 Debian 6.3.7-1
...
...
(call trace comes here)

Is it something about this particular iMac model? What can I do?

Regards,


El vie, 11 oct 2024 a las 17:27, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz (<
[email protected]>) escribió:

> Hello Manuel,
>
> On Fri, 2024-10-11 at 15:17 +0200, Manuel Molina Cuberos wrote:
> > Thanks for the hint.
> > I toasted another CD with the image you suggested.
> > Launched the installation and everything was working up to the mirror
> selection stage.
> > I added one mirror (deb.debian.org) but from the error reported and the
> looks of the log,
> > it seems that the current contents of the mirror show an inconsistent
> situation for installing gcc-14.
>
> Just skip installing packages from the mirror and finish the installation.
>
> You can still set up the mirror to fetch updates once the machine is
> running.
>
> And, yes, gcc-14 was just updated on 32-bit PowerPC and you have probably
> just
> hit the update-in-progress package. That's just the problem when using
> unstable
> as the base for installing a machine.
>
> Adrian
>
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Un saludo,

     Manuel Molina Cuberos (deluxe_)