Performing Post-installation Setup Tasks – For 75 Minutes

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I’m doing a new install, and everything seems to have gone fine apart from the incredible amount of time it’s taken.

It does have 6 x 4TB drives in RAID6 and I am installing from a USB DVD drive as I had no SATA ports left, but this is getting rediculous.

I chose a simple install (the one above file and print server) and added PostgreSQL but that was about it.

It took over 5 hours to do the install and at 16:50 it changed to

Performing post-installation setup tasks. That was 85 minutes ago. The HDD
light keeps flashing, but other than that (and the circle swirling) there doesn’t seem to be any activity.

Is this normal and can I check to see if it is actually doing something?

4 thoughts on - Performing Post-installation Setup Tasks – For 75 Minutes

  • Gary Stainburn wrote:

    That is seriously excessive, esp. since even if selinux is relabelling everything, it’s a new system.

    and see what journal or messages or dmesg have to say.

    mark

  • Maybe you could try a network install and only use the USB DVD to boot. I
    remember similar issues while installing servers using remote iso to install via USB drive emulation with the servers management hardware.

    Regards, Simon

  • Hi Simon,

    I did consider that, but after it was too late. Having said that, when it was completing it’s post installation setup tasks, the DVD was not being used so I doubt it will have made any difference.

    I have no idea how long it took, but after 2+ hours of it saying performing post-install I got chucked out by security and went home.

    Thankfully, when I got in this morning it had completed successfully, and appears to be working fine and at normal speed after rebooting to complete the install

  • Thanks for this Pete. Last time I built a server of this size, I did it at the end of the day and went home. This time it was time critical as I’m replacing 2 dead servers, so I was doing it during the day and watching.

    It was just so frustrating at 7pm having seen the post-installation for over 2
    hours. Just out of interest it would have been nice to know exactly when it did happen, but we’ll never know.