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broadcast9133

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Registered: 2025-11-04

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[SOLVED] Devuan 6 installation on VMware Workstation stuck

Good day all,
I am installing Devuan 6 on VMware Workstation 17.6.3 using the amd64 desktop image and am stuck on the final stage of installation where it says 'Running late-install-stage2' at the 'Finishing the installation stage' stage. Did not encounter any problems until this stage and the previous version, as well as Debian 13, installs fine.

kapqa

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Registered: 2019-01-02

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Re: [SOLVED] Devuan 6 installation on VMware Workstation stuck

you could try Vmware Workstation 25h2 if it makes any difference?

had however no luck with Kubuntu 25.10; it would install but then after login, just black screen.

broadcast9133

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Re: [SOLVED] Devuan 6 installation on VMware Workstation stuck

Still not working, same with VirtualBox, the live DVD does work though.

Last edited by broadcast9133 (2025-11-04 12:35:21)

mclien

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Registered: 2020-02-29

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Re: [SOLVED] Devuan 6 installation on VMware Workstation stuck

just to be sure: is that the point where you have to remove the install medium (guess that is to be done in VM/VirtualBox, too.)

rolfie

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Registered: 2017-11-25

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Re: [SOLVED] Devuan 6 installation on VMware Workstation stuck

Just performed an expert installation from the released netinstall on a VBox 7.0.26 efi, encrypted with LVM, no issues. After reboot installed Cinnamon via tasksel.

My conclusion: the media as supplied by Devuan seems to be fine. If you are stuck, I would check the checksums of you download first of all. Or there is a problem with your VMWare and/or VBox installation.

Last edited by rolfie (2025-11-04 21:11:22)

rbit

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Registered: 2018-06-12

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Re: [SOLVED] Devuan 6 installation on VMware Workstation stuck

I did test the desktop dvd with virtualbox (it works there for me) but not vmware.
Is this an online installation, or offline?
When it gets stuck on the late-install-stage2, are you able to press alt-f4 (or alt + right-arrow 3 times) and report back the last few lines of that output for debugging?

broadcast9133

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Re: [SOLVED] Devuan 6 installation on VMware Workstation stuck

Tried the netinstall, it got stuck at selecting which kernels to install.

The checksums in all cases do match.

My host is Windows 11 without Hyper-V or Core Isolation enabled

Going to Alt+F4 here is the log:

Nov  5 00:18:27 os-prober: debug: running /usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/20macosx on mounted /dev/sda2
Nov  5 00:18:27 macosx-prober: debug: /dev/sda2 is not an HFS+ partition: exiting
Nov  5 00:18:27 os-prober: debug: running /usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/20microsoft on mounted /dev/sda2
Nov  5 00:18:27 20microsoft: debug: /dev/sda2 is not a MS partition: exiting
Nov  5 00:18:27 os-prober: debug: running /usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/30utility on mounted /dev/sda2
Nov  5 00:18:27 30utility: debug: /dev/sda2 is not a FAT partition: exiting
Nov  5 00:18:27 os-prober: debug: running /usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/40lsb on mounted /dev/sda2
Nov  5 00:18:27 os-prober: debug: running /usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/70hurd on mounted /dev/sda2
Nov  5 00:18:27 os-prober: debug: running /usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/80minix on mounted /dev/sda2
Nov  5 00:18:27 os-prober: debug: running /usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/83haiku on mounted /dev/sda2
Nov  5 00:18:27 83haiku: debug: /dev/sda2 is not a BeFS partition: exiting
Nov  5 00:18:27 os-prober: debug: running /usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/90linux-distro on mounted /dev/sda2
Nov  5 00:18:28 os-prober: debug: running /usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/90solaris on mounted /dev/sda2
Nov  5 00:18:28 anna-install: Installing rtc-modules
Nov  5 00:18:28 finish-install: unknown udeb rtc-modules
Nov  5 00:18:28 hw-detect: modprobe: FATAL: Module rtc not found in directory /lib/modules/6.12.43+deb13-amd64
Nov  5 00:18:28 clock-setup: rtc module not loaded
Nov  5 00:18:28 hw-detect: modprobe: FATAL: Module rtc-dev not found in directory /lib/modules/6.12.43+deb13-amd64
Nov  5 00:18:28 clock-setup: rtc-dev module not loaded
Nov  5 00:18:29 clock-setup: hwclock: use --verbose, --debug has been deprecated.
Nov  5 00:18:30 finish-install: info: Running /usr/lib/finish-install.d/10open-iscsi
Nov  5 00:18:30 cdrom-detect: Unmounting and ejecting '/dev/sr0'
Nov  5 00:18:30 finish-install: info: Running /usr/lib/finish-install.d/15cdrom-detect
Nov  5 00:18:30 in-target: Reading package lists...
Nov  5 00:18:30 in-target: Building dependency tree...
Nov  5 00:18:30 in-target: Reading state information...
Nov  5 00:18:31 in-target: 
Nov  5 00:19:11 init: starting pid 708, tty '/dev/ttg2': '-/bin/sh'

broadcast9133

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Registered: 2025-11-04

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Re: [SOLVED] Devuan 6 installation on VMware Workstation stuck

After some troubleshooting, turns out it was because of a hung apt process. Forcefully terminating it will technically reboot, but the installed system retains a fake start-stop-daemon. Replacing it from the dpkg package would make it boot normally.

apt-get update
apt-get download dpkg
dpkg-deb -x dpkg_*.deb /root/real
cp -vf /root/real/usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon /usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon
chmod 755 /usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon
dpkg --configure -a
apt-get install --fix-broken

BlueDev

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Registered: 2025-11-07

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Re: [SOLVED] Devuan 6 installation on VMware Workstation stuck

Can confirm this fix from broadcast9133 also works on Linux host system running libvirt and qemm.

Also, this solution is MUCH APPRECIATED!

cranium

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Registered: 2025-11-11

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Re: [SOLVED] Devuan 6 installation on VMware Workstation stuck

The fix given above by Broadcast9133 worked for me as it had got stuck at late stage2 message during ithe nstall on virtualbox. Only one thing though. I had to edit the
/etc/apt/sources.list
file to comment out the first line concerning the cdrom fas I had chosen to use a network mirror. Rebooted afterwards and logged into xfce ok.

BlueDev

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Registered: 2025-11-07

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Re: [SOLVED] Devuan 6 installation on VMware Workstation stuck

To anyone having trouble getting their excalibur to "wake-up" (come out of suspend mode).  This may be helpful:

https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=51609#p51609

    Try the following; in /etc/elogind/sleep.conf.d directory create the file 20-suspend.conf with the following contents

    [Sleep]
    SuspendMode=deep

    and reboot.

Can affirm that this fix worked on my virtual machine installation