Why does preupg assistant stuck at HAL running task?

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Issue

  • The preupg assistant cannot finish to provide a report for a possible upgrade from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 to 7.1
  • The strace shows this
write(1, "102/132 ...running (Obsoleted HA"..., 63102/132 ...running (Obsoleted HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer))) = 63
stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2960, ...}) = 0
write(7, "2015-10-12 15:09:30,668 INFO xcc"..., 73) = 73
read(3, "xccdf_preupg_rule_system_hal_che"..., 8192) = 42
read(3,

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7
  • preupgrade assistant

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