[CentOS] Performing post-installation setup tasks - for 75 minutes

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Gary Stainburn wrote:
> 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?

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

<ctrl-alt-F2> and see what journal or messages or dmesg have to say.

      mark