Re: installation report - major breakage
[Goswin von Brederlow]
> I get past loading all installer modules from cdrom and then main menu
> comes up with "Start pcmcia services"(?) as default option.
>
> Selecting that sends /sbin/debian-installer into respawning, frontend
> seems to scan its menu fine but then fails to display or something.
Yes, this is bug #215403 (debconf_capb definition broken) crashing
main-menu. We discovered it last evening, but it was too late to fix
it for yesterdays archive update.
> I noticed that /sbin/debian-installer will be respawned on the active
> console, so when it dies while you watch alt-f4 it respawns on top of
> the debug messages.
I got around that using Ctrl-S in tty1 first, to stop the looping.
> We had a pretty well working set of udebs and images before. Why
> weren't they pushed into sarge as planed? Could one DD please get
> the last working image, extract the versions of udebs and upload
> those to sarge please.
We should have a working CD image stored somewhere, if I remember
correctly.
I've uploaded the updated cdebconf, and we need to rebuild/reupload
all packages using the debconf_capb() macro in the source to fix the
problem.
Anyone know why is the debconf_* macros are macros? If they were
library functions, it would have been sufficient to upload a new
cdebconf. They are not, so we need to rebuild. Would it be smarter
to convert them to real functions instead?
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