[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Bug#244294: Installation report for Sparcstation 10 (netboot, serial console)



Jurij Smakov wrote:
> [1] One minor problem which I encountered is triggered, when the chosen
>     mirror is bad (in my case the mirror I have chosen did not carry sparc
>     packages). I was then presented by a screen with an informational
>     message and three options: "Retry", "Change mirror", and "Cancel".
>     When choosing "Cancel", I was returned back to the very same screen
>     (does not seem correct), but I was able to get out using the
>     "Change mirror" option.

This is fixed in net-retriever version 0.33.

> [2] A more serious problem occured after reboot. Even though I was installing
>     over a serial console, installer failed to recognize it, it seems. It
>     activated the usual 6 virtual consoles, however failed to activate
>     one for a serial port. As a result after the completion of configuration
>     I received a bunch of messages from init about getty respawning too
>     quickly and was left without a working console to login. Booting manually
>     with init=/bin/sh and editing inittab to start an mgetty on a serial
>     console fixed the problem.

I think this has probably been fixed by prebaseconfig 0.60. joshk?

> One more minor quirk which I've noticed is an error message from apt-setup
> (package base-config). The problem is the code snippet from it around line
> 326:
> 
>                    if [ -n $COUNTRY ]; then
>                      db_set apt-setup/country $COUNTRY
>                    fi
> 
> For multi-word country names (like US, for example) this will produce an error:
> 
> /usr/sbin/apt-setup: line 326: [: United: binary operator expected
> 
> The correct way is to surround references to $COUNTRY by quotes. I'll file
> a bug about it for base-config.

Thanks, that has been fixed.

-- 
see shy jo

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: Digital signature


Reply to: