On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 02:35:37PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > The install boot loader phase seemed to "lock up" at the 33% stage > > [Installing GRUB Boot Loader / Determining GRUB Boot Device] The machine > > itself was NOT locked however, I could switch to a console and login with > > ssh if i tried doing a remote install in expert mode. > > The problem was 100% reproducable - I rebooted several times and it always > > stopped at the same place. > > Jan 30 16:30:18 debconf: --> SUBST grub-installer/with_other_os OS_LIST > > Microsoft Windows XP dition familiale <--- This is French XP Home with > > an acute accent on edition... > > Jan 30 16:30:18 debconf: Adding [OS_LIST] -> [Microsoft Windows XP > > dition familiale] > > Jan 30 16:30:18 debconf: <-- 0 > > Jan 30 16:30:18 debconf: --> PROGRESS STEP 1 > > Jan 30 16:30:18 debconf: <-- 0 OK > > Jan 30 16:30:18 debconf: --> PROGRESS INFO > > grub-installer/progress/step_bootdev > > Jan 30 16:30:18 debconf: <-- 0 OK > > Jan 30 16:30:18 debconf: --> INPUT high grub-installer/with_other_os > > Jan 30 16:30:18 debconf: <-- 0 question will be asked > > Jan 30 16:30:18 debconf: --> GO > > It appears the GO command to the installer UI never returned... > > (I wasn' asked any questions here as I should have been...) > Well it does look very much like it should have asked you that question > and the UI hung up instead. I suppose the French accent in the message > could have something to do with it, seems strange though. Were you > installing in French? Does it happen if you run the install in English? > Could you get a ps fax tree at this point? Colin Watson caught up with this bug on IRC the other night. It's caused by something in the stack not coping well with the text-with-accents that os-prober picks up on systems running XP French. The hypothesis was that cdebconf couldn't handle non-UTF8 text; if that's the case, then either the input needs to be sanitized when subbed into the db, or cdebconf needs to be more forgiving of non-UTF8 input. Since this is related to a string that's pulled verbatim from the disk containing the Windows install, the choice of d-i install language is not relevant here. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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