Re: 3 days until end of test period
On (18/03/05 06:47), Sven Luther wrote:
> Package: debian-installer
> severity: grave
>
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 12:34:33AM -0500, Rick_Thomas wrote:
> > I tried it on a 350MHz G4 PowerMac (NewWorld) at the office. All went
> > well except for one strangeness. Since the same thing happened on my
> > beige G3 last night, I'm curious if anyone else has seen it?
>
> Cool
>
> > Last night I thought it was just a glitch -- the beige G3 hardware is
> > sometimes a little flaky. But now I'm not so sure. The G4 machine has
> > always been solid as a rock, hardware-wise.
> >
> > The weirdness is this:
> >
> > Installing with the 2.6.8 kernel (single processor version, if it
> > matters) The initial reboot goes just fine, and drops me into tasksel,
> > where I select "print server", and "desktop environment". All the
> > installation and setup stuff goes as expected, but when everything is
> > over and I try to log out, I never get a "login:" prompt or a Gnome
> > login window. If I switch to another virtual console (alt-F2) and try
> > to login there it accepts my login and password, but I never get a shell
> > prompt.
>
> I had this also, but a reboot solved it.
>
> > I had to go to another machine and do "ssh root@box /sbin/reboot"
> > because using "slogin root@box" got me the point where I enter my root
> > password, then the same hang as I saw on the second virtual console.
> >
> > Sound familiar? What am I doing wrong?
>
> Don't know once is a coincidence, but 3 times is a problem, which i believe is
> RC. We should fill a bug, but i don't know what package to fill it at, let's
> say the installer for now.
>
I tested the installer yesterday (G4 450 Dual) but chose manual
installation of packages rather than tasksel and didn't experience
anything untoward.
Regards
Clive
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