Bug#308340: installation-reports

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

reassign 308340 ethdetect
retitle 308340 tolerate old versions of hw-detect in initrd without sysfs-update-devnames
tags 308340 pending
thanks

On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 05:39:22PM +0200, Davide Del Grande wrote:
> But the May, 08th 2005 snapshot gives me this error:
>  
> "An installation step failed. You can try to run the failing 
> step again from the menu, or skip it and choose something else.
> The failing step is: Detect Network hardware"
>  
> In the ALT-F4 console:
>  
> main-menu(393): process(4730): sysfs-update-devnames: not found
> main-menu(393): WARNING **: Configuring 'ethdetect' failed with error
> code 127
> main-menu(393): WARNING **: Menu item 'ethdetect' failed.

Thanks for your report. The CD image you were using has a new ethdetect,
but an old version of hw-detect in the initrd. I'd forgotten that this
kind of desynchronisation was possible.

Fixed in Subversion trunk.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]