Bug#328858: Installation report
hristian Mack wrote:
Hi Garrett
Please don't reply to me in private.
All information belonging to this problem should go to your
installation-reports bug which is reached with <328858@bugs.debian.org> as
email address.
Sorry, I forgot to check the address I was replying to.
1) I will try to switch to consoles 3 and 4 during the default install
when I can get a chance - I am at work now.
OK, we'll see then.
I'll return to this issue on my next install.
2) I did try to install via expert26, and was able to partition the
hard drive with no problems. Install then failed after configuring
apt, while trying to download and install packages.
I could properly configure apt; after selecting a mirror (kernel.org
and debian.org were both successful, using both http and ftp), apt
...
If I select any package sets and the option to manually select
packages, the same stall occurs. If I only select the option to
manually choose packages, deselecting all other options on the list,
aptitude loads with no packages selected, and I'm not sure what
packages I need to choose to have a working, basic desktop system.
A correction: I was able to proceed by selecting only "Standard
system". The culprit is "Desktop environment." Googling pulled up a
small mention of a similar problem on wiki.debian.net:
http://wiki.debian.net/?DebianInstallerToday, under "Current issues"
for 16 Sept.: "the "desktop" task is broken for etch (testing)". I
didn't find any other mention of a related problem, but I didn't look
for very long.
So you got problems in 2nd stage with 2.6 packages downloading.
Did you use a mirror listed in [1] http://www.debian.org/mirror/list?
I used mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ and debian.org, using both ftp and
http, selected through the installer. Trying other mirrors going down
the list this morning all provide the same error.
To try to make sure it wasn't a particular error with apt on my system
and network, I installed Ubuntu 5.04 and 5.10 - both installed fine
and were able to apt-get install any packages I needed. From the
Debian console in my broken install, I was able to apt-get install
lynx successfully.
It's not necessarily a problem on your side.
It could also be an archive problem (perhaps a missing package), but I didn't
hear anything like that on the lists.
Could you check your /var/log/* files for errors too?
In base-config.log, I could read that error message which I previously
could not. It read:
"E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
E: Unable to correct dependencies, some packages cannot be installed.
E: Unable to resolve some dependencies.
Some packages had unmet dependencies. This means that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or
been moved out of Incoming.
kdegraphics: Depends: kamera (>=4:3.3.2-2) but it is not installable
tasksel: aptitude failed"
This was from yesterday's unsuccessful install. Trying again this
morning, I get the same error message, but now with dozens more broken
packages - kdepim, gnome-desktop-environment, openoffice.org-bin,
kde-core, kdenetwork, kde, kdemultimedia, kdeutils, kdegraphics,
kdeadmin, gnome and kdeartwork all fail due to broken dependencies,
each listing dependent packages that are not installable.
I tried to apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment from the command
line, which downloads and installs packages just fine until it hits xlibs:
"xlibs: Depends: libx11-6 but it is not installable
libx+6 but it is not installable"
I'll try the default install again to report on that partitioning error.
Thanks for your time and help.
~GG
Reply to: