Matt Price wrote: > still working on my preseed issue... I have a preseed file which is > available here: > http://www.racesci.org/LearningExchangeCD/preseed/learnexchange.seed > > It works fine till a point late in the installation which I have > trouble pinpointing precisely -- but I think somewhere after "copying > packages to disk" and before "creating users". The problem manifests > as an infinitely debian-installer loop -- d-i is started repeatedly, > dying ungracefully each time and then restarting in whichever console > is active (which makes it pretty much impossible to do any > console-level debugging -- the processes die and restart so quickly I > can't even read the output of ps, for instance). The syslog output is > also unreadable, and since grub isn't installed, I can't reboot and > identify the problem. > > I'm just wondering if anyone's seen this kind of problem before, or if > there are identifiable errors in my preseed file that make it clear > where my problem is. Thanks for the help, as always! If you're using the Ubuntu version of the Debian installer, please say so upfront and don't make me try to guess from reading your preseed file and/or problem description. I don't see anything obviously wrong with your preseed file. In general, only two things can cause the behavior you describe: 1. An installer bug that makes it go into a crash-loop. 2. Somehow running out of memory, which makes the kernel kill the installer and again, go into a loop. I can't be more specific since you're not using the installer this mailing list is here to support, and especially since the problem as described is during an ubuntu-specific part of the install. -- see shy jo
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