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Subject: installation-reports: AMD64 install fails after package selection
w/ termwrap not found
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Package: installation-reports
Severity: important
(severity "important" as a compromise -- I'd mark it "grave" if I
thought all current installs would run into this, but I have no
idea at all whether that's true, and in fact suspect it isn't since
I'd expect some other reports by now.)
Boot method: Etch Netinstall CD
Image version: 2006-01-11 snapshot (I know, it's three weeks
old, but I successfully used this snapshot to install
on this same machine several times previously)
Date: 2006-02-02 2200 ET (-0500)
Machine: homebuilt
Processor: AMD64 3800 Venice
Memory: 2 GB Corsair CAS2
Partitions: (table not available, since I can't send this from
that machine; but heavily partitioned, with /, swap,
and /tmp as primary partitions, and six other partitions
including /var, /usr, /home, and /root32 for a 32-bit
chroot as logical partitions on a 250 GB SATA 3GB/s
drive)
Output of lspci and lspci -n: not available, since I can't
send this from that machine. Cards installed on
that machine are nVidia 6800GS on PCI-E, and
Creative SB Live 5.1 on PCI.
Drive configuration:
IDE0 -- LiteOn DVD-ROM master, WD 1200JB 120GB HD slave
IDE1 -- WD 1200JB 120GB HD master, WD 800JB 80GB HD slave
SATA -- WD 2500KS 250GB HD
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot worked: [O]
Configure network HW: [O]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O]
Create file systems: [O]
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system: [O]
Install boot loader: [E]
Reboot: [E]
Comments/Problems:
Problem #1 came on the reboot -- the Grub menu came up fine,
but booting the kernel failed with a Grub error 17. This I had
to solve by going to the Grub command line. The problem ended
up being that when menu.lst was written and Grub was installed,
the SATA drive (on which the operating system was installed)
was identified as (hd3) (the three IDE drives got (hd0) through
(hd2)), so the "root" line in Grub's menu.lst identified the
root partition as (hd3,0). However, when actually run during the
reboot, the SATA drive got associated with (hd0), with the IDE
drives going to (hd1) through (hd3). As a result, it couldn't
find the kernel, since menu.lst specified it as being on (hd3)
and it wasn't; it was on (hd0) at that point. So I had to specify
root, kernel and initrd by hand from the Grub command line.
Booting then worked.
Problem #2 was a showstopper: during the second half of the install,
after using what looks like the current incarnation of tasksel to pick
stuff to install, I got configuration questions about those packages
(e.g. exim configuration stuff). Then, at the point where it'd
presumably start installing and configuring all the packages it had
fetched, my screen flooded with a zillion instances of:
/bin/sh: /usr/sbin/termwrap: No such file or directory
/bin/sh: line 0: exec: /usr/sbin/termwrap: cannot execute: No such file
or directory
followed by one instance of:
INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes.
after which the console just sat there.
According to apt-file, termwrap is in base-config; and according
to the most recent version of base-config in the etch mirrors,
base-config is in the process of being phased-out and termwrap
isn't in it anymore. But something still is calling it . . .
Advice on how to proceed with install much appreciated.
-c
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Subject: Re: Bug#351244: installation-reports: AMD64 install fails after
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On Sunday 05 February 2006 03:54, cmetzler@speakeasy.net wrote:
> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/amd64/
>iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso
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> on 2006-01-11.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That image is probably just too old! If you are going to use daily built
images and run into problems, please try downloading the current image
before reporting errors!!!!!!
They are not called daily builds for nothing. Things change.
Also please check the status page we maintain for daily builds:
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstallerToday
> > FYI: I tested an installation using current daily AMD64 netboot image
> > (installing testing) and had no problems.
>
> I've downloaded the same and am about to try it.
Better just download the _current_ daily netinst image.
Closing this report. Feel free to file a new one based on the new image.
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