Bug#552042: install fails on ThinkPad w500
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: CD
Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/
Date: Oct. 22, 2009 11:15 am EST
Machine: Lenovo Thinkpad w500
Processor: Intel
Memory: 4 G
Partitions:
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot: [ ]
Detect network card: [ ]
Configure network: [ ]
Detect CD: [ ]
Load installer modules: [ ]
Detect hard drives: [ ]
Partition hard drives: [ ]
Install base system: [ ]
Clock/timezone setup: [ ]
User/password setup: [ ]
Install tasks: [ ]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Overall install: [ ]
Comments/Problems:
I am trying to install Debian using the Debian installer testing daily
build from 10-20-2009. I keep getting the following error continuously
scrolling on the screen after selecting expertgui.
commandline read: debconf
Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_drawable_set_colormap: assertion `cmap == NULL ||
gdk_drawable_get_depth (drawable) == cmap->visual->depth' failed
caught signal 11 (at 0x28, invalid address) <--
I don't have all of the details on the error message since it gives me a
headache to try and copy everything from the scrolling screen but I
copied most of the error.
The w500 has integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD
graphics and a discrete ATI Mobility FireGL V5700. The graphics is OS
selectable but I have turned the OS selectable off in the BIOS because I
have seen others say it confuses Linux. I have set the graphics to the
discrete ATI since that is what I intend to use and I thought it would
be better to be using that during the install to get everything detected
correctly.
I rebooted and installed using expert mode without graphical and I was able to install.
The install recognized that I had windows XP already installed on a partition but it
didn't put it in grub.
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