Re: Infinite loop entering PCI Bus Ident during debconf of X
Kent West wrote:
I'm doing an install of Sid on a Blue&White G3. After doing the base
install, I then ran "apt-get install x-window-system". After a while I
was presented with the debconf screen to enter the PCI Bus Identifier
for my video card (screen labeled "Configuring Xserver-sfree86"). The
default is
PCI:0:16:0
I've left it at the default (as well as changing it in various ways,
such as PCI:0:10:0 and PCI:0:16.0 and PCI:0:16 and PCI:0:16: and 0:16:0,
etc) and then the next screen comes up and tells me to enter the bus in
the proper format. I click on OK, and the cycle begins all over again.
Even if the default numbers are wrong, it should be in the proper
format, so I shouldn't be getting the screen telling me to put it in the
proper format. This appears to be a bug in debconf, but thought I'd ask
about it here first.
Yep, I'd call it a bug.
I Ctrl-C'd out of the setup and reran "apt-get install x-window-system"
to get back to the start of configuring X, and this time told it to not
manage X with debconf. The installation completed (of course leaving
things broken).
Then I ran "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86", and this time when it
asked for the PCI bus identifier, instead of entering
PCI:0:16:0
like the default, i entered
PCI:00:16:00
which worked.
Go figure.
Kent
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