Re: [adam@onshore.com: Re: potato install hiccups]
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>> > I had to manually configure /etc/init.d/network, before I figured
>> > out the /etc/default/pump file.
>>
>> That was unnecessary. We are using /etc/network/interfaces;
>> /etc/init.d/networking invokes 'ifup -a' which understands that file.
>> So check there instead.
>I installed potato on three machines this week, on all of them the IP
>numbers, gateway, etc were in /etc/network/interfaces but the net did not
>quite work after reboot. Maybe because I missunderstood it? I used
>/etc/init.d/network start to bring up the net by hand, after editing the
>network file. You say we use the netowrk directory now, so maybe
>init.d/network should be removed to avoid confusion?
Yeah, it has been removed in 2.2.7 I think.
BTW, there have been a number of changes in 2.2.7 netconfig and fixes
in the netstd packages. I hope this has been fixed in 2.2.7.
>Also, one of the machines was a laptop with a PCMCIA network card. I never
>tried to use such a network card, found out later, that I have to put the
>network config in /etc/pcmcia? But it was by default in interfaces, it works
>way better if its entered in the pcmcia directory, insert the card and the
>net comes up, we were very impressed!
Yeah... it goes in a different place unfortunately. dbootstrap is
supposed to handle this. If it doesn't its a bug.
>> > Note, I did *not* configure /etc/hosts yet.
>> >
>> > This also causes problems later during dselect install. exim, mailx,
>> > logrotate and at all have problems since they can't get the hostname or
>> > fqdn. Once I had created the appropriate localhost and hostname info in
>> > /etc/hosts, those four packages installed clean.
>>
>> Hmm... I'll check on htis.
>I had no problem with that.
>
>> > The default message level for debconf is medium. Somehow that made it take
>> > the default answer for console-data, which was to use the azerty keyboard,
>> > rather than the more common? qwerty. That was fun.
>>
>> I believe that console-data is screwed. Please check that a bug is
>> already filed for this?
>Seems to be fixed in NMU now, but it did not work with a mirror from friday,
>nor monday and tuesday when installing from ftp.de.debian.org :-(
My testing with pre 2.2.7 shows this bug is fixed.
>I had another problem with gpm, the mouse detection froze, but gpm is not
>working properly anyway, many bugs look like the problems I had after
>upgrading to potato.
>The only problem which is still left is with xterm, but Branden is working
>on it I hope.
Huh, dunno what that is.
.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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