Bug#60180: Should detect previous installation attempt and explicitly ask for really installing over
severity 60180 normal
thanks
"János Holányi" <HOLANYIJ@westel900.hu> writes:
> Currently, if I install the drivers again from the driver floppies without
> reformatting the target partition, ("Installing Operating System and
> Modules" in the menu) then the next choice after loading and installing from
> drivers.tgz is "Make Linux Bootable", so I don't even get offered the chance
> to reconfigure the Device Driver Modules.
>
> The system should explicitly ask me if I want to reconfigure the modules
> (something like "Previous driver configuration was found. Do you want to
> reconfigure?), and then "Configure Network" and so on...
Fine, but this shouldn't be severity "critical".
> Moreover, if I manually choose Configure Device Driver Modules from the
> menu, strange things happen:
>
> 1. right after pressing Enter on "Configure Device...", a message like
>
> Mar 11 04:49:09 (none) user.info dbootstrap[30]: depmod: error reading ELF
> header: No such file or directory
>
> appears on tty3;
>
> 2. At the same time, on tty1 I get two error messages like:
>
> /target/bin/sed: error in loading shared libraries: /target/bin/sed:
> undefined symbol: _IO_stdout_
>
> 3. After I get the "Select Category" and I choose any category, I get the
> same errors ("/target/bin/sed: error in loading shared libraries:
> /target/bin/sed: undefined symbol: _IO_stdout_") uncountable many times, and
> the category sub-menu contains lines like:
>
> "- (No description available)"
This is a different bug... I wonder if this is modconf's fault or we
have a faulty sed?
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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