Re: shell in debian-installer

["Bernhard R. Link" <brl@pcpool00.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de>]

* Tollef Fog Heen <tollef@add.no> [020924 01:34]:
> | When I try to start "3. Execute a shell" and pressing enter to get
> | behind the cdebconf-notice I get a 
> | "postinst exited with status 65280".
> 
> Did you build everything out of CVS or where did you
> get the packages from?

I build was is under debian-installer and got the others(kernel,ash,...) with
apt with the included sources.list.

The state of the unstable chroot I'm working in and the cvs used should
be that of the mid of last week.

> Sounds strange.  if you switch to vt2 and try the shell there, does it
> work properly?  

There I get a shell. While on vt1 I still get the 65536-256 exit status.

Now I'm completely confused.

But starting di-utils-shell.postinst works on vt2, too.
(Not that easy, this damn default keyboard-emulation of bochs seems to 
 have no key for '/' )

Running "debconf di-utils-shell.postinst" also works, but after
exiting the started shell it clears but the original shell is not
there. (I guess the redirection magic in di-... causes this)


Hochachtungsvoll,
	Bernhard R. Link
-- 
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