Bug#189058: base-installer segfaults during install

["Chris Tillman" <tillman@voicetrak.com>]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 09:49:13PM -0400, Joe Nahmias wrote:
> Package: base-installer
> Version: 0.020 (from /var/lib/dpkg/status.udeb); reported 2003-04-14
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> Hello,
> 
> After working around previously reported bugs (189054 and 186443), when
> I try to install the base system, base-installer gets a Segmentation
> fault.  Here is the output as best I can reproduce it (ie. modulo typos,
> etc..):
> 
> ===========
> Prompt: 1 - 22> 16
> P: 0 100 Downloading Release file
> I: Retrieving http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/Release
> P: 0 100 Downloading Release file
> P: 100 100 Downloading Release file
> I: Validating /target/debootstrap.invalid_dists_sarge_Release
> P: 100 100 Downloading Release file
> P: 0 8040907 Downloading Packages files
> I: Retrieving http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/main/binary-i386/Pakcages.gz
> Segmentation fault
> base-installer's postinst exited with status 35584
> installer[44]: Configuring 'base-installer' failed with error code 256
> installer[44]: Menu item 'base-installer' failed.
> ===========
> 
> Any ideas?

I believe debootstrap uses wget to download. Can you wget files
manually? Trying to pin down whether wget is segfaulting or 
debootstrap. You might be able to add options to wget to make it 
verbose. You can add --verbose to the debootstrap call.

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