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Bug#277356: base-config: apt-setup loops in the mirror_dir function



Christian Perrier wrote:
> This was found by testing a semi-automated install with yesterday's
> (20041018) sid_d-i businesscard image.
> 
> The kernel command line prompt was:
> 
>     append initrd=24-i386.gz ramdisk_size=16384 devfs=mount,dall root=/dev/rd/0 init=/linuxrc rw preseed/url=http://192.168.7.1/~bubulle/preseed/unstable-o.cfg
> 
> The unstable-o preseed file is at the end of this mail.
> 
> (testing needs changing the proxy setting)
> 
> The language was *Arabic*, the country was the default one (Egypt) and the
> keyboard was fr-latin9 (not easy to choose in Arabic..:-)

> 
> In 2nd stage it finally appears that apt-setup is "hanged" and the culprit
> is a "perl -ne 	BEGIN { $/="\n\n"; $type=shift....." process which belongs
> to the mirror_dir function.
 
mirror_dir is only run if you do manual mirror entry. I assume that
you've somehow gotten base-config to loop through manual mirror entry
repeatedly with your preseeding. Are you sure you were not using
critical priority?

-- 
see shy jo

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