Chaskiel M Grundman wrote: > It appears to be reproducible if I install from debian.mirrors.pair.com > (which I had chosen explicitly, since it's nearby), but not from whatever > ftp.us.debian.org got me. > > Here's the output: > > > Starting Setting up klogd (1.4.1-10) ... > Stopping kernel log daemon: klogd > Waring: Fake start-stop-daemon called, doing nothing > . > Starting kernel log daemon: klogd > Warning: Fake start-stop-daemon called, doing nothing > . > Setting up libtextwrap1 (0.1-1) ... > > Setting up tasksel (1.44) ... > > Get:1 http://debian.mirrors.pair.com sarge/main Packages [2780kB] > Get:2 http://debian.mirrors.pair.com sarge/main release [81B] > Fetched 2780kB in 32s (86.7kB/s) > Reading Package Lists... Hmm, that mirror could be out of date, at least it has not updated yet today for some reason. However, the install shouldn't just crah out like it does. I wish that we had a better method for getting logs off the machine. If you have some reasonable way available to do so (a floppy, save to disk and mail them from a different installation, etc), then you could try this trick which would gather a lot more info and probably track it down: At the disk partitoner, switch to the second virtual console, use nano to edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/base-installer.postinst, and insert a new line "set -x" at the top, after the first line. Then reproduce the problem, and then there should be a nice informative trace in /var/log/messages that I'd love to see. -- see shy jo
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