Bug#237169: install report: base system does not install for 20040308 installer

[Chaskiel M Grundman <cg2v@andrew.cmu.edu>]

--On Friday, March 12, 2004 23:43:53 -0500 Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
wrote:

>  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 [...]

ok. I've done so. I'm not sure how well the BTS deals with attachments, so
I'll include excerpts below as well as a link to the full logfiles.

http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~cg2v/debian/install-sarge-syslog-20040313
http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~cg2v/debian/install-sarge-messages-20040
313

/var/log/syslog is the more interesting file. The error that caused
base-installer.postinst to exit was this:

mv /target/var/lib/apt/lists/debootstrap.invalid_dists_sarge_Release 
 /target/var/lib/apt/lists/debian.mirrors.pair.com__dists_sarge_Release 
mv: unable to rename
`/target/var/lib/apt/lists/debootstrap.invalid_dists_sarge_Release': No
such file or directory 

The file does exist in the /target filesystem, but the script seems to have
umounted /target shortly before trying the mv.

Note that this install didn't get quite as far as the previous one. There's
no output from apt-get update on VC #3 this time.