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Re: 3 days until end of test period



On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 03:02:27PM +0100, Simon Huerlimann wrote:
> On Friday 18 March 2005 06.34, Rick_Thomas wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 03:13, Rick_Thomas wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 11:36, Holger Levsen wrote:
> 
> <snip/>
> 
> > Last night I thought it was just a glitch -- the beige G3 hardware is
> > sometimes a little flaky.  But now I'm not so sure.  The G4 machine has
> > always been solid as a rock, hardware-wise.
> >
> > The weirdness is this:
> >
> > Installing with the 2.6.8 kernel (single processor version, if it
> > matters)  The initial reboot goes just fine, and drops me into tasksel,
> > where I select "print server", and "desktop environment".  All the
> > installation and setup stuff goes as expected, but when everything is
> > over and I try to log out, I never get a "login:" prompt or a Gnome
> > login window.  If I switch to another virtual console (alt-F2) and try
> > to login there it accepts my login and password, but I never get a shell
> > prompt.
> >
> > I had to go to another machine and do "ssh root@box /sbin/reboot"
> > because using "slogin root@box" got me the point where I enter my root
> > password, then the same hang as I saw on the second virtual console.
> >
> > Sound familiar?  What am I doing wrong?
> Sounds familiar. I experienced the same on a x86 box. But I blamed it on my 
> preseeding experiments. I'm kind of relived that I'm not alone...
> 
> I can provide more infos if requested.
> 
> Anyway, thanx for the good work.

Is a fixed-in-unstable udev issue, will hopefully be fixed soon.

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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