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Bug#308630: ssh installation console broken



Package: debian-installer
Version: weekly PPC Sarge CD from 28.04.2005
Severity: normal

Hello, I was trying to install a old prep box. I have choosen the
console-server (ssh server) as installation console because of the slow
serial link. AFAICS this was a mistake:

when I rebooted the first time and loged in with SSH, I got thousands of
perl errors because the variables LANG="en" and LANGUAGE="en_US, en_GB"
have been set. And nothing did work, whatever I choose from the menu, it
failed after a dozen of perl locale errors.

Then I started a shell, edited /etc/environment, set LANG=C and removed
LANGUAGE variable (which still looked sane for me).

Now, after rebooting the box and trying to open the SSH installation
cosole, I get only:

debug1: Authentication succeeded (keyboard-interactive).
debug1: channel 0: new [client-session]
debug1: Entering interactive session.
debug1: Sending environment.
debug1: Sending env LANG = de_DE.UTF-8
debug1: Sending command: /sbin/reboot
Configuring the base system...
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
debconf: (TERM is not set, so the dialog frontend is not usable.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Readline
debconf: (Can't locate Term/ReadLine.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/l                                                                                        ocal/lib/perl/5.8.4 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5                                                                                         /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/share/                                                                                        perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Readline.pm line 5.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Teletype
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
debconf: (TERM is not set, so the dialog frontend is not usable.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Readline
debconf: (Can't locate Term/ReadLine.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/l                                                                                        ocal/lib/perl/5.8.4 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5                                                                                         /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/share/                                                                                        perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Readline.pm line 5.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Teletype

debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
debconf: (TERM is not set, so the dialog frontend is not usable.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Readline
debconf: (Can't locate Term/ReadLine.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/l                                                                                        ocal/lib/perl/5.8.4 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5                                                                                         /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/share/                                                                                        perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Readline.pm line 5.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Teletype
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
debconf: (TERM is not set, so the dialog frontend is not usable.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Readline
debconf: (Can't locate Term/ReadLine.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/l                                                                                        ocal/lib/perl/5.8.4 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5                                                                                         /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/share/                                                                                        perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Readline.pm line 5.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Teletype
Debian base system configuration
--------------------------------

This is the base system configuration menu.

  1. Display introductory message
  2. Preconfigure language-related parameters
  3. Configure timezone
  4. Set up users and passwords
  5. Set the hostname
  6. Configure apt
  7. Select and install packages
  8. Postconfigure language-related parameters
  9. Configure the Mail Transfer Agent
  10. Cleanup network console
  11. Finish configuring the base system
  12. Execute a shell

Choose the next step in the install process: 1
1

and after this the console froze. Fine. So I killed the console and tried to
reopen it:

Then I tried to do the same thing again and I get:
onfiguring the base system...
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another p                                                                                        rocess
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another p                                                                                        rocess
debug1: client_input_channel_req: channel 0 rtype exit-status reply 0
debug1: channel 0: free: client-session, nchannels 1
debug1: Transferred: stdin 0, stdout 0, stderr 0 bytes in 3.4 seconds
debug1: Bytes per second: stdin 0.0, stdout 0.0, stderr 0.0
debug1: Exit status 0
debug1: compress outgoing: raw data 1228, compressed 1093, factor 0.89
debug1: compress incoming: raw data 477, compressed 265, factor 0.56

Args. Why was the first process not killed when the shell exited? And why do I
get those errors?

Regards,
Eduard.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11.7
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)



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