Re: DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text broken
Hi,
Experiencing the same problem with that...
oad frontend module /usr/lib/cdebconf/frontend/readline.so:
/usr/lib/cdebconf/fr
ontend/readline.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory
seems very odd...
any idea why this wouldnt be working???
Larry
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Geert Stappers wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 10:12:22AM +0100, Larry O'Neill (H.S.A.) wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > I've been trying to install debian on a server, but it doesnt have
> > a video card, so I am connecting to it via console. However, when I type
> > "linux DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text" at the boot prompt, it goes through the
> > initial stuff, but then gives me the error:
>
>
> Strange, I would expect
>
> linux DEBIAN_FRONTEND=readline
>
>
> >
> >
> > /home/joey/src/d-i/packages/cdebconf/src/frontend.c:160 (frontend_new):
> > Cannot l
> > oad frontend module /usr/lib/cdebconf/frontend/text.so:
> > /usr/lib/cdebconf/fronte
> > nd/text.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> >
> >
> >
> > This error message is repeated continuously and indefinitely.
> > Initially this was with a minimal CD with the intention of downloading the
> > rest of the install as I go, when this happened, I tried the CD1 from the
> > full distribution, but with the same results.
> > Am I doomed to sit in the server room for hours with the graphical
> > install?
>
>
> Tell us how you are doing when replace 'text' into 'readline'
>
> And even more important which documentation has to be s/text/readline/
>
> > Yours in hope
> > Larry
>
>
> Cheers
> Geert Stappers
>
>
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