Re: buggy preseed generates infinite loop...
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 01:16:54PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Matt Price wrote:
> > still working on my preseed issue... I have a preseed file which is
> > available here:
> > http://www.racesci.org/LearningExchangeCD/preseed/learnexchange.seed
> >
> > It works fine till a point late in the installation which I have
> > trouble pinpointing precisely -- but I think somewhere after "copying
> > packages to disk" and before "creating users". The problem manifests
> > as an infinitely debian-installer loop -- d-i is started repeatedly,
> > dying ungracefully each time and then restarting in whichever console
> > is active (which makes it pretty much impossible to do any
> > console-level debugging -- the processes die and restart so quickly I
> > can't even read the output of ps, for instance). The syslog output is
> > also unreadable, and since grub isn't installed, I can't reboot and
> > identify the problem.
> >
> > I'm just wondering if anyone's seen this kind of problem before, or if
> > there are identifiable errors in my preseed file that make it clear
> > where my problem is. Thanks for the help, as always!
>
> If you're using the Ubuntu version of the Debian installer, please say
> so upfront and don't make me try to guess from reading your preseed
> file and/or problem description.
I'm sorry I left that out.
>
> I don't see anything obviously wrong with your preseed file.
>
> In general, only two things can cause the behavior you describe:
>
> 1. An installer bug that makes it go into a crash-loop.
> 2. Somehow running out of memory, which makes the kernel kill the
> installer and again, go into a loop.
>
> I can't be more specific since you're not using the installer this
> mailing list is here to support, and especially since the problem as
> described is during an ubuntu-specific part of the install.
>
gotcha. will see if I can find someone over by ubuntu.
thx,
matt
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