Bug#340776: Installation report debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso downloaded 22 Nov 2005

[richard@sheugh.com]

Hi Christian,
On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 07:16:30AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> 
> > ran shadowconfig -on 
> > This gave shadow passwords
> > 
> > Problem with email
> > ran apt-get install --reinstall exim4
> > read messages I had missed before and put colons into the list of 
> > hostnames. This allowed receipt of mail for this domain. 
> 
> 
> >From all what you described, these two steps are puzzling. They seem
> to show that something did not run properly in 2nd stage (after the
> 1st reboot), which left you with an incompletely configured system.
> 
> Did the system propose you to create a new user and set the root
> password after the 1st reboot?
> 
I think that immediately after the first re-boot I was either asked 
for a password or was presented with a prompt. I hit return and found 
myself logged in as the root user. I cannot be sure that I ignored a 
prompt to add a user at that time. I am reasonably sure that I added 
three users manually before the second reboot. It was after that 
second reboot that I found I could not access my home directory, and 
that /dev/hda was not accessible.

> Did it ask you questions about configuring the mail system ?
> 
> (except of course when you reinstalled exim4)
> 
No question was asked, and I will file this problem as a bug 
against exim4. It may seem trivial, but loss of access to mail 
caused me a lot of problems. Apologies for misleading you. 

Pardon my curiosity, but do you know why my IDE hard disk and the 
DVD-ram disk at /dev/hda and /dev/hdd cannot be accessed?

regards

Richard A Lough