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Re: Bug#341597: [ppc,d-i-gtk] installation report on b&w G3



Hi,

On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 05:59:11PM +0100, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote:
> Wolfram Quester wrote:
> 
> >Plese tell me how I can help to debug this issue. I will retry the
> >graphical installer from time to time and follow up on this bug-report.
> Hi
> 
> i suggest you to try booting with
> 
> install video=ofonly DEBIAN_FRONTEND=newt
> 
> the installer should boot in text mode: if the boot process goes fine up 
> to the moment the classic textual installation screen appears, then 
> switch to VT2 and do
> 
> export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gtk
> export MALLOC_CHECK_=1
> debian-installer
> 
> a more detailed error message should be available if the graphical 
> installer fails again.

did that, it told me "MALLOC: using debug hooks", but nothing new. The
error screen was too short to read, but starting it repeatedly I could
only see the same as reported above. No entry in syslog. It does not
create /var/log/X{org,Free86}.log. This would be nice to have in such
cases, wouldn't it?

Permissions in /dev/fb look unsuspicious to me:

ls -l /dev/fb*
lrwxrwxrwx	1 root root	 4 Dec  1 15:17 /dev/fb0 -> fb/0

/dev/fb:
crw-rw----	1 root root      0 Dec  1 15:17 /dev/fb/0

ls -ld /dev/fb
drwxr-xr-x	2 root root	60 Dec  1 15:17 /dev/fb
> 
> Ciao
> 
> Attilio

Thanks,

Wolfi

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