Bug#246880: marked as done (Long delay w/o status info before apt-cache policy)
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From: Karsten Merker <karsten@excalibur.cologne.de>
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Subject: Installation Report on mipsel
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INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: <build from SVN repository on 2004/03/31>
uname -a: <Linux debian 2.4.19-r4k-kn04 #1 Tue Dec 16 06:49:56 UTC 2003 mips
GNU/Linux>
Date: <2004/03/21>
Method: netboot installation, packages via http, no proxy.
Machine: <DECstation 5000/150>
Processor: MIPS R4000SC, little endian (mipsel)
Memory: 128MB
Root Device: <SCSI disk>
Root Size/partition table:
Disk /dev/sdc: 1050 MB, 1050347520 bytes
33 heads, 61 sectors/track, 1019 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2013 * 512 = 1030656 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 1 937 943060 83 Linux
/dev/sdc2 938 1019 82533 5 Extended
/dev/sdc5 938 1019 82502+ 82 Linux swap
Output of lspci: no PCI-bus on this system
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot worked: [O]
Configure network HW: [O]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD: [ ] (pure netboot installation)
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O]
Create file systems: [O]
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system: [O]
Install boot loader: [O]
Reboot: [O]
Comments/Problems:
Installation was done via serial console and netboot, i.e. the kernel
itself is booted over tftp -> no CD or other local media.
Installation source was a Debian/unstable mirror.
The partition layout created by the partition tools is perhaps
not ideal, because the machine has 128MB of RAM and AFAIK with
kernel 2.4 swap should be larger than RAM to be effective.
OTOH space is short on a 1GB hard drive and making the swap
partition too large may take too much space from the root partition.
In the "Install boot loader" step, the dialog was not displayed
correctly. Several escape sequences for terminal control were
printed visibly, which broke the layout. This might be a problem
of my serial terminal, though.
Resetting the terminal and causing a redraw by pressing CTRL-L
solved the broken display.
When booting into the 2nd stage, after starting the "Detecting Hardware"
step, the terminal got garbled again. A terminal reset and a redraw of
the base-config dialog solved this as well.
In the keyboard-selection dialog in base-config the "show all keymaps"
option does not show the DEC LK201 keymap. I went on with the
keymap=NONE option.
On selecting the mirror source for the package install, for a short
moment an error message was visible. It was something like
"/usr/bin/apt-setup: [ : binary operator expected" (I do not have
the exact wording, it was wiped from the screen too fast).
Nonetheless the package install worked.
Between selecting the mirror and the menu in which the user can
choose between tasksel/aptitude/dselect/none the screen stays
black for quite some time. This does probably not matter much
on fast machines, but on a slow system the user has a black
screen for about a minute and does not know whether the system
has crashed or is still alive.
Normally all dialogs are displayed in color on my terminal, but
tasksel comes up in black and white. Because of this, it is
impossible to determine which button is currently selected and one
has to select <finish> or <abort> blindly. The highlighting of the
keyboard shortcuts is also not readable due to the black and white
display.
After base-install has finished, there is no getty on the
serial console, so a login is not possible. The build was done
with the patch posted on debian-boot in message-id
<20040328153655.GH17081@p12n.org>, but it did not solve the
problem in this case.
Regards,
Karsten
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Subject: Bug#246880: fixed in base-config 2.75
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Source: base-config
Source-Version: 2.75
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
base-config, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
base-config_2.75.dsc
to pool/main/b/base-config/base-config_2.75.dsc
base-config_2.75.tar.gz
to pool/main/b/base-config/base-config_2.75.tar.gz
base-config_2.75_all.deb
to pool/main/b/base-config/base-config_2.75_all.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 246880@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 15:55:07 -0500
Source: base-config
Binary: base-config
Architecture: source all
Version: 2.75
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
Description:
base-config - Debian base system configurator
Closes: 106875 228839 228839 240700 242718 245164 245164 246880 247037 256315 259871 265908 267242 275543 276638 299554 341130 341456 343844 344055
Changes:
base-config (2.75) unstable; urgency=low
.
The "death march" release.
.
[ Joey Hess ]
* Adjust section to match overrides.
.
[ Colin Watson ]
* Exclude backup files and files under debian/ from the po build system,
and make sure executables are processed in a consistent order to avoid
lots of diff noise.
* Copy passwd/username, so that e.g. exim4-config still works after user
configuration moves to d-i (closes: #341130).
.
[ Joey Hess ]
* Remove the passwd reconfiguration code, user-setup handles this now in
d-i.
* Clean up the intro message to not mention stuff that the ever-shrinking
base-config no longer does.
.
[ Translations ]
* add Bengali translations (Progga <progga@BengaLinux.Org>)
* Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation.
* Updated French translation.
* Updated Galician translation.
* Updated Spanish translation.
* Updated Czech translation.
* Updated Vietnamese translation. Closes: #343844
* Updated Swedish translation. Closes: #344055
.
[ Man pages translations ]
* Updated Spanish. Closes: #341456
.
[ Joey Hess ]
* Drop debconf/priority propigation from d-i as d-i no longer propigates it.
Closes: #228839, #245164
* Depends on debconf 1.4.61, since this is the first version to default
the priority to high, which is the priority we need with this change.
Closes: #228839, #245164
* Remove debconf-seed menu item, mostly, taken over by preseed 1.11.
Closes: #276638
NOTE NOTE NOTE: This means that base-config/early_command is removed.
* Remove base-config/late_command too, for consistency.
* pkgsel moved into a udeb. Closes: #240700, #242718, #256315, #259871
Closes: #247037
* MTA reconfiguration is not necessary with current debootstrap, since
no MTA is installed as part of the base system, so the user will see the
MTA question as usual if their task selection/whatever causes a MTA to be
installed.
* The pon menu item is not useful, since base-config no longer accesses the
net to install packages. Closes: #299554
* Remove GDM language fixup code, since bug #265101 got fixed.
* base-config no longer does anything with the network.
Closes: #106875, #265908, #267242
* Some other bugs that no longer apply due to removed code in base-config:
Closes: #246880, #275543
* Remove d-i debconf variable copying code, now handled by pkgsel.
* base-config program left in for compatability with old d-i's and such for
now, but it's essentially a no-op and everything has moved into d-i.
(d-i also still uses validlocale from this package for now.)
Next step will be removing this package entirely...
Files:
821a20ab99da54a61878d4ff0a4ee857 719 admin important base-config_2.75.dsc
864dfc590cde6a431ff4894791c24921 306255 admin important base-config_2.75.tar.gz
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