Bug#383557: installation-report: [ia64] HP Integrity rx2600
Package: installation-reports
Version: 2.17
Severity: normal
-- Package-specific info:
Boot method: CD
Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/etch_di_beta3/ia64/iso-cd/debian-testing-ia64-netinst.iso
Date: 20060817
Machine: HP Integrity rx2600 [ia64]
Partitions:
Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 ext3 68496816 332028 64685348 1% /
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot: [O]
Detect network card: [O]
Configure network: [O]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O]
Install base system: [E]
Clock/timezone setup: [ ]
User/password setup: [ ]
Install tasks: [ ]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Overall install: [E]
Comments/Problems:
It nearly completed base-install, but failed installing a kernel because
it was trying to install initrd-tools for some reason.
As you can see below, it chose to install linux-image-2.6-mckinley-smp,
which depends upon linux-image-2.6.16-2-mckinley-smp.
Aug 17 23:57:42 base-installer: info: kernel linux-image-2.6.16-2-mckinley-smp usable on mckinley
Aug 17 23:57:42 base-installer: info: kernel linux-image-2.6.16-2-mckinley usable on mckinley
Aug 17 23:57:42 base-installer: info: kernel linux-image-2.6.16-2-itanium-smp usable on mckinley
Aug 17 23:57:42 base-installer: info: kernel linux-image-2.6.16-2-itanium usable on mckinley
Aug 17 23:57:42 base-installer: info: kernel linux-image-2.6-mckinley-smp usable on mckinley
Aug 17 23:57:42 base-installer: info: kernel linux-image-2.6-mckinley usable on mckinley
Aug 17 23:57:42 base-installer: info: kernel linux-image-2.6-itanium-smp usable on mckinley
Aug 17 23:57:42 base-installer: info: kernel linux-image-2.6-itanium usable on mckinley
Aug 17 23:57:42 base-installer: info: Found kernels 'linux-image-2.6.16-2-mckinley-smp,linux-image-2.6.16-2-mckinley,linux-image-2.6.16-2-itanium-smp,linux-image-2.6.16-2-itanium,linux-image-2.6-mckinley-smp,linux-image-2.6-mckinley,linux-image-2.6-itanium-smp,linux-image-2.6-itanium'
Aug 17 23:57:42 base-installer: info: arch_kernel candidates: linux-image-2.6-mckinley-smp linux-image-2.6-mckinley
Aug 17 23:57:42 base-installer: info: arch_kernel: linux-image-2.6-mckinley-smp (present)
Aug 17 23:57:54 base-installer: info: Using kernel 'linux-image-2.6-mckinley-smp'
Aug 17 23:57:54 base-installer: info: Setting do_initrd='yes'.
Aug 17 23:57:54 base-installer: info: Setting link_in_boot='no'.
Aug 17 23:57:54 apt-install: Reading package lists...
Aug 17 23:57:54 apt-install:
Aug 17 23:57:54 apt-install: Building dependency tree...
Aug 17 23:57:54 apt-install:
Aug 17 23:57:54 apt-install: E:
Aug 17 23:57:54 apt-install: Package initrd-tools has no installation candidate
Aug 17 23:57:54 apt-install: Package initrd-tools is not available, but is referred to by another package.
Aug 17 23:57:54 apt-install: This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
Aug 17 23:57:54 apt-install: is only available from another source
Aug 17 23:57:54 base-installer: error: exiting on error base-installer/kernel/failed-package-install
Aug 17 23:58:04 main-menu[2049]: WARNING **: Configuring 'base-installer' failed with error code 1
Aug 17 23:58:04 main-menu[2049]: WARNING **: Menu item 'base-installer' failed.
Aug 17 23:58:08 main-menu[2049]: INFO: Menu item 'di-utils-shell' selected
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report.
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