Bug#395267: installation-reports
On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 23:13:06 +0200, Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> wrote:
Hey,
I didn't expect someone actually replying to my report, very nice :-).
Again, great work! I never used an installer to get Debian running before
and this one was really smooth!
On Wednesday 25 October 2006 23:56, Tilo Schwarz wrote:
Comments/Problems:
I did expertgui mode. The only thing I missed was some more feedback
from the install process besides the nice waitbar. I guess I could have
switched on a debug mode, but when I noticed it, the install process
was already running.
Why would you want more feedback; what value does that actually add?
One of the reasons I use Debian (and not one of the derived distros) is,
that I like to know, what's going on under the hood. I'm just interested,
what's happening (hacking for 20 years now ;-).
Anyway if you really want to know what is happening when, try booting the
installer with "install priority=medium" next time.
Ok.
One strange thing happened: I told the system not to use UTC (because
of Windows), but when I bootet the first time, the time was set two
hours early (which is the +2 hours difference of my local time to UTC).
I set it back during a Windows session, at the next Debian boot
everything was ok.
The installer does not change the hardware clock, so no idea what can
have
happened here. Have you checked that /etc/default/rcS does have the
correct value for UTC?
I checked that and it was
# grep UTC /etc/default/rcS
UTC=no
If you can reproduce the problem, we may be able to find out what
happens.
It didn't happen again. Just directly after the install.
I got the "select() to /dev/rtc to wait for clock tick timed out"
problem and fixed it with HWCLOCKPARS=--directisa for now. I guess
that's not an installer problem itself (and the fix is probably just a
workaround!?).
No, that sounds like a kernel issue. I guess it is a known issue if you
were able to find that workaround. Could you tell us where you found that
information?
For example at http://users.telenet.be/bmertens/acer_5602wlmi/index.html
(bottom of the page). If you look with google for
etch "select() to /dev/rtc to wait for clock tick timed out"
there a few hits, using
dell inspiron select() to /dev/rtc to wait for clock tick timed out
there are about 42 hits, mostly Ubuntu, all about this issue.
Cheers,
Tilo
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