Bug#418590: main-menu: Segfault during automatic install on AMD64

["Olaf van der Spek" <olafvdspek@gmail.com>]

On 5/19/07, Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> wrote:
> There was someone else who reported the same issue on IRC, but if we
> cannot reproduce it, we will need you (or someone else) who can to debug
> this.

'Unfortunately' I can't reproduce it either with a more recent CD image.

> To try to trace this I would suggest the following:
> - boot with 'install url=http://<full-url-to-preseed-file>'
> - at the first dialog, switch to VT2
> - edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/network-preseed.postinst and add a 'set -x'
> - continue the installation untill the problem occurs
> - find some way to get the syslog off the system
>
> The last may be tricky. You could try booting with BOOT_DEBUG=3 and
> editing /etc/inittab so the debian-installer program does not
> automatically respawn.
> If you add modules=openssh-client-udeb at the boot prompt, you will be
> able to run scp from a shell.
>
> Cheers,
> FJP