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

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

On 5/22/07, Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 May 2007 21:31, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> > But network-preseed.postinst doesn't seem to exist when I'm
> > configuring locale etc.
> > By the time it does exist, DHCP has already run and I'm at the hostname
> > dialog.
>
> Right. I forgot that it is only loaded during "load additional installer
> components".
>
> The best way to boot the installer is probably:
> install priority=medium auto=true url=...
>
> This way the installation will proceed as if you booted with 'auto
> url=...', but will go step by step so you can make the needed change just
> before the preconfiguration file is loaded.
>
> /me hopes he's got it right this time :-P

When I do that I get tons of questions and it seems the issue doesn't
occur anymore.
Is there no other way to get that set -x in there?

BTW, I'm using VMware Workstation on a Core 2 Duo processor. It's
weird that no one can reproduce this.