Bug#434258: installation-reports: Installation fails - base system install as well as grub do NOT install
Package: installation-reports
Version: d-i from a netinst (etch dated June 13th)
Severity: normal
A netinst CD from June 13th (post etch release) wouldn't install a base
system nor grub (various odd messages were noted - it wasn't very
intuitive in what was going wrong). After looking into the problem it
turned out to be a GPG key issue. After invoking a shell and doing a
'chroot /target' and 'apt-key update' (which required me to install
the 'debian-archive-keyring' package) all worked as expected.
What needs to happen is that the debianinstaller (d-i) should really
include 'apt-key update' as part of its "normal" install procedure to
make sure that installations will always work irrespective of when GPG
keys change.
BTW: someone should add 'd-i' as a package so that we can 'reportbug'
straight to the d-i developers.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
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