On Monday 04 February 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: > We're starting the work for D-I Beta1 release and we would like ask to > everyone to test the installer as much as possible, especially in not > so common architectures where we receive less general testing. I have run netboot installation tests for hppa, s390 and sparc. For all I have built the images myself mainly because there are no current daily images for s390 (build failures, looks like for some time already) and sparc (no new builds since end of Jan). s390 and sparc: successful installs, no issues hppa The first part of the installation runs fine, but I'm running into a weird failure at the start of partman. The failure seems to be not in partman itself, but in main-menu. I'm fairly sure that partman-base.postinst is never even started. Here's part of the log: [hard disk detection completed] Feb 10 23:48:43 main-menu[3851]: INFO: Falling back to the package description for palo-installer Feb 10 23:50:29 main-menu[3851]: INFO: Falling back to the package description for auto-install Feb 10 23:50:29 main-menu[3851]: INFO: Falling back to the package description for ai-choosers [main menu displayed] Feb 10 23:50:29 main-menu[3851]: INFO: Menu item 'partman-base' selected Feb 10 23:50:29 main-menu[3851]: INFO: Falling back to the package description for kernel-image-2.6.22-3-parisc-di Feb 10 23:50:29 main-menu[3851]: INFO: Falling back to the package description for kernel-image-2.6.22-3-parisc64-di Feb 10 23:50:29 main-menu[3851]: INFO: Falling back to the package description for kernel-image-2.6.22-3-parisc-di Feb 10 23:50:29 main-menu[3851]: INFO: Falling back to the package description for kernel-image-2.6.22-3-parisc64-di Feb 10 23:50:29 main-menu[3851]: INFO: Falling back to the package description for partman-palo [!!! this message repeats A LOT !!!] Feb 10 23:50:29 main-menu[3851]: INFO: Falling back to the package description for partman-palo Feb 10 23:50:29 main-menu[3851]: WARNING **: Deep recursion configuring package partman-base (dep loop?) Feb 10 23:50:29 main-menu[3851]: WARNING **: Menu item 'partman-base' failed. Note that there seems to be something weird with the menu description for partman palo even before partman is started. As the data for partman-palo looks fine in the dpkg status file that could be just a symptom, and not the cause. At the moment I haven't got a clue what's going on here. I'm going to try with a custom build of partman-palo and probably partman-base, and possibly with some additional debugging in main-menu or using strace to see if I can get any further than this. Cheers, FJP
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