Bug#488434: installation-reports: somewhat problematic install on Thecus N2100

[Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>]

On Saturday 13 September 2008, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd@debian.org> [2008-06-28 22:19]:
> >   The big issue was that i couldn't configure a custom mirror or even
> > select a country mirror. After some debugging it turned out that the
> > newt frontend immediately returned backup instead of actually showing
> > the UI bits. The relevant debconf debugging output is:
> >
> >   Jun 28 16:38:30 debconf: --> GET mirror/country
> >   Jun 28 16:38:30 debconf: <-- 0 manual
> >   Jun 28 16:38:30 debconf: --> INPUT critical mirror/http/hostname
> >   Jun 28 16:38:30 debconf: <-- 0 question will be asked
> >   Jun 28 16:38:30 debconf: --> INPUT critical mirror/http/directory
> >   Jun 28 16:38:30 debconf: <-- 0 question will be asked
> >   Jun 28 16:38:30 debconf: --> GO
> >   Jun 28 16:38:30 debconf: <-- 30 backup
> >
> >   Using the text frontend instead of the newt frontend let me finish
> > the installation just fine.
>
> Frans, Jeremy, Colin, etc: can one of you comment on this?

Sjoerd, can you please try again with a current daily image?
There have been some changes and we've not have any other reports of 
mirror selection failures, so it seems most likely that you hit a bad 
daily image.

If it still fails then please send the full syslog with debconf debugging 
enabled (gzipped!).

Cheers,
FJP