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

[Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>]

Sjoerd, we're still waiting for your input on this. (see below)


* Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> [2008-09-16 19:45]:
> 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
> 
> 
> 

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