Bug#562575: Is Debian on PowerPC dead? [Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]]

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com>]

This bug is still present in the "Thu Jan 14 16:08:46 UTC 2010"  
businesscard CD downloaded from

   http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/

So far as I can tell, this bug has not been looked at by the debian- 
installer folks.

Is PowerPC simply so unimportant that resources cannot be spared to  
even *look* at a problem that renders the installer unusable on that  
hardware?


Rick

On Dec 28, 2009, at 6:18 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:

> This bug (562575) is still present in today's netinst CD.
>
> > The businesscard installer boots and prints the ususal flock of  
> > kernel startup messages.
> > then it says:
> >   Starting system log daemon
> >   Segmentation fault
> > and then it loops saying
> >   INFO: kbd-mode: setting console mode to Unicode (UTF-8)
> >   Segmentation fault
> > It never gets to the point of asking the usual installation  
> > questions for locale, language, etc...