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Bug#508327: marked as done (debian-installer: restart loop triggered if booting without "-- quiet")

Your message dated Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:49:11 +0000
with message-id <E1Ou7ip-0004fT-OS@ravel.debian.org>
and subject line Closing oldbug report against debian-installer #508327
has caused the Debian Bug report #508327,
regarding debian-installer: restart loop triggered if booting without "-- quiet"
to be marked as done.

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If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.

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--- Begin Message --- 
Package: debian-installer
Version: 20081029
Severity: important

I've tried to install Debian GNU/Linux using the daily built image for
netinst/amd64 from 20081208,#2. I can reproduce the following test
case every time on my HP nw8440 laptop. I think you can imagine how
hard it was to read the messages at the console since it was
continuously switching from the text console (F1 or F4) to the
graphical console (F5) every 1-2 seconds displaying the following
crash messages.

Thanks


----------------------------------------
Select "Graphical Install", press the TAB key and modify from:
  /install.amd/vmlinuz video=vesa;ywrap;mtrr vga=788
initrd=/install.amd/gtk/initrd.gz -- quiet
    to
  /install.amd/vmlinuz video=vesa;ywrap;mtrr vga=788
initrd=/install.amd/gtk/initrd.gz

and press ENTER.. loading ..
(just by deleting "quiet" but preserving "--" there was no crash)

On the first window "Choose language" just press "Continue" for the
default selection "English". This will create an infinite loop when
the graphical installer crashes and is trying to start!!


On terminal console #1 the crash message is:
====================
(!) [ 1887:    0.000] --> Caught signal 6 (unknow origin) <--
Aborted
(process:7596): INFO: kbd-mode: setting console mode to Unicode (UTF-8)
====================



On terminal console #4 the repeating messages are:
====================
debconf: Setting debconf/language to en
gtk-set-font: Switching to font 'DejaVu Sans' for 'en'
debconf: ** ** ERROR:
(/tmp/buildd/cdebconf-0.138/src/modules/frontend/gtk/choice_model.c:148):cdebconf_gtk_choice_model_create_full:
assertion failed: (0 < count)
main-menu[20244]: WARNING **: Configuring 'localechooser' failed with
error code 141. Scheduling for restart.
====================

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
 APT prefers testing
 APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-openvz-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message --- 
We are closing this bug report against debian-installer 
for one of the following reasons:
- it was reported with a pre-lenny version of Debian
  Installer.
- indications in the bug report give the feeling that
  the reported problem was lying in another software, unrelated to
  D-I, which we can't easily identify.
- indications in the installation report suggest that it may have been
  fixed in a more recent version of a D-I component
- it was successful and we forgot closing it..:-)
- it has no information we consider useful


The D-I team is currently in the process of cleaning out the old spool
of installation reports that haven't bene processed yet. 

In case you think that the problem you reported has chances to be
still present, please reiterate your installation test with
a more recent image of D-I, if you're in position of doing this.

You'll find daily builds at
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer. We recommend you choose
the netboot image, in the "daily builds section", then choose to
install "squeeze" when prompted.

If some problems are found, please report them with a new bug sent
against installation-reports.

Many thanks for your understanding and your help improving Debian,
past and present.

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