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Bug#608641: marked as done (debian-installer: Debian installer lose its mind when doing again the process after an error in novice mode)

Your message dated Sun, 2 Jan 2011 12:45:07 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#608641: debian-installer: Debian installer lose its mind when doing again the process after an error in novice mode
has caused the Debian Bug report #608641,
regarding debian-installer: Debian installer lose its mind when doing again the process after an error in novice mode
to be marked as done.

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Package: debian-installer
Severity: important

When error occurs during install(for example, packages installation, boot loader implementation, etc.), we go to the main menu, so we can start again from a previous step.
The problem is that theses steps aren't replayed in the same way than the first time.
Some new questions are asked(does it switch to expert mode?), and some others aren't. For example, when re-doing packages installation, the packages category selection menu doesn't display itself. Other example: exactly same behaviour for bootloader configuration questions.

Sometimes it happens after just one error. Sometimes, the replaying works well after one error, but if a second one appears and that we replay again installation, the bug occurs.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

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Quoting Stéphane Ascoët (Stephane.Ascoet@ac-orleans-tours.fr):
> Package: debian-installer
> Severity: important
> 
> When error occurs during install(for example, packages installation, boot loader implementation, etc.), we go to the main menu, so we can start again from a previous step.
> The problem is that theses steps aren't replayed in the same way than the first time.
> Some new questions are asked(does it switch to expert mode?), and some others aren't. For example, when re-doing packages installation, the packages category selection menu doesn't display itself. Other example: exactly same behaviour for bootloader configuration questions.
> 
> Sometimes it happens after just one error. Sometimes, the replaying works well after one error, but if a second one appears and that we replay again installation, the bug occurs.

This is by design. It is assumed that, when something goes wrong, some
more actions might be needed before the normal process resumes. So,
the debconf priority is lowered, with the first consequence being to
bring the main-menu back (it is displayed only at low and medium
priorities).

So, this is really something that we won't be changing....thanks for
your report anyway...

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