Bug#655579: debian-installer: Unable to perform an installation : USB-input devices unusable

[Radostin Dimitrov <radostin@gmx.de>]

Hi, Miguel,

Thank you for your reply.

I am on it now, will download the latest wheezy net-boot cd and try 
installing again,
and will inform you back as soon as I can - in the next couple of hours.

Regards,

Rado




On 01/13/2012 12:26 AM, Miguel Figueiredo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> [...]
>
> > these come up when I type in "install expertgui" at the boot-prompt 
> > (from the help-menu) :
> >
> > 1. From the main terminal :
> > (process : 4170) : INFO :kbd-mode : setting console mode to Unicode 
> > (UTF-8)
> > The screen is flashing and the above line is repeating at every 
> > second or two, with an ever-increasing process number.
> >
> > 2. When i switched to another terminal :
> > main-menu[1526] :DEBUG: resolver (libc-udeb) : package doesn't exist 
> > (ignored)
> > main-menu [1526]:INFO: Menu item 'localechooser' selected
> > debconf : Setting debconf/language to en
> > kernel : [18.686451] debconf [1520] : segfault at 2000000036 ip 
> > 00007f89c8d29 sp 00007fff0e96bb50 error 4 in libc.so.6[7f89c6985000 + 
> > ff000]
> > init : process '/sbin/reopen-console /sbin/debian-installer' (pid 
> > 1509) exited. Scheduling for restart
> > init: starting pid 1614, tty '': '/sbin/reopen-console 
> > /sbin/debian-installer'
> >
> > This is repeating as well, with init constantly re-spawning the 
> > process and the process numbers increasing with time.
>
> [...]
>
> This is known error in daily images from some days ago and it was 
> already fixed.
> Can you try at least the latest daily image, which doesn't suffer from 
> this problem, to get more details from the keyboard/mouse problem?
>
> If it works in any other linux installation please check which kernel 
> module is used (e.g. lspci -k).