Bug#707844: di-utils: No error message in case of wrong architecture
Dear Debian Bughunters:
This, for me, raises the question of when I should report what,
followed by, "How, adequately?"
I've got a dev setup that pretty much lets me bang away until
something works, then take snapshots when something interesting
happens (e.g., major package install finishes, run out of room on the
vm, &c). But the box I'm working on is a hand-me down, with mint as
the can-opener, in which I run virtualbox, to acheive an approximation
of "pure stable".
I would be delighted with feedback, off and on list, but the idea is
to contribute back, upstream, at least as good as I found it.
Best,
RL
> Package: di-utils
> Version: 1.92+deb7u1
> Severity: minor
>
> Dear Maintainer,
> I've downloaded Debian 7.0 to use in a virtual machine.
>
> I downloaded an amd64 image, and by mistake used qemu for i386.
>
> I had the normal grub and then when selecting whether I wanted
> graphical
> or normal installation, it would just hang and do nothing.
> When trying to do an "expert install" it finally showed me what was
> going on, and I could start qemu with the appropriate command line.
>
> Could you make it print an error message in these cases, for any kind
> of chosen kind of installation?
> If a CD doesn't do anything but just hangs I could assume there is
> something wrong with it, or the problem lies somewhere else.
>
> Bye
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: jessie/sid
> APT prefers unstable
> APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.8.8a (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
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