Control: tag -1 - patch Hi Ulrich, thanks for your report. Ulrich Teichert <krypton@ulrich-teichert.org> (2013-12-30): > Package: debian-installer-7.0-netboot-mips > Severity: important > Tags: d-i patch > > Dear Maintainer, > > During an new installation of wheezy on an SGI O2 the partitioning > step failed. > > I was using the netboot image from /debian/dists/wheezy/main/installer-mips/ > current/images/r5k-ip32, dating from 14th of December 2013. > > Over the UI, the only info was that the partioning step failed. After > looking at the installer logs with a shell during install, it looked > like the postinstall script of the partitioner was bogus. In the log, > the error message was a parsing error from a misplaced brace. > > The contents of the file (the partitoner postinstall script) were > looking like a binary, not like a shell script. > > I simply deleted the file and the partitioning went OK, as the rest of > the installtion as well. Any chance you remember which file you acted on, and which package that was (knowing the filesystem type at least would help)? You can find installer logs at /var/log/installer to refresh your memory. :) Thanks for the report, and sorry it took so long to get back to you. Mraw, KiBi.
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