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Re: netboot installer step fails when selecting more than one desktop



On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 09:07:16AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
>Ian Kelling <ian@iankelling.org> (2015-04-27):
>> I don't have jessie installed to do the bug report yet. This is when
>> installing
>> jessie 8.0 netboot.
>> 
>> "At the moment, only the core of the system is installed. To tune the
>> system to
>> your needs, you can choose to isntall one or more of the following
>> preconfigured
>> collections of software.
>> 
>> Choose software to install:
>> 
>> 
>> [*] Debian desktop environment
>> [*] ... GNOME
>> [*] ... Xfce
>> 
>> 
>> I select continue and get a dialog which says Installation Step Failed.
>> I had no
>> expectation of this happening, but I guessed it was because two desktops
>> were
>> selected, and it worked when I changed my selection to just one desktop. 
>
>IIRC from an IRC conversation, that's evince vs. evince-gtk, because
>task-xfce-desktop is too strict. Feel free to open a bug report against
>the latter to track this change.

I just did this last night (https://bugs.debian.org/783571) - we found
the same issue testing CDs on release day.

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
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We don't need no thought control.


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