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Re: Debian-Installer gets stuck at selecting mirror



Hi Martin, Mekeor,

Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> (2017-04-24):
> * Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> [2017-04-13 03:18]:
> > (Adding tbm to the loop explicitly since he's the QNAP master.)
> 
> FWIW, I helped Mekeor a bit on IRC originally but since I didn't know
> what was wrong I recommended to send an email to debian-boot.
> 
> > >     main-menu[1395]: DEBUG: resolver (libgcc1): package doesn't exist (ignored)
> > >     main-menu[1395]: INFO: Menu item 'di-utils-shell' selected
> > 
> > I think that's the first time I'm seeing this “succeeded but requested
> > to be left unconfigured” status, not sure what's causing this.
> 
> One of the things I see in the logs is:
> 
> Apr  8 01:15:46 main-menu[938]: (process:966): ip: SIOCGIFFLAGS: No such device
> Apr  8 01:15:46 main-menu[938]: (process:966): ip: SIOCGIFFLAGS: No such device
> 
> but Ethernet is working fine, so I don't think it's a connectivity
> issue per se.
> 
> One thing I've always wondered about: oldsys-preseed preseeds eth0 as
> the default interface and I suspect this is no longer true.  However,
> I never looked into changing it since it doesn't seem to cause any
> issues.  At least I was able to install stretch fine.
> 
> Also, Mekeor had the issue with the jessie and the stretch installer.
> It's the first time I saw a QNAP user with this problem and I suspect
> we would have heard about it already if it was a common issue.

Thanks for the context.

> So I really have no idea. :/

Maybe setting DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer would help figure out what's
successful and what isn't?


KiBi.

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