Bug#540023: cdrom: netinst installation might freeze with out-of-date keyring
Package: cdrom
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
When installatie a 4.x (etch) netinst image which I had lying around,
the install just silently hung after selecting the roles the system had
to perform. The message on the install-console was that it was busy, but
nothing happened.
Digging deeper, finally the output shown in the output from the
underlying installation scripts (Alt-F4), showed what had happened: the
PGP-keyring was out of date, and the big 'apt-get install
<loads-of-packages' command was waiting for input from the user, to
confirm to continue with an untrusted PGP key.
However, this message from apt-get was never forwarded to the
installation screens, which was just hanging there with a yellow bar at
~10% progress.
It would be wise to fix this, especially if the same can happen with
the current installation (5.x/lenny). At the very least, the installing
user should be made aware he/she is installing a rather out-of-date
system, and whether to reconsider. It would probably also be handy if a
user who knows what they're doing, could push through this install, and
install anyway.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.2
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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