Re: failure in installation
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 10:54:45AM +0000, Dave Restall - System Administrator wrote:
>
> > I tried to perform an installation of woody using
> > boot-floppies-3.0.18 . I wanted to install via the network.
> > However the following error prevented me from installing
> > woody:
>
> I had this error too :-(
>
> > When attempting to install the base system, the following
> > error message occured: ``Malformed Release file'', prefixed
> > by the ftp site I was pointing to. Anyway, the error message
> > appeared time and again. It appeared immediately after I pressed
> > Enter at the previous screen, i.e., it did not actually attempt
> > to bring the Release file. Moreover, when I (deliberately) disconnected
> > the network cable, exactly the same message appeared.
>
> I saw this too - it doesn't try to connect AFTER the first attempt. If
> you get it wrong first it never tries again.
>
> > I saw in a mailing list (don't remember which, sorry), that
> > if one had network definitions problem, then there is no way out
> > of this bug, but to re-install from the very beginning, including
>
> I didn't do this :-)
>
> I deleted a file (I can't remember the full path) but it was named
> something like "malformed_release" and it was in the in the var/lib dpkg
> path. I didn't make a note because at the time I was annoyed at the
> struggle and the path did seem sort of logical. After deleting this
> file, I simply did the usual download, entered the default path i.e. us
> server though I would have preferred to use the UK server, and the
> install went on from there.
I tried and erased that file, but things did not change after I erased it.
I tried it a couple of times, even with a reboot in between.
I got the same error message.
>
> When you do get it installed, it may not work then too. I got through the
> install, I used dselect rather than tasksel and by default it installs
> ssh and leaves telnet out. It also installs GPM. I just accepted
> gpm's default configuration. GPM locked my machine solid, I couldn;t
> ssh in because ssh installs broken - it asks for a password and it won't
> accept the passwords for root or any other user and I couldn't telnet in.
> The machine was still alive though because I could ping it. ALl I could
> do was reboot the machine. At this point I didn't know it was GPM.
> I rebooted single user and waited for fsck to finish (takes a long time
> on a machine with 5 * 18GB SCSI drives). I then installed telnetd.
> This doesn't work as installed. You need to add -L /bin/login to the
> command line there's something broken with the telnet login program.
> Once I could telnet in, I rebooted the machine again and it locked
> the console solid. I then telnetted in :-), su'd to root and had a
> look around. As I have seen problems with GPM before, I killed that
> first and the console came back. As the install hadn't completed,
> I was then presented with the "do you want to run tasksel", "dselect"
> options again so I followed them through which basically allowed me to
> configure exim (soon to be removed because I always compile my own)
> and finish the install. I edited /etc/init.d/gpm and made the first
> line an exit, I'm not using gpm yet so I'll sort that one out later.
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Dave
> mail/debian/testing/2002-01-03.tx arielt@post.tau.ac.il
> debian-testing
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-- Ariel.
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Ariel Tankus
School of Computer Science
Tel-Aviv University
arielt@post.tau.ac.il
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