Bug#416944: dist-upgrade stuck
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lou Poppler [mailto:lwp@mail.msen.com]
> Sent: 31 March 2007 17:58
> To: submit@bugs.debian.org
> Subject: Bug#416944: dist-upgrade stuck
>
>
> Package: installation-reports
>
> Trying to upgrade from sarge to etch, not doing well.
> I net-installed sarge a couple weeks ago, and got it working mostly well,
> with gdm X desktop and kernel 2.6.8. I was having some minor ethernet
> driver problems which googling suggested might be fixed by a newer kernel.
>
> I was encouraged by the reports of successful dist-upgrades to etch,
> so I went through the "Method C" process. I am now running etch on
> this machine, with kernel 2.6.18-4-686, but many things seem to no
> longer be installed -- notably the X desktop (and I just noticed also
> no ssh). I found that X wasn't starting because gdm was not installed,
> so I [re-]installed gdm from aptitude. This got me into X, but after
> I login to gdm I get only a little shell window, probably an xterm.
>
> I stopped gdm, and last night started: tasksel install desktop
> It started downloading, and I went to bed with it showing 1hr30min
> more download time. When I came back to the machine after my nap,
> I find it stuck in tasksel. The screen shows "Package configuration"
> on the very top line, and a text box in the middle saying:
> "Installing packages \ Installed libdiscover1 "
> and a status bar stuck at 75%.
if the seperate tasksel is anything like that in d-i i bet its getting stuck on a conffile prompt or something.
i'd suggest you install a desktop with apt-get install gnome-core and then just install what you want from there.
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