Re: Log of 1.2.2 install available
I wrote:
> I recently did a clean install of Debian 1.2.2 and there were a couple
> of gotcha's which I thought were below the normal standard of a Debian
> release (meaning I had to ask for help :).
>
> I've made the complete log (starting at the first dselect) available
> as
> http://svr-www.eng.cam.ac.uk/~ajr/debian-1.2.2-install.gz (658305
> bytes), you can cat to a console login to replay it although it is too
> fast (I intend to generate a simple script to play it slowly).
>
> If I'm not beaten by another release I'll summarise.
Here is a script that will "play" the above URL in a console screen:
awk '{print $0 ; for(i=0; i < 50000;i++);}' < debian-1.2.2-install
Okay, first off I tried a straight install, that is runnning through
dselect and specifying a valid NFS server and taking the default package
distribution. Here the only problem (apart from a dpkg - warning,
overriding problem because --force enabled for
/usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.00307/CORE/libperl.a) was the fact that
/usr/X11R6/lib is missing from /etc/ld.so.conf:
# echo /usr/X11R6/lib >> /etc/ld.so.conf
# cat /etc/ld.so.conf
/usr/local/lib
/usr/lib/i486-linuxaout
/usr/X11R6/lib
# ldconfig
I reran dselect and this time I thought texbin (3.1415-5) set up
properly but looking through the logs there are several instances of:
The letter y^M
> 0 SSW 1 WSW (SSW SSE) ESE ENE 2 (NNE) NNW 3 (WNW) WSW WNW (NNW NNE) ENE 0 (ES\
^M
E SSE)^M
! Strange path (turning number is zero).^M
<to be read again> ^M
;^M
l.793 filldraw stroke term.e(6',7,left,1,4);^M
fi % arc and terminal^M
The letter z) (/usr/lib/texmf/fonts/source/public/mf/greeku.mf^M
Uppercase Greek Gamma^M
I don't know the significance of this. Anyway, at last I had an
"Installation OK." message.
I went back to select and took all the math and tex packages, swaping gs
for gs-aladdin. Here textfm, amstex and xypic gave warnings of trying
to overwrite files that were in other packages and I got:
Warning, the Debian distribution expects a symlink to^M
/etc/emacs/site-start.el^M
at^M
/usr/lib/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.el^M
which does not seem right for an "out of the box" system.
In the next pass I selected all games and nearly everything in x11
(VGA16 and S3). xbase was not happy that /usr/bin/X11 was not a symlink
and was presentin other packages.
dpkg Unpacked gnuchess-book, then noted that it had been completely
replaced but later still gave the error:
dpkg: error processing gnuchess-book (--install):^M
no package named `gnuchess-book' is installed, cannot configure^M
When it came to setting up X I was asked:
Do you want to make the S3 X server the default? (y/n) [y] y
The S3 X server is now the default.^M
Do you want to create the XFree86 configuration file? (y/n) [y] y
which gave me a nice blue screen just to say:
Not all of the configuration and application default files are
installed. The file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc is missing
The only way out is "< OK >" and then answer no to creating the conf file:
Do you want to create the XFree86 configuration file? (y/n) [y] n
The XFree86 configuration file will not be created.
To create it later, run /usr/sbin/xbase-configure as root.
grep: /etc/X11/config: No such file or directory
grep: /etc/X11/config: No such file or directory
sed: can't read /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing xserver-s3 (--install):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
which looks like a dependacy problem in that xbase needs to configured
first - at the end of configuring xbase I had a (mostly) working XF86Config.
Hence at the end of this Install pass I was left with:
Errors were encountered while processing:^M
gnuchess-book^M
xserver-s3^M
A Config pass cleared the xserver-s3 problem and hte other seems to be
cosmetic.
In the next pass I tried to install wqhat I wanted from the admin
section and swap inn for inewsinn. The latter proved difficult through
the conflict:
dpkg: regarding .../news/inewsinn_1.4unoff4-1.deb containing inewsinn:^M
inn conflicts with inews^M
inewsinn provides inews and is to be installed.^M
dpkg: error processing /var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt/debian/stable/binary-i386/new/inewsinn_1.4unoff4-1.deb (--install):^M
conflicting packages - not installing inewsinn^M
The only was I could find out of this hole was to remove all News
packages and start again with the inewsinn package which I wanted.
Even though I could NFS mount my local debian mirror I moved to teh FTP
method as it was less verbose and I felt I had more chance of catching
the error messages. I installed a bunch more packages without problem.
I hope this is of some use to somebody, if only to document how far
Debian has got in terms of effort to install.
Tony Robinson
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