Re: Testing Hangs in VM
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 02:05:19AM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> On 28/02/14 01:48, Henning Follmann wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 09:41:59AM -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
> >> I have tried to install this week's Testing in a VM on my Laptop and found
> >> that the installer hangs at Configure he package
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> manager/Configuring apt/Scanning the CD-ROM...
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> In the current versions of both VMware Player and Oracle VM VirtualBox.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Linux Mint Debian Edition v-201403rc installed in VirtualBox without any
> >> problems, suggesting that the problem is with this week's Debian Testing.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > It's testing. Use Debian stable (Wheezy).
> > Judging by your Mail (missing detailed description how you tried to install
> > it, where it failed, including the error message when it failed, etc.) you
> > should not be using testing.
> >
> > -H
> >
> >
>
> Read the second sentence of the OP's post.... he did post the error
> message.
> Part of the point of Testing is so that people like Stephen 'can' test
> it. You don't need to have a pointy head and elitist attitude to use it
> - just a tolerance for installing the regular updates and acceptance
> that it won't be stable, or did I miss that meeting?. Note that their
> are no bugs in the errata for this weeks image.
>
> More information about the installation would be useful though.
>
> Kind regards
>
Yes, sorry that was a bit harsh.
However, so you can help him here, with the information provided?
Ah, no you already admitted to that.
OP: please use the current stable and try to install that on your VM.
After that try again with testing and provide the log information. This
should be printed on the 4th console (ALT+F4)
Cheers,
Henning
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Henning Follmann | hfollmann@itcfollmann.com
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