On 5/1/02 6:13 PM, "Erik Steffl" <steffl@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> I used the woody_netinst-20020215-i386.iso and weverything worked fine
> until the point when the basic system configuration started - I believe
> that's part of the base, nothing to do with
> woody_netinst-20020215-i386.iso itself.
>
> the problem is that at the point when the timezone and passwords are
> configured the install script (IIRC it was basic-config) went into
> neverending loop of configuring the time-zone and passwords over and
> over...
>
> this is how the installation went:
>
> boot the cd: ok
> setup disk: ok
> setup kernel drivers: ok
> setup network: ok
> download base and some other stuff: ok
> reboot: ok
>
> at this point the base-config executes all the scripts in
> /tmp/base-config-pid (pid is the pid of base-config), it's a simple loop
> executing all the programs in /tmp/base-config-pid, two of them being
> NNtimezone and NNpasswords (I don't remember exact names, NN stands for
> two digits) and these two are executed over and over...
>
> the system is working but not completely configured, e.g. the
> /apt/sources.list is empty (I think the default is not empty, even
> though it's a long time since I installed debian) etc.
>
> I didn't see anything related to this on the list - is this a known
> problem? I am not sure how to search the bug database (I checked package
> 'base'). Any ideas?
>
> TIA
>
> erik
>
Known problem. They're in the process of hashing it out on the -devel list
and should have a fix available soon.
Andrew Dixon posted the following workaround on the -ppc list a few hours
ago. <Disclaimer--I've only read this, not verified it.>
Hey everyone,
Just saw this myself and I've got a fix:
Restart the install system and choose to execute a shell. Now, mount
your hard drive. I have debian on the forth partition on my second hard
disk so for _me_ it's:
#mount /dev/hdb4 /mnt
If you look in /mnt/etc you'll see two files: inittab and inittab.real.
The inittab that you've got there now is what launches base config and
inittab.real (you guessed it) is the real inittab. So:
#mv /mnt/etc/inittab /mnt/etc/inittab.backup
#mv /mnt/etc/inittab.real /mnt/etc/inittab
HTH,
Andy
Andrew Dixon <andrew.dixon@seranoa.com>
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