Package: cdebconf Severity: important Now that the kernel boot problem of the d-i access floppy flavour is cleared up, I found out that cdebconf no longer works out-of-the-box when there is no newt frontend shared object available.
The access floppy flavour only installs the cdebconf-text frontend. After successful boot, main-menu seems to loop and constantly reports that the newt frontend couldn't be loaded (src/frontend.c:160). >From what I can see this shouldn't happen since lib/debian-installer.d/S50frontend is actually supposed to adjust the DEBIAN_FRONTEND env var to an existing frontend. OTOH, /etc/cdebconf.conf has defaultfe hardwired to newt. Frontend autoselection worked fine for the text frontend several months ago. Due to the long-standing kernel loader bug, I wasn't able to retest very often recently, so I can't pinpoint the exact date when this broke. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.7 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C -- CYa, Mario | Debian Developer <URL:http://debian.org/> | Get my public key via finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 1024D/7FC1A0854909BCCDBE6C102DDFFC022A6B113E44 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
