On Sun, 20 May 2012, Alain Benvéniste wrote: > Here is the FTP log
Thanks, that's quite helpful. Can you please mail me a zipped copy (winzip is fine) of the dists/squeeze/Release file from your CD/DVD? And in the installer, after it fails, can you start a shell and report the result of the command: udpkg --print-architecture Also, is there any chance that you can try the install over an HTTP server instead of FTP? That might avoid some of the FTP intricacies that could possibly be affecting your results. ===== My notes so far: The combined installer + FTP server log looks like this: * = FTP Server (time skew is +2h -17sec) May 20 10:43:51 main-menu[258]: (process:657): wget: bad response to RETR: 550 /c:/debian/dists/oldstable/Release: No such file or directory. * [2] Sun 20May12 12:43:34 - (000072) RETR debian//dists/testing/Release * file not found May 20 10:43:51 main-menu[258]: (process:657): wget: bad response to RETR: 550 /c:/debian/dists/testing/Release: No such file or directory. * [2] Sun 20May12 12:43:34 - (000073) RETR debian//dists/unstable/Release * file not found May 20 10:43:51 main-menu[258]: (process:657): wget: bad response to RETR: 550 /c:/debian/dists/unstable/Release: No such file or directory. May 20 10:43:51 main-menu[258]: DEBUG: resolver (libc6-udeb): package doesn't exist (ignored) May 20 10:43:54 main-menu[258]: INFO: Menu item 'download-installer' selected * [2] Sun 20May12 12:43:38 - (000074) RETR debian//dists/squeeze/main/binary-s390/Release * ok 95 bytes May 20 10:43:55 net-retriever: Not verifying Release signature: unauthenticated mode enabled (This should actually come _before_ the "unauthenticated" line) * [2] Sun 20May12 12:43:41 - (000075) RETR debian//dists/squeeze/Release * ok 3234 bytes May 20 10:43:57 anna[706]: WARNING **: bad d-i Packages file May 20 10:43:57 net-retriever: Not verifying Release signature: unauthenticated mode enabled (Following timestamps do not match any more??) * [2] Sun 20May12 12:43:44 - (000076) RETR debian//dists/squeeze/Release * ok 3234 bytes May 20 10:46:40 anna[706]: WARNING **: bad d-i Packages file May 20 10:46:41 main-menu[258]: INFO: Menu item 'download-installer' succeeded but requested to be left unconfigured. May 20 10:46:41 main-menu[258]: DEBUG: resolver (libc6-udeb): package doesn't exist (ignored) May 20 10:46:43 main-menu[258]: INFO: Menu item 'di-utils-shell' selected The "WARNING **: bad d-i Packages file" message comes from http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=d-i/anna.git;a=summary which calls http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=d-i/net-retriever.git;a=summary starting from case "$cmd" in packages) This downloads dists/squeeze/Release, skips gpg verification with log message, but then does not appear to try downloading any Packages file at all. There is a check line=`grep $pkgfile\$ $Release 2>/dev/null` (result is not used) which will fail on \r\n line endings and then block anything else. Note that on the FTP connection, "TYPE I" is actually used just fine. Hmm, on i386, dists/squeeze/main/binary-i386/Release is 95 bytes with six \n line endings, which matches result above. But i386's dists/squeeze/Release is 4210 bytes... Another reason could be that $ARCH is incorrect. [I also noticed that net-retriever will only try Packages.gz and Packages, so no .bz2 as I assumed earlier. Though the .bz2 may still be used for the main (non-debian-installer) Packages files.]