On Monday 26 February 2007 14:02, Stuart Prescott wrote: > If I provided a network mirror and asked for Desktop or Laptop tasks to > be installed then install would crash at about 5% complete. Switching > to another VT showed that the package manager was asking me if I wanted > to continue past a warning (there was a big long list of package names > that were going to be installed with a "Do you want to continue > (yes/no)?" prompt at the end.
We will need the exact error to further investigate this. > Unfortunately, I couldn't scroll up in the VT to find out what the > problem was All messages are also saved in /var/log/syslog which you can view from VT2 using nano. > and there was no way of actually answering this yes/no question. No, that is by design. These questions should not be asked and therefore there is no need to be able to answer them. If they are being asked, then that is a bug that needs to be fixed. > The only way of proceding from > this question was Ctrl+Alt+Del and try again (hence the severity of > this bug -- it exposes two problems.... the installer is asking some > question that the user cannot answer and the installer probably > shouldn't be asking this question anyway!) > > Further investigation with aptitude running the tasksel matching itself > seems to show this is an apt key problem and perhaps already known to > you. It was a known problem, but one that has been fixed. It should not happen on daily installation images. Can you please send us the /var/log/syslog (gzipped!) for a failed installation? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
