Dear Frans et al., > We will need the exact error to further investigate this.
Yes, I figured that -- sorry for the useless error report -- I didn't realise that it was all in syslog or I would have sent it with the original bug report. The exact error starts with: W: GPG error: http://download.mirror.ac.uk etch Release: ...... And then the killer is later: WARNING: the following packages cannot be authenicated! popularity-contest E: There are problems and -y was used without --force-yes Followed by the prompt that I was able to describe to you earlier. Attached is the syslog(.gz) as requested. I tried a number of different .uk mirrors and ftp.d.o itself and all of them had the same behaviour so it's not just a mirror sync problem. In fact, the only way I was able to successfully complete the installation was by telling the netinst image not to use a mirror and only install the minimalist base system. Enabling security support was OK, however. > > The only way of proceding from > > this question was Ctrl+Alt+Del and try again For reference, I was also able to kill aptitude from VT2 which allowed me to back up and have a play. > > 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. That was my understanding, hence the bug report. Perhaps this is related, given the timing....? http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/debian-archive-keyring/news/20070225T233906Z.html > Can you please send us the /var/log/syslog (gzipped!) for a failed > installation? Hope it's useful to you.... cheers Stuart -- Stuart Prescott www.nanoNANOnano.net
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