Bug#235444: base-config loops over the same questions

2004-03-28 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Saturday 27 March 2004 22:31, Joey Hess wrote: Yes, it was the MTA config item. I don't see the significance of a colon, it's just another character. Found it!!! I used MTA in parenthesis to explain the greek translation like that: text (MTA) Apparently perl didn't like that and it caused

Bug#235444: base-config loops over the same questions

2004-03-28 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Sunday 28 March 2004 18:37, Joey Hess wrote: I don't understand how that could be significant either. What did you see? It loaded the exim4 debconf screen (which it didn't before) and it allowed me to complete the installation. There was no loop. Konstantinos -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#235444: base-config loops over the same questions

2004-03-28 Thread Joey Hess
Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: On Saturday 27 March 2004 22:31, Joey Hess wrote: Yes, it was the MTA config item. I don't see the significance of a colon, it's just another character. Found it!!! I used MTA in parenthesis to explain the greek translation like that: text (MTA)

Bug#235444: base-config loops over the same questions

2004-03-28 Thread Joey Hess
Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: On Sunday 28 March 2004 18:37, Joey Hess wrote: I don't understand how that could be significant either. What did you see? It loaded the exim4 debconf screen (which it didn't before) and it allowed me to complete the installation. There was no loop. I'm

Bug#235444: base-config loops over the same questions

2004-03-27 Thread Joey Hess
Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: It seems that this bug continues to appear. I was really busy the last weeks and could not do any debian work at all. Which menu item did you mean? This one: Configure the Mail Transfer Agent? If it may help, I just found out that the greek translation had a

Bug#235444: base-config loops over the same questions

2004-03-27 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Friday 05 March 2004 21:20, Joey Hess wrote: I can reproduce this bug doing an install in greek. Moreover, I can reproduce it with the teletype debconf frontend, so it's not a problem with whiptail. It seems that this one menu item for MTA configuration must be mangled somehow in debconf,

Bug#235444: base-config loops over the same questions

2004-03-05 Thread Joey Hess
That was helpful. It seems this problem is probably limited to the el_GR utf-8 locale. In the log file I see it grep for the menu item for configuring the MTA, and somehow it fails to find the greek translation in the menu mapping file. It could be some 8-bit cleanness issue corrupting the string

Bug#235444: base-config loops over the same questions

2004-03-03 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Sunday 29 February 2004 19:26, Joey Hess wrote: I can't reproduce this. What does your /etc/inittab look like? Do you have an /etc/inittab.real? /usr/lib/base-config/menu/finish is responsible for replacing the inittab with one that does not use base-config. Add debugging commands to that

Bug#235444: base-config loops over the same questions

2004-03-03 Thread Joey Hess
Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: Ok, I managed to duplicate the process. After the install I do the following steps: 1) I did not add another apt source 2) I chose tasksel to select packages 3) I chose nothing in tasksel (just pushed finish) In this part tasksel showed a bug, it lists

Bug#235444: base-config loops over the same questions

2004-03-03 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Thursday 04 March 2004 03:16, Joey Hess wrote: Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: Well the grep output is coming from part of base-config, but I can't understand why that would happen. Are you using the debian-installer netinst CD? Yes, even the latest 20040303 sid netinst from gluck. The last

Bug#235444: base-config loops over the same questions

2004-03-03 Thread Joey Hess
Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: Yes, even the latest 20040303 sid netinst from gluck. The last one I tried (20040301) also showed this behaviour (come to think of it, pretty much all the last ones...). I just tried, and I cannot reproduce it. Hm, I am not really knowledgeable of

Bug#235444: base-config loops over the same questions

2004-03-03 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 04 March 2004 02:43, Joey Hess wrote: I just tried, and I cannot reproduce it. The first time I did my installation, I had the same problem (using sarge-i386-netinst.iso (02-Mar-2004) from http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/ testing/daily/i386/current/). Don't know if I can reproduce

Bug#235444: base-config loops over the same questions

2004-02-29 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
Package: base-config Version: 2.13 Severity: normal after successfully installing and configuring the system with base-config, instead of letting me login to the system, base-config restarts and makes me answer the same questions all over. Konstantinos -- System Information: Debian Release:

Bug#235444: base-config loops over the same questions

2004-02-29 Thread Joey Hess
Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: after successfully installing and configuring the system with base-config, instead of letting me login to the system, base-config restarts and makes me answer the same questions all over. I can't reproduce this. What does your /etc/inittab look like? Do you have