Package: debian-installer severity: grave On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 12:34:33AM -0500, Rick_Thomas wrote: > I tried it on a 350MHz G4 PowerMac (NewWorld) at the office. All went > well except for one strangeness. Since the same thing happened on my > beige G3 last night, I'm curious if anyone else has seen it?
Cool > Last night I thought it was just a glitch -- the beige G3 hardware is > sometimes a little flaky. But now I'm not so sure. The G4 machine has > always been solid as a rock, hardware-wise. > > The weirdness is this: > > Installing with the 2.6.8 kernel (single processor version, if it > matters) The initial reboot goes just fine, and drops me into tasksel, > where I select "print server", and "desktop environment". All the > installation and setup stuff goes as expected, but when everything is > over and I try to log out, I never get a "login:" prompt or a Gnome > login window. If I switch to another virtual console (alt-F2) and try > to login there it accepts my login and password, but I never get a shell > prompt. I had this also, but a reboot solved it. > I had to go to another machine and do "ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] /sbin/reboot" > because using "slogin [EMAIL PROTECTED]" got me the point where I enter my > root > password, then the same hang as I saw on the second virtual console. > > Sound familiar? What am I doing wrong? Don't know once is a coincidence, but 3 times is a problem, which i believe is RC. We should fill a bug, but i don't know what package to fill it at, let's say the installer for now. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
