On Saturday 13 January 2007 07:53, Benelli Luca wrote: > I don't know when the server will go into production, so i'm not sure > how many tests we can do, at the moment it's still a clean install and > it will probably need to be reinstalled as debian 3.1 (using HPDE > installers) so i think i should have the time to retry the 4.0 RC1 > install...
OK. > As to partitioning: the disks were already partitioned due to earlier > tests with sarge, i just assigned the mount points, tried to run the > installer and it told me i had an already installed system (installing > on an unclean system could lead to problems blah blah), i then went > back to partitioning and chose the format partition option for all > partitions i created an installed. Yes, that is what I suspected. > Please let me know what could be required as testing should i > reinstall. Simply reinstall as i did this time? anything particular to > look at? Initially just see if you can reproduce the problem. So, yes, try to duplicate the install as much as possible: making the same choices. Check the log to see if it looks the same at the point I pointed out. If you can reproduce it, we can trace the issue by doing one more install with some debugging enabled. To enable debugging, you need to add a line 'set -x' near the top of two scripts _before_ user-setup is being run (for example during partitioning); switch to VT2 and use nano to edit the scripts: - /var/lib/dpkg/info/user-setup.postinst - /usr/bin/user-setup-ask If you prefer, you can also enable this debugging during the first retry, but I think it is better to see if you can reproduce the problem first. TIA, FJP
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