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> Nick (Cced) has an issue when installing Debian, at PAM module
> selection, which loops with "No PAM profiles have been selected"
> messages.  The way to reproduce is the following:

This cc: didn't make it through to the BTS (you need to use X-Debbugs-Cc:
for that).

> - as soon as the base system is installed (the main menu of the debian
>   installer is shown and thus the target is not busy), run

>   chroot /target dpkg-reconfigure debconf

>   and select the low debconf level.

Should also be reproducible with 'medium' fwiw; pam-auth-update doesn't ask
any questions at low priority.

> - continue installation (download/install/configure, answer questions),
>   up to the libpam-gnome-keyring package configuration (which is
>   quite late). libpam-runtime's configuration will be invoked since
>   libpam-gnome-keyring provides a new module. The configuration box
>   proposes to select among the 3 now-installed modules, but whatever
>   the selection that you validate, you always end up with the "No PAM
>   profiles have been selected." error message, there is no way out
>   except hard-rebooting.

Please provide a tarball of /var/lib/pam and /etc/pam.d/common-* from the
affected system.

> -- debconf information:
>   libpam-runtime/conflicts:
> * libpam-runtime/no_profiles_chosen:
>   libpam-runtime/you-had-no-auth:
>   libpam-runtime/override: false
> * libpam-runtime/profiles: unix, gnome-keyring, consolekit

Are these values from a system where you reproduced the problem?

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