Hello! I am using the d-i preseed late_command option to launch a script that installs a set of packages and makes some configurations.
The script seems to work fine. I am testing it the following way: 1. Boot d-i with 'auto url=myserver'. This has a preseed file that does everything and does not run my late_command and does not answer the final 'installation complete, now reboot' note; so it doesn't yet reboot. 2. Now I press <Alt>+<F2>, press enter, and run 'chroot /target /bin/bash' 3. I wget my late_command, chmod it and run it. This way it works fine and completely non-interactively, as expected. The problem is when I try to run this script via the preseed option like so: d-i preseed/late_command string chroot /target /bin/bash -c 'cd /root/ && wget -q http://ahava/d-i/etch/late_command.sh && chmod 755 late_command.sh && ./late_command.sh' >> /var/log/syslog The syslog bit is an easy way to watch the output, on tty4. Is there a better way? It runs it, of course, but it soon stops and the processes that are running, that seem interesting, are: /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure -phigh debconf /bin/sh /var/lib/dpkg/info/debconf.config reconfigure (can't read the rest) The last interesting messages that are displayed are: (date) log-output: debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Newt (date) log-output: debconf: (Can't locate Debconf/FrontEnd/Newt.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/share/perl5 /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at (eval 19) line 2.) (date) log-output: debconf: falling back to frontend: Noninteractive And that is it. It doesn't go further. I think that the line in my script that causes this is 'dpkg-reconfigure -phigh debconf'. So, can anyone explain to me what is the difference between: running my script (debconf is the problematic process, AFAICT) in tty2 in chroot and: running my script from the preseed late_command option ??? Thanks for reading! Happy living! -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
