Package: debian-installer Version: D-I daily build October 19, 2008 Severity: normal
Hi all, With some (correct) preseed files, Debian Installer fails at the "Download debconf preconfiguration file" step, with the message: "Failed to process the preconfiguration file The installer failed to process the preconfiguration file from http://x.x.x.x/d-i/preseed/xxxxxx.di. The file may be corrupt." debconf-set-selections -c xxxxxx.di does not give any output, so that seems alright. I can work around this problem by adding a couple of extra packages to pkgsel/include in the preseed file. Suddenly the preseed file doesn't break Debian Installer! That proves even more that the original preseed file was okay. The diff is, of course, not more than the extra package definitions. Tested with VMware Server, real hardware and architecture amd64. And now the most interesting observation: using the same preseed file, the one that breaks, for i386... no error message anymore! So this problem seems to be architecture-dependent. I have had this problem for a couple of months, since at least Lenny beta 2. With the latest daily build (October 19), this is still the case, so I thought to share my experiences. The problem is easily reproducible with a specially crafted preseed file. Creating such a file is not easy, so I'll provide you one (bad.di). I also added one with the above described work-around (good.di). bad.di : http://krnl.nl/bad.di good.di : http://krnl.nl/good.di The diff is: $ diff bad.di good.di 160a161 > mysql-client \ If you try to install these preseed files on amd64, bad.di will break D-I at the "Download debconf preconfiguration file" step and good.di will probably break later when it tries to retrieve archive information, because the network configuration won't work in all environments. For i386, D-I will break on retrieving archive information for both bad.di and good.di. Posting this bug in debian-installer, because I'm not sure which specific package this should go. Feel free to move it. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
