forcemerge 501723 549880 thanks Hi Robert!
On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:32:13 +0200, Robert Henney wrote: > Package: debian-installer > Severity: important Whenever replying to an existing bug, please reply to the bug number as explained at http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#followup With this mail, I have merged your new bug (#549880) with the original one I submitted (#501723), no need for two different bugs for the same issue. > On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 10:27:43PM +0200, Luca Capello wrote: >> I'm not sure if this is still a bug, since it happened with an etch >> 4.0r4 i386 business-card image, but I don't know how to reproduce it, so >> I reported it anyway. Feel free to close it :-) > > I can confirm that this problem still exists in 5.0r3 powerpc netinst. > > I have an iMac G3 on which this occurs at every install attempt, so it's > very reproducible here. because of that I have not been able to get > lenny installed on it. > > there is one thing about this machine that may be a clue: > the hardware clock on the machine appears to have reset to Jan 1 of some > year, probably 1970 but without a date command installed it's hard to > tell. the system time being so far off might be confusing something in > the installer, but I can't begin to guess what. I had similar problems WRT the hardware clock, as I explained at http://bugs.debian.org/501367 You can easily reset the hardware clock removing the internal battery and leaving the machine off 2/3 days IIRC. I am not sure, but I think that I have looked at the d-i logfiles at that time and the problem seemed to be related to the RTC not being available or broken. I do not have anymore the d-i logfiles, so I can not confirm this. Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca
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