Johannes Schauer wrote: > Here is the syslog from the point where the menu appeared: > > http://mister-muffin.de/p/a1nJ.txt
The relevant part is that this was an installation of unstable, there is a perl transition going on, perl is badly busted, and post-base-installer hooks begin to fail: (localechooser) Nov 14 21:06:05 in-target: debconf (developer): starting /usr/bin/debconf-apt-progress --no-progress --logstderr -- apt-get -q -y --no-remove install locales Nov 14 21:06:07 in-target: debconf (developer): <-- GET debconf/priority Nov 14 21:06:07 in-target: debconf (developer): --> 0 high Nov 14 21:06:08 in-target: Reading package lists... Nov 14 21:06:08 in-target: Nov 14 21:06:08 in-target: Building dependency tree... Nov 14 21:06:11 in-target: Nov 14 21:06:12 in-target: You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these: Nov 14 21:06:12 in-target: The following packages have unmet dependencies: Nov 14 21:06:12 in-target: liblocale-gettext-perl : PreDepends: perlapi-5.12.4 but it is not installable Nov 14 21:06:12 in-target: libtext-charwidth-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.12.4 but it is not installable Nov 14 21:06:12 in-target: libtext-iconv-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.12.4 but it is not installable Nov 14 21:06:12 in-target: perl : Depends: perl-modules (>= 5.14.2-3) but 5.12.4-6 is to be installed Nov 14 21:06:12 in-target: E Nov 14 21:06:12 in-target: : Nov 14 21:06:12 in-target: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution). Nov 14 21:06:18 localechooser: error: the command 'validlocale' is not available (preseed) Nov 14 21:06:22 preseed: /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/perl5/auto/Locale/gettext/gettext.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Gthr_key_ptr Nov 14 21:06:22 debconf: --> SUBST preseed/load_error LOCATION /var/lib/preseed/log Nov 14 21:06:22 debconf: Adding [LOCATION] -> [/var/lib/preseed/log] Nov 14 21:06:22 debconf: <-- 0 Nov 14 21:06:22 base-installer: /usr/lib/post-base-installer.d/05preseed: Nov 14 21:06:22 base-installer: return: line 16: Illegal number: tasksel Nov 14 21:06:22 base-installer: warning: /usr/lib/post-base-installer.d/05preseed returned error code 2 (tzsetup) Nov 14 21:06:23 base-installer: warning: /usr/lib/post-base-installer.d/05tzsetup returned error code 10 Despite all these failures, bootstrap-base doesn't display an error, it just finally, does exit 10. Based on the screenshot, it leaves a progress bar up, so this must be an unexpected exit path? Nov 14 21:06:25 main-menu[243]: INFO: Menu item 'bootstrap-base' succeeded but requested to be left unconfigured. And then this debconf protocol corruption happens somehow while the main menu is being built. I'm don't know what's causing it; it may be due to file-preseed.isinstallable hiding that menu item? (This is almost as if there are two things trying to talk to cdebconf at the same time.) Nov 14 21:06:41 debconf: --> GET preseed/file Nov 14 21:06:41 debconf: <-- 0 Nov 14 21:06:41 debconf: --> METAGET debian-installer/file-preseed/title Description METAGET debian-installer/load-cdrom/title Description Nov 14 21:06:41 debconf: <-- 20 Incorrect number of arguments Something is surely corrupted in the debconf protocol at this point, because lots of things end up in the main menu that are replies to other debconf commands than the ones that are used to build it: "OK", "", the url to the preseed file, "false", "false". And that corresponds exactly to what's being done by isinstallable scripts and other things while the menu is built: Nov 14 21:06:25 debconf: --> X_SAVE Nov 14 21:06:41 debconf: <-- 0 OK Nov 14 21:06:41 debconf: --> GET preseed/file Nov 14 21:06:41 debconf: <-- 0 Nov 14 21:06:41 debconf: --> GET preseed/url Nov 14 21:06:41 debconf: <-- 0 http://mister-muffin.de/debian/preseed2.txt Nov 14 21:06:41 debconf: --> GET rescue/enable Nov 14 21:06:41 debconf: <-- 0 false Nov 14 21:06:42 debconf: --> GET grub-installer/skip Nov 14 21:06:42 debconf: <-- 0 false How does main-menu see these replies? Something very wrong must be happening with cdebconf at this point. -- see shy jo
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