Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [Goswin von Brederlow]
> > I get past loading all installer modules from cdrom and then main menu
> > comes up with "Start pcmcia services"(?) as default option.
> >
> > Selecting that sends /sbin/debian-installer into respawning, frontend
> > seems to scan its menu fine but then fails to display or something.
>
> Yes, this is bug #215403 (debconf_capb definition broken) crashing
> main-menu. We discovered it last evening, but it was too late to fix
> it for yesterdays archive update.
Why does it work before it installs the installer modules?
> > I noticed that /sbin/debian-installer will be respawned on the active
> > console, so when it dies while you watch alt-f4 it respawns on top of
> > the debug messages.
>
> I got around that using Ctrl-S in tty1 first, to stop the looping.
>
> > We had a pretty well working set of udebs and images before. Why
> > weren't they pushed into sarge as planed? Could one DD please get
> > the last working image, extract the versions of udebs and upload
> > those to sarge please.
>
> We should have a working CD image stored somewhere, if I remember
> correctly.
Yes, thats what I heart too.
But the deb/udebs used to build it should be pushed to sarge too.
> I've uploaded the updated cdebconf, and we need to rebuild/reupload
> all packages using the debconf_capb() macro in the source to fix the
> problem.
>
> Anyone know why is the debconf_* macros are macros? If they were
> library functions, it would have been sufficient to upload a new
> cdebconf. They are not, so we need to rebuild. Would it be smarter
> to convert them to real functions instead?
MfG
Goswin
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