On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 02:41:11PM +0200, Eddy Petrișor wrote: > Josef Wolf wrote: [ ... ] > Did you try to manually retry the configuration?
Thanks for your replies and your suggestions, Eddy! Yes, I tried "udpkg --configure --force-configure ppp-udeb". But the menus were messed up. Looks like menus are messed up by debug/log output to the terminal. Anyways, I entered pppoe-username/password blindly. But it failed again without error message. > For some unknown reason > ppp-udeb sometimes fails to consistently configure PPPoE. It had this > problem since its begining when I started working on it, but I never > found the reason behind it. Still, manually retrying usually makes it > work. Did not work for me. I have retried at least 10 times. :-( > > I have tried to further investigate the problem and found that > > ppp-udeb.postinst fails at line 168 which reads > > > > db_input high netcfg/get_hostname > > *If* your investigation is correct, apparently the hostname question is > botched/not asked somehow. Don't know why. It was not asked because it is preseeded with d-i netcfg/get_hostname string dsl-gw and it seems to be recognized by d-i, because it is stored with Name: netcfg/get_hostname Template: netcfg/get_hostname Value: dsl-gw Owners: d-i, netcfg Flags: seen Variables: Id = netcfg/get_hostname in /var/lib/cdebconf/questions.dat But I am _not_ asked for the domainname. Maybe this is the cause of the problem? Please check my other mail about this at http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2007/11/msg00734.html > > The next interesting point is that eth0 is not configured at the time > > ppp-udeb runs. Seems like ppp-udeb is configured before netcfg. Could > > This is normal and that is the whole point. To make ppp-udeb configure the > networking instead of netcfg. OK. Eddy, can you please give me some hints how to could track down this problem? I must confess that I am not very familiar with d-i internals. But I am familiar with linux command line in general. So just a few hints might be enough to get me into a position to track down this problem. Thanks again, Eddy! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
