Hi, When running the installer in a Xen paravirtualised environment, kbd-chooser errors out after selecting a keymap:
Select a keyboard layout ------------------------ Keymap to use: 1. American English [*] 23. Italian [...] 22. Icelandic Prompt: '?' for help, default=1> !! ERROR: Installation step failed An installation step failed. You can try to run the failing item again from the menu, or skip it and choose something else. The failing step is: Select a keyboard layout [Press enter to continue] I'm not exactly sure why this happens, but the whole thing doesn't make much sense to me, as a virtual computer doesn't rellay have a keyboard attached. Therefore I propose the following patch:
Index: packages/kbd-chooser/debian/kbd-chooser.isinstallable =================================================================== --- packages/kbd-chooser/debian/kbd-chooser.isinstallable (revision 52852) +++ packages/kbd-chooser/debian/kbd-chooser.isinstallable (working copy) @@ -1,4 +1,8 @@ #!/bin/sh . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule db_get auto-install/enable && [ "$RET" = true ] && exit 1 + +# A paravirtualised system has no keyboard attached +[ -d /proc/xen ] && exit 1 + exit 0
which makes kbd-chooser not installable in a Xen paravirtualised environment. At least. Of course several questions arise: * What happens under a fully virtualised environment? Does kbd-chooser error out? Does it make sense? Is /proc/xen present? * Using /proc for such things is deprecated, should we check /sys/bus/xen or /sys/devices/xen instead? * Should we use a more elaborate detection method, like the short C program presented in http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-changelog/2007-02/msg00075.html for example? * Should this problem be solved by other means, like Subarchitecture specifications, whatever those are? See http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2003/09/msg00854.html -- Regards, Feri.
