Re: d-i's purpose (was: Cannot find "debian-installer/main-menu doesn't exist" in menu)

2014-08-21 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Steven Chamberlain (2014-08-21): > * cdebconf command_get was being called with an option name not found in > its templates.dat; it returns an error message string, but the caller > (main-menu) tries to interpret it as an actual debconf setting before > failing This indeed looks like something w

Re: d-i's purpose (was: Cannot find "debian-installer/main-menu doesn't exist" in menu)

2014-08-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Steven Chamberlain, le Thu 21 Aug 2014 14:00:06 +0100, a écrit : > d-i images may be very small, but I haven't found it practical on > embedded systems, which may not even have working VGA or networking; That's fine. I actually don't usually use VGA or network on servers, but simply a serial port.

Re: d-i's purpose (was: Cannot find "debian-installer/main-menu doesn't exist" in menu)

2014-08-21 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Whilst this didn't turn out to be a d-i bug, it did occur to me there is a lack of robustness within d-i, and a real bug here would have been a nightmare to find. The sequence of events was something like: * at boot-time, /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.templates are parsed to generate a /var/lib/cdebconf/t

Re: Cannot find "debian-installer/main-menu doesn't exist" in menu

2014-08-20 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 20/08/14 22:38, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Steven Chamberlain (2014-08-20): >> Any ideas why debian-installer/main-menu would fail to display, with >> this error: >>> WARNING **: Internal error! Cannot find "debian-installer/main-menu doesn't >>> exis

Re: Cannot find "debian-installer/main-menu doesn't exist" in menu

2014-08-20 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Steven Chamberlain (2014-08-20): > Hi, > > Any ideas why debian-installer/main-menu would fail to display, with > this error: > > WARNING **: Internal error! Cannot find "debian-installer/main-menu doesn't > > exist" in menu. > > This is a k

Cannot find "debian-installer/main-menu doesn't exist" in menu

2014-08-20 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hi, Any ideas why debian-installer/main-menu would fail to display, with this error: > WARNING **: Internal error! Cannot find "debian-installer/main-menu doesn't > exist" in menu. This is a kfreebsd-i386 d-i image I've built myself from debian-installer Git and udeb