Debian Bug report logs - #235444
base-config loops over the same questions

Package: debconf; Maintainer for debconf is Debconf Developers <[email protected]>; Source for debconf is src:debconf (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Konstantinos Margaritis <[email protected]>

Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 14:03:04 UTC

Severity: normal

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Konstantinos Margaritis wrote:
> after successfully installing and configuring the system with
> base-config, instead of letting me login to the system, base-config
> restarts and makes me answer the same questions all over.

I can't reproduce this. What does your /etc/inittab look like?
Do you have an /etc/inittab.real?

/usr/lib/base-config/menu/finish is responsible for replacing the
inittab with one that does not use base-config. Add debugging commands
to that script.

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