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Subject: Re: debian-installer: hungs with unstruted sources
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 21:32:13 -0400
Package: debian-installer
Severity: important
On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 10:27:43PM +0200, Luca Capello wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is still a bug, since it happened with an etch
> 4.0r4 i386 business-card image, but I don't know how to reproduce it, so
> I reported it anyway. Feel free to close it :-)
I can confirm that this problem still exists in 5.0r3 powerpc netinst.
I have an iMac G3 on which this occurs at every install attempt, so it's
very reproducible here. because of that I have not been able to get
lenny installed on it.
there is one thing about this machine that may be a clue:
the hardware clock on the machine appears to have reset to Jan 1 of some
year, probably 1970 but without a date command installed it's hard to
tell. the system time being so far off might be confusing something in
the installer, but I can't begin to guess what.
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Subject: Re: debian-installer: hungs with unstruted sources
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 22:14:09 -0400
I believe that I have now confirmed that it has something to do with
installing while the system time is set far in the past. after setting
the hardware clock in Open Firmware, the next install attempt went
flawlessly.
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forcemerge 501723 549880
thanks
Hi Robert!
On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:32:13 +0200, Robert Henney wrote:
> Package: debian-installer
> Severity: important
Whenever replying to an existing bug, please reply to the bug number as
explained at
http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#followup
With this mail, I have merged your new bug (#549880) with the original
one I submitted (#501723), no need for two different bugs for the same
issue.
> On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 10:27:43PM +0200, Luca Capello wrote:
>> I'm not sure if this is still a bug, since it happened with an etch
>> 4.0r4 i386 business-card image, but I don't know how to reproduce it, so
>> I reported it anyway. Feel free to close it :-)
>
> I can confirm that this problem still exists in 5.0r3 powerpc netinst.
>
> I have an iMac G3 on which this occurs at every install attempt, so it's
> very reproducible here. because of that I have not been able to get
> lenny installed on it.
>
> there is one thing about this machine that may be a clue:
> the hardware clock on the machine appears to have reset to Jan 1 of some
> year, probably 1970 but without a date command installed it's hard to
> tell. the system time being so far off might be confusing something in
> the installer, but I can't begin to guess what.
I had similar problems WRT the hardware clock, as I explained at
http://bugs.debian.org/501367
You can easily reset the hardware clock removing the internal battery
and leaving the machine off 2/3 days IIRC. I am not sure, but I think
that I have looked at the d-i logfiles at that time and the problem
seemed to be related to the RTC not being available or broken. I do not
have anymore the d-i logfiles, so I can not confirm this.
Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca
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