Debian Bug report logs - #784081
debian-installer-8-netboot-amd64: expert netboot install hangs at step install_packages (tasksel): uninitialized value in vec at /usr/bin/debconf-apt-progress

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

Reported by: Hendrik Schaink <[email protected]>

Date: Sat, 2 May 2015 20:21:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: d-i, moreinfo

Found in version debconf/1.5.56

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From: Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <[email protected]>
To: Hendrik Schaink <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: Re: Bug#784081: debian-installer-8-netboot-amd64: expert netboot install hangs at step install_packages (tasksel): uninitialized value in vec at /usr/bin/debconf-apt-progress
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Control: reassign -1 debconf 1.5.56
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Hi Hendrik,

> expert netboot install hangs at step install_packages (tasksel):
> uninitialized value in vec at /usr/bin/debconf-apt-progress

This is most certainly a bug either in debconf or in the package it was 
configuring, but not in debian-installer-8-netboot-*. 

You might want to add more information to your bug, it's really too 
terse to even start investigating.

Cheers,
OdyX



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