installer hangs at "Configuring apt" while installing from Hoary release CD
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
debian-installer (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Medium
|
Colin Watson |
Bug Description
Perfectly normal installation until the "Configuring apt... " step. Goes to 25%
fast and the blue screen freezes there,"Setting up primary installation
repository...". Network connection on motherboard up and running, the computer
answers ping, connection to ISP runs on other machine on the LAN. Virtual
consoles works.
# tail messages
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "C.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale 'en_US.UTF-8' not available
Generating locales...
en_US.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.
# tail syslog
Apr 12 16:18:58 main-menu[7650]: DEBUG: resolver (cdrom-checker): mark
Apr 12 16:18:58 main-menu[7650]: DEBUG: resolver (di-utils-shell): mark
Apr 12 16:18:58 main-menu[7650]: DEBUG: resolver (di-utils-reboot): mark
Apr 12 16:18:58 main-menu[7650]: INFO: Falling back to the package description
for multiseat-udeb
Apr 12 16:18:58 main-menu[7650]: INFO: Falling back to the package description
for multiseat-udeb
Apr 12 16:18:58 main-menu[7650]: DEBUG: Menu item 'apt-setup-udeb' selected
Apr 12 16:18:58 main-menu[7650]: DEBUG: configure apt-setup-udeb, status: 2
Apr 12 16:18:58 main-menu[7650]: DEBUG: configure target-base-system, status: 0
Apr 12 16:18:58 main-menu[7650]: DEBUG: virtual package target-base-system
Apr 12 16:19:04 debconf: Obsolete command TITLE called
Apr 12 16:19:05 debconf: Obsolete command TITLE Apt configuration called
The system left is not bootable
(GRUB loading, please wait...
Error 15)
The CD confirmes to it's md5sum.txt file.
The same machine made a proper install of a hoary pre-release from February.
Now I've tried with the x86 hoary distribution also on the same machine, it
stops at the same step in the installation.