install, untrusted versions = loop

[Carl Karsten]

Installing on a IBM ThinkPad a21m, P3-800, 192mb 30gig.

pxe net boot the install, no preseed file, use breezy CD on lan/apache as the
mirror. (I think this has been going well, but I have been doing preseeded
installs for the last few months, this is the first interactive because I didn't
want to destroy the NTFS partition.)

It has XP/ntfs, which was resized to 18gig.

screen shows: "Installing packages" "Preparing for installation" progress bar
at "85%" and stopped.

hit alt-f3, log in, df shows 0 free.

ls -l base-config-pkgsel.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9004683264 2005-10-19 08:08 base-config-pkgsel.log

tail base-config-pkgsel.log

Should I go ahead and install the packages anyway?
To continue, enter "Yes"; to abort, enter "No": Unrecognized input. Enter
either "Yes" or "No".
(repeat)

digging around in base-config-pkgsel.log I find:
 "Warning: untrusted versions of the following... language-pack-en-base
language-pack-en"

and then the looping "Should I go ahead ..."

I'll try again using us.ubuntu.com as the mirror.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

I'm sure this must be an apt bug. It shouldn't loop forever if it can't get an
answer.

If redirecting stdin from /dev/null would help, let me know.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

(oops, wrong assignee, sorry)

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

apt's interactive prompts had similar problems until they were fixed...

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

This problem is no longer present in the version of aptitude in dapper.