Package: debian-installer Severity: important Tags: d-i Dear Debian Team,
I have been facing this major issue since the very first official release of Squeeze, so I will try being as consistent and to the point in describing it, as I can. Since the first release of Squeeze 6.0, the only possible way for me of installing Debian has always been the official AMD64-DVD. It is still the only possible media which recognizes a plugged keyboard and allows me to use my Apple Aluminium keyboard - and go through the installation process (mice do not work). No installation from any other distribution works (netboot, testing-netboot etc), due to the fact that the keyboard and mouse are unusable there - as soon as I choose "graphical expert install" and it has loaded, I can't even get past the very first screen. I have been trying with PS2-devices, other USB-keyboards and mice, all in vain. I then decided to jump to "Wheezy", where I did hope this might had been fixed, but to my surprise - I had to give up with a Wheezy netboot installation as well, because USB-devices were not working again. All input devices do work normally during POST, before entering the installer and when Debian is installed and running. Here the details : - "Wheezy" AMD64 Netboot-CD (20120102-04:49) - Asus P5Q3 Deluxe WiFi-Ap @n - Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 - Nvidia GTX285 - Apple Aluminium keyboard with numeric touchpad (Model No.A1243, EMC No.2171) - played around with USB-options in the BIOS - no go - plugged/replugged the keyboard, a generic usb-mouse, a PS2-KB & mouse - no go I went through the "Help" menu of the netboot-cd, read the options, tried with most (acpi/apic etc). I tried collecting as much information as possible, but the messages are briefly the ones showed below, these come up when I type in "install expertgui" at the boot-prompt (from the help-menu) : 1. From the main terminal : (process : 4170) : INFO :kbd-mode : setting console mode to Unicode (UTF-8) The screen is flashing and the above line is repeating at every second or two, with an ever-increasing process number. 2. When i switched to another terminal : main-menu[1526] :DEBUG: resolver (libc-udeb) : package doesn't exist (ignored) main-menu [1526]:INFO: Menu item 'localechooser' selected debconf : Setting debconf/language to en kernel : [18.686451] debconf [1520] : segfault at 2000000036 ip 00007f89c8d29 sp 00007fff0e96bb50 error 4 in libc.so.6[7f89c6985000 + ff000] init : process '/sbin/reopen-console /sbin/debian-installer' (pid 1509) exited. Scheduling for restart init: starting pid 1614, tty '': '/sbin/reopen-console /sbin/debian-installer' This is repeating as well, with init constantly re-spawning the process and the process numbers increasing with time. Please, let me know if there is any other way I could gather a more in-detail output, log it and send it if necessary ( I was trying to figure out how to do it myself, but... :) ) Thank you very much in advance, Best Regards Radostin Dimitrov radostin_dimit...@mail.bg 01.12.2012 -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
