On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 10:31:00AM -0400, Charlie Kelly wrote: > Package: installation-reports > Severity: normal > > I had many problems with the install process but the above mentioned is the > most critical as it prevents me from doing anything else after install. I > can't add a single package, for instance, because the password doesn't work. > I don't know what else to say about the bug. The installer asks for a root > password, and I supply one. Next the installer asks for the name of the user, > which I type. Then the installer asks for a username, which I provide. Then > the installer asks for the password for that user, and I type one. That's it, > there's four steps to the whole "adding username" process. Nowhere does it > ask whether the user should be able to get root access (he/she should, being > the only user!). So, after completing the install and booting into the > system, it does not allow you to login as "root", but logging in as the > primary user gives you a system that is "semi-usable"; that is, I can use > everything, but I can't install, update, I can't even do a simple "sudo dpkg > -i". Very frustrating.
I certainly disagree. I do NOT want sudo access setup for my user. I hate sudo. Debian has fortunately never done this by default, although I believe (from what I have read) that if you don't give a root password at all then it instead makes the first user have sudo access. I have never tried that though. > Other problems I had with the install process are as follows: > 1. Wireless network detection failed. I have a T60 and required the iwl3945 > driver. I had this driver on a flashdrive and installed it in a live session > terminal with "dpkg -i". Only after doing so could my system access the > internet. Then I performed the install. > However, the installer would not detect a network no matter what. Even the > manual method would not work. Maybe this was because I was using the > aforementioned driver? I don't know. > Furthermore, if I tell it to connect to so-and-so network, it asks for a > password, but only a WEP-key is supported! What?! Really it's 2011 and the > installer doesn't even know that WPA exists? What about WEP password instead > of WEP hex key? At any rate, so I had much trouble getting the system to > connect. I finally just removed encryption from my wireless router, but still > the installer seemed to fail to connect, and on the first boot it didn't > appear to connect to DHCP. There is an "unofficial" non-free installer CD that includes non-free firmware such as the iwl3945 requires. Perhaps that one would work without manual intervention. As for WEP versus WPA, no idea. I have only ever done installs using wired ethernet. Wifi is too flacky for me to trust for an installation where a network outage could make you have to start over. > 2. Within the live terminal or within the system following install, doing a > "Restart" results in an endless loop. It does not shut down the system, it > simply logs out, then appears to restart the kernel, then presents the login > screen again. It does not really restart the computer. Only using "Shutdown" > will perform a hard reboot. Weird. Never seen any behaviour like that. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110906144007.ge15...@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
