reassign 361180 base-installer retitle Selecting 2.6 kernel when installing using 2.4 will break install thanks
On Monday 10 April 2006 21:11, Jack Carroll wrote: > That revealed the place where the files get deleted. I'll see if I > can move the log to disk and attach it to this message. Just copying a > few key items from the screen on the test machine: > It happens at the 93% point in the log file. apt-install generates > a large number of lines... OK. This information has been in the syslog all the time. We would not have had to activate the debugging for this. The root of the problem is that you are installing from floppy which uses the 2.4 kernel and therefore schedules the package hotplug for installation. When you get to kernel installation, you choose to ignore the offered default 2.4 kernel and instead select a 2.6 kernel. The 2.6 kernel depends on udev which conflicts with hotplug which results in the kernel being uninstalled. So, if you'd just accept the 2.4 kernel offered by default, the installation will go fine. You can upgrade to a 2.6 kernel after the installation finishes. If you'd just done a default installation instead of choosing expert mode, none of this would have happened. However, Thanks for staying with this as it has laid bare something we should not allow users to do. Cheers, FJP Note for BR history. A few mails exchanged for this issue were not sent to the bug report. They can be found in the d-boot list (9/10 april 2006). Note for resolution. There are two issues here: - We should probably no longer allow selection of a 2.4 kernel when running 2.6 and vice versa. - We should probably not allow apt-install to remove packages that are installed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]