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Package: tasksel
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In short, when the CD-drive is empty, but apt/sources.list contains a
'deb cdrom:', tasksel hangs and can not recover. In the same
situation aptitude responds gracefully by asking the user to insert
the missing CD -- with an option to ignore the CD and get the
packages in question from other sources.
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As part of a different report [Bug#379365: Semi-successful install
with miBoot floppy set and Netinst CD on OldWorld Mac...] I did some
experiments that may be helpful in figuring out what's going on here...
I did a "bare bones" install (un-checked the "Desktop" task in the
task selection stage) from a netinst CD today. As part of the finish-
up/reboot stage, I removed the netinst install CD from the drive as
instructed. After the reboot, I tried to use tasksel to install the
missing Desktop task. I deliberately left the CD out of the drive.
I got these messages on the console:
> HASH (0x101a4004) provides: complete-desktop
> E: Package read-edid has no installation candidate
> cdrom: open failed
> cdrom: open failed
Then the process hung. I hit ctl-C as an experiment, and it
proceeded a bit, but gave two more messages "cdrom: open failed" and
hung again. Hitting ctl-C again did not make it progress any further.
I went to another console window and rebooted. After the reboot, I
tried tasksel again, but this time with the CD in the drive. It ran
just fine, but it did *not* read much (if anything at all) from the
CDrom -- no blinking lights that I could see on the CD drive -- but
lots of network activity. Very curious!
Later on, I tried "mount -v /media/cdrom" with no CD in the drive. I
got the message "mount: No medium found" on the console. So the
drive (and the driver) is doing it's job and reporting correctly that
there is no media in the drive.
Then I used aptitude to install the "openssh" package. I did it with
nothing in the CD drive. Aptitude gave me an error message:
> Please insert the disk labeled "Debian GNU/Linux testing
_Etch_ ..." into the drive "/cdrom".
> [continue] [abort]
I chose [abort] and it went ahead and got the package from the
network server.
So there seems to be a difference between "tasksel" and "aptitude" in
their behavior on a missing CDrom. In an earlier report I said that
"aptitude" had hung. I believe now that it was actually "tasksel"
that hung. Sorry for any confusion this may have caused.
Hope this helps!
Rick
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Version: 1.5.4
debconf-apt-progress CD prompting was fixed in this version of debconf.
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see shy jo
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