On Sat, 31 Mar 2007, peter green wrote:
I find it stuck in tasksel. The screen shows "Package configuration"
on the very top line, and a text box in the middle saying:
"Installing packages \ Installed libdiscover1 "
and a status bar stuck at 75%.
if the seperate tasksel is anything like that in d-i i bet its getting stuck on
a conffile prompt or something.
i'd suggest you install a desktop with apt-get install gnome-core and then just
install what you want from there.
Thanks guys. I killed the chain of processes lead by this tasksel, then
fired up aptitude to see how things looked. Aptitude insisted that I
should run: dpkg --configure -a
I ran that, and dpkg finished up installing the desktop stuff.
I did a quick update/upgrade and [re-]installed ssh/sshd in aptitude.
Everything looks back to normal now -- gnome is up and running; Etch seems
to be happily installed now on this box.
Thanks again.
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