Package: debian-installer Version: weekly PPC Sarge CD from 28.04.2005 Severity: normal
Hello, I was trying to install a old prep box. I have choosen the console-server (ssh server) as installation console because of the slow serial link. AFAICS this was a mistake: when I rebooted the first time and loged in with SSH, I got thousands of perl errors because the variables LANG="en" and LANGUAGE="en_US, en_GB" have been set. And nothing did work, whatever I choose from the menu, it failed after a dozen of perl locale errors. Then I started a shell, edited /etc/environment, set LANG=C and removed LANGUAGE variable (which still looked sane for me). Now, after rebooting the box and trying to open the SSH installation cosole, I get only: debug1: Authentication succeeded (keyboard-interactive). debug1: channel 0: new [client-session] debug1: Entering interactive session. debug1: Sending environment. debug1: Sending env LANG = de_DE.UTF-8 debug1: Sending command: /sbin/reboot Configuring the base system... debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog debconf: (TERM is not set, so the dialog frontend is not usable.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Readline debconf: (Can't locate Term/ReadLine.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/l ocal/lib/perl/5.8.4 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/share/ perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Readline.pm line 5.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Teletype debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog debconf: (TERM is not set, so the dialog frontend is not usable.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Readline debconf: (Can't locate Term/ReadLine.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/l ocal/lib/perl/5.8.4 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/share/ perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Readline.pm line 5.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Teletype debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog debconf: (TERM is not set, so the dialog frontend is not usable.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Readline debconf: (Can't locate Term/ReadLine.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/l ocal/lib/perl/5.8.4 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/share/ perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Readline.pm line 5.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Teletype debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog debconf: (TERM is not set, so the dialog frontend is not usable.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Readline debconf: (Can't locate Term/ReadLine.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/l ocal/lib/perl/5.8.4 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/share/ perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Readline.pm line 5.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Teletype Debian base system configuration -------------------------------- This is the base system configuration menu. 1. Display introductory message 2. Preconfigure language-related parameters 3. Configure timezone 4. Set up users and passwords 5. Set the hostname 6. Configure apt 7. Select and install packages 8. Postconfigure language-related parameters 9. Configure the Mail Transfer Agent 10. Cleanup network console 11. Finish configuring the base system 12. Execute a shell Choose the next step in the install process: 1 1 and after this the console froze. Fine. So I killed the console and tried to reopen it: Then I tried to do the same thing again and I get: onfiguring the base system... debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another p rocess debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another p rocess debug1: client_input_channel_req: channel 0 rtype exit-status reply 0 debug1: channel 0: free: client-session, nchannels 1 debug1: Transferred: stdin 0, stdout 0, stderr 0 bytes in 3.4 seconds debug1: Bytes per second: stdin 0.0, stdout 0.0, stderr 0.0 debug1: Exit status 0 debug1: compress outgoing: raw data 1228, compressed 1093, factor 0.89 debug1: compress incoming: raw data 477, compressed 265, factor 0.56 Args. Why was the first process not killed when the shell exited? And why do I get those errors? Regards, Eduard. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.11.7 Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]