Package: ppp Version: 2.4.5-3 Severity: important I was installing Debian GNU/Linux using a "Debian GNU/Linux testing "Squeeze" - Official Snapshot i386 NETINST Binary-1 20100802-15:35" netinst CD. A checksum of the image was correct. I even made checksums of every file on the CD after burning and there weren't any errors. I was installing Debian using PPPoE through adding "modules=ppp-udeb" to the installer prompt. The installation process started as usual. I successfully chose preferred language, country and keyboard layout. The loading of installer additional components was successful too. Then after waiting some seconds until a PPPoE concentrator was found I was prompted to enter my ISP login and password, host and domain names, so I did. After the last one it immediately showed an error "Installation step failed". There was the following message at tty4: "ppp-udeb: pppd: error while loading shared libraries: libpam.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory". I discovered that a DEB package containing this library exists on the CD so I manually extracted /cdrom/pool/main/p/pam/libpam0g_1.1.1-3_i386.deb (I ran at tty2: "mkdir /temp && cd /temp; ar -x DEB_file; cd; tar xzf /temp/data.tar.gz") and ran "Configure and start a PPPoE connection" but it failed again. The issue now was the other library: libpcap.so.0 . So I manually extracted /cdrom/pool/main/libp/libpcap/libpcap0.8_1.1.1-2_i386.deb too and retried "Configure and start a PPPoE connection" which eventually succeeded. Summing up, an ordinal installation which somehow uses pppd (for example PPPoE) fails completely. Strangely ppp depends on both mentioned libraries but they don't exist in the installer live system. In case it helps: everything worked fine two months ago (I had an issue #582035 but pppd ran flawlessly).
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