Bug#540023: cdrom: netinst installation might freeze with out-of-date keyring
Package: cdrom Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable When installatie a 4.x (etch) netinst image which I had lying around, the install just silently hung after selecting the roles the system had to perform. The message on the install-console was that it was busy, but nothing happened. Digging deeper, finally the output shown in the output from the underlying installation scripts (Alt-F4), showed what had happened: the PGP-keyring was out of date, and the big 'apt-get install loads-of-packages' command was waiting for input from the user, to confirm to continue with an untrusted PGP key. However, this message from apt-get was never forwarded to the installation screens, which was just hanging there with a yellow bar at ~10% progress. It would be wise to fix this, especially if the same can happen with the current installation (5.x/lenny). At the very least, the installing user should be made aware he/she is installing a rather out-of-date system, and whether to reconsider. It would probably also be handy if a user who knows what they're doing, could push through this install, and install anyway. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-cd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Processed: Re: Bug#540023: cdrom: netinst installation might freeze with out-of-date keyring
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: severity 540023 wishlist Bug #540023 [cdrom] cdrom: netinst installation might freeze with out-of-date keyring Severity set to 'wishlist' from 'grave' reassign 540023 debian-installer Bug #540023 [cdrom] cdrom: netinst installation might freeze with out-of-date keyring Bug reassigned from package 'cdrom' to 'debian-installer'. Bug #540023 [debian-installer] cdrom: netinst installation might freeze with out-of-date keyring Ignoring request to alter found versions of bug #540023 to the same values previously set Bug #540023 [debian-installer] cdrom: netinst installation might freeze with out-of-date keyring Ignoring request to alter fixed versions of bug #540023 to the same values previously set thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs database) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-cd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#540023: cdrom: netinst installation might freeze with out-of-date keyring
severity 540023 wishlist reassign 540023 debian-installer thanks On Wednesday 05 August 2009, Patrick Vervoorn wrote: Digging deeper, finally the output shown in the output from the underlying installation scripts (Alt-F4), showed what had happened: the PGP-keyring was out of date, and the big 'apt-get install loads-of-packages' command was waiting for input from the user, to confirm to continue with an untrusted PGP key. Unfortunately it is technically rather difficult to catch this situation inside the installer. It would be wise to fix this, especially if the same can happen with the current installation (5.x/lenny). At the very least, the installing user should be made aware he/she is installing a rather out-of-date system, and whether to reconsider. It would probably also be handy if a user who knows what they're doing, could push through this install, and install anyway. That is possible by using the debian-installer/allow_unauthenticated=true boot option as documented in the Installation Guide. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-cd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org