Re: d-i's purpose (was: Cannot find debian-installer/main-menu doesn't exist in menu)

2014-08-21 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Whilst this didn't turn out to be a d-i bug, it did occur to me there is a lack of robustness within d-i, and a real bug here would have been a nightmare to find. The sequence of events was something like: * at boot-time, /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.templates are parsed to generate a

Re: d-i's purpose (was: Cannot find debian-installer/main-menu doesn't exist in menu)

2014-08-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Steven Chamberlain, le Thu 21 Aug 2014 14:00:06 +0100, a écrit : d-i images may be very small, but I haven't found it practical on embedded systems, which may not even have working VGA or networking; That's fine. I actually don't usually use VGA or network on servers, but simply a serial port.

Re: d-i's purpose (was: Cannot find debian-installer/main-menu doesn't exist in menu)

2014-08-21 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org (2014-08-21): * cdebconf command_get was being called with an option name not found in its templates.dat; it returns an error message string, but the caller (main-menu) tries to interpret it as an actual debconf setting before failing This indeed looks