Bug#608641: debian-installer: Debian installer loses its mind when doing again the process after an error in novice mode

2011-01-05 Thread Joey Hess
Christian PERRIER wrote: These questions don't disappear. They've been asked once already, so the user's choice is already known by the installer. No, d-i is not supposed to be an area where seen flags are set. cdebconf (0.58) unstable; urgency=low - The previous fix about the seen flag

Bug#608641: debian-installer: Debian installer loses its mind when doing again the process after an error in novice mode

2011-01-04 Thread Stephane Ascoet
Christian PERRIER a écrit : These questions don't disappear. They've been asked once already, so the user's choice is already known by the installer. It's actually the problem! If there is a problem, the user will likely need to set them again! It's incoherent to ask additional questions for

Bug#608641: debian-installer: Debian installer loses its mind when doing again the process after an error in novice mode

2011-01-04 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Stephane Ascoet (stephane.asc...@ac-orleans-tours.fr): Christian PERRIER a écrit : These questions don't disappear. They've been asked once already, so the user's choice is already known by the installer. It's actually the problem! If there is a problem, the user will likely need to

Bug#608641: debian-installer: Debian installer loses its mind when doing again the process after an error in novice mode

2011-01-04 Thread Stephane Ascoet
Christian PERRIER a écrit : Please give *detailed* examples where this happens. This might as well be a logic error in some specific package configuration script and not an overall bad behaviour of the installer. When we are asked for Grub boot sector, I've put fd0 the first time. I got an

Bug#608641: debian-installer: Debian installer loses its mind when doing again the process after an error in novice mode

2011-01-03 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Stephane Ascoet (stephane.asc...@ac-orleans-tours.fr): Christian PERRIER a écrit : This is by design. It is assumed that, when something goes wrong, some more actions might be needed before the normal process resumes. So, But what about the questions that disapears? These questions