Re: intimate install experience

Colin Marquardt <colin@marquardt-home.de> writes:

> * The debian.org servers had some problems (that is common for me on
> my other machines), but with intimate, there was no easy way to
> just try to run apt-get update again (it could not load some
> package files). Thus, the rest of the package install looked like
> this (what was left in my rxvt buffer):
>
> [...]
> This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and
> never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents
> of sources.list
> W: Couldn't stat source package list http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-arm_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these missing files
> E: Package libncurses5-dev has no installation candidate
> rm: cannot remove `/mnt/hda1/var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb': No such file or directory

It looks like for users with unstable connections, the following
could have prevented that:
   apt-get -o Acquire::Retries=5 {update|install}

Please consider adding that to the beta-installer.

[...]
> Finished installing .debs...

Would be cool if there was something to help recovering (although I
guess the number of retries helps much): e.g. leave a script around
that updates the package list and fetches the intimate package
selection. Not sure if apt can be made to remember packages so that
apt-get -f install would work. It didn't for my case, at least.

[...]
> Okay. I can fix this myself:
>
>
> bash-2.03# apt-get -f install
> bash: apt-get: command not found
>
>
> Argh. I call apt-get with the full path, but it cannot find its
> libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2.so.3.1.
>
> I feel too lazy to set the paths by hand, so I reboot, hoping that
> it fixes itself.

I should just have had a look in the beta-installer and see how
the chroot was set. Maybe remind the drowsy user at the end of the
install?

> INIT: version 2.78 booting
> VFS: Busy inodes after unmount. Self-destruct in 5 seconds. Have a nice day...
> Calculated used size 0000067c != stored used size 00015530
> kernel BUG at nodemgmt.c:269!
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
> pgd = c0004000
> *pgd = c0002001, *pmd = c0002001, *pte = c000108b, *ppte = c000100a
> Internal error: Oops: ffffffff

That fixed itself in the meantime (don't know how). Might be worth
noting that I have a rev 8 of the SA1100, while others have rev 6.

In my broken install, I noticed that some files (in familiar) still
use ttySA0: /etc/inittab for spawning the getty, and
/etc/ppp/options too (as noted in the wiki).

Cheers,
  Colin

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