Preview release - "One or more packages failed to install".

[Rick Fitzsimmons]

Display reverts to text mode during clock synchronisation 
(ntp.ubuntulinux.org), after about 15 seconds - just like you said. This 
may be due to my dns not supporting IPv6, hence dns time-outs :-(
I'll fix that and try again...

The start-up font problem reports:
Setting up general console font...
t_kernel_font: Invalid argument     [fail]

Cheers,
Rick.


Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 11:38:28PM +0100, Rick Fitzsimmons wrote:
> 
>>1. No default for IP address. I chose 192.168.1.254 to fit into my 
>>existing network.
> 
> 
> It should default to 192.168.0.x, to match the default dhcpd configuration.
> (bug)
> 
> 
>>2. Prompt to configure the dhcpd.conf file specifies the /etc/dhcp3/ 
>>directory, but this should be /etc/ltsp/ (as far as I can see).
> 
> 
> No such prompt should ever be displayed during installation.
> (bug)
> 
> 
>>3. Base system configuration gave an error saying "One or more packages 
>>failed to install". The supplied dhcpd.conf file (in /etc/ltsp/) defines 
>>a range for a subnet on 192.168.0.0. If the server's IP address is not 
>>on this subnet, then the dhcp server fails to start, and 
>>ltsp-server-standalone can't get configured. I edited the conf file, ran 
>>"dpkg --configure ltsp-server-standalone" and it now seems to work.
> 
> 
> If we're going to prompt for an IP address during installation,
> then the dhcpd.conf needs to be generated, rather than static.
> (bug)
> 
> 
>>4. Minor stuff: During startup, "Setting up general console font" fails, 
>>and reverts to text-mode.
> 
> 
> The former is not related to the latter.  If it is reverting to text mode,
> it is a different issue (and we need to know at which step this happened;
> most likely a particular step took longer than 15 seconds).
> 
> 
>>Also, DHCP info might be daunting for 
>>semi-technical users (eg specifying network interfaces, instruction to 
>>edit the dhcpd.conf file, warning about default being non-authoritative 
>>etc.)
> 
> 
> Bugs.
>