Install choking after country selection

[Lee Holmes]

Ok, here's my ps output:

Stat       Command
S           init
SWN      [ksoftirqd/0]
SW<      [events/0]
SW<      [khelper]
SW<      [kblockd/0]
SW        [pdflush]
SW        [pdflush]
SW<      [aio/0]
SW         [kswapd0]
SW         [kseriod]
S            /sbin/syslogd -m 0 -O /var/log/syslog
S            /sbin/klogd -c 2
S            /bin/sh /sbin/debian-installer
S            /usr/bin/tail -f /var/log/messages
S            /usr/bin/tail -f /var/log/syslog
S            /bin/sh
DW         [khubd]
S            /usr/bin/bterm -f /unifont.bgf -l C.UTF-8 /lib/debian
S            /debconf -o d-i /usr/bin/main-menu
S            /usr/bin/main-menu
S            udpkg --configure kbd-chooser
S            /bin/sh /var/lib/dpkg/info/kbd-chooser.postinst confi
D            kbd-chooser
R            ps

Sorry about the truncation, I didn't know how to get it to wrap. After 
the installer... stalled I went to get a drink and make some toast, so I 
ran ps about 4 or 5 minutes after it happened. I'll give you my computer 
specs if that's any help (oh, this is the i386 build which I'm using - I 
forgot to mention that first time round :))
Athlon Thunderbird 700MHz
Giga Byte 71XE mobo
384MB PC100
GeForce 440MX (AGP)
Creative SBLive Value (PCI)
TEAC CD-RW (CD-W54E)/Pioneer DVD-ROM (DVD-115) on one IDE channel (DVD 
master)
Seagate Barracuda (20GB) on the other channel
Promise Ultra133 TX2 IDE controller (PCI) with a Samsung Spinpoint 1213N 
(I think) 120GB drive
PS2 Microsoft Natural Keyboard
Floppy drive

Just for reference I booted up Knoppix 3.3 and that went fine, and I 
have Gentoo installed so I shouldn't have any massive harware problems.

Matt Zimmerman wrote:

>On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 12:38:56PM +0100, Lee Holmes wrote:
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>>Basically what happens is the installer kicks in, I choose English as my 
>>language, then I choose the UK as my country (same thing happens with 
>>USA incidentally) and the next menu screen never shows up. I've waited 4 
>>or 5 minutes with no sign of activity. All I get is the blue screen, 
>>with a white line along the bottom and a black cursor (which also 
>>appears momentarily between menu screens). I can type with the cursor so 
>>it doesn't seem as though curses has actually hung or anything. 
>>Ctrl+Cing gives me some graphical corruption, and eventually 
>>segmentation faults if I keep at it.
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>What does "ps" on the terminal show while it is in this state?
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I have a regular Logitech optical USB mouse, I tried disconnecting it 
but there was no change. I also have a 4-point hub, a Deskjet 950C, a 
Labtec webcam and a Fujitsu DSL modem on there if that helps.

Flo Fürstenberger wrote:

>Is there any strange hardware connected, especially USB?
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>I've seen such behaviour with a cheap wireless USB mouse (most probably
>not HID compliant) on an iBook - after removing the mouse everything
>worked great (IIRC there's a hardware probe after language selection).
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>HTH,
>flo.
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>Am Samstag, den 02.10.2004, 21:44 +0100 schrieb Lee Holmes:
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>>Anyone? I haven't a clue what I'm doing here and nobody else seems to be 
>>having a problem like this...
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Thanks for the responses :)