what to do when X install fails?

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 09:54:03AM -0800, Brian Craft wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 08:00:48AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 11:33:23PM -0800, Brian Craft wrote:
> > > After some time with the installer I discovered I could pass in
> > > "debian-installer/framebuffer=false" at boot. That avoids the problem
> > > with the server, and the X packages are installed. However it also
> > > grossly modifies the install process, for reasons I don't pretend to
> > > understand. Instead of automatically stepping through the install
> > > process, it presents a menu with each step, and every item must be
> > > manually selected in turn. I have no idea what this has to do with
> > > "framebuffer=false". It's rather bizarre.
> > 
> > What do you mean by "the problem with the server"?  Did you discover what
> > the specific problem was which (apparently) caused the installation to fail?
> 
> After the 1st install (no X packages) I used apt-get to retrieve XFree86
> and a few other packages. I found that configuring the package left the
> X server unusable because of a frame buffer problem. After editing the
> config file to disable the frame buffer, it started working. That's why
> I tried passing in framebuffer=false the 2nd time I ran the installer.
> It did work. XFree86 was installed, and the config file was usable.
> 
> However the installer, as I mentioned, required me to step through the
> whole process from a menu. It didn't report any error, and the only
> difference in the input that I could recall was that I passed in
> "debian-installer/framebuffer=false".

Could you send me /var/log/debian-installer/*? That should contain
enough information to tell me what's going wrong.

I assume you typed 'linux debian-installer/framebuffer=false'?

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]