20050316.3 CD Installation Report, badly broken!

[Matt Galvin]

I just saw some more base-config updates get accpeted, and based on
the notes, maybe all of this is just b/c base-config broke?

Matt


On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 22:07:33 -0500, Matt Galvin <matt.t.galvin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> This installtion is badly broken on my machine. Here is what happened to me...
> 
> * CD booted as normal
> 
> * Got to partition my drives
> 
> then it broken from here on it
> 
> * After the partitioning was done I was dropped into the Ubuntu
> Installer Main Menu(UIMM) with the Select Timezone entry select, I hit
> enter, screen blanked as if it were going to another screen, it
> brought me back the this Main Menu with the Timezone option selected
> again, this happened a few times.
> 
> * I then proceeded to select the Set up users... and I set up my user ok
> 
> * Back to the UIMM to select Finish install, this also did not work. I
> tried a few times and it kept sending back to the UIMM.
> 
> * I had to drop into a shell and manually reboot the machine.
> 
> * Gnome/X did not start up
> 
> so
> 
> * I poked around a bit...
> 
> * The machine came up with a bare bones system.
> 
> * Gnome and all of that good stuff did not even get installed.
> 
> * All the debs were in /var/cache... but were not installed.
> 
> * I reinstalled from the 20050315 DVD. And now I am back "wipes sweat
> from forehead"
> 
> It almost seemed like a desktop install that went bad that left me
> with a bare bones "server type" install. There is probably more little
> things I may be forgetting to mention so if there is anything else I
> can provide or any logs I can send that may be useful please let me
> know.
> 
> Matt
>