The live DVD works perfectly but when I try to install, the live-installer hangs when setting the hostname.
Starting live installer:
gksu live-installer --debug | tee live_debug_file
Shows that the installer hangs while "Processing triggers for menu ...":
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Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
Stride=0 blocks, Stripe width=0 blocks
950976 inodes, 3803388 blocks
190169 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=0
Maximum filesystem blocks=3896508416
117 block groups
32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
8128 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208
Allocating group tables: ...
Removing user `mint' ...
Warning: group `mint' has no more members.
Done.
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Package live-initramfs is not installed, so not removed
The following packages will be REMOVED:
live-boot* live-boot-initramfs-tools* live-config* live-config-sysvinit*
live-installer*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 5 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 1,251 kB disk space will be freed.
(Reading database ... 123943 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing live-boot ...
Purging configuration files for live-boot ...
Removing live-boot-initramfs-tools ...
Removing live-config ...
Purging configuration files for live-config ...
Removing live-config-sysvinit ...
Purging configuration files for live-config-sysvinit ...
Removing live-installer ...
Purging configuration files for live-installer ...
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-2-486
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
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Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
Stride=0 blocks, Stripe width=0 blocks
952848 inodes, 3807405 blocks
190370 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=0
Maximum filesystem blocks=3900702720
117 block groups
32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
8144 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208
Allocating group tables: ...
Removing user `mint' ...
Warning: group `mint' has no more members.
Done.
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Package live-initramfs is not installed, so not removed
The following packages will be REMOVED:
live-boot* live-boot-initramfs-tools* live-config* live-config-sysvinit*
live-installer*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 5 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 1,251 kB disk space will be freed.
(Reading database ... 168492 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing live-boot ...
Purging configuration files for live-boot ...
Removing live-boot-initramfs-tools ...
Removing live-config ...
Purging configuration files for live-config ...
Removing live-config-sysvinit ...
Purging configuration files for live-config-sysvinit ...
Removing live-installer ...
Purging configuration files for live-installer ...
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-2-amd64
Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
Generating locales (this might take a while)...
en_US.UTF-8... done
en_US.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.
Installation finished. No error reported.
## INSTALLATION
--> Installation started
EXECUTING: 'mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda2'
--> Mounting partitions
------ Mounting /live/image/casper/filesystem.squashfs on /source/
EXECUTING: 'mount -o loop -t squashfs /live/image/casper/filesystem.squashfs /source/'
------ Mounting /dev/sda2 on /target/
EXECUTING: 'mount -t ext4 /dev/sda2 /target'
--> Indexing files
--> Copying files
--> Restoring meta-info
--> Chrooting
--> Removing live user
--> Removing live-initramfs
--> Adding new user
--> Writing fstab
--> Writing hostname
--> Configuring MDM
--> Setting the locale
--> Setting the timezone
--> Localizing Firefox and Thunderbird
--> Setting the keyboard
--> Configuring Grub
--> Running grub-install
--> Running grub-mkconfig
--> Checking Grub configuration
--> Found Grub theme: if background_image /boot/grub/linuxmint.png; then
--> Found Grub theme: if background_image /boot/grub/linuxmint.png ; then
--> Found Grub entry: menuentry 'LinuxMint GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64' --class linuxmint --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
--> Found Grub entry: menuentry 'LinuxMint GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (recovery mode)' --class linuxmint --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
--> Cleaning APT
--> Unmounting partitions
EXECUTING: 'umount /target'
EXECUTING: 'umount /source'
--> All done
## INSTALLATION COMPLETE
Can anybody verify this?
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[Edit]
Live-installer was not created with KDE in mind and needed some adaptation: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 8&t=106318
The install runs smoothly now!
