woody fai-setup/pcmcia-cs may lock up your system

[Thomas Gebhardt]

Hi,

when I tried to build the nfsroot image on a woody (kernel 2.4.18)
system fai-setup/debootstrap, it completely locked up. It took
me some time to find the culprit, namely the postinst script
of the pcmcia-cs package that was installed by debootstrap which
in turn was invoked by fai-setup. I submitted a bug report
(#138309) against pcmcia-cs.

I also tried to install pcmcia-cs on another, similiar woody system.
Here I had no problems at all, so I cannot tell which specific
feature of the hosts triggers the crash.

If you experience similiar problems (the last line that appeared
on the screen was about loading the keymap "NONE"), it might be
worth to omit the pcmcia-cs package in /usr/lib/debootstrap/scripts/woody
and then try it again:

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
             ;;
         "i386")
             required="$(without_package "libperl5.6" "$required") mbr"
-            base="$base lilo pciutils setserial syslinux psmisc pcmcia-cs"
+            base="$base lilo pciutils setserial syslinux psmisc"
             ;;
         "ia64")
             required="$(without_package "libc6" "$required") libc6.1 
gcc-2.96-base"
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@

Cheers, Thomas