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damko
Asked: 2014-04-18 05:18:44 +0800 CST

veewee: build gets stuck during installation of libssl on debian 7.4

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I'm new to vagrant and veewee. I'm trying to build a debian 7.4 image but after running the build

veewee vbox build 'debian-7.4'

the process gets stuck on the installation of libssl because it requires the user input to restart some services (ssh ntp exim4)

debian libssl

Unfortunately this is shown inside the terminal and I couldn't find any way to hit "ok" and then, of course, I get this message.

SIGNAL: 3                                                                       
Ssh timeout 10000 sec has been reached.

Of course I can work around this by continuing the installation by hand through the virtualbox GUI but this should not happen in unattended installation.

How can I force the installation process to restart the services without waiting for the user input?

vagrant

2 Answers

  1. You need to operate at the preseed level, read about debconf-set-selections.

    Something like this should do:

    libssl1.0.0:amd64 libssl1.0.0/restart-services string ssh ntp exim4
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  2. Best Answer

    @Pactrick gave the following answer which solved the exact same issue over on Unix & Linux exchange[1]:

    "Set the environment variable DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive.

    For example:

    export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
apt-get install -y libssl

    This will make apt-get select the default options."

    [1]https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/146283/how-to-prevent-prompt-that-ask-to-restart-services-when-installing-libpq-dev

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