Comment 59 for bug 217815

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote : Re: [Bug 217815] Re: Installation stalls randomly until a key is pressed

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 09:19:23PM -0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> Derek: There's no screensaver in d-i. Screen blanking is a distant
> possibility, though. The default screen blanking interval set by the
> kernel is 10 minutes, and d-i doesn't change this; if the failure
> happens after 10 minutes (or nearby, to allow for possible clock skew
> inside kvm) then that would provide some circumstantial support for
> this.

If that were the case, I'd expect the progress bar to jump if it was paused
for a few minutes, though no one has mentioned that.

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 - mdz