Installing 9.10 server, all proceeds as expected until the installer gets to the point where it is setting users and passwords (pertinent login info has already been asked for and given).

I selected LAMP and ssh server packages, no others.

I elected to encrypt the file system and replied "yes" when asked if I wanted to encrypt the users' home directories (only one user so far).

Hardware is a MSI Windbox, other desktop installations on this hardware configuration (no encrypted fs) completed with no errors.

I'll try again, without encrypting home directories... but that's less than ideal.

Any ideas? Thank you in advance.

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It appears I was impatient. The process does indeed complete eventually -- I left it overnight and the install was complete the next morning.
The performance of the encrypted fs is abysmal, however, at least on this hardware, so that option is out.

Thanks for posting the solution. That's the LQ spirit.

A suggestion for the future: If you answer your own question, put the solution in a separate post; this does 2 good things:

• It generates e-mail to anyone who subscribed to either the thread or the forum.
• It avoids the creation of oxymoronic 0-reply solved threads.