Bug#70878: marked as done ([CVS-fixed] Module installation breaks if kernel installation fails once)
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From: John Pearson <huiac@camtech.net.au>
Subject: boot-floppies: Module installation breaks if kernel installation fails once
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Package: boot-floppies
Version: 2.2.16
Severity: important
It appears that if the first attempt to extract the
rescue floppy and modules fails for any reason then
subsequent installation of the modules will also fail,
requiring manual intervention for installation to proceed.
Reproducible demonstration:
- Boot the Debian installation system, partition disks,
choose to install kernel & modules from CDROM;
- Unmount the CDROM after a list of paths is produced
but before selecting one, causing the attempt to fail;
- Try again, letting it succeed.
The user can now select "Configure Device Modules", but no
classes of modules are found. Here's why:
# ls -l /target/lib
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Sep 4 21:11 modules -> /target/lib/modules
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Sep 4 21:11 modules.old
#
On the face of it, this appears to be the same bug as bug #68021;
I hope this provides sufficient additional information to nail it.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.2
Kernel Version: Linux huiac 2.2.17 #1 Wed Aug 2 00:35:26 CST 2000 i686 unknown
Versions of the packages boot-floppies depends on:
ii ash 0.3.5-11 NetBSD /bin/sh
ii bison 1.28-5 A parser generator that is compatible with Y
ii cslatex 1.2.1 LaTeX for Czech/Slovak typesetting
ii cspsfonts 0.2.1 Support for Czech and Slovak Type1 fonts in
ii debhelper 2.0.86 helper programs for debian/rules
ii debiandoc-sgml 1.1.41 DebianDoc SGML DTD and formatting tools
ii dpkg-awk 1.0.0 Gawk script to parse /var/lib/dpkg/{status,a
ii dpkg-dev 1.6.14 Package building tools for Debian
ii file 3.28-1 Determines file type using "magic" numbers
ii flex 2.5.4a-6 A fast lexical analyzer generator.
ii gawk 3.0.4-4 GNU awk, a pattern scanning and processing l
ii gcc 2.95.2-13 The GNU C compiler.
ii gettext 0.10.35-13 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii libgd1g-dev 1.7.3-0.1 GD Graphics Library (development version).
ii libi18n-langta 0.12-6 Perl module for dealing with RFC1766-style l
ii libnewt-dev 0.50-7 Developer's toolkit for newt windowing libra
ii libpaperg 1.0.3-13 Library for handling paper characteristics [
ii libpopt-dev 1.4-1.1 lib for parsing cmdline parameters - develop
ii libwww-perl 5.47-1 WWW client/server library for Perl
ii m4 1.4-10 a macro processing language
ii make 3.78.1-8 The GNU version of the "make" utility.
ii makedev 2.3.1-44 Creates special device files in /dev.
ii man-db 2.3.16-1 Display the on-line manual.
ii pointerize 0.4 Internationalization utilities, based on get
ii recode 3.5-1 Character set conversion utility.
ii rsync 2.3.2-1.2 fast remote file copy program (like rcp)
ii slang1-pic 1.3.9-1 The S-Lang programming library, shared libra
ii tetex-bin 1.0.6-7 teTeX binary files
ii tetex-extra 1.0-10 extra teTeX library files
ii zlib1g-dev 1.1.3-5 compression library - development
ii libc6-pic 2.1.3-10 GNU C Library: PIC archive library
^^^ (Provides virtual package glibc-pic)
ii perl-5.004 5.004.05-6 Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and Report
^^^ (Provides virtual package perl5)
John P.
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Subject: bugs closed in boot-floppies 2.2.17
From: Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com>
Date: 12 Nov 2000 15:17:10 -0500
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Your bugs have been closed in boot-floppies 2.2.17, which is now part
of the Debian Potato (stable, 2.2) distribution. The changelog for
that version is listed below.
Thanks for your bug and for helping to improve the quality of the
Debian installation system.
--=20
.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
boot-floppies (2.2.17) stable; urgency=3Dlow
* Adam Di Carlo:=20
- release-notes: fix typo (closes: Bug#68630)
- fix bugs preventing some l10n'd documentation from building
- temporarily disable Russian documentation, unless you have woody
debiandoc-sgml
- config: re-organize a bit
- fix .cvsignore file (closes: Bug#68911)
- fix URLs in documentation based on link checking
- documentation improvements (closes: Bug#67900); change the wording
of the "in progress" warning in Chapter 1 (closes: Bug#69620);
correct workaround for volume manager, patch from Jim Crumley
(closes: Bug#69141); fix documentation on how mkofboot is invoked;
rework the 'dbootstrap' chapter, removing plenty of slink'isms;
fix some make-kpkg bugs (closes: Bug#71080)
- dbootstrap: fix a condition where /target/lib/modules was being made
a link to itself (closes: Bug#68021); run 'depmod -a' after
manipulating the /lib/modules symlink after extracting the kernel
and modules which fixes a problem with PCMCIA
- fix a minor libfdisk Makefile / depends problem
* Guillaume Morin:
- more dbootstrap i18n
- dbootstrap floppy module pre-load support
* Vincent Renardias: French updates (thank to Eric VanBuggenhaut)
* Ji=F8=ED Ma=B9=EDk <masik@debian.cz>: Czech updates
* Gleydson Mazioli da Silva: Portuguese updates
* novdv: Russian translations
* Yoshizumi Endo <y-endo@ceres.dti.ne.jp>: Japanese updates
* Risko Gergely <risko@njszki.hu>: Hungarian updates
* Marcin Owsiany <porridge@pandora.info.bielsko.pl>: Polish updates
* Peter Karlsson: Swedish updates
* Vilem Vychodil: Czech update
* Tapio Lehtonen: Finnish translation thanks to Markku Verkkoniemi
* Enrique Zanardi: Spanish updates
* Michael Bramer: German updates
* C.M. Connelly: English documentation corrections and improvements
* Josip Rodin:
- release notes updates: APT::Force-LoopBreak, kernel 2.2.x upgrade
issues; remove sis6326 note; add info about i810; fixed X upgrade
pointer; notes about CD sets; notes about ssh
- some documentation and doc build fixes; move documenation build
rules to documentation/ dir
- fix index.LANG.html broken links (closes: Bug#67898)
* Daniel Jacobowitz:
- some powerpc-specific boot stuff fixed
- update PowerPC kernel version
* Martin Schulze:
- Added little documentation to some routines
- dbootstrap.h: Added prototype of get_kver()
- getFloppies() and affected routines return DLG_CANCEL (aka 10) when
Cancel is pressed, no need to spit an error message (closes:
Bug#68900)
- boxes.h: DLG_CANCEL is now 10 instead of 1, in order to avoid
problems with 'return 1' stuff
- Added calls to get_kver() to every _test target. Thanks tausq for
the quick investigation
- basedisk.sh: Added workarounds for missing device files and added
others to MAKEDEV call
- rootdisk.sh: Added optcd sjcd to list of i386 devices, still
missing: gscd, cm206cd and proper support for mcdx (partially
fixes: Bug#68665)
- rootdisk.sh: Added ida.1 creation (closes: Bug#68517)
- rootdisk.sh: Added -O none to mke2fs call to gain 2.0 compatibility
(closes: Bug#68659)
- basedisk.sh: Added /dev/sg* to list of created devices in the base
system (closes: Bug#67378)
- Corrected error messages when rescue.bin wasn't found (but is
there..), added " + drivers.tgz" (closes: Bug#66326, Bug#64349)
- Added padding code to pad the last drivers disk with zeroes (closes:
Bug#66030)
- Corrected behavior when user has to type in the path relative to
/instmnt, he won't be able to leave that dir anymore and don't has
to type in /instmnt anymore (closes: Bug#67082, Bug#61693)
- Filling /lib/modules/2.2.17/modules.dep properly so the tools won't
spread warnings all over the freshly started console
- Added more sanity checks to floppy install, inserting base disks
when the drivers are requested will result in an error (partially
close: Bug#64428)
- Choosing an archive dir that is a link indeed will not result in
'not found' messages anymore, a '/' will be appended automatically
(closes: Bug#61373)
- When selecting a directory that does not exist, an error box is
opened (closes: Bug#57733)
- Added a call to eject() after writing the boot floppy on powerpc
failed (closes: Bug#69158)
- Added support for kernel boot parameters (lilo, syslinux, m68k,
aboot) (closes: Bug#11000, Bug#25848)
- Moved Preload of essential modules around in the main install cycle
- Moved nfs:server mount into a condition (if network isup)
- German update
- Added support for new french keyboard layout fr-latin0 (closes:
Bug#57609)
- Added sanity checks before installing the base system and
configuring the device driver modules (closes: Bug#31449)
- Added a conditional message warning Netwinder people about ignoring
ext2 2.0 compatibility (close: Bug#67888)
- Corrected rescue.sh to create usable 1200 root floppies (closes:
Bug#69959, Bug#69970)
* Akira YOSHIYAMA:
- add 'termwrap' script to the base system; this is invoked by init
and allows us to set i18n env var settings for base-config and other
chores=20
* Othmar Pasteka:
- Substitution of Linux with GNU/Linux when appropriate (i.e. when
a GNU/Linux distribution is meant)
* Risko Gergely: A big Hungarian update
* Peter Naulls: add support for ARM Linux partition support
-- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sat, 30 Sep 2000 02:58:37 -0400
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