Bug#724933: Grub2-Multiboot-ISO-USB: apt-setup service failed
Package: debian-installer
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
When installing from the Debian netinstall ISO using Grub2's loopback
method, and manually mounting the ISO to /cdrom, the installation
process gets stuck at apt-setup only printing:
'apt-setup: /usr/lib/apt-setup/generators/50mirror backed up'
This problem has occurred in the past:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2011/05/msg00168.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2011/06/msg00030.html
From these posts I concluded, that the problem was the line 58
'db_metaget apt-setup/use/netinst description'
in the file /usr/lib/apt-setup/generators/50mirror.
I do not know what this line is supposed to do and I couldn't find the
documentation for 'db_metaget', but I accidentally found a workaround:
Inserting the new line 'warning()' just above the 'db_metaget'-line
solves the problem.
Please include this workaround in the netinstall ISO, or find a better
(i.e. more understandable) way to solve the problem.
Thanks,
Andreas
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (70, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.10-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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