Re: PowerPC Install
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 01:41:28AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
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> Sven Luther wrote:
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> > On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 12:22:38AM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 06:59, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote:
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> > > > Any ideas why these daily builds are broken every day?
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> > > I just tried the 2.4 floppy images. What Wouter says is correct. I'm
> > > going to go over the logs with a fine-toothed comb. Maybe I can figure
> > > out what's wrong.
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> > Sorry, it is probably me that did the breakage or something when i enabled the
> > build of the 2.6 floppies. It needs to get fixing.
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> For what it's worth, I've been examining the log of the build at
> http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/2004-08-25/build_powerpc-small_floppy_root.log
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> I noticed that near the end, the script does an e2fsck of the "root.img" file. This seems to indicate that the image is completely hosed, and e2fsck responds by (essentially) resetting it to an empty ext2 filesystem. This explains why the root.img is the way it is (empty except for "lost+found"). But it doesn't explain why the image filesystem is broken in the first place.
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> Earlier in the script, the *-drivers images are constructed but not fsck'ed. Nevertheless, they probably suffer from the same breakage as the pre-fsck root image. When I try to run fsck on them, I get the same kind of error messages as the log shows for the root image.
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> Anyway, it's a place to start...
Do you know if the 2.6 floppies root.img suffer from the same problem ? Could
you check ?
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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