Re: Bug#385150: Tests with PPPoE connection

["Eddy Petrişor" <eddy.petrisor@gmail.com>]

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Gregory Colpart wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 03:01:43AM +0300, Eddy Petri??or wrote:
> > It seems (thanks again Joey) that the problem is the db_stop line
> > which, if commented out should kill the problem appear in both of
> > these cases.
> >
> > Gregory knows this and said he will try to test with this change, but
> > Abel should know about it, too.
> >
> > I would be really happy to find out that both issues disappeared when
> > commenting out db_stop (it appears that I shouldn't do that in D-I).
>
> I use latest daily build for my PPPoE tests.
> Note that I use "mv /usr/lib/pppd/2.4.4b1 /usr/lib/pppd/2.4.4"
> workaround for all my tests.

I was expecting that :-) since no release of the ppp package has been
made :-). Probably Marco is waiting for a fix for the issue we are
talking about, too.

> * If I try without changing anything, I have red debconf screen.
>   You have a full syslog here:
>   http://gcolpart.evolix.net/debian/d-i/16092006/full-syslog.no-changes.failed
>
> * If I try with adding '|| true' in 'apt-install ppp' line, yeah,
>   all is right !! After my PPPoE connection is up, I return to
>   menu with no error. You have full syslog with -e and -x for
>   debug:
>   http://gcolpart.evolix.net/debian/d-i/16092006/full-syslog.true-patch.success.set-e
>   http://gcolpart.evolix.net/debian/d-i/16092006/full-syslog.true-patch.success.set-x

[Writing this mail offline, so I'll have to check the logs later]

AFAIUI, debconf should never be ordered to stop, while in D-I (Debian
Installer) environment, so I expect that the "|| true" code is just
"helping" the debconf protocol to get out of a messy situation, in some
rare cases.

Also, the 'apt-install ppp" code should not fail; failing would mean
that the installed system would have issues since its ppp package would
not install. Needless to say that you don't want that ;-) .

> I don't try to test without db_stop because it seems to me that
> my tests above are sufficient. I don't know exactly why, but it
> works fine with the last d-i.

Please do test without the "|| true" code attached to apt-install and
with the db_stop line removed or commented out.

I expect this to be the correct fix, and, as explained above, the "||
true" being a lucky way out in some cases.

> If you have other tests with PPPoE/d-i, say me.

I know that last time I tested the package, the installation on the
target system was not good enough and after the first reboot, although
the ppp package was installed, the pppoe connection was not working.

I _know_ this may be impossible for you to test, since you might not
have a spare machine or a spare partition, so I won't mind if you can't
do it. But, please, tell me if you can't do this test.

Thanks a lot for your help.

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Regards,
EddyP
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