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- Subject: d-i: i386 netinst installgui fails to boot due to broken file attribs in /dev
- From: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
- Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 20:57:48 +0100
- Message-id: <200612042059.12063.elendil@planet.nl>
Package: debian-installer Severity: serious Since about a week (switch to 2.6.18?) the installgui option on netinst CDs fails to boot correctly. It fails to enable the framebuffer and you end up in a messed up newt interface. It also fails to correctly respond to a BOOT_DEBUG=3 boot parameter and ends with a kernel panic when booting with init=/bin/sh. Both the newt initrd and the gtk-miniiso do not have this problem, although I remember Attilio reporting similar issues a bit over a week ago with custom gtk-miniiso builds. With some help from Colin, I managed to find as most probably cause that /dev/console and /dev/null have incorrect file attributes in the gtk initrd: $ ls -l dev total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 fjp fjp 0 2006-12-04 18:16 console -rw-r--r-- 1 fjp fjp 0 2006-12-04 18:16 null This should of course be something like: $ ls /dev/null /dev/console -l crw------- 1 root root 5, 1 2006-12-04 00:39 /dev/console crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 2006-12-04 00:39 /dev/null I have not looked yet at why these files are included incorrectly in the images. I'm hoping a check of the tree in Joey's build machine can shed some light on this.Attachment: pgpIvshu7BHgN.pgp
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- Subject: Bug#401603: fixed in debian-installer 20070308
- From: Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org>
- Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 09:23:52 +0000
- Message-id: <E1HPxns-0003bX-09@ries.debian.org>
Source: debian-installer Source-Version: 20070308 We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of debian-installer, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive: debian-installer_20070308.dsc to pool/main/d/debian-installer/debian-installer_20070308.dsc debian-installer_20070308.tar.gz to pool/main/d/debian-installer/debian-installer_20070308.tar.gz debian-installer_20070308_amd64.deb to pool/main/d/debian-installer/debian-installer_20070308_amd64.deb A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is attached. Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you have further comments please address them to 401603@bugs.debian.org, and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> (supplier of updated debian-installer package) (This message was generated automatically at their request; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 23:43:33 +0100 Source: debian-installer Binary: debian-installer Architecture: source amd64 Version: 20070308 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Changed-By: Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Description: debian-installer - Debian installer Closes: 401603 402276 403195 403895 404485 408535 409747 Changes: debian-installer (20070308) unstable; urgency=low . [ Thiemo Seufer ] * Add Qemu mips/mipsel images, thanks Aurelien Jarno. . [ Sylvain Ferriol ] * Add keyboard usb packages in i386 root floppy and move all net packages to i386 net-drivers-1 floppy. . [ Frans Pop ] * Switch font used for Dzongkha in g-i to ttf-tmuni. . [ Martin Michlmayr ] * Provide a properly encrypted firmware image for Thecus N2100 so the firmware upgrade process will recognize it. Thanks to Kurt Roeckx for help with OpenSSL. * Remove incomplete armeb support. * Remove obsolete arm/nslu2 config files. * Switch arm, mips and mipsel to 2.6.18-2. * Switch arm, mips and mipsel to 2.6.18-3. * n2100: Add support for Evesham's M-Box. * Put in a workaround to support building with both apex 1.4.7 and the new 1.4.14 which changes the name of the apex binary; closes: #409747 . [ Joey Hess ] * Stop using the system status file; generate a dummy status file for apt containing libc6 and libnewt (the only two debs udebs still depend on). * dhcp3-client-udeb is for some reason Standard priority, so gets included in monolithic image builds (and breaks the build). Exclude it from the monolithic images until its priority is fixed. * The i386 boot floppy will be too big with the 2.6.18 kernel, so drop usb input modules from it. USB keyboard support didn't work before anyway AFAICS, since usb-discover was not included. * With 2.6.18, nic-extra-modules gets too big to fit on the i386 net-drivers-1 floppy with nic-modules. Move nic-extra-modules to net-drivers-2 and reorg to fit. * Don't exclude usb drivers from driver floppies; the root floppy does not currently load them. . [ Sven Luther ] * Switch powerpc to 2.6.18-2. * Add a prep flavour. * Add fancontrol modules to cdrom and netboot images for powerpc64. . [ Thiemo Seufer ] * Fix tftpboot.sh for mips/r5k-ip32. . [ dann frazier ] * Switch ia64 to initramfs. * Make the default boot option on ia64 "Install" for consistency with x86. * Add rescue boot option on ia64. . [ Frans Pop ] * Switch i386 to 2.6.18-3. * Apply patch from Alex Owen to fix serial console support for grub in the installed system (#224641). . [ Joey Hess ] * Add time to image build date, and set build date to UTC (was local time before). * Etch will be Debian 4.0. . [ Stephen R. Marenka ] * Add preliminary network-console support to m68k. * Switch m68k to 2.6.18-3. * Add back the atari subarch and the floppy initrd. * Add emile to build-deps. . [ Steve Langasek ] * Switch alpha to 2.6.18-3. Now with support for TITAN systems, huzzah! . [ Colin Watson ] * Switch powerpc to 2.6.18-3. * Document new GET_MAX_PRIMARY command in partman-base 99. . [ Dann Frazier ] * Switch ia64 to 2.6.18-3. . [ Frans Pop ] * Switch amd64, hppa, sparc and s/390 to 2.6.18-3. * On amd64 we temporarily need to include /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 in g-i initrds to work around #373253 until upstream can remove pthread_cancel() calls in directfb. Because of the Etch release this is implemented for now by setting EXTRAFILES in the relevant files under config/amd64. * daily-build: keep file attributes between build targets if fakeroot is used. Closes: #401603. * Raise minimal memory requirement in boot help screens on x86 to 32MB. Closes: #402276. * Makefile: don't strip "Choices-C" fields from templates if DROP_LANG is set (see #400263). . [ Joey Hess ] * Copy the keyring from debian-archive-keyring into images (was using the old keyring from apt). Build-depend on a current version of debian-archive-keyring for good measure. * Fix stripping of kernel modules by Makefile, was broken due to bogus find command. * /etc/apt/trusted.gpg can't be guaranteed to be readable, and the udeb download will fail to verify if it's not. Avoid this by making apt use KEYRING. . [ dann frazier ] * Add scsi-common-modules to pkg-lists/cdrom/ia64.cfg. sym53c8xx.ko is in this package, which is needed for scsi cd-roms in machines like the HP rx7620 (closes: #403895) * Add relocatable flag to elilo.conf for ia64 - this is required when booting on Altix systems, though it cannot be used with 2.4 kernels . [ Joey Hess ] * Remove udev-udeb from the ADS cf image. * Rename gtk-miniiso targets to netboot-gtk, and place the resulting files under the netboot/gtk/ directory. Add full set of netboot files for the gtk image, not just the mini.iso. The gtk-miniiso directories are kept working via symlinks for now, so that we won't have to update the docs so late in the release process. Closes: #408535 . [ Frans Pop ] * Update general copyright notices for Debian and Debian Installer to 2007. * Switch all architectures to 2.6.18-4. . [ Martin Michlmayr ] * Update mips/mipsel boot configs to refer to 2.6.18-4. . [ Joey Hess ] * Add support for armel. Symlink most arm configs to avoid duplication. * Add libgcc1 to the udeb exclude list, and add a dummy item for it to the status file. This supports armel, which already uses glibc 2.5, and will be needed later when other arches switch to it. . [ Gordon Farquharson ] * Enable users to select a timezone on arm/ixp4xx, arm/iop32, and mipsel/cobalt. Closes: #403195. * Include the IXP4xx Ethernet driver on the initrd now that oldsys-preseed will choose the correct device depending on whether the NPE microcode is available. . [ Steve Langasek ] * Add fb-modules to the initrds on alpha, now that matroxfb has been moved to a separate udeb; fixes support for installs on TGA-using systems. Closes: #404485. . [ dann frazier ] * [ia64] Fix elilo boot screen formatting - the addition of the time to the $BUILD_DATE variable was causing an ugly line wrap . [ Joey Hess ] * Document use of generic.all_generic_ide=1 in f6.txt. . [ Frans Pop ] * Set default suite to etch (etch branch only). 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