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Re: Call for Debian Installer testing, before D-I Beta1 release



On Monday 04 February 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> We're starting the work for D-I Beta1 release and we would like ask to
> everyone to test the installer as much as possible, especially in not
> so common architectures where we receive less general testing.

I have run netboot installation tests for hppa, s390 and sparc.
For all I have built the images myself mainly because there are no current 
daily images for s390 (build failures, looks like for some time already) 
and sparc (no new builds since end of Jan).

s390 and sparc: successful installs, no issues

hppa
The first part of the installation runs fine, but I'm running into a weird 
failure at the start of partman. The failure seems to be not in partman 
itself, but in main-menu. I'm fairly sure that partman-base.postinst is 
never even started.

Here's part of the log:
[hard disk detection completed]
Feb 10 23:48:43 main-menu[3851]: INFO: Falling back to the package 
description for palo-installer 
Feb 10 23:50:29 main-menu[3851]: INFO: Falling back to the package 
description for auto-install 
Feb 10 23:50:29 main-menu[3851]: INFO: Falling back to the package 
description for ai-choosers 
[main menu displayed]
Feb 10 23:50:29 main-menu[3851]: INFO: Menu item 'partman-base' selected 
Feb 10 23:50:29 main-menu[3851]: INFO: Falling back to the package 
description for kernel-image-2.6.22-3-parisc-di 
Feb 10 23:50:29 main-menu[3851]: INFO: Falling back to the package 
description for kernel-image-2.6.22-3-parisc64-di 
Feb 10 23:50:29 main-menu[3851]: INFO: Falling back to the package 
description for kernel-image-2.6.22-3-parisc-di 
Feb 10 23:50:29 main-menu[3851]: INFO: Falling back to the package 
description for kernel-image-2.6.22-3-parisc64-di 
Feb 10 23:50:29 main-menu[3851]: INFO: Falling back to the package 
description for partman-palo 
[!!! this message repeats A LOT !!!]
Feb 10 23:50:29 main-menu[3851]: INFO: Falling back to the package 
description for partman-palo 
Feb 10 23:50:29 main-menu[3851]: WARNING **: Deep recursion configuring 
package partman-base (dep loop?) 
Feb 10 23:50:29 main-menu[3851]: WARNING **: Menu item 'partman-base' 
failed. 

Note that there seems to be something weird with the menu description for 
partman palo even before partman is started. As the data for partman-palo 
looks fine in the dpkg status file that could be just a symptom, and not 
the cause.

At the moment I haven't got a clue what's going on here.

I'm going to try with a custom build of partman-palo and probably 
partman-base, and possibly with some additional debugging in main-menu or 
using strace to see if I can get any further than this.

Cheers,
FJP

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