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Bug#264947: marked as done (Busybox chroot crash/errors on Sarge 08/06 for ia64.)

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has caused the Debian Bug report #264947,
regarding Busybox chroot crash/errors on Sarge 08/06 for ia64.
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Package: busybox, partman

This bug is detected on sarge-netinst.iso for ia64 20040806  (RC1).
The system is an HP rx2600 dual Itanium II.  This error
occurs on both a pristine iso and an iso with my new boot.img
and an updated elilo-installer udeb installed.

The busybox shell running elilo-installer's postinst terminates 
pre-maturely, generating an incorrect error.  The upper levels
interpret this error as a failure of postinst rather than postinst
catching the error and reporting its own (more exact) error.

This is a bit of an unusual bug in that it is triggered by another
regression bug in either partman or the kernel packaging for
ia64.  The following code fragment from elilo-installer.postinst
from my working copy with debugging lines illustrates the problem:

--- snip ---
db_progress INFO elilo-installer/progress_running
echo "about to elilo bootpart=$bootpart, rootfs=$rootfs" \
   >> /tmp/elilo-installer
chroot /target /usr/sbin/elilo --autoconf --boot $bootpart \
  --root $rootfs --efiboot > /tmp/errmsg 2>&1

ERRCODE=$?
echo "done elilo" >> /tmp/elilo-installer
echo "error code=$ERRCODE." >> /tmp/elilo-installer

--- snip ---

The trigger of this event is the failure of partman or ??? to
install fat-modules causing elilo to error return because it
cannot mount the vfat f/s in $bootpart (/dev/sda1).
The trace file /tmp/elilo-installer contains "about to ..."
as its last line with the shell vars properly expanded,
in this case, bootpart=/dev/sda1 and rootfs=/dev/sda2.

The echo "done elilo" is never reached.  I have tried
a number of alternatives including "err=$(....)".
The file /tmp/errmsg records the error message from elilo.
In addition, the command run from the install shell
returns $? of 0.  The same command run from multi-user
(bash) returns $? of 1.

a snippit of install syslog follows with inline comments:

Aug  9 22:58:05 main-menu[238]: DEBUG: resolver (libblkid1-udeb): mark, 
dependency from e2fsprogs-udeb
Aug  9 22:58:05 main-menu[238]: DEBUG: resolver (e2fsprogs-udeb): mark, 
dependency from partman-basicfilesystems
Aug  9 22:58:05 main-menu[238]: DEBUG: resolver (ext2-modules): search, 
dependency from partman-basicfilesystems
Aug  9 22:58:05 main-menu[238]: DEBUG: resolver 
(kernel-image-2.4.26-itanium-smp-di): mark, dependency from 
partman-basicfilesystems
Aug  9 22:58:05 main-menu[238]: DEBUG: resolver (fat-modules): package 
doesn't exist (ignored)
  --- this occurs earlier for fat, xfs, ext3, and reiserfs as well...
  --- the udebs appear to be on the netinst iso however...
Aug  9 22:58:05 main-menu[238]: DEBUG: resolver 
(partman-basicfilesystems): mark, dependency from partman-target

Aug  9 22:58:05 main-menu[238]: DEBUG: resolver (bugreporter-udeb): mark
Aug  9 22:58:05 main-menu[238]: DEBUG: resolver (cdrom-checker): mark
Aug  9 22:58:05 main-menu[238]: DEBUG: resolver (di-utils-shell): mark
Aug  9 22:58:05 main-menu[238]: DEBUG: resolver (di-utils-reboot): mark
Aug  9 22:58:05 main-menu[238]: DEBUG: Menu item 'elilo-installer' 
selected
Aug  9 22:58:05 main-menu[238]: DEBUG: configure elilo-installer, 
status: 2
Aug  9 22:58:12 main-menu[238]: (process:8790): mount: fs type vfat not 
supported by kernel
Aug  9 22:58:12 main-menu[238]: (process:8790): elilo: An error occured 
mounting /dev/sda1
   -- This is where elilo dies.  This run may not have had the redirect.
Aug  9 22:58:12 main-menu[238]: WARNING **: Configuring 
'elilo-installer' failed with error code 1
  -- postinst should have handled this.
Aug  9 22:58:12 main-menu[238]: WARNING **: Menu item 'elilo-installer' 
failed.
Aug  9 22:58:58 main-menu[238]: INFO: Modifying debconf priority limit 
from 'high' to 'medium'

There are additional issues caused by the module load failure(s) that 
render the RC1 iso unusable.  I am currently investigating those as 
well.

Regards,

Jim
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Closing this bug since it appears to have been fixed.

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