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Bug#504721: marked as done (Console broken on debian-installer on Sparc LDOM)

Your message dated Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:17:02 +0000
with message-id <E1L8aYI-0003cS-Nt@ries.debian.org>
and subject line Bug#504721: fixed in rootskel 1.71
has caused the Debian Bug report #504721,
regarding Console broken on debian-installer on Sparc LDOM
to be marked as done.

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Package: rootskel
Version: 1.69
Severity: important

Hi rootskel maintainers :)

I've been trying to get debian-installer (lenny) working on a Sun LDOM
(i.e., SPARC, sun4v).  I'm having some trouble, though.  When the
installer boots, you get a mono console, and the arrow keys, tab, and
enter don't do as expected (enter scrolls down the screen, tab does a
tab, etc) rather than moving through the menu.

I booted with BOOT_DEBUG=3 to pin down where this is happening.
Looking at /etc/inittab, first, debian-installer-startup is run.  I
run this and the console still behaves normally.  When I run the
second script, debian-installer, the menu launches and my keyboard
doesn't drive the menu any more.

Theres some discussion on why this might be happening and methods I've
tried on debian-boot (Frans Pop has been very helpful!), and it looks
like it may be something to do with reopen-console.  I'm not an expert
on the console though, so there may be something I've missed.  As the
scripts are run via reopen-console then sourced (debian-installer
being a wrapper round a bunch of sourced scripts), I'm unable to
recreate the exact environment.  If I don't use reopen-console and I
run debian-installer from the shell on my own, it works as expected.

I've raised this bug on Frans' recommendation, and the thread on
debian-boot is here:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2008/11/msg00013.html

I'm happy to try out any recommendations you have on this kit while I
still have it (its try-n-buy, its actually a Sun T6230 blade).

Many thanks,

Mike.

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Source: rootskel
Source-Version: 1.71

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
rootskel, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

rootskel-bootfloppy_1.71_amd64.udeb
  to pool/main/r/rootskel/rootskel-bootfloppy_1.71_amd64.udeb
rootskel_1.71.dsc
  to pool/main/r/rootskel/rootskel_1.71.dsc
rootskel_1.71.tar.gz
  to pool/main/r/rootskel/rootskel_1.71.tar.gz
rootskel_1.71_amd64.udeb
  to pool/main/r/rootskel/rootskel_1.71_amd64.udeb



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 504721@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 rootskel package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Format: 1.8
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:08:21 +0100
Source: rootskel
Binary: rootskel rootskel-bootfloppy
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 1.71
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org>
Description: 
 rootskel   - Skeleton root filesystem used by debian-installer (udeb)
 rootskel-bootfloppy - Skeleton root filesystem used by debian-installer boot floppy (udeb)
Closes: 504721
Changes: 
 rootskel (1.71) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Add a check in reopen-console that the console reported as "handed over"
     is of the correct type. In some cases dmesg reports a virtual console,
     while the actual console the init process is running on is serial.
     A simplified version of busybox' cttyhack is used to perform the check.
     Closes: #504721.
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