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Bug#557605: marked as done (installation-reports: grub2 installation failure)



Your message dated Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:24:55 +0100
with message-id <200911231224.56224.elendil@planet.nl>
and subject line Re: Bug#557605: installation-reports: grub2 installation failure
has caused the Debian Bug report #557605,
regarding installation-reports: grub2 installation failure
to be marked as done.

This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.

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557605: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=557605
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Package: installation-reports
Severity: important



-- Package-specific info:

Boot method: CD
Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.3/i386/iso-cd/debian-503-i386-businesscard.iso 6 September 2009
Date: November 22, 2009 19:00 UTC

Machine: Dell (pentium III)
Partitions: <df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred>

Filesystem    Type   1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdb1     ext3    37041060   2787432  32372020   8% /
tmpfs        tmpfs      257152         0    257152   0% /lib/init/rw
udev         tmpfs       10240       220     10020   3% /dev
tmpfs        tmpfs      257152         0    257152   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hdc1     ext3    79150628    184244  74945720   1% /home/dell

Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot:           [O]
Detect network card:    [O]
Configure network:      [O]
Detect CD:              [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives:     [O]
Partition hard drives:  [O]
Install base system:    [O]
Clock/timezone setup:   [E]
User/password setup:    [E]
Install tasks:          [O]
Install boot loader:    [E]
Overall install:        [E]

Comments/Problems:

<Description of the install, in prose, and any thoughts, comments
      and ideas you had during the initial install.>

Debian 5.0.3 businesscard install with unstable/sid.

1. Partition hard drives, Clock/timezone setup, and User/password setup
completed *without* problems.  However, upon boot (see below) a _disk check_
(both volumes) was initiated due to a "last mount time" in the future.
Indeed, the system clock is now one hour late (set time by ntp and 
clock *not* at GMT). This itself is a minor problem, but the _root
account was disabled_, even though I allowed root logins and set a root
password. My solution:

$ fsck /dev/hdb1
$ reboot
$ fsck /dev/hdc1
$ passwd -u root
$ passwd root
$ ^D

2. *grub2 install failed* during the install process.
(Seems to be an incompatibility between debian-installer
and a changed syntax in the grub package. I do not remember the exact
text, but vt4 showed a command-line option error message.)

In order to boot the system, I had to manually type at the grub prompt:

grub> insmod ext2
grub> set root=(hd1,1)
grub> linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-1-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro single
grub> initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-1-686
grub> boot

To fix the system, after fixing the file systems and
the root login (see above), I had to take the following steps:

$ apt-get install os-prober

(even though the installation process had indicated finding the dual boot)

$ update-grub

This, finally, gave me a working, installed system.

Thanks.

-- 

Please make sure that the hardware-summary log file, and any other
installation logs that you think would be useful are attached to this
report. Please compress large files using gzip.

Once you have filled out this report, mail it to submit@bugs.debian.org.

==============================================
Installer lsb-release:
==============================================
DISTRIB_ID=Debian
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Debian GNU/Linux installer"
DISTRIB_RELEASE="5.0 (lenny) - installer build 20090123lenny4"
X_INSTALLATION_MEDIUM=cdrom

==============================================
Installer hardware-summary:
==============================================
umame -a: Linux dell 2.6.26-2-486 #1 Wed Aug 19 05:40:02 UTC 2009 i686 unknown
lspci -knn: 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82815 815 Chipset Host Bridge and Memory Controller Hub [8086:1130] (rev 02)
lspci -knn: 00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82815 815 Chipset AGP Bridge [8086:1131] (rev 02)
lspci -knn: 00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge [8086:244e] (rev 02)
lspci -knn: 00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801BA ISA Bridge (LPC) [8086:2440] (rev 02)
lspci -knn: 00:1f.1 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801BA IDE U100 Controller [8086:244b] (rev 02)
lspci -knn: 	Kernel driver in use: PIIX_IDE
lspci -knn: 	Kernel modules: piix
lspci -knn: 00:1f.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB Controller #1 [8086:2442] (rev 02)
lspci -knn: 	Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
lspci -knn: 	Kernel modules: uhci-hcd
lspci -knn: 00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM SMBus Controller [8086:2443] (rev 02)
lspci -knn: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AS [Radeon 9550] [1002:4153]
lspci -knn: 01:00.1 Display controller [0380]: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AS [Radeon 9550] (Secondary) [1002:4173]
lspci -knn: 02:0a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: NEC Corporation USB [1033:0035] (rev 43)
lspci -knn: 	Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
lspci -knn: 	Kernel modules: ohci-hcd
lspci -knn: 02:0a.1 USB Controller [0c03]: NEC Corporation USB [1033:0035] (rev 43)
lspci -knn: 	Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
lspci -knn: 	Kernel modules: ohci-hcd
lspci -knn: 02:0a.2 USB Controller [0c03]: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 [1033:00e0] (rev 04)
lspci -knn: 	Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
lspci -knn: 	Kernel modules: ehci-hcd
lspci -knn: 02:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 [1102:0002] (rev 07)
lspci -knn: 02:0b.1 Input device controller [0980]: Creative Labs SB Live! Game Port [1102:7002] (rev 07)
lspci -knn: 02:0c.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5212/AR5213 Multiprotocol MAC/baseband processor [168c:0013] (rev 01)
lspci -knn: 	Kernel driver in use: ath5k_pci
lspci -knn: 	Kernel modules: ath5k
lspci -knn: 02:0d.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] [10b7:9200] (rev 6c)
lspci -knn: 	Kernel driver in use: 3c59x
lspci -knn: 	Kernel modules: 3c59x
lsmod: Module                  Size  Used by
lsmod: ufs                    63620  0 
lsmod: qnx4                    7684  0 
lsmod: ntfs                  180544  0 
lsmod: dm_mod                 45384  0 
lsmod: md_mod                 65940  0 
lsmod: xfs                   446836  0 
lsmod: reiserfs              187264  0 
lsmod: jfs                   148316  0 
lsmod: ext3                  103688  2 
lsmod: jbd                    35092  1 ext3
lsmod: vfat                    8832  0 
lsmod: fat                    39964  1 vfat
lsmod: ext2                   52744  0 
lsmod: mbcache                 6656  2 ext3,ext2
lsmod: arc4                    1792  2 
lsmod: ecb                     2560  2 
lsmod: crypto_blkcipher       14724  1 ecb
lsmod: ath5k                  87424  0 
lsmod: 3c59x                  36136  0 
lsmod: mac80211              137756  1 ath5k
lsmod: mii                     4864  1 3c59x
lsmod: cfg80211               21384  2 ath5k,mac80211
lsmod: nls_utf8                1664  3 
lsmod: isofs                  27684  0 
lsmod: nls_base                6528  6 ntfs,jfs,vfat,fat,nls_utf8,isofs
lsmod: zlib_inflate           13952  1 isofs
lsmod: rsrc_nonstatic          9344  0 
lsmod: pcmcia_core            31760  1 rsrc_nonstatic
lsmod: ide_generic             2432  0 [permanent]
lsmod: usb_storage            76352  0 
lsmod: scsi_mod              129548  1 usb_storage
lsmod: vga16fb                11276  2 
lsmod: vgastate                7552  1 vga16fb
lsmod: fan                     4100  0 
lsmod: ide_cd_mod             27524  0 
lsmod: cdrom                  30112  1 ide_cd_mod
lsmod: ide_disk               10368  5 
lsmod: parport_pc             22308  0 
lsmod: parport                30152  1 parport_pc
lsmod: floppy                 47620  0 
lsmod: ehci_hcd               28300  0 
lsmod: ohci_hcd               18436  0 
lsmod: uhci_hcd               18320  0 
lsmod: usbcore               117104  5 usb_storage,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd,uhci_hcd
lsmod: piix                    6404  0 [permanent]
lsmod: thermal                15004  0 
lsmod: processor              27824  1 thermal
lsmod: thermal_sys            10656  3 fan,thermal,processor
lsmod: ide_core               94760  4 ide_generic,ide_cd_mod,ide_disk,piix
df: Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
df: tmpfs                   258140       572    257568   0% /dev
df: /dev/hdb1             37041060   3480144  31679308  10% /target
df: /dev/hdc1             79150628    184216  74945748   0% /target/home/dell
df: /dev/hdb1             37041060   3480144  31679308  10% /dev/.static/dev
df: tmpfs                   258140       572    257568   0% /target/dev
free:               total         used         free       shared      buffers
free:   Mem:       516280       422072        94208            0          636
free:  Swap:      1445808          560      1445248
free: Total:      1962088       422632      1539456
/proc/cmdline: desktop=kde priority=low vga=normal initrd=/install.386/initrd.gz --  BOOT_IMAGE=/install.386/vmlinuz 
/proc/cpuinfo: processor	: 0
/proc/cpuinfo: vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
/proc/cpuinfo: cpu family	: 6
/proc/cpuinfo: model		: 8
/proc/cpuinfo: model name	: Pentium III (Coppermine)
/proc/cpuinfo: stepping	: 6
/proc/cpuinfo: cpu MHz		: 797.445
/proc/cpuinfo: cache size	: 256 KB
/proc/cpuinfo: fdiv_bug	: no
/proc/cpuinfo: hlt_bug		: no
/proc/cpuinfo: f00f_bug	: no
/proc/cpuinfo: coma_bug	: no
/proc/cpuinfo: fpu		: yes
/proc/cpuinfo: fpu_exception	: yes
/proc/cpuinfo: cpuid level	: 2
/proc/cpuinfo: wp		: yes
/proc/cpuinfo: flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse
/proc/cpuinfo: bogomips	: 1596.45
/proc/cpuinfo: clflush size	: 32
/proc/cpuinfo: power management:
/proc/cpuinfo: 
/proc/ioports: 0000-001f : dma1
/proc/ioports: 0020-0021 : pic1
/proc/ioports: 0040-0043 : timer0
/proc/ioports: 0050-0053 : timer1
/proc/ioports: 0060-0060 : keyboard
/proc/ioports: 0064-0064 : keyboard
/proc/ioports: 0070-0071 : rtc0
/proc/ioports: 0080-008f : dma page reg
/proc/ioports: 00a0-00a1 : pic2
/proc/ioports: 00c0-00df : dma2
/proc/ioports: 00f0-00ff : fpu
/proc/ioports: 0170-0177 : 0000:00:1f.1
/proc/ioports:   0170-0177 : ICH2
/proc/ioports: 01f0-01f7 : 0000:00:1f.1
/proc/ioports:   01f0-01f7 : ICH2
/proc/ioports: 0376-0376 : 0000:00:1f.1
/proc/ioports:   0376-0376 : ICH2
/proc/ioports: 0378-037a : parport0
/proc/ioports: 037b-037f : parport0
/proc/ioports: 03c0-03df : vga+
/proc/ioports: 03f2-03f5 : floppy
/proc/ioports: 03f6-03f6 : 0000:00:1f.1
/proc/ioports:   03f6-03f6 : ICH2
/proc/ioports: 03f7-03f7 : floppy DIR
/proc/ioports: 03f8-03ff : serial
/proc/ioports: 0400-047f : 0000:00:1f.0
/proc/ioports:   0400-0403 : ACPI PM1a_EVT_BLK
/proc/ioports:   0404-0405 : ACPI PM1b_CNT_BLK
/proc/ioports:   0408-040b : ACPI PM_TMR
/proc/ioports:   0410-0415 : ACPI CPU throttle
/proc/ioports:   0428-042b : ACPI GPE0_BLK
/proc/ioports:   042c-042f : ACPI GPE1_BLK
/proc/ioports: 0500-053f : 0000:00:1f.0
/proc/ioports: 0884-0885 : ACPI PM1a_CNT_BLK
/proc/ioports: 0cf8-0cff : PCI conf1
/proc/ioports: c000-cfff : PCI Bus 0000:01
/proc/ioports:   c800-c8ff : 0000:01:00.0
/proc/ioports: d000-dfff : PCI Bus 0000:02
/proc/ioports:   dc00-dc7f : 0000:02:0d.0
/proc/ioports:   df80-df9f : 0000:02:0b.0
/proc/ioports:   dff0-dff7 : 0000:02:0b.1
/proc/ioports: ef80-ef9f : 0000:00:1f.2
/proc/ioports:   ef80-ef9f : uhci_hcd
/proc/ioports: efa0-efaf : 0000:00:1f.3
/proc/ioports: ffa0-ffaf : 0000:00:1f.1
/proc/ioports:   ffa0-ffaf : ICH2
/proc/iomem: 00000000-0009fbff : System RAM
/proc/iomem: 0009fc00-0009ffff : reserved
/proc/iomem: 000a0000-000bffff : Video RAM area
/proc/iomem: 000c0000-000c7fff : Video ROM
/proc/iomem: 000d0000-000d07ff : Adapter ROM
/proc/iomem: 000f0000-000fffff : System ROM
/proc/iomem: 00100000-1ffbffff : System RAM
/proc/iomem:   00100000-002a80a0 : Kernel code
/proc/iomem:   002a80a1-00361fff : Kernel data
/proc/iomem:   003b4000-0040dbd7 : Kernel bss
/proc/iomem: 1ffc0000-1fff7fff : ACPI Tables
/proc/iomem: 1fff8000-1fffffff : ACPI Non-volatile Storage
/proc/iomem: d6900000-f69fffff : PCI Bus 0000:01
/proc/iomem:   e0000000-e7ffffff : 0000:01:00.1
/proc/iomem:   e8000000-efffffff : 0000:01:00.0
/proc/iomem: f6a00000-f6afffff : PCI Bus 0000:02
/proc/iomem:   f6a00000-f6a1ffff : 0000:02:0d.0
/proc/iomem: f8000000-fbffffff : 0000:00:00.0
/proc/iomem: ff800000-ff8fffff : PCI Bus 0000:01
/proc/iomem:   ff8c0000-ff8dffff : 0000:01:00.0
/proc/iomem:   ff8e0000-ff8effff : 0000:01:00.1
/proc/iomem:   ff8f0000-ff8fffff : 0000:01:00.0
/proc/iomem: ff900000-ff9fffff : PCI Bus 0000:02
/proc/iomem:   ff9e0000-ff9effff : 0000:02:0c.0
/proc/iomem:     ff9e0000-ff9effff : ath5k
/proc/iomem:   ff9fd000-ff9fdfff : 0000:02:0a.0
/proc/iomem:     ff9fd000-ff9fdfff : ohci_hcd
/proc/iomem:   ff9fe000-ff9fefff : 0000:02:0a.1
/proc/iomem:     ff9fe000-ff9fefff : ohci_hcd
/proc/iomem:   ff9ff800-ff9ff87f : 0000:02:0d.0
/proc/iomem:   ff9ffc00-ff9ffcff : 0000:02:0a.2
/proc/iomem:     ff9ffc00-ff9ffcff : ehci_hcd
/proc/iomem: ffb80000-ffbfffff : reserved
/proc/iomem: fff00000-ffffffff : reserved
/proc/interrupts:            CPU0       
/proc/interrupts:   0:     386256    XT-PIC-XT        timer
/proc/interrupts:   1:       1760    XT-PIC-XT        i8042
/proc/interrupts:   2:          0    XT-PIC-XT        cascade
/proc/interrupts:   3:          0    XT-PIC-XT        ohci_hcd:usb3
/proc/interrupts:   4:          1    XT-PIC-XT      
/proc/interrupts:   6:          8    XT-PIC-XT        floppy
/proc/interrupts:   7:          0    XT-PIC-XT        parport0
/proc/interrupts:   8:          0    XT-PIC-XT        rtc0
/proc/interrupts:   9:          0    XT-PIC-XT        acpi, ehci_hcd:usb4, ath
/proc/interrupts:  10:          0    XT-PIC-XT        uhci_hcd:usb1
/proc/interrupts:  11:     965244    XT-PIC-XT        ohci_hcd:usb2, eth0
/proc/interrupts:  12:          3    XT-PIC-XT        i8042
/proc/interrupts:  14:     173914    XT-PIC-XT        ide0
/proc/interrupts:  15:       6250    XT-PIC-XT        ide1
/proc/interrupts: NMI:          0   Non-maskable interrupts
/proc/interrupts: LOC:          0   Local timer interrupts
/proc/interrupts: TRM:          0   Thermal event interrupts
/proc/interrupts: SPU:          0   Spurious interrupts
/proc/interrupts: ERR:          0
/proc/interrupts: MIS:          0
/proc/meminfo: MemTotal:       516280 kB
/proc/meminfo: MemFree:         94232 kB
/proc/meminfo: Buffers:           636 kB
/proc/meminfo: Cached:         377292 kB
/proc/meminfo: SwapCached:         56 kB
/proc/meminfo: Active:         127304 kB
/proc/meminfo: Inactive:       262336 kB
/proc/meminfo: SwapTotal:     1445808 kB
/proc/meminfo: SwapFree:      1445248 kB
/proc/meminfo: Dirty:             904 kB
/proc/meminfo: Writeback:           0 kB
/proc/meminfo: AnonPages:       11684 kB
/proc/meminfo: Mapped:           1940 kB
/proc/meminfo: Slab:            24928 kB
/proc/meminfo: SReclaimable:    20792 kB
/proc/meminfo: SUnreclaim:       4136 kB
/proc/meminfo: PageTables:        288 kB
/proc/meminfo: NFS_Unstable:        0 kB
/proc/meminfo: Bounce:              0 kB
/proc/meminfo: WritebackTmp:        0 kB
/proc/meminfo: CommitLimit:   1703948 kB
/proc/meminfo: Committed_AS:    15380 kB
/proc/meminfo: VmallocTotal:   515780 kB
/proc/meminfo: VmallocUsed:      6160 kB
/proc/meminfo: VmallocChunk:   509164 kB
/proc/meminfo: HugePages_Total:     0
/proc/meminfo: HugePages_Free:      0
/proc/meminfo: HugePages_Rsvd:      0
/proc/meminfo: HugePages_Surp:      0
/proc/meminfo: Hugepagesize:     4096 kB
/proc/bus/input/devices: I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=ab41
/proc/bus/input/devices: N: Name="AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
/proc/bus/input/devices: P: Phys=isa0060/serio0/input0
/proc/bus/input/devices: S: Sysfs=/class/input/input0
/proc/bus/input/devices: U: Uniq=
/proc/bus/input/devices: H: Handlers=kbd 
/proc/bus/input/devices: B: EV=120013
/proc/bus/input/devices: B: KEY=4 2000000 3803078 f800d001 feffffdf ffefffff ffffffff fffffffe
/proc/bus/input/devices: B: MSC=10
/proc/bus/input/devices: B: LED=7
/proc/bus/input/devices: 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash



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--- Begin Message ---
On Monday 23 November 2009, Alan BRASLAU wrote:
> Debian 5.0.3 businesscard install with unstable/sid.

This explains all of the issues you saw. The stable installer is not 
guaranteed to be compatible with testing/unstable.

You should use the installer for Squeeze [1] if you want to install testing 
or unstable.

Cheers,
FJP

[1] http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/


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