Bug#590993: installation-reports: netboot install report broken mirror if installation CD is used as mirror
Package: installation-reports
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
-- Package-specific info:
Boot method: network
Image version: http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/debian-installer/i386/
Date: <Date and time of the install>
Machine: VMware
Partitions: not yet reached
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: [ ]
Load installer modules: [ ]
Detect hard drives: [ ]
Partition hard drives: [ ]
Install base system: [ ]
Clock/timezone setup: [ ]
User/password setup: [ ]
Install tasks: [ ]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Overall install: [E]
Comments/Problems:
Tried to do a netboot installation using the 5.05 xfce+lxde image
(obtained from http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.5/i386/bt-cd/debian-505-i386-xfce+lxde-CD-1.iso.torrent)
as installation medium by loop-mounting the iso image and providing it locally as http://192.168.212.1/debian/
This is refused as invalid (see tail of syslog).
Output on running wget -q http://192.168.212.1/debian//dists/testing/Release -O - | grep -E '^(Suite|Codename):'
Suite: stable
Output on running wget -q http://ftp.debian.org/debian//dists/testing/Release -O - | grep -E '^(Suite|Codename):'
Suite: testing
Seems that linking all Release files to the same on the xfce+lxed installation CD is not appropriate.
Removing the linked releases solves the problem.
So this is finally a problem caused of the builders of the xfce+lxde image;
however, the distribution selection is very picky and refuses installation even if there
are still vaild Release files.
Because it stuck me in the installation for hours, I kept the severity as grave.
(Tried this already in 5.04 and gave up then).
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Syslog output:
Jul 30 20:59:04 syslogd started: BusyBox v1.10.2
Jul 30 20:59:04 kernel: klogd started: BusyBox v1.10.2 (Debian 1:1.10.2-2)
Jul 30 20:59:04 kernel: [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
Jul 30 20:59:04 kernel: [ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.26-2-486 (Debian 2.6.26-23) (dannf@debian.org) (gcc version 4.1.3 20080704 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-25)) #1 Sat Jun 12 02:15:32 UTC 2010
..... (skipped) ....
Jul 30 21:01:24 anna-install: Queueing udeb apt-mirror-setup for later installation
Jul 30 21:01:40 choose-mirror[2236]: DEBUG: command: wget -q http://192.168.212.1/debian//dists/oldstable/Release -O - | grep -E '^(Suite|Codename):'
Jul 30 21:01:40 choose-mirror[2236]: DEBUG: command: wget -q http://192.168.212.1/debian//dists/stable/Release -O - | grep -E '^(Suite|Codename):'
Jul 30 21:01:40 choose-mirror[2236]: DEBUG: command: wget -q http://192.168.212.1/debian//dists/lenny/Release -O - | grep -E '^(Suite|Codename):'
Jul 30 21:01:40 choose-mirror[2236]: DEBUG: command: wget -q http://192.168.212.1/debian//dists/testing/Release -O - | grep -E '^(Suite|Codename):'
Jul 30 21:01:40 choose-mirror[2236]: WARNING **: broken mirror: invalid Suite or Codename in Release file for testing
Jul 30 21:01:48 main-menu[1072]: (process:2228): wget: server returned error: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Jul 30 21:01:48 main-menu[1072]: INFO: Menu item 'choose-mirror' succeeded but requested to be left unconfigured.
Jul 30 21:01:48 main-menu[1072]: DEBUG: resolver (libc6-udeb): package doesn't exist (ignored)
Jul 30 21:01:48 main-menu[1072]: DEBUG: resolver (libc6): package doesn't exist (ignored)
Jul 30 21:01:51 main-menu[1072]: INFO: Falling back to the package description for auto-install
Jul 30 21:01:51 main-menu[1072]: INFO: Falling back to the package description for ai-choosers
Jul 30 21:01:51 main-menu[1072]: INFO: Menu item 'save-logs' selected
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