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Bug#450812: marked as done (installation-reports: partitioning confusion, manual archive failure, GUI breakage)

Your message dated Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:58:27 +0000
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and subject line Closing old installation report #450812
has caused the Debian Bug report #450812,
regarding installation-reports: partitioning confusion, manual archive failure, GUI breakage
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Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal

http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/hd-media/boot.img.gz dated 10 Nov (I thought it was 04 Nov when I got it earlier today).
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso dated 04 Nov

I used the installation manual in testing.

Install via USB onto a Dell Latitude D630 with Vista Preinstalled.
Vista partition shrunk via MS system admin tools.  I had the wired LAN
connected, and a local DHCP server running.

I selected expertgui and encountered the following problems (not in
chronological order; sort of in decreasing order of apparent
importance or bugginess).  All reports are from memory, and may have
inaccuracies.

1. GUI STUCK
After a lot of work in partman and partman-lvm I hit ESC on one of
the screens.  I was left with a screen showing the logo on top and
"Partition Disks" but no buttons.  Nothing I tried moved me from this
screen.  vt4 showed (as best I can copy it)
debconf: cdebconf_gtp (process...): GLib-GObject -CRITICAL:
g_object_ref: asertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

debconf: cdebconf_gtp (proces ...): Gdk - CRITICAL:
gdk_window_process_updates: assertion `GDK_IS_WINDOW (wiindow)' failed

debconf: cdebconf_gtk (process...) GLib-GObject -CRITICAL:
g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

2. KEY SEQUENCE TO SWITCH SCREENS
the documented left-alt-Fn did not move me between virtual
terminals.  The traditional ctl-alt-Fn did.

3. COULDN'T GET MANUAL MIRROR SELECTION TO WORK WITH APT-CACHER
I am running apt-cacher with path_map on my main system.  On that
system, sources.list entries like
deb http://debian.betterworld.us:3142/mainline testing main contrib non-free
work (though there have been issues).  apt-cacher.conf has
path_map = mainline linux.csua.berkeley.edu/debian; security
security.debian.org
At the step to select a mirror I elected manual, but could not get
things to work (it kept saying bad mirror).  I tried (machine|path)
debian.betterworld.us:3142|mainline
debian.betterworld.us:3142/mainline|
debian.betterworld.us:3142/linux.csua.berkeley.edu|debian
and several other things, but couldn't get it to work (the first 2
tried to use the path_map while the last was a vanilla use of apt-cacher). apt-cacher logs show
-----------------------------------------
Sat Nov 10 21:52:23 2007|192.168.40.44|debug [15287]: got: GET /debian/dists/unstable/Release HTTP/1.1
Sat Nov 10 21:52:23 2007|192.168.40.44|debug [15287]: Processing a new request line
Sat Nov 10 21:52:23 2007|192.168.40.44|debug [15287]: got: Host: debian.betterworld.us
Sat Nov 10 21:52:23 2007|192.168.40.44|debug [15287]: Processing a new request line
Sat Nov 10 21:52:23 2007|192.168.40.44|debug [15287]: got: User-Agent: Wget
Sat Nov 10 21:52:23 2007|192.168.40.44|debug [15287]: Processing a new request line
Sat Nov 10 21:52:23 2007|192.168.40.44|debug [15287]: got: Connection: close
Sat Nov 10 21:52:23 2007|192.168.40.44|debug [15287]: Processing a new request line
Sat Nov 10 21:52:23 2007|192.168.40.44|debug [15287]: got: 
Sat Nov 10 21:52:23 2007|192.168.40.44|debug [15287]: Resolved request is /debian/dists/unstable/Release
Sat Nov 10 21:52:23 2007|192.168.40.44|debug [15287]: new index file: debian_dists_unstable_Release
Sat Nov 10 21:52:23 2007|192.168.40.44|debug [15287]: looking for /var/cache/apt-cacher/packages/debian_dists_unstable_Release
Sat Nov 10 21:52:23 2007|192.168.40.44|debug [15287]: known as index file: Release
Sat Nov 10 21:52:23 2007|192.168.40.44|debug [15287]: Entering critical section : file download decision
Sat Nov 10 21:52:23 2007|192.168.40.44|debug [15287]: file does not exist or so, creating it
Sat Nov 10 21:52:23 2007|192.168.40.44|debug [15287]: MISS
Sat Nov 10 21:52:23 2007|192.168.40.44|debug [15288]: Exiting critical section
Sat Nov 10 21:52:23 2007|192.168.40.44|debug [15288]: fetcher: try to fetch http://debian/dists/unstable/Release
Sat Nov 10 21:52:23 2007|192.168.40.44|debug [29792]: registred child process: 15287
Sat Nov 10 21:52:23 2007|192.168.40.44|debug [15287]: registered child process: 15288
Sat Nov 10 21:52:23 2007|192.168.40.44|debug [15287]: checks done, can return now
Sat Nov 10 21:52:23 2007|192.168.40.44|debug [15288]: download agent: getting http://debian/dists/unstable/Release
Sat Nov 10 21:52:23 2007|192.168.40.44|debug [15288]: Get is back
Sat Nov 10 21:52:23 2007|192.168.40.44|debug [15288]: Reporting error: 404
Sat Nov 10 21:52:23 2007|192.168.40.44|debug [15288]: Entering critical section : HTTP error report
Sat Nov 10 21:52:23 2007|192.168.40.44|debug [15288]: Exiting critical section
Sat Nov 10 21:52:23 2007|192.168.40.44|debug [15288]: Upstream server returned error 404 for index /var/cache/apt-cacher/packages/debian_dists_unstable_Release. Deleting.
Sat Nov 10 21:52:23 2007|192.168.40.44|debug [15288]: fetcher exiting
Sat Nov 10 21:52:24 2007|192.168.40.44|debug [15287]: Entering critical section : reading the header file
Sat Nov 10 21:52:24 2007|192.168.40.44|debug [15287]: Exiting critical section
Sat Nov 10 21:52:24 2007|192.168.40.44|debug [15287]: Header sent: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Connection: Close

Sat Nov 10 21:52:24 2007|192.168.40.44|debug [15287]: Package sent
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
So the location information is not being mapped as expected (e.g.,
fetch http://debian/dists... is silly). I am not sure if I didn't
enter things right or if this is a problem in the installer or
apt-cacher.

I fell back to the standard selection of a mirror (ultimately picking
the berkeley server) and that worked.

4. PARTITIONING/LVM/ENCRYPTION FOLLIES
I had a lot of problems figuring out how to setup the partitions.
First, I am still unsure whether linux and/or the installer is capable
of encrypting individual logical volumes under LVM.  This would be my
preferred setup.
Second, when I marched through what looked like the obvious choices it
wanted to wipe out everything on the disk (yes, I selected "let LVM
control the whole disk"--I thought it would take the whole free area
on the disk).
I wanted to have a boot partition outside of LVM, and ended up
manually creating that partition and then another for the volume
group.  The installation manual made it sound as if a separate boot
partition would be created automatically if one used LVM, but I didn't
want to chance it.
Then I manually created logical volumes, and went through activating
them and mapping them to directories.  I was in the middle of this (I
think I was just trying to create a new volume) when the problem in
point 1 arose.
This all seemed rather tedious and manual (why are the volumes shown
as inactive).  I know manual partitioning in expert mode is not
intended to be easy and automatic, but I wonder if could be a little
easier.

I did commit the new partitions to disk; I expect that by doing so I
have messed up my MS boot.

5. LOCALE CHOICES UNDERDOCUMENTED
The locales list came with no explanation of the codes.  I found them
via wikipedia.

I realize that some of this may be a side effect of expert mode.

The GUI installer looks very slick, at least compared to the previous
non-graphical ones.  I was impressed with how smoothly it went aside
from the problems listed above.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (990, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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We are closing this installation report for one of the following
reasons:
- it was reported with a pre-lenny version of Debian
  Installer.
- indications in the installation report give the feeling that
  the reported problem waslying in another software, unrelated to
  D-I, which we can't easily identify.
- indications in the installation report suggest that it may have been
  fixed in a more recent version of a D-I component
- it was successful and we forgot closing it..:-)
- it has no information we consider useful


The D-I team is currently in the process of cleaning out the old spool
of installation reports that haven't bene processed yet. 

In case you think that the problem you reported has chances to be
still present, please reiterate your installation test with
a more recent image of D-I, if you're in position of doing this.

You'll find daily builds at
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer. We recommend you choose
the netboot image, in the "daily builds section", then choose to
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