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Bug#697442: marked as done (Bad experiences with wheezy installer)

Your message dated Sat, 31 Aug 2013 12:52:13 +0200
with message-id <201308311252.51555.holger@layer-acht.org>
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has caused the Debian Bug report #697442,
regarding Bad experiences with wheezy installer
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Package: installation-reports

Boot method: CD

Image version:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/wheezy_di_beta4/amd64/iso-cd/debian-wheezy-DI-b4-amd64-netinst.iso

Date: 2013-01-04 22:00 UTC

Machine: HP Proliant Microserver
Processor: amd64 Turion
Memory: 2G
Partitions: there's the problem :-)

Output of lspci -knn (or lspci -nn):

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:  [E ]
Install base system:    [E ]
Clock/timezone setup:   [ ]
User/password setup:    [ ]
Install tasks:          [ ]
Install boot loader:    [ ]
Overall install:        [ ]

Comments/Problems:  *** rant warning ***

  I'm trying to setup partitions like
    1: sda1 /boot ext4 250MB
    2: sda2 250G encrypted
         lvm vg00
             lv 10MB root
                xfs to be mounted as root file system

It doesn't work.  It seems to do the right thing but cannot create xfs fs.
                  It will create an ext4 fs but can't use that either!
                  In install phase it thinks all debs are corrupted. Very
                  difficult to stop the install phase when it errors.

If you revert to shell you can create luks partitition, create lvm pv, create
vg and lv.  In that lv mkfs.xfs fails - wrong tag size or something.  It seems
to know nothing about the partition. You can create an ext4 fs in the lv,
mount it and read it.  If you mount it on /target/root and select 'install
base system' it insists on returning to partitioner but that fails to use
mounted root fs and kindly umounts it.

It behaves the same with graphical and dialog installer.

It's not a nice tool to use especially the partitioner.  Half the menu goes
off the bottom of the screen, you don't know whether to choose 'done' or
'continue' or 'go back', there's no abort to main process menu and 'go back
shouldn't mean restart.  Really, you need just one menu and it needs to be
consistent and it needs to do as it's told. But most of all, it needs to
handle errors properly.

I gave up - I couldn't figure what was wrong.  I then tried netinst using PXE.
 That hangs (needs power cycle) when you do 'configure keyboard'. Skipped that
phase and it went better. I managed to complete installation but it won't
boot.  Initramfs issues the cryptsetup password prompt and then hangs (needs
power cycle).  I wonder if the problem with kbd config and cannot read
keyboard at boot are related. But I can't puzzle it out.

I've spent hours on it now and I'm giving up.  I've got another system,
identical h/w and config, which I just dist-upgraded to wheezy with just a few
minor problems so I think I'll copy that.

Finally a WIBNI.  It would save a lot of hassle if it was possible to save
initial, network and the partition configs to, say, a usb stick, so one
doesn't have to go round and round that loop when things don't work. I must
have done it all >20 times.

All the best

Dick

BTW if you enter a partition size of 20G it will will give you 8.4G.  You have
to specify 20GB.  It's just a little thing but it is so annoying.

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reassign 699136 partman
retitle 699136 partman hangs with specific mbr/usbsticks
tags 696755 +confirmed
Hi,

thank you for submitting installation reports, much appreciated.

I read through all the bugs mentioned here (and I'm sure they were read by 
several people at the time they were submitted) and am closing them now as/if
- they (finally) indicated success and/or
- I know from first hand experience that the functionality is working in 
Wheezy and/or
- they only contained very little information and/or
- they contained user errors and/or
- they were caused by broken hardware and/or
- they have been from a development phase where things were not stable and/or
- they are quite old (and thus likely fixed today) and/or
- moreinfo was asked and not given or
- they are wishlist but rather special + exotic and not have been acted on for 
years. (See http://blog.liw.fi/posts/wishlist-bugs/ why it's often useful to 
close wishlist bugs.)

If I've closed a bug incorrectly please do reply (it's easy to reopen and I'll 
do if requested) or just file a new one - thats often better, as the bug log 
will be clearer and shorter and not contain cruft.


cheers,
        Holger

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