Bug#725714: installation-reports: Recent netinst.iso doesn't write missing firmware to /run/udev/firmware-missing
Package: installation-reports
Severity: serious
Dear Maintainer,
The current debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso is broken: It does detect
missing firmware, but does not place this information in the correct
folder /run/udev/fimrware-missing. This directory does not exist, when
check-missing-firmware tries to load the missing firmware and thus
check-missing-firmware does not look for any.
The last debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso that I downloaded at
24.08.2013 worked just fine, as well as the
debian-7.1.0-amd64-netinst.iso. I am reporting this bug from an
installation done with the working testing netinstall ISO.
The relevant parts of syslog are:
debian-7.1.0-amd64-netinst.iso (working):
main-menu[513]: INFO: Menu item 'ethdetect' selected
kernel: [ 61.502236] atl1c 0000:04:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
kernel: [ 61.503888] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory
domain
kernel: [ 61.516094] Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link AGN driver for Linux,
in-tree:
kernel: [ 61.516104] Copyright(c) 2003-2011 Intel Corporation
kernel: [ 61.516324] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
kernel: [ 61.516806] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: pci_resource_len = 0x00002000
kernel: [ 61.516816] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: pci_resource_base =
ffffc90000674000
kernel: [ 61.516825] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: HW Revision ID = 0x34
kernel: [ 61.517500] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: irq 48 for MSI/MSI-X
kernel: [ 61.517727] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Detected Intel(R)
Centrino(R) Wireless-N 1030 BGN, REV=0xB0
kernel: [ 61.518100] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: L1 Enabled; Disabling L0S
kernel: [ 61.535851] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: device EEPROM VER=0x716,
CALIB=0x6
kernel: [ 61.535864] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Device SKU: 0X150
kernel: [ 61.535871] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Valid Tx ant: 0X1, Valid Rx
ant: 0X3
kernel: [ 61.535932] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Tunable channels: 13
802.11bg, 0 802.11a channels
net/hw-detect.hotplug: Detected hotpluggable network interface lo
kernel: [ 61.617426] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: firmware: agent aborted
loading iwlwifi-6000g2b-6.ucode (not found?)
kernel: [ 61.623128] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: firmware: agent aborted
loading iwlwifi-6000g2b-5.ucode (not found?)
kernel: [ 61.623237] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: no suitable firmware found!
kernel: [ 61.632478] atl1c 0000:04:00.0: version 1.0.1.0-NAPI
net/hw-detect.hotplug: Detected hotpluggable network interface eth0
check-missing-firmware: /dev/.udev/firmware-missing does not exist, skipping
check-missing-firmware: missing firmware files (iwlwifi-6000g2b-6.ucode
iwlwifi-6000g2b-5.ucode) for iwlwifi iwlwifi
check-missing-firmware: Check on /loop for firmware
check-missing-firmware: installing firmware package
/loop/firmware/firmware-iwlwifi_0.40_all.deb
debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso (broken):
main-menu[303]: INFO: Menu item 'ethdetect' selected
kernel: [ 60.391830] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory
domain
kernel: [ 60.393894] Intel(R) Wireless WiFi driver for Linux, in-tree:
kernel: [ 60.393895] Copyright(c) 2003-2013 Intel Corporation
kernel: [ 60.394540] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: irq 47 for MSI/MSI-X
kernel: [ 60.409265] atl1c 0000:04:00.0: version 1.0.1.1-NAPI
net/hw-detect.hotplug: Detected hotpluggable network interface lo
kernel: [ 60.458680] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: firmware: agent aborted
loading iwlwifi-6000g2b-6.ucode (not found?)
kernel: [ 60.460374] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: firmware: agent aborted
loading iwlwifi-6000g2b-5.ucode (not found?)
kernel: [ 60.460577] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: no suitable firmware found!
net/hw-detect.hotplug: Detected hotpluggable network interface eth0
check-missing-firmware: /dev/.udev/firmware-missing does not exist, skipping
check-missing-firmware: /run/udev/firmware-missing does not exist, skipping
check-missing-firmware: no missing firmware in
/dev/.udev/firmware-missing /run/udev/firmware-missing
kernel: [ 63.994254] atl1c 0000:04:00.0: irq 47 for MSI/MSI-X
kernel: [ 64.010404] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
check-missing-firmware: /dev/.udev/firmware-missing does not exist, skipping
check-missing-firmware: /run/udev/firmware-missing does not exist, skipping
check-missing-firmware: no missing firmware in
/dev/.udev/firmware-missing /run/udev/firmware-missing
This is a very serious bug, because it prevents a (reasonable)
netinstallation using WLAN, since most WLAN devices use non-free firmware.
Please fix this as soon as possible.
Best regards,
Andreas
-- Package-specific info:
Boot method: USB loopmount
(http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=724931); should be
irrelevant for this bug
Image version: debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso
(http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/20131007-1/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso)
Date: 07.10.2013
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Installer lsb-release:
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DISTRIB_ID=Debian
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Debian GNU/Linux installer"
DISTRIB_RELEASE="8 (jessie) - installer build 20130824-00:03"
X_INSTALLATION_MEDIUM=cdrom
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Installer hardware-summary:
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uname -a: Linux Laptop 3.10-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.10.7-1 (2013-08-17)
x86_64 GNU/Linux
Centrino Wireless-N 1030 [Rainbow Peak] [8086:008a] (rev 34)
lspci -knn: Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:5305]
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
lspci -knn: 04:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Qualcomm Atheros AR8151
Driver hub
lsmod: iwlwifi 73295 1 iwldvm
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (70, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.10-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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