Bug#779208: debian-installer: Remove /dev/sdX installer entry from fstab

[Vivia Nikolaidou <n.vivia@gmail.com>]

It is not clear in my initial email, so I'm writing back with a
clarification: The /dev/sdc entries that I pasted from fstab were
commented manually by us. The installer had left the uncommented
entries in fstab.

On 25 February 2015 at 15:13, Vivia Nikolaidou <n.vivia@gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: debian-installer
> Severity: important
> Tags: d-i
>
> Hello,
>
> I noticed that debian-installer leaves a /dev/sdX entry in /etc/fstab inside the newly installed system. This entry corresponds to the medium that Debian was installed from. In my case, I just installed Debian stable on one of our servers (not the machine I am writing from, so please disregard the System Information below). The installer left these lingering entries on fstab:
>
> #/dev/sdc1       /media/usb0     auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0
> #/dev/sdc2       /media/usb1     auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0
>
> It was a machine with several hard drives and RAID. Installing a later kernel from backports and rebooting the system made it unable to mount / and /swap, until we finally booted from the old kernel and removed these entries.
>
> I've seen various other issues emerge from this issue, one example is here:
> http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=65395
>
> It might have an easy workaround, but I believe that the entries that correspond to the installer should be removed from /etc/fstab when debian-installer is still running and right before it boots into the new system.
>
> Also, please disregard the system information below, the machine that the issue appeared in is:
> # uname -a
> Linux tourbina 3.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt4-3~bpo70+1 (2015-02-12) x86_64 GNU/Linux
> # cat /etc/debian_version
> 7.8
> # ls -l /bin/sh
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Mar  1  2012 /bin/sh -> dash
> # echo $LANG
> en_US.UTF-8
> # echo $LC_CTYPE
> el_GR.UTF-8
> # ps -eo pid,comm |head
>   PID COMMAND
>     1 init
>
> Best regards,
>
> Vivia
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 8.0
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (700, 'unstable'), (600, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=el_GR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=el_GR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)