Bug#791794: UUID not found for root
On Fri, 2015-07-31 at 08:28 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> Unless someone has an alternative suggestion I think I'll make the
> flash-kernel initramfs-hook gate its waiting for Ctrl-C on failure
> behaviour on either DEBIAN_FRONTEND or DEBIAN_HAS_FRONTEND being non
> -empty. Today the DEBIAN_FRONTEND check is explicitly for
> "noninteractive" which omits at least "passthrough" as another
> problematic case. It seems to me that few of the other possible options
> would benefit from being made to wait here (graphical ones surely not,
> likewise newt, maybe text would be ok, but lets not bother special
> casing it).
I've just pushed this change to flash-kenrel.git, so it will be in the
next upload.
commit 6cfc6f13261e2fe02fd1a54a02ca37ee132166b4
Author: Ian Campbell <ijc@debian.org>
Date: Fri Jul 31 08:24:03 2015 +0100
Avoid waiting for Ctrl-C if any debconf frontend is in use
not just non-interactive.
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 7c2835a..bf87bd2 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ flash-kernel (3.48) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
* Update wandboard and cubox-i boot scripts to improve distro_bootcmd
support.
+ [ Ian Campbell ]
+ * Avoid waiting for Ctrl-C if any debconf frontend is in use, not just
+ non-interactive. (Closes: #791794)
+
-- Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> Wed, 04 Nov 2015 13:33:08 -0800
flash-kernel (3.47) unstable; urgency=medium
diff --git a/initramfs-tools/hooks/flash_kernel_set_root b/initramfs-tools/hooks/flash_kernel_set_root
index 201b7bd..af948c3 100755
--- a/initramfs-tools/hooks/flash_kernel_set_root
+++ b/initramfs-tools/hooks/flash_kernel_set_root
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ pause_error() {
# If debconf appears to be running then it is important that
# we do not block on stdin since this would hang the
# installer.
- if [ "$DEBIAN_HAS_FRONTEND" ] || [ "$DEBIAN_FRONTEND" = "noninteractive" ]; then
+ if [ "$DEBIAN_HAS_FRONTEND" ] || [ "$DEBIAN_FRONTEND" ]; then
echo "Unable to abort; system will probably be broken!" >&2
else
echo "Press Ctrl-C to abort build, or Enter to continue" >&2
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