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Re: d-i hangs after "Detecting hardware" and emits E: Unimplemented function



Quoting Karsten Merker (2015-11-14 01:02:54)
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 02:23:40PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > Quoting Karsten Merker (2015-11-12 21:32:27)
> > > Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> wrote:
> > > [d-i on an Allwinner A20-based Olimex LIME2]
> > >> Board boots, asks for locale, and informs that it detects hardware, 
> > >> but then (apparently) hangs, and after a little while emits this:
> > >>
> > >>  E: Unimplemented function
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > several people seem to have had similar effects on different hardware, 
> > > so it does not seem to be a problem that is specific to 
> > > Allwinner-based systems. According to the following bugs/threads, 
> > > possible candidates for the source of the issue could be the kernel or 
> > > udev:
> > >
> > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=804351#45
> > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=804351#50
> > >
> > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=803476
> > >
> > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/2015/11/msg00021.html
> > 
> > Interesting!
> > 
> > The bisection in https://bugs.debian.org/803476#15 matches my more vague 
> > tests: Success with Stretch debian-installer 20150911 and package 
> > snapshot 20151002T213032Z which pulls udev-udeb 226-3.  Later snapshot 
> > complains with kernel mismatch, and next debian-installer release 
> > 20151023 is the one failing as reported here.
> > 
> > I will try test if debian-installer 20151023 works with an older package 
> > snapshot (and, as mentioned before, get some debug info).
> 
> Hello,
> 
> just a short status update: I have worked on debugging the issue
> further and I think that I have found a bug in ethdetect, but
> that needs some further analysis.  I'll try to dedicate some more
> time to the issue on the weekend.

Sounds promising!

Please tell me how, if you think I can help test it.

 - Jonas

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