Bug#820074: debian-installer: installer fails on "select an install software" on systemd package
Package: debian-installer
Severity: important
Tags: d-i
Dear Maintainer,
I tried to install Debian Testing in a VM, which failed in the "select and
install software" step.
Installer iso (sha1sum):
c672951a58e47f1adaf780b1879d236fbe68484a debian-stretch-DI-
alpha5-amd64-netinst.iso
VM config:
/usr/bin/kvm -soundhw es1370 -k de -enable-kvm -m 1024 -localtime -cdrom
debian-stretch-DI-alpha5-amd64-netinst.iso -hda test.hdd -boot once=d,menu=off
-net nic,vlan=0 -net user,vlan=0 -name "Debian"
Steps taken / items selected:
"Graphical Install" (happens in text mode, too)
Language: English
Location: United States
Keymap: American English
Hostname: debian
Domainname:
Root password: root
User full name: user
username: user
User password: user
Time zone: Eastern
Parition disks: Guided / use entire disk (SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 10.7 GB ATA
QEMU HARDDISK) / All files in one partition
Archive mirror: United States (ftp.us.debian.org)
HTTP proxy:
"Select and install software"
Installation step failed
An installation step failed. You can try to run the failing item again from the
menu, or skip it and choose something else. The failing step is: Select and
install software
(Continue and retry that step fails again)
Ctrl-Alt-F4:
...
in-target: update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.3.0-1-amd64
in-target: Errors were encountered while processing:
in-target: systemd
kernel: [...] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
kernel: [...] ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
main-menu[343]: WARNING **: Configuring 'pkgsel' failed with error code 100
main-menu[343]: WARNING **: Menu item 'pkgsel' failed.
Ctrl-Alt-F2:
<Enter>
chroot target
bash
apt-get install systemd
(some output, including warnings about me not having mounted /dev/pts;
otherwise installs just fine)
exit
exit
Ctrl-Alt-F5:
Continue, Continue -> everything works, next step is "Configuring popularity-
contest"
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-1-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
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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