Bug#865015: debian-installer: Live installers are unable to start, "There was a problem reading data from the CD-ROM"
On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 12:19:07AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
>Control: reassign -1 live-installer
>
>Francisco Gómez <espectalll@kydara.com> (2017-06-18):
>> Package: debian-installer
>> Severity: grave
>> Justification: renders package unusable
>>
>> When trying to install Debian, the installer is unable to start, and the
>> following error appears:
>>
>> "There was an error reading data from the CD-ROM. Please make sure it is in the
>> drive. If retrying does not work, you should check the integrity of your CD-
>> ROM."
>>
>> Retrying does not solve the problem. On the console, with an AMD64 image, the
>> following output is displayed:
>>
>> cdrom-retriever: error: Unable to find
>> `/w/work/free/gnomepool/main/libl/libzlo2-2-udeb/libzlo2-2-udeb_2.08-1.2+b2_amd64.udeb`
>>
>> This has been tested with the live image "debian-9.0.0-amd64-i386-netinst.iso"
>> on multiple machines by multiple people, including on my iMac via Virtualbox,
>> downloaded from torrent.
>
>This seems to have been independently discovered by Steve (“the Packages
>files in the image point to .debs using full path, not relative to the
>stuff in the image”). Reassigning to live-installer, which might not be
>the correct package, but is probably better than just debian-installer.
That's fair enough. I think I've found a bug in live-wrapper here, and
I'm testing a fix already.
--
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
"I used to be the first kid on the block wanting a cranial implant,
now I want to be the first with a cranial firewall. " -- Charlie Stross
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