Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> writes: > Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> (2017-08-08): >> So I've been meaning to debug the black screen in graphical installer >> for quite a while, but I've been busy with preparing for my talk, then >> discussing busybox with new recruits. >> >> I've finally managed to bisect that down to the following dinstalls: >> 2017-06-20 22:37:45 (last OK) >> 2017-06-21 03:38:47 (first KO) >> >> and out of the 6 packages, I've isolated the culprit: >> libexpat1-udeb_2.2.1-1_amd64.udeb >> >> Right afterwards I've discovered that an installer built against >> unstable… just works again. I'm suspecting the new expat upstream >> version might have been the fix we needed: >> https://tracker.debian.org/news/860347 >> >> But I doubt it makes much sense to also isolate what/when the exact >> fix happened. I thought I would just share the “when did it break?” >> part. > > This is fun: the bug is “fixed” in that the language selection screen > pops up properly, but it's not actually possible to get any input (incl. > VT switching) into the installer. I'll look into this once I'm back from > DebConf. Yes that's the behaviour I was commenting on in IRC, and which was obviously being spotted by the jenkins/cucumber setup. BTW It is possible to run get something like shell access to the running d-i via its ttyS0 (by putting rather a lot of stuff on the kernel boot command line), so if that would help I can run tests for you and/or explain the proceedure. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/ http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg, GERMANY
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