Control: severity -1 normal
Hi,
Clayton Craft <clayton.a.craft@intel.com> (2018-07-05):
> Package: installation-reports
> Justification: Unable to install debian with netinst image on systems with these NICs
>
>
> With the latest weekly Debian testing netinst image (06-25 and 07-02 tested),
Please always include the full URL to the image you're reporting an
issue against.
> the e1000e, ixgbe, and igb modules cannot load.
> Attempting to do so generates this message in the kernel log:
>
> Unknown symbol: refcount_inc (error 0)
>
> The kernel on this image is reported as 4.16.0-2, and magic ver from
> 'modinfo' reports the same version. Perhaps there's some other module
> dependency that is not included in the image?
It's rather due to having an installer embedding the kernel at version
4.16.12-1 (current when that installer was built) while the debian-cd
tooling included more recent kernel udebs (4.16.16-2, current when the
installation image was built).
For reference, the exact kernel version can be seen using:
cat /proc/version
> Note that I did not try to load all ethernet drivers included in the
> image, so it's possible that there are more drivers affected.
>
> This issue makes it impossible to install Debian testing with the
> netinst image on system with these ethernet adapters.
Please use released images instead?
This issue is common during development phases, and I'd usually advise
running either a released image (esp. for this netinst usecase), or a
d-i daily build (esp. for the netboot usecase). Please note the latter
is only a d-i build against unstable, there's no matching installation
image.
See the last announce:
https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/News/2018/20180619
More on:
https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
Awaiting feedback, but this is a good candidate for a not-a-bug closure.
Cheers,
--
Cyril Brulebois (kibi@debian.org) <https://debamax.com/>
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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