Quoting Cyril Brulebois (2018-07-07 15:07:08) > 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 image was found under here, but has since been removed: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/ > > > 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). Well that's not confusing at all. /sarcasm > > 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. What's the point in producing testing images if you're not willing to accept bug reports against it? Would you rather bugs like this make it into a release before being reported? If no one is supposed to use testing images, perhaps consider renaming them to "DO NOT USE THIS IMAGE.iso" > > > Cheers, > -- > Cyril Brulebois (kibi@debian.org) <https://debamax.com/> > D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: signature