Bug: Buster 10.0 Testing 20190617 Image LiveCD Will Not Boot
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Hello,
Using the LiveCD LXDE image of 20190617 Will not boot to Live
Image.
Messages flash very quickly that make it difficult to see the
actual messages. Adding the "debug" option to the boot command
line for the LiveCD boot has no impact on the speed or type of
error occurring.
The best I can see from several attempts to boot the LiveCD
image is some sort of error in the options for booting the
LiveCD image.
If one chooses any other menu option to boot such as installing
Debian there is no error and the image boots to the install or
intended menu item of initial boot splash screen to select
what one wants.
This is actually not strictly a Buster Testing 10.x error.
This is fact also occurs more selectively with Debian Stretch
9.9.0 and many prior versions. I will skip the messy details
of how I have played the bugs against each other to workaround
what is in essence the same bug.
Same system has even messier problems trying to boot back to
Debian Stretch 9.9.0 of system with LiveCD Buster 10 Testing
image. I will skip the messy details as I believe if the real
bug(s) are fixed then the collateral damage messy bugs will
not occur.
This posting to mailing list is because based on the "Debian 10
- -- Reporting Problems" web page:
<https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/reportingbugs>
page the buckets are for install related issues, upgrade
issues, and post install issues. This is a LiveCD issue so I
am at loss where to report and how later have the fixes
cascaded back to Stretch 9.x.
Also would be helpful how one can secure the actual error
message being flashed on the splash screen so fast it defies
even trying to video record with cell phone and clearly cannot
take a pic of the messages.
As FYI I also tried different combinations of removing the
keywords for booting the LiveCD after the initrd keyword. So
clearly the initrd, kernel image et al were not touched as part
of these attempts.
John L. Males
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
19 June 2019 23:55
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2019-06-20 03:35:18.609634134+0000-UTC Time:
1561001718.613086915
20 Jun 03:35:18 ntpdate[29356]: ntpdate 4.2.8p10@1.3728-o Sun
Feb 25 21:22:56 UTC 2018 (1)
20 Jun 03:35:33 ntpdate[29364]: step time server 206.108.0.133
offset -0.005563 sec
Linux 4.9.0-9-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.168-1 (2019-04-12)
Modified Debian GNU/Linux 9.9 (stretch)
(Alternative to Debian determined, work in progress)
cat /proc/cpuinfo (Selected):
model name : AMD E-350 Processor
vmstat -s:
16026156 K total memory
3707556 K used memory
10558284 K active memory
3157544 K inactive memory
1827348 K free memory
289836 K buffer memory
10201416 K swap cache
0 K total swap
0 K used swap
0 K free swap
140415048 non-nice user cpu ticks
52438258 nice user cpu ticks
153832655 system cpu ticks
371254320 idle cpu ticks
2462710 IO-wait cpu ticks
0 IRQ cpu ticks
3387242 softirq cpu ticks
0 stolen cpu ticks
289202750 pages paged in
30526348 pages paged out
0 pages swapped in
0 pages swapped out
1995463735 interrupts
2154594133 CPU context switches
1557283473 boot time
364026356 forks
/proc/vmstat (Selected):
pgpgin 289202750
pgpgout 30526348
pswpin 0
pswpout 0
pgfree 45241683448
pgfault 75901284377
pgmajfault 904106
/proc/meminfo (Selected):
Mlocked: 128 kB
VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB
VmallocChunk: 0 kB
HugePages_Total: 0
vmstat --partition /dev/sda8 (Swap):
partition was not found
sar -b:
Linux 4.9.0-9-amd64 (debian) 06/20/2019
_x86_64_ (2 CPU)
12:00:01 AM pgpgin/s pgpgout/s fault/s majflt/s pgfree/s
pgscank/s pgscand/s pgsteal/s %vmeff
03:15:01 AM 0.00 874.00 21904.06 0.00
12263.56 6.20 0.00 6.20 100.00 03:25:01
AM 0.00 0.00 22597.23 0.00 12364.00
0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 03:35:01 AM 0.00
0.00 21889.06 0.00 11518.24 0.00 0.00
0.00 0.00 Average: 0.47 251.14 22379.46
0.00 12231.98 38.05 0.04 38.09 100.00
ps -A:
%CPU START TIME C CLS COMMAND TIME NI PID
POL PRI SZ RSS VSZ SIZE MAJFL MINFL SCH STAT
TIME WCHAN
0.0 May 8 51:09 0 TS kswapd0 00:51:09 0 35
TS 19 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 S
00:51:09 -
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