Bug#931056: debian-installer: keyboard setup skipped when using initrd preseeding
Package: debian-installer
Version: 20190410
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i
Dear Maintainer,
when installing debian using initrd preseeding, keyboard setup gets
skipped completely.
After some debugging and code reading I found out that the root cause
is the /var/run/auto-install.active file, which doesn't get updated when
using plain initrd preseeding. The file-preseed.postinst and
network-preseed.postinst installation steps both update the file
correctly.
My additional boot options were auto=true and keymap=de. Manually adding
file=file:///preseed.cfg fixed this issue.
This behavior is unexpected, because preseeding succeeds successfully in
every other aspect.
Kind regards,
Christian
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
-- no debconf information
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