Bug#933978: installation-reports: Use of GUI install fails on upgrade from Stretch to Buster - GTX 660
Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
I was upgrading using command line terminal emulator inside XFCE 4.12 and got a
kernel panic. Reboot also gave kernel panic, even in recovery mode (level1).
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
Wiped / partition (but not /home or others) and started install. Using
graphical option, it repeatedly just stalled during the portion of the process
after all of the initial questions, and after selection of what to install,
e.g., Gnome, XFCE, etc. Twice it stalled on "boxer."
Repeated using command line install, and I was able to get far enough along to
enable resuming install from local store (copied CDs on another machine).
There was an additional strange issue. The CD/DVD drive normally responds to
the button on it by opening. But during the install, I always had to open the
slide with a paperclip to make it respond to the button so I could change DVDs.
I never have seen this at any other time.
* What was the outcome of this action?
I was able to restore by creating a script using the output of dpkg --get-
selections "*" - first by using DVDs, then local store.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
See above.
-- Package-specific info:
Boot method: CD
Image version: !You should be able to copy and paste to this program. <Ctl-V> and right-click both fail! https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-dvd/debain-10.0.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso (whew)
Date: <Date and time of the install>
Machine: Homebuilt w/Intel DX79SR mobo, i7-3820, 32GB RAM, GeForce GTX 660 vidoe.
Partitions: <df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred>
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot: [ ]
Detect network card: [ ]
Configure network: [ ]
Detect CD: [ ]
Load installer modules: [ ]
Clock/timezone setup: [ ]
User/password setup: [ ]
Detect hard drives: [ ]
Partition hard drives: [ ]
Install base system: [ ]
Install tasks: [ ]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Overall install: [ ]
Comments/Problems:
<Description of the install, in prose, and any thoughts, comments
and ideas you had during the initial install.>
--
Please make sure that the hardware-summary log file, and any other
installation logs that you think would be useful are attached to this
report. Please compress large files using gzip.
Once you have filled out this report, mail it to submit@bugs.debian.org.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
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