Hi Sergio, Sergio Gelato <Sergio.Gelato@astro.su.se> (2019-09-11): > This seems to be new behaviour since stretch, introduced in version 1.128 of > package rootskel. From the rest of your mail I'm assuming you meant buster here. > I suspect that the two debian-installer instances are racing each > other. To confirm this, I unpacked initrd.gz, made a simple change to > sbin/reopen-console (adding inittab entries only for cons in > $preferred instead of for cons in $consoles), repacked, and run an > installation again with much better results (no more questions from > localechooser). > > I do appreciate that for interactive d-i use it's nice to have it show > up on all consoles; but not at the expense of breaking fully automated > installation. Agreed. You're not the only one reporting such issues, and I'd really like feature authors to fix the regression they introduced. That's not the first time steal-ctty appears in bug report. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (kibi@debian.org) <https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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