Bug#975708: installation-reports: Many disk start/stop with daily-image installer on LS-XHL
Package: installation-reports
Severity: grave
Tags: d-i
Justification: renders package unusable
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-- Package-specific info:
Boot method: disk
Image version: http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-armel/current/images/kirkwood/network-console/buffalo/ls-xhl/
Date: <November, 24th, 2020>
Machine: Buffalo LS-XHL
Partitions:
Disk /dev/sdc: 465.78 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
Disk model: 18AS
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: E65CCA75-BACC-4473-BD2A-96F829358737
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sdc1 2048 1050623 1048576 512M Linux filesystem
/dev/sdc2 1050624 3147775 2097152 1G Linux swap
/dev/sdc3 3147776 24119295 20971520 10G Linux filesystem
/dev/sdc4 24119296 976773119 952653824 454.3G Linux filesystem
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot: [E]
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.>
Hello, to make the installer working on this kind of hardware (LS-XHL from Buffalo NAS compagny), I create some partitions like above on the disk,
in the GPT disk partition format. I put the three files explicitly created for this hardware, picked here http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/buster/main/installer-armel/20190702/images/kirkwood/network-console/buffalo/ls-xhl/ .
The normal behavior with this installer is to boot on the disk, the hardware detects well the kernel and his initrd,
the installer boot process stop and restart immediately the disk (Not a good thing in my mind, it's stress the disk a little bit but it's only one time during the boot process).
Then the installer start on ssh and I can install the Debian 10 in a good way. At the end the Debian 10 system is installed and the reboot
is working like a charm, always 1 time disk start/stop at boot, but after that, no problem a all, the system is working and stable.
For the installer published in testing or daily-image picked here http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-armel/current/images/kirkwood/network-console/buffalo/ls-xhl/ ,
The boot process begin well, the hardware detect well the kernel and his initrd, make a stop/start of the disk (like above).
After that the ssh connection is possible but the disk make many many stop/start operations.
The installer seems to continue but during the base installation, it's hangs due to disks problems due to inopportune disk start/stop.
This problem is not a disk-specific problem, I'd tried this on 2 other disks which are differrents brands and models and it make the same bug.
Keep it up guys, you make a very gigantic work.
The information below this line is not from the LS-XHL Buffalo NAS.
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Installer lsb-release:
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Installer hardware-summary:
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.6
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-12-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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