Bug#985853: marked as done (debian-installer: Whitespace before a commented line in preseed file causes line to be parsed)
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regarding debian-installer: Whitespace before a commented line in preseed file causes line to be parsed
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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: debian-installer: Whitespace before a commented line in preseed file causes line to be parsed
- From: Andrew McDonnell <bugs+debian1@andrewmcdonnell.net>
- Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2021 09:45:17 +1030
- Message-id: <161662771796.16626.11732494896359281451.reportbug@beatrice>
Package: debian-installer
Version: 20190702+deb10u8
Severity: important
Tags: d-i
In a preseed file I accidentally had a space before a comment character, which
caused my preseed to fail in unexpected ways. I could not find anythying that
stood out in the documentation (e.g.
https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/amd64/apbs04.en.html or
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/apbs03.en.html) stating that this
would occur.
The specific example in my case looked like this:
#_preseed_V1
d-i debian-installer/locale string en_AU
d-i keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap select us
d-i keymap select us
... etc ...
# Example of fetching a script to run
#d-i preseed/run string http://10.1.2.3/my-script.sh
My install was hanging and when I entered a console and looked in the syslog,
it was attempting to access that script for which the IP address does not exist
on my network. I finally started to understand the problem when I did this, the
latter finally triggered a parse error in the installer console:
#d-iWHATpreseed/run string http://10.1.2.3/my-script.sh
#d-iWHATpreseed/runISstringHAPPENINGhttp://10.1.2.3/my-script.sh
at this point I saw the white space, removed it and the problem went away.
(I am also unsure whether "d-iWHAT" is also a bug or just some default applying
if the item owner is not found)
So I guess that either
- whitespace is disallowed before a comment character and this should be added
to https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/apbs03.en.html - it mentioned
whitespace between fields but not at the start of a line
- this is a bug
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers focal-updates
APT policy: (500, 'focal-updates'), (500, 'focal-security'), (500, 'focal')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.8.0-36-lowlatency (SMP w/8 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE= (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: installation-guide
Source-Version: 20210604
Done: Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
installation-guide, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 985853@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
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Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> (supplier of updated installation-guide package)
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Version: 20210604
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>
Description:
installation-guide-amd64 - Debian installation guide for amd64
installation-guide-arm64 - Debian installation guide for arm64
installation-guide-armel - Debian installation guide for armel
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installation-guide (20210604) unstable; urgency=medium
.
[ Charles Curley ]
* preseed: Document comments syntax. Closes: #985853
.
[ Samuel Thibault ]
* Add note about the lowmem parameter in the memory requirement section.
Closes: #987701
* Update lowmem levels for arm64, armhf, mipsel, mips64el.
.
[ Updated translations ]
* Dutch by Frans Spiesschaert
* German by Holger Wansing
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