Bug#1036439: debian-installer: DLBD install failed, apparent typo.

[Bud Heal <budheal508@gmail.com>]

Hello,

This time I did check twice or three times, went over to another computer with a spare disk, etc.

The compare was simple cmp, USB-to-.iso. I looked at the /usr/sbin/debootstrap on the installed disk. Since "||" was larger than ")" I thought it could not be a transmission error.

Remember, the last email sent me back (to a laptop I had turned off) where I found that the DLBD .iso files were smaller than the ones pulled off the USB sticks.

I built the 25GB BD set using the same files scanned as to build the DLBD files. That worked fine after I used xfburn and not brasero.

On to rebuild and hopefully I was calling "Wolf!" again...

On Sun, May 21, 2023 at 1:49 AM Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> wrote:

Hi,

Bud Heal <budheal508@gmail.com> (2023-05-20):
>    * What led up to the situation?
> I copied the DLBD volumes to USB sticks and booted a desktop with a new
> (M.2) SSD. I tried LVM and unencrypted. Then I tried with a laptop I had
> previously installed bookworm into successfully.

How did you perform that copy?

It looks probably to me that you might have opened the image, then copied
files, instead of copying the raw image.

>    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>      ineffective)?
> In each case, a message was emitted after partitioning (automatically)
> from syslog:
> May 20 01:33:10 debootstrap: /usr/sbin/debootstrap --components=,,,, --debian-installer --resolve-deps --no-check-gpg bookworm /ta
> rget file:///cdrom/
> May 20 01:33:10 debootstrap: /usr/sbin/debootstrap: eval: line 547: syntax error: unexpected "||" (expecting ")")

At first glance, looks like metadata files weren't copied.

> I then compared the USB data to the .iso file to make sure they match.

How did you perform that comparison?


Cheers,
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Cyril Brulebois (kibi@debian.org)            <https://debamax.com/>
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