Bug#1039710: debian-installer: Grub installation fails and /var/log/syslog is empty
Package: debian-installer
Version: daily build 2023-06-28T05:19Z
Severity: grave
Tags: d-i
Justification: renders package unusable
X-Debbugs-Cc: phil@hands.com
Hello Debian-installer maintainers,
On openQA [1] the installation tests with the latest netinst image [2] fail,
because GRUB cannot install.
I've tried to look a bit deeper into the issue, but I cannot proceed, because
/var/log/syslog is empty. So effectively there are possibly two issues in this
report:
1) Failure in grub
2) No logging to /var/log/syslog
My findings so far:
* The command line arguments of syslogd and klogd (both from Busybox) have not
changed between Bookworm and Trixie.
* At the moment of the failure, the /var/log folder contains only 3 files [3]:
syslog (a single line, stating that syslog was started from Busybox [4]),
partman and Xorg.0.log
* When running `logger`, an entry should have been created in /var/log/syslog,
but that doesn't happen. The netinst image from Bookworm works correctly.
* Possibly relevant packages that have been updated: busybox, libc, linux-
image, bsdutils
With kind regards,
Roland Clobus
[1] https://openqa.debian.net/tests/167456
[2] https://get.debian.org/images/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/amd64/iso-
cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso
[3] https://openqa.debian.net/tests/167456/file/grub-var_log.tar
[4] https://openqa.debian.net/tests/167456/logfile?filename=DI_syslog.txt
PS: Attached system information is from my personal computer, not the installed
system
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-debug')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-9-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
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