Bug#1116551: debian-installer: Using DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gtk ignores existing preseed.cfg
Package: debian-installer
Followup-For: Bug #1116551
X-Debbugs-Cc: wmlive@users.sf.net
The trigger making the aarch64 debian-installer always default to the newt
interface on the serial console was found to consist of the addition of a
preseed.cfg file to the installer's initrd.
If no pressed.cfg is added to the initrd, the graphical installer frontend
starts up and functions normally.
When instead of the initrd preseed method providing the preseed.cfg via kernel
parameter, e.g., 'preseed/file=/cdrom/install/gtk/preseed.cfg', the graphical
installer not only starts up normally but also properly recognizes and uses the
supplied preseed.cfg file.
So this appears to be a functional workaround in aarch64 for the reported
issue.
It might be worthwhile to mention this functional difference of preseeding
methods between architectures in the associated documentation.
Regards,
Paul
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.12
APT prefers oldstable
APT policy: (990, 'oldstable'), (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-security'), (500, 'oldstable-proposed-updates')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 6.12.43+deb12-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC, TAINT_USER, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
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