Bug#673576: cdimage.debian.org for S390
On Sun, 20 May 2012, Alain Benvéniste wrote:
> Here is the FTP log
Thanks, that's quite helpful.
Can you please mail me a zipped copy (winzip is fine) of the
dists/squeeze/Release file from your CD/DVD?
And in the installer, after it fails, can you start a shell and report
the result of the command:
udpkg --print-architecture
Also, is there any chance that you can try the install over an HTTP
server instead of FTP? That might avoid some of the FTP intricacies that
could possibly be affecting your results.
===== My notes so far:
The combined installer + FTP server log looks like this:
* = FTP Server (time skew is +2h -17sec)
May 20 10:43:51 main-menu[258]: (process:657): wget: bad response to RETR: 550 /c:/debian/dists/oldstable/Release: No such file or directory.
* [2] Sun 20May12 12:43:34 - (000072) RETR debian//dists/testing/Release
* file not found
May 20 10:43:51 main-menu[258]: (process:657): wget: bad response to RETR: 550 /c:/debian/dists/testing/Release: No such file or directory.
* [2] Sun 20May12 12:43:34 - (000073) RETR debian//dists/unstable/Release
* file not found
May 20 10:43:51 main-menu[258]: (process:657): wget: bad response to RETR: 550 /c:/debian/dists/unstable/Release: No such file or directory.
May 20 10:43:51 main-menu[258]: DEBUG: resolver (libc6-udeb): package doesn't exist (ignored)
May 20 10:43:54 main-menu[258]: INFO: Menu item 'download-installer' selected
* [2] Sun 20May12 12:43:38 - (000074) RETR debian//dists/squeeze/main/binary-s390/Release
* ok 95 bytes
May 20 10:43:55 net-retriever: Not verifying Release signature: unauthenticated mode enabled
(This should actually come _before_ the "unauthenticated" line)
* [2] Sun 20May12 12:43:41 - (000075) RETR debian//dists/squeeze/Release
* ok 3234 bytes
May 20 10:43:57 anna[706]: WARNING **: bad d-i Packages file
May 20 10:43:57 net-retriever: Not verifying Release signature: unauthenticated mode enabled
(Following timestamps do not match any more??)
* [2] Sun 20May12 12:43:44 - (000076) RETR debian//dists/squeeze/Release
* ok 3234 bytes
May 20 10:46:40 anna[706]: WARNING **: bad d-i Packages file
May 20 10:46:41 main-menu[258]: INFO: Menu item 'download-installer' succeeded but requested to be left unconfigured.
May 20 10:46:41 main-menu[258]: DEBUG: resolver (libc6-udeb): package doesn't exist (ignored)
May 20 10:46:43 main-menu[258]: INFO: Menu item 'di-utils-shell' selected
The "WARNING **: bad d-i Packages file" message comes from
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=d-i/anna.git;a=summary
which calls
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=d-i/net-retriever.git;a=summary
starting from case "$cmd" in packages)
This downloads dists/squeeze/Release, skips gpg verification with log
message, but then does not appear to try downloading any Packages file
at all. There is a check
line=`grep $pkgfile\$ $Release 2>/dev/null`
(result is not used) which will fail on \r\n line endings and then block
anything else. Note that on the FTP connection, "TYPE I" is actually
used just fine.
Hmm, on i386, dists/squeeze/main/binary-i386/Release is 95 bytes with
six \n line endings, which matches result above.
But i386's dists/squeeze/Release is 4210 bytes...
Another reason could be that $ARCH is incorrect.
[I also noticed that net-retriever will only try Packages.gz and
Packages, so no .bz2 as I assumed earlier. Though the .bz2 may still be
used for the main (non-debian-installer) Packages files.]
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