Bug#933981: cdrom: USB, KVM create connect/disconnect loop in level1 (repair) install
Package: cdrom
Severity: grave
Tags: d-i
Justification: renders package unusable
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
I had another machine that gave kernel panic while upgrading from Stretch to
Buster. Use of Graphical install was also a problem during re-install due to
destroyed system. (I reported this issue in another report.) Thus, I chose to
upgrade an identical machine from level 1 (Debain Repair in GRUB2 boot menu).
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
The scrolling log in the command line display showed repeated
connect/disconnect loops for USB devices (of many kinds). This applied also to
USB mice and keyboards connected via KVM.
For what it was worth, I used a local cache of the DVDs on the machine's hard
drive.
Unplugged all USB, plugged in single USB keyboard only, and directly, not via
KVM.
* What was the outcome of this action?
Upgraded fine with just the keyboard directly plugged into USB.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
Correct handling of USB, without issues.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
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