Bug#884886: live-boot: Installing live-boot (and devirates) into standard Stretch system gives boot problems

[Christian Knoke <chrisk@cknoke.de>]

Package: live-boot
Severity: normal

Installing live* packages into a normal Installation of Debian Stable
can lead to boot problems on the host. Aptitude does not warn.

In the intend to build a Debian-Live system, I installed, besides
live-build, the following packages on the host:

live-boot-initramfs-tools:i386
live-boot:i386
live-config-systemd:i386
live-config:i386
live-config-doc:i386
live-image-cinnamon-desktop:i386
live-image-gnome-desktop:i386
live-image-kde-desktop:i386
live-image-lxde-desktop:i386
live-image-mate-desktop:i386
live-image-standard:i386
live-image-xfce-desktop:i386
live-images:i386
live-tools:i386

As a result, on host boot only 1 cpu core was recognized, systemd waited 90
sec for disk devices already up and running, and the firmware for the
graphics card was not loaded.

Deinstallation of the above packages and update-initramfs -k all -u solved it.

Christian

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.3
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages live-boot depends on:
pn  live-boot-initramfs-tools | live-boot-backend  <none>

Versions of packages live-boot recommends:
ii  live-boot-doc  1:20170112
pn  live-tools     <none>
ii  rsync          3.1.2-1+deb9u1
ii  uuid-runtime   2.29.2-1

Versions of packages live-boot suggests:
pn  cryptsetup  <none>
ii  curlftpfs   0.9.2-9+b1
pn  httpfs2     <none>
ii  wget        1.18-5+deb9u1