Bug: Buster 10.0 Testing 20190617 Image LiveCD Will Not Boot
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Hello,
Using the LiveCD LXDE image of 20190617 Will not boot to Live
Image.
Messages flash very quickly that make it difficult to see the
actual messages. Adding the "debug" option to the boot command
line for the LiveCD boot has no impact on the speed or type of
error occurring.
The best I can see from several attempts to boot the LiveCD
image is some sort of error in the options for booting the
LiveCD image.
If one chooses any other menu option to boot such as installing
Debian there is no error and the image boots to the install or
intended menu item of initial boot splash screen to select what
one wants.
This is actually not strictly a Buster Testing 10.x error.
This is fact also occurs more selectively with Debian Stretch
9.9.0 and many prior versions. I will skip the messy details
of how I have played the bugs against each other to workaround
what is in essence the same bug.
Same system has even messier problems trying to boot back to
Debian Stretch 9.9.0 of system with LiveCD Buster 10 Testing
image. I will skip the messy details as I believe if the real
bug(s) are fixed then the collateral damage messy bugs will not
occur.
A posting to mailing list debian-boot was sent based on
the "Debian 10 -- Reporting Problems" web page:
<https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/reportingbugs>
page the buckets are for install related issues, upgrade
issues, and post install issues.
This is a LiveCD issue so I am at loss where to report and how
later have the fixes cascaded back to Stretch 9.x. I am now
trying the Debian-Live list in hopes it is a better choice than
what was suggested in the above link.
Would be helpful how one can secure the actual error message
being flashed on the splash screen so fast it defies even
trying to video record with cell phone and clearly cannot take
a pic of the messages.
As FYI I also tried different combinations of removing the
keywords for booting the LiveCD after the initrd keyword. So
clearly the initrd, kernel image et al were not touched as part
of these attempts.
No issues when use LUbuntu Live LXDEQt 19.04, Linux Mint,
number of prior LUbuntu LiveCD (15.04s, 16.04s, 18.04s). This
suggests there are a number of problems with the Debian LiveCD
images that has been ongoing since at least Debian 9 Stretch
that is now in Debian Buster 10.
John L. Males
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
19 June 2019 23:55/20 June 2019 11:59/12:08
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2019-06-20 15:49:28.838489012+0000-UTC Time:
1561045768.841736848
20 Jun 15:49:28 ntpdate[18598]: ntpdate 4.2.8p10@1.3728-o Sun
Feb 25 21:22:56 UTC 2018 (1)
20 Jun 15:49:43 ntpdate[18604]: step time server 206.108.0.133
offset -0.006861 sec
Linux 4.9.0-9-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.168-1 (2019-04-12)
Modified Debian GNU/Linux 9.9 (stretch)
(Alternative to Debian determined, work in progress)
cat /proc/cpuinfo (Selected):
model name : AMD E-350 Processor
vmstat -s:
16026156 K total memory
3768068 K used memory
9372920 K active memory
5201456 K inactive memory
920600 K free memory
291960 K buffer memory
11045528 K swap cache
0 K total swap
0 K used swap
0 K free swap
141283014 non-nice user cpu ticks
52985512 nice user cpu ticks
155757853 system cpu ticks
376439728 idle cpu ticks
2465163 IO-wait cpu ticks
0 IRQ cpu ticks
3429842 softirq cpu ticks
0 stolen cpu ticks
289202954 pages paged in
32476364 pages paged out
0 pages swapped in
0 pages swapped out
2062517674 interrupts
2254476054 CPU context switches
1557283473 boot time
368459123 forks
/proc/vmstat (Selected):
pgpgin 289202954
pgpgout 32476364
pswpin 0
pswpout 0
pgfree 45768130755
pgfault 76876606375
pgmajfault 904106
/proc/meminfo (Selected):
Mlocked: 144 kB
VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB
VmallocChunk: 0 kB
HugePages_Total: 0
vmstat --partition /dev/sda8 (Swap):
partition was not found
sar -b:
Linux 4.9.0-9-amd64 (debian) 06/20/2019
_x86_64_ (2 CPU)
12:00:01 AM pgpgin/s pgpgout/s fault/s majflt/s pgfree/s
pgscank/s pgscand/s pgsteal/s %vmeff
03:25:01 PM 0.00 0.00 22305.00 0.00
12096.16 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 03:35:01
PM 0.00 0.00 22003.73 0.00 11719.67
0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 03:45:01 PM 0.00
0.00 22178.57 0.00 12160.87 0.00 0.00
0.00 0.00 Average: 0.11 91.53 22196.36
0.00 12016.33 8.66 0.01 8.67 100.00
ps -A:
%CPU START TIME C CLS COMMAND TIME NI PID
POL PRI SZ RSS VSZ SIZE MAJFL MINFL SCH STAT
TIME WCHAN
0.0 May 8 51:09 0 TS kswapd0 00:51:09 0 35
TS 19 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 S
00:51:09 -
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