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Re: Bug#1091366: debian-installer: No graphical mode in sid



Hi,

Roland Clobus <rclobus@rclobus.nl> (2024-12-24):
> On 24/12/2024 18:58, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> > Maybe you could be more specific? That's rather vague and if I look
> > into live-build-install_to_HD_with_di, I see d-i starting, except in
> > text mode.
> 
> That is my point. It does not start the graphical mode, like it did the
> day before.

OK, I wasn't sure I was looking at the right place.

> > On the d-i side, if the graphical installer fails to start, we get X
> > starting in a loop (see recent bug reports until the fix in the X
> > server), there's no fallback to text mode.
> > 
> > Without any more information, that looks like some live problem…
> 
> The live installer runs 'daily-build' from the debian-installer
> repository. The generated initrd.gz was then started with qemu:
> 
> kvm -kernel build/dest/cdrom/gtk/vmlinuz -initrd
> build/dest/cdrom/gtk/initrd.gz -m 2G

Ah, some details, thanks.

Trying that with today's files just works for me (the graphical installer
starts):
  https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/amd64/20241224-01:42/cdrom/gtk/

Building with daily-build seems super slow for no obvious reasons, so I've
just tried a regular `dpkg-buildpackage -b` instead, and I can replicate
the issue with files below build/dest/cdrom/gtk after the build.

With cdebconf udebs reverted to their testing version (changing only that,
feeding them via localudebs after deb-reversion), the problem goes away.

Paging Colin and Gioele accordingly.

Thanks for the heads-up.


Cheers,
-- 
Cyril Brulebois (kibi@debian.org)            <https://debamax.com/>
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant

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