Re: What installer images should we provide for s390 and s390x?
Anna, steve,
I have reported the problem to the support. I found how to do that. And it was transfered to the team in charge of this kind of things.
Many thanks to you
Cordialement
Alain Benveniste
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Le 19 mai 2012 à 21:38, "J.A. Bezemer" <j.a.bezemer@opensourcepartners.nl> a écrit :
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> On Sat, 19 May 2012, Alain Benvéniste wrote:
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>> Anna,
>> Installer reacts a bit more differently, but still fails :
>>
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> [..snip..]
>> May 19 13:21:57 debconf: Setting debconf/language to fr
>> May 19 13:21:59 localechooser: info: Set debian-installer/country = 'FR'
>> May 19 13:22:00 localechooser: info: Set debian-installer/locale =
>> 'fr_FR.UTF-8'
>> May 19 13:22:03 localechooser: info: System locale (debian-installer/locale)
>> = 'fr_FR.UTF-8'
>> May 19 13:22:03 main-menu[257]: DEBUG: resolver (libc6-udeb): package
>> doesn't exist (ignored)
>> May 19 13:22:04 main-menu[257]: INFO: Menu item 'download-installer'
>> selected
>> May 19 13:22:04 anna-install: Queueing udeb apt-mirror-setup for later
>> installation
>> May 19 13:22:14 choose-mirror[663]: DEBUG: command: wget -q
>> ftp://192.168.1.77/debian//dists/oldstable/Release -O - | grep -E
>> '^(Suite|Codename):'
>> May 19 13:22:14 choose-mirror[663]: DEBUG: command: wget -q
>> ftp://192.168.1.77/debian//dists/stable/Release -O - | grep -E
>> '^(Suite|Codename):'
>> May 19 13:22:15 choose-mirror[663]: DEBUG: command: wget -q
>> ftp://192.168.1.77/debian//dists/squeeze/Release -O - | grep -E
>> '^(Suite|Codename):'
>> May 19 13:22:15 choose-mirror[663]: DEBUG: command: wget -q
>> ftp://192.168.1.77/debian//dists/testing/Release -O - | grep -E
>> '^(Suite|Codename):'
>> May 19 13:22:15 choose-mirror[663]: DEBUG: command: wget -q
>> ftp://192.168.1.77/debian//dists/unstable/Release -O - | grep -E
>> '^(Suite|Codename):'
>> May 19 13:22:16 choose-mirror[663]: INFO: suite/codename set to:
>> stable/squeeze
>> May 19 13:22:16 choose-mirror[663]: DEBUG: command: wget -q
>> ftp://192.168.1.77/debian//dists/squeeze/main/binary-s390/Release -O - |
>> grep ^Architecture:
>> May 19 13:22:16 anna-install: Queueing udeb squeeze-support for later
>> installation
>> May 19 13:22:16 main-menu[257]: (process:656): wget: bad response to RETR:
>> 550 /c:/debian/dists/oldstable/Release: No such file or directory.
>> May 19 13:22:16 main-menu[257]: (process:656): wget: bad response to RETR:
>> 550 /c:/debian/dists/testing/Release: No such file or directory.
>> May 19 13:22:16 main-menu[257]: (process:656): wget: bad response to RETR:
>> 550 /c:/debian/dists/unstable/Release: No such file or directory.
>> May 19 13:22:17 net-retriever: Not verifying Release signature:
>> unauthenticated mode enabled
>> May 19 13:22:23 anna[696]: WARNING **: bad d-i Packages file
>> May 19 13:22:23 main-menu[257]: INFO: Menu item 'download-installer'
>> succeeded but requested to be left unconfigured.
>> May 19 13:22:23 main-menu[257]: DEBUG: resolver (libc6-udeb): package
>> doesn't exist (ignored)
> [..snip..]
>
> Hmm. So the error is effectively the same, which probably means that a duplicate /stable/ path wasn't needed. Keep it anyway, just in case.
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> At this point, it would help very much to have a log of your FTP server, so we could see exactly what the installer is requesting.
>
> Lacking that, my first thought was that you could somehow have a corrupted debian-installer/binary-s390/Packages file.
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> But searching around a bit, I got on http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12328 which suggested that the installer may actually be trying to download a Packages.bz2 file, which currently isn't generated on CDs.
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> So you could try adding a bzip2-compressed copy of the Packages file in /{squeeze,stable}/main/debian-installer/binary-s390/ and also in /{squeeze,stable}/main/binary-s390/. (How to do bzip2 on Windows is left as an exercise to the reader.)
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>
> Note to the Debian-CD team:
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> It probably wouldn't hurt adding Packages.bz2 everywhere, to match what's on the FTP mirrors.
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>
> Best Regards,
>
> Anne Bezemer
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