Re: New working sparc64 netinst image
Hi,
>Can I get the exact error message, preferably from the log files under
>/var/log? My suspicion is that debian-installer tries to install the
>wrong kernel version and therefore fails.
>
>Apparently, being able to install the proper kernel version is a bit
>tricky and according to Helge Deller (CC) is the main reason why he
>uses snapshotted debian-ports.org mirrors for the installation.
>
>I have the suspicion that debian-installer looks for a particular
>kernel version which was determined at build time.
There are quite a number of interesting entries in the syslog of the
installer.
Complete log after disk detection:
Jan 1 17:54:34 partman: Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
Jan 1 17:57:50 kernel: [ 1578.055815] Adding 979952k swap on /dev/sda2. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:979952k FS
Jan 1 17:57:50 kernel: [ 1578.092955] Adding 224896k swap on /dev/sdb2. Priority:-2 extents:1 across:224896k FS
Jan 1 17:57:52 kernel: [ 1579.899054] EXT4-fs (sdb1): mounting ext3 file system using the ext4 subsystem
Jan 1 17:57:52 kernel: [ 1579.938840] EXT4-fs (sdb1): warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended
Jan 1 17:57:52 kernel: [ 1579.949878] EXT4-fs (sdb1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: errors=remount-ro
Jan 1 17:57:55 apt-install: Queueing package e2fsprogs for later installation
Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): /lib/partman/init.d/26zfs-device--More-- (31% of 1309s:
Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): line 42:
Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): zpool: not found
Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176):
Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): /lib/partman/choose_partition/60partition_tree/do_option:
Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): line 88:
Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): /lib/partman/active_partition/copy/choices: not found
Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176):
Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): /lib/partman/choose_partition/60partition_tree/do_option:
Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): line 88:
Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): /lib/partman/active_partition/copy/choices: not found
Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176):
Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): /lib/partman/choose_partition/60partition_tree/do_option:
Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): line 88:
Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): /lib/partman/active_partition/copy/choices: not found
Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176):
Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): /lib/partman/choose_partition/60--More-- (32% of 1309partition_tree/do_option:
Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): line 88:
Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): /lib/partman/active_partition/copy/choices: not found
Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176):
Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): /lib/partman/choose_partition/60partition_tree/do_option:
Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): line 88:
Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): /lib/partman/active_partition/copy/choices: not found
Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176):
Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): /lib/partman/fstab.d/zfs:
Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): line 49:
Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): zpool: not found
Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176):
Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): /lib/partman/fstab.d/zfs:
Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): line 49:
Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): zpool: not found
Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176):
Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): /lib/partman/fstab.d/zfs:
Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): line 49:
Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): zpool: not found
Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176):
Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): /lib/partman/fstab.d/zfs:
Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): line 49:
Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): zpool: not found
Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176):
Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): /lib/partman/fstab.d/zfs:
Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): line 49:
Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): zpool: not found
Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176):
Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): /lib/partman/fstab.d/zfs:
Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): line 49:
Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176): zpool: not found
Jan 1 17:57:56 main-menu[150]: (process:4176):
Jan 1 17:58:04 main-menu[150]: INFO: Menu item 'bootstrap-base' selected
Jan 1 17:58:04 base-installer: warning: Unknown architecture 'sparc64'.
Then packages are installed, where some warnings wrt dependecies are
issued and ignored, packages are configured and...:
Jan 1 18:13:04 debootstrap: Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.21-6) ...
Jan 1 18:13:04 debootstrap: Processing triggers for systemd (228-2) ...
Jan 1 18:13:11 apt-install: Queueing package keyboard-configuration for later installation
Jan 1 18:13:11 apt-install: Queueing package console-setup for later installation
Jan 1 18:13:12 base-installer: Get:1 http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian sid InRelease [41.0 kB]
Jan 1 18:13:14 base-installer: Ign:1 http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian sid InRelease
Jan 1 18:13:14 base-installer: Hit:2 http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian sid/main sparc64 Packages
Jan 1 18:13:40 base-installer: Fetched 41.0 kB in 27s (1482 B/s)
Jan 1 18:13:40 base-installer: Reading package lists...
Jan 1 18:13:59 base-installer:
Jan 1 18:13:59 base-installer: W
Jan 1 18:13:59 base-installer: :
Jan 1 18:13:59 base-installer: GPG error: http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian sid InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY A53AB45AC448326E
Jan 1 18:13:59 base-installer:
Jan 1 18:13:59 base-installer: W
Jan 1 18:13:59 base-installer: :
Jan 1 18:13:59 base-installer: The repository 'http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian sid InRelease' is not signed.
Jan 1 18:13:59 base-installer:
Jan 1 18:13:59 base-installer: W
Jan 1 18:13:59 base-installer: :
Jan 1 18:13:59 base-installer: There is no public key available for the following key IDs:
Jan 1 18:13:59 base-installer: A53AB45AC448326E
Jan 1 18:13:59 base-installer:
Jan 1 18:14:06 in-target: Reading package lists...
Jan 1 18:14:07 in-target:
Jan 1 18:14:07 in-target: Building dependency tree...
Jan 1 18:14:09 in-target:
Jan 1 18:14:12 in-target: The following additional packages will be installed:
Jan 1 18:14:12 in-target: libc-l10n
Jan 1 18:14:12 in-target: The following NEW packages will be installed:
Jan 1 18:14:12 in-target: libc-l10n locales
Jan 1 18:14:12 in-target: 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Jan 1 18:14:12 in-target: Need to get 4112 kB of archives.
Jan 1 18:14:12 in-target: After this operation, 16.8 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Jan 1 18:14:12 in-target: WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
Jan 1 18:14:12 in-target: libc-l10n locales
Jan 1 18:14:12 in-target: Authentication warning overridden.
Jan 1 18:14:12 in-target: Get:1 http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian sid/main sparc64 libc-l10n all 2.21-6 [789 kB]
Jan 1 18:14:14 in-target: Get:2 http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian sid/main sparc64 locales all 2.21-6 [3323 kB]
Jan 1 18:14:22 in-target: Preconfiguring packages ...
Jan 1 18:14:23 in-target: Fetched 4112 kB in 6s (634 kB/s)
Jan 1 18:14:23 in-target: Selecting previously unselected package libc-l10n.
Jan 1 18:14:23 in-target: (Reading database ...
[repeated Reading database snipped]
Jan 1 18:14:24 in-target: 8999 files and directories currently installed.)
Jan 1 18:14:24 in-target: ^M
Jan 1 18:14:24 in-target: Preparing to unpack .../libc-l10n_2.21-6_all.deb ...
Jan 1 18:14:24 in-target: ^M
Jan 1 18:14:24 in-target: Unpacking libc-l10n (2.21-6) ...
Jan 1 18:14:24 in-target: ^M
Jan 1 18:14:27 in-target: Selecting previously unselected package locales.
Jan 1 18:14:27 in-target: ^M
Jan 1 18:14:27 in-target: Preparing to unpack .../locales_2.21-6_all.deb ...
Jan 1 18:14:27 in-target: ^M
Jan 1 18:14:27 in-target: Unpacking locales (2.21-6) ...
Jan 1 18:14:27 in-target: ^M
Jan 1 18:14:35 in-target: Setting up libc-l10n (2.21-6) ...
Jan 1 18:14:35 in-target: ^M
Jan 1 18:14:35 in-target: Setting up locales (2.21-6) ...
Jan 1 18:14:35 in-target: ^M
Jan 1 18:14:43 in-target: Generating locales (this might take a while)...^M
Jan 1 18:14:43 in-target: Generation complete.
Jan 1 18:14:43 in-target: ^M
Jan 1 18:14:49 localechooser: Adding locale 'en_US.UTF-8'
Jan 1 18:14:49 localechooser: Generating added locales...
Jan 1 18:15:11 base-installer: error: Unable to execute /usr/lib/post-base-installer.d/60partman-zfs
Jan 1 18:15:20 base-installer: info: could not determine kernel flavour
Jan 1 18:15:20 base-installer: info: could not determine kernel flavour
Jan 1 18:15:20 base-installer: info: could not determine kernel flavour
Jan 1 18:15:20 base-installer: info: could not determine kernel flavour
Jan 1 18:15:20 base-installer: info: Found kernels ''
Jan 1 18:17:00 base-installer: error: exiting on error base-installer/kernel/no-kernels-found
Jan 1 18:17:03 main-menu[150]: WARNING **: Configuring 'bootstrap-base' failed with error code 30
Jan 1 18:17:03 main-menu[150]: WARNING **: Menu item 'bootstrap-base' failed.
Jan 1 18:17:06 main-menu[150]: INFO: Modifying debconf priority limit from 'hig--More-- (99% of 1309h' to 'medium'
Jan 1 18:17:06 debconf: Setting debconf/priority to medium
Jan 1 18:17:21 main-menu[150]: INFO: Menu item 'di-utils-shell' selected
Hope this is helpful,
CU,
Uli
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