Bug#212967: installation-reports: i386 installation, broken partitioning and base install
Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version:
Tue Sep 23 13:36:10 CEST 2003
http://people.debian.org/~sjogren/d-i/images/daily/floppy-image.img
http://people.debian.org/~sjogren/d-i/images/daily/net_drivers-image.img
uname -a: Linux (none) 2.4.20-1-386 Sat Mar 22 12:11:40 EST 2003 i686 unknown
Date: Tue Sep 23 13:36:10 CEST 2003
Method:
Booted off floppy, installed net drivers from floppy, rest of retreiving is via
http through a proxy.
Machine: COMPAQ DESKPRO
Processor: Pentium III 600 MHz
Memory: 128 MB
Root Device: FUJITSU MPD3108AT, ATA DISK drive
Root Size/partition table:i
I don't have the partition table created by the installer handy. But it was something like
6 G linux root
2 G Windows/DOS unused
2.5 swap
The windows/DOS + swap I have since combined into a 4 G play area and 256 M
swap.
Output of lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82810E DC-133 GMCH [Graphics Memory Controller Hub] (rev 03)
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82810E DC-133 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller] (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801AA PCI Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801AA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801AA IDE (rev 02)
00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801AA USB (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801AA AC'97 Audio (rev 02)
01:0b.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 74)
Base System Installation Checklist:
Initial boot worked: [O]
Configure network HW: [O]
Config network: [O] (static config)
Detect CD: [ ]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [ ]
Partition hard drives: [E]
Automatically Partition Hard Drives [O]
Create file systems: [ok, done automatically above]
Mount partitions: [ok, done automatically above ]
Install base system: [E]
Install boot loader: [O]
Reboot: [ ]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Comments/Problems:
Partition hard drives: [E]
An error or warning message was logged while running partitioner partioner''s
postinst exited with status 11
sda : block size assume to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
unable to read partition table
I don't have a SCSI drive on the system. Maybe it was confused about the ZIP
drive?
I then ran the autopartitioner. It succeeded, even if it gave me 2.5 G swap.
I later (post installation) reduced the amount of swap.
Install base system: [E]
Installation appeared to fail the first time, or at least after I chose
'Install the base System' then waiting a few minutes I looked back and the
main menu had chosen 'Install the base system again'. I chose that again and
this time saw the following error messages:
Base installation error
debootstrap exited with an error (return value 1)
You might find more information in /target/var/log/debootstrap.log
# cat /target/var/log/debootstrap.log
id: unknown group name: 0
[: 176: 0: unexpected operator
ln: /target/usr/bin/awk: File exists
I ran it again and see that the first two errors appear in the log fairly early
and don't appear to be fatal, the awk error might be the killer, I tried
deleting /target/use/bin/awk and trying the install again.
Now I get a treally nice looking error i:
Setting up dpkg (1.10.10)
Moving /usr/info/dir to /usr/share/info/dir
mv: cannot stat '/usr/info/dir': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing dpkg (--install)
So I did:
rm /target/use/bin/awk
mkdir /target/usr/info/dir
And tried the base install again.
mv: cannot overwrite non-directory '/usr/share/info/dir' with directory '/usr/info/dir'
So I did:
ls -l /target/usr/share/info/dir
-rw-r--r-- 1 root . . . .
rm /target//usr/share/info/dir
rm /target/use/bin/awk
It failed again with :
mv: cannot overwrite non-directory '/usr/share/info/dir' with directory '/usr/info/dir'
So I did rm -rf /target//usr/share/info/dir* while installing the base system,
and it appeard to work, (the end of debootstrap.log looked ok, it ended with a bunch of start-stop-daemon calls, and then it said 'Hangup'.
In the end I did:
cp /usr/sbin/debootstrap /usr/sbin/debootstrap.real
echo "#!/bin/sh" > /usr/sbin/debootstrap
echo "exit 0" > /usr/sbin/debootstrap
And it succeeded.
After the reboot I had the same problem (complaining about /usr/share/info/dir)
when apt tried to install dpkg.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux woof 2.4.22-1-686 #1 Fri Sep 5 23:04:29 EST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
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