It is not clear in my initial email, so I'm writing back with a clarification: The /dev/sdc entries that I pasted from fstab were commented manually by us. The installer had left the uncommented entries in fstab.
On 25 February 2015 at 15:13, Vivia Nikolaidou <n.vi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Package: debian-installer > Severity: important > Tags: d-i > > Hello, > > I noticed that debian-installer leaves a /dev/sdX entry in /etc/fstab inside > the newly installed system. This entry corresponds to the medium that Debian > was installed from. In my case, I just installed Debian stable on one of our > servers (not the machine I am writing from, so please disregard the System > Information below). The installer left these lingering entries on fstab: > > #/dev/sdc1 /media/usb0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 > #/dev/sdc2 /media/usb1 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 > > It was a machine with several hard drives and RAID. Installing a later kernel > from backports and rebooting the system made it unable to mount / and /swap, > until we finally booted from the old kernel and removed these entries. > > I've seen various other issues emerge from this issue, one example is here: > http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=65395 > > It might have an easy workaround, but I believe that the entries that > correspond to the installer should be removed from /etc/fstab when > debian-installer is still running and right before it boots into the new > system. > > Also, please disregard the system information below, the machine that the > issue appeared in is: > # uname -a > Linux tourbina 3.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt4-3~bpo70+1 > (2015-02-12) x86_64 GNU/Linux > # cat /etc/debian_version > 7.8 > # ls -l /bin/sh > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Mar 1 2012 /bin/sh -> dash > # echo $LANG > en_US.UTF-8 > # echo $LC_CTYPE > el_GR.UTF-8 > # ps -eo pid,comm |head > PID COMMAND > 1 init > > Best regards, > > Vivia > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 8.0 > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (700, 'unstable'), (600, 'experimental') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > Foreign Architectures: i386 > > Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=el_GR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=el_GR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAO3MEfC=skjtuvx4hpoh7gu0nowx9wt0c8az715oskvd+uv...@mail.gmail.com
