Package: debian-installer Version: 20170615 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
di 20170615 misparses Wi-Fi SSID that contains comma (,) while installing: Debian GNU/Linux 9.0 (stretch) x86_64 from: Debian GNU/Linux 9.0.0 "Stretch" - Official Multi-architecture amd64/i386 NETINST #1 20170617-15:50 on/booted from: USB stick having above image using graphics installer (64-bit) installer misparses Wi-Fi SSID containing comma (,), specifically SSID: Paoli,_Michael shows up in selection list as two options: Paoli _Michael selecting either of those two fails (as such SSIDs did not exist) work-around: select option to manually enter SSID and enter: Paoli,_Michael that then works as effective work-around I also seem to note from my perusing of the IEEE specification, that SSID is 0 to 32 octets, so ... may need be appropriately careful in displaying/parsing, etc. (suggestion - maybe unambiguous form for display/entry, e.g. - show bytes that are neither ASCII isgraph nor non-trailing spaces as 3-digit octal escape sequences (\nnn), and show \ as \\, and likewise allow such parsing of entry to be able to use arbitrary SSIDs - note also that SSIDs may not be broadcast/advertised, maybe also add regression tests for arbitrary SSIDs, and some (help) text on display/entry format) bits from logs that seem likely relevant: /var/log/installer/cdebconf/questions.dat Name: netcfg/wireless_essid Template: netcfg/wireless_essid Value: Paoli,_Michael Owners: netcfg Variables: iface = wlp1s0 Name: netcfg/wireless_show_essids Template: netcfg/wireless_show_essids Value: manual Owners: netcfg Variables: essid_list = DeFarrell, xfinitywifi, Paoli,_Michael, Carleton, HOME-68E2, , Lan of the Free, XFINITY, ChezClaude, LBCPRIME, DeFarrrell-Guest, /var/log/installer/syslog Jun 24 16:40:21 cdrom-detect: Detected CD 'Debian GNU/Linux 9.0.0 "Stretch" - Official Multi-architecture amd64/i386 NETINST #1 20170617-15:50' Jun 24 16:44:53 netcfg[5195]: INFO: Activating interface wlp1s0 Jun 24 16:44:55 netcfg[5195]: INFO: Scan of wireless interface wlp1s0 succeeded. Jun 24 16:45:20 netcfg[5195]: INFO: Network chosen: Paoli,_Michael. Proceeding to connect. Jun 24 16:45:25 kernel: [ 358.670377] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlp1s0: link becomes ready Jun 24 16:45:25 kernel: [ 358.770391] wlp1s0: Limiting TX power to 30 (30 - 0) dBm as advertised by da:c4:6a:9e:0b:9f Jun 24 16:45:26 netcfg[5195]: INFO: buf = bssid=da:c4:6a:9e:0b:9f freq=2437 ssid=Paoli,_Michael id=0 mode=station pairwise_cipher=CCMP group_cipher=CCMP key_mgmt=WPA2-PSK wpa_state=COMPLETED address=48:5d:60:22:08:6d uuid=21d07fc3-2257-56e3-9fe4-11b52065e99a -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) And thanks! - Lovely installer :-) - no other glitches seen thus far.
