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and subject line Re: Bug#1140053: busybox: chdir no longer available -> breaks
d-i 'live-installer.udeb'
has caused the Debian Bug report #1140053,
regarding busybox: chdir no longer available -> breaks d-i 'live-installer.udeb'
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Package: busybox
Version: 1:1.38.0-1
Severity: important
Tags: d-i
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
User: [email protected]
Usertags: openqa
Hi,
I'm sorry to report an 'important' bug just one day before busybox migrates to
forky.
The Debian installer udeb 'live-installer.udeb' uses the 'chdir' command
(instead of the more modern 'cd'), which is no longer provided by busybox 1.38.
Therefore it is not possible to use a live image to install Debian.
Found by openQA:
https://openqa.debian.net/tests/536370#investigation
The 'diff_sut_packages_to_last_good' points to busybox-udeb as a cause for the
failing installation.
I propose to block the migration of busybox to forky, while doing both kinds of
fixes:
1) re-enable chdir in busybox
2) change from chdir to cd in live-installer.udeb
With kind regards,
Roland Clobus
Co-maintainer of the Debian live images
-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 7.0.10+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages busybox depends on:
ii libc6 2.42-16
busybox recommends no packages.
busybox suggests no packages.
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On 7/11/26 13:41, Sven Joachim wrote:
...
The cloned bug (#1140062) was fixed in live-installer 59 which migrated
to testing on June 20, so I think this bug can be closed to let busybox
migrate to testing as well.
Ok, let's do it. Thank you for pointing this out!
/mjt
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