Bug#818065: console-setup is not read correctly at boottime and must be started manually

[Kristian Klausen]

Hello


I have just experienced this issue after "upgrading" (rebuilding) my live image 
to stretch from jessie.


As it is a live-image, every boot is "first boot" as Anton said could give 
issue.


So I looked a bit on the code, and I think the issue is caused by line 11 in 
console-setup (*), the line make so console-setup.sh does nothing at first run 
after boot, and as console-setup.service is only run once per boot, setupcon 
(which configure keyboard layout) is never run.


How did this ever get into testing? :)


* 
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/console-setup.git/tree/init/console-setup.sh?id=85d541bcfe7557caee0e544ac6c547f97174db32#n11



Regards Kristian Klausen

Bug#840248: debian-installer: Add btrfs subvolume setting for snapshot

[Philipp Kern]

On 12/19/2016 05:49 AM, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
> Which rescue mode, and where?  Please tell me so I can fix it!  From
> what I've read, setting a default subvolid != 5 was explored by other
> distributions, and abandoned.

rescue-mode is in [0]. That presents you with a menu where you can
select local root filesystems. That should somehow DTRT instead of
mounting the top-level btrfs filesystem with the root filesystem being
below. I suppose it'd be also ok to mount it as-is, as long as the shell
is spawned in the right place. (Although that might be surprising.)

The mode is triggered by passing "rescue/enable=true" on the kernel
command-line. d-i ships with boot menu items that do this.

Kind regards
Philipp Kern

[0] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/rescue.git/tree/



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Re: dillon: additional build-depends for installation-guide

[Holger Wansing]

Hi,

Julien Cristau  wrote:
> > Attached is a patch for the debian.org control file for dillon:
> > 
> > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/mirror/debian.org.git/tree/debian/control#n974
> > 
> > which I would be happy to see applied.
> > 
> Applied, and extra packages installed.
> 

That's great!

Many thanks
Holger


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Re: dillon: additional build-depends for installation-guide

[Julien Cristau]

On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 12:39:41 +0100, Holger Wansing wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> we have recently switched the creation of PDFs for the debian-installer's
> manual (package "installation-guide") from jade to dblatex.
> Benefit is, that this way we can create PDFs for Chinese, Greek, Japanese,
> and Vietnamese languages, what was not possible before.
> 
> Because of this change, there are additional build-dependencies to be 
> installed
> on dillon to build the manual.
> The relevant change in the svn repo for installation-guide can be found here:
> 
> https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/d-i?view=revision=70430
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Attached is a patch for the debian.org control file for dillon:
> 
> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/mirror/debian.org.git/tree/debian/control#n974
> 
> which I would be happy to see applied.
> 
Applied, and extra packages installed.

Cheers,
Julien

Bug#794410: Bug seen with 8.6.0 and testing (-amd64-netinst)

[bruno]

I've seen this bug with both 8.6.0 and testing (-amd64-netinst).
I prepared the USB (8564:1000 Transcend Information, Inc. JetFlash) with
sudo cp path/to/netinst.iso /dev/sdb
I've never verified the images' integrity/authenticity.

The box has an Intel® Celeron® J1900 2.0 GHz processor and (according  
to 3.16.36 kernel) three I210 Gigabit [8086:1533] (rev 03) Ethernet  
ports, one [8086:0f35] Intel Z36xxx/Z37xxx USB xHCI, one [8086:0f34]  
Intel Z36xxx/Z37xxx USB EHCI.
With 8.6.0 and the keyboard in the USB 3 socket, after selecting  
"Install" the keyboard stops working; moving it in one of the USB 2.0  
socket fixes the issue.


After seeing the bug ("Select and install software - running dpkg -  
12%") with 8.6.0, twice with testing, I retried with 8.6.0 (4th time)  
but choose the second mirror "ftp.linux.it" and watched the debug log  
most of the time. It hung on "Configuring apt - Scanning the mirror...  
- 33%". The keyboard stayed operative and the last debug line (ALT+F4)  
said "choose-mirror[1971]: DEBUG: command: wget -q  
http://ftp.linux.it/debian/dists/jessie/Release -O - | grep -E  
'^(Suite|Codename):'". This might be a problem with my network. After  
two and a half minutes it told me the mirror did not support jessie. I  
choose the standard mirror "ftp.it.debian.org" and the installation  
succeded.
I retried (5th time) with 8.6.0, the keyboard was in one of the USB  
2.0 sockets and stopped working after selecting "Install". Unplugging  
and plugging it in again (in any port) solved the issue. I replicated  
the "ftp.linux.it" hanging and again the installation succeded.