Re: Bug#1025708: bullseye-pu: package debootstrap/1.0.123+deb11u2

[Simon McVittie]

On Thu, 31 Aug 2023 at 00:12:53 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> I did the same testing as for bookworm's #1050868, summarized on
> .
> As with #1050868, all differences between the output of a reference
> version (from Debian 12.1) and the output of this version were expected
> or ignorable.

I have now also tried the proposed debootstrap_*.udeb via d-i, using
essentially the same steps as in
.
This time I installed XFCE rather than GNOME. Installation was successful.

Errata:
- The steps I wrote were incomplete, installing git and fakeroot on the
  build machine was also necessary
- As previously noted on #1050868, the proposed udeb needs to be copied
  into debian-installer_bullseye/build/localudebs/
- d-i 11 doesn't include "less", so the step involving viewing
  /usr/share/debootstrap/functions needs to use "more" instead

An additional note is that if you send Ctrl+Alt+F2 sufficiently early in
the "Installing the base system" step, and "ls -l /target" repeatedly, you
can see that as a result of Helmut's code changes, /target is initially
non-merged-/usr then gets converted to merged-/usr after unpacking the
Essential set.

smcv

Processed: Re: Bug#1053803: debian-installer: grub2 2.12~rc1-10 on ARM64 daily installer makes linux image load fail

[Debian Bug Tracking System]

Processing control commands:

> reassign -1 grub-efi-arm64-bin
Bug #1053803 [src:debian-installer] debian-installer: grub2 2.12~rc1-10 on 
ARM64 daily installer makes linux image load fail
Bug reassigned from package 'src:debian-installer' to 'grub-efi-arm64-bin'.
No longer marked as found in versions debian-installer/20230607+deb12u2.
Ignoring request to alter fixed versions of bug #1053803 to the same values 
previously set
> retitle -1 grub 2.12~rc1-10 fails loading linux on Renesas RZG2L, grub 2.06 
> works
Bug #1053803 [grub-efi-arm64-bin] debian-installer: grub2 2.12~rc1-10 on ARM64 
daily installer makes linux image load fail
Changed Bug title to 'grub 2.12~rc1-10 fails loading linux on Renesas RZG2L, 
grub 2.06 works' from 'debian-installer: grub2 2.12~rc1-10 on ARM64 daily 
installer makes linux image load fail'.

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Bug#1053803: debian-installer: grub2 2.12~rc1-10 on ARM64 daily installer makes linux image load fail

[Emanuele Rocca]

Control: reassign -1 grub-efi-arm64-bin
Control: retitle -1 grub 2.12~rc1-10 fails loading linux on Renesas RZG2L, grub 
2.06 works

Hi John, thanks for the bug report!

On 2023-10-11 04:15, John wrote:
> The ARM64 daily installer stopped working from 19-Sep-2023 due to grub2
> 2.12~rc1-10 updates with linux image load failure.
> 
> This was working ok on 04-Sep-2023 with grub 2.06-13

For now we've only been able to reproduce this on a Renesas RZG2L board
as far as I'm aware, retitling the bug accordingly. For example, I can
boot kernels with grub 2.12 on ARM systems such as the Thinkpad X13s,
Macbook M1, and RPi 3B+.

Also the problem is grub-specific and not limited to the installer, so
I've reassigned it to the grub-efi-arm64-bin binary package.

Booting with debug enabled, this is the output of a failed attempt on
the Renesas board. The grub version used in this test was 2.12~rc1-10.

loader/efi/linux.c:101:linux: UEFI stub kernel:
loader/efi/linux.c:102:linux: PE/COFF header @ 0040
loader/efi/linux.c:128:linux: LoadFile2 initrd loading enabled
loader/efi/linux.c:495:linux: kernel file size: 34445248
loader/efi/linux.c:497:linux: kernel numpages: 8410
loader/efi/linux.c:514:linux: kernel @ 0xb6b43000
loader/efi/linux.c:416:linux: Using LoadFile2 initrd loading 
protocol
loader/efi/peimage.c:242:linux: PE-COFF header checked
loader/efi/peimage.c:316:linux: sections loaded
loader/efi/peimage.c:518:linux: no relocations
loader/efi/linux.c:213:linux: linux command line: 
'BOOT_IMAGE=/linux'
error: image not loaded.

This instead is grub 2.12~rc1-11 succeeding on a RPi:

loader/efi/linux.c:101:linux: UEFI stub kernel:
loader/efi/linux.c:102:linux: PE/COFF header @ 0040
loader/efi/linux.c:128:linux: LoadFile2 initrd loading enabled
loader/efi/linux.c:495:linux: kernel file size: 34510784
loader/efi/linux.c:497:linux: kernel numpages: 8426
loader/efi/linux.c:514:linux: kernel @ 0x2c92
loader/efi/linux.c:416:linux: Using LoadFile2 initrd loading 
protocol
loader/efi/peimage.c:200:linux: PE-COFF header checked
loader/efi/peimage.c:276:linux: sections loaded
loader/efi/peimage.c:478:linux: no relocations
loader/efi/linux.c:213:linux: linux command line: 
'BOOT_IMAGE=/install.amd64/vmlinuz --- quiet'
loader/efi/linux.c:233:linux: starting image 0x351cf518