Bug#406620: Installation-report
Package: installation-reports Boot method: Netinst CD Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/etch_di_rc1/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing -i386-netinst.iso Date: 12-january-2007 morning (CET) Machine: HP ML310 + smartarray 641 + 2*72 GB disk Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.00GHz stepping 04 - 2mb cache Memory: 1.5 Gb Partitions: FilesystemType 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/cciss/c0d0p3 ext3 7692908230952 7071176 4% / tmpfstmpfs 778012 0778012 0% /lib/init/rw udev tmpfs 1024080 10160 1% /dev tmpfstmpfs 778012 0778012 0% /dev/shm /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 ext2 120411 6415107572 6% /boot /dev/cciss/c0d0p5 ext3 3842376 73268 3573920 3% /home /dev/cciss/c0d0p6 ext3 7692876148404 7153696 3% /opt /dev/cciss/c0d0p7 ext3 3842376126088 3521100 4% /tmp /dev/cciss/c0d0p8 ext3 7692876387164 6914936 6% /usr /dev/cciss/c0d0p9 ext3 7692876148448 7153652 3% /usr/local /dev/cciss/c0d0p10 ext3 7692876312328 6989772 5% /var /dev/cciss/c0d0p11 ext3 7692876158656 7143444 3% /var/log Output of lspci -nn and lspci -vnn: sophos:~# lspci -nn 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation E7230 Memory Controller Hub [8086:2778] (rev 81) 00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation E7230 PCI Express Root Port [8086:2779] (rev 81) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:27d0] (rev 01) 00:1c.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801GR/GH/GHM (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 5 [8086:27e0] (rev 01) 00:1c.5 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801GR/GH/GHM (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 6 [8086:27e2] (rev 01) 00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #1 [8086:27c8] (rev 01) 00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #2 [8086:27c9] (rev 01) 00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #3 [8086:27ca] (rev 01) 00:1d.3 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #4 [8086:27cb] (rev 01) 00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:27cc] (rev 01) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge [8086:244e] (rev e1) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bridge [8086:27b8] (rev 01) 00:1f.1 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller [8086:27df] (rev 01) 01:03.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc ES1000 [1002:515e] (rev 02) 01:04.0 System peripheral [0880]: Compaq Computer Corporation Integrated Lights Out Controller [0e11:b203] (rev 03) 01:04.2 System peripheral [0880]: Compaq Computer Corporation Integrated Lights Out Processor [0e11:b204] (rev 03) 01:04.4 USB Controller [0c03]: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device [103c:3300] 05:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5721 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express [14e4:1659] (rev 11) 09:00.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 6702PXH PCI Express-to-PCI Bridge A [8086:032c] (rev 09) 0a:02.0 RAID bus controller [0104]: Compaq Computer Corporation Smart Array 64xx [0e11:0046] (rev 01) sophos:~# lspci -vnn 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation E7230 Memory Controller Hub [8086:2778] (rev 81) Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation Unknown device [0e11:3200] Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Capabilities: [e0] Vendor Specific Information 00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation E7230 PCI Express Root Port [8086:2779] (rev 81) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=09, subordinate=0d, sec-latency=0 I/O behind bridge: 4000-4fff Memory behind bridge: fdf0-fdff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 7000-700f Capabilities: [88] Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device [8086:] Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [90] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable+ Capabilities: [a0] Express Root Port (Slot+) IRQ 0 00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:27d0] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=04, sec-latency=0 Capabilities: [40] Express Root Port (Slot-) IRQ 0 Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable+ Capabilities: [90] Subsystem: Gammagraphx, Inc. Unknown device [:] Capabilities: [a0] Power Management
Bug#406620: R: Bug#406620: Installation-report
I am absolutely sure i did NOT select expert install. I simply pressed enter after looking at the F2 and F£ hepl pages as to which install methods were available... :/ I did not get questions about root password and neither have i been asked to create a user account (which i expected to happen) If you need something else please let me know :) Luca -Messaggio originale- Da: Frans Pop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: venerdì 12 gennaio 2007 15.59 A: Benelli Luca; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: Re: Bug#406620: Installation-report On Friday 12 January 2007 12:45, Benelli Luca wrote: Comments/Problems: Only thing i noticed (if it is an error i don't know but i didn't like it much) is i haven't been asked for a root password, it remained blank. Not a big problem.. But it could lead to problems for a newbie user :) This is a very strange issue. This can only happen if you do an expert installation and _indicate yourself_ that you don't want to use the root account, but that instead 'sudo' should be enabled for the first user account that is created. This is not the default option, but is something that you have to select during the installation. I strongly suspect that that is what you must have done, so, unless you can provide additional information about the _exact_ questions you were asked (in English!) and the answers you gave, I'm going to assume there is no actual bug. The rest worked like a charme, installing only base system. Very nice job, thanks to all of you. Thank you, and also for submitting your report. As I don't think the issue you reported is a bug, I'm closing the report. You can still reply to this message with additional info, and, if necessary, we can always reopen the report. Cheers, FJP
Bug#406620: R: Bug#406620: R: Bug#406620: Installation-report
OK. I still don't see how this can be an issue. Can you please send us the syslog from the installation (gzipped!)? You can find it in /var/log/installer/syslog on your installed system. I don't know if you want to consider this as an issue or not... I just noticed. Attached find the gzipped installer syslog. At Jan 12 06:04:51 an adduser error and a passwd error occur Hope it helps. I don't think it is important but the time is wrong by something near to 5 hrs... Small idea for the future maybe, getting an ntpdate run during install? Thank you again, Luca syslog.gz Description: syslog.gz
Bug#406620: R: Bug#406620: user-setup: Failed to ask its questions when run during default install
I'm out of office until wednesday... I don't know when the server will go into production, so i'm not sure how many tests we can do, at the moment it's still a clean install and it will probably need to be reinstalled as debian 3.1 (using HPDE installers) so i think i should have the time to retry the 4.0 RC1 install... As to partitioning: the disks were already partitioned due to earlier tests with sarge, i just assigned the mount points, tried to run the installer and it told me i had an already installed system (installing on an unclean system could lead to problems blah blah), i then went back to partitioning and chose the format partition option for all partitions i created an installed. Hope this gives a bit extra info. Please let me know what could be required as testing should i reinstall. Simply reinstall as i did this time? anything particular to look at? Thanks, Luca Da: Frans Pop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: ven 12/01/2007 19.09 A: Benelli Luca; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oggetto: Bug#406620: user-setup: Failed to ask its questions when run during default install reopen 406620 reassign 406620 user-setup 1.7 retitle 406620 user-setup: Failed to ask its questions when run during default install thanks On Friday 12 January 2007 17:21, Benelli Luca wrote: I don't know if you want to consider this as an issue or not... I just noticed. Well, it _is_ a very important issue if it is correct... Attached find the gzipped installer syslog. At Jan 12 06:04:51 an adduser error and a passwd error occur Hope it helps. The relevant bit is a bit earlier: Jan 12 05:13:00 main-menu[2078]: INFO: Menu item 'user-setup-udeb' selected Jan 12 05:13:01 main-menu[2078]: INFO: Falling back to the package description for auto-install This shows that user-setup _was_ run and it appears to have run without errors. At this point you really should have been asked the questions about root passwords and user account. The next log item shows that user-setup completed almost immediately. Certainly too fast to have you answer its questions... However, there is no indication at all of what may have gone wrong. I've tried some things to see if I could reproduce the behavior, but I cannot. If the questions were indeed not asked, that explains the later error you pointed out. Jan 12 05:13:01 main-menu[2078]: INFO: Menu item 'base-installer' selected Jan 12 05:13:08 base-installer: error: exiting on error base-installer/unclean_target_cancel Jan 12 05:13:09 main-menu[2078]: WARNING **: Configuring 'base-installer' failed with error code 30 Jan 12 05:13:09 main-menu[2078]: WARNING **: Menu item 'base-installer' failed. This shows that at least something weird happened during your installation. Did you make a mistake during partitioning? However, normally that should not affect the way users are set up. As this is the first time this has been reported, I'm inclined to treat it as a fluke. I'm still reopening the report and reassigning it to the relevant component as IMO it should be available for reference for a while. It would be great if you could try to reproduce this. In that case we can try some additional debugging. Thanks for providing the additional information. Cheers, FJP winmail.dat
