Bug#865015: debian-installer: Live installers are unable to start, "There was a problem reading data from the CD-ROM"

[piruthiviraj natarajan]

It turns out that my write to USB had an error as dd didn't do a good job
on my thumb drive. But again I used dd to write the image and it worked
great and I am able to  complete install. Thank you so much steve.

I know this is wrong place to ask, but anyone know why I am not able to do
root login in a bash shell via gnome-terminal?

On Jun 22, 2017 7:09 AM, "Steve McIntyre"  wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 11:55:03PM -0400, piruthiviraj natarajan wrote:
> >
> >I tried this image and it breaks down after running for a while, bringing
> up
> >the same error message.
> >https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/
> cd-including-firmware/
> >9.0.1-live+nonfree/amd64/iso-hybrid/debian-live-9.0.1-
> amd64-mate+nonfree.iso
>
> I've just done a test installation using that exact image with no
> problems. Are you *sure* you're using 9.0.1? This is one of the things
> that was fixed in the 9.0.1 rebuild...
>
> --
> Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.
> st...@einval.com
> Welcome my son, welcome to the machine.
>
>

Bug#865015: debian-installer: Live installers are unable to start, "There was a problem reading data from the CD-ROM"

[Steve McIntyre]

On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 11:55:03PM -0400, piruthiviraj natarajan wrote:
>
>I tried this image and it breaks down after running for a while, bringing up
>the same error message.
>https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/
>9.0.1-live+nonfree/amd64/iso-hybrid/debian-live-9.0.1-amd64-mate+nonfree.iso

I've just done a test installation using that exact image with no
problems. Are you *sure* you're using 9.0.1? This is one of the things
that was fixed in the 9.0.1 rebuild...

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com
Welcome my son, welcome to the machine.

Bug#865015: debian-installer: Live installers are unable to start, "There was a problem reading data from the CD-ROM"

[piruthiviraj natarajan]

I tried this image and it breaks down after running for a while, bringing
up the same error message.
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/9.0.1-live+nonfree/amd64/iso-hybrid/debian-live-9.0.1-amd64-mate+nonfree.iso

Bug#865015: debian-installer: Live installers are unable to start, "There was a problem reading data from the CD-ROM"

[Steve McIntyre]

On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 12:19:07AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
>Control: reassign -1 live-installer
>
>Francisco Gómez  (2017-06-18):
>> Package: debian-installer
>> Severity: grave
>> Justification: renders package unusable
>> 
>> When trying to install Debian, the installer is unable to start, and the
>> following error appears:
>> 
>> "There was an error reading data from the CD-ROM. Please make sure it is in 
>> the
>> drive. If retrying does not work, you should check the integrity of your CD-
>> ROM."
>> 
>> Retrying does not solve the problem. On the console, with an AMD64 image, the
>> following output is displayed:
>> 
>> cdrom-retriever: error: Unable to find
>> `/w/work/free/gnomepool/main/libl/libzlo2-2-udeb/libzlo2-2-udeb_2.08-1.2+b2_amd64.udeb`
>> 
>> This has been tested with the live image 
>> "debian-9.0.0-amd64-i386-netinst.iso"
>> on multiple machines by multiple people, including on my iMac via Virtualbox,
>> downloaded from torrent.
>
>This seems to have been independently discovered by Steve (“the Packages
>files in the image point to .debs using full path, not relative to the
>stuff in the image”). Reassigning to live-installer, which might not be
>the correct package, but is probably better than just debian-installer.

That's fair enough. I think I've found a bug in live-wrapper here, and
I'm testing a fix already.

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com
"I used to be the first kid on the block wanting a cranial implant,
 now I want to be the first with a cranial firewall. " -- Charlie Stross

Bug#865015: debian-installer: Live installers are unable to start, "There was a problem reading data from the CD-ROM"

[Cyril Brulebois]

Control: reassign -1 live-installer

Francisco Gómez  (2017-06-18):
> Package: debian-installer
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> When trying to install Debian, the installer is unable to start, and the
> following error appears:
> 
> "There was an error reading data from the CD-ROM. Please make sure it is in 
> the
> drive. If retrying does not work, you should check the integrity of your CD-
> ROM."
> 
> Retrying does not solve the problem. On the console, with an AMD64 image, the
> following output is displayed:
> 
> cdrom-retriever: error: Unable to find
> `/w/work/free/gnomepool/main/libl/libzlo2-2-udeb/libzlo2-2-udeb_2.08-1.2+b2_amd64.udeb`
> 
> This has been tested with the live image "debian-9.0.0-amd64-i386-netinst.iso"
> on multiple machines by multiple people, including on my iMac via Virtualbox,
> downloaded from torrent.

This seems to have been independently discovered by Steve (“the Packages
files in the image point to .debs using full path, not relative to the
stuff in the image”). Reassigning to live-installer, which might not be
the correct package, but is probably better than just debian-installer.


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Bug#865015: debian-installer: Live installers are unable to start, "There was a problem reading data from the CD-ROM"

[Francisco Gómez García]

Sorry, there was a typo. I said that the ISO I tested is 
"debian-9.0.0-amd64-i386-netinst.iso”, however it was
"debian-live-9.0.0-amd64-gnome.iso”.

BTW, here are two screenshots showing the mentioned errors:

https://matrix.org/_matrix/media/v1/download/matrix.org/bWUljOUExCCXNbTfKonuQYVS
https://matrix.org/_matrix/media/v1/download/matrix.org/sutYvgXzGYRKJRVbkeWFsIGY

On Sun, 18 Jun 2017 18:09:14 + Francisco Gómez  
wrote:
> Package: debian-installer
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> When trying to install Debian, the installer is unable to start, and the
> following error appears:
> 
> "There was an error reading data from the CD-ROM. Please make sure it is in 
> the
> drive. If retrying does not work, you should check the integrity of your CD-
> ROM."
> 
> Retrying does not solve the problem. On the console, with an AMD64 image, the
> following output is displayed:
> 
> cdrom-retriever: error: Unable to find
> `/w/work/free/gnomepool/main/libl/libzlo2-2-udeb/libzlo2-2-udeb_2.08-1.2+b2_amd64.udeb`
> 
> This has been tested with the live image "debian-9.0.0-amd64-i386-netinst.iso"
> on multiple machines by multiple people, including on my iMac via Virtualbox,
> downloaded from torrent.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 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/1 CPU core)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
> LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> 
> 

Bug#865015: debian-installer: Live installers are unable to start, "There was a problem reading data from the CD-ROM"

[Francisco Gómez]

Package: debian-installer
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

When trying to install Debian, the installer is unable to start, and the
following error appears:

"There was an error reading data from the CD-ROM. Please make sure it is in the
drive. If retrying does not work, you should check the integrity of your CD-
ROM."

Retrying does not solve the problem. On the console, with an AMD64 image, the
following output is displayed:

cdrom-retriever: error: Unable to find
`/w/work/free/gnomepool/main/libl/libzlo2-2-udeb/libzlo2-2-udeb_2.08-1.2+b2_amd64.udeb`

This has been tested with the live image "debian-9.0.0-amd64-i386-netinst.iso"
on multiple machines by multiple people, including on my iMac via Virtualbox,
downloaded from torrent.



-- 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/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)