** Description changed: - Binary package hint: debian-installer + During netboot installations, the network udeb retriever fetches + Packages files for hardy, hardy-security, and hardy-updates. However, + nothing deals with de-duplicating these, and, if asked to install a + package that is duplicated across pockets, anna will end up trying to + install the same thing multiple times and crashing in utter confusion. - This may be 2 or 3 bugs tangled together. + This has been fixed in net-retriever 1.21ubuntu2 in intrepid, by adding + some relatively simple de-duplication code. This is strictly the wrong + place for it, but my assessment is that trying to do it in libdebian- + installer (the correct place) for hardy would be very difficult and much + more likely to go wrong, as the code there is very convoluted. - ubuntu alt installer, at the 'partition drives' dialog, Alt-F2 to a BusyBox shell, - anna-install openssh-client-udeb - geterror: "Loading libcrypto0.9.8-u failed for unknown reasons. Aborting. <continue> <go back>" - hitting either has the same effect: it is installed. (at least scp is) + The attached patch fixes this bug. Changelog entry: - looking at the syslog I see - Package libcrypto0.9.8-udeb is already installed and configured + * Deduplicate Packages files before passing them to anna (LP: #234486). + Circumstances conspire to make this excessively difficult, including + requiring net-retriever to become Architecture: any; this should really + be done in libdebian-installer, but for the meantime that's even harder. - A) why is it trying to install it again ? + TEST CASE: Fetch the netboot mini.iso from the archive + (http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy- + proposed/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/mini.iso; replace + hardy-proposed with hardy to test the failing version), type 'cli + anna/choose_modules=network-console' at the boot: prompt, and confirm + that it gets as far as asking you for an SSH password. - B) why is that causing an error ? - - C) why is the error message "unknown reasons" ? (seems like it should - report something more useful, which might answer A and B. + Regression potential: netboot installations might end up broken in + different ways. CD installations will be unaffected.
** Attachment added: "hardy-proposed patch" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/14818358/234486.diff ** Description changed: During netboot installations, the network udeb retriever fetches Packages files for hardy, hardy-security, and hardy-updates. However, nothing deals with de-duplicating these, and, if asked to install a package that is duplicated across pockets, anna will end up trying to install the same thing multiple times and crashing in utter confusion. This has been fixed in net-retriever 1.21ubuntu2 in intrepid, by adding some relatively simple de-duplication code. This is strictly the wrong place for it, but my assessment is that trying to do it in libdebian- installer (the correct place) for hardy would be very difficult and much more likely to go wrong, as the code there is very convoluted. The attached patch fixes this bug. Changelog entry: * Deduplicate Packages files before passing them to anna (LP: #234486). Circumstances conspire to make this excessively difficult, including requiring net-retriever to become Architecture: any; this should really be done in libdebian-installer, but for the meantime that's even harder. TEST CASE: Fetch the netboot mini.iso from the archive (http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy- proposed/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/mini.iso; replace hardy-proposed with hardy to test the failing version), type 'cli anna/choose_modules=network-console' at the boot: prompt, and confirm - that it gets as far as asking you for an SSH password. + that it gets as far as asking you for an SSH password. (This test case + also covers bug 94398.) Regression potential: netboot installations might end up broken in different ways. CD installations will be unaffected. -- failed for unknown reasons https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/234486 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
