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Bug#1036439: debian-installer: DLBD install failed, apparent typo.
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Bud Heal
May 20, 2023, 5:30:05 PM5/20/23
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Package: debian-installer
Version: 20210731+deb11u8
Severity: important
Tags: d-i
X-Debbugs-Cc: budhe...@gmail.com
Dear Maintainer,
*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
* What led up to the situation?
I copied the DLBD volumes to USB sticks and booted a desktop with a new
(M.2) SSD. I tried LVM and unencrypted. Then I tried with a laptop I had
previously installed bookworm into successfully.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
In each case, a message was emitted after partitioning (automatically)
from syslog:
May 20 01:33:10 debootstrap: /usr/sbin/debootstrap --components=,,,, --debian-installer --resolve-deps --no-check-gpg bookworm /ta
rget file:///cdrom/
May 20 01:33:10 debootstrap: /usr/sbin/debootstrap: eval: line 547: syntax error: unexpected "||" (expecting ")")
An internet suggestion was to re-mount the USB volume on /cdrom, but
/cdrom looked accurate. Any mount I tried was rejected anyway, and I was
able to save syslog (and the rest) using that share option.
I then compared the USB data to the .iso file to make sure they match.
* What was the outcome of this action?
The install had to be aborted.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
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-- System Information:
Foreign Architectures: [12-core AMD desktop] [14-core Intel (Nitro 5)]
-- no debconf information
Version: 20210731+deb11u8
Severity: important
Tags: d-i
X-Debbugs-Cc: budhe...@gmail.com
Dear Maintainer,
*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
* What led up to the situation?
I copied the DLBD volumes to USB sticks and booted a desktop with a new
(M.2) SSD. I tried LVM and unencrypted. Then I tried with a laptop I had
previously installed bookworm into successfully.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
In each case, a message was emitted after partitioning (automatically)
from syslog:
May 20 01:33:10 debootstrap: /usr/sbin/debootstrap --components=,,,, --debian-installer --resolve-deps --no-check-gpg bookworm /ta
rget file:///cdrom/
May 20 01:33:10 debootstrap: /usr/sbin/debootstrap: eval: line 547: syntax error: unexpected "||" (expecting ")")
An internet suggestion was to re-mount the USB volume on /cdrom, but
/cdrom looked accurate. Any mount I tried was rejected anyway, and I was
able to save syslog (and the rest) using that share option.
I then compared the USB data to the .iso file to make sure they match.
* What was the outcome of this action?
The install had to be aborted.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
*** End of the template - remove these template lines ***
-- System Information:
Foreign Architectures: [12-core AMD desktop] [14-core Intel (Nitro 5)]
-- no debconf information
Cyril Brulebois
May 21, 2023, 2:00:08 AM5/21/23
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Hi,
Bud Heal <budhe...@gmail.com> (2023-05-20):
It looks probably to me that you might have opened the image, then copied
files, instead of copying the raw image.
> * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
> ineffective)?
> In each case, a message was emitted after partitioning (automatically)
> from syslog:
> May 20 01:33:10 debootstrap: /usr/sbin/debootstrap --components=,,,, --debian-installer --resolve-deps --no-check-gpg bookworm /ta
> rget file:///cdrom/
> May 20 01:33:10 debootstrap: /usr/sbin/debootstrap: eval: line 547: syntax error: unexpected "||" (expecting ")")
At first glance, looks like metadata files weren't copied.
> I then compared the USB data to the .iso file to make sure they match.
How did you perform that comparison?
Cheers,
--
Cyril Brulebois (ki...@debian.org) <https://debamax.com/>
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
Bud Heal <budhe...@gmail.com> (2023-05-20):
> * What led up to the situation?
> I copied the DLBD volumes to USB sticks and booted a desktop with a new
> (M.2) SSD. I tried LVM and unencrypted. Then I tried with a laptop I had
> previously installed bookworm into successfully.
How did you perform that copy?
> I copied the DLBD volumes to USB sticks and booted a desktop with a new
> (M.2) SSD. I tried LVM and unencrypted. Then I tried with a laptop I had
> previously installed bookworm into successfully.
It looks probably to me that you might have opened the image, then copied
files, instead of copying the raw image.
> * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
> ineffective)?
> In each case, a message was emitted after partitioning (automatically)
> from syslog:
> May 20 01:33:10 debootstrap: /usr/sbin/debootstrap --components=,,,, --debian-installer --resolve-deps --no-check-gpg bookworm /ta
> rget file:///cdrom/
> May 20 01:33:10 debootstrap: /usr/sbin/debootstrap: eval: line 547: syntax error: unexpected "||" (expecting ")")
> I then compared the USB data to the .iso file to make sure they match.
Cheers,
--
Cyril Brulebois (ki...@debian.org) <https://debamax.com/>
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
Bud Heal
May 21, 2023, 6:21:24 PM5/21/23
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Hello,
This time I did check twice or three times, went over to another computer with a spare disk, etc.
The compare was simple cmp, USB-to-.iso. I looked at the /usr/sbin/debootstrap on the installed disk. Since "||" was larger than ")" I thought it could not be a transmission error.
Remember, the last email sent me back (to a laptop I had turned off) where I found that the DLBD .iso files were smaller than the ones pulled off the USB sticks.
I built the 25GB BD set using the same files scanned as to build the DLBD files. That worked fine after I used xfburn and not brasero.
On to rebuild and hopefully I was calling "Wolf!" again...
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