Bug#866629: debian-installer: Installer showes Debootstrap Error debian stretch live installation

Steve McIntyre

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Jul 2, 2017, 7:10:03 PM7/2/17

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On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 08:43:28PM +0530, user01 wrote:
>Package: debian-installer
>Version: 20170615
>Severity: important
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>Dear Maintainer,
>
>>* What led up to the situation?
>
>Debian stretch installation without connection to internet gives debootstrap
>error,
>"failed to determine the codename for the release." and fails.

You don't say explicitly, but from the symptoms you're describing
you're trying to use the live installer?

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Jul 3, 2017, 11:00:03 AM7/3/17

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On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 11:33:20AM +0500, user01 wrote:
>It was Debian Gnome Live+firmware

Cool, thanks for confirming.

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Prahlad Yeri

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Jul 5, 2017, 3:10:04 PM7/5/17

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Can confirm this bug on the live installer - tried both XFCE and LXDE
versions.

Never expected such goof up on a debian stable version!
Granted that its just released, but we do go through ages of testing
before reaching stable, don't we? The reason a user comes to debian in
the first place is stability. If you don't even get that, then what is
the rationale for using debian stable against something like Ubuntu LTS
where you get both stability and newer packages?

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Brian Potkin

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Jul 5, 2017, 3:30:03 PM7/5/17

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Your question (after the rhetorical first one) is probing. Debian has
never had bugs before. We do not know how this managed to creep in. We
will try better.

Prahlad Yeri

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Jul 5, 2017, 4:50:03 PM7/5/17

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Sorry, didn't intend to hurt your feelings, just trying to raise my
concerns as a user and trying to understand the process. I don't know
how the testing process works at debian, but If I were making the point
release of a distro, one of the basic things I'd check is whether the
ISO installs work on an actual physical machine (not in a VM) - and
doing so would have helped catch this bug as there are usually no
network resources (like wifi, etc.) configured at boot time that could
have provided internet connectivity (in which case, it used to work and
the bug wasn't apparent).

I understand that bugs are a part of the linux distro life cycle, but
I did not expect something as basic as an install process to falter.
But again, maybe I'm wrong about the bug being so apparent, and its
just easy to say this in hindsight.

No offence meant, have a nice day!

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Chris Lamb

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May 25, 2018, 11:20:03 AM5/25/18

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retitle 866629 debian-installer: live installation without internet connection fails with "failed to determine the codename for the release."
thanks

(I've only skimmed the bug so only 80% sure it is internet connection-
related, but I think a rename might make it easier to find/parse at
the very least.)

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