On Wednesday 23 July 2008 01:37, Shachar Or wrote: > Hello! > > I am using the d-i preseed late_command option to launch a script that > installs a set of packages and makes some configurations. > > The script seems to work fine. I am testing it the following way: > 1. Boot d-i with 'auto url=myserver'. This has a preseed file that does > everything and does not run my late_command and does not answer the > final 'installation complete, now reboot' note; so it doesn't yet reboot. > 2. Now I press <Alt>+<F2>, press enter, and run 'chroot /target /bin/bash' > 3. I wget my late_command, chmod it and run it. > > This way it works fine and completely non-interactively, as expected. > > The problem is when I try to run this script via the preseed option like > so: > > d-i preseed/late_command string chroot /target /bin/bash -c 'cd /root/ && > wget -q http://ahava/d-i/etch/late_command.sh && chmod 755 late_command.sh > && ./late_command.sh' >> /var/log/syslog > > The syslog bit is an easy way to watch the output, on tty4. Is there a > better way? > > It runs it, of course, but it soon stops and the processes that are > running, that seem interesting, are: > /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure -phigh debconf > /bin/sh /var/lib/dpkg/info/debconf.config reconfigure (can't read the rest) > > The last interesting messages that are displayed are: > (date) log-output: debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Newt > (date) log-output: debconf: (Can't locate Debconf/FrontEnd/Newt.pm in @INC > (@INC > contains: /usr/share/perl5 /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8 > /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr share/perl5 > /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at (eval > 19) line 2.) > (date) log-output: debconf: falling back to frontend: Noninteractive > > And that is it. It doesn't go further. > > I think that the line in my script that causes this > is 'dpkg-reconfigure -phigh debconf'. > > So, can anyone explain to me what is the difference between: > running my script (debconf is the problematic process, AFAICT) in tty2 in > chroot > and: > running my script from the preseed late_command option > ??? > > Thanks for reading! Happy living!
I was given advice in #debian-boot to use in-target for this purpose, so I've solved it like this: d-i preseed/late_command string wget -q -O - http://ahava/d-i/etch/late_command.sh > /target/root/late_command.sh && chmod u+x /target/root/late_command.sh && in-target '/root/late_command.sh' >> /var/log/syslog Thanks to the kind developer at #debian-boot today! > > -- > Shachar Or | שחר אור > http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
