A Domingo 09 Janeiro 2011 19:05:54 John Bytheway você escreveu: > Package: installation-reports > Severity: critical > Tags: patch > Justification: breaks the whole system > > I attempted to install Debian squeeze on my Buffalo Linkstation Live > (LS-CHLv2), as per guidance at > <http://buffalo.nas-central.org/wiki/Install_Debian_on_the_Linkstation_Pro/ > Live>. Ultimately I failed, but this report concerns one serious issue > encountered on the way. > > The daily snapshots linked from > <http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/> include this script: > <http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/armel/images/daily/orion5x/network-con > sole/buffalo/lspro/config-debian> intended to prepare the system for reboot > into the Debian kernel. One of the ways in which this script can fail is > that the buffalo version is not fetched from the environment. However, in > this case the script does not exit and proceeds to attempt to modify the > environment. If the users /etc/fw_env.config is incorrect (as mine was) > then this attempt to fetch the version will fail, and the subsequent > modification of the environment might modify an arbitrary portion of the > system's flash memory, potentially rendering it unbootable. Luckily I > noticed this issue when fw_printenv failed for other reasons, and > fw_setenv failed also. > > I propose adding an "exit 1" to the script after the error message related > to this issue. For completeness, I would also recommend exiting from the > script if the attempt to back up the pre-existing environment fails. The > attached patch to config-debian includes both changes. > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 5.0.7 > APT prefers stable > APT policy: (500, 'stable') > Architecture: armel (armv5tejl) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.22.18-88f6281 > Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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