Package: debian-installer Severity: important Tags: d-i Dear Maintainer,
I tried to install Debian Testing in a VM, which failed in the "select and install software" step. Installer iso (sha1sum): c672951a58e47f1adaf780b1879d236fbe68484a debian-stretch-DI- alpha5-amd64-netinst.iso VM config: /usr/bin/kvm -soundhw es1370 -k de -enable-kvm -m 1024 -localtime -cdrom debian-stretch-DI-alpha5-amd64-netinst.iso -hda test.hdd -boot once=d,menu=off -net nic,vlan=0 -net user,vlan=0 -name "Debian" Steps taken / items selected: "Graphical Install" (happens in text mode, too) Language: English Location: United States Keymap: American English Hostname: debian Domainname: Root password: root User full name: user username: user User password: user Time zone: Eastern Parition disks: Guided / use entire disk (SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 10.7 GB ATA QEMU HARDDISK) / All files in one partition Archive mirror: United States (ftp.us.debian.org) HTTP proxy: "Select and install software" Installation step failed An installation step failed. You can try to run the failing item again from the menu, or skip it and choose something else. The failing step is: Select and install software (Continue and retry that step fails again) Ctrl-Alt-F4: ... in-target: update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.3.0-1-amd64 in-target: Errors were encountered while processing: in-target: systemd kernel: [...] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3 kernel: [...] ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A main-menu[343]: WARNING **: Configuring 'pkgsel' failed with error code 100 main-menu[343]: WARNING **: Menu item 'pkgsel' failed. Ctrl-Alt-F2: <Enter> chroot target bash apt-get install systemd (some output, including warnings about me not having mounted /dev/pts; otherwise installs just fine) exit exit Ctrl-Alt-F5: Continue, Continue -> everything works, next step is "Configuring popularity- contest" -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
