Bug#928299: installation-reports: network-console doesnt set password hash, ssh not possible

[Marc Haber]

Package: installation-reports
Severity: important
Tags: d-i

Dear Maintainer,

at least today's daily installer snapshot has a totally broken
network-console. It asks for a password and confirmation and then
prompts to continue isntallation with ssh installer@.

However, no password hash is written to /etc/shadow, hence login into
the installer is not possible. After changing to a different virtual
console of the installing system and putting a valid password hash into
/etc/shadow allowed installation to continue.

Greetings
Marc

Bug#926903: Installation-report addition

[Tom Thekathyil]

Hi Ben,

Thanks for trying to help.  You will note from my original report as
well as the follow-up on 28 April that I had installed the
'firmware-amd-graphics' package and still get the error message.

# apt search firmware-amd-graphics
> firmware-amd-graphics/testing, now 201901 14-1 all [installed]

# whereis firmware-amd-graphics
> firmware-amd-graphics:

Despite above response I am able to install and remove the package
easily.  But it makes no visible difference to the graphics or to
dmesg error message.

Changing to a less ancient monitor has helped center the screen but
there still remains the problem of font size:

a) tty1-6 use large fonts
b) MATE Terminal font size is normal
c) XTerm & UXTerm has small windows and small font
d) emacs and pluma have normal fonts

I can live with all these but it would be nice to get to the root of
the problem.  I expect you might like to fix it before stable release.

Regards, Tom Thekathyil

On Tue, 2019-04-30 at 12:49 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Tue, 2019-04-30 at 10:51 +1000, Tom Thekathyil wrote:
> > Hi Geert,
> > 
> > Thank you so much for your prompt reply.
> > 
> > Your suggestion it could be a monitor problem provided the clue it
> > could be the 11-year old model used (Acer X223w) that was causing the
> > problem.  Swapped for a more current unit (Dell U2414H) and screen is
> > nicely centered now.
> > 
> > That still leaves the problem why dmesg shows
> >  '[ 1.349124] [drm:amdgpu_pci_probe [amdgpu]] *ERROR* amdgpu
> >requires firmware installed]'
> > Which firmware?
> [...]
> 
> The firmware-amd-graphics package.
> 
> Ben.
> 

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Bug#926903: Installation-report addition

[Ben Hutchings]

On Thu, 2019-05-02 at 07:32 +1000, Tom Thekathyil wrote:
> Hi Ben,
> 
> Thanks for trying to help.  You will note from my original report as
> well as the follow-up on 28 April that I had installed the
> 'firmware-amd-graphics' package and still get the error message.

Ah, sorry.

> # apt search firmware-amd-graphics
> > firmware-amd-graphics/testing, now 201901 14-1 all [installed]
> 
> # whereis firmware-amd-graphics
> > firmware-amd-graphics:
> 
> Despite above response I am able to install and remove the package
> easily.  But it makes no visible difference to the graphics or to
> dmesg error message.
[...]

All the amdgpu driver is doing at that point is checking that
/lib/firmware/amdgpu exists - which it certainly does in the main
system.  But perhaps the driver has been included in the initramfs
without the firmware.  (I can check this but it will take a while.)

Does running "update-initramfs -u" fix the problem for you?

Ben.

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Bug#926903: Installation-report addition

[Tom Thekathyil]

Hi Ben,

I ran 'update-initramfs -u' and got several lines saying

'W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/vega20_ xxx for
module a[off screen here]pu' where xxx refers to different items.

Regards, Tom Thekathyil

On Thu, 2019-05-02 at 00:45 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Does running "update-initramfs -u" fix the problem for you?

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Bug#928299: Confirmation

[Frank Gard]

Dear Marc, dear maintainer,

I can confirm the problem: See also 
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user-german/2019/04/msg00138.html (German).
Unfortunately I did not manage to add a valid password hash (I tried it, too), 
but this probably was a typo, and I'm glad that you could do it, Marc.

Thanks and greetings
Frank.

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Bug#928299: installation-reports: network-console doesnt set password hash, ssh not possible

[Cyril Brulebois]

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Hi,

Marc Haber  (2019-05-01):
> at least today's daily installer snapshot has a totally broken
> network-console. It asks for a password and confirmation and then
> prompts to continue isntallation with ssh installer@.
> 
> However, no password hash is written to /etc/shadow, hence login into
> the installer is not possible. After changing to a different virtual
> console of the installing system and putting a valid password hash into
> /etc/shadow allowed installation to continue.

Any chance you'd know when it last worked for you on sid or buster?


Cheers,
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D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant


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Bug#928299: installation-reports: network-console doesnt set password hash, ssh not possible

[Marc Haber]

On Thu, May 02, 2019 at 08:00:52AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Marc Haber  (2019-05-01):
> > at least today's daily installer snapshot has a totally broken
> > network-console. It asks for a password and confirmation and then
> > prompts to continue isntallation with ssh installer@.
> > 
> > However, no password hash is written to /etc/shadow, hence login into
> > the installer is not possible. After changing to a different virtual
> > console of the installing system and putting a valid password hash into
> > /etc/shadow allowed installation to continue.
> 
> Any chance you'd know when it last worked for you on sid or buster?

Years ago. I seldomly use the installer myself, I was just investigating
a report sent by a user to debian-user-german. I have asked the original
reporter.

Greetings
Marc

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