Install testing/trixie 2023-08-31, IPv6/v4 issue, tasksel base system only, grub install not working
Hi guys, I just tried to install trixie with todays image 2023-08-31 (netinstall) in a virtual machine: Following issues to report: 1) Detect network got a local link IPv6 address, but not an IPv4 (likely DHCP not configured correctly on my part). The installer asked me for DNS servers, and out of habit I put in the IPv4 addresses. The issue is unlikely previous installers the installer didn't ask for a IPv4 address (also fine), however obviously later it will not be able to connect to a repository. -> took me a little while figure out i had to put in the IPv6 addresses for DNS ---> Suggestion: warn the user if not IPv4 address was acquired by DHCP and they put in only IPv4 DNS Servers. 2) tasksel in installer only offered "Base system", no usual options of graphical desktop. 3) grub would not install complaining it cannot mount /target/proc (albeit it is mounted) -> I will just continue/workaround installing bookworm first and then upgrade to trixie. Kind regards, - Axel
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Bug#1050954: debootstrap is confused by "DIRECT" answer from Acquire::http::Proxy-Auto-Detect
Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.132 Severity: normal The 'Proxy-Auto-Detect' allows the detection script to return 'DIRECT' in case a proxy is not needed/not available at the moment. deboostrap currently doesn't handle this answer well. root@brix:/var/chroot# debootstrap bookworm bookworm http://ftp.be.debian.org/debian/ I: Using auto-detected proxy: DIRECT I: Retrieving InRelease I: Retrieving Release E: Failed getting release file http://ftp.be.debian.org/debian/dists/bookworm/Release https://manpages.debian.org/testing/apt/apt-transport-http.1.en.html > The various APT configuration options support the special value DIRECT > meaning that no proxy should be used. > The environment variable no_proxy is also supported for the same purpose. https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debootstrap/-/blob/master/debootstrap#L457 Greetings -- System Information: Debian Release: trixie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (501, 'testing'), (450, 'unstable'), (400, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.4.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=fr_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_BE:fr Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages debootstrap depends on: ii wget 1.21.3-1+b2 Versions of packages debootstrap recommends: pn arch-test ii debian-archive-keyring 2023.4 ii gnupg 2.2.40-1.1 Versions of packages debootstrap suggests: ii binutils2.41-4 pn squid-deb-proxy-client pn ubuntu-archive-keyring ii xz-utils5.4.1-0.2 ii zstd1.5.5+dfsg2-1 -- no debconf information
Bug#1050979: debian-installer-12-netboot-amd64 Drive Order scrambled
Package: debian-installer-12-netboot-amd64 (20230607+deb12u1) Net Installer: https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/bookworm/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/mini.iso Severity: high Configured System: HPE DL20 1x 480GB SSD 3x 960GB SSD I am installing Debian Linux on servers using UEFI PXE and a preseed file for a touchless installation. This has been our standard method for Debian installs for years, starting with "buster." It has worked VERY reliably for us. When using the same method to install Debian 12, I am noticing that the installer is detecting the drives out of order. It does not match what the server BIOS or HPE ILO5 displays. With each PXE installation attempt the ordering can vary. Looking in /dev/disk/by-path you can see the symlinks differ between install attempts. Sometimes the order matches the PCI bus reference and sometimes it's jumbled up. This is an issue when you want to tell partman to use /dev/sda (the first drive) for the installation and have grub installed properly on /dev/sda. This is even worse when trying to do a software RAID1 via preseed. The pairs of drives are not being selected in a predictable fashion. Interestingly enough, after the installation is complete and the Debian 12 system is booted up, it always shows the drives in the proper order, 100% of the time. But the boot media may or may not be the correct drive. This is only an issue at install time. This past week I performed dozens of PXE installs on a set of 3 servers. Debian 11 had no problems. Only Debian 12 displayed this behavior on each of the 3 servers. I tried updating firmware on all 3 servers so that it is running the latest versions, but that had no effect.
preseed to fetch custom/updated UDEB
Hello everyone! I am currently trying to test some changes to a UDEB package (specifically a modified version of partman-auto-crypto). My hope is to integrate this change with our PXE and preseed environment to perform automatic encrypted OS installation without the LVM requirement. I'd like to see if I can make use of preseed/early_command to pull this UDEB in from an (internal) web server and install it in place of the standard package. The goal is to avoid having to rebuild the entire installer each time. Unfortunately I haven't had much luck finding info on how to do this. I believe it'd be using anna-install but I can't find the correct syntax. Of note, I do hope to eventually provide a PR for these changes upstream if they work out in our environment, but testing beforehand is important. :) Thanks! - Aaron -- This email, including its contents and any attachment(s), may contain confidential and/or proprietary information and is solely for the review and use of the intended recipient(s). If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender and permanently delete this email, its content, and any attachment(s). Any disclosure, copying, or taking of any action in reliance on an email received in error is strictly prohibited.
