Re: base*.tgz is gone, and why it's gone

[Attila Nagy]

Hello,

[again]

> > > > The production is an uninstallable (from the menu at least) CD set...
> > > What is exactly your problem ?
> > Finding the adduser package.
> This bug may be fixed. I recently committed a change to include all
> packages requested by debootstrap on the first CD. However I wonder
> how adduser could have disappeared ... it's priority "standard" so it
> should always have been on CD1.
So. This was some weeks ago, but I could test this out only now.
Updated to the latest debian-cd (deleted the secured stuff from Makefile)
and used the latest woody boot floppies (2.3.6), available on the mirrors.

After booting the CD the installer stops at the adduser again.

This is when the user tries to install the base system, until that
everything works fine.

On the log console:

user.info dbootstrap[138]: running '/usr/sbin/debootstrap --boot-floppies
woody /target file:/instmnt'
user.err dbootstrap[138]: Couldn't download adduser

That's all. At this point it dies, I don't know how it could be installed
onto the machine.

So what now?

I would be glad to forget the old potato boot floppies, but it seems
something is wrong here. This is the second, or third version of the woody
boot floppies, which I tried and I keep my debian-cd always up to date...

Ideas?
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Re: base*.tgz is gone, and why it's gone

[Ethan Benson]

On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 12:55:47PM +0200, Attila Nagy wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> > adduser is on the first CD, can someone confirm ?
> Yes, in pool/a/adduser.

adduser is the first package debootstrap tries to fetch, so if things
are borked from the start you always get a message `cannot download
adduser' which can be a bit misleading in some circumstances. 

> Nope. The CD is mounted on /instmnt, I can find the adduser package with
> find...

debootstrap uses the Packages file to locate packages, is the Packages
file present? is it also properly refernced in the Release file?
debootstrap uses the Release file to find the Packages file. 

also check that the path listed in the Packages file is accurate
(relative to the root of the CD). 

> > Check with debian-boot and aj, explain what you did, eventually what
> > you skipped in the process. The problem is not with debian-cd I guess.
> OK, but I don't know what counts, so questions please ;)

see above.

> > Other people had success, you must do something different from the
> > others that'd explain it. Do you try to get the base from the CD or
> > from the network ?
> I did a "linear" install, always choosing the CD method. It is -of course-
> possible, that I messed up something...

its also possible that dbootstrap is broken, choose_medium.c is a
giant rat hole...  but from your log message the debootstrap
invocation looks correct (CDs don't have the /debian directory do they?)

most (all?) of us i think have been testing with network and hard disk/nfs
installs rather then CDs...

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Re: base*.tgz is gone, and why it's gone

[Anthony Towns]

On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 03:16:55PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Le Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 04:08:02AM -0800, Ethan Benson écrivait:
> > its also possible that dbootstrap is broken, choose_medium.c is a
> > giant rat hole...  but from your log message the debootstrap
> > invocation looks correct (CDs don't have the /debian directory do they?)
> Yes, they do. "debian" is a symlink to "." ... so in fact pool/ and
> debian/pool/ are the same directory.

What's the entry in the Packages file for adduser? The Filename: field should
look like

Filename: pool/main/a/adduser/adduser_*

. Does it? What's the layout exactly?

/cdrom
debian -> .
pool/
...
dists/
woody/
main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
woody-secure/
main/binary-i386/Packages.gz

? Or something different?

Cheers,
aj

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Re: base*.tgz is gone, and why it's gone

[Raphael Hertzog]

Le Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 04:08:02AM -0800, Ethan Benson écrivait:
> its also possible that dbootstrap is broken, choose_medium.c is a
> giant rat hole...  but from your log message the debootstrap
> invocation looks correct (CDs don't have the /debian directory do they?)

Yes, they do. "debian" is a symlink to "." ... so in fact pool/ and
debian/pool/ are the same directory.

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Re: base*.tgz is gone, and why it's gone

[Raphael Hertzog]

Le Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 12:30:31PM +0200, Attila Nagy écrivait:
> user.info dbootstrap[138]: running '/usr/sbin/debootstrap --boot-floppies
> woody /target file:/instmnt'
> user.err dbootstrap[138]: Couldn't download adduser
> 
> That's all. At this point it dies, I don't know how it could be installed
> onto the machine.
> 
> So what now?

adduser is on the first CD, can someone confirm ?

And I guess that adduser is the first base package that debootstrap tries
to get, so it may not be related to debian-cd ... maybe something totally
different like nothing mounted on /instmnt ...

Check with debian-boot and aj, explain what you did, eventually what you
skipped in the process. The problem is not with debian-cd I guess.

> I would be glad to forget the old potato boot floppies, but it seems
> something is wrong here. This is the second, or third version of the woody
> boot floppies, which I tried and I keep my debian-cd always up to date...

Other people had success, you must do something different from the others
that'd explain it. Do you try to get the base from the CD or from the
network ? 

Cheers,
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Re: base*.tgz is gone, and why it's gone

[Attila Nagy]

Hello,

> adduser is on the first CD, can someone confirm ?
Yes, in pool/a/adduser.

> And I guess that adduser is the first base package that debootstrap
> tries to get, so it may not be related to debian-cd ... maybe
> something totally different like nothing mounted on /instmnt ...
Nope. The CD is mounted on /instmnt, I can find the adduser package with
find...

> Check with debian-boot and aj, explain what you did, eventually what
> you skipped in the process. The problem is not with debian-cd I guess.
OK, but I don't know what counts, so questions please ;)

> Other people had success, you must do something different from the
> others that'd explain it. Do you try to get the base from the CD or
> from the network ?
I did a "linear" install, always choosing the CD method. It is -of course-
possible, that I messed up something...

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