Bug#987377: rescue-mode: when in graphical mode, locks up one prompt before the shell

2021-05-24 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Étienne, Étienne Mollier (2021-05-24): > I admit having checkout out from time to time some of the other open > bugs blocking the release of d-i for bullseye, although I haven't been > following accurately wether the appropriate fix landed in daily builds > yet, so thanks for your ping in that

Bug#987377: rescue-mode: when in graphical mode, locks up one prompt before the shell

2021-05-24 Thread Étienne Mollier
Hi Cyril, Cyril Brulebois, on 2021-05-24: > Étienne Mollier (2021-04-28): > > Device en_US fr_FR > > /dev/sdb1ok ok > > /dev/nvme0n1p1 ok ok > > /dev/md/0ok ok > > /dev/debian-vg/root ok ok [...] > I'm not sure whether you fo

Bug#987377: rescue-mode: when in graphical mode, locks up one prompt before the shell

2021-05-23 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Étienne, Étienne Mollier (2021-04-28): > Cyril Brulebois, on 2021-04-28 06:08:30 +0200: > > Let's see if this helps! > > https://people.debian.org/~kibi/bug-987377/ > > According to my observations, I does help with all the known bad > cases I have hit so far; I notably double checked the "

Bug#987377: rescue-mode: when in graphical mode, locks up one prompt before the shell

2021-04-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Étienne, Étienne Mollier (2021-04-28): > According to my observations, I does help with all the known bad > cases I have hit so far; I notably double checked the "Generic" > partition schemes: > > Device en_US fr_FR > /dev/sdb1ok ok > /dev/nvme0n1p1

Bug#987377: rescue-mode: when in graphical mode, locks up one prompt before the shell

2021-04-28 Thread Étienne Mollier
Hi Cyril, Cyril Brulebois, on 2021-04-28 06:08:30 +0200: > Let's see if this helps! > https://people.debian.org/~kibi/bug-987377/ According to my observations, I does help with all the known bad cases I have hit so far; I notably double checked the "Generic" partition schemes: Device

Bug#987377: rescue-mode: when in graphical mode, locks up one prompt before the shell

2021-04-27 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Étienne, Étienne Mollier (2021-04-26): > Cyril Brulebois, on 2021-04-26 02:18:49 +0200: > > Are you happy to trust me with a netboot/gtk/mini.iso build that you > > would deploy on some USB device (like you would with a Netinst ISO, > > except it'll need network access to download all d-i comp

Bug#987377: rescue-mode: when in graphical mode, locks up one prompt before the shell

2021-04-27 Thread Étienne Mollier
Hi Cyril, Since the LVM result I caught seemed to contradict your own findings, I did a few more tests in that configuration. I'm afraid I failed to identify any regular pattern, although I did try hard to see whether things such as word wrapping might be involved in some way, so I'm just putting

Bug#987377: rescue-mode: when in graphical mode, locks up one prompt before the shell

2021-04-26 Thread Étienne Mollier
Hi Cyril, Étienne Mollier, on 2021-04-26 09:09:50 +0200: > Cyril Brulebois, on 2021-04-26 02:18:49 +0200: > > If so, I'd be happy if you could just verify at least one “known-bad” > > case with the official image first: > > > > http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/bullseye/main/installer-amd64/20

Bug#987377: rescue-mode: when in graphical mode, locks up one prompt before the shell

2021-04-26 Thread Étienne Mollier
Salut Cyril, Cyril Brulebois, on 2021-04-26 02:18:49 +0200: > Are you happy to trust me with a netboot/gtk/mini.iso build that you > would deploy on some USB device (like you would with a Netinst ISO, > except it'll need network access to download all d-i components that > aren't in the initramfs)

Bug#987377: rescue-mode: when in graphical mode, locks up one prompt before the shell

2021-04-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Cyril Brulebois (2021-04-25): > I've ran out of (apparently stupid this time around…) wild guesses, so > I suppose after a little nap it's going to be (heavy) hammer time… I'm attaching an almost unedited version of my notes from yesterday. It's not a definitive guide but might give someone else

Bug#987377: rescue-mode: when in graphical mode, locks up one prompt before the shell

2021-04-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Salut Étienne, Étienne Mollier (2021-04-25): > I did further testing, so tried to wrap up my findings in a > hopefully nice Karnaugh table below (dreading mta rewrap at > this instant): > > Layout Plain RaidLVM LVM+Crypto > LocaleDevice > en_US Satablank blank ok

Bug#987377: rescue-mode: when in graphical mode, locks up one prompt before the shell

2021-04-25 Thread Étienne Mollier
I did further testing, so tried to wrap up my findings in a hopefully nice Karnaugh table below (dreading mta rewrap at this instant): Layout Plain RaidLVM LVM+Crypto Locale Device en_US Satablank blank ok ok en_US NVMeok blank ok ok fr_FR Sat

Bug#987377: rescue-mode: when in graphical mode, locks up one prompt before the shell

2021-04-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Cyril Brulebois (2021-04-24): > > > cdebconf-* were updated. There's a change in there but apparently only > for the text frontend. > > At least for src:cdebconf's udebs, the libc they were built against is > no longer the same (2.29 vs. 2.31). > > This might very well be a red herring, though

Bug#987377: rescue-mode: when in graphical mode, locks up one prompt before the shell

2021-04-25 Thread Étienne Mollier
Cyril Brulebois, on 2021-04-25 14:17:36 +0200: > Steve McIntyre (2021-04-22): > > From checking (as discussed in IRC with Phil), rescue-mode moved from > > 1.78 to 1.80 between those two builds. The only changes were in > > translations, so the problem must be elsewhere. :-( > > Must it really? >

Bug#987377: rescue-mode: when in graphical mode, locks up one prompt before the shell

2021-04-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Steve McIntyre (2021-04-22): > From checking (as discussed in IRC with Phil), rescue-mode moved from > 1.78 to 1.80 between those two builds. The only changes were in > translations, so the problem must be elsewhere. :-( Must it really? With a fresh install (with LVM but oh well), using netboot/

Bug#987377: rescue-mode: when in graphical mode, locks up one prompt before the shell

2021-04-24 Thread Étienne Mollier
Cyril Brulebois, on 2021-04-24 07:22:57 +0200: > FWIW: I plan to debug (likely starting by bisecting) this somewhen > during the week-end or next week. Hi Cyril, if that helps, I tried to reproduce the bug on real hardware and virtual machine. The virtual machine was within Qemu, version availab

Bug#987377: rescue-mode: when in graphical mode, locks up one prompt before the shell

2021-04-23 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Philip Hands (2021-04-24): > Steve McIntyre writes: > > ... > > From checking (as discussed in IRC with Phil), rescue-mode moved from > > 1.78 to 1.80 between those two builds. The only changes were in > > translations, so the problem must be elsewhere. :-( > > I've now caused the test job to r

Bug#987377: rescue-mode: when in graphical mode, locks up one prompt before the shell

2021-04-23 Thread Philip Hands
Steve McIntyre writes: ... > From checking (as discussed in IRC with Phil), rescue-mode moved from > 1.78 to 1.80 between those two builds. The only changes were in > translations, so the problem must be elsewhere. :-( I've now caused the test job to record the installed udebs in the installer a

Bug#987377: rescue-mode: when in graphical mode, locks up one prompt before the shell

2021-04-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 10:53:38PM +0200, Philip Hands wrote: >Testing the alpha2 netinst shows that it works: > > https://openqa.debian.net/tests/1463 > >whereas alpha3 shows the bug: > > https://openqa.debian.net/tests/1477 > >Those two tests were run with DEBCONF_DEBUG=5 so the syslog should b

Bug#987377: rescue-mode: when in graphical mode, locks up one prompt before the shell

2021-04-22 Thread Philip Hands
Testing the alpha2 netinst shows that it works: https://openqa.debian.net/tests/1463 whereas alpha3 shows the bug: https://openqa.debian.net/tests/1477 Those two tests were run with DEBCONF_DEBUG=5 so the syslog should be very verbose. The intent of the test being run here is to try to ope

Bug#987377: rescue-mode: when in graphical mode, locks up one prompt before the shell

2021-04-22 Thread Philip Hands
Package: rescue-mode Version: 1.83 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, When booting recent daily images, or the bullseye-DI-rc1, into "Graphcal rescue mode", on a system with a simple partition for root, when one selects to enter a shell it clears the screen in order to display the "intro" message,