Bug#1091668: debian-installer: Explicitly declare requirement for root

2025-01-04 Thread Niels Thykier
Cyril Brulebois: Control: tag -1 pending Niels Thykier (2025-01-04): The switch has already been flipped (dpkg/1.22.13). I knew I should have skipped that part, as quickly skimming for “root” didn't turn up a hit on R³ obviously… :) (Hindsight, always 20/20.) Note it can in theory

Processed: Re: Bug#1091668: debian-installer: Explicitly declare requirement for root

2025-01-04 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > tag -1 pending Bug #1091668 [debian-installer] debian-installer: Explicitly declare requirement for root Added tag(s) pending. -- 1091668: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1091668 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org w

Bug#1091668: debian-installer: Explicitly declare requirement for root

2025-01-04 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Control: tag -1 pending Niels Thykier (2025-01-04): > The switch has already been flipped (dpkg/1.22.13). I knew I should have skipped that part, as quickly skimming for “root” didn't turn up a hit on R³ obviously… :) (Hindsight, always 20/20.) > Note it can in theory also

Bug#1091668: debian-installer: Explicitly declare requirement for root

2025-01-04 Thread Niels Thykier
Cyril Brulebois: Hej Niels, Niels Thykier (2025-01-04): The transition has moved to the endgame and this bug is now RC. This bug is filed on the assumption that the remark in d/rules about a part of the code needing root is true. The provided patch (MR) explicitly has debian-installer opt-in

Bug#1091668: debian-installer: Explicitly declare requirement for root

2025-01-04 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hej Niels, Niels Thykier (2025-01-04): > The transition has moved to the endgame and this bug is now RC. This bug is > filed on the assumption that the remark in d/rules about a part of the code > needing root is true. The provided patch (MR) explicitly has > debian-installer o

Bug#1091668: debian-installer: Explicitly declare requirement for root

2025-01-04 Thread Niels Thykier
. The patch is at https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer/-/merge_requests/57 Best regards, Niels Hi The transition has moved to the endgame and this bug is now RC. This bug is filed on the assumption that the remark in d/rules about a part of the code needing root is true

Bug#1091668: debian-installer: Explicitly declare requirement for root

2024-12-29 Thread Niels Thykier
Package: debian-installer Severity: important Tags: patch X-Debbugs-Cc: ni...@thykier.net User: ni...@thykier.net Usertags: rrr-no-as-default-issue Hi, Filing this one to ensure it is on my bug radar for the MBF and for tracking status. The patch is at https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/d

Bug#1070483: btrfs root volume being mounted as ro upon boot

2024-05-06 Thread Richard Rosner
ezone setup:   [O] User/password setup:    [O] Install tasks:  [O] Install boot loader:    [O] Overall install:    [O] Comments/Problems: Manually creating an (ecrypted) btrfs partition as the root partition (two volumes automatically created, @ and @home) results in the @ volume being mo

Bug#1043226: marked as done (debian-installer: Please consider moving root user setup to expert install, or change text)

2024-05-04 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sat, 4 May 2024 15:16:05 +0200 with message-id <20240504151605.fac9949d94d21c59de696...@mailbox.org> and subject line Re: Bug#1043226: debian-installer: Please consider moving root user setup to expert install, or change text has caused the Debian Bug report #1043226, reg

Re: Bug#1043226: debian-installer: Please consider moving root user setup to expert install, or change text

2024-05-04 Thread Holger Wansing
With latest user-setup upload 1.97, this has been dealed with, so closing. -- Holger Wansing PGP-Fingerprint: 496A C6E8 1442 4B34 8508 3529 59F1 87CA 156E B076

Bug#1063920: console-setup: initramfs keymap is not set and breaks my root crypted boot

2024-02-14 Thread Daniel Dehennin
Package: console-setup Version: 1.226 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, Since the upgrade to 1.226, I can't open my LUKS root FS beause of broken initramfs. I can still boot under 6.6.11 since its initramfs is not updated with latest tools. I compared both initramfs and found diff

Processed: Re: user-setup: set SYSTEMD_SULOGIN_FORCE=1 in env for rescue/emergency.service when root account is locked

2023-10-10 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > forwarded -1 > https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/user-setup/-/merge_requests/6 Bug #952450 [user-setup] user-setup: set SYSTEMD_SULOGIN_FORCE=1 in env for rescue/emergency.service when root account is locked Set Bug forwarded-to-address to

Bug#952450: user-setup: set SYSTEMD_SULOGIN_FORCE=1 in env for rescue/emergency.service when root account is locked

2023-10-10 Thread James Addison
Package: user-setup Followup-For: Bug #952450 Control: forwarded -1 https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/user-setup/-/merge_requests/6

Bug#264435: marked as done (should check root filesystem type and warn)

2023-09-19 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Tue, 19 Sep 2023 23:54:42 +0200 with message-id <00d7049e-0a8f-432c-ae07-eaee9d152...@debian.org> and subject line Re: Debian Installer RC1 on MIPS has caused the Debian Bug report #264435, regarding should check root filesystem type and warn to be marked as done. This

Bug#1043226: +1 (Re: Bug#1043226: debian-installer: Please consider moving root user setup to expert install, or change text)

2023-08-21 Thread Holger Levsen
On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 10:03:22PM +0100, Samuel Henrique wrote: > > So, many users, and especially newcomers to Debian, follow the instructions > > in the > > first line and are then surprised when they can't use sudo from their user > > from > > their newly installed system. > I've seen this is

Re: Bug#1043226: debian-installer: Please consider moving root user setup to expert install, or change text

2023-08-19 Thread John Crawley
On 19/08/2023 18:42, Pascal Hambourg wrote: On 19/08/2023 at 10:28, Diederik de Haas wrote: On Monday, 7 August 2023 18:25:07 CEST Jonathan Carter wrote: Firstly, the instructions start off with "You need to set a password for 'root'", followed by seemingly uninteresti

Bug#1043226: debian-installer: Please consider moving root user setup to expert install, or change text

2023-08-19 Thread Pascal Hambourg
On 19/08/2023 at 10:28, Diederik de Haas wrote: On Monday, 7 August 2023 18:25:07 CEST Jonathan Carter wrote: Firstly, the instructions start off with "You need to set a password for 'root'", followed by seemingly uninteresting text about what a good password shoul

Bug#1043226: debian-installer: Please consider moving root user setup to expert install, or change text

2023-08-19 Thread Diederik de Haas
On Monday, 7 August 2023 18:25:07 CEST Jonathan Carter wrote: > Source: debian-installer > Version: 20230607+deb12u1 > > Firstly, the instructions start off with "You need to set a password for > 'root'", followed by seemingly uninteresting text about what a goo

Bug#1043226: debian-installer: Please consider moving root user setup to expert install, or change text

2023-08-15 Thread Samuel Henrique
> So, many users, and especially newcomers to Debian, follow the instructions > in the > first line and are then surprised when they can't use sudo from their user > from > their newly installed system. I've seen this issue happening so many times. This would be a huge UX improvement for the in

Bug#1043226: debian-installer: Please consider moving root user setup to expert install, or change text

2023-08-08 Thread Luna Jernberg
t; Dear Maintainer, > > When setting up users and passwords in debian-installer in a default install, > it prompts a user to set up a root password. In d-i, this works very different > than in other installers, which causes quite a bit of confusion for users. > > Firstly, the instructio

Bug#1043226: debian-installer: Please consider moving root user setup to expert install, or change text

2023-08-07 Thread Jonathan Carter
Source: debian-installer Version: 20230607+deb12u1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, When setting up users and passwords in debian-installer in a default install, it prompts a user to set up a root password. In d-i, this works very different than in other installers, which causes quite a bit

Bug#952450: user-setup: set SYSTEMD_SULOGIN_FORCE=1 in env for rescue/emergency.service when root account is locked

2023-06-03 Thread James Addison
sment. My understanding from the relevant manual[1] is that 'emergency.target' is a similar, albeit even more basic systemd state that is automatically selected if early boot preconditions fail and/or when serious errors occur. The system used for testing has a locked root user account, but is

Bug#1032277: installation-reports: Installer too strongly urges users to set root password

2023-03-02 Thread Pascal Hambourg
On 02/03/2023 at 19:21, Cyril Brulebois wrote: What happens if you don't set a root password and got dropped into maintenance mode at boot-time? Or if you cannot open a user session for whatever reason ? You're stuck. Default settings allow to launch an unauthenticated root she

Bug#1032277: installation-reports: Installer too strongly urges users to set root password

2023-03-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Jeremy Bícha (2023-03-02): > Please see the attached screenshot. I believe Debian would be improved > if this page was reworded. > > It begins with a strong emphatic statement "You need to set a password > for 'root' > > If someone is not reading very

Bug#969516: Please support installing onto f2fs root filesystem

2023-01-02 Thread Stuart
Is there any update to this? I can't find the source anywhere to test it myself either.

Re: Unable to set root password with clear text using preseed/early_command

2022-02-18 Thread Brian Potkin
On Wed 16 Feb 2022 at 10:32:25 +0100, More Thanks wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 04:52:48PM +0800, Glen Huang wrote: > > On Feb 16, 2022, at 4:38 PM, Philip Hands wrote: > > > Glen Huang writes: > > > > Thanks to Cyril Brulebois’s tip that I could use DEBCONF_DEBUG > > > > to debug debconf, I

Re: Unable to set root password with clear text using preseed/early_command

2022-02-16 Thread More Thanks
On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 04:52:48PM +0800, Glen Huang wrote: > On Feb 16, 2022, at 4:38 PM, Philip Hands wrote: > > Glen Huang writes: > > > Thanks to Cyril Brulebois’s tip that I could use DEBCONF_DEBUG > > > to debug debconf, I found out the seen flag should be set in order > > > for db_input to

Re: Unable to set root password with clear text using preseed/early_command

2022-02-16 Thread Glen Huang
Setting a placeholder value is a great idea, it simplifies the early_command since the seen flag no longer needs to be set. Thanks for the tip Philip. > On Feb 16, 2022, at 4:38 PM, Philip Hands wrote: > > Glen Huang writes: > >> Thanks to Cyril Brulebois’s tip that I could use DEBCONF_DEBUG

Re: Unable to set root password with clear text using preseed/early_command

2022-02-16 Thread Philip Hands
Glen Huang writes: > Thanks to Cyril Brulebois’s tip that I could use DEBCONF_DEBUG to debug > debconf, I found out the seen flag should be set in order for db_input to > pick up the value. > > Case solved, thanks to everyone helped! I was wondering about that, but didn't see my code setting l

Re: Unable to set root password with clear text using preseed/early_command

2022-02-15 Thread Glen Huang
; > I’m not sure if escaping is the issue. I tried directly specifying the > password: > > debconf-set passwd/root-password passwd1234 > debconf-set passwd/root-password-again passwd1234 > > Still got prompted. > > I tried to debug it with > > d-i preseed/earl

Re: Unable to set root password with clear text using preseed/early_command

2022-02-15 Thread Glen Huang
Thanks for the tip. I’m not sure if escaping is the issue. I tried directly specifying the password: debconf-set passwd/root-password passwd1234 debconf-set passwd/root-password-again passwd1234 Still got prompted. I tried to debug it with d-i preseed/early_command string \ set -x

Re: Unable to set root password with clear text using preseed/early_command

2022-02-15 Thread Geert Stappers
On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 08:08:08PM +0800, Glen Huang wrote: > Hi, > > I want to set the root password to a random string. this is the preseed I use: > > d-i preseed/early_command string \ > pw="$(tr -dc A-Za-z0-9 debconf-set passwd/root-password "$pw"

Unable to set root password with clear text using preseed/early_command

2022-02-15 Thread Glen Huang
Hi, I want to set the root password to a random string. this is the preseed I use: d-i preseed/early_command string \ pw="$(tr -dc A-Za-z0-9 ' Directly setting the password also works: d-i passwd/root-password password r00tme d-i passwd/root-password-again password r00tme &

Bug#1002921: marked as done (installation-reports: No Screen Reader, Cannot boot into MATE GUI, Root only can)

2022-01-02 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sun, 02 Jan 2022 09:51:54 +0100 with message-id <2c19e32c-fcd0-46ef-8591-8e28d423c...@mailbox.org> and subject line Re: Bug#1002921: installation-reports: No Screen Reader, Cannot boot into MATE GUI, Root only can has caused the Debian Bug report #1002921, reg

Re: Bug#1002921: installation-reports: No Screen Reader, Cannot boot into MATE GUI, Root only can

2022-01-01 Thread D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
On Sun, Jan 2, 2022, 00:39 john doe wrote: > On 1/2/2022 1:20 AM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote: > > I made a new partition for /home and I reinstalled Debian, this time I > > could lot in to MATE and I could log into the CLI. > > > > But the issue remains of after the Installation disk detects my sound

Re: Bug#1002921: installation-reports: No Screen Reader, Cannot boot into MATE GUI, Root only can

2022-01-01 Thread john doe
On 1/2/2022 1:20 AM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote: I made a new partition for /home and I reinstalled Debian, this time I could lot in to MATE and I could log into the CLI. But the issue remains of after the Installation disk detects my sound card, it seems to find my sound card, but immediately after

Bug#1002921: installation-reports: No Screen Reader, Cannot boot into MATE GUI, Root only can

2022-01-01 Thread D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
sound during accessible > installation, This time I made up a brand new never before user name. > > The result was the very same, I could not log in with my user account, > only root. > > What is your next suggestion? > > There is an installer issue, not having speech during

Bug#1002921: installation-reports: No Screen Reader, Cannot boot into MATE GUI, Root only can

2022-01-01 Thread D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
r account, only root. What is your next suggestion? There is an installer issue, not having speech during an accessible installation is an installer issue . Making a brand new user account and not being able to log in might be something else. Where do I go to get this part fixed? Thanks, David

Bug#1002921: installation-reports: No Screen Reader, Cannot boot into MATE GUI, Root only can

2022-01-01 Thread D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
not log in. I could log in as previously by using root. At that time, I didn't know a way to disable lightdm login and just log in with the console. I suspect I'd get the same result as I do now, that I could not log in with any user account, only the supervisor account, root. At that ti

Bug#1002921: installation-reports: No Screen Reader, Cannot boot into MATE GUI, Root only can

2022-01-01 Thread D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
could log in as previously by using root. So reusing by /home/djringjr folder won't let me log in, using a brand-new user account with brand new files from /etc/skel won't let me run the GUI. Since then I've discovered with my current installation not only can't I access the

Bug#1002921: installation-reports: No Screen Reader, Cannot boot into MATE GUI, Root only can

2022-01-01 Thread D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
successful installation. I did some investigation into this. This is what I did: . I disabled lightdm using systemctl disable lightdm then more recently I used the root command "systemctl set-default multi-user.target" and now I see I cannot even log in as my regular user. I tried a new

Bug#1002921: installation-reports: No Screen Reader, Cannot boot into MATE GUI, Root only can

2022-01-01 Thread D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
Also I just used systemctl set-default multi-user.target to change to a console log in. I cannot log in as user, only as root. GUI can also only be started as root. Have espeakup in console by as soon as log into Mate using root account, no sound, Orca setup has no speech settings. Regards

Bug#1002921: installation-reports: No Screen Reader, Cannot boot into MATE GUI, Root only can

2021-12-31 Thread David J. Ring, Jr.
el lspci -knn: Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel lspci -knn: 00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #3 [8086:9c94] (rev e3) lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: pcieport lspci -knn: 00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP PCI Expres

Bug#1000239: Rescue system won't find root partition, but insists on /usr

2021-12-27 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Thank you for the discussion! I found it educational and motivating, and hope that everyone found the same. It's really refreshing to see this. Sorry for the naivety in my analysis and in the delay replying; I've been drained/busy, but I read each of your emails carefully, wanted to reply to eac

Bug#1000239: Rescue system won't find root partition, but insists on /usr

2021-12-10 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 09/12/2021 à 23:29, TomK a écrit : If there is a /usr partition, /usr/share will be part of it. So, separate /usr/share is exactly as common s/as separate /usr. No, by "separate /usr/share" I (and Philip I guess, please correct me if I am wrong) mean "separate from /usr". /usr/share has

Bug#1000239: Rescue system won't find root partition, but insists on /usr

2021-12-10 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 09/12/2021 à 00:25, Steve McIntyre a écrit : Nod. A separate /usr filesystem is a configuration that was supported well by d-i and Debian for a number of years, hence I agreed that it was worth improving rescue-mode to explicitly support it. I *could* also be convinced that we should do simil

Bug#1000239: Rescue system won't find root partition, but insists on /usr

2021-12-09 Thread TomK
-- From: Pascal Hambourg Sent: December 8, 2021 11:41:11 AM UTC To: Philip Hands , 1000...@bugs.debian.org, TomK Subject: Re: Bug#1000239: Rescue system won't find root partition, but insists on /usr Le 08/12/2021 à 10:49, Philip Hands a écrit : > > Is it a problem if /home or /us

Bug#1000239: Rescue system won't find root partition, but insists on /usr

2021-12-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Dec 08, 2021 at 11:36:47PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: >Pascal Hambourg writes: > >> Le 08/12/2021 à 10:49, Philip Hands a écrit : >>> >>> Is it a problem if /home or /usr/share are left unmounted during rescue? >> >> /usr/share contains architecture-independent files for many programs >>

Bug#1000239: Rescue system won't find root partition, but insists on /usr

2021-12-08 Thread Philip Hands
Pascal Hambourg writes: > Le 08/12/2021 à 10:49, Philip Hands a écrit : >> >> Is it a problem if /home or /usr/share are left unmounted during rescue? > > /usr/share contains architecture-independent files for many programs > such as bash, grub, os-prober, debconf, dpkg, initramfs-tools... > >

Bug#1000239: Rescue system won't find root partition, but insists on /usr

2021-12-08 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 08/12/2021 à 10:49, Philip Hands a écrit : Is it a problem if /home or /usr/share are left unmounted during rescue? /usr/share contains architecture-independent files for many programs such as bash, grub, os-prober, debconf, dpkg, initramfs-tools... How common is it to have a separate /u

Bug#1000239: Rescue system won't find root partition, but insists on /usr

2021-12-08 Thread Philip Hands
TomK writes: > This sounds correct, based on my experience with the bug. > I suppose now there are zero ways to definitively determine which > partition is actually root. So maybe a hidden flag (empty) file in > root might do the trick. I'd expect that looking for e.g. /et

Bug#1000239: Rescue system won't find root partition, but insists on /usr

2021-12-07 Thread TomK
This sounds correct, based on my experience with the bug. I suppose now there are zero ways to definitively determine which partition is actually root. So maybe a hidden flag (empty) file in root might do the trick. But the fact that /usr can be automounted, but nothing else can be manually

Bug#1000239: Rescue system won't find root partition, but insists on /usr

2021-12-05 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Steve McIntyre (2021-12-06): > In fact, it needed more work than that - the code chrooted into > /target and ran mount there. That didn't work for a separate /usr. But > I've refactored the code and made things work more cleanly inside d-i. > > I'm pondering backporting the same fix for future bu

Bug#1000239: marked as done (Rescue system won't find root partition, but insists on /usr)

2021-12-05 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Mon, 06 Dec 2021 01:03:24 + with message-id and subject line Bug#1000239: fixed in rescue 1.86 has caused the Debian Bug report #1000239, regarding Rescue system won't find root partition, but insists on /usr to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the pr

Bug#1000239: Rescue system won't find root partition, but insists on /usr

2021-12-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Dec 04, 2021 at 10:42:29PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >On Sat, Dec 04, 2021 at 11:37:28PM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >>Le 03/12/2021 à 22:08, Nicholas D Steeves a écrit : >>> >>> >>> c) parse /target/etc/fstab, and attempt to mount other partitions >> >>The rescue system already

Bug#1000239: Rescue system won't find root partition, but insists on /usr

2021-12-04 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 03/12/2021 à 22:08, Nicholas D Steeves a écrit : c) parse /target/etc/fstab, and attempt to mount other partitions The rescue system already offers to do it for separate /boot and /boot/efi, so why couldn't it do for separate /usr too ?

Bug#1000239: Rescue system won't find root partition, but insists on /usr

2021-12-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Dec 04, 2021 at 11:37:28PM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >Le 03/12/2021 à 22:08, Nicholas D Steeves a écrit : >> >> >> c) parse /target/etc/fstab, and attempt to mount other partitions > >The rescue system already offers to do it for separate /boot and /boot/efi, >so why couldn't it d

Bug#1000239: Rescue system won't find root partition, but insists on /usr

2021-12-04 Thread Philip Hands
cue mode. Having just tested it with a separate /usr, all one needs to do is select the actual root partition as you'd expect, then when prompted to execute a shell, select the second option (Execute a shell in the installer environment), then the trick is to mount the /usr partition b

Bug#1000239: Rescue system won't find root partition, but insists on /usr

2021-12-04 Thread Kenneth Parker
problem here, although it exacerbates what > appears to be a pre-existing bug in the rescue mode[0]. The root cause is > that since Debian 9 [1][2], the "/usr-like" parts of the root filesystem > are no longer guaranteed to be self-contained: important shared > libraries[3] > a

Bug#1000239: Rescue system won't find root partition, but insists on /usr

2021-12-04 Thread Simon McVittie
cue mode[0]. The root cause is that since Debian 9 [1][2], the "/usr-like" parts of the root filesystem are no longer guaranteed to be self-contained: important shared libraries[3] and executables have been gradually moving into /usr for a while, and stretch was the point at which this

Bug#1000239: Rescue system won't find root partition, but insists on /usr

2021-12-04 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 03.12.2021 um 22:08 schrieb Nicholas D Steeves: 2. Reassign to src:rescue, and fix the rescue system. Looks like a duplicate of https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=769738

Bug#1000239: Rescue system won't find root partition, but insists on /usr

2021-12-04 Thread Wouter Verhelst
ian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso > 2. Selected sda2 > 3. Yes, mount /boot/efi > 4. Execute a shell in /dev/sda2 > 5. No usable shell was found on your root file system (/dev/sda2) > 6. Changed virtual terminal > 7. cd /target && ls bin >ls: bin: No such file or director

Processed: Re: Bug#1000239: Rescue system won't find root partition, but insists on /usr

2021-12-03 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > severity -1 normal Bug #1000239 [debian-installer] Rescue system won't find root partition, but insists on /usr Severity set to 'normal' from 'serious' -- 1000239: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1000239 Debian Bu

Bug#1000239: Rescue system won't find root partition, but insists on /usr

2021-12-03 Thread Bastian Blank
Control: severity -1 normal On Fri, Dec 03, 2021 at 04:08:24PM -0500, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > Steps I used to try to reproduce: > > 1. Downloaded debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso2021-12-03 16:21 408M > 2. Installed to EFI-enabled qemu eg: >kvm -bios /usr/share/ovmf/bios.bin -m 2G

Bug#1000239: Rescue system won't find root partition, but insists on /usr

2021-12-03 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
/debian-separate-usr-sda.raw \ -cdrom /scratch/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso 2. Selected sda2 3. Yes, mount /boot/efi 4. Execute a shell in /dev/sda2 5. No usable shell was found on your root file system (/dev/sda2) 6. Changed virtual terminal 7. cd /target && ls bin

Processed (with 1 error): Re: Bug#1000239: Rescue system won't find root partition, but insists on /usr

2021-12-03 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > severity -1 serious Bug #1000239 [debian-installer] Rescue system won't find root partition, but insists on /usr Severity set to 'serious' from 'normal' > tags = confirmed Unknown command or malformed arguments to command. -- 10002

Bug#1000239: Rescue system won't find root partition, but insists on /usr

2021-12-02 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
erstand what could be going on, for lack of > experience. I've only been a Debian user since Woody was in testing. > > It's easy to reproduce. Do an expert install with defaults, but partition > with gpt. Boot the system with the install media, launch a rescue shell, and &g

Processed: Re: Bug#1000239: Rescue system won't find root partition, but insists on /usr

2021-12-02 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > tag -1 + moreinfo Bug #1000239 [debian-installer] Rescue system won't find root partition, but insists on /usr Added tag(s) moreinfo. -- 1000239: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1000239 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.de

Bug#1000239: Rescue system won't find root partition, but insists on /usr

2021-11-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi Tom, On Sat, Nov 20, 2021 at 01:59:42AM +, TomK wrote: >Package: debian-installer >Version: 20210731+deb11u1_amd64 > >Errors, "No suitable shell found on /dev/sda1" > >Cycling through every partition results in what should be /usr being >selected as the root

Bug#1000239: Rescue system won't find root partition, but insists on /usr

2021-11-19 Thread TomK
Package: debian-installer Version: 20210731+deb11u1_amd64 Errors, "No suitable shell found on /dev/sda1" Cycling through every partition results in what should be /usr being selected as the root partition. This is useless for a rescue syatem, because there some commands missing.

Bug#500079: marked as done (Missing root option for other detected Linux OS on dmraid)

2021-10-30 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sat, 30 Oct 2021 18:30:54 +0200 with message-id <20211030183054.906cb9aac22395d0f32a6...@mailbox.org> and subject line Mass-closing old grub-installer bugs has caused the Debian Bug report #500079, regarding Missing root option for other detected Linux OS on dmraid to be

Bug#252009: marked as done (LILO/GRUB problems when root is on RAID1)

2021-10-30 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sat, 30 Oct 2021 18:30:54 +0200 with message-id <20211030183054.906cb9aac22395d0f32a6...@mailbox.org> and subject line Mass-closing old grub-installer bugs has caused the Debian Bug report #292513, regarding LILO/GRUB problems when root is on RAID1 to be marked as done.

Bug#995605: BTRFS on root + EXT2 on /boot fails to initialize on ARM A20 OLinuXino LIME 2

2021-10-02 Thread Felix Freeman
tasks: [O] Install boot loader:[O] Overall install:[E] Comments/Problems: I'm trying to setup a fresh Debian with a BTRFS root and an EXT2 /boot with the netinstall disk on an OLinuXino Lime 2 (an A20 based SBC). When I install without BTRFS, but 2 EXT2 partitions, installa

Re: How does the debian development team build Root Filesystems with Desktop UI Support?

2021-06-03 Thread Richard Owlett
king for a procedure to create a minimal Debian OS Root Filesystems with Desktop UI. Do known there is in Debian the package `debos` Description: Debian OS builder debos is a tool to make creation of various Debian based OS "images" simpler. While most other tools focus on spec

Re: Re: How does the debian development team build Root Filesystems with Desktop UI Support?

2021-06-03 Thread Yuichi Tsujiwaki
Thank you for your reply. I didn’t know about a tool called debos. I will investigate. Thank you for the useful information. Yuichi Tsujiwaki

Re: How does the debian development team build Root Filesystems with Desktop UI Support?

2021-06-01 Thread Geert Stappers
On Wed, Jun 02, 2021 at 02:58:23PM +0900, Yuichi Tsujiwaki wrote: > Hi, how does the debian development team create rootfs with a GUI? AFAIK not > If you're using multistrap, could you please tell me where the config file > is? > I'm looking for a procedure to create a

How does the debian development team build Root Filesystems with Desktop UI Support?

2021-06-01 Thread Yuichi Tsujiwaki
Hi, how does the debian development team create rootfs with a GUI? If you're using multistrap, could you please tell me where the config file is? I'm looking for a procedure to create a minimal Debian OS Root Filesystems with Desktop UI. Thank you for your reply.

Bug#986716: installation-guide: Preseeding passwd/root-password-crypted with "!" doesn't work as described

2021-04-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Control: reassigne -1 user-setup Hello, David Mandelberg, le ven. 09 avril 2021 23:06:06 -0400, a ecrit: > https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/amd64/apbs04.en.html section > B.4.5 talks about using "!" in passwd/root-password-crypted: > > The passwd/root-password-c

Bug#952450: user-setup: set SYSTEMD_SULOGIN_FORCE=1 in env for rescue/emergency.service when root account is locked

2021-04-11 Thread Michael Biebl
tation is that distributions should now > put service override files to set this environment variable. > > Thus user-setup should create the appropriate configuration file when > the root account is not configured. Maybe this should be controlled > by some low priority debconf questio

Bug#986716: installation-guide: Preseeding passwd/root-password-crypted with "!" doesn't work as described

2021-04-10 Thread David Mandelberg
Source: installation-guide Severity: normal Tags: d-i Hi, https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/amd64/apbs04.en.html section B.4.5 talks about using "!" in passwd/root-password-crypted: The passwd/root-password-crypted and passwd/user-password-crypted variables can also be pres

Re: Bug#977358: release-notes: document how to make the rescue mode usable if no root password is set (buster)

2021-03-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
> > I am also going to guess that Deepin, like Ubuntu, defaults to giving > > > > you a user account with sudo access, and no root password. You can > > > > achieve that in Debian as well, by doing something special during the > > > > installation. In all cas

Bug#977133: marked as done (debootstrap: Add ${HOME}/.local/bin to default non-root PATH)

2021-02-08 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Mon, 8 Feb 2021 16:21:16 +0100 with message-id and subject line Re: Bug#977133: debootstrap: Add ${HOME}/.local/bin to default non-root PATH has caused the Debian Bug report #977133, regarding debootstrap: Add ${HOME}/.local/bin to default non-root PATH to be marked as done

Bug#969516: Please support installing onto f2fs root filesystem

2021-02-04 Thread Stephan Lachnit
> I would be willing to sponsor this but I'm not sure whether such > a change would be a good idea a little over a week from the soft > freeze. Can you sponsor the upload [1] already? This won't add the package to the installer, but we will decide to have it include in bullseye (which I really hop

Re: Bug#969516: Please support installing onto f2fs root filesystem

2021-02-04 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 2/4/21 8:16 PM, Stephan Lachnit wrote: >> I would be willing to sponsor this but I'm not sure whether such >> a change would be a good idea a little over a week from the soft >> freeze. > > Can you sponsor the upload [1] already? This won't add the package > to the installer, but we will decide

Bug#969516: Please support installing onto f2fs root filesystem

2021-02-02 Thread Stephan Lachnit
> I would be willing to sponsor this but I'm not sure whether such > a change would be a good idea a little over a week from the soft > freeze. Cool. I've revisited it and I have it working in a Virtual Machine. Will try a physical ASAP, but I think it's ready for testing. Regards, Stephan

Bug#969516: Please support installing onto f2fs root filesystem

2021-02-02 Thread Stephan Lachnit
Since we now have f2fs support in parted [1], we could go back to adding partman-f2fs to d-i. It's been quite a while since I did this, so I'll have to some reading again. But is anyone even interested to sponsor this before the freeze? Else, the effort is not really worth it (for now). Regards, S

Re: Bug#969516: Please support installing onto f2fs root filesystem

2021-02-02 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 2/2/21 9:44 PM, Stephan Lachnit wrote: > Since we now have f2fs support in parted [1], we could > go back to adding partman-f2fs to d-i. It's been quite > a while since I did this, so I'll have to some reading > again. But is anyone even interested to sponsor this > before the freeze? Else, the

Bug#980797: debian-installer: root fs very small when choosing a desktop environemnt

2021-01-22 Thread Andreas Schlager
Eingehängt auf udev 468M 0 468M0% /dev tmpfs 99M2,6M 96M3% /run /dev/mapper/rootvg-root 4,0G3,6G 164M 96% / tmpfs491M 0 491M0% /dev/shm tmpfs5,0M4,0K 5,0M1% /run

Bug#980782: Info received (Bug#980782: Acknowledgement (os-prober: linux-boot-prober returning "root=/dev/dm-X" line instead of expected "root=UUID=[UUID128]))

2021-01-21 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Mirko Vogt writes: > Looking at /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/lvm2 more > closely, passing a UUID also wouldn't trigger a `vgchange -ay` here. > But a path like /dev/mapper/X would. > So maybe the question is rather: how to make os-prober return a > "

Bug#980782: Info received (Bug#980782: Acknowledgement (os-prober: linux-boot-prober returning "root=/dev/dm-X" line instead of expected "root=UUID=[UUID128]))

2021-01-21 Thread Mirko Vogt
Looking at /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/lvm2 more closely, passing a UUID also wouldn't trigger a `vgchange -ay` here. But a path like /dev/mapper/X would. So maybe the question is rather: how to make os-prober return a "root=/dev/mapper/X" line instead of one containing a UUID(?)

Bug#980782: Acknowledgement (os-prober: linux-boot-prober returning "root=/dev/dm-X" line instead of expected "root=UUID=[UUID128])

2021-01-21 Thread Mirko Vogt
Just adding, this isn't only a feature request but results in non-bootable systems. If one of the os-probe'd systems e.g. is also a Debian, it will drop into an initramfs due to not finding the root device. This is due to - within the initramfs - the VGs as part of the the LVM syste

Bug#980782: os-prober: linux-boot-prober returning "root=/dev/dm-X" line instead of expected "root=UUID=[UUID128]

2021-01-21 Thread Mirko Vogt
Package: os-prober Version: 1.77 Severity: important I noticed when running update-grub on Debian stable and testing, that the resulting grub.cfg has lines as part of menuentres like: "linux [..] root=/dev/dm-X" for found linux installations on other block devices -

Bug#978430: flash-kernel: Bootloader-Sets-Incorrect-Root missing fallback

2020-12-27 Thread Jethro Beekman
Package: flash-kernel Version: 3.35+deb8u3 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, The Bootloader-sets-root field was renamed to Bootloader-Sets-Root in https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/flash-kernel/-/commit/343eeb3f642c3f4b4cc4ec6591bfa3b6164b8dc7 . It was then renamed/changed to Bootloader

Bug#977133: debootstrap: Add ${HOME}/.local/bin to default non-root PATH

2020-12-11 Thread Witold Baryluk
Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.123 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: witold.bary...@gmail.com I am not sure if this is bug more for debootstrap or some other package (base-files?), but: I think ~/.local/bin should be added to default non-root PATH. I belive Fedora and Ubuntu already does that

Bug#947833: Emergency shell unusable with root login disabled

2020-09-23 Thread Benjamin Moody
use systemd to invoke sulogin with the --force option (i.e., if the root account is locked or has no password, then log in without asking for a password.) See <https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/7115>. Personally I'm not sure this is the best idea - it'd be better to ask for t

Bug#969516: Please support installing onto f2fs root filesystem

2020-09-03 Thread Chubb, Peter (Data61, Kensington NSW)
Package: debian-installer Version: 20200314 Severity: wishlist Now that more and more systems use flash as their main storage, it'd be really nice if the debian installer would allow creating and using f2fs for the root partition. I wasn't sure if this should be reported against debian

Bug#797563: marked as done (installation-reports: Non-free install with disabled root user, sudo command not found)

2020-08-06 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
l with disabled root user, sudo command not found to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrat

Bug#758260: marked as done (installation-reports: Root filesystem too small)

2020-08-03 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Tue, 4 Aug 2020 00:09:01 +0200 with message-id <20200804000901.ada4d3e7ac8e2e0050ab3...@mailbox.org> and subject line Mass-closing old installation-report bugs has caused the Debian Bug report #758260, regarding installation-reports: Root filesystem too small to be mar

Bug#757165: marked as done (installation-reports: jessie on Acer C710: guided partitioning creates too small root partition)

2020-08-03 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
ioning creates too small root partition to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have n

Bug#726077: marked as done (installation-reports: Cannot change root mount defaults)

2020-08-03 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Tue, 4 Aug 2020 00:09:01 +0200 with message-id <20200804000901.ada4d3e7ac8e2e0050ab3...@mailbox.org> and subject line Mass-closing old installation-report bugs has caused the Debian Bug report #726077, regarding installation-reports: Cannot change root mount defaults

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