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

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 shell at boot tim

Bug#1032377: firmware loading tests with bookworm-DI-alpha2

Package: installation-reports Boot method: USB stick Image version: debian-bookworm-DI-alpha2-amd64-netinst.iso debian-bookworm-DI-alpha2-i386-netinst.iso Date: 2023-03-05 Machine: various PC Processor: various Intel from Pentium 4 to Core i7 Memory: 1.25 to 16 GiB Base System In

Bug#1032377: firmware loading tests with bookworm-DI-alpha2

On 05/03/2023 at 13:49, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Mar 5 08:55:33 kernel: [ 184.568261] usb 2-4: Loading firmware file isl3886usb Mar 5 08:55:33 kernel: [ 184.568284] usb 2-4: firmware: failed to load isl3886usb (-2) Mar 5 08:55:33 kernel: [ 184.568294] usb 2-4: firmware: failed to load isl

Bug#1032435: installation-reports: Fails to install GRUB bootloader

Hello John, On 06/03/2023 at 18:19, John Talbut wrote: It is not clear where to install it but wherever I try I come up with a message "Unable to install GRUB in /dev/sda" (or the equivalent in other partitions). /dev/sda is the USB stick which contains the installer. You cannot install GR

Bug#1032435: installation-reports: Fails to install GRUB bootloader

On 07/03/2023 at 09:01, John Talbut wrote: Install in /dev/sda was just an example, it is the one that the installer suggests. Ok. I have tried /dev/nvme1n1, /dev/nvme1n1p1 (the ESP partition) and /dev/nvme1n1p2 (the boot partition) all with the same result: The rescue operation 'grub-rein

Bug#1032852: debian-installer: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG doen't work for d-i, does work on installed Bookworm

On 12/03/2023 at 22:39, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Sun, Mar 12, 2023 at 03:13:34PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: The wifi works once bookworm is installed, but not under d-i. I can see that d-i's firmware detection stuff worked just fine for the ipw2200 hardware (yay!): Warning: as described

Bug#1032852: debian-installer: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG doen't work for d-i, does work on installed Bookworm

On 13/03/2023 at 04:35, Charles Curley wrote: On Sun, 12 Mar 2023 23:23:56 +0100 Pascal Hambourg wrote: Warning: as described in bug #1032377, the firmware package firmware-ipw2x00 should be reject for requiring license approval. Kibi fixed the typo in commit

Bug#1033035: hw-detect: trivial patches

: define local variables in functions - check-missing-firmware.sh: get package name from control instead of file name - check-missing-firmware.sh: replace spaces with tabs in indentationFrom e9a8ceeaa83fbf43e33cdd3745bbbf5d64c3291c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pascal Hambourg Date: Mon, 13 Mar

Bug#1033035: hw-detect: trivial patches

On 16/03/2023 at 12:05, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Pascal Hambourg (2023-03-16): - check-missing-firmware.sh: shift positional parameters after reading -n IIUC the script arguments are expected to be network interface names except the first one which may be "-n". In this case,

Bug#1033035: hw-detect: trivial patches

From: Pascal Hambourg Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2023 14:57:52 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 1/3] hw-detect.pre-pkgsel.d/50install-firmware: fix path of deleted file --- hw-detect.pre-pkgsel.d/50install-firmware | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/hw-detect.pre-pkgsel.d/50install

Bug#1032377: firmware loading tests with bookworm-DI-alpha2

Hello, On 05/03/2023 at 15:59, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Pascal Hambourg (2023-03-05): I am afraid that when the firmware is missing the driver is not attached to the device so there is no direct way to retrieve it through /sys. Alright, nice to know which part of the lookup was failing anyway

Re: Bug#1033498: installation-reports: Missing FW files not detected on USB stick

Hello, On 26/03/2023 at 10:52, Rainer Dorsch wrote: │ The missing firmware files are: │ │ brcm/brcmfmac4330-sdio.solidrun,cubox-i-q.bin│ │ brcm/brcmfmac4330-sdio.solidrun,cubox-i-q.bin│ │ br

Re: Bug#1033498: installation-reports: Missing FW files not detected on USB stick

On 26/03/2023 at 20:44, Rainer Dorsch wrote: I have not yet tested if that resolves the FW not found issue though. It would have helped me, if the installed would be a little bit more verbose and reported something like No non-free FW files found in these directories: Then it would have beco

Bug#1032852: Error message clue:

Hello, On 29/03/2023 at 00:23, Charles Curley wrote: I tried installing with the most recent weekly build. I noticed the following line toward the end of syslog: Mar 28 21:35:59 main-menu[425]: (process:4506): cut: /var/lib/dpkg/info/firmware-ipw2x00.md5sum: No such file or directory This mig

Bug#1033679: hw-detect/check-missing-firmware: add fallback module lookup by modalias and firmware

From: Pascal Hambourg Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 00:19:42 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 1/3] check-missing-firmware: add function get_module_by_bus_address Call this function for bus types other than usb and mhi. It looks up: - /driver/module - /driver - /modalias - udevadm modalias in order, and returns

Bug#1033678: installation-reports: Unbootable install: MBR partition unusable with UEFI

Hello, On 30/03/2023 at 01:21, Dima Kogan wrote: I'm installing from a USB drive. To make this work, I had to turn off secure-boot and UEFI in the BIOS. Why ? What happens if UEFI boot is enabled ? How did you prepare the USB drive ? What installation image did you use (full file name and URL

Bug#1033678: installation-reports: Unbootable install: MBR partition unusable with UEFI

Hello, Le 01/04/2023 at 00:41, Dima Kogan wrote: I got it running by using a friend's usb installer. HIS usb disk was a valid UEFI boot disk, so I could boot in UEFI mode, and do the normal install, which completed successfully. How was this "usb installer" created ? cp debian-bookworm-

Bug#1029962: check-missing-firmware fails to find firmware file or package on partitioned removable media

761fea8aa1921098 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pascal Hambourg Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2023 00:07:47 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] check-missing-firmware: improve firmware file lookup The current algorithm mounts only one device or partition. If it mounts the wrong one, firmware files are not found.

Bug#1033913: partman-auto-lvm: Broken "Guided - use entire disk and set up LVM" in UEFI mode

Hello, On 03/04/2023 at 21:50, Cyril Brulebois wrote: - It very much looks like the intermediary states are slightly different when setting up LVM and when setting up encrypted LVM, and the LVM case case leads to some confusion in partman-efi's /lib/partman/init.d/50efi (which log

Bug#1033921: debian-installer: Weekly build of d-i fails to find ipw2x00 firmware package

On 04/04/2023 at 01:46, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Everything seems to be working as intended… Yes. The package is found but rejected because of licence issue. This is the expected effect of "Fix files removal for non-accepted firmware packages (#1032377)", although it might be seen by users as

Re: Bug#1033921: debian-installer: Weekly build of d-i fails to find ipw2x00 firmware package

[Forgot to compress the logs so that the mail reaches debian-boot, so resending to the list only. Please reply to 1033...@bugs.debian.org] Hello, On 04/04/2023 à 19:39, Cyril Brulebois wrote: I'm attaching syslog again, so that it reaches the BTS and interested people can look at those debcon

Bug#1033921: debian-installer: Weekly build of d-i fails to find ipw2x00 firmware package

On 06/04/2023 at 20:56, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Pascal Hambourg (2023-04-06): A difference between the two relevant sections in check-missing-firmware is that install_firmware_pkg() is executed in a pipeline when a Contents-firmware file is present, and not when it is not present. I do not know

Bug#1033913: partman-auto-lvm: Broken "Guided - use entire disk and set up LVM" in UEFI mode

partman-efi "Fix detection of BIOS-bootable systems" provides a significant improvement over previous behaviour. However I have a few comments. 1a) The patch assumes that a GPT disk may be BIOS-bootable only if it has a BIOS boot partition. But a GPT disk can be BIOS-bootable even without a B

Bug#1033913: partman-auto-lvm: Broken "Guided - use entire disk and set up LVM" in UEFI mode

On 10/04/2023 at 15:13, Steve McIntyre wrote: Overall comment: I'm not trying to make the heuristics 100% reliable here, as I don't think that's actually possible. Instead, I'm trying to tread the fine line of: * minimising false negatives - let's try to pick up on the most common cases w

Bug#1034208: Partman may reset user's choice for ESP partitions use

Package: partman-efi Severity: minor Boot method: USB stick Image version: debian-bookworm-DI-rc1-amd64-netinst.iso Dear maintainer, as discussed in #debian-boot (you asked for it), I observed that partman resets the method set by the user on ESP partitions after setting LVM or RAID (and poss

Bug#1034389: installation-reports: bookworm cannot install base system

Hello, On 14/04/2023 at 15:16, Steve Witt wrote: /var/log/syslog attached as requested. Thank you. According to the following messages: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 7700480 512-byte logical blocks: (3.94 GB/3.67 GiB) sda: p1 size 7758432 extends beyond EOD, truncated It seems that the USB drive capa

Bug#1034389: installation-reports: bookworm cannot install base system

On 15/04/2023 at 02:49, Steve Witt wrote: On 04/15, Pascal Hambourg wrote: It seems that the USB drive capacity is slightly smaller than the ISO image size. USB drive capacity: 7700480 sectors / 3.94 GB / 3.67 GiB DVD-1 image size: 7758432 sectors / 3.97 GB / 3.70 GiB The DVD image size is

Bug#1034208: Partman may reset user's choice for ESP partitions use

s the user attaches a removable drive).From 4bb7694a6750a0fd56bd4399c2412bb5304b1bd6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pascal Hambourg Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2023 14:35:44 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] init.d/efi: Only run checks and set method "efi" for ESPs once Only set method "efi" for ES

Bug#1033921: debian-installer: Weekly build of d-i fails to find ipw2x00 firmware package

() call outside the pipeline instead of playing with file descriptors. PS: shouldn't this bug report be reassigned to hw-detect ?From 5186662ea53ff694ba3fc841f623a521c9091d54 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pascal Hambourg Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2023 15:16:20 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] check-mi

Bug#1034535: Installer boot menu displayed in text mode when UEFI secure boot is enabled

Package: debian-installer Severity: minor Boot method: USB stick Image version: debian-bookworm-DI-rc1-amd64-netinst.iso Boot mode: UEFI When secure boot is disabled, GRUB displays the menu in graphic mode as expected. When secure boot is enabled, GRUB briefly displays error messages: prohib

Bug#1033921: debian-installer: Weekly build of d-i fails to find ipw2x00 firmware package

Control: reassign -1 hw-detect On 17/04/2023 at 17:52, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Pascal Hambourg (2023-04-17): Ugly attached patch works for me as PoC. Copy fd 0 into fd 9 (because it looked unused) before entering the pipeline, and restore it when running install_firmware_pkg. I think I'

Bug#1034814: debian-installer: bootable flag not toggling

On 25/04/2023 at 03:24, Matt Taggart wrote: When in the partitioning and editing a partition, if I am on the "bootable" option and select, it does not toggle but remains "no". The screen flashes, bot no change. I have not yet checked what ends up in the partition table after the install. Is

Bug#1034812: installation-reports: Unbootable after install: UEFI installed to wrong ESP

Hello, On 25/04/2023 at 01:29, Adam wrote: I installed from a thumb drive, to another thumb drive, on a computer that had an nvme drive that should not have been touched. The installer overwrote data on the nvme drive despite the target being /dev/sda. I manually mounted the installed system (

Bug#1034208: Partman may use the wrong ESP partition

Control: retitle -1 Partman may use the wrong ESP partition On 15/04/2023 at 16:34, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Here are patches implementing the two versions of the above fix. It seems that this patch is also needed to fix #1034812 (guided partitioning with LVM uses the wrong ESP), in

Bug#1034812: installation-reports: Unbootable after install: UEFI installed to wrong ESP

Control: tags -1 patch On 25/04/2023 at 19:55, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Suggested fix is two-fold: 1) Call clean_method() at the beginning of partman-auto-lvm/autopartition-lvm, as is done in partman-auto/autopartition and partman-auto-crypto/autopartition-crypto. This should solve the issue

Bug#1035085: Bookworm RC2 grub-installer/os-prober quirks

be run. IIUC, this is because - answering "no" is a no-op; - grub2/enable_os_prober has an effect only when /target/etc/defaut/grub is generated by the selected grub-* package config script when the package is installed (after the first time the question is asked).From c117406bf93

Bug#1035096: installation-report Bookworm RC2 GRUB not installed

Hello Peter, On 29/04/2023 at 16:02, Peter Ehlert wrote: Legacy aka BIOS booting system has 4 physical disk drives, all GPT partition tables only one drive has a partition with bios_grub install was on a drive without bios_grub when install was finished, a list of drives was displayed, asking

Bug#1035096: installation-report Bookworm RC2 GRUB not installed

On 30/04/2023 at 01:47, Peter Ehlert wrote: On 4/29/23 15:41, Pascal Hambourg wrote: On 29/04/2023 at 16:02, Peter Ehlert wrote: reboot gave me the Old GRUB menu, not including my new system. What do you mean by "old GRUB menu" ? The GRUB which was previously installed o

Bug#1034814: debian-installer: bootable flag not toggling

On 30/04/2023 at 10:16, Matt Taggart wrote: On 4/25/23 01:59, Pascal Hambourg wrote: If this should be fixed, not sure how. - Set/unset the "esp" flag at the same time as the "boot" flag if GPT ? - Hide the "bootable" option if GPT - Map the "bootable"

Bug#1035096: installation-report Bookworm RC2 GRUB not installed

On 02/05/2023 at 15:21, Peter Ehlert wrote: DI asks on which drive to install GRUB User says disk X DI attempts to install on Drive Y result ... GRUB does not get installed at all This is completely different from what I understood. The statement "GRUB does not get installed at all" is refute

Bug#1035096: installation-report Bookworm RC2 GRUB not installed

On 04/05/2023 at 16:21, Peter Ehlert wrote: "Install the GRUB boot loader" menu ... 6 items Enter device manually /dev/sda (usb-SanDisk ... /dev/sdb (ata-WL4000G ... /dev/sdc (ata-WDC_WD300... /dev/sdd (ata-WDC_WD300... /dev/sde (ata-SanDisk_SDSSDA240G_162248447811) I selected /dev/sde and pre

Bug#1035096: GRUB not installed or installed to the wrong device

e last case. Test and feedback appreciated. From 78376e99d67b713d79553f9cdfb924c261f633d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pascal Hambourg Date: Sun, 7 May 2023 20:19:07 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Fix wrong or empty bootdev value for grub-pc grub-installer may generate a wrong bootdev valu

Bug#1035085: Bookworm RC2 grub-installer/os-prober quirks

tested the 3 patches together with BIOS boot, EFI boot + installation, EFI boot + BIOS installation.From 5adc3dd8bf3118f40018bc3447a9f60684f1343e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pascal Hambourg Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2023 09:06:52 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Do no run EFI probes in target chroot if ignor

Bug#1029962: check-missing-firmware fails to find firmware file or package on partitioned removable media

On 12/05/2023 at 07:07, Cyril Brulebois wrote: These subcommands are intended to be used by check-missing-firmware from package hw-media in order to search firmware files or packages on all available media. This should be hw-detect, rather than hw-media. :) Thanks for spotting this. -

Bug#1034814: debian-installer: bootable flag not toggling

Control: reassign -1 partman-partitioning Control: tags -1 patch On 30/04/2023 at 16:22, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Pascal Hambourg (2023-04-30): On 30/04/2023 at 10:16, Matt Taggart wrote: IMO "hide the bootable option if GPT" (but maybe that is non-trivial). It should not be too h

Bug#1035096: GRUB not installed or installed to the wrong device

On 17/05/2023 at 14:24, Peter Ehlert wrote: On 5/7/23 13:18, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Attached is a minimal patch which uses grub-installer/bootdev only when if was manually set by the user, and not when the bootdev was set by select_bootdev. I tested it with the last case. Test and feedback

Bug#1035096: GRUB not installed or installed to the wrong device

On 17/05/2023 at 16:47, Peter Ehlert wrote: On May 17, 2023 5:48:14 AM Pascal Hambourg wrote: The proposed patch has not been accepted yet so is not applied to RC3. Thanks, I was not aware of that. If you are still willing to test it I can send you instructions. Yes, I would like to try

Bug#1035096: GRUB not installed or installed to the wrong device

On 26/05/2023 at 15:29, Peter Ehlert wrote: On 5/17/23 10:14, Pascal Hambourg wrote: 1. Copy the attached patched grub-installer onto a second USB drive formatted with FAT, ext* or any filesystem type the installer can read. 2. Start the installer (expert install recommended). 3. Between

Bug#1035096: GRUB not installed or installed to the wrong device

Control: tags -1 patch On 27/05/2023 at 13:29, Peter Ehlert wrote: On 17/05/2023 at 16:47, Peter Ehlert wrote: On May 17, 2023 5:48:14 AM Pascal Hambourg wrote: The proposed patch has not been accepted yet so is not applied to RC3. Thanks, I was not aware of that. If you are still

Bug#1035096: GRUB not installed or installed to the wrong device

On 27/05/2023 at 17:08, Peter Ehlert wrote: I suppose this use case is rather rare I do not know how rare your use case is, but I can tell this bug has been around for several Debian releases. I have observed it several times, and I have seen several other people reporting it over time. How

Re: os-prober not detecting distros mounting ESP as /boot

On 29/05/2023 at 08:17, Avid Seeker wrote: I'm dual booting two distros that mount ESP as /boot instead of /boot/efi. It seems to me that os-prober works by checking every partition for /boot, and so if it finds it empty, it doesn't consider it an OS. So when I run os-prober from either distro

Re: os-prober not detecting distros mounting ESP as /boot

On 30/05/2023 at 03:53, Avid Seeker wrote: 1) Layout: /dev/sda1: ESP and in both distros /boot is the mount point of ESP. I expected a much more detailed description. - Full partition layout and use - Full contents of the ESP So technically no content on /boot if ESP not mounted. As I wrote

Bug#651280: don't allocate all available disk space in standard LVM partioning scheme

On 31/05/2023 at 19:50, James Addison wrote: On Wed, 31 May 2023 at 16:38, Cyril Brulebois wrote: James Addison (2023-05-31): The disk space required for e2scrub[1] snapshots is 256MiB and the default allocation for LVM (encrypted or unecrypted) in the bookworm RC4 installer is 100% (same as

Bug#1037238: debian-installer: separate /usr ruins opening a shell in rescue

On 09/06/2023 at 01:27, tomas k wrote: I'm on a different system than the problem one. For years I have had to boot knoppix and run a chroot to change a password I've forgotten, because I use a separate usr partition, and rescue thinks it's the root directory. Butr without etc it's not going t

Bug#1037391: debian-installer: xorg configuration fails when booting d-i graphical mode on netinst iso under virtualbox

On 12/06/2023 at 12:51, Jonathan Carter wrote: When booting the debian-12.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso image in VirtualBox (7.0.8-dfsg-2 from unstable/contrib) under UEFI and selecting the Graphical Install (default) option, Xorg fails to start, apparently due to being incorrectly configured or incorre

Bug#1037238: debian-installer: separate /usr ruins opening a shell in rescue

On 21/06/2023 at 03:55, tomas k wrote: On Fri, 2023-06-09 at 13:32 +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: With /usr-merged layout (default since buster IIRC), a separate /usr must be mounted before running any program. The initramfs mounts a separate /usr before running init, but the installer rescue

Bug#1037261: Bookworm - OOM-killer called before partition hard drives

On 25/06/2023 at 17:44, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Fri, 2023-06-09 at 17:16 +0200, Anael Mobilia wrote: Jun 9 14:50:43 kernel: [0.00] x86/fpu: x87 FPU will use FXSAVE Jun 9 14:50:43 kernel: [0.00] signal: max sigframe size: 1440 Jun 9 14:50:43 kernel: [0.00] BIOS-provided

Bug#815187: Bug debian-Installer (bookworm): Installation grub fails without error message

On 27/06/2023 at 17:55, CJ Kucera wrote: Just popping in to say that I've run into this exact problem on Debian 12 (Bookworm) as well. I'm installing onto a system with two drives in a raid1 config, so the installer presents a dialog with these choices for installing GRUB: - Enter device

Bug#1040267: partman-efi: Should warn about EFI partition inside raid or lvm

On 04/07/2023 at 03:24, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Samuel Thibault (2023-07-04): As pointed out in #1040266, when using guided partitioning inside a raid, partman-auto creates an EFI partition there, and then grub-install fails because it can't register it. This error could also happen if a user cr

Bug#1040267: partman-efi: Should warn about EFI partition inside raid or lvm

On 04/07/2023 at 08:36, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Pascal Hambourg (2023-07-04): On 04/07/2023 at 03:24, Cyril Brulebois wrote: It's fine to have an EFI partition inside a RAID array. One “just” needs to pass --no-nvram and to register it manually. That's not something that's ach

Bug#1040267: partman-efi: Should warn about EFI partition inside raid or lvm

On 04/07/2023 at 08:50, Samuel Thibault wrote: Pascal Hambourg, le mar. 04 juil. 2023 08:09:33 +0200, a ecrit: but AFAIK manual partitioning does not allow to create a partition table on a RAID array. Yes, but after creating the RAID array, one can use guided partitioning and point it at the

Bug#1039872: Improve firmware package inclusion

On 05/07/2023 at 00:50, Steve McIntyre wrote: I think that's quite a result! Comparing the ISOs, the differences are just 5 missing firmware debs: firmware-nvidia-gsp_525.116.04-1_amd64.deb firmware-nvidia-tesla-gsp_525.105.17-2_amd64.deb firmware-qcom-soc_20230515-2_all.deb firmware-samsung_20

Bug#1039872: Improve firmware package inclusion

On 05/07/2023 at 17:55, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Wed, Jul 05, 2023 at 08:30:03AM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: As mentioned in #1032071, AFAICS firmware-ti-connectivity also contains ARM-only firmware. Hmmm, OK. The description isn't 100% clear here. Indeed. I came to this conclusion

Re: Bookworm Installer and Hibernate

Hello, On 09/07/2023 at 13:18, Rainer Dorsch wrote: I remember in the early Linux days the recommendation was swap partition size = 2x RAM size, here That was when computers did not have enough RAM. https://wiki.debian.org/de/Hibernate is says for hibernation, swap should be half the RAM si

Bug#1041168: Installation of GRUB failed

Hello, On 15/07/2023 at 15:28, Christof B. wrote: Filesystem   1K-blocks  Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/debian--vg-root 120469224   1379448 112924068   1% /target /dev/sdb2   466026 88234    352807  20% /target/boot /dev/sda2   

Bug#1041168: Installation of GRUB failed

On 15/07/2023 at 19:50, Christof B. wrote: Am 15.07.23 um 18:35 schrieb Pascal Hambourg: It looks like bug #1034812 (patches available). Are there any (nightly) d-i images available to test these patches, If you are willing to test, I can provide patched files which replace the original

Bug#1041168: Installation of GRUB failed

On 15/07/2023 at 21:17, Christof B. wrote: Am 15.07.23 um 21:07 schrieb Pascal Hambourg: If you are willing to test, I can provide patched files which replace the original ones in a running d-i. Yes, I am willing to test this. If it can be patched by replacing some files at runtime (and not

Bug#1041231: bluetooth on debian bookworm@macbook pro 2012

Hello, On 16/07/2023 at 06:07, Alex Wibowo wrote: Image version: Please mention which ISO image you used, or at least which Debian version your installed. I assume Debian 12. 03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM4331 802.11a/b/g/n [14e4:4331] (rev 02)

Bug#1041168: Installation of GRUB failed

On 17/07/2023 at 17:45, Christof B. wrote: Am 15.07.23 um 22:57 schrieb Pascal Hambourg: Replacing /lib/partman/init.d/50efi with either attached 50efi.1 or 50efi.2 as 50efi should fix the issue in guided partitioning with encrypted LVM. I tried each of them and they both solved my problem

Bug#1042437: partman-auto-lvm: using binary units for size of volume group does not work correctly

Hello Holger, On 28/07/2023 at 10:48, Holger Wansing wrote: With a bookworm 12.0 netinst image: when choosing guided partitioning -> set up LVM, it is now allowed to use binary units for volume group size (MiB, GiB, ...), but the size is wrongly calculated. For example, if I choose a volume gro

Re: installation-guide: MS-DOS and Windows

On 06/08/2023 at 17:07, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Sun, Aug 06, 2023 at 12:15:35PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: For example, it's still valid to call DOS partition labels by their original name as by contrast newer hardware uses GPT partition labels, for example. Calling the old DOS

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

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 should be, which makes it incredibl

Bug#1031183: grub-installer: postinst fails if efivarfs cannot be mounted

On 21/08/2023 at 11:56, Arnaud Rebillout wrote: On 21/08/2023 04:03, Philip Hands wrote: If you want to do your own tests, the mini.iso can be downloaded via: https://salsa.debian.org/philh/grub-installer/-/jobs/4582667/artifacts/file/debian/output/debian-202306XX+salsaci+20230820+228-amd64-gtk

Bug#1031183: grub-installer: postinst fails if efivarfs cannot be mounted

On 13/07/2023 at 08:54, Arnaud Rebillout wrote: Following up with that, it seems that the failure is due to a change in the kernel. I'm testing 2 Kali netinst ISOs, one from last week (no problem), and a daily iso from today (which fails). Last weekly iso had kernel 6.1.0-kali9-amd64. In thi

Bug#1050979: debian-installer-12-netboot-amd64 Drive Order scrambled

On 01/09/2023 at 01:17, Todd Morgan wrote: 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 /de

Bug#1051468: cannot install BIOS machine with mini.iso, error creating /target/sys/firmware/efi/efivars

On 08/09/2023 at 13:56, Marc Haber wrote : I tried installing sid from mini.iso into a libvirt/qemu/kvm VM with BIOS "firmware", choosing mainly default values, and ended up with the system logging "grub-installer: error: Error creating /target/sys/firmware/efi/efivars" and an error message "Fai

Bug#1051611:

On 10/09/2023 at 16:59, G M wrote: Install boot loader Grub - error. Partitions: SCSI 20GB, Default partition layout for BIOS systems. Failure to mount efivarfs in the target system. Looks like a duplicate of .

Bug#1050979: debian-installer-12-netboot-amd64 Drive Order scrambled

On 15/09/2023 at 17:26, Todd Morgan wrote: AFAIK /dev/sd* discovery and ordering was never guaranteed to be deterministic nor persistent across boots nor match any hardware or firmware ordering. One should not rely on these names, hence the use of persistent identifiers such as UUID, device path

Re: reiserfsprogs udebs

On 18/09/2023 at 19:20, Cyril Brulebois wrote: I would think so, yes. If that's not too much of a hassle, maybe wait a few days in case someone can think of a clever case where keeping them would make sense; but seeing it unsupported upstream, with the partman part removed already, I can't see w

Re: installation-guide: simplify RAM/disk space requirements

On 06/08/2023 at 14:32, Samuel Thibault wrote: The doc probably just ended up wrong by just not getting updated, In chapter 6.3.1.1. "Check available memory / low memory mode": "If the installer runs in low memory mode, it is recommended to create a relatively large swap partition (64–128MB)

Re: OS Prober

Hello, On 22/10/2023 at 14:04, E. Geimer wrote: GRUB bootloader packages will by default no longer run *os-prober* to look for other operating systems on a computer when generating boot menus. Users with dual-boot systems may configure this using *dpkg-reconfigure* on the package in use fro

Re: installation-guide: simplify RAM/disk space requirements

On 01/11/2023 at 20:46, Holger Wansing wrote: In chapter 6.3.1.1. "Check available memory / low memory mode": "If the installer runs in low memory mode, it is recommended to create a relatively large swap partition (64–128MB)." I could change that into something like 1-2 GB. One might think,

Re: Mounting EFI partition: default to `uid=0,gid=0`

Hi, On 09/11/2023 at 17:36, Danny van Heumen wrote: I recently discovered that `/boot/efi`, being a FAT parition, is mounted with an implicit owner and group, because FAT cannot store permissions. For the default use case, `/boot/efi` is mounted automatically during boot, so there is little

Bug#1055806: installation-reports: Installer doesn't recognize laptop's SSD, but calamares does

On 11/11/2023 à 21:43, Jessie wrote: However, when detecting disks, the only disk available for install was the usb drive I had the installer on - it did not detect the 256gb UFS SSD. It looks like UFS (Universal Flash Storage, not Unix filesystem) kernel modules are not included in d-i init

Re: Installing, booting, logical problem shown by D-I

Hi Matthias ! Your mail appears to be a bit confused. On 19/11/2023 at 12:03, y...@vienna.at wrote: I have a working machine with bookworm. Really nice one. It happen to be booted from an  USB stick with DB12 SCSI10 for the moment What does "DB12 SCSI10" mean ? And I want it to bring Debian 1

Re: Mounting EFI partition: default to `uid=0,gid=0`

On 21/11/2023 at 21:35, Danny van Heumen wrote: I noticed that the mount-configuration in `/etc/fstab`, by default, relies on an *implicit* assumption for the ownership of the ESP to /boot/efi, i.e. 'root' (uid 0) only because it is executed as part of the boot process. There is no implicit

Re: Mounting EFI partition: default to `uid=0,gid=0`

On 22/11/2023 at 00:54, y...@vienna.at wrote: I' m afraid I have to read much more about d-i Especially partitioning. But where to start? The debian-installer package contains some documentation (maybe incomplete and outdated) about partman, the d-i partitioning tool. But I do not see the rel

Bug#1056697: 12.2 Installation Report, Complete Failure of Network

On 25/11/2023 at 22:29, David Hillman wrote: On 11/25/23 01:37, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Extracting /var/log/syslog would be useful to understand what's going on there. (...) Thanks Cyril.  This system is running Debian 12, so there is no /var/log/syslog. Cyril meant the installer syslog, whic

Bug#1006708: hw-detect: Fails to reload iwlwifi module (modprobe: FATAL: Module iwlwifi is in use)

Hello, Le 13/12/2023 à 20:16, Cyril Brulebois a écrit : Carsten Schoenert (2023-12-13): The "trick" is to unload the iwlmvm module instead and load afterwards the module iwlwifi again. See the very bottom of check-missing-firmware.sh (hw-detect repository), the loop over $modules. You could

Bug#1035096: GRUB not installed or installed to the wrong device

Control: forwarded 1035096 https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/grub-installer/-/merge_requests/17 Hello, On 27/05/2023 at 17:24, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Thanks for testing Pascal's patches. Let's see if we can get that included early in the Trixie release cycle, before possibly thinking ab

Bug#1006708: hw-detect: Fails to reload iwlwifi module (modprobe: FATAL: Module iwlwifi is in use)

On 15/12/2023 at 20:27, Carsten Schoenert wrote: https://salsa.debian.org/tijuca/hw-detect/-/commit/0e94654ca8ed0faa3790a52280342f388be3db9e I think it would be better to add this stanza outside (before) the "for driver" loop. There are two cases, depending on the controller model: 1) iwlmv

Bug#1058806: HP EliteBook 860 G9 (4C148AV)

Hello Paul, On 16/12/2023 at 20:15, Paul van der Vlis wrote: Image version: Debian 12.4 Machine: HP EliteBook 860 G9 (4C148AV) (...) Comments/Problems: I needed an USB dongle to get network. After installation I did use a backport-kernel to get the wifi working. (...) 00:14.3 Network control

Bug#1058806: HP EliteBook 860 G9 (4C148AV)

On 16/12/2023 at 23:38, Paul van der Vlis wrote: Op 16-12-2023 om 22:16 schreef Pascal Hambourg: On 16/12/2023 at 20:15, Paul van der Vlis wrote: Image version: Debian 12.4 (...) I needed an USB dongle to get network. After installation I did use a backport-kernel to get the wifi working

Bug#1058806: HP EliteBook 860 G9 (4C148AV)

On 17/12/2023 at 14:31, Paul van der Vlis wrote: Could it be the issue that was fixed in kernel 6.1.67-1 (available in proposed updates)? The 12.4 installer kernel has the wireless bug but it is uncertain whether it affects the installer or not. What was wrong with the integrated Intel wire

Bug#1058806: HP EliteBook 860 G9 (4C148AV)

On 17/12/2023 à 23:03, Paul van der Vlis wrote: Op 17-12-2023 om 22:36 schreef Pascal Hambourg: It may be an initialization issue: this error has been observed when booting after Windows hibernation or Fast Startup state. There is Windows on the NVMe disk of the laptop. Fastboot and

Bug#1059167: installation-reports: installer hangs while recognizing network hardware

Hello Janusz, On 20/12/2023 at 20:52, Janusz Bień wrote: I understand the installer now includes non-free drivers, No, only non-free firmware. but I suspect it missing one needed for my hardware, which is Intel Ethernet Connection (7) I219-V Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168 (on the mainboa

Bug#1059370: Installation did not work: Kernel panic, see below

On 23/12/2023 at 20:52, Christian Kirsch wrote: When booting (first item), message on Debian screen: "Arbeitsspeicher erschöpft" ("Memory exhausted"). It matches the German translation for "out of memory" in GRUB. Then start in a black terminal screen with Kernel panic: "Kernel panic - not s

Bug#1059370: Installation did not work: Kernel panic, see below

, dem 24.12.2023 um 00:28 +0100 schrieb Pascal Hambourg: On 23/12/2023 at 20:52, Christian Kirsch wrote: When booting (first item), message on Debian screen: "Arbeitsspeicher erschöpft" ("Memory exhausted"). It matches the German translation for "out of memory" in GRU

Bug#1059370: Installation did not work: Kernel panic, see below

nstallation log (/var/log/installer/syslog) please ? I also activated 'GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false' so Ubuntu is also taken along, for all cases (so said in germany...). Then this process is finished for me and I thank you for your help, Christian Am Mittwoch, dem 27.12.2023 um

Bug#1060368: partman-auto: add basic support for loongarch64

Hello, On 10/01/2024 at 04:15, zhangdandan wrote: Support automatic partition adaptation partman-auto for debian-installer. Please consider the patch (my local patch) I have attached. I do not know anything about the loongarch64 architecture, but I can't help having questions about the propo

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