Bug#1010878: installation-reports: preseeding passwords doesn't work on mips64el under qemu

2022-05-13 Thread Philip Hands
Diederik de Haas writes: > On Friday, 13 May 2022 09:35:49 CEST Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: >> If I understand the docs of preseed_fetch correctly, then this should fetch >> the setup-testbed script from a path relative to where it got the preseed >> file from. >> >> Unfortunately

Bug#1010878: installation-reports: preseeding passwords doesn't work on mips64el under qemu

2022-05-13 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi Phil, Quoting Philip Hands (2022-05-13 11:52:05) > Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues writes: > > I'm confused. Shouldn't preseed_fetch try to obtain the setup-testbed > > relative to the preseed file it just obtained? > > preseed_fetch gets things relative to the place the previous >

Bug#1010878: installation-reports: preseeding passwords doesn't work on mips64el under qemu

2022-05-13 Thread Diederik de Haas
On Friday, 13 May 2022 09:35:49 CEST Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > If I understand the docs of preseed_fetch correctly, then this should fetch > the setup-testbed script from a path relative to where it got the preseed > file from. > > Unfortunately this results in the following: > >

Bug#1010878: installation-reports: preseeding passwords doesn't work on mips64el under qemu

2022-05-13 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi Phil, Quoting Philip Hands (2022-05-12 13:40:51) > BTW I somehow failed to notice that you were pointing preseed/url at the > example-preseed.cfg when I ran that locally. > > Given that you're already relying on a network preseed, you should just > put a copy of that somewhere you control,

Bug#1010878: installation-reports: preseeding passwords doesn't work on mips64el under qemu

2022-05-12 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi, Quoting Philip Hands (2022-05-12 10:14:46) > > So for some reason passwd/root-password-again is ignored. Above recipe > > works fine for other architectures and for some reason stops with above > > prompt on mips64el. Why? > > It seems that you are hitting a limit on the length of the

Bug#1010878: installation-reports: preseeding passwords doesn't work on mips64el under qemu

2022-05-12 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: jo...@debian.org Hi, steps to reproduce: qemu-img create -f qcow2 disk.qcow 4G curl https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/bullseye/main/installer-mips64el/current/images/malta/netboot/initrd.gz > initrd.gz curl