Bug#954134: [d-i bullseye alpha2] installing grub fails

2020-03-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 05:46:03PM +0100, Holger Wansing wrote: >Control: severity -1 normal >Control: retitle -1 [d-i bullseye alpha2 i386] Configuring 'grub-installer' >failed with error code 134 >Control: tags -1 + unreproducible > >Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Hey Holger! >> >> On Fri, Mar 20,

Bug#954134: [d-i bullseye alpha2] installing grub fails

2020-03-21 Thread Holger Wansing
Control: severity -1 normal Control: retitle -1 [d-i bullseye alpha2 i386] Configuring 'grub-installer' failed with error code 134 Control: tags -1 + unreproducible Steve McIntyre wrote: > Hey Holger! > > On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 01:35:24PM +0100, Holger Wansing wrote: > >Steve McIntyre

Bug#954134: [d-i bullseye alpha2] installing grub fails

2020-03-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey Holger! On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 01:35:24PM +0100, Holger Wansing wrote: >Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> Hmmm. Can you try wiping the partition table in between tests? > >I already tried that on wednesday, with no success. > >However, today it does the trick! Success! >Curious, but installation

Bug#954134: [d-i bullseye alpha2] installing grub fails

2020-03-20 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 12:42:48PM +0100, Holger Wansing wrote: > >Hi, > > > >Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 09:26:25AM +0100, Holger Wansing wrote: > >> >Hi, > >> > > >> >Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> >> One silly question: what media are you using

Bug#954134: [d-i bullseye alpha2] installing grub fails

2020-03-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 11:16:19AM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 09:26:25AM +0100, Holger Wansing wrote: >>Hi, >> >>Steve McIntyre wrote: >>> One silly question: what media are you using with the Thinkpad? Is it >>> the same USB stick (or whatever) every time? Can you

Bug#954134: [d-i bullseye alpha2] installing grub fails

2020-03-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 12:42:48PM +0100, Holger Wansing wrote: >Hi, > >Steve McIntyre wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 09:26:25AM +0100, Holger Wansing wrote: >> >Hi, >> > >> >Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> One silly question: what media are you using with the Thinkpad? Is it >> >> the same USB

Bug#954134: [d-i bullseye alpha2] installing grub fails

2020-03-19 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 09:26:25AM +0100, Holger Wansing wrote: > >Hi, > > > >Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> One silly question: what media are you using with the Thinkpad? Is it > >> the same USB stick (or whatever) every time? Can you verify it's > >> written OK? > > >

Bug#954134: [d-i bullseye alpha2] installing grub fails

2020-03-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 09:26:25AM +0100, Holger Wansing wrote: >Hi, > >Steve McIntyre wrote: >> One silly question: what media are you using with the Thinkpad? Is it >> the same USB stick (or whatever) every time? Can you verify it's >> written OK? > >I used the same USB stick for alpha1 and

Bug#954134: [d-i bullseye alpha2] installing grub fails

2020-03-19 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Steve McIntyre wrote: > One silly question: what media are you using with the Thinkpad? Is it > the same USB stick (or whatever) every time? Can you verify it's > written OK? I used the same USB stick for alpha1 and alpha2, re-flashing it over and over again. And I have checked installation

Bug#954134: [d-i bullseye alpha2] installing grub fails

2020-03-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 01:00:35PM +0100, Holger Wansing wrote: >Hi, > >Holger Wansing wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Holger Wansing wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > Am Dienstag, 17. März 2020 schrieb Steve McIntyre: >> > Yes, I had it with alpha2, then tested with alpha1 (everything >> > fine) and then again

Bug#954134: [d-i bullseye alpha2] installing grub fails

2020-03-18 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Holger Wansing wrote: > Hi, > > Holger Wansing wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Am Dienstag, 17. März 2020 schrieb Steve McIntyre: > > Yes, I had it with alpha2, then tested with alpha1 (everything > > fine) and then again tested with alpha2 to be able to > > provide logs. > > > > I can do further

Bug#954134: [d-i bullseye alpha2] installing grub fails

2020-03-18 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Holger Wansing wrote: > Hi, > > Am Dienstag, 17. März 2020 schrieb Steve McIntyre: > Yes, I had it with alpha2, then tested with alpha1 (everything > fine) and then again tested with alpha2 to be able to > provide logs. > > I can do further tests though, with different partitioning >

Bug#954134: [d-i bullseye alpha2] installing grub fails

2020-03-17 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Am Dienstag, 17. März 2020 schrieb Steve McIntyre: > On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 12:06:45PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > > >I can see from your log that you're just using ext4 for the new > >system, and you're booting in BIOS mode. Any other disks attached to > >the system? > > > >Testing at

Bug#954134: [d-i bullseye alpha2] installing grub fails

2020-03-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 12:06:45PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >I can see from your log that you're just using ext4 for the new >system, and you're booting in BIOS mode. Any other disks attached to >the system? > >Testing at the weekend didn't show any problems for me or Andy. I'm >doing an

Bug#954134: [d-i bullseye alpha2] installing grub fails

2020-03-17 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Am Dienstag, 17. März 2020 schrieb Steve McIntyre: > >Mar 16 09:55:43 main-menu[285]: (process:1258): grub-probe: error: unknown > >filesystem. > > I can see from your log that you're just using ext4 for the new > system, and you're booting in BIOS mode. Any other disks attached to > the

Bug#954134: [d-i bullseye alpha2] installing grub fails

2020-03-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi Holger, On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 11:13:27AM +0100, Holger Wansing wrote: > >Holger Wansing wrote: >> > >> > I will sent installation logs shortly. >> >> Logs attached. > >The relevant part seems to be: ... >Mar 16 09:55:43 main-menu[285]: (process:1258): corrupted size vs. prev_size >Mar

Bug#954134: [d-i bullseye alpha2] installing grub fails

2020-03-17 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 3/17/20 12:49 PM, Holger Wansing wrote: > However: > >> Mar 16 09:55:43 main-menu[285]: (process:1258): grub-probe: error: unknown >> filesystem. > [...] >> Mar 16 09:55:43 main-menu[285]: (process:1258): corrupted size vs. prev_size >> Mar 16 09:55:43 main-menu[285]: (process:1258): Aborted

Bug#954134: [d-i bullseye alpha2] installing grub fails

2020-03-17 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Am Dienstag, 17. März 2020 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz: > On 3/17/20 11:05 AM, Holger Wansing wrote: > > Logs attached. > > grub-installer did not report any problems: > > Mar 16 09:55:41 grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '/dev/sda' > Mar 16 09:55:41 grub-installer: info:

Bug#954134: [d-i bullseye alpha2] installing grub fails

2020-03-17 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 3/17/20 11:05 AM, Holger Wansing wrote: > Logs attached. grub-installer did not report any problems: Mar 16 09:55:41 grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '/dev/sda' Mar 16 09:55:41 grub-installer: info: grub-install does not support --no-floppy Mar 16 09:55:41 grub-installer: info:

Bug#954134: [d-i bullseye alpha2] installing grub fails

2020-03-17 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Holger Wansing wrote: > > > > I will sent installation logs shortly. > > Logs attached. The relevant part seems to be: Mar 16 09:55:41 grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '/dev/sda' Mar 16 09:55:41 grub-installer: info: grub-install does not support --no-floppy Mar 16 09:55:41

Bug#954134: [d-i bullseye alpha2] installing grub fails

2020-03-17 Thread Holger Wansing
Holger Wansing wrote: > > I will sent installation logs shortly. Logs attached. -- Holger Wansing PGP-Fingerprint: 496A C6E8 1442 4B34 8508 3529 59F1 87CA 156E B076 installer.tar.gz Description: application/gzip

Bug#954134: [d-i bullseye alpha2] installing grub fails

2020-03-17 Thread Holger Wansing
Package: debian-installer Severity: grave While testing the alpha2 netinst image on a spare Thinkpad, I found that grub cannot be installed successfully (and rebooting into the new installation fails as well). This was ok in alpha1. This might look like an grub-installer issue, however there