Package: cdrom Severity: wishlist Tags: d-i
Hello, when I tried to find something about #932149, which got closed because the submitter received spam, I found something that may still of interest. When RAM is limited it might happen, that not the whole initrd fits into RAM. But the kernel gets loaded and can unpack that part of the initrd that got loaded. In case of #932149 I assume that because no /var exists the variable cons gets nothing assigned and then steal-ctty crashes because that unconditionally looks at the second paramter. Therefore the installer could never start and inform the user about the low memory situation. Might it be desireable to have init check if it can find a message "Initramfs unpacking failed" in dmesg, or put something at the end of the initrd and check for it existing, to know if all could be unpacked? And if detected stop further actions, or at least warn the user. Kind regards, Bernhard
