Hi, I already posted this in #fai but I would also like to post this on the list since I think it might be a bug in setup-storage.
Recently, I rebuilt our Squeeze FAI NFS roots with make-fai-nfsroot. When I tried to install a Squeeze machine using the newly created NFS roots, the installation failed due to dpkg-configure failing for emacs23. The emacs-install script failed to byte-compile some of the emacs lisp scripts due to a missing dependency. The problem was, that in /target/usr/lib/emacs23/site-lisp/cedet-contrib all the .el were present so that emacs-install tried to byte-compile these files. This failed since the .el files from the package semantic were missing, normally cedet-contrib has a depency on the package semantic, so the problem was rather mysterious. I tried to debug the problem and was wondering where the cedet-contrib .el files came from even though the package wasn't yet installed. dpkg -S said that it didn't install any of these files with any package. Since I also checked that we hadn't checked in any of these emacs lisp files to our config CVS, I figured out the .el must come from somewhere else. It turned out, that these files came from a previous installation on this machine which where still present since setup-storage failed to create the filesystems on the disk so that the files from the old installation where still present. setup-storage failed due a grave bug in Debian [1]. What made the problem difficult to debug was the fact setup-storage or, more precisely, the partition script created by setup-storage did not fail during FAI_INSTALL even though mkfs.ext4 returned with exit code 1. Since I am not that familiar with setup-storage yet, I'm wondering whether setup-storage should actually fail in case any of the commands executed by it do not return a zero exit status. Can anyone tell me whether this is the case? If not, I think this is a bug in setup-storage which should be fixed. FAI_INSTALL should always fail in case any of the commands for setting up the partitions fail. Regards, Adrian [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=583551
