Bug#538086: installation-reports: Installation works, but neither is user created nor a root password set

2009-10-08 Thread Dinyar Rabady
Alright, I've tried the daily image from 8th of october and this problem
seems almost solved. When first booting after installation Grub finds my
system partition, but decryption of my filesystem fails. The message with is
displayed claims that either the passphrase is wrong or bad options. I'm
very sure that my passphrase is correct and I'm reinstalling just now having
used the trick where I pull out the usb-stick right before the harddisks are
detected to see if the system boots now.

On 2009-10-08 4:11 PM, "Dinyar Rabady"  wrote:

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Otavio Salvador 
wrote:

> Hello, > > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Dinyar Rabady<
dinyar.rab...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The f...
On the current daily image my harddisk is still listed as /dev/sdc. Is this
ok?

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Bug#538086: installation-reports: Installation works, but neither is user created nor a root password set

2009-10-08 Thread Dinyar Rabady
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Otavio Salvador
 wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Dinyar Rabady wrote:
>> The first problem I encountered while trying to install a system with an
>> encrypted LVM was that the USB stick was taken to be /dev/sda while the
>> harddisk was /dev/sdb. This changed at first boot when the usb stick was
>> unplugged.
>>
>> This first problem could be fixed either by booting into a rescue system
>> and first changing grub's menu.lst to point to (hd0,0) instead of (hd1,0)
>> and then unpack the initrd.img file and change /conf/conf.d/cryptroot to
>> point to /dev/sda instead of /dev/sdb, or alternatively I pulled the USB
>> stick out right before detecting the harddisk. (priority=medium is helpfull
>> for timing here.) This seemed to have no negativ effects on the installation.
>
> This is not going to happen in new Debian Installer release for
> Squeeze since we're not using UUID to avoid those problems. Would be
> nice if you could check a current snapshot if it indeed works for you
> and tell us.
>

On the current daily image my harddisk is still listed as /dev/sdc. Is this ok?

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Bug#538086: installation-reports: Installation works, but neither is user created nor a root password set

2009-08-01 Thread Dinyar Rabady
Hi,

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Otavio
Salvador wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Dinyar Rabady wrote:
>> The first problem I encountered while trying to install a system with an
>> encrypted LVM was that the USB stick was taken to be /dev/sda while the
>> harddisk was /dev/sdb. This changed at first boot when the usb stick was
>> unplugged.
>>
>> This first problem could be fixed either by booting into a rescue system
>> and first changing grub's menu.lst to point to (hd0,0) instead of (hd1,0)
>> and then unpack the initrd.img file and change /conf/conf.d/cryptroot to
>> point to /dev/sda instead of /dev/sdb, or alternatively I pulled the USB
>> stick out right before detecting the harddisk. (priority=medium is helpfull
>> for timing here.) This seemed to have no negativ effects on the installation.
>
> This is not going to happen in new Debian Installer release for
> Squeeze since we're not using UUID to avoid those problems. Would be
> nice if you could check a current snapshot if it indeed works for you
> and tell us.
>

I have not tryed this yet due to time constraints, but I'll report
back as soon as I get round to it.

>> The second problem I encountered was that neither my user account was created
>> during installation nor was the root password set. This left the system 
>> fairly
>> unusable until I used a rescue system to mount my encrypted disk, added a 
>> user
>> to /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow (without a password) and subsequently added
>> this user to the sudoers group. In this way I could aquire root on my new
>> system.
>
> This is confusing; maybe your media was corrupted in some way since I
> don't remember of seeing this report and it is used in every
> installation. Could you try to reproduce it and report back to us?
>

I actually tried twice, though with the same installation media. I
don't have any plans to reinstall in the near future though (at least
not until the multi-arch stuff screws up my system again.. ;) ) so
sorry about that.

> Cheers,
>
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Bug#538086: installation-reports: Installation works, but neither is user created nor a root password set

2009-07-22 Thread Dinyar Rabady
Package: installation-reports
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable



-- Package-specific info:

Boot method: USB stick with netboot
Image version: 
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/
Date: 

Machine: Lenovo Thinkpad x200s
Partitions: 

dinyar-notebook:/home/dinyar# df -Tl
FilesystemType   1K-blocks  Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/dinyar--notebook-root
  ext3   295996296   5050720 275909776   2% /
tmpfstmpfs 1979968 0   1979968   0% /lib/init/rw
udev tmpfs   10240   148 10092   2% /dev
tmpfstmpfs 1979968 0   1979968   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 ext2  25 44713176174  21% /boot


Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot:   [O]
Detect network card:[O]
Configure network:  [O]
Detect CD:  [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [E]
Partition hard drives:  [O]
Install base system:[O]
Clock/timezone setup:   [O]
User/password setup:[E]
Install tasks:  [O]
Install boot loader:[O]
Overall install:[E]

Comments/Problems:

The first problem I encountered while trying to install a system with an
encrypted LVM was that the USB stick was taken to be /dev/sda while the
harddisk was /dev/sdb. This changed at first boot when the usb stick was
unplugged.

This first problem could be fixed either by booting into a rescue system
and first changing grub's menu.lst to point to (hd0,0) instead of (hd1,0)
and then unpack the initrd.img file and change /conf/conf.d/cryptroot to
point to /dev/sda instead of /dev/sdb, or alternatively I pulled the USB
stick out right before detecting the harddisk. (priority=medium is helpfull
for timing here.) This seemed to have no negativ effects on the installation.

The second problem I encountered was that neither my user account was created
during installation nor was the root password set. This left the system fairly
unusable until I used a rescue system to mount my encrypted disk, added a user
to /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow (without a password) and subsequently added
this user to the sudoers group. In this way I could aquire root on my new
system.



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==
Installer lsb-release:
==
DISTRIB_ID=Debian
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Debian GNU/Linux installer"
DISTRIB_RELEASE="5.0 (lenny) - installer build 20090123lenny3"
X_INSTALLATION_MEDIUM=netboot

==
Installer hardware-summary:
==
umame -a: Linux dinyar-notebook 2.6.26-2-amd64 #1 SMP Sun Jun 21
04:47:08 UTC 2009 x86_64 unknown
lspci -knn: 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4
Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub [8086:2a40] (rev 07)
lspci -knn: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel
Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller
[8086:2a42] (rev 07)
lspci -knn: 00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation
Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a43]
(rev 07)
lspci -knn: 00:03.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation
Mobile 4 Series Chipset MEI Controller [8086:2a44] (rev 07)
lspci -knn: 00:03.2 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4
Series Chipset PT IDER Controller [8086:2a46] (rev 07)
lspci -knn: 00:03.3 Serial controller [0700]: Intel Corporation Mobile
4 Series Chipset AMT SOL Redirection [8086:2a47] (rev 07)
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: serial
lspci -knn: 00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation
82567LM Gigabit Network Connection [8086:10f5] (rev 03)
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: e1000e
lspci -knn: Kernel modules: e1000e
lspci -knn: 00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I
(ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:2937] (rev 03)
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
lspci -knn: Kernel modules: uhci-hcd
lspci -knn: 00:1a.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I
(ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 [8086:2938] (rev 03)
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
lspci -knn: Kernel modules: uhci-hcd
lspci -knn: 00:1a.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I
(ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 [8086:2939] (rev 03)
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
lspci -knn: Kernel modules: uhci-hcd
lspci -knn: 00:1a.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I
(ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 [8086:293c] (rev 03)
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
lspci -knn: Kernel modules: ehci-hcd
lspci

Bug#520285: installation-reports: The squeeze netinst dosn't configure DHCP

2009-04-14 Thread Dinyar Rabady
I can reproduce this error with the daily image from Monday, April 13.
I used the amd64 images netinstall per usb-stick method on a Lenovo
x61s and the configuration of the network failed both with DHCP aswell
as manually. The console output indicates that the configuaration
doesn't actually fail, as the NIC is bound to the correct IP-adress
after the network configuration. The installer just doesn't seem to be
able to see this.

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