Bug#970678: Address change due to junk email (Was: Network preseeding using http is broken)

2020-09-22 Thread Martin Samuelsson
Spammers have harvested the email alias used to report this issue, and actively abuse it. As a consequence I'm suspending it. I'm subscribed to the bug report using another address. Follow-up sent to the bug will reach me. For instructions on how to email me directly, please follow instruction

Bug#970678: Network preseeding using http is broken

2020-09-21 Thread Martin Samuelsson
Philip Hands @ 2020-09-21 (Monday), 22:38 (+0200) BTW The example I pasted was just busybox running on my laptop running full Debian, so was not supposed to be demonstrating it working under d-i. I could likely have been more precise from the beginning about the exact cause. Sorry for making

Bug#970678: Network preseeding using http is broken

2020-09-21 Thread Martin Samuelsson
Geert Stappers @ 2020-09-21 (Monday), 17:18 (+0200) Under which circumstance does the bug shows itself? As far as I understand /dev/fd seems to be completely missing. Haven't dug into it. For what its worth, it seems /proc/self/fd is still available. I did experiment with redirecting sed the

Bug#970678: Network preseeding using http is broken

2020-09-21 Thread Martin Samuelsson
Philip Hands @ 2020-09-21 (Monday), 15:30 (+0200) Martin Samuelsson writes: Just to be clear on this point, are you saying [...] I'm saying there is no /dev/fd/ at all on current daily debian-installer images and hasn't been since at least 20200818 (which was the oldest one I

Bug#970678: Network preseeding using http is broken

2020-09-21 Thread Martin Samuelsson
Package: debian-installer Version: 20200920 Debian installer fails to fetch preseed files over http. How to reproduce: Boot the installer with url=http://pxeserver./example.txt Where example.txt contains: d-i preseed/include string something.txt \ other.txt \ more.txt The installer will

Bug#935407: Failure to unpack initrd should be handled better

2019-08-22 Thread Martin Samuelsson
Bernhard Übelacker @ 2019-07-16 (Tuesday), 22:01 (+0200) just tried to have a look at the part where steal-ctty is crashing. Thank you Bernhard! Maybe that situation could be detected when the initramfs was not unpacked successfully, but has enough unpacked to attempt starting the installer.

Bug#932149: Question about documented Buster ram requirement (#932149)

2019-08-22 Thread Martin Samuelsson
Dear Samuel Thibault, I was about to prepare a patch to fix #932149 by removing what I understood to be outdated information, but then realized you've actually made recent changes to it and must thus ask for your knowledge. Details below. Martin Samuelsson @ 2019-07-16 (Tuesday),

Bug#932149: Action taken due to junk email

2019-07-24 Thread Martin Samuelsson
As a consequence of recieving spam, I'm suspending this email address. For instructions on how to keep me in the loop, please follow instructions at https://bugs.debian.org/199392#40 Sorry about the noise, but this seems to be how the Debian BTS is designed and intended to be used. -- /Marti

Bug#932149: Early segfault in steal-ctty on Xen DomU install

2019-07-16 Thread Martin Samuelsson
Control: retitle -1 Buster install requires more ram than documented If increasing the memory allocation for the target machine from 512MB to 1024MB the error goes away. This is unexpected since the section 3.4 of Buster's Installation Guide for amd64 states that the requirement of an install

Bug#932149: Early segfault in steal-ctty on Xen DomU install

2019-07-15 Thread Martin Samuelsson
Package: installation-reports Boot method: xl create buster.cfg Image version: Multiple. Please see below. Machine: Xen DomU (on HP Proliant Dom0) Memory: 512M Partitions: N/A (10G allocated for xvda) Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error, [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot:

Bug#277954: Install report (Successful)

2004-10-23 Thread Martin Samuelsson
Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/pre-rc2/netboot/netboot.tar.gz uname -a: Linux leka 2.6.8-1-686 #1 Thu Oct 7 03:15:25 EDT 2004 i686 GNU/Linux Date: 2004-OCT-13 Method: PXE boot from my woody running host, Package m