Sorry the formatting.
On Tue, 12 Feb 2019, 20:26 Ian Jackson, <ian.jack...@citrix.com> wrote:
> Ian Jackson writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] arm64, laxton[01] (was Re:
> [xen-unstable-smoke test] 133030: trouble: blocked/broken/pass)"):
> > And that part works. It runs through d-i and thinks it has succeeded.
> > But then when the host reboots it reboots into 3.16, not the backports
> > kernel.
> >
> > Looking at the installer log:
> >
> > 2019-02-07 15:18:34 Z 172.16.144.52:39843 <13>Feb 7 15:18:34
> > base-installer: info: kernel linux-image-arm64 usable on arm64
> >
> > which is kind of weird.
> >
> > > So I think we can rule out a firmware bug. Now, I am struggling to
> > > understand why osstest is suddenly using 3.16.
> > > Was there any change in osstest or the configuration?
> >
> > No. I think something may be wrong with the way Debian is publishing
> > the backports kernels. I will ask...
>
> Thanks, Julien, you have found enough for me to identify the problem.
>
> According to snapshot.debian.org, at 2019-02-06T21:13:14, the file
>
> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie-backports/main/binary-arm64/Packages.xz
> mentioned linux-base version 4.3~bpo8+1. Now, it doesn't mention
> it at all.
>
> This is presumably part of cruft removal, since jessie-security does
> contain an even newer version, 4.5~deb8u1.
>
> linux-image-4.9.* require newer linux-support than is available in
> plain jessie. As a result of all this, the installer removes the
> 4.9.x kernel because its dependencies can't be satisfied. The machine
> then tries to reboot into some much older kernel.
>
> The osstest installer system does not use jessie-security and I think
> there was some reason for this which I have forgotten right now.
> Maybe the security repositories were awkward to cache - but nowadays
> we have a different approach to this caching.
>
This may be related to [1]. I don't know whether the support status changed
since then.
> I will investigate putting <suite>-security back.
[1]
https://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=osstest.git;a=commit;h=c14980b543ba057dcdd7a6c65d74a12cb4192034
> Ian.
>
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