| directhex | okay i'm baffled. i've done some basic d-i tinkering. just added/removed packages, nothing abnormal. installation fails. apparently debootstrap can't install base-files on the first try | 13:46 |
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| xnox | directhex: can you paste your preseed? | 13:57 |
| directhex | http://paste.ubuntu.com/1436906/ | 13:58 |
| xnox | directhex: and what image are you preseeding? alternate/mini/server ? | 14:00 |
| directhex | alternate. | 14:00 |
| * xnox ponders if there is something else also selected by default in tasksel/first which you are now deselecting - e.g. base/core/something like that. | 14:01 | |
| directhex | just the basic debootstrap is failing from the cdr... hm. tinkering... | 14:02 |
| cjwatson_ | the installer syslog would help | 14:05 |
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| cjwatson | (but I'm on holiday today, about to take my daughter to speech therapy) | 14:06 |
| cjwatson | nothing wrong in the preseed file, and tasksel is after base system installation so can't be relevant | 14:06 |
| directhex | debootstrap's fine when <mirror> is on the web, but not when <mirror> is file:///cdrom, which clearly makes no sense when i didn't touch any of the base packages from the cd | 14:07 |
| directhex | hmph | 14:07 |
| cjwatson | one possible fragility that comes to mind is that it can be worth making sure the Packages file is sorted by package name | 14:07 |
| cjwatson | but anyway, would need to see logs, failing that happy to debug an image directly if you can put it up for download (may take a little while since as I said on holiday) | 14:08 |
| * cjwatson vanishes | 14:08 | |
| directhex | ...alphabetical Packages file? huh... | 14:08 |
| infinity | directhex: Yeah, debootstrap installs packages in the order it finds them, and some hacks/assumptions in various bits take that into account. Since the "real" Debian and Ubuntu archives and CDs are always in the same order, that mostly works. | 14:12 |
| infinity | I'm with Colin, though, without logs, "debootstrap doesn't work" doesn't mean much. | 14:13 |
| directhex | debootstrap isn't super verbose, even with --verbose. http://paste.ubuntu.com/1437097/ | 14:19 |
| xnox | bug 1001131 ? | 14:21 |
| ubot2` | Launchpad bug 1001131 in debootstrap (Ubuntu) "debootstrap fails to install customized Ubuntu" [Undecided,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1001131 | 14:21 |
| directhex | xnox, yes, that's my bug | 14:23 |
| xnox | directhex: since you have a reproducer =) you are in the best position to solve it generically =) | 14:25 |
| xnox | ;-) | 14:25 |
| directhex | well, either i could modify apt-ftparchive to always reorder its output in this edge case, or gently patch debootstrap with the proposed 2-line change | 14:26 |
| directhex | the latter sounds somewhat more sane | 14:26 |
| directhex | right, new iso | 14:31 |
| directhex | ... not my day. main-menu segfaulting. | 14:33 |
| xnox | *sigh* yeah, fridays are sometimes odd. | 14:37 |
| directhex | maybe i should memtest my laptop whilst i'm at the shops | 14:42 |
| mdeslaur | directhex: if you do, use precise and older...memtest86 has a nasty bug in quantal+ | 14:46 |
| directhex | progress! installer seemingly functional now, with patched debootstrap | 15:05 |
| xnox | *win* | 15:05 |
| directhex | and it's all thanks to xnox for finding that bug report. thanks xnox | 15:06 |
| * xnox feels all special | 15:06 | |
| directhex | if this works to completion in the next 14 minutes then i don't need to worry about overtime. | 15:06 |
| directhex | victory \o/ | 15:13 |
| infinity | What's this "overtime" thing he was talking about? | 15:31 |
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