[02:34] <goodwill> CarlFK: why do you do touch /var/log/lastlog in the isshd.sh ?
[02:37] <CarlFK> goodwill: um... I have no idea.  I suspect I wrote this about 8 years ago.
[02:37] <goodwill> o_O
[02:38] <goodwill> CarlFK: is very nice :)
[02:40] <goodwill> prolly this: http://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7014881
[02:40] <goodwill> hmmm
[02:40] <goodwill> I'll comment it out for now and see what happens
[02:46] <CarlFK> im trying it now
[02:58] <goodwill> CarlFK: sorry to bug ya ... I usually like to understand every line of code :)
[03:04] <CarlFK> no prob - i'm happy to have my stuff reviewed
[03:27] <CarlFK> well.. I am sshed in, and I see in /var/log/syslog: Nov 19 03:24:41 sshd[27700]: lastlog_openseek: Couldn't stat /var/log/lastlog: No such file or directory
[03:52] <goodwill> what the blip ... anna-install is literally spitting out random chars
[04:04] <CarlFK> how are you running it?  I boot the net installer, alt-f2 to a # prompt,  anna-install openssh-server-udeb
[04:20] <goodwill> CarlFK: from early_command
[04:20] <goodwill> CarlFK: and something is not working
[04:21] <goodwill> CarlFK: cause I can do anna-install from early command itself
[04:21] <CarlFK> ah.. I don't think I ever go that working
[04:21] <goodwill> but when I wget a script that has it
[04:21] <CarlFK> got
[04:21] <goodwill> and then run it
[04:21] <goodwill> its meh
[04:24] <goodwill> hmmm maybe it like runs it inside as string
[04:31] <goodwill> this is bizarre
[04:58] <goodwill> CarlFK: so basically running anna-install inside a script at an early stage appears to fail
[04:58] <goodwill> super odd
[04:58] <CarlFK> I saw something in syslog like "openssh-server queued for install"
[05:00] <CarlFK> Nov 19 03:17:56 anna-install: Queueing udeb openssh-client-udeb for later installation
[05:03] <goodwill> except that it fails
[05:04] <goodwill> when it breaks and I go into console and run anna-install there
[05:04] <goodwill> it fails as well
[05:05] <goodwill> anna-install when ran in the early_command directly, does not fail
[05:05] <CarlFK> weird.  logs?
[05:06] <goodwill> at this point I am just trying to isolate the problem ... logs are not helping
[05:06] <goodwill> when I ran anna-install manually I literally get jibberish like ^^[[30
[05:08] <CarlFK> huh, never saw that
[05:12] <goodwill> hmmm
[05:12] <goodwill> okie ... so you were onto something
[05:12] <goodwill> anna-install is queing the install
[05:13] <goodwill> so the rest of the script fails cause sshd is not installed
[05:15] <goodwill> maybe this is a solution https://github.com/socrata/preseed-custom-partitioner/blob/master/early_script#L11
[05:16] <goodwill> so what that does is queue the install and then runs ints command in the post install script for whatever "download-installer" is
[05:16] <goodwill> no idea what that is though yet
[05:16] <goodwill> CarlFK: ^^^
[05:17] <CarlFK> interesting
[05:17] <goodwill> http://blog.loftninjas.org/2007/07/04/complex-lvm-on-an-alternative-install-of-ubuntu-debian-installer/
[05:17] <goodwill> so basically that ^^^
[05:18] <goodwill> that post is pretty nice
[05:19] <CarlFK> preseed_fetch ?
[05:20] <goodwill> I think thats just used instead of wget
[05:20] <goodwill> to fetch from same location as to where the preseed is at
[05:21] <goodwill> so as an alternative I can override /var/lib/dpkg/info/console-setup-udeb.postinst as well
[05:21] <CarlFK> neat
[05:22] <goodwill> so when that is installed it runs your script :)
[05:22] <goodwill> instead of the installer
[05:22] <goodwill> as a thought
[05:22] <goodwill> of course that means I will be installing it
[05:22] <goodwill> and have to mark a preseed for it
[05:22] <goodwill> preseed options
[05:23] <goodwill> http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/doc/internals/ch02.html
[05:23] <goodwill> download-installer (anna) 	Retrieve and unpack additional components
[05:23] <goodwill> that is it
[05:23] <goodwill> okie
[05:24] <goodwill> talk about monkeypatching :)
[05:24] <goodwill> fascinating
[05:26] <goodwill> CarlFK: thanks for keeping me sane thru this ;)
[05:26] <CarlFK> my pleazure
[05:27] <goodwill> hehehe
[05:27] <goodwill> CarlFK: I am at your disposal any time you want to bounce things off :)
[05:28] <CarlFK> groovy
[05:30] <CarlFK> im off for bed - see ya
[05:30] <goodwill> ni ni