Re: Bug#551959: netboot: fails to set user and passwords on installation

[Christian Perrier]

Quoting Andrew O'Neill (metaphi@...):
> Using the link you provided, the installation worked - no problems at
> all. I'll try to remember to use a D-I daily build image next time :)


Thanks for your followups.

CD team, this bug apparently confirms that weekly builds of Debian
testing images are broken (maybe some of them only, I'm not sure). You
guys probably know more than me about this, but isn't there something
we could do to redirect our users to the D-I home page if they want to
install testing?

PS: Reply-to set accordingly.

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When installing Debian testing using the current netboot.tar.gz, the installer does not actually set up the user or its password, nor the root password, even though it says it does. When I try to log in after the installation, it says that the user I told the installer to set up does not exist and it doesn't accept the root password. In order to actually set up any of this, I have to boot Debian through single-user mode and set up the user(s) and the passwords (including root's) manually.

Quoting Andrew O'Neill (metaphi@...):
> Using the link you provided, the installation worked - no problems at
> all. I'll try to remember to use a D-I daily build image next time :)


Thanks for your followups.

CD team, this bug apparently confirms that weekly builds of Debian
testing images are broken (maybe some of them only, I'm not sure). You
guys probably know more than me about this, but isn't there something
we could do to redirect our users to the D-I home page if they want to
install testing?

PS: Reply-to set accordingly.

[Frans Pop-3]

On Saturday 24 October 2009, Christian Perrier wrote:
> CD team, this bug apparently confirms that weekly builds of Debian
> testing images are broken (maybe some of them only, I'm not sure). You
> guys probably know more than me about this, but isn't there something
> we could do to redirect our users to the D-I home page if they want to
> install testing?

This was about a *netboot* image, which has *NOTHING* at all to do with CD
images.

It has been known for ages that the D-I testing images are broken. They got
broken by all the ABI changes after the Lenny release that were (rightly)
allowed to migrate to testing. They get more and more broken with every
udeb migration to testing.

The only way to fix them is by doing timely releases. And then ensuring
that they stay working by tightly regulating what udebs migrate to
testing.


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