Debian Bug report logs - #606313
ltsp-server: LTSP installation using udeb fail when booting ISO as USB stic (isohybrid)

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: debian-edu-install: LTSP installation fail when booting ISO as USB stick

Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 11:31:42 +0100

Package:  debian-edu-install
Version:  1.519
Severity: important

I just tested installing the latest squeeze-test netinst image using a
USB stick (possible thanks to the new isohybrid support), and the
installation ran into a problem with setting up LTSP.  These are the
relevant log messages:

Dec  8 10:07:05 main-menu[494]: INFO: Menu item 'ltsp-client-builder' selected
Dec  8 10:07:05 ltsp-client-builder: ltsp-build-client options: --mirror file:///media/cdrom --security-mirror none --mount-cdrom --accept-unsigned-packages
Dec  8 10:07:05 ltsp-client-builder: Installing package ltsp-server-standalone in target
Dec  8 10:07:05 in-target: Leser pakkelister...
Dec  8 10:07:05 in-target: 
Dec  8 10:07:05 in-target: Skaper oversikt over avhengighetsforhold...
Dec  8 10:07:05 in-target: 
Dec  8 10:07:05 in-target: Leser tilstandsinformasjon...
Dec  8 10:07:05 in-target: 
Dec  8 10:07:05 in-target: ltsp-server-standalone er allerede nyeste versjon.
Dec  8 10:07:05 in-target: 0 oppgraderte, 0 nylig installerte, 0 å fjerne og 0 ikke oppgradert.
Dec  8 10:07:06 in-target: Detected CD install, disabling APT repository checking.
Dec  8 10:07:06 in-target: deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0+edu0~a0 _Squeeze_ - Unofficial Multi-architecture amd64/i386 NETINST #1 20101207-23:24]/ squeeze contrib local main non-free
Dec  8 10:07:06 in-target: deb http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux squeeze-test local
Dec  8 10:07:06 in-target: deb-src http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux squeeze-test local
Dec  8 10:07:06 in-target: warning: overriding kernel arthitecure to 686.
Dec  8 10:07:06 in-target: mount: /dev/sdb1 already mounted or /media/cdrom0 busy
Dec  8 10:07:06 in-target: mount: according to mtab, /dev/sdb1 is already mounted on /media/cdrom0
Dec  8 10:07:06 in-target: error: LTSP client installation ended abnormally
Dec  8 10:07:06 ltsp-client-builder: ERROR: ltsp-build-client failed to run
Dec  8 10:07:06 main-menu[494]: WARNING **: Configuring 'ltsp-client-builder' failed with error code 1
Dec  8 10:07:06 main-menu[494]: WARNING **: Menu item 'ltsp-client-builder' failed.
Dec  8 10:25:44 main-menu[494]: INFO: Modifying debconf priority limit from 'critical' to 'high'
Dec  8 10:25:44 debconf: Setting debconf/priority to high

I guess this is because the LTSP code expect the ISO to be mounted as
/dev/cdrom, while it is mounted as /dev/sdb1 instead.

Setting severity to important, as this only affect thin-client-server
profiles, but suspect it should be seen as release critical for Debian
Edu/Squeeze.

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen

Message #10 received at 606313@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Oded Naveh <skilinux@gmail.com>

To: 606313@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#606313: debian-edu-install: LTSP installation fail when booting ISO as USB stick

Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 17:56:51 +0200

I believe this is related to Bug#540990, see Vagrant's comment at:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=540990#10

May also be related Skolelinux bugs:
http://bugs.skolelinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1341
http://bugs.skolelinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1456

If you agree please handle relationships.
Odd.

Message #15 received at 606313@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@freegeek.org>

To: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>, 606313@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#606313: debian-edu-install: LTSP installation fail when booting ISO as USB stick

Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 10:30:22 -0800

On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 11:31:42AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> Dec  8 10:07:06 in-target: mount: /dev/sdb1 already mounted or /media/cdrom0 busy
> Dec  8 10:07:06 in-target: mount: according to mtab, /dev/sdb1 is already mounted on /media/cdrom0
> Dec  8 10:07:06 in-target: error: LTSP client installation ended abnormally
> Dec  8 10:07:06 ltsp-client-builder: ERROR: ltsp-build-client failed to run
> Dec  8 10:07:06 main-menu[494]: WARNING **: Configuring 'ltsp-client-builder' failed with error code 1
> Dec  8 10:07:06 main-menu[494]: WARNING **: Menu item 'ltsp-client-builder' failed.
 
> I guess this is because the LTSP code expect the ISO to be mounted as
> /dev/cdrom, while it is mounted as /dev/sdb1 instead.

all 099-mount-cdrom does is:

  mount /media/cdrom

so if the USB stick is not configured to be mounted as /media/cdrom, then it's
not going to work.

my guess is oded is probably right about it being the same bug (#540990) as the
multiple cdrom drive issue, maybe showing up as cdrom1 or some other device
altogether.

i've never been able to navigate the relevent debconf databases that we could
actually query the right information during install time, so it's pretty much
guesswork, and will break as soon as something *slightly* unusual is happening.

it wouldn't bee too difficult to configure it to fall back to attempting to
mount additional paths if the first failed, but then you need to coordinate
that with the mirrors used as well.

live well,
  vagrant

Message #20 received at 606313@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>

To: 606313@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#606313: debian-edu-install: LTSP installation fail when booting ISO as USB stick

Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 12:59:33 +0100

Based on feedback from Vagrant on IRC, I was able to get the LTSP
installation working also when installing from a isohybrid USB stick.

This patch did the trick.

--- /tmp/099-mount-cdrom.orig   2010-12-27 12:55:59.000000000 +0100
+++ /tmp/099-mount-cdrom        2010-12-27 12:56:26.000000000 +0100
@@ -11,7 +11,11 @@
         ;;
     before-install)
         if [ "$MOUNT_CDROM" = "true" ]; then
-            mount /media/cdrom
+            if mount /media/cdrom ; then
+                :
+            else
+                MOUNT_CDROM=false
+            fi
         fi
         ;;
     finalization)

I tried first to just add '|| true' to the mount and umount calls, but
this caused LTSP to install properly but the grub step after it to
fail.  The reason was that the CD was umounted by LTSP, and apt were
unable to mount it again when grub needed to install more packages.
Given that LTSP should only umount what it mounted, I believe my patch
make more sense.

Not sure if we need to make changed LTSP packages to implement this
change in Squeeze, or if we can get away with providing our overrides.

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen

Message #25 received at 606313@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>

To: 606313@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#606313: debian-edu-install: LTSP installation fail when booting ISO as USB stick

Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 20:08:08 +0100

[Petter Reinholdtsen]
> Not sure if we need to make changed LTSP packages to implement this
> change in Squeeze, or if we can get away with providing our
> overrides.

I tested to copy the file from Debian/ to Debian-custom/ and edited
the new file.  This worked just fine, and mean we can provide a
override for the cdrom mounting code in debian-edu-config if we do not
want to fix it for Squeeze in the ltsp package.

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen

Message #30 received at 606313@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>

To: debian-edu@lists.debian.org, ltsp@packages.debian.org

Cc: 606313@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: r72273 - in trunk/src/debian-edu-config: . debian share/ltsp/plugins/ltsp-build-client/Debian-custom

Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 22:22:37 +0100

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Hi,

On Montag, 27. Dezember 2010, pere@alioth.debian.org wrote:
> trunk/src/debian-edu-config/share/ltsp/plugins/ltsp-build-client/Debian-cus
>tom/099-mount-cdrom Modified:
> Log:
> Add workaround for bug #606313, while it isn't fixed in the
> ltsp-server package.

why is 606313 not assigned to the ltsp package then?


cheers,
	Holger

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Message #35 received at 606313@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>

To: 606313@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#606313: debian-edu-install: LTSP installation fail when booting ISO as USB stick

Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:22:42 +0100

reassign 606313 ltsp-server
retitle 606313 ltsp-server: LTSP installation using udeb fail when booting ISO as USB stic (isohybrid)
found 606313 5.2.4-2
thanks

[Petter Reinholdtsen]
> I tested to copy the file from Debian/ to Debian-custom/ and edited
> the new file.  This worked just fine, and mean we can provide a
> override for the cdrom mounting code in debian-edu-config if we do
> not want to fix it for Squeeze in the ltsp package.

I've added a workaround to debian-edu-config in svn (replacement
099-mount-cdrom in Debian-custom/), and confirmed that this solved the
issue.

As this bug make most sense to properly fix in the LTSP package,
either by avoiding the --mount-cdrom in the udeb or some other fix, I
reassign it there.

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen

Message #48 received at 606313@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>

To: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>

Cc: 606313@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#606313: debian-edu-install: LTSP installation fail when booting ISO as USB stick

Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 08:48:40 -0700

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Control: tags 606313 pending

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 12:22:42AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> As this bug make most sense to properly fix in the LTSP package,
> either by avoiding the --mount-cdrom in the udeb or some other fix, I
> reassign it there.

Fixed in bzr by removing --mount-cdrom from the default ltsp-build-client
options, as any remotely recent versions of debian-installer do not appear to
require it for CD installs, and it breaks USB installs to have it.

You may want to update the corresponding debian-edu code.

live well,
  vagrant

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Message #55 received at 606313-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>

To: 606313-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#606313: fixed in ltsp 5.5.2-1

Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 00:04:39 +0000

Source: ltsp
Source-Version: 5.5.2-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
ltsp, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 606313@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> (supplier of updated ltsp package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)


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Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 16:19:36 -0700
Source: ltsp
Binary: ltsp-server ltsp-server-standalone ltsp-client-core ltsp-client ltsp-client-builder
Architecture: all source
Version: 5.5.2-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: LTSP Debian Maintainers <pkg-ltsp-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>
Closes: 606313 741143 743867 753746 753749
Description: 
 ltsp-client-builder - build an LTSP environment in the installer target (udeb)
 ltsp-client - complete LTSP client environment
 ltsp-client-core - basic LTSP client environment
 ltsp-server - basic LTSP server environment
 ltsp-server-standalone - complete LTSP server environment
Changes:
 ltsp (5.5.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * New upstream version:
     - Add support for newer versions of syslinux/pxelinux.
     - Support LDM feature to hash passwords for use with
       localapps and fat clients.
     - ltsp-build-client: Allow setting --locale as simply the locale,
       rather than requiring also specifying the encoding.
     - initramfs udhcp hooks:
       + bring up NICs that become available progressively.
       + timeout for ip link up from 4 seconds to 10.
     - Fix ltsp-update-image --revert.
     - screen.d/kiosk: Pass KIOSK_OPTIONS as an environment variable.
       (Closes: #743867)
 .
   * ltsp-client-core: Update syslinux/pxelinux dependencies:
     - Add syslinux-common
     - Remove syslinux
     - Add pxelinux, with fallback for older versions of syslinux-common.
 .
   * ltsp-server/ltsp-client-core:
     - Prefer iproute2 over iproute transitional package.
       (Closes: #753746, #753749)
 .
   * debian/rules:
     - Use dpkg-vendor --derives-from Ubuntu to set VENDOR, to better handle
       Debian/Ubuntu derivatives (Closes: #741143). Thanks to Peter Green.
 .
   * ltsp-client-builder:
     - Add "--updates-mirror none", which is needed when CD/USB sticks do not
       contain an updates-mirror.
     - Drop --mount-cdrom option, as it is no longer needed (Closes: #606313).
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