[arch-releng] new testbuilds

[Sven-Hendrik Haase]

On 20.12.2010 14:06, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote:
> On 20.12.2010 11:25, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
>> On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 02:21:53 +0100
>> Sven-Hendrik Haase <sh at lutzhaase.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 19.12.2010 19:20, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 00:31:54 +0100
>>>> Sven-Hendrik Haase <sh at lutzhaase.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> After a short and fairly standard test with netinstall-dual in a
>>>>> virtualbox, trying to install x86_64 I was presented with a
>>>>> "OPERATING SYSTEM MISSING" message. Apparently grub hasn't been
>>>>> installed? I set up /boot (ext2) and / (ext4) as well as swap. I
>>>>> installed base and base-devel and left the rest of the
>>>>> configuration fairly untouched.
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't have time to investigate further. This was just a heads-up.
>>>>>
>>>>> -- Sven-Hendrik
>>>> Thanks for the feedback, though this is virtually useless to me if I
>>>> don't know whether you performed the grub installation and whether
>>>> it said something like 'grub installed' or 'grub install failed'.
>>>> and do you get this error when booting the installed system (without
>>>> the iso being loaded in the virtual cd drive?)
>>>>
>>>> Dieter
>>>>
>>> Well grub said it was installed successfully. I now did it again and
>>> selected the first entry which actually worked and the system booted.
>>> I also don't think the selection is supposed to look like this:
>>> http://i.imgur.com/G8BJ4.png
>>>
>>> Probably a bug. Or I just can't make sense from that selection.
>> the selection is messed up, indeed.
>> do me a favour
>> and:
>> install the libui-sh and aif packages from
>> http://build.archlinux.org/repos/releng-any/
>> then install curl,
>> then retry the install, making sure aif runs with debugging and logging
>> enabled (add the -d and -l flags to the command in /arch/setup)
>> if you hit the same bug, run aif-report-issues.sh
>> this will submit all aif's temporary and logfiles to a pastebin, report
>> the bug on the bugtracker and give me the report url provided to you by
>> the script.
>>
>>
>> as for your first problem, if you install grub anywhere else
>> then /dev/sda or maybe /dev/sda1 it won't work. since your selection
>> does not include /dev/sda1, any selection other then /dev/sda will
>> cause problems.
>>
>> Dieter
>>
> One other thing I just now noticed is that a completely standard
> installation gives a fail on boot: http://imgur.com/lMlvA.png
>
> Anyhow, I did what you said and I hit the bug again but I can't find
> aif-report-issues.sh anywhere nor anything with a similar name.
>
As per IRC, I retried with your new packages. One thing I noticed is
that the IP configurator tells you that IP acquisition failed while my
interface was already configured before running the setup. A minor bug
there.

With your packages, I get this http://sprunge.us/MjLg

Hopefully that's useful. However, you should also be able to reproduce
this easily yourself.