[arch-releng] new testbuilds

[Dieter Plaetinck]

On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 14:44:41 +0100
Sven-Hendrik Haase <sh at lutzhaase.com> wrote:

> 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.

I would file that as pebcak.  unless you were forced to rerun dhcpcd?

> 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.

I have done aif installs literally hundreds of times, never seen this
before.  I'll check out those files and see what I can do, in the
meanwhile can you create a ticket for this?

Dieter