This problem still persists in Debian buster. I am using unattended installation using pressed file. Whenever the mount failed the auto-installation stops and pops up a dialog box. To retry without human intervention, I made some code changes to the cdrom-detect.postinst script. The below is the script file https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/cdrom-detect/blob/master/debian/cdrom-detect.postinst <https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/cdrom-detect/blob/master/debian/cdrom-detect.postinst> from the actual repo. In my case we are trying to mount the iso from CD /dev/sr0. After trying to mount the CD and if it failed (line #114), the script is looking for usb-partition and if there are no usb-partitions then the retry was never called. The retry condition is looking for a non-empty devices list (line #141), but the usb-partition overrides the devices list value to empty string (Line #121), because we do not have any usb-partition. Hence I changed the script by commenting the usb-partitions device list. Now the retry worked successfully.
This bug can be easily fixed by changing the variable name ‘devices' to something else from line number 121 to 130 in above script. On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 01:00:36 +0200 =?ISO-8859-15?Q?J=F6rg_Ludwig?= <joerg.lud...@iserv.eu> wrote: > Package: cdrom-detect > Version: 1.38 > Severity: normal > Tags: d-i > > *** Please type your report below this line *** > We install Debian from USB flash drive. After loading of the Linux > kernel we immediately get an error saying no CD-ROM could be found. When > we abort the CD-ROM detection, go back to the Debian Installer menu and > try again it works without any problem. > > The syslog shows that cdrom-detect finishes before the USB flash drive > is initialized by the kernel: > > Apr 5 21:46:23 cdrom-detect: Searching for Debian installation media... > Apr 5 21:46:23 cdrom-detect: Devices: '/dev/sr0' > Apr 5 21:46:23 cdrom-detect: CD-ROM mount failed: device=/dev/sr0 > fstype=iso9660 > Apr 5 21:46:26 kernel: [ 8.161655] usb-storage: device scan complete > Apr 5 21:46:26 kernel: [ 8.163255] scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access > Kingston DataTraveler G3 PMAP PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS > Apr 5 21:46:26 kernel: [ 8.163571] sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic > sg3 type 0 > Apr 5 21:46:26 kernel: [ 8.164354] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] 7612032 > 512-byte logical blocks: (3.89 GB/3.62 GiB) > Apr 5 21:46:26 kernel: [ 8.164856] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect > is off > Apr 5 21:46:26 kernel: [ 8.164861] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 23 > 00 00 00 > Apr 5 21:46:26 kernel: [ 8.164864] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive > cache: write through > Apr 5 21:46:26 kernel: [ 8.167472] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive > cache: write through > Apr 5 21:46:26 kernel: [ 8.167477] sdc: sdc1 > Apr 5 21:46:26 kernel: [ 8.169955] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive > cache: write through > Apr 5 21:46:26 kernel: [ 8.169957] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI > removable disk > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 6.0.4 > APT prefers stable-updates > APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') > Architecture: i386 (x86_64) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > > >
