Package: preseed Version: 1.124 With https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/debian-installer/amd64/initrd.gz at the time of this post, the following preseed.cfg seems to cause debconf to go into an infinite loop:
d-i mirror/country string Australia d-i mirror/http/hostname string mirror.aarnet.edu.au d-i mirror/http/mirror select mirror.aarnet.edu.au d-i mirror/http/directory string /pub/debian d-i mirror/http/directory select /pub/debian d-i mirror/http/proxy select d-i netcfg/get_hostname debian-vm d-i netcfg/get_domain debian-vm d-i netcfg/choose_interface select auto d-i mirror/suite string testing d-i passwd/root-login boolean false d-i passwd/user-fullname string voltagex d-i passwd/username string voltagex d-i passwd/user-password password changeme d-i passwd/user-password-again password changeme d-i time/zone string AU/Sydney d-i partman-auto/init_automatically_partition select /dev/sda d-i partman-auto/select_disk /dev/sda d-i partman-auto/method regular d-i partman-auto/choose_recipe select atomic Boot parameters were priority=critical DEBCONF_DEBUG=5 country=AU language=en locale=en_AU.UTF-8 keymap=us but it's tricky to get logs from the VM in this state... (it would be good to have a kernel parameter that puts the debug on its own serial terminal outside of GNU screen) Output is something like Jul 2 13:50:33 debconf: --> GO Jul 2 13:50:33 debconf: <-- 0 ok Jul 2 13:50:33 debconf: --> GET partman-auto/init_automatically_partition Jul 2 13:50:33 debconf: <-- 0 50some_device__________regular Jul 2 13:50:33 debconf: --> METAGET partman/text/scsi_disk description Jul 2 13:50:33 debconf: <-- 0 SCSI%s (%s,%s,%s) (%s) Jul 2 13:50:33 debconf: --> METAGET partman-auto/select_disk choices-c Jul 2 13:50:33 debconf: <-- 0 /var/lib/partman/devices/=dev=sda Jul 2 13:50:33 debconf: --> GET partman-auto/select_disk Jul 2 13:50:33 debconf: <-- 0 /var/lib/partman/devices/=dev=sda Jul 2 13:50:33 debconf: --> SET partman-auto/select_disk /var/lib/partman/devices/=dev=sda Jul 2 13:50:33 debconf: <-- 0 value set Jul 2 13:50:33 debconf: --> SUBST partman-auto/select_disk CHOICES /var/lib/partman/devices/=dev=sda Jul 2 13:50:33 debconf: Adding [CHOICES] -> [/var/lib/partman/devices/=dev=sda] Jul 2 13:50:33 debconf: <-- 0 Jul 2 13:50:33 debconf: --> SUBST partman-auto/select_disk DESCRIPTIONS SCSI1 (0\,0\,0) (sda) - 136.4 GB Msft Virtual Disk Jul 2 13:50:33 debconf: Adding [DESCRIPTIONS] -> [SCSI1 (0\,0\,0) (sda) - 136.4 GB Msft Virtual Disk] Jul 2 13:50:33 debconf: <-- 0 Jul 2 13:50:33 debconf: --> INPUT critical partman-auto/select_disk Jul 2 13:50:33 debconf: <-- 30 question skipped Jul 2 13:50:33 debconf: --> GO over and over until the system OOMs. I think it's the d-i partman-auto/init_automatically_partition select /dev/sda d-i partman-auto/select_disk /dev/sda causing the problem but shouldn't it cause a crash, error or warning instead of a loop? (I couldn't find any documentation of how to make partman always choose the first disk on my VM) Thanks, Adam
