Bug#940028: debian-installer multi-console race with preseeding

2019-12-23 Thread Ian Jackson
Thanks for the patch. Unfortunately (due mostly to me flailing) my tests of this are so far inconclusive. I will get back to this in January. Regards, Ian.

Bug#940028: debian-installer multi-console race with preseeding

2019-12-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 03:40:05PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 03:33:56PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: >>Ian Jackson writes ("debian-installer multi-console race with preseeding"): >>> A workaround is to specify *exactly one* appropriate console= >>> on the kernel command lin

Bug#940028: debian-installer multi-console race with preseeding

2019-12-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 03:33:56PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: >Ian Jackson writes ("debian-installer multi-console race with preseeding"): >> A workaround is to specify *exactly one* appropriate console= >> on the kernel command line. This causes the kernel to report only >> that console in /proc/c

Bug#940028: debian-installer multi-console race with preseeding

2019-12-20 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("debian-installer multi-console race with preseeding"): > A workaround is to specify *exactly one* appropriate console= > on the kernel command line. This causes the kernel to report only > that console in /proc/consoles and the bug is avoided. This seems to work only sometime

Bug#940028: debian-installer multi-console race with preseeding

2019-12-17 Thread Ian Jackson
I just experienced this bug. Thanks for some very useful hints and pointers from Colin Watson. This is particularly awkward to debug because one of the parallel invocations of d-i is usually invisible. And the precise results are the results of races and can be different from one run to another.