Bug 560524

Summary: Network CD installation on ASUS 1000HE fails with script error
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.2 Reporter: Forgotten User puKLX2-vO_ <forgotten_puKLX2-vO_>
Component: InstallationAssignee: E-mail List <mobile-bugs>
Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX QA Contact: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity: Critical    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: Final   
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Hardware: Other   
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Attachments: /var/log/YaST2/y2start.log

Description Forgotten User puKLX2-vO_ 2009-12-03 20:50:31 UTC
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/4.3; Linux) KHTML/4.3.3 (like Gecko) SUSE

When booting an ASUS EeePC 1000HE either from an USB stick or an USB CDROM drive using the network installation CD OS 11.2, the installation aborts after loading the installation system.

When I then run the ASCII installation, I can stop the screen after the loading of the installation system with Ctrl-S and see the following errors en masse (pleae forgive any types, I had to copy them by hand):

...
/usr/lib/YaST2/startup/common/misc.sh: line 53: cut: command not found
/usr/lib/YaST2/startup/common/misc.sh: line 53: tr: command not found
/usr/lib/YaST2/startup/common/misc.sh: line 53: cut: command not found
/usr/lib/YaST2/startup/common/misc.sh: line 53: export: '=' not a valid identifier
/usr/lib/YaST2/startup/common/misc.sh: line 53: cut: command not found
/usr/lib/YaST2/startup/common/misc.sh: line 53: tr: command not found
/usr/lib/YaST2/startup/common/misc.sh: line 53: cut: command not found
... and so on

The computer has 1GiB RAM, is running OS11.1, Windows XP w/o problems including the USB CDROM drive. I checked the Net Installation ISO, it's ok (md5).

Tried download.opensuse.org and ftp5.gwdg.de, no difference.

The machine booted OS11.1 w/o any problem from an USB stick or the drive.


Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Forgotten User puKLX2-vO_ 2009-12-06 20:06:53 UTC
Installation from a 8 GiB CF Card connected via a Card Reader using the OS11.2 DVD is working. The USB Stick was prepared as usual (exactly the same procedure as used with the NET install):

create one FAT32 partition on CF
mount it
cp -L -R <DVD mount point> <CF mount point>
umount <CF mount point>
mksusebootdisk --32 --partition <part1 CF> <DVD mount point>

Here I had to use the modified version of mksusebootdisk with "-n" added to the fsck.vfat command.

Nevertheless I had two crashes until the installation really started, shortly before the partitioning and mkfs's started (LVM based on top of existing 11.1), but I could not get any information from the screen or logs.

The OS11.2 KDE4 Live also worked perfectly (simple dd to stick), except the RaLink RT2860. But this will be another report.
Comment 2 Shuang Qiu 2009-12-07 05:26:40 UTC
Could you please attach y2logs according to http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs/YaST.
Thanks.
Comment 3 Forgotten User puKLX2-vO_ 2009-12-08 20:33:57 UTC
Created attachment 331628 [details]
/var/log/YaST2/y2start.log
Comment 4 Forgotten User puKLX2-vO_ 2009-12-08 20:36:48 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)

> Could you please attach y2logs according to http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs/YaST.

Wow, didn't even know that's possible.

What I did:

- connected eth
- boot from CD (USB-CDROM)
- selected German language
- boot param: startshell=1
- start installation pressing ENTER

Get error "cannot find opensuse installation repository", and into the ASCII installation menu. Here I start a shell, find my USB stick and:

- mount /dev/sdb /var/log  # mount wouldn't allow me -o switches?
- mkdir /var/log/YaST2
- cd /
- Ctrl-D
- Start installation, eth0, DHCP, no proxy, no auth

Now, after loading the installation system the system shows me multiple screens of the error messages as described in the bug description.

I go back to the shell and umoujt the stick. The only file I found there afterwards was y2start.log in the YaST2 subdir. See attachment in Comment 3.
Comment 5 Uwe Drechsel 2011-08-26 10:53:52 UTC
The lifecycle of openSUSE 11.2 ended on May 12th 2011.

I'm closing this bug to make it easier to focus on upcoming releases.

Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that 
we have not be able to fix it before this version reached 
its end of life.  If you would still like to see this bug fixed
and are able to reproduce it against a maintained  version, 
please reopen this bug and change the 'version' of this bug 
to the applicable version.
Comment 6 Uwe Drechsel 2011-08-26 10:58:01 UTC
The lifecycle of openSUSE 11.2 ended on May 12th 2011.

I'm closing this bug to make it easier to focus on upcoming releases.

Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that 
we have not be able to fix it before this version reached 
its end of life.  If you would still like to see this bug fixed
and are able to reproduce it against a maintained  version, 
please reopen this bug and change the 'version' of this bug 
to the applicable version.