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spartrekus

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Important failure installation of ASCII using standard Deboostrap.

Hello,

I have installed many times DEVUAN with the following command:

 /usr/sbin/debootstrap --no-check-gpg --include=wpasupplicant    --arch i386 jessie  /target http://auto.mirror.devuan.org/merged/

It is so far impossible to install ASCII with the same method, why? It is not working, shall it work?

 /usr/sbin/debootstrap --no-check-gpg --include=wpasupplicant  --arch i386 ascii  /target http://auto.mirror.devuan.org/merged/

Debootstrap for Debian works, so it shall too for Devuan?

 /usr/sbin/debootstrap --no-check-gpg --include=wpasupplicant  --arch i386 ascii  /target http://auto.mirror.devuan.org/merged/

gives:

I: Configuring wpasupplicant...
I: Configuring wget...
I: Configuring tasksel...
I: Configuring tasksel-data...
I: Configuring libc-bin...
W: Failure while configuring base packages.  This will be re-attempted up to five times.
W: See /target/debootstrap/debootstrap.log for details (possibly the package rsyslog is at fault)
W: Failure while configuring base packages.  This will be re-attempted up to five times.
W: See /target/debootstrap/debootstrap.log for details (possibly the package rsyslog is at fault)
W: Failure while configuring base packages.  This will be re-attempted up to five times.
W: See /target/debootstrap/debootstrap.log for details (possibly the package rsyslog is at fault)
W: Failure while configuring base packages.  This will be re-attempted up to five times.
W: See /target/debootstrap/debootstrap.log for details (possibly the package rsyslog is at fault)
W: Failure while configuring base packages.  This will be re-attempted up to five times.
W: See /target/debootstrap/debootstrap.log for details (possibly the package rsyslog is at fault)

fsmithred

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Re: Important failure installation of ASCII using standard Deboostrap.

Error message says "possibly" but there's no doubt about it. You need to exclude rsyslog and include either syslog-ng or busybox-syslogd. When rsyslog for ascii is ready, you can switch back to it. It's also possible to add rsyslog from jessie-backports after the install. I know that works, but I don't know if there are any problems with it. (Tested minimally by me, once.)

You might need to exclude alsa-base, too. There is no such package in ascii.

spartrekus

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Re: Important failure installation of ASCII using standard Deboostrap.

Error message says "possibly" but there's no doubt about it. You need to exclude rsyslog and include either syslog-ng or busybox-syslogd. When rsyslog for ascii is ready, you can switch back to it. It's also possible to add rsyslog from jessie-backports after the install. I know that works, but I don't know if there are any problems with it. (Tested minimally by me, once.)

You might need to exclude alsa-base, too. There is no such package in ascii.

here it works on JESSIE !!

I: Configuring apt-utils...
I: Configuring libirs-export91...
I: Configuring libgnutls-openssl27:i386...
I: Configuring iputils-ping...
I: Configuring isc-dhcp-common...
I: Configuring isc-dhcp-client...
I: Configuring tasksel...
I: Configuring tasksel-data...
I: Configuring libc-bin...
I: Base system installed successfully.

Here it does NOT work on ASCII

I have nothing to do. I have to mention it to the development team so that they can fix this bug as soon as possible, because no one will be capable to install devuan ascii.

Last edited by spartrekus (2017-06-25 14:23:38)

spartrekus

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Re: Important failure installation of ASCII using standard Deboostrap.

In progress. seeems ok!

/usr/sbin/debootstrap --no-check-gpg --exclude=syslog-ng,systemd,busybox-syslogd,rsyslog            --arch i386 ascii  /target http://auto.mirror.devuan.org/merged/

figuring apt-utils...
I: Configuring debconf-i18n...
I: Configuring whiptail...
I: Configuring gnupg...
I: Configuring libgnutls30:i386...
I: Configuring wget...
I: Configuring tasksel...
I: Configuring tasksel-data...
I: Configuring libc-bin...
I: Base system installed successfully.

spartrekus

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Re: Important failure installation of ASCII using standard Deboostrap.

I am now trying with....

/target# /usr/sbin/debootstrap --no-check-gpg --exclude=syslog-ng,systemd,busybox-syslogd,rsyslog            --include=make,wpasupplicant,netbase,login,passwd   --arch i386 ascii  /target http://auto.mirror.devuan.org/merged/ 
I: Retrieving InRelease 
I: Retrieving Packages 
I: Validating Packages 

fsmithred

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Re: Important failure installation of ASCII using standard Deboostrap.

--exclude=rsyslog  --include=<one of the other two sysloggers>

spartrekus

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Re: Important failure installation of ASCII using standard Deboostrap.

ok, but ifconfig and netwctl are missing, so I used:

 ip link 

and then made sure to have :

# The loopback network interface
auto lo wlp1s0
iface lo inet loopback
iface wlp1s0 inet dhcp
wpa-conf /etc/network/wifi-home.conf

then ifup wlp1s0

fsmithred

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Re: Important failure installation of ASCII using standard Deboostrap.

ifconfig is in the net-tools package

If you want wlan0 and eth0 instead of what you have for interface names, add 'net.ifnames=0' to the linux line of your boot menu.

spartrekus

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Re: Important failure installation of ASCII using standard Deboostrap.

ifconfig is in the net-tools package

If you want wlan0 and eth0 instead of what you have for interface names, add 'net.ifnames=0' to the linux line of your boot menu.

wlp1s0, wlp2s0, wlan1, and sometimes wlan0,... .very unpredictable depending on the machine...

boot menu, i.e. visible after at /proc/cmdline ?

Last edited by spartrekus (2017-06-25 16:51:10)

fsmithred

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Re: Important failure installation of ASCII using standard Deboostrap.

boot menu, i.e. visible after at /proc/cmdline ?

Yes. To do it once, press the e key at the boot menu and add it to the linux line.
To make it permanent, add it to the KERNEL_DEFAULT line in /etc/default/grub (where it has "quiet") and then run update-grub.

spartrekus

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Re: Important failure installation of ASCII using standard Deboostrap.

grub automatic changes might be dangerous. Long long time I never use it
update-grub brrrr
I do not use grub, but I make a boot loader with simple dd and fdisk... you probably never often did that way. It s just faster and more reliable.

ls /devuan-kernel/
boot  modules  network   boatloader.img

I see to past it with:
net.ifnames=0

then, we talk directly to Linus (the kernel)....

Last edited by spartrekus (2017-06-26 04:41:45)