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Message-ID: <161687355375.3666.12906764209603803348.reportbug@alpha>
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2021 20:32:33 +0100
Subject: Bug#986009: installation-reports: document qemu workarounds and bug in
newer d-i image

Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i
X-Debbugs-Cc: tg@mirbsd.de

Boot method: CD
Image version: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2020-10-12/debian-10.0.0-alpha-NETINST-1.iso
Date: 2021-03-26 to 2021-03-27

Machine: qemu-system-alpha on a buster host
Partitions: <df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred>

root@alpha:~# fdisk -l |
Disk /dev/sda: 40 GiB, 42949672960 bytes, 83886080 sectors |
Disk model: QEMU HARDDISK |
Geometry: 255 heads, 2 sectors/track, 164482 cylinders |
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes |
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes |
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes |
Disklabel type: bsd |
|
Slice Start End Sectors Size Type Fsize Bsize Cpg |
a 1 1954 1954 977K ext2 0 0 0 |
b 1955 353517 351563 171.7M ext2 0 0 0 |
c 353518 81884768 81531251 38.9G ext2 0 0 0 |
d 81884769 83886078 2001310 977.2M swap 0 0 0 |
root@alpha:~# df -Tl |
Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on |
udev devtmpfs 2052568 0 2052568 0% /dev
tmpfs tmpfs 413304 472 412832 1% /run
/dev/sda3 ext4 39860300 1123656 36682092 3% /
tmpfs tmpfs 2066512 0 2066512 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs tmpfs 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock
/dev/sda2 ext2 170219 68778 92653 43% /boot
tmpfs tmpfs 413296 0 413296 0% /run/user/0


Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot: [O]
Detect network card: [O]
Configure network: [O]
Detect media: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Clock/timezone setup: [O]
User/password setup: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O]
Install base system: [E]
Install tasks: [O]
Install boot loader: [?]
Overall install: [↓]

Comments/Problems:

- https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/debian-installer/2021-01-03/alpha/debian-installer-images_20201202+nmu1_alpha.tar.gz
is insufficient, it lacks the ISO which contains nic-modules
- Tried https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2021-02-01/debian-10.0.0-alpha-NETINST-1.iso
first but it contains errors, e.g. no /var/lib/dpkg/status,
thus used a random older image; turned out to work
- Ran into #985954 so used raw qemu instead of libvirt/virt-manager
- qemu-system-alpha’s SRM firmware ("BIOS") seems to be unable to do
more than set up the bus and echo back REPL commands instead of executing
them, so only direct kernel boot is usable, so I copied out the kernel and
initrd from the ISO and ran:

qemu-system-alpha -cpu ev68-alpha-cpu -m 2048 -drive format=raw,file=/dev/vg-evolvis-wirt/alpha -drive format=raw,file=debian-10.0.0-alpha-NETINST-1.iso -nographic -net nic -net user -kernel vmlinux-alpha -initrd initrd-alpha.gz -append console=ttyS0

Installation using the serial console, including screen, worked fine.
- After install, booting from the HDD failed (see above), so I used
partprobe (kpartx, normally the tool of choice, failed to recognise
the BSD disklabel used by SRM and thus Linux/Alpha) to map the boot
partition onto the host and copied kernel and initrd out and boot with:

qemu-system-alpha -cpu ev68-alpha-cpu -m 4096 -drive format=raw,file=/dev/vg-evolvis-wirt/alpha -nographic -net nic -net user -kernel ~/vmlinux-5.10.0-5-alpha-generic -initrd ~/initrd.img-5.10.0-5-alpha-generic -append 'console=ttyS0 root=UUID=6381e09c-
4567-4fff-bbe4-608973308f65'
- After install, getting tons of unaligned messages from dbus:
[ 320.117023] dbus-daemon(366): unaligned trap at 0000020000080bf0: 00000000f6857c0e 28 18
⚠ Unfortunately there was no way to disable usrmerge in d-i,
so I’m now left with a system I cannot build on and have
to resort to debootstrapping me a chroot



Please make sure that any installation logs that you think would
be useful are attached to this report. Please compress large
files using gzip.


-- Package-specific info:

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Installer lsb-release:
==============================================
DISTRIB_ID=Debian
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Debian GNU/Linux installer"
DISTRIB_RELEASE="11 (bullseye) - installer build 20200315" X_INSTALLATION_MEDIUM=cdrom

==============================================
Installer hardware-summary:
==============================================
uname -a: Linux alpha 5.8.0-3-alpha-generic #1 Debian 5.8.14-1 (2020-10-10) alpha GNU/Linux
lspci -knn: 00:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Cirrus Logic GD 5446 [1013:00b8]
lspci -knn: Subsystem: Red Hat, Inc. QEMU Virtual Machine [1af4:1100]
lspci -knn: 00:01.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller [8086:100e] (rev 03)
lspci -knn: Subsystem: Red Hat, Inc. QEMU Virtual Machine [1af4:1100]
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: e1000
lspci -knn: Kernel modules: e1000
lspci -knn: 00:02.0 IDE interface [0101]: Silicon Image, Inc. PCI0646 [1095:0646] (rev 07)
lspci -knn: Subsystem: Red Hat, Inc. Device [1af4:1100]
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: pata_cmd64x
lspci -knn: Kernel modules: pata_cmd64x, ata_generic
lsmod: Module Size Used by
lsmod: dm_mod 141641 0
lsmod: md_mod 165498 0
lsmod: jfs 234991 0
lsmod: xor 7416 0
lsmod: zstd_decompress 86873 0
lsmod: zstd_compress 228773 0
lsmod: raid6_pq 93800 0
lsmod: libcrc32c 1538 0
lsmod: vfat 14609 0
lsmod: fat 79800 1 vfat
lsmod: ext4 565303 2
lsmod: crc16 1593 1 ext4
lsmod: mbcache 5940 1 ext4
lsmod: jbd2 81644 1 ext4
lsmod: crc32c_generic 2522 4
lsmod: e1000 161461 0
lsmod: nls_utf8 1813 0
lsmod: isofs 48672 0
lsmod: cdrom 59844 1 isofs
lsmod: srm_env 3018 0
lsmod: sd_mod 60526 4
lsmod: t10_pi 6092 1 sd_mod
lsmod: crc_t10dif 3263 1 t10_pi
lsmod: crct10dif_common 1606 1 crc_t10dif
lsmod: ata_generic 4271 0
lsmod: pata_cmd64x 8984 3
lsmod: libata 232175 2 pata_cmd64x,ata_generic
lsmod: scsi_mod 193212 2 sd_mod,libata
df: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
df: tmpfs 205664 96 205568 0% /run
df: devtmpfs 1020280 0 1020280 0% /dev
df: /dev/sda3 39860300 964340 36841408 3% /target
df: /dev/sda2 170219 68778 92653 43% /target/boot
df: /dev/sda3 39860300 964340 36841408 3% /dev/.static/dev df: devtmpfs 1020280 0 1020280 0% /target/dev
free: total used free shared buff/cache available
free: Mem: 2056576 133608 571640 176568 1351328 1804024
free: Swap: 1000640 0 1000640
/proc/cmdline: console=ttyS0
/proc/cpuinfo: cpu : Alpha
/proc/cpuinfo: cpu model : EV67
/proc/cpuinfo: cpu variation : 0
/proc/cpuinfo: cpu revision : 0
/proc/cpuinfo: cpu serial number :
/proc/cpuinfo: system type : Tsunami
/proc/cpuinfo: system variation : Clipper
/proc/cpuinfo: system revision : 0
/proc/cpuinfo: system serial number : QEMU
/proc/cpuinfo: cycle frequency [Hz] : 250000000
/proc/cpuinfo: timer frequency [Hz] : 1024.00
/proc/cpuinfo: page size [bytes] : 8192
/proc/cpuinfo: phys. address bits : 40
/proc/cpuinfo: max. addr. space # : 255
/proc/cpuinfo: BogoMIPS : 493.60
/proc/cpuinfo: kernel unaligned acc : 0 (pc=0,va=0)
/proc/cpuinfo: user unaligned acc : 77 (pc=200011db644,va=11f831ffc) /proc/cpuinfo: platform string : N/A
/proc/cpuinfo: cpus detected : 1
/proc/cpuinfo: L1 Icache : 64K, 2-way, 64b line
/proc/cpuinfo: L1 Dcache : 64K, 2-way, 64b line
/proc/cpuinfo: L2 cache : 1024K, 1-way, 64b line
/proc/cpuinfo: L3 cache : n/a
/proc/ioports: 00000000-01ffffff : PCI IO bus 0
/proc/ioports: 00000000-0000001f : dma1
/proc/ioports: 00000020-0000003f : pic1
/proc/ioports: 00000040-0000005f : timer
/proc/ioports: 00000060-0000006f : keyboard
/proc/ioports: 00000070-0000007f : rtc
/proc/ioports: 00000080-0000008f : dma page reg
/proc/ioports: 000000a0-000000bf : pic2
/proc/ioports: 000000c0-000000df : dma2
/proc/ioports: 000002f8-000002ff : serial
/proc/ioports: 000003c0-000003df : alpha-vga+
/proc/ioports: 000003f8-000003ff : serial
/proc/ioports: 00008000-0000803f : 0000:00:01.0
/proc/ioports: 00008000-0000803f : e1000
/proc/ioports: 00008040-0000804f : 0000:00:02.0
/proc/ioports: 00008040-0000804f : pata_cmd64x
/proc/ioports: 00008050-00008057 : 0000:00:02.0
/proc/ioports: 00008050-00008057 : pata_cmd64x
/proc/ioports: 00008058-0000805f : 0000:00:02.0
/proc/ioports: 00008060-00008063 : 0000:00:02.0
/proc/ioports: 00008060-00008063 : pata_cmd64x
/proc/ioports: 00008064-00008067 : 0000:00:02.0
/proc/iomem: 00000000-3fffffff : PCI mem bus 0
/proc/iomem: 09000000-0903ffff : 0000:00:01.0
/proc/iomem: 09040000-0905ffff : 0000:00:01.0
/proc/iomem: 09040000-0905ffff : e1000
/proc/iomem: 09060000-0906ffff : 0000:00:00.0
/proc/iomem: 09070000-09070fff : 0000:00:00.0
/proc/iomem: 0a000000-0bffffff : 0000:00:00.0
/proc/interrupts: CPU0
/proc/interrupts: 1: 12 XT-PIC i8042
/proc/interrupts: 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
/proc/interrupts: 4: 14158 XT-PIC ttyS0
/proc/interrupts: 8: 13263167 dummy -RTC timer /proc/interrupts: 12: 6 XT-PIC i8042
/proc/interrupts: 24: 72766 CLIPPER enp0s1
/proc/interrupts: 28: 109606 CLIPPER pata_cmd64x /proc/interrupts: PMI: 0 Performance Monitoring /proc/interrupts: ERR: 0
/proc/meminfo: MemTotal: 2056576 kB
/proc/meminfo: MemFree: 571640 kB
/proc/meminfo: MemAvailable: 1804024 kB
/proc/meminfo: Buffers: 150024 kB
/proc/meminfo: Cached: 1201304 kB
/proc/meminfo: SwapCached: 0 kB
/proc/meminfo: Active: 566008 kB
/proc/meminfo: Inactive: 814720 kB
/proc/meminfo: Active(anon): 155448 kB
/proc/meminfo: Inactive(anon): 50512 kB
/proc/meminfo: Active(file): 410560 kB
/proc/meminfo: Inactive(file): 764208 kB
/proc/meminfo: Unevictable: 0 kB
/proc/meminfo: Mlocked: 0 kB
/proc/meminfo: SwapTotal: 1000640 kB
/proc/meminfo: SwapFree: 1000640 kB
/proc/meminfo: Dirty: 640 kB
/proc/meminfo: Writeback: 0 kB
/proc/meminfo: AnonPages: 29432 kB
/proc/meminfo: Mapped: 6136 kB
/proc/meminfo: Shmem: 176568 kB
/proc/meminfo: KReclaimable: 82912 kB
/proc/meminfo: Slab: 90984 kB
/proc/meminfo: SReclaimable: 82912 kB
/proc/meminfo: SUnreclaim: 8072 kB
/proc/meminfo: KernelStack: 1024 kB
/proc/meminfo: PageTables: 592 kB
/proc/meminfo: NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
/proc/meminfo: Bounce: 0 kB
/proc/meminfo: WritebackTmp: 0 kB
/proc/meminfo: CommitLimit: 2028928 kB
/proc/meminfo: Committed_AS: 215608 kB
/proc/meminfo: VmallocTotal: 8388608 kB
/proc/meminfo: VmallocUsed: 8616 kB
/proc/meminfo: VmallocChunk: 0 kB
/proc/meminfo: Percpu: 192 kB
/proc/bus/input/devices: I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=ab41 /proc/bus/input/devices: N: Name="AT Translated Set 2 keyboard" /proc/bus/input/devices: P: Phys=isa0060/serio0/input0
/proc/bus/input/devices: S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input0 /proc/bus/input/devices: U: Uniq=
/proc/bus/input/devices: H: Handlers=sysrq kbd leds
/proc/bus/input/devices: B: PROP=0
/proc/bus/input/devices: B: EV=120013
/proc/bus/input/devices: B: KEY=402000000 3803078f800d001 feffffdfffefffff fffffffffffffffe
/proc/bus/input/devices: B: MSC=10
/proc/bus/input/devices: B: LED=7
/proc/bus/input/devices:

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