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biosdevname package

Biosdevname not installed in the target after server install

Bug #1043936 reported by Brad Figg on 2012-08-30

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	biosdevname (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Critical	Colin Watson	Ubuntu ubuntu-12.10-beta-1
	Quantal	Fix Released	Critical	Colin Watson	Ubuntu ubuntu-12.10-beta-1

Bug Description

I'm installing quantal from scratch on a Dell PowerEdge R310. When the system finishes installing ifconfig -a thinks the interface names are eth0 and eth1. The /etc/network/interfaces file thinks the name should be em1. Upon initial boot, post install the interface does not come up.

cat /etc/network/interfaces
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
auto em1
iface em1 inet dhcp

root@rizzo:~# ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr d4:ae:52:a3:6a:22
          inet addr:10.97.2.3 Bcast:10.97.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::d6ae:52ff:fea3:6a22/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:18191 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:4532 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:20872409 (20.8 MB) TX bytes:663870 (663.8 KB)

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr d4:ae:52:a3:6a:23
          BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
          RX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:1184 (1.1 KB) TX bytes:1184 (1.1 KB)

root@rizzo:~# biosdevname -i eth0
em1

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lp:ubuntu/quantal/biosdevname

Brad Figg (brad-figg) on 2012-08-30

affects:

linux (Ubuntu) → ubiquity (Ubuntu)

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote on 2012-08-30:

From IRC, biosdevname was not present on the target system post-install and Brad had to install it manually. This means it's failing to be correctly included by d-i.

affects:	ubiquity (Ubuntu) → debian-installer (Ubuntu)
summary:	- Fresh install of quantal server gets the interface name wrong + Biosdevname not installed in the target after server install

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Brad Figg (brad-figg) wrote on 2012-08-30:

udev Edit (269.6 KiB, text/plain)

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Brad Figg (brad-figg) wrote on 2012-08-30:

installer syslog Edit (452.8 KiB, text/plain)

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Brad Figg (brad-figg) wrote on 2012-08-30:

/var/log/installer/status Edit (54.1 KiB, text/plain)

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Brad Figg (brad-figg) wrote on 2012-08-30:

/var/log/installer/partman Edit (258.2 KiB, text/plain)

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Brad Figg (brad-figg) wrote on 2012-08-30:

/var/log/installer/lsb-release Edit (123 bytes, text/plain)

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Brad Figg (brad-figg) wrote on 2012-08-30:

/var/log/installer/hardware-summary Edit (33.1 KiB, text/plain)

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Brad Figg (brad-figg) wrote on 2012-08-30:

/var/log/installer/cdebconf/questions.dat Edit (114.7 KiB, application/x-ns-proxy-autoconfig)

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Brad Figg (brad-figg) wrote on 2012-08-30:

/var/log/installer/cdebconf/templates.dat Edit (11.9 MiB, application/x-ns-proxy-autoconfig)

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Brad Figg (brad-figg) wrote on 2012-08-30:

#10

The preseed file that I am using. Edit (4.6 KiB, text/plain)

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Brad Figg (brad-figg) wrote on 2012-08-30:

#11

I modified the preseed file that I'm using and added biosdevname to the pkgsel/include. Now the system boots up with em1 configured and up.

Steve Langasek (vorlon) on 2012-08-30

Changed in debian-installer (Ubuntu Quantal):
importance:	Undecided → High
status:	New → Triaged
importance:	High → Critical
assignee:	nobody → Colin Watson (cjwatson)
milestone:	none → ubuntu-12.10-beta-1

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Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox) wrote on 2012-08-30:

#12

Was the network available during the first failed installation? (and usable?!)

Aug 30 16:07:55 in-target: The following extra packages will be installed:
Aug 30 16:07:55 in-target: libpci3
Aug 30 16:07:55 in-target: The following NEW packages will be installed:
Aug 30 16:07:55 in-target: biosdevname libpci3
Aug 30 16:07:55 in-target: 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Aug 30 16:07:55 in-target: Need to get 47.8 kB of archives.
Aug 30 16:07:55 in-target: After this operation, 213 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Aug 30 16:07:55 in-target: Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main libpci3 amd64 1:3.1.9-5ubuntu2
Aug 30 16:07:55 in-target: Temporary failure resolving 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
Aug 30 16:07:55 in-target: Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main biosdevname amd64 0.4.1-0ubuntu1
Aug 30 16:07:55 in-target: Temporary failure resolving 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
Aug 30 16:07:55 in-target: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/pciutils/libpci3_3.1.9-5ubuntu2_amd64.deb Temporary failure resolving 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
Aug 30 16:07:55 in-target: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/b/biosdevname/biosdevname_0.4.1-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb Temporary failure resolving 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
Aug 30 16:07:55 in-target: E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

Needs checking if biosdevname is available in the squashfs and installed by the default server tasks / always?!

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2012-08-30:

#13

We don't want to put it in the squashfs, because it's installed conditionally. In any case, this installation used debootstrap rather than a squashfs. Since it's a network install, the presumption that packages can be installed from the network is reasonable.

I suspect that the bug here is actually that network configuration is copied into /target too late to be used by the apt-install queue processing in base-installer.

affects:

debian-installer (Ubuntu Quantal) → netcfg (Ubuntu Quantal)

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2012-08-31:

#14

Actually I think I see the problem; it isn't safe to use apt-install in a post-base-installer.d hook because that will try to do immediate installation without bind-mounting /run. A base-installer.d hook should work better here.

affects:	netcfg (Ubuntu Quantal) → biosdevname (Ubuntu Quantal)
Changed in biosdevname (Ubuntu Quantal):
status:	Triaged → Fix Committed

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2012-08-31:

#15

This bug was fixed in the package biosdevname - 0.4.1-0ubuntu2

---------------
biosdevname (0.4.1-0ubuntu2) quantal; urgency=low

* Move post-base-installer.d hook to a base-installer.d hook so that
apt-install may safely be used (LP: #1043936).
-- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Fri, 31 Aug 2012 01:20:38 +0100

Changed in biosdevname (Ubuntu Quantal):
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

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