D-I prompts for CD-ROM drivers when preseeding from USB drive

My boot options added to text.cfg:

cdrom-detect/try-usb=true persistent file=/cdrom/test/test.seed debian-installer/locale=en_US.UTF-8 console-setup/layoutcode=us initrd=/install/initrd.gz DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer quiet --

Uploading more debug info shortly.

Removed commented line in /bin/hw-detect for debugging:

# set -x

Reran install, syslog attached for logs up to the failure.

as per Bug #424437
I added a sleep to /var/lib/dpkg/info/cdrom-detect.postinst to check to see if it was the USB drive not settling and installation continued as expected.

The requested information was provided, setting this to Triaged, Thanks Tom.

Tom, could you please try this diff?

  http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/cdrom-detect/ubuntu/revision/461

If that works, then I can apply it to Maverick and backport it. Thanks in advance.

Colin,
Thanks for the patch.
Applied and tested, it fixed the issue for me.

is there a chance for a 9.10 backport too?

This bug was fixed in the package cdrom-detect - 1.32ubuntu5

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cdrom-detect (1.32ubuntu5) maverick; urgency=low

  * usb-storage sometimes seems to take a while to settle to the point of
    actually exposing block devices, despite the 'udevadm settle' in
    hw-detect. I don't see an easy way to solve this, so, with
    reservations, retry the detection loop three times with a 'sleep 3' in
    between in the event that no devices are found, in the hope that that
    improves matters (LP: #586036).
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Fri, 04 Jun 2010 18:23:26 +0100

Accepted into karmic-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

Accepted into lucid-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

Could you please use this image to test this?

  http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lucid/daily/current/

Tested todays lucid daily, doesn't seem to work for me.

The patch isn't in the initrd.gz as far as I can see?

Could you try again? I've checked that it's in the initrd of the current daily build.

Colin,

I tested your change in an OEM project based on Lucid.

Without your change, I would get prompted about the cdrom 100% of the time.

With your change, I've now successfully done 3 fully automatic installs without being prompted at all; your patch is working great.

Thanks!

This is also now working for me in the latest Lucid daily builds.

Thanks for all your help Colin!

This bug was fixed in the package cdrom-detect - 1.32ubuntu3.10.04

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cdrom-detect (1.32ubuntu3.10.04) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

  * usb-storage sometimes seems to take a while to settle to the point of
    actually exposing block devices, despite the 'udevadm settle' in
    hw-detect. I don't see an easy way to solve this, so, with
    reservations, retry the detection loop three times with a 'sleep 3' in
    between in the event that no devices are found, in the hope that that
    improves matters (LP: #586036).
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Fri, 04 Jun 2010 18:33:56 +0100

Removing v-done again since karmic test is still outstanding.

Can anyone please test this on karmic? Or should we remove the proposed update, since it is unlikely to be useful (since we won't respin karmic CDs)?

Since we don't respin the karmic CD, it's pretty useless for me, I can however use the fix with my own respins. Thanks.

Right,I agree.