Bug#1054644: xfsprogs-udeb: causes D-I to fail, reporting errors about missing partition devices

[Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>]

"Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org> writes:
...
> Curiously, this log says:
>
> Oct 24 05:35:32 in-target: Setting up xfsprogs (6.4.0-1) ...^M
>
> So ... is it running 6.4 and not 6.5?

The daily test versions of Debian-Installer draw components from
"unstable", which is where the 6.5 version is at present, which then
creates the file system with problematic flags.

However, the test images normally install "testing" onto the target, to
avoid pointless breakage caused by the potential for "unstable" to be,
well ... unstable, hence the 6.4 version that gets put in-target.

Having 6.4 in the target system doesn't help in this case, because the
damage has already been done while creating the file system, by the 6.5
version of the udeb.

One can confirm that this is the case by looking for xfsprogs in here:

  https://openqa.debian.net/tests/198911/logfile?filename=complete_install-DI-installed-pkgs.txt

which lists the installed components (udebs) of the installer that's running:

  xfsprogs-udeb                            6.5.0-1

Cheers, Phil.
-- 
Philip Hands -- https://hands.com/~phil