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0005108Kali LinuxKali Package Bugpublic2019-03-29 13:47
Reporterfyzbyt Assigned Torhertzog  
PriorityhighSeveritymajorReproducibilityhave not tried
Status closedResolutionno change required 
Product Version2018.4 
Summary0005108: Installer fails to load AHCI module if preseed is present - Workaround no longer succeeds.
Description

Kali has been suffering from this bug

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=872410

However, the workaround in this thread has been functional.

Within the last 2 weeks, this workaround has started to work intermittently, failing (in our case) around 90% of the time.

It appears to be a race condition somewhere within debian-installer.

However, this makes systems uninstallable with a Preseed File.

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rhertzog

rhertzog

2018-11-23 12:55

administrator   ~0009977

Can you be more precise on when the work-around stopped to work reliably for you? We haven't updated the kernel in that timeframe so It would be nice to have a more precise date so that we can check what got changed at the time of the regression.

Do you have this problem with real hardware only or can you also reproduce it with virtual machines?

fyzbyt

fyzbyt

2018-11-27 16:52

reporter   ~0010026

I would say approximately a month ago? it's hard to tell exactly because we're not imaging systems every day.

Its like ACHI isn't being loaded as early? and manually loading it doesn't seem to work.

The moment we yank out the preseed, it works perfectly, and a prebuilt iso with a preseed file built in seems to work fine too. it's just when the preseed is being pulled from a HTTPs server.

The logs don't tend to show us anything new and exciting either.

We're installing on the same hardware as in that bug for Debian, the intel NUC7i5.

fyzbyt

fyzbyt

2018-12-19 18:24

reporter   ~0010121

We've seen this now reach out to older models as well as of today.

Not sure exactly what's going on. If i figure something else out i'll let you know.

fyzbyt

fyzbyt

2019-01-03 18:11

reporter   ~0010139

So, We replaced the preseed file with another one which resolved this issue

This difference appears to be how the preseed file works. I think it has to do with putting an apt-cacher in the middle? While this didn't cause an issue, it does now.

We'll do more investigating, but it appears to be on our side for now.

Thanks,
Fyzbyt

rhertzog

rhertzog

2019-03-29 13:47

administrator   ~0010453

Thanks for following up. Since there's nothing we can do about this, I'm closing the bug.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2018-11-19 18:23 fyzbyt New Issue
2018-11-20 09:11 rhertzog Assigned To => rhertzog
2018-11-20 09:11 rhertzog Status new => assigned
2018-11-23 12:55 rhertzog Note Added: 0009977
2018-11-23 13:03 rhertzog Priority normal => high
2018-11-23 13:03 rhertzog Severity minor => major
2018-11-27 16:52 fyzbyt Note Added: 0010026
2018-12-19 18:24 fyzbyt Note Added: 0010121
2019-01-03 18:11 fyzbyt Note Added: 0010139
2019-03-29 13:47 rhertzog Status assigned => closed
2019-03-29 13:47 rhertzog Resolution open => no change required
2019-03-29 13:47 rhertzog Note Added: 0010453