[Simple-cdd-devel] Bug#780812: simple-cdd: mount a file system with type ext4 ... failed.

[Vagrant Cascadian]

Control: retitle -1 simple-cdd: mount a file system with type ext4 ... failed.
Control: block -1 by 779922
Control: tag -1 wontfix

On 2015-03-19, Benjamin Young wrote:
> After using simple-cdd successfully for several weeks, I now get the
> following error during install:
>
> 'The attempt to mount a file system with type ext4 ... at / failed.'

This is due to kernel and module version mis-match in debian-installer
currently included in Jessie, which was built with an older kernel
version, and the udebs in Jessie are now based on 3.16.7-ckt7-1:

  https://bugs.debian.org/779922


You can use the daily images instead as a temporary workaround by
setting in profiles/default.conf:

  export DI_WWW_HOME=default

Note that there is no signature verification possible using the daily
images.


Another workaround would be to build your own updated debian-installer
images and tell simple-cdd to use it in profiles/default.conf:

  custom_installer=/path/to/your/custom/installer/build


A fixed version of debian-installer should hit jessie relatively soon...


This is a variation of:

  https://bugs.debian.org/548919

Since there's nothing simple-cdd can really do to resolve this (when you
feed simple-cdd broken images, simple-cdd produces broken images),
marking as wontfix.


live well,
  vagrant
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