What happened to preseed/late_command?

[Josef Wolf]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 07:45:58PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 06:37:43PM +0100, Josef Wolf wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 09:58:30AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > > Could you give a more concrete example? Perhaps it's the commands
> > > you're running that are problematic?
> > 
> > I've created a customized install CD based on gutsy alternate CD.  To
> > load my preseed file, I changed the append line in isolinux.cfg (I break
> > the line to improve readability)
> 
> Since I routinely lint people's preseeding for them, I'll do so now ...

Thanks for your efforts, Colin!

I will do some tests and try to make sure I really understand.  As soon
as I think I understand (or I notice I need more information), I will
report (or ask more questions).  For now, I just skip your suggestions,
but I'll come back on them.  Please don't be offended from this delay.  

Thank you very much!

> OK, this looks correct to me. Could you search for "Name:
> preseed/late_command" in /var/log/installer/cdebconf/questions.dat and
> copy-and-paste that whole paragraph, so we can see how your preseed file
> was interpreted?

I could not let my hands off in the meantime.  I have reinstalled with
DEBCONF_DEBUG=5.  The result was the same, but I got more debug info.

Here is the paragraph from questions.dat:

  Name: preseed/late_command
  Template: preseed/late_command
  Owners: d-i

This is the paragraph from templates.dat

  Name: preseed/late_command
  Type: string
  Description: for internal use; can be preseeded
  Extended_description: Shell command or commands to run in the d-i environment as late as possible

And here comes the section from syslog (with debconf debugging turned on)

  Dec 12 18:16:17 debconf: --> PROGRESS INFO finish-install/progress/preseed
  Dec 12 18:16:17 debconf: <-- 10 finish-install/progress/preseed does not exist
  Dec 12 18:16:17 debconf: --> SUBST finish-install/progress/fallback SCRIPT preseed
  Dec 12 18:16:17 debconf: Adding [SCRIPT] -> [preseed]
  Dec 12 18:16:17 debconf: <-- 0
  Dec 12 18:16:17 debconf: --> PROGRESS INFO finish-install/progress/fallback
  Dec 12 18:16:17 debconf: <-- 0 OK
  Dec 12 18:16:17 finish-install: info: Running /usr/lib/finish-install.d/07preseed
  Dec 12 18:16:17 debconf: --> GET preseed/late_command
  Dec 12 18:16:17 debconf: <-- 0
  Dec 12 18:16:17 debconf: --> PROGRESS STEP 1
  Dec 12 18:16:17 debconf: <-- 0 OK
  Dec 12 18:16:17 debconf: --> PROGRESS INFO finish-install/progress/bind-mount
  Dec 12 18:16:17 debconf: <-- 10 finish-install/progress/bind-mount does not exist
  Dec 12 18:16:17 debconf: --> SUBST finish-install/progress/fallback SCRIPT bind-mount
  Dec 12 18:16:17 debconf: Adding [SCRIPT] -> [bind-mount]
  Dec 12 18:16:17 debconf: <-- 0
  Dec 12 18:16:17 debconf: --> PROGRESS INFO finish-install/progress/fallback
  Dec 12 18:16:17 debconf: <-- 0 OK
  Dec 12 18:16:17 finish-install: info: Running /usr/lib/finish-install.d/10bind-mount
  Dec 12 18:16:17 debconf: --> PROGRESS STEP 1
  Dec 12 18:16:17 debconf: <-- 0 OK
  Dec 12 18:16:17 debconf: --> PROGRESS INFO finish-install/progress/clock-setup