dist-upgrade to jessie fails

[kaihendry]

I've pushed my "testing" branch where I've did a fairly clean dist-upgrade to jessie (wheezy+1)

https://github.com/Webconverger/webc/tree/testing

However it fails to boot on the 686 version, it seems like it's failing to mount something, hence I'm thinking git-fs needs to be re-integrated.

As for the 486 version, it segfaults.

Sooner or later we need to make this step up from wheezy, but in the meantime, I am thinking of just backporting xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.21.15-2+b2 as that's the most pressing reason to upgrade.

[matthijskooijman]

If the initramfs stuff got changed, then the git-fs changes should re-applied. I recently did that already, so you might be able to just re-apply those commits (IIRC there were two) on top of the current tree?

[kaihendry]

These two,right?

• https://github.com/Webconverger/webc/commit/00b9d2810f2d4e7c94e34eb9a06e01dd4dad874a
• https://github.com/Webconverger/webc/commit/39be3d6f74c01ea16f94d078d29bbb14c38bb8b1

I've got a really complex merge here: http://s.natalian.org/2014-09-11/complex.diff

[matthijskooijman]

Yes, those two. I'd squash them together and apply them as a single commit (with a message similar to the first commit). If you just upgraded initramfs-tools, dpkg should have replaced the relevant files with the unmodified versions and, provided that upstream didn't change anything big, those commits should re-apply without problems.

I'm not sure what the diff file is that you linked, though?

[kaihendry]

The file which looks like it needs a complex merge is /lib/live/boot/9990-misc-helpers.sh

Next I need to compare with this live-boot's version?

[kaihendry]

I think it's more complicated than that since match_files_in_dir is nowhere to be found on updated version IIUC.

https://github.com/Webconverger/webc/blob/testing/lib/live/boot/9990-misc-helpers.sh and upstream http://live.debian.net/gitweb/?p=live-boot.git;a=blob;f=components/9990-misc-helpers.sh;

does not have it and I can't find it in it's history either.

Hmmm, what is the story behind match_files_in_dir? :)

[matthijskooijman]

It seems that mount_images_in_directory used to contain a full list of possible filesystem types and used match_files_in_dir to see if any of them was present. Now, it just calls is_live_path, which also contains this same list. In other words, upstream removed some duplicate code which I think means we just have to change is_live_path (so only the first change from 00b9d28 needs to be applied, the second is no longer needed).

[kaihendry]

I made the suggested changes I think @matthijskooijman and I'm getting segfaults whilst trying to boot... I assume whilst trying to mount the gitfs.

http://s.natalian.org/2014-10-24/call-trace.png

Would be super grateful if you lend a hand here. Not sure why I can't examine the boot.log either. :/

[matthijskooijman]

Turns out the problem was that the 'fuse' module is no longer autoloaded. Adding a modprobe fuse fixes this.

I'll clean up the changes a bit and send a PR in a minute.

[kaihendry]

:+1: Nice work. I've pushed your changes to a jessie branch https://github.com/Webconverger/webc/tree/jessie

I might leave the splash as is, since (luckily) the B&W theme fits the new Webconverger logo well: https://gist.github.com/kaihendry/c13f4716243a15c75ee4

Only issue is that it doesn't seem to nicely progress.

:heart: git-fs fetch-revision=jessie from webc-26.iso WORKS :grinning:

I fear there is a Adobe flash regression using Intel amongst other things, so there is a lot of testing work cut out for me and I'll probably create separate issues for them as I see them.