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NOOBS (New Out Of Box Software) - An easy Operating System install manager for the Raspberry Pi
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1.3 crashes with option "silentinstall" #120

Closed ak59 closed 6 years ago

ak59 commented 10 years ago

This only happens, when raspberry is connected to internet over Ethernet on start. In this case the slide show is shown only for a couple of seconds. On first boot crash after partition_setup.sh. Without internet connection on start, the same configuration works perfect.

lurch commented 10 years ago

Confirmed on NOOBS v1.3.2 - it looks like it starts installing automatically (thanks to the silentinstall recovery.cmdline option) but then when the network connection comes up a few seconds later, the installation quits and you just get left staring at the "for recovery mode hold shift" background image.

@Rob-Bishop Maybe the network shouldn't be enabled in the first place if the silentinstall option is being used?

IvanExpert commented 10 years ago

I think this is not exactly as described. The slide show appears and then immediately disappears (I didn't realize it was Ethernet-related), but even without it, the installation does continue and complete, as observable by the flickering of the ACT/OK LED.

However, and I think this is a separate bug, on automatic reboot following silent install, NOOBS crashes, 100% of the time (it says "Recovery Application Crashed" and it dumps you to sh). I don't know whether this is Ethernet-related or not, or whether it's specific to Raspbian installations, which is all that I've tried. Rebooting again at this point works fine.

Same behavior on both 1.3 and 1.3.2.

lurch commented 10 years ago

Ah! I hadn't noticed that the installation does still continue in the background despite the slideshow disappearing, so I just powered-off :-/

Rob-Bishop commented 10 years ago

If someone is able to contribute a fix, I'd happily accept it. Otherwise it's scheduled to be fixed in the next release.

lurch commented 10 years ago

I've found that this bug can be triggered in a different way (tested using the latest dev branch) - if you start installing an OS from a full-NOOBS card, and then once the install has started (i.e. the slideshow is being displayed) you then plug in a network cable, the slideshow window disappears, the installation continues in the background, and the recovery application crashes when it gets to the end of the installation.

Re-opening but tagging it as minor, as it's probably an unlikely situation.

IvanExpert commented 10 years ago

Another unlikely situation in which this can be triggered is where you have a single OS installed (in my case, I'm using my custom Raspple II distribution, at http://appleii.ivanx.com/rasppleii), with Ethernet connected, and you press shift to get to get to the reinstallation menu on startup. You'll see the OS you have already installed listed alone, and then it takes a couple of seconds for the rest of the network-only distributions to appear. If, in that moment before they appear, you press "I" and return to start the install, you'll get the same behavior -- slide show for a brief moment, and then it vanishes, followed by a crash to sh once the install is completed.

This makes me think the silentinstall bug might somehow be related to NOOBS expecting the distro menu, or a specific member of it, to be populated.

(I don't know whether this has been addressed by the fix mentioned above because I've been unable to build NOOBS per the guidance in the docs, unfortunately.)

UPDATE: I was able to build NOOBS at the checkout where the fix went in for silentinstall, and it also fixed this unlikely situation, so this comment should be considered not an issue.

lurch commented 10 years ago

I've been unable to build NOOBS per the guidance in the docs, unfortunately.

Would you mind opening a separate bug for that, providing more details please? (error messages, etc.)

IvanExpert commented 10 years ago

I did so, and was able to build a newer NOOBS (by installing libqt4-dev). I can confirm that the slides stay up during silentinstall.

IvanExpert commented 10 years ago

One side effect of the fix (where Ethernet is disabled for silentinstall) is that it also appears to be disabled if you press Shift during startup to get to the installation menu, meaning that other OS options aren't available to install from the internet. This is probably preferable for my own needs, but I thought I'd mention it in case it wasn't desired behavior.

IvanExpert commented 10 years ago

Thought I'd mention, with reference to issue #208, that I was able to build a recent NOOBS with the silentinstall fix by using git checkout 5e64133 (labeled "NOOBS v1.3.9", so I assume it's the release), followed by a git cherry-pick 057e2f3 (the commit of the ethernet disable on silentinstall).

lurch commented 10 years ago

Mostly-fixed by NOOBS v1.3.10 with https://github.com/raspberrypi/noobs/issues/120#issuecomment-28561561 being left as the only edge-case.

Ruffio commented 9 years ago

@lurch is this still an issue?

XECDesign commented 6 years ago

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