Created attachment 11531 [details] Installer log showing failure This bug first showed up in Mageia 7 and was quite noticeable in the Live ISO builds. Sometimes, during install_hardware_packages() in afterInstallPackages(), the installer fails to detect that one or more of the firmware packages has already been installed and attempts to reinstall it. For Mageia 7 this wasn't a problem, as the reinstall succeeded, but in cauldron it fails (probably related to bug #25439) and the installer aborts. This bug comes and goes. For a given install configuration it seems to be consistent, but change some settings (or add some print statements to try to debug the problem) and it will flip. I've attached the installer log from a failed Live ISO build. Setting to release blocker, as this blocks ISO building. Setting component to installer, but from what debug I've managed to do, I suspect the real culprit is perl-URPM, so assigning to Thierry.
I don't see the link with the other bug report which looks unrelated. I don't have your /mnt/root/drakx/install.log to confirm it but the culprit seems to be that because it's already installed, it's part of 2 transactions: * selecting radeon-firmware-20200204-2.mga8.nonfree.noarch * set_rejected: radeon-firmware-20200204-2.mga8.nonfree.noarch * selecting hso-rezero-0.1-20.mga8.x86_64 * transaction valid: remove=radeon-firmware-20200204-2.mga8.nonfree.noarch update=radeon-firmware,hso-rezero * scheduled sets of transactions: remove=1=radeon-firmware-20200204-2.mga8.nonfree.noarch update=2=radeon-firmware,hso-rezero * opening rpmdb (root=/mnt, write=1) * trans: scheduling removal of radeon-firmware-20200204-2.mga8.nonfree.noarch * trans: scheduling update of hso-rezero-0.1-20.mga8.x86_64 (id=10190, file=/tmp/image/media/core/release/hso-rezero-0.1-20.mga8.x86_64.rpm) * trans: scheduling update of radeon-firmware-20200204-2.mga8.nonfree.noarch (id=29285, file=/tmp/image/media/nonfree/release/radeon-firmware-20200204-2.mga8.nonfree.noarch.rpm) Could you provide install.log for such a case? I can only imagine scenarios: install::pkgs::_install_raw() failing to register it actually got installed: if ($check_installed) { _unselect_package($packages, $pkg); But somehow it does know it's installed since it tries to remove it which must have failed b/c it's needed by some pkgs, but again we need install.log What I know is that it happens when drakx-net code tries to install some pkgs later...
Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
Created attachment 11532 [details] install.log from same install radeon-firmware was selected in the last batch of the main package install, but isn't listed as an installed package - although clearly it was installed. The link to the other bug is that the reinstall used to work in mga7, but doesn't in cauldron, which has changed this bug from a minor annoyance to a release blocker :-(
The bug is in the close_helper() subroutine defined in install::pkgs::_install_raw(): # ignore first close after end of verify: if ($is_installing && $verify_just_closed) { undef $verify_just_closed; return; } This causes the first package in each transaction to go unrecorded. git blame gives me commit 73aa98991a97501bc1e251689865d71ec20298a9 Author: Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud@gmail.com> Date: Wed Nov 21 03:53:02 2018 +0100 remove debug statement wrongly added with commit 6375ef3a8cd8b1b1e057334ab680c5c701123395 (spot by Martin Whitaker) but it looks like you also reverted a possible fix for this bug.
Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)Source RPM: (none) => drakx-installer-stage2-18.23-2.mga8.src.rpm
Created attachment 11549 [details] Proposed fix Testing what was reverted, it didn't work. This does.
Keywords: (none) => PATCH
Looks good (& tested by you) Commit it…
Fixed in drakx-installer-stage2-18.24
Resolution: (none) => FIXEDStatus: NEW => RESOLVED