Upgrade to Bookworm

[kmic5]

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[chris18890]

Hopefully this fixes #229 !

[detly]

I just tried this and it tripped on

Copying executable tmp/sbin/start-stop-daemon
cp: cannot stat 'tmp/sbin/start-stop-daemon': No such file or directory

As far as I can tell, this is because dpkg 1.21.22 (in regular Debian bookworm) has this file in /sbin/, but Raspberry Pi's bookworm distro uses 1.22.6~bpo12+rpt2, which has it in /usr/sbin. I am about to try patching build.sh to use the new path and I'll let you know how that goes, but I'm not in a position to make a PR right now, sorry.

[detly]

Well, changing that path allows build.sh to proceed just fine. Unfortunately the resulting image triggers a kernel panic almost immediately upon boot (Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unkown-block(0,0)). I wonder if it's related to some /boot/ config location changes in Bookworm.

[detly]

No, it was the 20 byte initramfs that did that. I was missing cpio in my build environment. I've remedied that and the installer is running.

[detly]

Would you prefer me to file separate issues on Bookworm-related issues, or keep them here in this PR, by the way?

[FooDeas]

You can keep them here if you want. Thanks for your effort!

[detly]

Well, I built the installer, and it ran through almost the entire process on my ancient RPi 2B without issue 🎊

Unfortunately it fell over at installing packages into the new system:

  Building dependency tree...
  Reading state information...
  Package aptitude is not available, but is referred to by another package.
  This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
  is only available from another source
  Package raspi-copies-and-fills is not available, but is referred to by another package.
  This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
  is only available from another source
  Package nano is not available, but is referred to by another package.
  This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
  is only available from another source
  Package vim is not available, but is referred to by another package.
  This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
  is only available from another source
  E: Unable to locate package firmware-atheros
  E: Unable to locate package firmware-brcm80211
  E: Unable to locate package firmware-libertas
  E: Unable to locate package firmware-misc-nonfree
  E: Unable to locate package firmware-realtek
  E: Package 'aptitude' has no installation candidate
  E: Unable to locate package avahi-daemon
  E: Unable to locate package curl
  E: Unable to locate package hdparm
  E: Unable to locate package htop
  E: Unable to locate package iptables-persistent
  E: Unable to locate package micro
  E: Package 'nano' has no installation candidate
  E: Unable to locate package ncdu
  E: Unable to locate package netfilter-persistent
  E: Unable to locate package tmux
  E: Package 'vim' has no installation candidate
  E: Unable to locate package raspberrypi-bootloader
  E: Unable to locate package raspberrypi-kernel
  E: Unable to locate package raspberrypi-sys-mods
  E: Unable to locate package libraspberrypi-bin
  E: Package 'raspi-copies-and-fills' has no installation candidate
ERROR: 100, FAILED !

Error: The installation could not be completed!

Full log (~1000 lines!).

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raspberrypi-ua-netinst
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Revision unknown
Built on Mon Jun  3 15:11:50 UTC 2024
Running on Raspberry Pi version 2 Model B
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https://github.com/FooDeas/raspberrypi-ua-netinst/
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Remounting TempFS... OK
Mounting boot partition... OK
Copying boot files... OK
Executing installer-config.txt...
OK

Searching for deprecated variables...

Checking if config.txt needs to be modified before starting installation...
  Setting HDMI options... OK
OK

Unmounting boot partition... OK

Network configuration:
  ifname = eth0
  ip_addr = dhcp
  ip_ipv6 = 0
  online_config = 

Waiting for eth0... OK
Configuring eth0 with DHCP... 192.168.1.101
Set time using timeserver 'au.pool.ntp.org'... 'time.nist.gov'... OK

Installation started at Mon Jun  3 16:21:44 UTC 2024 (UTC).


Resulting installer configuration:
  preset = server
  packages = aptitude,avahi-daemon,curl,hdparm,htop,iptables-persistent,micro,nano,ncdu,netfilter-persistent,tmux,vim
  firmware_packages = 1
  mirror = http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/raspbian/raspbian
  mirror_cache = 
  release = bookworm
  arch = armhf
  hostname = han
  domainname = 
  user_ssh_pubkey = /home/jason/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
  root_ssh_pubkey = 
  root_ssh_pwlogin = 0
  ssh_pwlogin = 0
  username = jason
  usergpio = 
  usergpu = 
  usergroups = 
  usersysgroups = 
  userperms_admin = 1
  userperms_sound = 0
  cdebootstrap_cmdline = --flavour=minimal --include=locales,kmod,gnupg,libpam-systemd,rng-tools,cpufrequtils,openssh-server,dosfstools,iproute2,systemd-resolved,systemd-timesyncd,vim-tiny,iputils-ping,wget,ca-certificates,rsyslog,cron,dialog,locales,tzdata,less,man-db,logrotate,bash-completion,console-setup,apt-utils,systemd-sysv,sudo
  cdebootstrap_debug = 0
  packages_postinstall = firmware-atheros,firmware-brcm80211,firmware-libertas,firmware-misc-nonfree,firmware-realtek,aptitude,avahi-daemon,curl,hdparm,htop,iptables-persistent,micro,nano,ncdu,netfilter-persistent,tmux,vim,raspberrypi-bootloader,raspberrypi-kernel,raspberrypi-sys-mods,libraspberrypi-bin,raspi-copies-and-fills
  boot_volume_label = 
  root_volume_label = 
  bootsize = +128M
  bootoffset = 8192
  rootsize = 
  timeserver = au.pool.ntp.org
  timezone = Australia/Perth
  rtc = 
  dt_overlays = 
  keyboard_layout = 
  locales = en_AU.UTF-8,en_US.UTF-8
  system_default_locale = en_AU.UTF-8
  wlan_country = 
  ip_ipv6 = 0
  cmdline = dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 ipv6.disable=1 console=tty1 fsck.repair=yes
  drivers_to_load = 
  gpu_mem = 
  console_blank = 
  hdmi_type = 
  hdmi_tv_res = 1080p
  hdmi_monitor_res = 1024x768
  hdmi_disable_overscan = 0
  hdmi_system_only = 0
  usbroot = 0
  usbboot = 0
  rootdev = /dev/mmcblk0
  rootpartition = /dev/mmcblk0p2
  rootfstype = f2fs
  rootfs_mkfs_options = -f
  rootfs_install_mount_options = noatime
  rootfs_mount_options = noatime
  final_action = reboot
  quiet_boot = 0
  disable_raspberries = 0
  disable_splash = 0
  cleanup = 1
  cleanup_logfiles = 1
  spi_enable = 0
  i2c_enable = 0
  i2c_baudrate = 
  sound_enable = 0
  sound_usb_enable = 0
  sound_usb_first = 0
  camera_enable = 0
  camera_disable_led = 0
  use_systemd_services = 1

OTP dump:
  16:00280000
  17:1020000a
  18:1020000a
  27:00005050
  28:f29d7eb2
  29:0d62814d
  30:00a21041

Waiting 5 seconds.....
Waiting for /dev/mmcblk0... 
  Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 7.4 GiB, 7948206080 bytes, 15523840 sectors
  Disklabel type: dos
  Disk identifier: 0x3260d9c4
OK
Applying new partition table... OK
Initializing /boot as vfat... OK
Copying /boot files in... OK
Initializing / as f2fs...   
      F2FS-tools: mkfs.f2fs Ver: 1.15.0 (2022-05-13)
  
  Info: Disable heap-based policy
  Info: Debug level = 0
  Info: Trim is enabled
    /dev/mmcblk0p2 appears to contain an existing filesystem (f2fs).
  Info: Segments per section = 1
  Info: Sections per zone = 1
  Info: sector size = 512
  Info: total sectors = 15253504 (7448 MB)
  Info: zone aligned segment0 blkaddr: 512
  Info: format version with
    "Linux version 6.1.21-v7+ (dom@buildbot) (arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc-8 (Ubuntu/Linaro 8.4.0-3ubuntu1) 8.4.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.34) #1642 SMP Mon Apr  3 17:20:52 BST 2023"
  Info: [/dev/mmcblk0p2] Discarding device
  Info: This device doesn't support BLKSECDISCARD
  Info: Discarded 7448 MB
  Info: Overprovision ratio = 2.330%
  Info: Overprovision segments = 176 (GC reserved = 93)
  Info: format successful
OK
Mounting new filesystems... OK
Starting HWRNG... OK

Starting install process...
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  P: Retrieving ucf
  P: Retrieving runit-helper
  P: Retrieving libtirpc-common
  P: Retrieving libtirpc3
  P: Retrieving libnsl2
  P: Retrieving libwrap0
  P: Retrieving openssh-server
  P: Retrieving mksh
  P: Retrieving udev
  P: Retrieving rng-tools-debian
  P: Retrieving rng-tools
  P: Retrieving sudo
  P: Retrieving tzdata
  P: Retrieving apt-utils
  P: Retrieving libuchardet0
  P: Retrieving groff-base
  P: Retrieving libelf1
  P: Retrieving libbpf1
  P: Retrieving libmnl0
  P: Retrieving libxtables12
  P: Retrieving libcap2-bin
  P: Retrieving iproute2
  P: Retrieving iputils-ping
  P: Retrieving kmod
  P: Retrieving less
  P: Retrieving libpopt0
  P: Retrieving logrotate
  P: Retrieving bsdextrautils
  P: Retrieving libpipeline1
  P: Retrieving man-db
  P: Retrieving vim-common
  P: Retrieving vim-tiny
  P: Retrieving bash-completion
  P: Retrieving openssl
  P: Retrieving ca-certificates
  P: Retrieving libc-l10n
  P: Retrieving libpam-systemd
  P: Retrieving locales
  P: Retrieving systemd-timesyncd
  P: Retrieving libpsl5
  P: Retrieving wget
  P: Retrieving dialog
  P: Retrieving dosfstools
  P: Retrieving libestr0
  P: Retrieving libfastjson4
  P: Retrieving liblognorm5
  P: Retrieving rsyslog
  P: Retrieving systemd-resolved
  P: Unpacking package liblocale-gettext-perl
  P: Unpacking package mount
  P: Unpacking package cron-daemon-common
  P: Unpacking package sensible-utils
  P: Configuring package cron-daemon-common
  P: Unpacking package cron
  P: Unpacking package dmsetup
  P: Unpacking package systemd
  P: Configuring package mount
  P: Configuring package systemd
  P: Configuring package dmsetup
  P: Unpacking package systemd-sysv
  P: Unpacking package dbus-bin
  P: Unpacking package dbus-session-bus-common
  P: Unpacking package dbus-daemon
  P: Unpacking package dbus-system-bus-common
  P: Unpacking package dbus
  P: Unpacking package kbd
  P: Unpacking package xkb-data
  P: Unpacking package keyboard-configuration
  P: Unpacking package console-setup-linux
  P: Unpacking package console-setup
  P: Unpacking package libcpufreq0
  P: Unpacking package cpufrequtils
  P: Unpacking package openssh-client
  P: Unpacking package openssh-sftp-server
  P: Unpacking package procps
  P: Unpacking package ucf
  P: Unpacking package runit-helper
  P: Unpacking package libtirpc-common
  P: Unpacking package openssh-server
  P: Unpacking package mksh
  P: Unpacking package udev
  P: Unpacking package rng-tools-debian
  P: Configuring package mksh
  P: Unpacking package rng-tools
  P: Unpacking package sudo
  P: Unpacking package tzdata
  P: Unpacking package apt-utils
  P: Unpacking package groff-base
  P: Unpacking package libcap2-bin
  P: Unpacking package iproute2
  P: Unpacking package iputils-ping
  P: Unpacking package kmod
  P: Unpacking package less
  P: Unpacking package logrotate
  P: Unpacking package bsdextrautils
  P: Unpacking package man-db
  P: Unpacking package vim-common
  P: Unpacking package vim-tiny
  P: Unpacking package bash-completion
  P: Unpacking package openssl
  P: Unpacking package ca-certificates
  P: Unpacking package libc-l10n
  P: Unpacking package locales
  P: Unpacking package systemd-timesyncd
  P: Unpacking package wget
  P: Unpacking package dialog
  P: Unpacking package dosfstools
  P: Unpacking package rsyslog
  P: Unpacking package systemd-resolved
  P: Configuring package runit-helper
  P: Configuring package systemd-sysv
  P: Configuring package libc-l10n
  P: Configuring package apt-utils
  P: Configuring package bsdextrautils
  P: Configuring package wget
  P: Configuring package libtirpc-common
  P: Configuring package dosfstools
  P: Configuring package less
  P: Configuring package xkb-data
  P: Configuring package kmod
  P: Configuring package locales
  P: Configuring package tzdata
  P: Configuring package libcap2-bin
  P: Configuring package vim-common
  P: Configuring package dialog
  P: Configuring package bash-completion
  P: Configuring package systemd-timesyncd
  P: Configuring package udev
  P: Configuring package sudo
  P: Configuring package libcpufreq0
  P: Configuring package sensible-utils
  P: Configuring package dbus-session-bus-common
  P: Configuring package procps
  P: Configuring package kbd
  P: Configuring package dbus-system-bus-common
  P: Configuring package openssl
  P: Configuring package iputils-ping
  P: Configuring package dbus-bin
  P: Configuring package liblocale-gettext-perl
  P: Configuring package logrotate
  P: Configuring package cron
  P: Configuring package rsyslog
  P: Configuring package dbus-daemon
  P: Configuring package vim-tiny
  P: Configuring package ca-certificates
  P: Configuring package rng-tools-debian
  P: Configuring package dbus
  P: Configuring package cpufrequtils
  P: Configuring package ucf
  P: Configuring package groff-base
  P: Configuring package rng-tools
  P: Configuring package keyboard-configuration
  P: Configuring package systemd-resolved
  P: Configuring package iproute2
  P: Configuring package openssh-client
  P: Configuring package man-db
  P: Configuring package console-setup-linux
  P: Configuring package openssh-sftp-server
  P: Configuring package console-setup
  P: Configuring package openssh-server
  P: Deconfiguring helper cdebootstrap-helper-apt
  P: Deconfiguring helper cdebootstrap-helper-makedev
  P: Writing apt sources.list
  P: Writing hosts
  P: Writing resolv.conf
OK

Configuring installed system:
  Setting root password... OK
  Disabling SSH password login for users... OK
  Configuring user 'jason':
    Adding user `jason' ...
    Adding new group `jason' (1000) ...
    Adding new user `jason' (1000) with group `jason (1000)' ...
    Creating home directory `/home/jason' ...
    Copying files from `/etc/skel' ...
    Adding new user `jason' to supplemental / extra groups `users' ...
    Adding user `jason' to group `users' ...
  Setting SSH key for 'jason'... OK
  Setting owner as 'jason' on SSH directory... OK
  Setting permissions on 'jason' SSH authorized_keys... OK
  Setting password for 'jason'... OK
  Adding 'jason' to sudo group... OK
  Configuring /etc/fstab... OK
  Configuring hostname... OK
  Configuring hosts... adding han... OK
  Configuring systemd network settings... OK
  Configuring tzdata (timezone "Australia/Perth")... OK
  Enabling locales... en_AU.UTF-8... en_US.UTF-8... OK
  Generating locales (this might take a while)...
    en_AU.UTF-8... done
    en_US.UTF-8... done
  Generation complete.
  Setting system default locale 'en_AU.UTF-8'... OK

Configuring apt:
  Configuring Raspbian/Debian repository... OK
  Checking Raspbian/Debian repository entry... OK
  Checking Raspbian/Debian GPG key... Moving key to /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/... OK
  Adding raspberrypi.org GPG key to /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/... OK
  Configuring RaspberryPi repository... OK
  Configuring RaspberryPi preference... OK

Updating package lists... OK

Downloading packages...
  Reading package lists...
  Building dependency tree...
  Reading state information...
  Package aptitude is not available, but is referred to by another package.
  This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
  is only available from another source
  Package raspi-copies-and-fills is not available, but is referred to by another package.
  This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
  is only available from another source
  Package nano is not available, but is referred to by another package.
  This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
  is only available from another source
  Package vim is not available, but is referred to by another package.
  This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
  is only available from another source
  E: Unable to locate package firmware-atheros
  E: Unable to locate package firmware-brcm80211
  E: Unable to locate package firmware-libertas
  E: Unable to locate package firmware-misc-nonfree
  E: Unable to locate package firmware-realtek
  E: Package 'aptitude' has no installation candidate
  E: Unable to locate package avahi-daemon
  E: Unable to locate package curl
  E: Unable to locate package hdparm
  E: Unable to locate package htop
  E: Unable to locate package iptables-persistent
  E: Unable to locate package micro
  E: Package 'nano' has no installation candidate
  E: Unable to locate package ncdu
  E: Unable to locate package netfilter-persistent
  E: Unable to locate package tmux
  E: Package 'vim' has no installation candidate
  E: Unable to locate package raspberrypi-bootloader
  E: Unable to locate package raspberrypi-kernel
  E: Unable to locate package raspberrypi-sys-mods
  E: Unable to locate package libraspberrypi-bin
  E: Package 'raspi-copies-and-fills' has no installation candidate
ERROR: 100, trying again (2/5)...   Reading package lists...
  Building dependency tree...
  Reading state information...
  Package aptitude is not available, but is referred to by another package.
  This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
  is only available from another source
  Package raspi-copies-and-fills is not available, but is referred to by another package.
  This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
  is only available from another source
  Package nano is not available, but is referred to by another package.
  This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
  is only available from another source
  Package vim is not available, but is referred to by another package.
  This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
  is only available from another source
  E: Unable to locate package firmware-atheros
  E: Unable to locate package firmware-brcm80211
  E: Unable to locate package firmware-libertas
  E: Unable to locate package firmware-misc-nonfree
  E: Unable to locate package firmware-realtek
  E: Package 'aptitude' has no installation candidate
  E: Unable to locate package avahi-daemon
  E: Unable to locate package curl
  E: Unable to locate package hdparm
  E: Unable to locate package htop
  E: Unable to locate package iptables-persistent
  E: Unable to locate package micro
  E: Package 'nano' has no installation candidate
  E: Unable to locate package ncdu
  E: Unable to locate package netfilter-persistent
  E: Unable to locate package tmux
  E: Package 'vim' has no installation candidate
  E: Unable to locate package raspberrypi-bootloader
  E: Unable to locate package raspberrypi-kernel
  E: Unable to locate package raspberrypi-sys-mods
  E: Unable to locate package libraspberrypi-bin
  E: Package 'raspi-copies-and-fills' has no installation candidate
ERROR: 100, trying again (3/5)...   Reading package lists...
  Building dependency tree...
  Reading state information...
  Package aptitude is not available, but is referred to by another package.
  This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
  is only available from another source
  Package raspi-copies-and-fills is not available, but is referred to by another package.
  This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
  is only available from another source
  Package nano is not available, but is referred to by another package.
  This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
  is only available from another source
  Package vim is not available, but is referred to by another package.
  This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
  is only available from another source
  E: Unable to locate package firmware-atheros
  E: Unable to locate package firmware-brcm80211
  E: Unable to locate package firmware-libertas
  E: Unable to locate package firmware-misc-nonfree
  E: Unable to locate package firmware-realtek
  E: Package 'aptitude' has no installation candidate
  E: Unable to locate package avahi-daemon
  E: Unable to locate package curl
  E: Unable to locate package hdparm
  E: Unable to locate package htop
  E: Unable to locate package iptables-persistent
  E: Unable to locate package micro
  E: Package 'nano' has no installation candidate
  E: Unable to locate package ncdu
  E: Unable to locate package netfilter-persistent
  E: Unable to locate package tmux
  E: Package 'vim' has no installation candidate
  E: Unable to locate package raspberrypi-bootloader
  E: Unable to locate package raspberrypi-kernel
  E: Unable to locate package raspberrypi-sys-mods
  E: Unable to locate package libraspberrypi-bin
  E: Package 'raspi-copies-and-fills' has no installation candidate
ERROR: 100, trying again (4/5)...   Reading package lists...
  Building dependency tree...
  Reading state information...
  Package aptitude is not available, but is referred to by another package.
  This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
  is only available from another source
  Package raspi-copies-and-fills is not available, but is referred to by another package.
  This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
  is only available from another source
  Package nano is not available, but is referred to by another package.
  This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
  is only available from another source
  Package vim is not available, but is referred to by another package.
  This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
  is only available from another source
  E: Unable to locate package firmware-atheros
  E: Unable to locate package firmware-brcm80211
  E: Unable to locate package firmware-libertas
  E: Unable to locate package firmware-misc-nonfree
  E: Unable to locate package firmware-realtek
  E: Package 'aptitude' has no installation candidate
  E: Unable to locate package avahi-daemon
  E: Unable to locate package curl
  E: Unable to locate package hdparm
  E: Unable to locate package htop
  E: Unable to locate package iptables-persistent
  E: Unable to locate package micro
  E: Package 'nano' has no installation candidate
  E: Unable to locate package ncdu
  E: Unable to locate package netfilter-persistent
  E: Unable to locate package tmux
  E: Package 'vim' has no installation candidate
  E: Unable to locate package raspberrypi-bootloader
  E: Unable to locate package raspberrypi-kernel
  E: Unable to locate package raspberrypi-sys-mods
  E: Unable to locate package libraspberrypi-bin
  E: Package 'raspi-copies-and-fills' has no installation candidate
ERROR: 100, trying again (5/5)...   Reading package lists...
  Building dependency tree...
  Reading state information...
  Package aptitude is not available, but is referred to by another package.
  This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
  is only available from another source
  Package raspi-copies-and-fills is not available, but is referred to by another package.
  This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
  is only available from another source
  Package nano is not available, but is referred to by another package.
  This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
  is only available from another source
  Package vim is not available, but is referred to by another package.
  This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
  is only available from another source
  E: Unable to locate package firmware-atheros
  E: Unable to locate package firmware-brcm80211
  E: Unable to locate package firmware-libertas
  E: Unable to locate package firmware-misc-nonfree
  E: Unable to locate package firmware-realtek
  E: Package 'aptitude' has no installation candidate
  E: Unable to locate package avahi-daemon
  E: Unable to locate package curl
  E: Unable to locate package hdparm
  E: Unable to locate package htop
  E: Unable to locate package iptables-persistent
  E: Unable to locate package micro
  E: Package 'nano' has no installation candidate
  E: Unable to locate package ncdu
  E: Unable to locate package netfilter-persistent
  E: Unable to locate package tmux
  E: Package 'vim' has no installation candidate
  E: Unable to locate package raspberrypi-bootloader
  E: Unable to locate package raspberrypi-kernel
  E: Unable to locate package raspberrypi-sys-mods
  E: Unable to locate package libraspberrypi-bin
  E: Package 'raspi-copies-and-fills' has no installation candidate
ERROR: 100, FAILED !

Error: The installation could not be completed!

I am a bit baffled by this, because /rootfs/etc/apt/sources.list contains:

deb http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/raspbian/raspbian bookworm main contrib non-free firmware

...and /rootfs/etc/apt/sources.list.d/raspberrypi.org.list contains:

deb http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian bookworm main

The first mirror definitely contains eg. aptitude. I don't see any errors relating to eg. signing keys or index downloads, so I don't understand why it isn't found.

[kmic5]

I just tried this and it tripped on

Copying executable tmp/sbin/start-stop-daemon
cp: cannot stat 'tmp/sbin/start-stop-daemon': No such file or directory

As far as I can tell, this is because dpkg 1.21.22 (in regular Debian bookworm) has this file in /sbin/, but Raspberry Pi's bookworm distro uses 1.22.6~bpo12+rpt2, which has it in /usr/sbin. [...]

Can confirm this issue occurs today. It was not present when the PR was submitted. To make the build script (build.sh) more resilient, perhaps function cp_executable could be changed to accept a list of paths to search for the source file.
Longer-term, it would help if update.sh had a way to pin packages to a desired repo. Would require non-trivial changes.

Well, I built the installer, and it ran through almost the entire process on my ancient RPi 2B without issue 🎊

Thanks for trying this out, hope you get it working. I actually have bookworm (built with this PR) running on a 2B without issue since early March.

Unfortunately it fell over at installing packages into the new system:

  Building dependency tree...
  Reading state information...
  Package aptitude is not available, but is referred to by another package.
  [...]

[...]
The first mirror definitely contains eg. aptitude. I don't see any errors relating to eg. signing keys or index downloads, so I don't understand why it isn't found.

The installer may have failed to update the package lists somehow. Your log indicates success: Updating package lists... OK so it may take some prodding to discover the underlying issue.
I did not test installing aptitude, but installed vim without issue. If you are able to bring up a shell on the target, you can try inspecting /rootfs to check the state of things.

[detly]

If you are able to bring up a shell on the target, you can try inspecting /rootfs to check the state of things.

I can (I have a monitor and keyboard connected), but there was not much to look at. The install log contains only what I posted there, and I can't find any other incriminating details. However, it looks like this corresponds to L2267 in scripts/opt/raspberrypi-ua-netinst/install.sh, so I can try entering those commands manually and seeing what happens.

[detly]

I'm getting a lot of "temporary failure in name resolution" errors, which is weird because a minute later nslookup will work on the same host:

# chroot /rootfs /usr/bin/apt-get update
Ign:1 http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/raspbian/raspbian bookworm InRelease
Ign:2 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian bookworm InRelease
Ign:1 http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/raspbian/raspbian bookworm InRelease
Ign:2 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian bookworm InRelease
Ign:1 http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/raspbian/raspbian bookworm InRelease
Ign:2 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian bookworm InRelease
Err:1 http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/raspbian/raspbian bookworm InRelease
  Temporary failure resolving 'mirror.aarnet.edu.au'
Err:2 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian bookworm InRelease
  Temporary failure resolving 'archive.raspberrypi.org'
Reading package lists...
W: Failed to fetch http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/raspbian/raspbian/dists/bookworm/InRelease  Temporary failure resolving 'mirror.aarnet.edu.au'
W: Failed to fetch http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/dists/bookworm/InRelease  Temporary failure resolving 'archive.raspberrypi.org'
W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

There's no nslookup in /rootfs, but:

# nslookup mirror.aarnet.edu.au
Server:		192.168.1.1
Address:	192.168.1.1:53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:	mirror.aarnet.edu.au
Address: 202.158.214.106

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:	mirror.aarnet.edu.au
Address: 2001:388:30bc:cafe::beef

I suspect it's a DNS/systemd misconfiguration I've encountered before. Let me try again without use_systemd_services=1 to see what happens.

[detly]

Yes, setting use_systemd_services=0 allowed the whole thing to work. I now have Bookworm running on my RPi 2B+, thank you!

My totally unverified hunch is that this is a variant of systemd's #4621/Ubuntu's issue #1624320, but I have not dug into it. I'd suggest that you look at how you configure DNS in the installer for use_systemd_services=1, but I am absolutely not volunteering because I hate debugging DNS.

[ikem-krueger]

I applied the patches from this conversation onto the "devel" branch and patched "build.sh".

This was the commands I used to build the image:

bash update.sh
bash build.sh
sudo bash buildroot.sh

Building went fine. I burned the image onto the sdcard.

On the sdcard I created this config file "raspberrypi-ua-netinst/config/installer-config.txt":

# To customize the raspberrypi-unattended-installer:
#
# Place your settings in this file as described in the README.md or in the advanced documentation.

# Package
packages=preload,zram-config,zram-tools,apt-file,trash-cli,htop
firmware_packages=1
mirror=https://mirror.netcologne.de/raspbian/raspbian/
release=bookworm
arch=arm64
use_systemd_services=0

# SSH
root_ssh_pubkey=
root_ssh_pwlogin=0

# User
username=pi
userpw=raspbian
usergroups=pi
userperms_admin=1
rootpw=

# Network
hostname=nextcloudpi
ip_addr=192.168.178.28
ip_netmask=255.255.255.0
ip_gateway=192.168.178.1
ip_nameservers=192.168.178.1

# Localization
timezone=Europe/Berlin
keyboard_layout=de
locales=de_DE.UTF-8
system_default_locale=de_DE.UTF-8

# Graphics / GPU
gpu_mem=16

# Advanced
quiet_boot=1
disable_raspberries=1
disable_splash=1
cleanup=1
installer_telnet=none
timeserver=fritz.box

Booting worked fine without "SOS"-code.

But it doesn't continue from there. It seems like the installer script is not run.

[kmic5]

Connecting a display to your pi may help to see where it's stalling. Or if you comment out installer_telnet=none in the config, and the installer script gets far enough to bring up networking, you may be able to remotely view the log.

Another thing to try is a different mirror, or comment out the mirror=... line to have a suitable mirror chosen automatically.

[mrichar1]

Have just been working through this PR trying to build on a Pi 4 and thought I'd add some feedback/new bugs...

update.sh expects the last entry in Release files to be SHA256 - but some now have SHA512, so verification fails. A fix is to explicitly extract the SHA256 hashes before grepping for the filename to be verified - something like this works:

diff --git a/update.sh b/update.sh
index 2ee3cb6..aefccf0 100755
--- a/update.sh
+++ b/update.sh
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ download_package_list() {

                       # Verify the checksum of the Packages file, assuming that the last checksums in the Release file are SHA256 sums
                       echo -n "Verifying ${package_section} package list... "
-                       if [ "$(grep "${package_section}/binary-armhf/Packages${extension}" "${1}_Release" | tail -n1 | awk '{print $1}')" = "$(sha256sum "tmp${extension}" | awk '{print $1}')" ]; then
+                       if [ "$(awk -v file="${package_section}/binary-armhf/Packages${extension}" '/^SHA256:/ {found=1; next} /^SHA/ && found {found=0} found && $3 == file {print $1}' ${1}_Release)" = "$(sha256sum "tmp${extension}" | awk '{print $1}')" ]; then
                               echo "OK"
                       else
                               echo -e "ERROR\nThe checksum of file '${package_section}/binary-armhf/Packages${extension}' doesn't match!"

I also had to update the build.sh path for start-stop-daemon to /usr/bin as mentioned previously.

However when it boots it fails almost immediately with failed to execute init (error -2).

I've had a look at initramfs.gz and it looks fine - it contains init which is a symlink to bin/busybox.

Replacing /init with bash-static and I can get enough of a shell to see that executing busybox gives the error: cannot execute: required file not found. However the busybox binary is present and executable - implying a missing dependency. /lib seems to have the core libs (ld-linux etc) and ldconfig -v doesn't show any obvious errors.

Any hints on how to debug this further?

[kmic5]

Have just been working through this PR trying to build on a Pi 4 and thought I'd add some feedback/new bugs...

update.sh expects the last entry in Release files to be SHA256 - but some now have SHA512, so verification fails. A fix is [...]

Thanks for testing this PR and sharing a fix for the checksum issue.

However when it boots it fails almost immediately with failed to execute init (error -2).
[...]
Any hints on how to debug this further?

Maybe try the installer on different storage media.
Does file and readelf -a output anything abnormal for the busybox binary? If you have a Pi test environment, you can try to chroot into the initramfs and see if busybox fails to execute there as well.

[mrichar1]

Thanks for the suggestions...

Maybe try the installer on different storage media.

I've tried this on different SD cards, and have rebuilt the image a couple of times and still get the same issue.

Does file and readelf -a output anything abnormal for the busybox binary? If you have a Pi test environment, you can try to chroot into the initramfs and see if busybox fails to execute there as well.

Nothing obviously 'wrong' with busybox - it has the same md5sum as the one installed from busybox_1.35.0-4_armhf.deb on a manually built working bookworm install, and is executable. When I strace busybox on the manual install it opens 3 libs - libc.so.6, libresolv.so.2 and ld-linux-armhf.so.3 - all of which look to be available on the netinst boot.

file:

busybox: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, EABI5 version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3, BuildID[sha1]=679761041ecc026e956eb0ebedee4a6d8d70b0ae, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped

readelf:

ELF Header:
  Magic:   7f 45 4c 46 01 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
  Class:                             ELF32
  Data:                              2's complement, little endian
  Version:                           1 (current)
  OS/ABI:                            UNIX - System V
  ABI Version:                       0
  Type:                              EXEC (Executable file)
  Machine:                           ARM
  Version:                           0x1
  Entry point address:               0x19930
  Start of program headers:          52 (bytes into file)
  Start of section headers:          852684 (bytes into file)
  Flags:                             0x5000400, Version5 EABI, hard-float ABI
  Size of this header:               52 (bytes)
  Size of program headers:           32 (bytes)
  Number of program headers:         9
  Size of section headers:           40 (bytes)
  Number of section headers:         28
  Section header string table index: 27

I've also tried changing config.txt to have arm_64bit=0 in case it was a 32/64-bit issue, but that makes no difference.

[kmic5]

Data corruption appears to be ruled out, at least with the busybox binary, assuming the SD cards you tried are otherwise fine.

May help to check block devices with lsblk and mounts with mount if you can get a bash-static shell on the target again. You can also try to manually invoke the installer: /opt/raspberrypi-ua-netinst/install.sh

Were you able to chroot to the netinst build and run busybox from there? Not sure if this is a dependency issue, but it may help to check the libs you mentioned: ldd /path/to/lib1 /path/to/lib2 ...

[detly]

Something else I just discovered (because I was using a RPi 4): commit b651d0d clobbered the alternate Raspbian/Debian GPG processing uses the target system's filesystem for the raspbian GPG key, so the installer fails at finding the raspbian GPG key for arm64.

[kmic5]

[...] the installer fails at finding the raspbian GPG key for arm64.

Good catch. Have not had a chance to test on a 64-bit host. Testing on a 32-bit host (RPi 2B) did not reveal any key issues.