Bug#933981: cdrom: USB, KVM create connect/disconnect loop in level1 (repair) install

On Mon, 05 Aug 2019 14:28:47 -0400 Tom Sullivan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Package: cdrom
> Severity: grave
> Tags: d-i
> Justification: renders package unusable
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> * What led up to the situation?
>
> I had another machine that gave kernel panic while upgrading from Stretch to
> Buster. Use of Graphical install was also a problem during re-install due to
> destroyed system. (I reported this issue in another report.) Thus, I chose to
> upgrade an identical machine from level 1 (Debain Repair in GRUB2 boot menu).
>
> * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
> ineffective)?
>
> The scrolling log in the command line display showed repeated
> connect/disconnect loops for USB devices (of many kinds). This applied also to
> USB mice and keyboards connected via KVM.
>
> For what it was worth, I used a local cache of the DVDs on the machine's hard
> drive.
>
> Unplugged all USB, plugged in single USB keyboard only, and directly, not via
> KVM.
>
> * What was the outcome of this action?
>
> Upgraded fine with just the keyboard directly plugged into USB.
>
> * What outcome did you expect instead?
>
> Correct handling of USB, without issues.
>
>
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 10.0
> APT prefers stable
> APT policy: (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
> Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
> Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled
>
>

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