Ubuntu
syslinux package

Latest wily image is not booting

Bug #1484571 reported by Dave Morley
12
This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
syslinux (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Critical
Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre

Bug Description

STEPS:
1. grab the latest image
2. run it in kvm
kvm -m 2048 -hda ubuntu-hda.qcow2 -cdrom wily-desktop-amd64.iso -boot d -vga vmware -soundhw ac97

EXPECTED:
I expect to see a menu screen and then the try ubuntu install ubuntu option screen

ACTUAL:
It does nothing (See screenshots)

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Dave Morley (davmor2) wrote :
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Dave Morley (davmor2) wrote :
Dave Morley (davmor2)
tags: added: qa-manual-testing
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Dave Morley (davmor2) wrote :

eca4c5525f64b427d65d2b1f417aa51d *wily-desktop-amd64.iso from http://cdimages.ubuntu.com/daily-live/20150812/wily-desktop-amd64.iso works as expected so it is only the latest that is broken.

Steve Langasek (vorlon)
affects: casper (Ubuntu) → syslinux (Ubuntu)
Changed in syslinux (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (mathieu-tl)
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Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox) wrote :

Looks like this is a known issue upstream with GCC 5; our solution of explicitly building with GCC 4.x has also been use in Fedora.

http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2015-July/023679.html
http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2015-July/023786.html
http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2015-July/023779.html

Unfortunately the patch provided at the start of the "boot... round 2" thread is probably a little naive, I need to read the whole thread and see if something has already been committed in git.

Changed in syslinux (Ubuntu):
status: New → In Progress
importance: Undecided → Critical
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package syslinux - 3:6.03+dfsg-8ubuntu2

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syslinux (3:6.03+dfsg-8ubuntu2) wily; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/0001-SYSAPPEND-Fix-space-stripping.patch: backport fix to
    space stripping in sysappend functions. (LP: #1484571)
  * debian/control: revert the previous change to build with GCC 4.9, and get
    back to GCC 5.

 -- Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <email address hidden> Thu, 13 Aug 2015 14:43:15 -0400

Changed in syslinux (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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