Where does the bug appear?
live-helper
first bootstraps a basic Debian system with debootstrap or cdebootstrap. Depending on the bootstrapping tool used and the Debian distribution it is bootstrapping, it may fail. If a bug appears here, check if the error is related to a specific Debian package (most likely), or if it is related to cdebootstrap itself.
In both cases, this is not a bug in Debian Live, but rather in Debian itself which we can not fix this directly. Please report such a bug against debootstrap, cdebootstrap or the failing package.
live-helper
installs additional packages from the Debian archive and depending on the Debian distribution used and the daily archive state, it can fail. If a bug appears here, check if the error is also reproducible on a normal system.
If this is the case, this is not a bug in Debian Live, but rather in Debian - please report it against the failing package. Running debootstrap
seperately from the Live system build or running lh_bootstrap
with --debug will give you more information.
Also, if you are using a local mirror and/or any of sort of proxy and you are experiencing a problem, please always reproduce it first by bootstrapping from an official mirror.
If your image does not boot, please report it to the mailing list together with the information requested in Section 9.3, “Collect information”. Do not forget to mention, how/when the image failed, in Qemu, VMWare or real hardware. If you are using a virtualization technology of any kind, please always run it on real hardware before reporting a bug. Providing a screenshot of the failure is also very helpful.
If a package was successfully installed, but fails while actually running the Live system, this is probably a bug in Debian Live. However,