Name the upstream cause of the Debian 13 BIOS hang: Debian bug #1111240
The known-gaps entry, decision log, sample comment and builder comment
blamed the host; the cause is trixie's GRUB config ("terminal_output
gfxterm serial" with a serial console and no video device), reported
and reproduced upstream and still open. UEFI remains the default for the
reason recorded; bookworm images are noted as unaffected.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -514,3 +514,21 @@ configured, and the cache reuses a base image by key, so switching
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`KVM_TEST_IMAGE_URL` requires deleting `base-test-image.qcow2` and its
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marker by hand first. That is the reviewer's Step 4 finding showing up
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in practice; still documented rather than fixed.
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Follow-up, same day: the cause is known upstream. [Debian bug
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#1111240](https://bugs.debian.org/1111240) (filed 2025-08-16 against
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the cloud image, reassigned to `grub2`, still open as of 2026-09-10;
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trixie ships grub2 2.12-9+deb13u2) reports exactly this with a domain
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XML almost identical to ours: BIOS, virtio disk, SATA cdrom seed, bridge
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NIC, `<console><target type='serial'/>`, no `<graphics>`/`<video>`.
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The cloud team reproduced it: trixie's grub.cfg has `terminal_output
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gfxterm serial`, and with a serial port present but no video adapter
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GRUB never hands over to the kernel. Their fix in the image
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(`terminal_output serial`) is not something an operator can apply;
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the reporter's workaround (console `target type='virtio'`) boots but
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takes the kernel's `console=ttyS0` output with it. UEFI sidesteps the
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gfxterm path and keeps the serial console, so the decision stands, but
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the docs now name the bug rather than blaming the host, and note that
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bookworm images are unaffected. `latest` on cloud.debian.org was the
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2026-08-31 build when this was hit, so every trixie point release to
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date carries it.
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