I would appreciate any pointers towards fixes for these issues.

Issue 1: Bookworm raspi 2 image was flashed onto SD card and booted.
IIRC it was the June tested version. First boot was left running nearly
24 hours, but never gave a command prompt. After power cycling, the
raspi2 gave a prompt and worked OK except the SD card was only partly available.

As Testing is the target distribution for raspis 1-4, and issues have
been seen with the Bookworm images, it was decided to try Rolling your
own Trixie images.[1]

Minor docs issue: On a relatively fresh install of Trixie on amd64, git
and make needed installed, in addition to packages listed at [2], which
is linked from Rolling your own Installation...[1]

Issue 2: Default image creation for raspi 1 and 3 gave the following
error and traceback. raspi_2 and 4 completed OK, but have not been
burned or tested yet. The steps in Option 2: Building your own image [2]
were followed.

Issue 3: The make process took about 1 to 1.5 hours for each raspi_N on
an old laptop, and the time to download packages may be slowing it down.
How can the packages be downloaded and saved for re-use to speed things
up?

Log excerpt with error and traceback, raspi_3 was identical except date,
time, and naming:

Date Time INFO Calling <bound method KpartxStepRunner.teardown of <kpartx_plugin.KpartxStepRunner object at locationa>>
Date Time INFO Exec: ['kpartx', '-dsv', 'raspi_1_trixie.img']
Date Time DEBUG STDOUT: del devmap : loop0p1
loop0p2 is in use. Not removing

Date Time DEBUG STDERR: loop deleted : /dev/loop0

... <snip>
Date Time ERROR Program failed: 1
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/vmdb/app.py", line 243, in run_steps_helper
method(values, settings, state)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/vmdb/plugins/kpartx_plugin.py",
line 51, in teardown
vmdb.runcmd(["kpartx", "-dsv", device])
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/vmdb/runcmd.py", line 58, in
runcmd
raise RuncmdError("Program failed: {}".format(p.returncode)) vmdb.runcmd.RuncmdError: Program failed: 1
Date Time ERROR RuncmdError('Program failed: 1')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/vmdb/app.py", line 243, in run_steps_helper
method(values, settings, state)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/vmdb/plugins/kpartx_plugin.py",
line 51, in teardown
vmdb.runcmd(["kpartx", "-dsv", device])
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/vmdb/runcmd.py", line 58, in
runcmd
raise RuncmdError("Program failed: {}".format(p.returncode)) vmdb.runcmd.RuncmdError: Program failed: 1
Date Time INFO Running teardown: {'mkpart': 'primary', 'device': 'raspi_1_trixie.img', 'start': '512MiB', 'end': '100%', 'tag':
'tag-root'}
Date Time INFO Calling <bound method StepRunnerInterface.teardown of <mkpart_plugin.MkpartStepRunner object at locationb>>
Date Time INFO Running teardown: {'mkpart': 'primary', 'fs-type':
'fat32', 'device': 'raspi_1_trixie.img', 'start': '4MiB', 'end':
'512MiB', 'tag': 'tag-firmware'}
... <snip>

Thanks for any tips or suggestions.

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/RaspberryPiImages

[2] https://salsa.debian.org/raspi-team/image-specs

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