Package: installation-reports
Version: 2.35
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Hello
Recent kernels provides some DMI information in /sys/class/dmi/id/.
This could be used by report-hw (and installation-report) in the case
where dmidecode isn't installed (tiny Debian installation, etc).
I've
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Quoting Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Answer to the side note: I just tried debian-LennyBeta2-i386-CD-1.iso
with the graphical installer as well (swiss french, crypted LVM) and I
had no question about sudo... So there is maybe an issue here...
That seems to confirm what I say above: the
Quoting Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
I propose to also revert the change in localechooser. Having accents in
English names is currently NOT a good idea.
I indeed didn't pay enough attention and was thinking that only the
*localized* name was changed (which is definitely the l10n team's
Quoting Clytie Siddall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Package: console-setup
Version: 1.24
Tags: l10n patch
Severity: wishlist
The initial Vietnamese translation for the debconf file: console-setup
Clytie,
Another maintainer changed a string since I did the call for updates
(removing a sentence).
I just got the following while building a local d-i image. Are we
missing a build-depends?
634:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~/src/di/installer/build] more
dest/build_orion5x_netboot.log
BUILDING IMAGE FOR build_orion5x_netboot
(set -e; \
echo # This file is automatically generated, edit
On Thursday 12 June 2008, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
I just got the following while building a local d-i image. Are we
missing a build-depends?
No, the depends is there but this is run before they are checked...
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Alexander Golovin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I had downloaded my local Debian Etch mirror with debmirror, then I was
trying to create my dvd's. Now all is ok, except one: for create first
bootable dvd debian-40r3-i386-DVD-1.iso I need some files which hadn't
downloaded with debmirror:
Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal
The default user should be added to the 'scanner' group so that they can
use image scanners. We already add them to plugdev, netdev, video, etc.,
so I think this is consistent with what is already done.
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Le mercredi 11 juin 2008 18:20:28 Frans Pop, vous avez écrit :
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Removed.
On Wednesday 11 June 2008, Didier Raboud wrote:
So, attached is the syslog of the installation (gzipped).
AFAICT from your log the installer never even tries
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Bug#485902: installation-report: Use /sys/class/dmi/id/* when dmidecode isn't
available
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reassign 485911 user-setup
Bug#485911: debian-installer: Add default user to 'scanner' group
Bug reassigned from package `debian-installer' to `user-setup'.
severity 485911 wishlist
Bug#485911: debian-installer: Add default user to 'scanner' group
On Thursday 12 June 2008, Didier Raboud wrote:
I understand that, but I think that the _choice_ should be default,
because it is what many _basic_ users (e.g. returning back to Debian
from Ubuntu) expect (and the non-basic users choose the expert mode
anyway). But it's not the point of this
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 09:19:57AM +0100, Sam Morris wrote:
Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal
The default user should be added to the 'scanner' group so that they can
use image scanners. We already add them to plugdev, netdev, video, etc.,
so I think this is consistent with what is
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reassign 485064 clock-setup 0.95
Bug#485064: installation-report: lenny install on Thinkpad T61
Bug reassigned from package `installation-reports' to `clock-setup'.
retitle 485064 Detect if --directisa option is needed?
Bug#485064:
I semi-regularly come across the advice to just use ext2 instead of ext3
for /boot partitions. As they are relatively small the journal overhead
is fairly big and because the transaction volume is very low the need for
a journal is a lot less than on other partitions.
If there are no
Package: console-setup
Version: 1.24
Tags: patch
The arabic glyphs for VGA16 font face are slim (compared to latin-based
glyhps), and eye fatiguing (at least for me). So I made a font based on
u_vga16.bdf, where I copied the arabic glyphs from the font used by
acon. The arabic glyphs in this
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reassign 485064 clock-setup 0.95
retitle 485064 Detect if --directisa option is needed?
thanks
Thanks for the report Franklin.
On Thursday 12 June 2008, Franklin Piat wrote:
Comments/Problems:
However, there's a clock bug :
# hwclock
select() to /dev/rtc to wait for clock tick timed out
Your message dated Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:18:38 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#485064: installation-report: lenny install on Thinkpad
T61
has caused the Debian Bug report #485064,
regarding Detect if --directisa option is needed?
to be marked as done.
This means
On Wednesday 11 June 2008, Joe wrote:
Comments/Problems:
Install tasks does not work properly. The task could start, but there
was nothing installed (not even one package). The task just said
Failed. Then I tried to start the task manually again, but failed
again.
This is something that gets
On Wednesday 11 June 2008, Don wrote:
Comments/Problems:
The iso file was downloaded twice, once June 10, once again about 2000
UTC June 11. Each time it was burned to CD-R. Neither CD-R would boot
of either of two computers. A previously burned Lenny version
(netinstall type) done around
On Monday 02 June 2008, Michael Josenhans wrote:
Comments/Problems:
*1:
Did not find testing on package download server. Also had some checksum
mismatch failures when downloading packages. Thus had to change the
download server from German server to a US server
On Tuesday 03 June 2008, Manuel MOLINIER wrote:
Comments/Problems:
DHCP network config is not working with AMD64 image. Network config
with DHCP fail. Manual Network config with correct params do not allow
to get to the ftp server for install of packages.
Retried lots of time.
After retrying
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On Wednesday 11 June 2008, Robert Millan wrote:
This is not a bug about a problem I found, but about a problem I think
can become common with the introduction of 2 TiB disks.
A while ago, I found that bochsbios (the free BIOS used by bochs and
qemu) had an incomplete implementation of LBA48
On Thursday 05 June 2008, Francisco Castanheiro wrote:
That kickstart option, on install, removes hda2 and hda3 and then
creates all the necessary partitions on the free space.
My questions are:
A - Can i do the same with debian installer?
Yes, but only if you make sure the existing unwanted
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regarding installation-reports
to be marked as done.
This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
the problem is only with the way the d-i image is put together, not
with the installer itself.
Don't you think that this should be added to the errata anyway?
Ok, I commited something to
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/errata
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The default recipe will make sure the swap partition is at least 96 MB
big. This is quite small on systems like the NSLU2 that only have 32
MB of RAM. I've heard various reports from people that the NSLU2 runs
better with more swap.
I'm wondering how to best handle this. It seems partman
Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I semi-regularly come across the advice to just use ext2 instead of ext3
for /boot partitions. As they are relatively small the journal overhead
is fairly big and because the transaction volume is very low the need for
a journal is a lot less than on
Hi Frans,
I'll give it a try. The problem is still very strange in the fact that using
a image made the day after I had no problem with Network.
I also had the same problem with a stable version and a Ubuntu 8.
I managed to install a Debian amd64 but will for sure test the new installer
and give
Hi,
if the D-I team has no objections, iso-codes could be moved to testing
tomorrow.
unblock iso-codes/3.0-1
Regards,
Tobias
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Frans Pop wrote:
So you never see the boot splash screen of the installer, correct?
Yes, that is correct.
Do you see anything else, maybe a line with the version of isolinux
flashing by on the display?
I have not observed anything else flashing by, but it might be too fast
for me to
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Hi,
if the D-I team has no objections, iso-codes could be moved to testing
tomorrow.
unblock iso-codes/3.0-1
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On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:58:13PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
On Wednesday 11 June 2008, Robert Millan wrote:
This is not a bug about a problem I found, but about a problem I think
can become common with the introduction of 2 TiB disks.
A while ago, I found that bochsbios (the free BIOS used
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Image version:
I compared the list of modules between 2.6.24 and 2.6.25 (for amd64
and i386) to see which new modules we should include in our udebs.
I have a hard time telling which modules are useful, but I'm including
my comments in the hope that other will will join in and comment:
On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 19:26 +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
+drivers/block/virtio_blk.ko
Virtio block driver: not needed:
+drivers/block/xen-blkfront.ko
Xen virtual block device support: not needed
[...]
+drivers/net/virtio_net.ko
+drivers/net/xen-netfront.ko
Not useful
I have
Frans Pop wrote:
reassign 485064 clock-setup 0.95
retitle 485064 Detect if --directisa option is needed?
thanks
Thanks for the report Franklin.
On Thursday 12 June 2008, Franklin Piat wrote:
Comments/Problems:
However, there's a clock bug :
# hwclock
select() to /dev/rtc to wait
On Thursday 12 June 2008, Ian Campbell wrote:
On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 19:26 +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
+drivers/block/virtio_blk.ko
Virtio block driver: not needed:
+drivers/block/xen-blkfront.ko
Xen virtual block device support: not needed
[...]
+drivers/net/virtio_net.ko
Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
+drivers/char/pcmcia/ipwireless/
+drivers/char/pcmcia/ipwireless/ipwireless.ko
IPWireless 3G UMTS PCMCIA card support: do we have support for this?
If it doesn't require firmware, it could be added.
+drivers/ide/pci/ide-pci-generic.ko
Dunno.
* Otavio Salvador [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-06-12 15:26]:
+drivers/ide/pci/ide-pci-generic.ko
Dunno.
Has ide-generic has been droped?
No, it's still there.
+drivers/net/wireless/rndis_wlan.ko
Wireless RNDIS USB support: include
Require firmware?
I've no idea.
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Otavio Salvador wrote:
Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
+drivers/char/pcmcia/ipwireless/
+drivers/char/pcmcia/ipwireless/ipwireless.ko
IPWireless 3G UMTS PCMCIA card support: do we have support for this?
If it doesn't require firmware, it could be added.
Notice that it's
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Otavio Salvador wrote:
Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
+drivers/char/pcmcia/ipwireless/
+drivers/char/pcmcia/ipwireless/ipwireless.ko
IPWireless 3G UMTS PCMCIA card support: do we have support for this?
If it doesn't require firmware,
On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 20:19 +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
On Thursday 12 June 2008, Ian Campbell wrote:
On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 19:26 +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
+drivers/block/virtio_blk.ko
Virtio block driver: not needed:
+drivers/block/xen-blkfront.ko
Xen virtual block device
On Thursday 12 June 2008, Ian Campbell wrote:
+drivers/block/virtio_blk.ko
+drivers/block/xen-blkfront.ko
+drivers/net/virtio_net.ko
+drivers/net/xen-netfront.ko
I have patches to make the installer work well as a Xen guest so
those drivers are needed.
Does that
On Thursday 12 June 2008, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
* Otavio Salvador [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-06-12 15:26]:
+drivers/ide/pci/ide-pci-generic.ko
Dunno.
Has ide-generic has been droped?
No, it's still there.
Hmm. What does that module do? Seems it could possibly be a slightly more
On Thursday 12 June 2008, Dennis Boone wrote:
Comments/Problems:
The installer boots fine, and allows me to set keyboard, country
locale, but cannot detect the CD-ROM
(/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/SUNW,[EMAIL PROTECTED],880/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0:f)
drive to continue the
installation.
On Thursday 12 June 2008, Joey Hess wrote:
On Thursday 12 June 2008, Franklin Piat wrote:
However, there's a clock bug :
# hwclock
select() to /dev/rtc to wait for clock tick timed out
hwclock --directisa
Thu 12 Jun 2008 01:00:01 AM CEST -0.461109 seconds
(looks similar
I don't know much about Sun hardware but Target 6 and Target e looks like your
SCSI channels are off. Correct me if I'm wrong (which is highly probable here)
but shouldn't the Target be either 0/1 for the primary boot device (i.e. the
hard disk). I know the older adaptec controllers wouldn't
Two things that may yet help:
- the output of lsmod after hardware detection (to see if anything
obvious is not loaded)
After modifying the hw-detect list and having the installer try to find a
CD-ROM, here's the lsmod:
~ # lsmod
Module Size Used by
ide_generic
[Christian Perrier]
I indeed didn't pay enough attention and was thinking that only the
*localized* name was changed (which is definitely the l10n team's
privilege). As, indeed, the change is in the English version, I
agree with Frans' comment.
I was not aware that an accent in the English
# hwclock
select() to /dev/rtc to wait for clock tick timed out
Just FWIW, my laptop, which has had this problem with 2.6.24 since
February, doesn't seem to have the problem with 2.6.25.
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On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:20:37PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
I included virtio too, because, well, why not ;-)
Because we're _always_ trying to save on memory usage. If something
does not have a definite function in the context of the installer:
don't include it.
Well, I guess
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