Bug#989066: torrent no fun

2021-05-24 Thread Lou Poppler
On Mon, 2021-05-24 at 15:19 -0700, ddueh...@verizon.net wrote: > > Comments/Problems: > > It’s far easier to just download an image than to try to figure out how to > download via bittorrent.   The downloads are small enough that I can wait for them to download.  I spent much more time finding

Bug#919233: Install Guide vs. Secure Boot

2021-01-29 Thread Lou Poppler
Hopefully this is already changed in the Bullseye install guide, but if not, I don't think I will learn how to make edits before Bullseye releases. The Buster install guide says in Section 3.6.3  https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch03s06.en.html#UEFI Another UEFI-related topic is

Bug#969224: cdimage.debian.org: Error installing Debian 10.5 from flash stick with Extlinux

2020-08-30 Thread Lou Poppler
On Sun, 2020-08-30 at 08:16 -0700, Lou Poppler wrote: > Сергей: > > As we tried to tell you yesterday, you should be writing ONLY the .iso image > onto your install USB drive. DO NOT ADD OTHER FILES like these init.rd and > vmlinuz files from other places. just copy the .iso

Bug#969224: cdimage.debian.org: Error installing Debian 10.5 from flash stick with Extlinux

2020-08-30 Thread Lou Poppler
Сергей: As we tried to tell you yesterday, you should be writing ONLY the .iso image onto your install USB drive. DO NOT ADD OTHER FILES like these init.rd and vmlinuz files from other places. just copy the .iso image. nothing else. On Sun, 2020-08-30 at 13:40 +0300, Сергей Фёдоров wrote: >

Bug#969224: cdimage.debian.org: Error installing Debian 10.5 from flash stick with Extlinux

2020-08-29 Thread Lou Poppler
Please see the installation instructions: https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual It is not correct to pre-format your install media, and pre-copy other files onto it, before copying the installation .iso The correct instructions for writing a USB (or other) installation medium are

Bug#954081: debian-live-10.3.0-amd64-gnome.iso fails to load desktop on Acer A515-43-R19L laptop

2020-03-16 Thread Lou Poppler
This is possibly a "non-free" firmware problem. I suggest you try with one of the "unofficial" "non-free" live images or installer images. https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/ On Mon, 2020-03-16 at 09:25 -0400, Mike Haag wrote: > Package: debian-live >

Bug#939862: installation-guide-amd64: "Windows 8 fast boot" is now "Windows 10 fast startup"

2019-09-09 Thread Lou Poppler
Package: installation-guide-amd64 Severity: minor Tags: d-i Dear Maintainer, Buster installation guide section 3.6.4. documents the dangers of the Windows 8 "fast boot" feature.  Most users now have Windows 10, where this feature is renamed "fast startup".  I suggest this section (and its title)

Bug#864927: Can we get a simple fix for #864927 into unstable/testing please?

2017-11-11 Thread Lou Poppler
This seems to be OK as of the weekly testing live build of Nov 5, 2017, with plasma-desktop-data (4:5.10.5-2) That live build boots OK here. - Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 06:15:08PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >It's blocking KDE live builds at the

Bug#855144: installation-reports: Jessie netinst OK - 8.7.1 amd64 EFI raid-4

2017-02-14 Thread Lou Poppler
Package: installation-reports -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: debian-8.7.1-amd64-netinst.iso via BT Date: Feb 13, 2017 23:00 UTC Machine: Dell 3620 Partitions: Disk /dev/sda: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Bug#848383: Installation: i915 - Oh no! Something has gone wrong

2016-12-16 Thread Lou Poppler
Package: installation-reports Boot method: CD Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/8.6.0+nonfree/i386/bt-cd/firmware-8.6.0-i386-netinst.iso.torrent Date: Dec 13, 2016 17:00 UTC Machine: Uniwill 223ii0 Processor: CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M

Bug#748805: Fixed for me in 3.14.5-1~bpo70+1

2014-06-06 Thread Lou Poppler
My Toshiba laptop which was hanging on boot with kernel 3.14.4-1 backport on bare hardware with no B-tree filesystems, now boots OK after I upgraded to 3.14.5-1~bpo70+1. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#748805: Possible cause found

2014-05-25 Thread Lou Poppler
On 5/24/14, Tristan Seligmann mithra...@mithrandi.net wrote: [...] I added libcrc32c to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules and reran update-initramfs; this seems to have solved the problem. I tried this, and it does not solve the problem for me. My /root filesystem is an ext4 partition on a physical

Bug#748805: Maybe this should be a separate bug?

2014-05-25 Thread Lou Poppler
On 5/25/14, Lou Poppler loupopp...@cableone.net wrote: On 5/24/14, Tristan Seligmann mithra...@mithrandi.net wrote: [...] I added libcrc32c to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules and reran update-initramfs; this seems to have solved the problem. I tried this, and it does not solve the problem

Bug#748805: Hangs for me on bare hardware

2014-05-21 Thread Lou Poppler
I have been running Linux 3.13-0.bpo.1-amd64 for a few days, without problems. I let aptitude upgrade me to Linux 3.14-0.bpo.1.-amd64, and now the machine hangs during boot. (This is on bare hardware Toshiba laptop). I see these lines on the screen: early console in decompress_kernel

Bug#748427: menu during package config defeats this user

2014-05-17 Thread Lou Poppler
On 5/17/14, Axel Beckert a...@debian.org wrote: Lou Poppler wrote: Near the end of the install process I got a screen with a text menu which claimed to be Configuring science-config That's not aptitude asking you, but debconf. Reassigning accordingly. Thanks, this clue led me to man

Bug#748427: menu during package config defeats this user

2014-05-16 Thread Lou Poppler
Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.8.2 I used interactive aptitude to install several choices from within task debian-science. Near the end of the install process I got a screen with a text menu which claimed to be Configuring science-config and instructing me: Please select, among the whole system

Bug#694777: Wheezy Beta4 installs but X server unusable

2012-12-07 Thread Lou Poppler
On Fri, 7 Dec 2012, Brian Potkin wrote: A minimal patch to the Guide is at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=695403 Thanks Brian, this looks very helpful. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#694777: Wheezy Beta4 installs but X server unusable

2012-12-03 Thread Lou Poppler
On Mon, 3 Dec 2012, Brian Potkin wrote: I've tried to read http://d-i.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch02s02.html and http://d-i.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch06s04.html from a new user's perspective. There is nothing there, as far as I can see, which says only missing firmware for network

Bug#694777: Wheezy Beta4 installs but X server unusable

2012-12-01 Thread Lou Poppler
On Sat, 1 Dec 2012, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Brian Potkin (claremont...@gmail.com): Perhaps the installer could warn the user if her video card is among those listed in AtiHowTo and the installer doesn't see the firmware supplied somewhere by the user. Perhaps just a referral to the

Bug#694777: Wheezy Beta4 installs but X server unusable

2012-11-30 Thread Lou Poppler
Package: installation-reports Boot method: CD Image version: debian-wheezy-DI-b4-amd64.netinst Date: Nov 28, 2012, 01:00 UTC Machine: Dell Inc. OptiPlex 755 Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6550 @ 2.33GHz Memory: 4 GB Partitions: root@ivanovad:/var/log# /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sda

Bug#694777: Wheezy Beta4 installs but X server unusable

2012-11-30 Thread Lou Poppler
On Fri, 30 Nov 2012, Lou Poppler wrote: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RV610 [Radeon HD 2400 XT] [1002:94c1] Subsystem: Dell Optiplex 755 [1028:0d02] Kernel driver in use: radeon [ ... ] Various online research brings me to http

Bug#694777: Wheezy Beta4 installs but X server unusable

2012-11-30 Thread Lou Poppler
On Fri, 30 Nov 2012, Brian Potkin wrote: [AMD] nee ATI RV610 [Radeon HD 2400 XT] [1002:94c1] Subsystem: Dell Optiplex 755 [1028:0d02] Kernel driver in use: radeon [ ... ] http://wiki.debian.org/AtiHowTo which looks like I should install some non-free firmware for this card. I find

Bug#693674: Wheezy DI-b3 amd64 GRUB overlooks Win7

2012-11-27 Thread Lou Poppler
On Thu, 22 Nov 2012, Brian Potkin wrote: On Thu 22 Nov 2012 at 01:37:02 -0500, Lou Poppler wrote: I see that the beta-4 version is available today. I'll grab that, and try it out to see if it will work automatically. It works for me. It worked for me too. The installation completed

Bug#693674: Wheezy DI-b3 amd64 GRUB overlooks Win7

2012-11-21 Thread Lou Poppler
Thanks for your reply -- for some reason it didn't arrive here as email, but I found it tonight while looking in the debian-boot list archives. On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 11:00:49 +, Brian Potkin wrote: : On Mon 19 Nov 2012 at 02:09:47 -0500, Lou Poppler wrote: : : Comments/Problems

Bug#693674: Wheezy DI-b3 amd64 GRUB overlooks Win7

2012-11-18 Thread Lou Poppler
Package: installation-reports Boot method: CD Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/wheezy_di_beta3/amd64/iso-cd/debian-wheezy-DI-b3-amd64-netinst.iso Date: November 19, 2012, 01:00 UTC Machine: Dell Optiplex 770 Processor: dual Core3 intel Memory: Partitions: SCSI3 (0,0,0) (sda)

Bug#419950: My guess: initialization race

2009-08-08 Thread Lou Poppler
On Sat, 8 Aug 2009, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report which was filed against the linux-2.6 package: #419950: NETDEV WATCHDOG, tulip, 2.6.18 It has been closed by Moritz Muehlenhoff j...@inutil.org. I'd suspect this was due to

Bug#419950: tulip eth driver init

2008-10-31 Thread Lou Poppler
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Paul Medynski wrote: Hi Lou, I'm experiencing the same problem that you outlined in the email I found below. I noticed that we have the same ADMtek ethernet card. Here's my dmesg showing the ide and eth0 initialization intermingled: [3.492758] Uniform

Bug#419950: eth ini. vs. ide ini.

2008-04-06 Thread Lou Poppler
As long as I have had this computer, since some 2.6.8 sarge kernel, I have occasional problems where the network goes bad, with these lines repeating forever in the syslog: Feb 14 06:44:10 legba kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Feb 14 06:44:10 legba kernel: :00:0f.0:

Bug#419950: NETDEV WATCHDOG problems return

2008-01-10 Thread Lou Poppler
On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, maximilian attems wrote: On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 03:44:11PM -0500, Lou Poppler wrote: Is it possible to find version 2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch5 somewhere ? snapshot.debian.net Thanks Maks, I re-installed 1-13etch5 and it also fails for me now. With any more than light load

Bug#419950: NETDEV WATCHDOG problems return

2008-01-08 Thread Lou Poppler
On Sun, 6 Jan 2008, Lou Poppler wrote: Back in April, 2007, I opened this bug because of problems with NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out errors. [snip] Previous to rebooting this morning, the machine was up for 19 days, without problems -- previous boot was December 18th, Linux

Bug#419950: NETDEV WATCHDOG problems return

2008-01-06 Thread Lou Poppler
Back in April, 2007, I opened this bug because of problems with NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out errors. I found that changing one of my BIOS settings seemed to make the problem go away. The setup menu named Resource Configuration offers a setting named Shared PCI IRQs. I found that

Bug#419950: NETDEV WATCHDOG, tulip, 2.6.18

2007-04-19 Thread Lou Poppler
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: I also have recurrent problems with NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out If you search the list, you'll find several similar reports about the tulip driver (NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out). Adding nopaic/nolapic/noacpi options

Bug#419950: NETDEV WATCHDOG, tulip, 2.6.18

2007-04-18 Thread Lou Poppler
Package: linux-kernel Version: 2.6.18-4-686 (Debian 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12) (Submitted to [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]) I also have recurrent problems with NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out I am running on a Pentium 3 with a Linksys LNE100TX V5.1 PCI ethernet card, which also

Bug#416944: dist-upgrade stuck

2007-03-31 Thread Lou Poppler
Package: installation-reports Trying to upgrade from sarge to etch, not doing well. I net-installed sarge a couple weeks ago, and got it working mostly well, with gdm X desktop and kernel 2.6.8. I was having some minor ethernet driver problems which googling suggested might be fixed by a newer

Bug#416944: dist-upgrade stuck

2007-03-31 Thread Lou Poppler
On Sat, 31 Mar 2007, peter green wrote: I find it stuck in tasksel. The screen shows Package configuration on the very top line, and a text box in the middle saying: Installing packages \ Installed libdiscover1 and a status bar stuck at 75%. if the seperate tasksel is anything like that in

Bug#413931: d-i missing ide modules

2007-03-07 Thread Lou Poppler
Package: installation-reports Boot method: CD Image version: debian-31r5-i386-netinst.iso, from usc.edu mirror, md5sum good Date: 7 Mar 2007, 22:00 UTC Machine: Old Gateway, Tabor{2,3} motherboard Processor: P3 (Katmai) 596MHz Memory: 384 MB ECC Partitions: none Output of lspci and lspci

Bug#413931: d-i missing ide modules

2007-03-07 Thread Lou Poppler
On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 07 March 2007 23:58, Lou Poppler wrote: The text of the error screen, and the text of the Installation Guide, seem to be saying clearly that these modules are needed to drive the IDE hardware, and this was the last chance to automatically