Bug#977466: rootskel: bterm cannot start when requesting graphical console and serial console at the same time

2021-01-17 Thread Wang Shanker
Dear Maintainers, I wonder if the two patches to debian-installer can be applied to stable-pu, so that users (especially those who are using arm64 platforms) installing the latest stable debian version will get a working console on screen. Also, it will be nice if my name can be corrected as

Bug#977466: rootskel: bterm cannot start when requesting graphical console and serial console at the same time

2020-12-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Re, Alper Nebi Yasak, le mar. 15 déc. 2020 23:42:16 +0300, a ecrit: > I've tested with this and the patch for rootskel, and in the text-based > installer on the framebuffer the black boxes are replaced with actual > characters (arm64 QEMU, with console=ttyAMA0 console=tty0). > > Can you apply

Bug#977466: rootskel: bterm cannot start when requesting graphical console and serial console at the same time

2020-12-15 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
On 15/12/2020 20:17, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Wang Shanker, le mer. 16 déc. 2020 01:05:58 +0800, a ecrit: >> I carried out a simple test by limiting memory of my qemu machine >> and appending `lowmem=2` to the kernel command line. I can confirm >> that btrem and its font file get deleted. > > Ok,

Bug#977466: rootskel: bterm cannot start when requesting graphical console and serial console at the same time

2020-12-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Wang Shanker, le mer. 16 déc. 2020 01:05:58 +0800, a ecrit: > I carried out a simple test by limiting memory of my qemu machine > and appending `lowmem=2` to the kernel command line. I can confirm > that btrem and its font file get deleted. Ok, good! Thanks for testing, I have uploaded the fix

Bug#977466: rootskel: bterm cannot start when requesting graphical console and serial console at the same time

2020-12-15 Thread Wang Shanker
Hi, I carried out a simple test by limiting memory of my qemu machine and appending `lowmem=2` to the kernel command line. I can confirm that btrem and its font file get deleted. I wonder if I could have more information on testing it, or shall I provide some test cases? Cheers, Miao Wang >

Bug#977466: rootskel: bterm cannot start when requesting graphical console and serial console at the same time

2020-12-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Wang Shanker, le mer. 16 déc. 2020 00:53:27 +0800, a ecrit: > Then I believe the following patch will remove unnecessary files when the > memory is not enough. Thanks! But "believe" is not enough, we need someone to actually test it :) Samuel

Bug#977466: rootskel: bterm cannot start when requesting graphical console and serial console at the same time

2020-12-15 Thread Wang Shanker
Control: clone -1 -2 Control: reassign -2 lowmem Control: retitle -2 lowmem: delete graphical terminal related files in lawmen state Control: merge -1 -2 Hi, Then I believe the following patch will remove unnecessary files when the memory is not enough. From

Bug#977466: rootskel: bterm cannot start when requesting graphical console and serial console at the same time

2020-12-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Wang Shanker, le mar. 15 déc. 2020 22:59:52 +0800, a ecrit: > Thanks for your response. In `S15lowmem`, I can see the limit for the > memory is around tens or hundreds of megabytes. The font file, however, > is only around 200K. I doubt the necessity of removing it. 200K+200K+200K+... in various

Bug#977466: rootskel: bterm cannot start when requesting graphical console and serial console at the same time

2020-12-15 Thread Wang Shanker
Hi, Thanks for your response. In `S15lowmem`, I can see the limit for the memory is around tens or hundreds of megabytes. The font file, however, is only around 200K. I doubt the necessity of removing it. Just to confirm, if the font must be deleted, shall we add the rm into

Bug#977466: rootskel: bterm cannot start when requesting graphical console and serial console at the same time

2020-12-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Wang Shanker, le mar. 15 déc. 2020 20:17:50 +0800, a ecrit: > The cause of the probem is in the `S70menu` script, where the font file > get deleted when bterm is not used. Ok but this is done on purpose for the lowmem case. We probably need to put that rm back into the lowmem package then, I