Bug#694803: Wheezy beta4 installation report

2012-11-30 Thread Barry Tennison
Package: installation-reports Boot method: CD Image version:http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/wheezy_di_beta4/i386/iso-cd/debian-wheezy-DI-b4-i386-netinst.iso Date: 09:00 Fri 30 Nov 2012 Machine: Dell Inspiron 530 Processor:Intel® Core™2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz × 4 Memory:4GB Partitions: df

Bug#621137: Random exec failures on ARM; breaks boot -- /init: exec: line 306: run-init: Unknown error 2372692

2011-04-07 Thread Barry Tennison
Many thanks, Loïc! I was beginning to feel REALLY puzzled by some of the inconsistent behaviour I was seeing (on HP MediaVault 2120/5020 as well as NSLU2). It's good to hear someone else getting that too, and some progress towards a solution (and a workaround I can try). Barry On 6 Apr

Bug#494976: Confirming bug 494976 and giving more information

2008-09-07 Thread Barry Tennison
I can confirm that there is a regression in 2.6.25 and 2.6.26 from 2.6.24 regarding reading from certain (actually quite a lot of) usb flash readers. I have personally experienced this with the eeepc internal SDHC card reader, and a SanDisk MicroMate external usb SDHC card reader, with

Bug#488267: Should add hostap modules

2008-07-01 Thread Barry Tennison
Frans Pop wrote: Sorry, I'm a moron. Well, I don't think you're a moron. But then, I don't think I'm a moron either, so maybe my judgement is impaired! The correct line should be: SUBSYSTEM==net, DRIVERS==?*, ATTR{address}==00:d0:59:bd:d5:c5, ATTR{type}==1, NAME=eth1 Change the second

Bug#488267: Should add hostap modules

2008-07-01 Thread Barry Tennison
Frans Pop wrote: You missed my point. There were still errors in the line I last suggested. The correct syntax is: ATTR{type}==1 Your second line still has: ATTR{type}=1 Many apologies. I really thought I had checked by lining up the old and the new line beneath each other in an editor,

Bug#488267: Should add hostap modules

2008-06-30 Thread Barry Tennison
Frans Pop wrote: The workaround is still, as I wrote earlier, to remove the existing rename rule for the wifi interface in the z25 script and to let udev regenerate it. I understand the complexity of the argument. I would just stress that from the simple user (including me) point of view,

Bug#488267: Should add hostap modules

2008-06-30 Thread Barry Tennison
Frans Pop wrote: Barry: a few requests. 1) What was the wireless interface called in the installer? You can probably tell from /var/log/installer/syslog. eth1 You can check this from my original report (email of Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:16:15 +0100 in bug 488267), and in the installer outputs I

Bug#488267: Should add hostap modules

2008-06-30 Thread Barry Tennison
I should have expanded the argument in two ways. Building on: I suppose this does make some kind of sense, as hostap_pci must in fact do (at least) two things in succession: * create the master interface wifiN (where N=0 for us as it's the first such interface to be created) * create an sta

Bug#488267: lenny-beta2-netinst: wifi interface renaming causes big glitch on first reboot

2008-06-28 Thread Barry Tennison
Otavio Salvador wrote: Hello Barry, Looking at the output data I fail to see how this mess happened. I'd like to ask you to do another test for us. Please boot d-i and after wireless has been properly setup grab the following information: /proc/net/dev lspci -knn My current bet is that

Bug#488267: lenny-beta2-netinst: wifi interface renaming causes big glitch on first reboot

2008-06-28 Thread Barry Tennison
Otavio Salvador wrote: Hello Barry, Looking at the output data I fail to see how this mess happened. I'd like to ask you to do another test for us. Please boot d-i and after wireless has been properly setup grab the following information: /proc/net/dev lspci -knn My current bet is that

Bug#488267: lenny-beta2-netinst: wifi interface renaming causes big glitch on first reboot

2008-06-27 Thread Barry Tennison
Package: installation-reports Severity: important -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/lenny_di_beta2/i386/iso-cd/debian-LennyBeta2-i386-netinst.iso Date: 26 June 2008 10:00 BST Machine: Sony Vaio PCG-R600HMPD Partitions: df -Tl will do;

Bug#488267: lenny-beta2-netinst: wifi interface renaming causes big glitch on first reboot

2008-06-27 Thread Barry Tennison
Thanks - further info as requested given below. Shall try to test daily build for the firewire/CD over the weekend. Barry MAIN PROBLEM: wifi (Prism2) nicely detected, install goes fine till main reboot. On reboot, no wifi network. REASON: * /etc/network/interfaces was written accurately, but

Bug#476846: Bug does NOT happen for sid version (9:1.1.7.1-1) of genisoimage on armel

2008-04-20 Thread Barry Tennison
Package: genisoimage Version: 9:1.1.7.1-1 Severity: important Thanks again to Martin Guy, I can confirm that the buggy behaviour does NOT happen for genisoimage version 1.1.7.1-1 (sid current) on armel. Instead, the behaviour is just as on i386 and amd64: the RR signatures are detected and

Bug#476846: Confirming bug for sid version (9:1.1.7.1-1) of genisoimage (arm only)

2008-04-20 Thread Barry Tennison
Package: genisoimage Version: 9:1.1.7.1-1 Severity: important Thanks to Martin Guy, I can confirm this buggy behaviour for genisoimage version 1.1.7.1-1 (sid current) on arm (and indeed on a different machine from my own NSLU2, whew). The steps to reproduce in the original report again

Bug#476846: genisoimage: On arm only, does not recognise its own Rock Ridge extensions

2008-04-19 Thread Barry Tennison
Package: genisoimage Version: 9:1.1.2-1 Severity: important The following behaviour is in error on arm only, at least on my NSLU2 running etch. On i386 and amd64, the error does not occur. Steps to reproduce on an arm machine: cd somewhere safe mkdir tmp1 touch tmp1/nullfile-with-long-name

Bug#472584:

2008-04-09 Thread Barry Tennison
posts) be of some use to those who, like me, prefer to use testing (lenny) as their dom0, for reasons of security and relative stability. Thanks again for your help, and for all your debian efforts. Barry Tennison *** The following may be needed to convert a debian installation using

Bug#472584: Confirming linux-image-2.6.24-1-xen-686: Doesn't work as DomU

2008-03-30 Thread Barry Tennison
I can confirm Russell Coker's report of 25 Mar 2008 in almost exactly the same detail. linux-image-2.6.24-1-xen-686 does not work as a domU (nor as a dom0) for me in a setup where 2.6.18-5-xen-686 works fine as a domU kernel (and is also the dom0 kernel). The extra I can add is that

Bug#415130: iceape-calendar: Bug 415130 is also present in the version 1.0.8-3 in sid

2007-03-19 Thread Barry Tennison
Package: iceape-calendar Version: 1.0.8-3 Severity: important As mentioned in the body of my first report, this bug is equally present in the version 1.0.8-3 in unstable (system details below). -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable')

Bug#415130: iceape-calendar: Remote calendar functionality severely deficient

2007-03-16 Thread Barry Tennison
), albeit on amd64. Happy to provide further information. Barry Tennison no .sig, but kudos to all those working so hard on debian -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel

Bug#409376: icedove-locale-en-gb should (at least) Recommend myspell-en-gb

2007-02-02 Thread Barry Tennison
and effort. Hope this helps - sorry, I'm not expert enough to attach a patch for the recommended change. Thanks for all the excellent debian work! Barry Tennison -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin

Bug#293962: Debian Bug #293962 - trying to get backtrace

2005-10-19 Thread Barry Tennison
I'm trying to help with getting a backtrace on the bug to which your helpful email below refers. I'd love to see this bug cleared! I've followed http://wiki.debian.org/?HowToGetABacktrace building and installing mozilla-calendar and its build-deps. Whew! I'm no gdb expert. The gnome menu

Bug#293962: Backtraces on mozilla-calendar segfault on AMD64 - bug #293962

2005-10-19 Thread Barry Tennison
Thanks for your help, Loic. I enclose backtraces on the segfault by: mozilla-1.7.8-1sarge2 This is in my up-to-date etch/testing environment, with the backtrace produced as described in http://wiki.debian.org/?HowToGetABacktrace mozilla-1.7.12 Unfortunately, I was unable to build