Bug#568292: auto-install: pulls netcfg into images that should not have it

2010-02-04 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 04 February 2010, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Frans Pop [2010-02-04 13:13]: > > So how about including a 'common' file in network-console/armel/ with: > > auto-install - > > localechooser - > > ai-locale-chooser - > > kbd-chooser - > >

Bug#568381: debconf segfauls with DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text

2010-02-04 Thread Frans Pop
severity 568381 serious thanks When reporting such issues please do provide basic info like: - image used - architecture But I can confirm as I'm also seeing a segfault during an installation on s390. During mirror selection (but not 100% reliably). And can also confirm for amd64 in Virtualbox,

Bug#568292: auto-install: pulls netcfg into images that should not have it

2010-02-04 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 04 February 2010, Philip Hands wrote: > > > Gah! It's even worse. ai-chooser just blindly assumes that all > > > images include both localechooser and kbd-chooser while that is not > > > guaranteed. > > Yup, that's certainly true -- sorry, didn't realise it was ever not the > case. At

Bug#568292: auto-install: pulls netcfg into images that should not have it

2010-02-04 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 04 February 2010, Philip Hands wrote: > Definitely looks like an improvement -- I take it that this is just > keeping netcfg out of the initrd, and will have no impact on the ability > of the CD to get on the net to grab preseeds as it'll be installing > netcfg off the CD? Correct. Tha

Re: Question about having an always clean base system in Debian Sid

2010-02-04 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 04 February 2010, Geek87 wrote: > What do you think about modifying debootstrap to install the base system > with the flag "automatically installed" If you look at how debootstrap works, that's not so simple. But if you, or anybody else, can come up with a tested patch that implements

Bug#564441: new version of the proposed patch

2010-02-03 Thread Frans Pop
Hello Fred, It took a bit of time, but I think you'll see why. I do really like the new functionality. I think we'll need to discuss the details of the user interface a bit more, but the concept definitely works. My compliments for your work. Attached a patch series, mostly on top of your last

Bug#568292: auto-install: pulls netcfg into images that should not have it

2010-02-03 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 03 February 2010, Frans Pop wrote: > On Wednesday 03 February 2010, Frans Pop wrote: > > On Wednesday 03 February 2010, Frans Pop wrote: > > > Or if the dependency is required for menu ordering, then there > > > should be an alternative udeb whose only func

Bug#568292: auto-install: pulls netcfg into images that should not have it

2010-02-03 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 03 February 2010, Frans Pop wrote: > On Wednesday 03 February 2010, Frans Pop wrote: > > Or if the dependency is required for menu ordering, then there should > > be an alternative udeb whose only function is to queue auto-install > > for images that don'

Bug#568292: auto-install: pulls netcfg into images that should not have it

2010-02-03 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 03 February 2010, Frans Pop wrote: > Or if the dependency is required for menu ordering, then there should be > an alternative udeb whose only function is to queue auto-install for > images that don't have netcfg. Hmmm. I think it could even pull in both auto-install a

Bug#568292: auto-install: pulls netcfg into images that should not have it

2010-02-03 Thread Frans Pop
tag 568292 patch thanks On Wednesday 03 February 2010, Frans Pop wrote: > The package should be reworked so that it works together with netcfg if > it is included in the initrd, but should also work correctly when netcfg > gets installed later by anna. > > The dependency on netcfg

Bug#568292: auto-install: pulls netcfg into images that should not have it

2010-02-03 Thread Frans Pop
Package: auto-install Version: 1.6 Severity: important auto-install is included in most types of images and for some reason depends on netcfg. But for example cdrom and hd-media images don't include any network driver kernel modules, so the network is completely unusable. In those cases netcfg

Bug#562051: Partman hanging on 52%, Polish language on MD devices

2010-02-02 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 02 February 2010, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > It would be awesome if you could update the bug with short instructions > on what to look for if someone can reproduce it. Just a couple of > sentences or so. Simplest thing is to add a line 'set -x' in /lib/partman/lib/base.sh. That will give a

Bug#562051: Partman hanging on 52%, Polish language on MD devices

2010-02-02 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 562051 partman-md tag 562051 unreproducible moreinfo thanks I've tried to reproduce this with both a daily image and a Lenny image. I've not used the identical disk layout, but I did create 3 RAID devices over 2 disks. On Tuesday 22 December 2009, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > This is the co

Re: [RFC] Allow to force or skip Recommends with apt-install

2010-02-02 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 08 December 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > D-I now always installs Recommends by default, except when > base-installer/install-recommends is preseeded to false. > > However, there are a few specific cases where we want to force > installing or not installing Recommends with sp

Re: [RFH] Errata and announcement help need

2010-02-01 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 01 February 2010, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Current issues: > - sparc images are broken It's not the images that are broken, but the installation of the silo bootloader to the target system. So the reboot fails. Should be fixed when D-I switches to .32. Details in #565639. -- To UNSU

Re: netcfg: using udhcpc to get dhcp lease fails

2010-02-01 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 01 February 2010, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Your suggestion makes the code much nicer to read, indeed, however I > did test it inside of busybox' shell and it worked. Has it failed for > you? I tried the commands I showed in an earlier mail in D-I debug shell. Maybe the configs are diffe

Re: netcfg: using udhcpc to get dhcp lease fails

2010-02-01 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 31 January 2010, Otavio Salvador wrote: > On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Frans Pop wrote: > > Having all leases in the file would mostly be an aid for > > troubleshooting. It's not a huge issue for me though. > > To it to concatenate them is a simgle line

Re: netcfg: using udhcpc to get dhcp lease fails

2010-02-01 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 01 February 2010, Frans Pop wrote: > On Monday 01 February 2010, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > > I.e, multiple IP addresses should be comma-separated. This also goes > > > for ntp-servers, which probably should not have quotes as it's > > > similar to dns.

Re: [RFC] Degrading reiserfs to optional filesystem?

2010-02-01 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 01 February 2010, Christian PERRIER wrote: > So, well, I answered Joss that, yes, ext4 will be available in D-I as > an option so that might answer his concerns. But, still, I felt the > duty to mention his concerns. And reiserfs will not be dropped. It's still available for selection fo

Re: netcfg: using udhcpc to get dhcp lease fails

2010-01-31 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 01 February 2010, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > I.e, multiple IP addresses should be comma-separated. This also goes > > for ntp-servers, which probably should not have quotes as it's similar > > to dns. > > Fixed both issues; I can't test it now so if you have time do a last > check. This

Re: netcfg: using udhcpc to get dhcp lease fails

2010-01-31 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 31 January 2010, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > Probably worth adding/fixing for udhcpc is: > > - missing option host-name > > I've added it but I can't test it right now. Please see if it works for > you. > > > - missing option domain-name-servers > > - missing option dhcp-server-identifier

Re: netcfg: using udhcpc to get dhcp lease fails

2010-01-31 Thread Frans Pop
Another issue. The Depends: for netcfg in debian/control now has: dhcp3-client-udeb (>= 3.1.0-2) [kfreebsd-i386 kfreebsd-amd64] According to policy this is only allowed for build dependencies, not for regular ones. Or am I missing something? If I'm right the dependency should be added dynami

Re: [RFC] Degrading reiserfs to optional filesystem?

2010-01-31 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 30 January 2010, Frans Pop wrote: > What do people think of degrading reiserfs support to optional, i.e. > only usable by specifically selecting partman-reiserfs in anna? I've also filed a BR (#567858) to request dropping the reiser4 udebs. I don't see support for t

Re: [RFC] Degrading reiserfs to optional filesystem?

2010-01-31 Thread Frans Pop
(Please reply to the d-boot list.) Hello Felix, On Saturday 30 January 2010, Frans Pop wrote: > What do people think of degrading reiserfs support to optional, i.e. > only usable by specifically selecting partman-reiserfs in anna? > > The rationale would be that its popularity h

Bug#567590: Reproducable

2010-01-31 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 567590 partman-partitioning 64 fixed 567590 71 tag 567590 pending thanks On Saturday 30 January 2010, Zachary Palmer wrote: > I witnessed the same confusion myself; in retrospect, I should've > mentioned it. I simply assumed that it was a graphical glitch of some > kind. I was unable to

Re: netcfg: using udhcpc to get dhcp lease fails

2010-01-31 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 31 January 2010, Luk Claes wrote: > Otavio Salvador wrote: > >> Also, if I run netcfg multiple times with dhcp3, I get multiple > >> leases in the leases file. You seem to overwrite the existing file. > >> Not sure if that needs fixing or not. > > > > I think it is not worth. syslog now h

Re: netcfg: using udhcpc to get dhcp lease fails

2010-01-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 30 January 2010, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > I built a netboot image without dhcp3-udeb to test udhcpc, but it > > failed miserably as it did not manage to get a lease during netcfg. > > How well was this tested? Works OK now. Nice. > Now it has one. /var/lib/udhcp/udhcpc.leases. udhc

Re: netcfg: using udhcpc to get dhcp lease fails

2010-01-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 30 January 2010, Otavio Salvador wrote: > It was a long time since I last looked at it; I've looked again and I > found that the script was not being set as executable. I've fixed it > for next busybox' upload. Thanks for the fixes. I'll give it a go. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Re: 32-bit install kernel sleeps off during installation

2010-01-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 29 January 2010, Rainer Koenig wrote: > Frans Pop schrieb: > > - install build dependencies > > - build a netboot image using: > > make reallyclean; fakeroot make build_netboot > > At this point I fail. The build process wants to install packages like >

[RFC] Degrading reiserfs to optional filesystem?

2010-01-30 Thread Frans Pop
What do people think of degrading reiserfs support to optional, i.e. only usable by specifically selecting partman-reiserfs in anna? The rationale would be that its popularity has decreased (AFAIK), upstream development is not very active and that more (and better?) alternatives are available n

Re: unused and removable partman templates

2010-01-30 Thread Frans Pop
I've checked only by grepping, nothing fancy. On Wednesday 27 January 2010, Joey Hess wrote: > AFAICS, the following templates are all not used anywhere: > > partman-jfs/check_failed > partman-reiserfs/check_failed > partman-ext3/check_failed > partman-ext2r0/check_failed > partman-xfs/check_faile

Bug#564441: new version of the proposed patch

2010-01-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 28 January 2010, Fred wrote: > I've updated my patch to follow suggestions from F. Pop, and tested > it at my level. Perhaps some enhancements could be added for a better > usability. Thanks Fred. I've taken a first look at the patch and will review it more thoroughly over the next da

Bug#567590: Reproducable

2010-01-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 30 January 2010, Frans Pop wrote: > On Saturday 30 January 2010, Frans Pop wrote: > > Toggling Bootable flag does not work (it remains 'off'), but toggling > > the line below changes it from 'off' to 'on'. > > Toggling the bootabl

Bug#567590: Reproducable

2010-01-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 30 January 2010, Frans Pop wrote: >   │         Bootable flag:    off                                    │ >   │         off                                                      │ > > Note the extra line with 'off' below the 'Bootable flag' line. That &g

Bug#567590: Reproducable

2010-01-30 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 567590 partman-base 128lenny1 retitle 567590 Strange bootable flag behavior with gpt disk label; RAID fails thanks On Saturday 30 January 2010, Zachary Palmer wrote: > Here's the interesting bit.  I sped through the menus and discovered > that the RAID system was quite happy to create a R

Update of D-I Internals

2010-01-30 Thread Frans Pop
Yesterday I've committed a fairly large update to the D-I Internals document. It now reflects the current development version for Squeeze instead of lagging at Etch. I've also started its transformation towards a more general "developers reference" by integrating the menu-item-numbers and avail

Re: Bug#433568: VLANs during install are important

2010-01-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 30 January 2010, Josef Wolf wrote: > This is why my original proposal was to decide from the value of > netcfg/chosen_interface whether to load/configure all the vlan stuff. So you would *always* show vlan interfaces, even for regular users on normal systems? I don't think I like that

Re: [RFT]: Debian Installer - Pre-Alpha1 images ready for testing

2010-01-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 29 January 2010, Holger Wansing wrote: > - So, the first line is localized (german translation, correct) > - The second chapter is NOT LOCALIZED (is in english !) > - The third chapter is localized (german translation, correct) > - The last line is NOT LOCALIZED (is in english !) You're

Daily Debian Installer builds

2010-01-29 Thread Frans Pop
FYI I've taken over the daily builds of Debian Installer for s390 as lophos has been down for well over a month now. If the service on lophos is ever reinstated, or if someone wants to set up (and manage) the builds on a regular buildd I'll be happy to stop them again. The link on the D-I pag

Re: Bug#433568: VLANs during install are important

2010-01-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 29 January 2010, Josef Wolf wrote: > But at that time the interface chosen interface is not known. So > deducing from chosen interface name (as outlined above) is not possible > and this method would only work with preseeding or if additional > questions are asked. No. The sequence shoul

Re: Bug#433568: VLANs during install are important

2010-01-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 29 January 2010, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 09:35:47PM +0100, Josef Wolf wrote: > > 2. Install vlan package into installer environment. Only the vconfig > >binary (9kb) is really needed. But it needs libc6. Is this an > > issue? > > Not needed: > | config VCONFIG >

Re: Bug#433568: VLANs during install are important

2010-01-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 29 January 2010, Josef Wolf wrote: > Since the interface name can be used to decide whether to activate vlan > support, no new debconf questions (like netcfg/enable_vlan or something) > are needed, IMHO. Doesn't that already answer your question about the user interface? :-) One request

Re: Bug#567182: gcc: Please add libgcc1-udeb for Debian Installer

2010-01-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 27 January 2010, Frans Pop wrote: > Please consider the attached patch which adds a udeb for libgcc1 > containing only libgcc_s.so.1. In case we do decide on inclusion in gcc, here is an updated patch for 4.4 and the additional patch for 4.5. Changes: - added libgcc[246] ude

Bug#567431: Installation Report

2010-01-29 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 567431 kernel-wedge 2.62 tags 567431 pending thanks On Friday 29 January 2010, boice...@msu.edu wrote: > Comments/Problems: > Using the text installer, USB Keyboard did not work even with BIOS > legacy emulation enabled once I passed the "Install" menu choice and > was on the language scr

Re: 32-bit install kernel sleeps off during installation

2010-01-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 28 January 2010, you wrote: > a) can I build a 32bit install image on a Debian amd64 system? Only if you create an i386 chroot (using debootstrap). > b) is there a bit of documentation for those things? Websites, books > or whatever. Wouldn't mind reading some stuff to get deeper into

Re: Build failures for hd-media

2010-01-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 28 January 2010, Joey Hess wrote: > From 7:51 am timestamp, I assume Christian needed to get to work and > didn't have time. It also said "for the last few days". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listm

Re: Status of netcfg-static

2010-01-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 28 January 2010, Josef Wolf wrote: > This can not be replaced by the generic netcfg with netcfg/use_dhcp set > to "false" or netcfg/disable_dhcp set to "true"? In theory that could maybe be done (but see below). Also note that setting an arch-dependent default while still fully suppor

Re: Build failures for hd-media

2010-01-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 28 January 2010, Frans Pop wrote: > On Thursday 28 January 2010, Christian PERRIER wrote: > > Since 2 or 3 days, I'm having build failures on my local daily build > > for i386. > > The IA64 buildd has a similar error: > mkfs.msdos -i deb1 -n "De

Re: Build failures for hd-media

2010-01-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 28 January 2010, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Since 2 or 3 days, I'm having build failures on my local daily build > for i386. The IA64 buildd has a similar error: mkfs.msdos -i deb1 -n "Debian Inst" -C ./tmp/cdrom/boot.img 32768 mkfs.msdos 3.0.8 (23 Jan 2010) mmd -i./tmp/cdrom/boot.

Re: Bug#567182: gcc: Please add libgcc1-udeb for Debian Installer

2010-01-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 28 January 2010, Matthias Klose wrote: > On 27.01.2010 23:26, Frans Pop wrote: > > On Wednesday 27 January 2010, Matthias Klose wrote: > >>- did you consider building the udeb from a separate source > >> package, build-depending on gcc-4.4-so

Re: 32-bit install kernel sleeps off during installation

2010-01-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 28 January 2010, Rainer Koenig wrote: > Would be nice to figure out the "why" behind this problem. My guess at > the moment is that it is related to > a) the CPU which is a new AMD dual core athlon > b) the 2.6.26-2-486 kernel that is used during the installation > > So I think there is

Bug#565639: SunBlade 1000 installation report - boot fails after installation

2010-01-28 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 565639 linux-2.6 2.6.30-8 severity 565639 serious affects 565639 debian-installer On Sunday 24 January 2010, Jurij Smakov wrote: > Adding kernel team for comment: it looks like the value returned by > uname -m has changed from 'sparc64' in kernel 2.6.26 to 'sparc' in > 2.6.30 (and, probab

Re: Question about having an always clean base system in Debian Sid

2010-01-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 28 January 2010, Geek87 wrote: > Thanks! So it's impossible to have it work with tasksel. And for the > base system? Does someone have an idea? That's a question that's probably better asked on the debian-user list. Cheers, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.

Re: Spam cleaning in list archives: one last effort needed

2010-01-27 Thread Frans Pop
Christian Perrier wrote: > The remaining months, that should be targeted by anybody but > me, Frans Pop, Holger Wansing and Lee Winter, are: > * March 1999 to May 2000 > * October 2000 to July 2002 > * May and June 2004 I just see that as of yesterday the whole archive has now been

Re: Bug#567182: gcc: Please add libgcc1-udeb for Debian Installer

2010-01-27 Thread Frans Pop
Thanks a lot for the quick reply. On Wednesday 27 January 2010, Matthias Klose wrote: > The patch itself looks ok, some other questions: > > - did you consider building the udeb from a separate source package, > build-depending on gcc-4.4-source? No, I had not considered that. It's an optio

Re: Bug#567182: gcc: Please add libgcc1-udeb for Debian Installer

2010-01-27 Thread Frans Pop
-- Forwarded Message -- From: Matthias Klose On 27.01.2010 21:03, Frans Pop wrote: > Please consider the attached patch which adds a udeb for libgcc1 > containing only libgcc_s.so.1. That file is needed for the (directfb > based) graphical installer because of pthre

Bug#567182: gcc: Please add libgcc1-udeb for Debian Installer

2010-01-27 Thread Frans Pop
Source: gcc-4.4 Version: 1:4.4.3-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: d-i patch X-Debbugs-CC: debian-boot@lists.debian.org Please consider the attached patch which adds a udeb for libgcc1 containing only libgcc_s.so.1. That file is needed for the (directfb based) graphical installer because of pthread_can

Re: Status of netcfg-static

2010-01-27 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 27 January 2010, Bastian Blank wrote: > In the meantime this is correct. DHCP can be used on s390 with some > constraints, but it needs to be disabled by default. Is it useful in practice though? I rather doubt anyone would want to set up an s390 box using DHCP. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Status of netcfg-static

2010-01-27 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 27 January 2010, Josef Wolf wrote: > I am wondering what netcfg-static is good for. Looks like it is an > (outdated) subset of the more generic netcfg. No. It's used for s390: installer/build/pkg-lists/netboot/s390.cfg:1:netcfg-static installer/build/pkg-lists/generic/s390.cfg:3:netcf

Re: Question about having an always clean base system in Debian Sid

2010-01-27 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 27 January 2010, Geek87 wrote: > I also would like to have it working similarly for the tasks: for > example if I have a task "Mail server" installed depending on Sendmail > and that the new version of this task now depends on Postfix, I would > like Sendmail to be automatically remove

netcfg: using udhcpc to get dhcp lease fails

2010-01-26 Thread Frans Pop
I've just tried running the SVN version of netcfg which includes the following change: [ Otavio Salvador ] * Add support for udhcpc. This was based on Luk Claes but changed to avoid dropping support for dhclient, dhclient3 and pump for now. I built a netboot image without dhcp3-udeb to

Re: Spam cleaning in list archives: one last effort needed

2010-01-25 Thread Frans Pop
Christian Perrier wrote: > If you're interested in statistics, you can look [2] to learn that > "our" list is by far the one that got most cleaning. Here's a little overview of the lists with the most removed posts, including the ratio of deleted spam over reviewed posts. As you can see we have

Bug#565938: debian-installer: provide option to skip step(s) in interactive interface

2010-01-19 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 19 January 2010, Michael Prokop wrote: > Providing it just within the relevant dialogs isn't an option, nor? IMO not: 1) it is redundant as we can (and do, where needed) offer the same functionality using debconf questions 2) it would clutter the user interface 3) it goes against the

Re: [(O)SRM] debian-installer update uploaded for Etch and Lenny

2010-01-19 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 19 January 2010, dann frazier wrote: > I'm currently uploading refreshed linux-kernel-di packages built against > 2.6.26-21. Once accepted, I can go ahead and refresh d-i. Please do. > Please let me know if there's any other pending d-i changes for stable > that I should wait for. Non

Bug#352758: -- installation: "etch" installer fails to detect/configure PC card NIC

2010-01-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 18 January 2010, Chris Jones wrote: > First of all, why are you gentlmen replying to me directly instead of > posting to the list? We are replying to the *bug report* and CCing you as the submitter of the bug report. Most submitters of bug reports are not subscribed to the mailing list

Bug#352758: -- installation: "etch" installer fails to detect/configure PC card NIC

2010-01-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 18 January 2010, Chris Jones wrote: > Since I have the hardware available and you probably don't, would you > need me to download and test an unstable or experimental install in this > respect? There is no version of the installer based on the 2.6.32 kernel available yet. -- To UNSU

Bug#565639: SunBlade 1000 installation report - boot fails after installation

2010-01-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 17 January 2010, Jurij Smakov wrote: > Comments/Problems: > Now that http://bugs.debian.org/562594 is fixed, I was able to > continue the installation and it all went fine until the end. > However, after finishing the installation machine fails to boot [...] As the installation itself wo

Bug#352758: -- installation: "etch" installer fails to detect/configure PC card NIC

2010-01-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 17 January 2010, Holger Wansing wrote: > Could you try to find out if the firmware is non-free? > Could it be included in the debian-archive? In unstable it looks to be included in the firmware-linux-free package, but with a changed extension: http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=

Bug#565511: ext4.ko module missing from initramfs

2010-01-16 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 565511 initramfs-tools 0.93.4 retitle 565511 ext4.ko module missing from "dep" initramfs thanks On Saturday 16 January 2010, ael wrote: > On further investigation, I find that > /lib/modules/2.6.30-2-686/kernel/fs/ext4/ext4.ko > is missing from the initramfs. > > I assume that this expl

Re: [RFC] Blockers for Debian Installer - Alpha1 release

2010-01-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 16 January 2010, Frans Pop wrote: > On Saturday 16 January 2010, Ian Campbell wrote: > > Possibly just an issue with the mirror the buildd is using? Since > > packages.debian.org seems to think that package is in both squeeze and > > sid and local builds Work Fo

Re: [RFC] Blockers for Debian Installer - Alpha1 release

2010-01-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 16 January 2010, Ian Campbell wrote: > Possibly just an issue with the mirror the buildd is using? Since > packages.debian.org seems to think that package is in both squeeze and > sid and local builds Work For Me(tm). See the first lines of the log: WARNING: mirror 'http://hetzner:down

Bug#565243: cdrom-retriever: No progress bar movement when fetching packages

2010-01-14 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 565243 pkgsel 0.24 thanks On Thursday 14 January 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Would it be possible to get the DVD installation to behave more like > the network installation, where the progress bar move forward while > packages are fetched. Even if all packages are local, it take a

Re: [(O)SRM] debian-installer update uploaded for Etch and Lenny

2010-01-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 11 January 2010, Frans Pop wrote: > On Thursday 24 December 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > > For stable (20090123lenny5) all arches except mips were successful. > > I've already mailed the mips buildd maintainers. > > I've not heard anything back from the m

Re: [(O)SRM] debian-installer update uploaded for Etch and Lenny

2010-01-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 11 January 2010, dann frazier wrote: > On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 06:57:56PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > > On Thursday 24 December 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > > > As all packages needed to build D-I were now available, I have > > > uploaded for both stable and oldstab

Re: [(O)SRM] debian-installer update uploaded for Etch and Lenny

2010-01-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 24 December 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > As all packages needed to build D-I were now available, I have uploaded > for both stable and oldstable. An accept is not needed; apparently D-I > gets an automatic accept due to by-hand processing of the image > tarballs. &g

Bug#564719: please provide way to lock console

2010-01-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 11 January 2010, Holger Levsen wrote: > I'll clone this bug and reassign to vlock, requesting such a udeb and > then make the vlock bug a blocker on this one. I do not agree with this way of doing it because now it has implicitly become a request for the maintainer of vlock to provide s

Re: My warning about Lenny

2010-01-11 Thread Frans Pop
(Moving this to the d-boot list. Please reply to that list only.) Martin Wuertele wrote: > * Joey Hess [2010-01-10 23:23]: > >> This is not the case in Debian 5.0. Nor was it the case with Debian 4.0. >> Debian 3.1 (2005) was the last one to do that. > > Interesting. Tasksel on my Squeeze box s

Re: chose unrelated swap and no way to lock console

2010-01-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 10 January 2010, Holger Levsen wrote: > I'm installing lenny atm on a harddrive connected via usb to an laptop. > I choose "guided partitioning with encrypted lvm" and this failed as the > laptop has a harddrive with insecure swap. So I had to take out the > harddrive to do the installati

Re: proposed patch to select an ISO among multiple ones

2010-01-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 09 January 2010, Fred wrote: > Ok, thanks for the advice. I sent back my e-mail to the reportbug tool, > and created bug #564441. > > I hope to find more time next week to be able to learn how to rebuild > a d-i image… Hi, I also sent two replies, but maybe you've missed them: - http

Bug#433568: VLANs during install are important

2010-01-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 09 January 2010, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > It would be less of a problem if d-i used the Busybox ip applet It does (and nothing else). > *and* if that supported VLANs. That might be an issue. No idea. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: proposed patch to select an ISO among multiple ones

2010-01-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 09 January 2010, you wrote: > Again, your solution *is* acceptable. Oh, and please fix your indentation: the new function you added is a mess. Please use TABs only. And please don't use spaces in front of punctuation marks in your comments: you're writing English, not French. --

Re: proposed patch to select an ISO among multiple ones

2010-01-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 08 January 2010, Fred wrote: > I see 2 solutions for my problem : > - either I parse all ISO files from all disks/partitions, and ask for > choice if any : I thought it could be quite long to parse all > partitions, and this way all installer' users have to wait for this. > - either after

Re: localechooser: One more proposed change

2010-01-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 08 January 2010, Frans Pop wrote: > First of all we need a minor string change because the "selected system > locale" no longer depends only on selected language/country but can also > be the selected preferred locale. Sorry, I pasted an old version of this change. He

localechooser: One more proposed change

2010-01-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 06 January 2010, Frans Pop wrote: > With this patch the preferred locale question will be asked > - at high priority for the English/Germany case (default: en_US.UTF-8) > - at medium priority for the English/Australia case (default: > en_AU.UTF-8) After testing this ch

Bug#563861: localechooser: Maybe ask preferred locale in more cases?

2010-01-07 Thread Frans Pop
tag 563861 pending thanks I've just committed the change. At medium and low priority we do now have the situation which Colin warned against: effectively we display the shortlist dialog twice in a row. And I do agree that it's not the most beautiful design. However, I think that this commit do

Bug#564033: tasksel forces installation of many useless packages on hr locale setups even when you don't select anything

2010-01-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 07 January 2010, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting Josip Rodin (j...@debbugs.entuzijast.net): > > IMHO the non-desktop installation for Croatian needs to lose all of: > > aspell, myspell, whatever-the-hell-spell, dict-*, doc-linux-*, > > texlive-* enca because none of these packages ar

Bug#563861: localechooser: Maybe ask preferred locale in more cases?

2010-01-06 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 06 January 2010, Christian PERRIER wrote: > +1 for me. Nice catch, again. That specific example would have raised > suggestions at some time so it's much better if we can anticipate > them. OK. But I just see that this does require a string change :-/ Current text is: There is no

Bug#563861: localechooser: Maybe ask preferred locale in more cases?

2010-01-05 Thread Frans Pop
Package: localechooser Version: 2.21 Severity: wishlist There is one use case currently not covered by localechooser that arguably should be covered, though IMO only at medium priority. This use case is as follows. A user is from England, but working in Australia. So he selects English as langu

Re: Migration hint needed for wireless-tools

2010-01-03 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 04 January 2010, Luk Claes wrote: > > We need to do another upload of debian-installer to fix an issue with > > syslinux menus on x86, but it FTBFS on amd64 because: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > > netcfg: Depends: libiw30-udeb (>= 30~pre1) but it is not > >

Bug#558686: Partition manager fails to update kernel partition table

2010-01-03 Thread Frans Pop
> > In particular: v1.9.0-137-g048602c > > > > http://git.debian.org/?p=parted/parted.git;a=commitdiff;h=048602c1d5df > >93ddf4 > > > >ped_partition_busy: do not call the libparted exception handler > > > >Modify libparted/arch/linux.c _partition_get_part_dev() to not call > >_device_st

Re: d-i from lenny not choosing local udebs

2009-12-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 29 December 2009, Lucas Brasilino wrote: > But, I'm just curious: Since sources.list.udeb is > generated from sources.list.udeb.local No. It's not generated that way. s.l.u is generated from the host system's /etc/apt/sources.list. s.l.u.local is an override if you do *not* want to us

Re: d-i from lenny not choosing local udebs

2009-12-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 29 December 2009, Lucas Brasilino wrote: > My sources.list.udeb.local is: > deb http://localhost/debian-mirror lenny main/debian-installer That's the problem. Because you have a .local file the normal sources.list.udeb is ignored. Either delete the .local file or add a correct line for

Bug#562594: Use modalias to detect modules when driver does not register

2009-12-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 29 December 2009, Jurij Smakov wrote: > I see that modprobe has --resolve-alias flag which prints out the > module(s) matching an alias, which renders the whole sed concoction > unnecessary. I think we should keep Jérémy's solution. If --resolve-alias can return multiple modules that s

[RFC] Final (?) changes to localechooser templates

2009-12-29 Thread Frans Pop
Here's a proposal for some final tuning to the country selection dialogs. Partly as a result of the discussion with Florian Zumbiehl in #559795. We have three dialogs: 1) country shortlist based on language 2) continent 3) country per continent. Main reason for the change is that any of the three

Bug#562786: Bug-Report

2009-12-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 27 December 2009, delphi...@gmx.de wrote: > Comments/Problems: > > I startet the installer. Before the menu showed up there were two > messages on the screen. I tried to read them but it was too fast, I only > know that they ended with "may be corrupt". You should be able to see them by

Bug#562594: Use modalias to detect modules when driver does not register

2009-12-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 28 December 2009, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > This problem looks similar to the one I had while trying to use a daily > build image on a PowerEdge R410. > > The network interfaces on these machines are supported by the bnx2 > module, but when no firmware is available, the driver does not regis

Re: My keyboard isn't recognize by the last daily-build on amd64

2009-12-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 28 December 2009, Jeremy Guitton wrote: > I've tried the last daily-build on amd64 system and my keyboard, a > MX3200 by Logitech, isn't recognize by the debian-installer. My keyboard > needs module "hid-logitech". This module isn't build in the kernel but > like a module, I think that is

Bug#562594: More information

2009-12-27 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 26 December 2009, Jurij Smakov wrote: > The logic in check_missing() function appends the missing firmware > file name to the $files list and the module to $modules list. However, > if such mapping fails (as in this case), nothing is appended to $files > or $modules, and the file is sim

Bug#562594: More information

2009-12-27 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 26 December 2009, Jurij Smakov wrote: > The problem here is that empty $modules does not mean that there are > no files in $MISSING which is set to /dev/.udev/firmware-missing (the > log message is wrong as well). Nice analysis Jurij. A lot (most?) devices do have a driver directory u

Re: [(O)SRM] debian-installer update uploaded for Etch and Lenny

2009-12-26 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 24 December 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > I will run some installation tests over the next few days. If I don't > follow up on this mail it means the tests were successful. The kernel in oldstable-p-u for s390 fails to boot (both with the installer and an installed system).

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