[Cooker] install report bugs: 31.1
Latest rsync from ftp.uninett.no (yes, it's nearly impossible to connect!!!) Mandrake: how about another always-up-to-date rsync mirror like ftp.uninett.no !??! Anyway, here are the bugs: 1. Diskdrake (during install): if you choose (in options) to have an encrypted filesystem, it asks for a password that must be at least 20 (!!) characters long. Sure this makes it very secure, but 20 is somewhat over the top - non? 2. Diskdrake (during install): This one i could reproduce - I tried because it seemed a somewhat strange bug. Conditions: Two harddrives (hda hdd). Convert one of the partitions ( /mnt/haha - ext2 - hda5 ) to encrypted mode. / and /home partitions on hdd. click Done Format / and /home on hdd Error message (during formatting): fsck failed with exitcode 8 or signal 0 Install log on F3: (excerpt which looks suspicious) calling losetup -p 0 -e AES128 /dev/loop0 /dev/hda5 mounting /dev/loop0 on /mnt/mnt/haha as type ext2, options encrypted, encryption=AES128 running fsck.ext2 -a /dev/loop0 warning: fsck failed with exitcode 8 or signal 0 at /usr/bin/perl-install/fs.pm line 620 Reproduceability: I could reproduce this bug given the same Conditions, but i could not reproduce it if i had all three partitions ( /mnt/haha and / and /home ) on hdd. good luck with this one! 3.KDE: The first time I installed kde 2.2.2 3.0 When logging in with default windowmanager selected i log into kde3 and not kde2.2.2. The two are not able to co-exist happily (as has been reported on this list) probably because they use the same directory to store their config files. Also i can't log into kde 2.2.2, even when selecting KDE before login, i always login to kde3. 4.MCC: After a clean reinstall, in KDE (2.2.2): (this bug has been reported before, but is still important) MCC does not have a surrounding frame that would allow it to be moved/closed/resized. MCC is always in the foreground. 5. Hardware configuration: With my soundcard (Yamaha YMF-724) there is no out-of-the-box sound. In sound mixer (KDE) the Asahi Kasei AK4540 mixer has following default settings that need to be changed to get audio. It would be nice if these were set up correctly: PCM device is muted and volume set to 0 Master device is muted and volume set to 0 Wave Playback Volume device (4th from the left) has volume set to 0 That's all for now! -- Sascha Noyes OpenPGP public key keyID: 7F9C4D6F Encrypted mail much preferred
RE: [Cooker] install report bugs: 31.1
3.KDE: The first time I installed kde 2.2.2 3.0 When logging in with default windowmanager selected i log into kde3 and not kde2.2.2. The two are not able to co-exist happily (as has been reported on this list) probably because they use the same directory to store their config files. Also i can't log into kde 2.2.2, even when selecting KDE before login, i always login to kde3. /etc/X11/wmsession.d/11KDE rename `KDE 3' into KDE3 (without blank). Gc you said it was useful? :-) Chmouel it look like your patch for chksession either never made its way into CVS or did not fix the problem. I have not tried it because I already was happy without blank :( 5. Hardware configuration: With my soundcard (Yamaha YMF-724) there is no out-of-the-box sound. In sound mixer (KDE) the Asahi Kasei AK4540 mixer has following default settings that need to be changed to get audio. It would be nice if these were set up correctly: PCM device is muted and volume set to 0 Master device is muted and volume set to 0 Wave Playback Volume device (4th from the left) has volume set to 0 FWIW it seems to be default in ALSA (do you use ALSA?). Ask them why they do it. -andrej
Re: [Cooker] install report bugs: 31.1
On Friday 01 February 2002 12:32 pm, you wrote: Sascha Noyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] 1. Diskdrake (during install): if you choose (in options) to have an encrypted filesystem, it asks for a password that must be at least 20 (!!) characters long. Sure this makes it very secure, but 20 is somewhat over the top - non? yes, losetup needs patching... 2. Diskdrake (during install): This one i could reproduce - I tried because it seemed a somewhat strange bug. Conditions: Two harddrives (hda hdd). Convert one of the partitions ( /mnt/haha - ext2 - hda5 ) to encrypted mode. / and /home partitions on hdd. click Done Format / and /home on hdd Error message (during formatting): fsck failed with exitcode 8 or signal 0 the log you gave doesn't show wether the partition is formatted or not. Can you give more? OK, here's the entire log from the step doPartitionDisks onward: starting step 'doPartitionDisks' warning: bad magic number at /usr/bin/perl-install/partition_table_empty.pm line 31 found a dos partition table on /dev/hda at sector 0 warning: bad magic number at /usr/bin/perl-install/partition_table_empty.pm line 31 found a dos partition table on /dev/hdd at sector 0 test_for_bad_drives (/dev/hda) test_for_bad_drives (/dev/hdd) missing module floppy step 'doPartitionDisks' finished swapon called with hdd5 swapon called with hda7 mounting hdd1 on /mnt/ as type ext2, options running fsck.ext2 -a /dev/hdd1 fsck corrected partition /dev/hdd1 calling mount(/dev/hdd1, /mnt, ext2, -1058209792, ) running: /usr/bin/insmod_2 /dev/tty5 -f /tmp/loop.o calling losetup -p 0 -e AES128 /dev/loop0 /dev/hda5 mounting /dev/loop0 on /mnt/mnt/haha as type ext2, options encrypted, encryption=AES128 running fsck.ext2 -a /dev/loop0 warning: fsck failed with exitcode 8 or signal 0 at /usr/bin/perl-install/fs.pm line 620 -- Sascha Noyes OpenPGP public key keyID: 7F9C4D6F Encrypted mail much preferred
Re: [Cooker] install report bugs: 31.1
On Friday 01 February 2002 02:35 pm, you wrote: Sascha Noyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the log you gave doesn't show wether the partition is formatted or not. Can you give more? OK, here's the entire log from the step doPartitionDisks onward: [...] so the pb is that it doesn't get formatted. Are you sure you asked to format /mnt/haha? (and / isn't formatted either) You're right! Perhaps you could configure diskdrake so it automagically selects a parition for formatting which was changed to encrypted mode - to catch stupid people like me. - Thanks -- Sascha Noyes OpenPGP public key keyID: 7F9C4D6F Encrypted mail much preferred
Re: [Cooker] install report bugs: 31.1
Sascha Noyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] 1. Diskdrake (during install): if you choose (in options) to have an encrypted filesystem, it asks for a password that must be at least 20 (!!) characters long. Sure this makes it very secure, but 20 is somewhat over the top - non? yes, losetup needs patching... 2. Diskdrake (during install): This one i could reproduce - I tried because it seemed a somewhat strange bug. Conditions: Two harddrives (hda hdd). Convert one of the partitions ( /mnt/haha - ext2 - hda5 ) to encrypted mode. / and /home partitions on hdd. click Done Format / and /home on hdd Error message (during formatting): fsck failed with exitcode 8 or signal 0 the log you gave doesn't show wether the partition is formatted or not. Can you give more?
Re: [Cooker] install report bugs: 31.1
Sascha Noyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the log you gave doesn't show wether the partition is formatted or not. Can you give more? OK, here's the entire log from the step doPartitionDisks onward: [...] so the pb is that it doesn't get formatted. Are you sure you asked to format /mnt/haha? (and / isn't formatted either)
Re: [Cooker] install report bugs: 31.1
Borsenkow Andrej wrote: [...] PCM device is muted and volume set to 0 Master device is muted and volume set to 0 Wave Playback Volume device (4th from the left) has volume set to 0 FWIW it seems to be default in ALSA (do you use ALSA?). Ask them why they do it. IIRC I read somwhere it was changed from being on (by Mandrake) because people complained (sound was muted by default when I tried ALSA seprately some time ago). Which leads to many newbies thinking sound is broken =]. If sound can be turned on, IMHO those people who want it turned off know where the mixer can be found, but no sound is confusing for a newbie. A mixer icon by default on the taskbar would be a Good Thing.
