Re: Make debootstrap re-entrant?

[Anthony Towns]

On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 09:56:53PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 03:27:59PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 07:47:57AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> > > It can't think of any reason not to make debootstrap's downloading of debs
> > > more friendly. I had my base install interrupted tonight and I had to wait
> > > through all the same downloads again, although they were already there on
> > > the disk.
> > Eh?
> > Successful downloads are already skipped (and sizes and checksums are
> > already checked).
> not unless you tell it to use null: as a mirror, which you can't do
> if it died midway.  otherwise it just starts over from scratch.

The only thing "null:" does is cause an error if the function that does
download stuff is ever called. The code for skipping downloads is called
no matter what your url is.

Try running "sudo debootstrap --download-only woody woody-chroot" a
couple of times, ^C'ing after it's finished a few downloads each time, eg.

Cheers,
aj

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Re: Make debootstrap re-entrant?

[Ethan Benson]

On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 03:27:59PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 07:47:57AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> > It can't think of any reason not to make debootstrap's downloading of debs
> > more friendly. I had my base install interrupted tonight and I had to wait
> > through all the same downloads again, although they were already there on
> > the disk.
> 
> Eh?
> 
> Successful downloads are already skipped (and sizes and checksums are
> already checked).

not unless you tell it to use null: as a mirror, which you can't do
if it died midway.  otherwise it just starts over from scratch.

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Bug#71242: marked as done (It'd be nice if one could select LANG/LC_* settings during installation)

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Package: boot-floppies
Version: N/A; reported 2000-09-10
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How about a dialog (after the timezone configuration?) that
has drop-down fields for LANG and the locale env variables
(LC_MESSAGES, ...) that contain the available locales?

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The requested functionality has been incorporated in the woody boot-floppies. 

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Bug#69159: marked as done (boot-floppies: Rephrase pre-reboot message)

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Package: boot-floppies
Version: 2.2.16-2000-07-20
Severity: wishlist

The installer says

   If you are ready to reboot the system, you should have the boot
   floppy (if you created one) in the first floppy drive, or no
   floppy in the first floppy drive if you want to boot directly
   from the hard disk, or the Debian Rescue floppy if you want to
   reboot the installation system.

   Please take care of that before you answer "Yes" to the
   following question.

   Reboot the system?[Yes] [No]

It would be better to rewrite this dialog so that the text is
more directly related to the task.  Something like


   To reboot the system, your (first) floppy drive should have

 * No floppy (to boot your system from your hard disk)

 * The boot floppy you just created (to boot from floppy)

 * The Debian Rescue floppy (to restart the installation)

   When you're ready, choose [Reboot] to continue.

[Cancel]  [Reboot]




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Debian Release: potato
Architecture: powerpc
Kernel: Linux diziet 2.2.16-foo #2 Mon Jun 12 17:14:16 PDT 2000 ppc



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The reboot message was reworded as follows. This bug can be closed.


   If you are ready to reboot the system, you'll need to make sure you
   are booting from the right media.

   If you are booting from the local disk, make sure there are no
   floppies in the floppy drives and no CD-ROM in the tray.  If you made
   a custom boot floppy and want to boot from that, you should put that
   floppy in the first floppy drive.  Finally, you can restart the
   installation system by booting from your install media.

   Please take care of all that before you answer "Yes" to the
   following question.

   Reboot the system?

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Re: Make debootstrap re-entrant?

[Anthony Towns]

On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 07:47:57AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> It can't think of any reason not to make debootstrap's downloading of debs
> more friendly. I had my base install interrupted tonight and I had to wait
> through all the same downloads again, although they were already there on
> the disk.

Eh?

Successful downloads are already skipped (and sizes and checksums are
already checked).

Cheers,
aj

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Bug#99934: marked as done ("Make boot floppy failed")

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Package: boot-floppies
Version: 2.2.23

I'm turning this into a bug, cc'ing debian-boot manually since bugs.debian.org
is down at the moment.

Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 07:58:50AM -0700 wrote:
> Are there certain details I need to give to get a
> reply?

I think the only problem is we're busy and clueless :-)

>  I looked for the dbootstrap package at debian.org, but I guess it isn't one, even 
>though the message on a virtual console is "dbootstrap: Make boot floppy failed..."

Yes, the package you want is called boot-floppies:
apt-get source boot-floppies 
or 
http://packages.debian.org/stable/admin/boot-floppies.html
or
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/source/admin/boot-floppies_2.2.23.tar.gz

The error occurs somewhere near :

utilities/dbootstrap/bootconfig.c:93

from what you have described it looks like the failure is in here (though I
can't be sure with the info we have at the moment):

printf(_("Formatting the floppy...\n"));
/* We don't have (yet) 2.88 MB bootable floppy ... */
snprintf(prtbuf, sizeof(prtbuf), BC_RUN_SFORMAT, device,
 (size > 720) ? "hd" : "dd");
/* DO NOT USE execlog() */
INFOMSG("formatting floppy with cmd '%s'", prtbuf);
status = system(prtbuf);
boxResume();
if (status) return 1;

sounds like status is non-zero  The commands leading up to it are something like
this (the actual decive is system dependant (/dev/fd0):

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/target/lib:/target/usr/lib"; 
/target/usr/bin/superformat /dev/fd0 hd

It would be nice to be able to manually run superformat.

Did you see any error messages that could be coming from superformat (from the
superformat man page) :

Troubleshooting
   FDC busy, sleeping for a second
  When another program accesses a disk drive  on  the
  same  controller as the one being formatted, super­
  format has to wait until the other access  is  fin­
  ished.   If  this  happens, check whether any other
  program accesses a drive (or  whether  a  drive  is
  mounted), kill that program (or unmount the drive),
  and the format should proceed normally.

   I/O errors during verification
  Your drive may be too far out of tolerance, and you
  may  thus  need  to supply a margin parameter.  Run
  floppymeter (see section  floppymeter) to find  out
  an  appropriate  value  for this parameter, and add
  the suggested margin parameter to the command line





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> >This is my first exposure to Debian, although I have used Red Hat for about a year. 
> 
> >
> >I got Debian 2.2r3 "Espy" through CheapBytes.com and the install goes 

Bug#94417: marked as done (Manual navigation to hard disk for rescue.bin installation fails)

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Package: boot-floppies
Version: 2.2.23

After selecting Install Operating System Kernel and Drivers from the
dbootstrap menu, I wanted to type in the path to the directory on my hard
disk where powermac/images-1.44/rescue.bin could be found. I selected the
appropriate option from the menu (manually specify the path). I found that I
could type in the path following instmnt/, in my case Debian/current, and
that I could use the <...> menu to browse my disk and verify that the files
were within the specified directory, but when I chose OK to acknowledge the
final path, it could not find the files.

On the other hand, if after I first selected Install Operating System Kernel
and Drivers, I instead chose the 'list all paths' option, the installer took
a long time to search my entire disk but did finally propose the same path I
had typed in on the first try. It then continued with the installation after
I accepted the proposed path.

This same problem occurred later when attempting to install the Base system
through a similar dialog. The manual path specification didn't work.

I was using the files which had been downloaded earlier to my internal hard
disk hda5, which was mounted for me properly by the system.


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This is a bug I submitted earlier. While the dialog is still a bit unclear,
it works now and this bug should be closed.

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Bug#77040: Tried later version of debian?

[Chris Tillman]

I'm trying to get a few old bugs closed, and I wondered if you have tried
debian again more recently on your PB3400. There have been quite a few
kernel improvements since 2.2.17 for powerpc, and the boot system has been
greatly improved. 

I think this bug can be closed now, can you verify that?

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cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by eb

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Repository: boot-floppies/debian
who:eb
time:   Thu Nov  1 17:22:28 PST 2001


Log Message:

document segv fix and choose-archive-dir defaults


Files:

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Re: Make debootstrap re-entrant?

[Ethan Benson]

On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 07:47:57AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> It can't think of any reason not to make debootstrap's downloading of debs
> more friendly. I had my base install interrupted tonight and I had to wait
> through all the same downloads again, although they were already there on
> the disk.

this is annoying, but not as trivial to fix as you may think.

debootstrap already retries failed downloads three times which should
reduce the liklyhood of fatal interruptions.

> I was getting an average of 22kb/sec on my DSL connection, so it only set me
> back a half hour or so. For those trying to install over a modem connection,
> it would be very frustrating when the connection gets interrupted to have to
> restart from the beginning.

tell me about it.

> I have no experience with shell code, but this looked like it might do the
> trick:
> 
> --- functions.origWed Oct 31 23:52:04 2001
> +++ functions Thu Nov  1 00:27:30 2001
> @@ -161,6 +161,7 @@
>  error 1 "${from#null:} was not pre-downloaded"
>elif [ "${from#http://}"; != "$from" -o "${from#ftp://}"; != "$from" ]; then
>  # http/ftp mirror
> +if [ -e $dest ]; then return 0; fi 
>  if wgetprogress -O "$dest" "$from"; then
>return 0
>  elif [ -s "$dest" ]; then
> 
> I'm fairly certain that the file doesn't exist for -e until it's been fully
> downloaded and closed. So I don't believe there would be any risk of ending

not true, do repeated ls -l of /target/var/cache/apt/archives/ while
debootstrap is running and you will see this is not correct.

> up with an half-completed file. The checksum could be checked, if there is.

there is a very great risk of a half downloaded file, the very moment
wget is started there is a zero length .deb with the filename your
looking for, then it slowly grows until its complete, if something
goes wrong you end up with a partitial file, debootstrap should retry
the download rerunning wget with -c which tells it to use the partial
file already there and resume where it left off.

with your patch debootstrap will fool itself into thinking the file is
downloaded and then the base install with puke horribily with gzip, ar
and tar failing miserably on the corrupt archive.

we could probably add in addition to this check, do an md5sum check to see
if the .deb is valid, and if so leave it, otherwise resume the
download.  ill look into this, im currently working on fixing the
defective progress bar stuffs. 

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Re: Regarding i18ned boot-floppies build dependancies

[Marcin Owsiany]

On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 05:11:38PM +0100, Marcin Owsiany wrote:
>  - change libnewt-dev's dependancy on libnewt-dev to slang1-dev | slang1-utf8-dev

Ah, I see that was done in today's NMU.

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Re: debootstrap 0.1.15.5, urgent for woody, needs testing

[Herbert Xu]

On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 02:18:48PM +0200, Tommi Virtanen wrote:
> 
>   Oh, that still fails the second part of the bug report (#115581)
> -- smallyes foo bar echoes "foo\nfoo\n..", not "foo bar\nfoo bar\n.."
> 
> Fortunately, that isn't triggered by anything (yet). Do you want to
> rely on that?
> 
> In fact, no combination of 1,*,@ and :-, - manages to work perfectly
> for all of bash, ash and zsh ;) Assuming install will use ash or bash,
> either *-y or @-y seems like a good pick.

zsh is not a POSIX shell.
 
> [tv@tv ~]$ for shell in ash bash zsh; do export shell; $shell -c 'smallyes_xu() { 
>YES="${*-y}"; while true ; do echo "$YES" ; done; }; ( echo $shell; smallyes_xu |head 
>-1; smallyes_xu ""|head -1; smallyes_xu foo bar|head -1 )|tr "\012" ":"'; echo; done  
>;echo 
> ash:y::foo bar:
> bash:y::foo bar:
> zsh:::foo bar:

This is the right one for your specification.
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Bug#117914: boot-floppies: debootstrap fails - install impossible

[Alexis Huxley]

Subject: boot-floppies: debootstrap fails
Package: boot-floppies
Version: 3.0.15-2001-10-18
Severity: critical


-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Kernel Version: 


I am sending this bug from another machine because the machine on
which the problem occurs has not successfully been installed because
of the problem I am about to report here, hence deleteing the kernel
version information above.

The version of boot-floppies above is the directory name under
debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386 from which I took images-1.44's
rescue and root, and the drivers.tgz.

Anyway, on with the bug report. I boot the rescue and switch the root
fine. I've mounted a couple of partitions in order to see the Debian
archive on my own machine (put there with older Debian installation
in different partition). I specify that I want to configure kernel
modules and add pcnet32, st, sg. Then when I proceed to installing
the base system, I get the little progress bar appearing, the message
displayed is 'calling debootstrap', and when the bar just begins
to move off, I get an window with title "Error" and with message
"Couldn't download at". Yup, that's all. When I press enter to
continue, I am returned to the main installation menu with the same
'Next' and alternates displayed.

This error was *very* reproducible; I got it each of the about ten
times I tried.

I don't know that I can really offer you much more information, since
I'm now going back to 2.2R3's CDROMs to install a base system, and
then I'll just do an upgrade to get to my intended 'testing' system,
but if you let me know ... Thanks.

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Re: test of woody tftpboot.img stalls

[Falk Hueffner]

(I cc this to debian-boot in case somebody has an idea about the init
stuff)

"Mikael Westerberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Still problems with latest tftboot.img(3.0.16-2001-10-30).  During
> two attempts to install the installation has stalled while
> extracting libc6.  I can still switch consoles and the maschine
> still responds to pings, but I can not activate the shell on the
> second console.

Hm, there seems to be some problem in the libc postinst; we've had
another similar report before from an AlphaStation 500/500 user. I've
never seen this, though. Could you perhaps paste the last few lines of
output of the postinst script? It should appear on console 4.

The postinst contains this:

# Black magic. If we are in a chroot, then /proc/1/exe will not resolve to  
# a file (will return EPERM). This keeps us from breaking things in 
# debootstrap, and the like.
case "$sysvinitver" in  
$badsysvinitver)
;;  
*)  
if [ -x /sbin/init -a -x /bin/readlink ]; then  
if [ "$(readlink /proc/1/exe 2>/dev/null)" = "/sbin/init" ]; 
then
(init u ; sleep 1)  
fi  
fi  
;;  
esac

Perhaps this magic fails, and it thinks it needs to restart init? This
would explain what you see.

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Regarding i18ned boot-floppies build dependancies

[Marcin Owsiany]

Hi!

There is a problem with the build dependancies of boot-floppies with
language chooser enabled.

Namely to build that one needs libnewt-utf8-pic and slang1-utf8-pic, and
the corresponding -dev packages. However libnewt-dev cannot be installed
together with slang1-utf8-dev (because libnewt-dev only depends on
slang1-dev, which conflicts with slang1-utf8-dev).

We need to do something about it. Either:

 - change libnewt-dev's dependancy on libnewt-dev to slang1-dev | slang1-utf8-dev
 - provide libnewt-utf8-dev, which would depend on slang1-utf8-dev,
   instead of slang1-dev

What do you think? I can make a minimal NMU of newt if Enrique doesn't
have time.

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Re: display turns in standby...

[Axel Gerster]

yes, i did.

greetings

axel


On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Marcin Owsiany wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 03:08:15PM +0100, Axel Gerster wrote:
> > hello there,
> >
> > if got a problem with installing debian linux.
> > i turn on the computer and boot the rescue disk and the menu
> > appears. ok - so far. little before the "root disk promt" appears
> > the monitor switches to standby mode. can you help me?
> > whats wrong and how do i fix it?
>
> Did you disable power-saving features in BIOS (as described in
> installation manual)?
>
> Marcin
>


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cvs commit to boot-floppies/s390-specials by gt

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Repository: boot-floppies/s390-specials
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time:   Thu Nov  1 07:32:06 PST 2001


Log Message:

 Added terminfo information, netsetupcalc program and some fixes for s390.


Files:

changed:netsetup.sh


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Log Message:

 Added terminfo information, netsetupcalc program and some fixes for s390.


Files:

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cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap by gt

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Log Message:

 Added terminfo information, netsetupcalc program and some fixes for s390.


Files:

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Log Message:

 Added terminfo information, netsetupcalc program and some fixes for s390.


Files:

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Log Message:

 Added terminfo information, netsetupcalc program and some fixes for s390.


Files:

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Log Message:

 Added terminfo information, netsetupcalc program and some fixes for s390.


Files:

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Log Message:

 Added terminfo information, netsetupcalc program and some fixes for s390.


Files:

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Re: display turns in standby...

[Marcin Owsiany]

On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 03:08:15PM +0100, Axel Gerster wrote:
> hello there,
> 
> if got a problem with installing debian linux.
> i turn on the computer and boot the rescue disk and the menu
> appears. ok - so far. little before the "root disk promt" appears
> the monitor switches to standby mode. can you help me?
> whats wrong and how do i fix it?

Did you disable power-saving features in BIOS (as described in
installation manual)?

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CD Boot instead of boot-floppies....

[Christoph Lameter]

The TelemetryBox has given up using boot-floppies as tne
installation software. We needed a 2.4.X kernel and it seems that the
boot-floppies package will never be able to cope with that. Moreover
essential features like autodetection are problematic with a 2.2.X kernel.

We have now build a bootable CD based on isolinux (contained in the
syslinux package). The CD boots with an initrd containing mass media
drivers. It detects the CD and then mounts the CD as the root partition
(using a tmpfs partition for storing changing files). A fully functional
system comes up.

The installation is a simple dialog script running in that environment.
Since the whole distro is already up in RAM/CDrom all tools can be used
and the process is very simple.

To generate the CD contents debootstrap is used to build a debian root
file system. Then packages are installed into the root using chroot.
Packages can be configured at this point with a default configuration. As
a result the user does not have to answer an endless stream of questions
during install. Then a /isolinux directory is generated with a special
initrd to bring the system up.

The directory can then be burned on CD and is bootable.

If you want to try it out there is a CD image at
http://telemetrybox.org/tbox/iso/tboxlive-1.3.8.iso.gz (200M)

The iso brings up a complete Debian distro with the newest KDE,
everything preconfigured. It is very easy to use and install.

Packages for this are available via apt-get from
deb http://telemetrybox.org/tbox woody tbox

Packages:

tbox-cd
Package installs a /isolinux directory with necessary
stuff to make a CD bootable. Install this into the chroot environment. The
source is useful for those wanting to tinker around with it. This contains
all the essential scripts that might need customization if you want to use
it for debian. tbox-cd uses mklibs.sh and busybox to build a minimal
initrd.

cdbuild
script to build a bootable ISO image from a debian root tree.
Builds a debian root tree from a package list (using debootstrap
and apt-get). Not very well tested yet.

Features:

Boot menu with dialog allowing
A. boot from CD into RAM
B. install from CD to HD
C. Driver loading
D. Shell
E. busybox init
F, Rescue boot a HD installation

Console menu (after system has come up) with:
A. some instructions
B. X configuration
C. KDE on /off
D. Single user mode
E. install (if booted from CD)

The iso image is still transferring to telemetrybox.org now. Might take
another 2 1/2 hr to complete.



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cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap by eb

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Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap
who:eb
time:   Thu Nov  1 07:01:57 PST 2001


Log Message:

fix SEGV when trying to install via partition or already mounted
partition.

also don't use /instmnt as a default value for archive_dir_choose
since that will never work, instead use / as a default, and /debian as
a default for CDROMs.


Files:

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Make debootstrap re-entrant?

[Chris Tillman]

It can't think of any reason not to make debootstrap's downloading of debs
more friendly. I had my base install interrupted tonight and I had to wait
through all the same downloads again, although they were already there on
the disk.

I was getting an average of 22kb/sec on my DSL connection, so it only set me
back a half hour or so. For those trying to install over a modem connection,
it would be very frustrating when the connection gets interrupted to have to
restart from the beginning.

I have no experience with shell code, but this looked like it might do the
trick:

--- functions.orig  Wed Oct 31 23:52:04 2001
+++ functions   Thu Nov  1 00:27:30 2001
@@ -161,6 +161,7 @@
 error 1 "${from#null:} was not pre-downloaded"
   elif [ "${from#http://}"; != "$from" -o "${from#ftp://}"; != "$from" ]; then
 # http/ftp mirror
+if [ -e $dest ]; then return 0; fi 
 if wgetprogress -O "$dest" "$from"; then
   return 0
 elif [ -s "$dest" ]; then

I'm fairly certain that the file doesn't exist for -e until it's been fully
downloaded and closed. So I don't believe there would be any risk of ending
up with an half-completed file. The checksum could be checked, if there is.

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display turns in standby...

[Axel Gerster]

hello there,

if got a problem with installing debian linux.
i turn on the computer and boot the rescue disk and the menu
appears. ok - so far. little before the "root disk promt" appears
the monitor switches to standby mode. can you help me?
whats wrong and how do i fix it?

thx a lot.

yours

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Re: debootstrap 0.1.15.5, urgent for woody, needs testing

[Ethan Benson]

On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 02:18:48PM +0200, Tommi Virtanen wrote:
> Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > > As I understood it, it allowed it to be called like "smallyes ''".
> > Which could've been achieved by simply replacing
> > 
> > YES="${1:-y}"
> > 
> > with
> > 
> > YES="${1-y}"
> 
>   Oh, that still fails the second part of the bug report (#115581)
> -- smallyes foo bar echoes "foo\nfoo\n..", not "foo bar\nfoo bar\n.."
> 
> Fortunately, that isn't triggered by anything (yet). Do you want to
> rely on that?
> 
> In fact, no combination of 1,*,@ and :-, - manages to work perfectly
> for all of bash, ash and zsh ;) Assuming install will use ash or bash,
> either *-y or @-y seems like a good pick.
> 
> In the following, "y::foo bar:" is the expected result.

look, smallyes is NOT meant to be a complete and perfect replication
of /usr/bin/yes its meant to be tiny minimal replacment for exclusive
use by debootstrap, and debootstrap ONLY uses it to the extent of
sending a endless stream of newlines to the dpkg process.  NOTHING
MORE.  

so i don't care if all these exotic uses that break my small version
don't work, debootstrap doesn't need a full featured yes, if it did we
would just use busybox's (assuming its version is even as full
featured as you seem to want it to be).  all debootstrap needs is a
minimal command to spew newlines to dpkg, thats it.

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Re: debootstrap 0.1.15.5, urgent for woody, needs testing

[Tommi Virtanen]

Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> > As I understood it, it allowed it to be called like "smallyes ''".
> Which could've been achieved by simply replacing
> 
> YES="${1:-y}"
> 
> with
> 
> YES="${1-y}"

Oh, that still fails the second part of the bug report (#115581)
-- smallyes foo bar echoes "foo\nfoo\n..", not "foo bar\nfoo bar\n.."

Fortunately, that isn't triggered by anything (yet). Do you want to
rely on that?

In fact, no combination of 1,*,@ and :-, - manages to work perfectly
for all of bash, ash and zsh ;) Assuming install will use ash or bash,
either *-y or @-y seems like a good pick.

In the following, "y::foo bar:" is the expected result.

[tv@tv ~]$ for shell in ash bash zsh; do export shell; $shell -c 'smallyes_xu() { 
YES="${1:-y}"; while true ; do echo "$YES" ; done; }; ( echo $shell; smallyes_xu |head 
-1; smallyes_xu ""|head -1; smallyes_xu foo bar|head -1 )|tr "\012" ":"'; echo; done  
;echo
ash:y:y:foo:
bash:y:y:foo:
zsh:y:y:foo:

[tv@tv ~]$ for shell in ash bash zsh; do export shell; $shell -c 'smallyes_xu() { 
YES="${1-y}"; while true ; do echo "$YES" ; done; }; ( echo $shell; smallyes_xu |head 
-1; smallyes_xu ""|head -1; smallyes_xu foo bar|head -1 )|tr "\012" ":"'; echo; done  
;echo 
ash:y::foo:
bash:y::foo:
zsh:y::foo:

[tv@tv ~]$ for shell in ash bash zsh; do export shell; $shell -c 'smallyes_xu() { 
YES="${@:-y}"; while true ; do echo "$YES" ; done; }; ( echo $shell; smallyes_xu |head 
-1; smallyes_xu ""|head -1; smallyes_xu foo bar|head -1 )|tr "\012" ":"'; echo; done  
;echo
ash:y:y:foo bar:
bash:y::foo bar:
zsh:y::foo bar:

[tv@tv ~]$ for shell in ash bash zsh; do export shell; $shell -c 'smallyes_xu() { 
YES="${@-y}"; while true ; do echo "$YES" ; done; }; ( echo $shell; smallyes_xu |head 
-1; smallyes_xu ""|head -1; smallyes_xu foo bar|head -1 )|tr "\012" ":"'; echo; done  
;echo 
ash:y::foo bar:
bash:y::foo bar:
zsh:::foo bar:

[tv@tv ~]$ for shell in ash bash zsh; do export shell; $shell -c 'smallyes_xu() { 
YES="${*:-y}"; while true ; do echo "$YES" ; done; }; ( echo $shell; smallyes_xu |head 
-1; smallyes_xu ""|head -1; smallyes_xu foo bar|head -1 )|tr "\012" ":"'; echo; done  
;echo
ash:y:y:foo bar:
bash:y::foo bar:
zsh:y:y:foo bar:

[tv@tv ~]$ for shell in ash bash zsh; do export shell; $shell -c 'smallyes_xu() { 
YES="${*-y}"; while true ; do echo "$YES" ; done; }; ( echo $shell; smallyes_xu |head 
-1; smallyes_xu ""|head -1; smallyes_xu foo bar|head -1 )|tr "\012" ":"'; echo; done  
;echo 
ash:y::foo bar:
bash:y::foo bar:
zsh:::foo bar:

[tv@tv ~]$ 

Of course, my version works perfectly ;-)

[tv@tv ~]$ for shell in ash bash zsh; do export shell; $shell -c 'smallyes_tv() { if [ 
"$#" = "0" ]; then YES=y; else YES="$*"; fi; while true; do echo "$YES"; done; }; ( 
echo $shell; smallyes_tv |head -1; smallyes_tv ""|head -1; smallyes_tv foo bar|head -1 
)|tr "\012" ":"'; echo; done  ;echo
ash:y::foo bar:
bash:y::foo bar:
zsh:y::foo bar:

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Re: debootstrap 0.1.15.5, urgent for woody, needs testing

[Tommi Virtanen]

Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> > As I understood it, it allowed it to be called like "smallyes ''".
> Which could've been achieved by simply replacing
> 
> YES="${1:-y}"
> 
> with
> 
> YES="${1-y}"

I can't see that in bash(1), zshall(1) nor in ash(1), but it
seems to work.

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cvs commit to modconf/template by gt

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Repository: modconf/template
who:gt
time:   Thu Nov  1 01:29:20 PST 2001


Log Message:

Some more s390 descriptions.


Files:

changed:eval_C.fixed


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Repository: modconf/template
who:gt
time:   Thu Nov  1 00:43:49 PST 2001


Log Message:

added descriptions for s390 specific modules.


Files:

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cvs commit to modconf/modules by gt

[Debian Boot CVS Master]

Repository: modconf/modules
who:gt
time:   Thu Nov  1 00:43:49 PST 2001


Log Message:

added descriptions for s390 specific modules.


Files:

changed:util


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cvs commit to modconf/debian by gt

[Debian Boot CVS Master]

Repository: modconf/debian
who:gt
time:   Thu Nov  1 00:43:49 PST 2001


Log Message:

added descriptions for s390 specific modules.


Files:

changed:changelog


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