Progress bars again
I've been tinkering with adding progress bars to base-installer, and it's tricky to say the least. The info that debootstrap gives when called with --boot-floppies is very different from the API of the cdebconf progress bars, and I'm sitting here wondering what would be easiest of 1. changing debootstrap (perhaps add --debian-installer) 2. rewrite parts of base-installer in C, parse the info and convert it to cdebconf progress bars 3. change the cdebconf progress bars Yesterday, I tried attacking 2, but I'm kinda stuck. debootstrap decouples stepping and changing the info, that's merged in cdebconf. Unlike cdebconf, debootstrap has no concept of starting and stopping the progress, you'll just get a new upper limit and some current step. I'm leaning towards 1, since it'd be scary to do 3, but I have no idea how much work 1 will be. /Martin signature.asc Description: Detta =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=E4r?= en digitalt signeradmeddelandedel
Newt screenshots
Now that I found and fixed an evil segfault bug in my newt frontend, here's some eyecandy ;) http://people.debian.org/~sjogren/d-i/screenshots/2003-02-24/newt/ /Martin PS: It looks much prettier under bterm + framebuffer signature.asc Description: Detta =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=E4r?= en digitalt signeradmeddelandedel
Running debian-installer within bochs and uml
Hi. Because I don't have a cdrw burner nor a desire to reboot my computer with the debian-installer mirror for installing, I've been trying to run debian-installer within a bochs simulation session and uml. Bochs is somewhat slow, but the alternative plex86 doesn't seem to support networking. user-mode-linux doesn't support the mapping block devices as much AFAIK, so one has to use the ubd devices. I've made the following observations with bochs, some of which may be bugs (I didn't check wither they're already reported or were resolved since I've encountered it, though. I can do this if it's interesting at all.), others of which will certainly not be bugs, but might be helpful to others who want to try out debian-installer with bochs. Then I've tried uml. For that I extended the call in the build/ makefile to the following: linux initrd=$(INITRD) root=/dev/rd/0 ramdisk_size=8192 \ con=fd:0,fd:1 devfs=mount eth0=tuntap,,fe:fd:0:0:0:1,192.168.100.1 \ ubd0=thedisk.img thedisk.img being initialized with zeros. I also found it useful to add a call of reset after the linux call. I can get to the point where one has to create filesystems and mount partitions easily, but the debian-installer create fs immediately exits with messages as shown below. Creating or creating and mounting the /dev/ubd/0 by hand didn't help me, either, as I still could not continue the installation of the base system. If noone else is looking into this, I might try to fiddle with the corresponding udebs, I'd really like to be able to do some debian-installing without having a spare computer. (Is there anyone currently using d-i on uml? After all, the Makefile target is there.) One of the more important things I was missing was an option to readjust the priorty threshold for questions. Cheers Thomas Some things I did that might be relevant for others testing d-i with bochs: In the Bochs configuration: - enable ne2k, floppy image (might use ro), create tun setup script (you need sudo for ifconfig) - Default disk size isn't good for autopartkit. - Non-English keyboard (mine is German) may have problems with special chars (/,=). '/' is on the numeric keypad, but = isn't. I got around the = issue by enabling x11-pc-us.map (us is on purpose) and using the paste option. Then, of course, the keyboard layout is funny once a keyboard layout is selected in the debian-installer. - In d-i: ne module needs a param io=0x280, so you need to select questions of low priority Some things with debian-installer itself: - Observations: =,/ for German keyboards - should keyboard table be loaded before network init? - Messages=Medium: ne doesn't prompt for parameters, not installable should prompt me the second time around (similar to tfh's issue with autodetection) - Along the same deal: Invalid installation source: users should be abler to eenter server instead of just retreiver when loading fails - Download percentage is nan% (Maybe this is the lack of a FPU.) - Locale has the choices (nb|nn|si)_NO|lv_LV ? - Install base system doesn't succeed: [...] P: 46 47 Extracting packages I: Extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/whiptail_0.50.17-9.6_i386.deb... P: 47 47 Extracting packages I: Extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/mbr_1.1.5-1_i386.deb... P: 1 40 Installing base system I: Installing core packages... P: 2 40 base-installer's postinst exited with status 256 installer[46]: Setting main menu question priority to critical Debian Installer Main Menu [...] - It stalled at the installing a kernel step. Don't really know what caused this. 11. Create a file system Prompt: 1 - 18 11 Debian Installer Main Menu Choose a configuration step This configuration step requires one or more configuration steps that have not yet been performed. Please select a configuration step to continue. 1. Automatically Partition Hard Drives (unsafe) (default) 2. I have already partitioned the hard drive 3. Partition a hard drive Prompt: 1 - 3 2 Warning: start=2 - this looks like a partition rather than the entire disk. Using fdisk on it is probably meaningless. [Use the --force option if you really want this] di-utils-mkfs's postinst exited with status 5120 installer[42]: Setting main menu question priority to critical Debian Installer Main Menu Similar for Mount a Partition or after # mkdir /target # mount /dev/ubd/0 /target -t ext2 Prompt: 1 - 18 13 Debian Installer Main Menu Choose a configuration step This configuration step requires one or more configuration steps that have not yet been performed. Please select a configuration step to continue. 1. Automatically Partition Hard Drives (unsafe) (default) 2. I have already mounted the partitions 3. Mount a partition Prompt: 1 - 3 2 cp: /target/etc/fstab: No such file or directory base-installer's postinst exited with status 256 installer[42]: Setting main menu question priority to critical Debian Installer Main Menu pgp0.pgp Description: PGP
debian-boot@lists.debian.org
Hi, I've just installed Debian on a Toshiba Libretto 50CT. It's the first time I've installed Debian on any system, and I've very impressed by the flexibility of the install system. However I think I stumbled on some sort of problem with the PCMCIA support. Linux can't use the Libretto's floppy, so I was booting from images on the Windows filesystem using boot.bat, and using drivers.tgz as a source of drivers, before completing the install using HTTP. Simply using the installer interface, the PCMCIA initialisation stage failed every time -- I tried this with all the flavours of boot image. In the end, and for no rational reason, I untarred drivers.tgz into /target/mods, and blithely ran install.sh from the archive, not really knowing what it did. After doing that, the PCMCIA initialisation worked first time, and I could complete the install with no further problems. Hope this is useful, John -- He wasn't even a puppy -- he had a glandular problem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newt screenshots
mån 2003-02-24 klockan 14.39 skrev Martin Sjögren: PS: It looks much prettier under bterm + framebuffer After a lot of hacking (you don't want to know what my build/Makefile looks like right now), here's a screenshot showing what it can look like. This needs a lot more work, but at least it seems feasible. http://people.debian.org/~sjogren/d-i/screenshots/2003-02-24/newt+i18n.png /Martin signature.asc Description: Detta =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=E4r?= en digitalt signeradmeddelandedel
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Re: Running debian-installer within bochs and uml
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 03:21:12PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: 11. Create a file system Prompt: 1 - 18 11 Debian Installer Main Menu Choose a configuration step This configuration step requires one or more configuration steps that have not yet been performed. Please select a configuration step to continue. 1. Automatically Partition Hard Drives (unsafe) (default) 2. I have already partitioned the hard drive 3. Partition a hard drive Prompt: 1 - 3 2 Warning: start=2 - this looks like a partition rather than the entire disk. Using fdisk on it is probably meaningless. [Use the --force option if you really want this] di-utils-mkfs's postinst exited with status 5120 installer[42]: Setting main menu question priority to critical Debian Installer Main Menu Similar for Mount a Partition or after # mkdir /target # mount /dev/ubd/0 /target -t ext2 Prompt: 1 - 18 13 Debian Installer Main Menu Choose a configuration step This configuration step requires one or more configuration steps that have not yet been performed. Please select a configuration step to continue. 1. Automatically Partition Hard Drives (unsafe) (default) 2. I have already mounted the partitions 3. Mount a partition Prompt: 1 - 3 2 cp: /target/etc/fstab: No such file or directory base-installer's postinst exited with status 256 installer[42]: Setting main menu question priority to critical Debian Installer Main Menu base-installer requires /target/etc/fstab to exist, so you'll have to create one. Matt -- Oink! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Running debian-installer within bochs and uml
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 03:21:12PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: [snip all manner of d-i bugs] Would you please file a bug report for each problem against the appropriate package? You can assign them to the install pseudo-package if you don't know which package is responsible? Matt -- Oink! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Running debian-installer within bochs and uml
Matt Kraai wrote: On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 03:21:12PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: Would you please file a bug report for each problem against the appropriate package? You can assign them to the install pseudo-package if you don't know which package is responsible? I'd really prefer doing some more research on most of this. (E.g. on you screenshots, there is a en_US locale option.) Also, there are things that are more design decisions than bugs. For example, no parameter prompt at default is not a problem when there is an option to increase the number of questions asked. On the other hand, that option is not needed when there is an automatic escalation per configuration question. (I think the latter has been discussed at least for individual configuration questions on the list.) On the other hand, if you prefer starting this discussion with a bug report, I'll gladly get busy filing them. Cheers Thomas pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Running debian-installer within bochs and uml
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 06:22:23PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: Matt Kraai wrote: On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 03:21:12PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: Would you please file a bug report for each problem against the appropriate package? You can assign them to the install pseudo-package if you don't know which package is responsible? I'd really prefer doing some more research on most of this. (E.g. on you screenshots, there is a en_US locale option.) It's a bug for some people (e.g., you). Also, there are things that are more design decisions than bugs. For example, no parameter prompt at default is not a problem when there is an option to increase the number of questions asked. On the other hand, that option is not needed when there is an automatic escalation per configuration question. (I think the latter has been discussed at least for individual configuration questions on the list.) The problem report is still valuable, even if the solution is still under dispute. On the other hand, if you prefer starting this discussion with a bug report, I'll gladly get busy filing them. Bug reports are less likely to be forgotten, thus more likely to be fixed. Matt -- Oink! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How I want languagechooser to behave
I find the current languagechooser complex and non-intuitive. To make sure everyone know where I want it to move, I wrote down a little description on where I want the package to move. I know we have been discussing these things lately, so I thought this was good time to get something down in writing. Here is the current README. Any comments. Is this a good idea? debian-installer language chooser = This package should behava as follows: 0. extract available languages from list of available locales (mapping language code - language name) 1. present list of language names, and ask the user to pick one. 2. if the language is available in several regions (maps to several locales), ask which region / language variant to use. (allow user to [back] off to the language list. 3. pass the locale information on to the parts that needs it. Based on this information a locale is selected. This locale maps to one language, one region, a priority list of fallback languages, and a default keyboard layout. The language code is passed into cdebconf. The locale and priority list of languages is passed to base-config/termwrap as LANG_INST and LANGUAGE_INST in /target/root/dbootstrap_settings. The For each supported locale, the following information must be available: - language code (part of locale) - country code (part of locale) - priority list of fallback languages to use as translations - default keymap to use -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#180032: choose-mirror: Error message for failure
Followup-For: Bug #180032 Package: choose-mirror Version: N/A; reported 2003-02-24 Maybe it's nice to see the actual error message. I get the following. After that, the mirror's name is the empty string. Cheers Thomas ... 49. Turkey 50. Ukraine 51. United States 52. enter information manually (default) Prompt: 1 - 52 52 /home/martin/projects/debian-installer/tools/cdebconf/src/frontend.c:16 (frontend_add): /home/martin/projects/debian-installer/tools/cdebconf/src/frontend.c:16 (frontend_add): Assertion failed: q-next == NULL choose-mirror's postinst exited with status 36096 installer[42]: Setting main menu question priority to critical Debian Installer Main Menu pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
SV: loop: can't get info on device
I used a SBM floppy to boot from the CD. The sbm floppy image came from the Debian CD. I tried to boot from a rescue floppy / root floppy (images from the Debian CD) and then installed from the CD - same result. I've also burned a new CD in case something went wrong - same result... Well, in that case I'd say either the CD image is corrupt, or you happened to trigger a rare bug in some way. Did you verify the CD's md5sum? I'm probably doing something very wrong here, I tried to verify the CD with md5sum.exe (that came on the CD) And it complained about virtually everything, So I downloaded another iso-image from another (official) source - same result. I running it like this: Cd f: (where my CD is) C:\md5sum.exe -c md5sum.txt I've tried both a real CD and a simulated one using deamon tools. It responds: C:\md5sum.exe: MD5 check failed for './files' For what I guess is every file in the md5sum.txt filelist. I'm feeling stupid - what am I doing wrong??? \Åke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#180032: choose-mirror: Error message for failure
mån 2003-02-24 klockan 20.59 skrev Thomas Viehmann: Followup-For: Bug #180032 Package: choose-mirror Version: N/A; reported 2003-02-24 Maybe it's nice to see the actual error message. I get the following. After that, the mirror's name is the empty string. I don't see how these bug reports are related at all. Isn't this more of a cdebconf issue? It fails and everything goes boom. I think you should report this on cdebconf instead. /Martin signature.asc Description: Detta =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=E4r?= en digitalt signeradmeddelandedel
Bug#180032: choose-mirror: Error message for failure
Hi. Martin Sjögren wrote: I don't see how these bug reports are related at all. Isn't this more of a cdebconf issue? It fails and everything goes boom. I think you should report this on cdebconf instead. Like the submitter, I had a problem with the download mirror and tried to change it. From the original bugreport I figured that he had got back to the main menu. Also, like him and you, I believe that this is probably a cdebconf problem. So to me it looked as it was the same bug, that's why I didn't file a new one. (I can do so, though, if you prefer.) It probably needs to be reassigned. However, I don't think I'm qualified to reassign this bug. Sorry for not pointing this out more clearly. Cheers Thomas pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
commits of new di-utils-*
Hi all, I plan to commit the new/rewriten di-utils-* in the next few hours. This is a short list of the changes: - all packages use generic functions from new di-utils-generic pkg - partitioner/mkfs/mkswap use /proc/partitions to get also lvm/raid/... devices - package for creating swapspace - di-utils-mount-partitions generates final fstab file - plan for external functions for each architecture (better arch independ) - warning/error messages if something get wrong Some packages are new and not yet uploaded to the debian archives, so please build all di-utils packages from cvs sources. Please test it... :-) Bye Thorsten -- Thorsten Sauter [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Is there life after /sbin/halt -p?) pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#182349: anna: Should reload packages file if something went wrong last time
severity 182349 wishlist thanks Just correcting the speeling :) mån 2003-02-24 klockan 21.09 skrev Thomas Viehmann: Package: anna Version: N/A; reported 2003-02-24 Severity: whishlist I think it would often be preferable if anna (i.e. menu option Load installer modules) would reload package files if called for the second time. (However, please feel free to close this bug if you disagree.) First I thought you meant the Packages files that are downloaded and parsed, but then I guess you meant the actual packages? :) How do I detect the difference between Oops, I forgot a package, let's go get it and Damn, package X isn't working, I'd better download it again? I could always *ask*, but I want to minimize the number of questions asked. Keep also in mind that packages that are downloaded are verified by their md5 checksums and I doubt that a re-download will improve the situation. If you have truly fucked up something, I think a reboot is better anyway. /Martin PS: Why maintonly? signature.asc Description: Detta =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=E4r?= en digitalt signeradmeddelandedel
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modcont-file and its generation
Hi folks! Could anybody tell me what the modcont file should contain exactly (or point me to documentation)? I think that the part of kernel.sh of boot-floppies-3.0.24 that generates it doesn´t work as it should, but before I file a bug I would like to know what should be in the modcont file. My actual problem: My first line of the generated modcont looks like the following: dir_content_kernel=boot control.tar.gz data.tar.gz debian-binary kernel-image-2.4.20-bf2.4raid_2.4.20bes_i386.deb lib usr This was done with the following script (which is derived from btf/kernel.sh of boot-floppies 3.0.24): $subarch=, $extractdir is the directory in which the kernel-image was unarred and data.tar.gz ungztarred (the original file ist still there and shows): info creating module contents file, 'modcont$subarch' (cd $extractdir; for i in lib/modules/*/*; do if [ -d $i ]; then echo -n dir_content_`basename $i`=\; for j in $i/*.o; do echo -n `basename $j .o` ; done ; echo \ ; fi ; done ) modcont$subarch The next (pcmcia) line looks right: dir_content_pcmcia=3c574_cs 3c589_cs aha152x_cs aironet4500_cs axnet_cs com20020_cs ds fdomain_cs fmvj18x_cs i82092 i82365 ibmtr_cs netwave_cs nmclan_cs nsp_cs pcmcia_core pcnet_cs qlogic_cs ray_cs serial_cs smc91c92_cs synclink_cs tcic wavelan_cs xirc2ps_cs xircom_cb xircom_tulip_cb yenta_socket The difference is that in the pcmcia directory, there are only direct links to module object files, while in the kernel directory, there are only subdirs. Thanks, Norman. -- -- Norman Schmidt Institut für Physikal. u. Theoret. Chemie cand. chem. Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet [EMAIL PROTECTED] Erlangen-Nuernberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#182349: anna: Should reload packages file if something went wrong last time
severity 182349 wishlist thanks On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 09:09:38PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: I think it would often be preferable if anna (i.e. menu option Load installer modules) would reload package files if called for the second time. (However, please feel free to close this bug if you disagree.) What problem this fix? Matt -- Oink! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#182349: anna: Should reload packages file if something went wrong last time
[Sorry, forgot the bug cc in my first post.] Matt Kraai wrote: [anna reloading package files] What problem this fix? One gets invalid packages files every so often (e.g. during mirror update). However, probably whishlist is better. Cheers Thomas pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
ext3 problems
I recently installed from tfheen's netinst floppy successfully on a dell c610 laptop. Unfortunately, I selected ext3 the first time for my file system. Apparently the kernel on the floppy doesn't have ext3 support, and as a result the lilo postinst failed, and upon first boot, the root partition could not be mounted. As a workaround, I installed with ext2, but we need to fix this. Also, I don't think that the list of extra packages to install should be part of the default priority level. That's the only really bewildering thing to your average person in the default install. thanks and great work everyone! cardenas -- michael cardenas | lead software engineer, lindows.com hyperpoem.net | GNU/Linux software developer people.debian.org/~mbc | encrypted email preferred We, the men of the mind, are now on strike against you in the name of a single axiom, which is the root of our moral code, just as the root of yours is the wish to escape it: the axiom that existence exists. - Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: debian-installer status 2003-02-21
On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 11:32:36AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: * Larry Gilbert | Tollef Fog Heen wrote: |Also, having somebody with a good touch for English to go |through the templates would be nice. | | I wouldn't mind helping with this, but I can't seem to figure out how | to check out debian-installer from the CVS server (using | -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/debian-installer gives me | /cvs/debian-installer: no such repository). And once I do so, I'm | not sure I'll know where the templates are. :-) Look at http://raw.no/d-i/getting_started.html for some information on getting started. there's also http://people.debian.org/~mbc/di.html which I will be updating with the new status soon. -- michael cardenas | lead software engineer, lindows.com hyperpoem.net | GNU/Linux software developer people.debian.org/~mbc | encrypted email preferred Are you seeking to know what is wrong with the world? All the disasters that have wrecked your world, came from your leaders' attempt to avoid the fact that A is A. - Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Bug#182045: No framebuffer?
On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 12:35:09PM +0100, Martin Sj?gren wrote: l?r 2003-02-22 klockan 21.54 skrev Herbert Xu: On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 05:03:19PM +0100, Martin Sj?gren wrote: Package: kernel-image-2.4.20-386-udeb Version: 2.4.20-4 I can't get any framebuffer running in debian-installer. Now, I don't know much about this, but I guess the problem is that the vga and vesa framebuffers are compiled as modules and not included in the kernel? It would be nice to get a framebuffer running so we can get proper unicode i18n working. We're going to need framebuffer support for libdirectfb-gtk as well. Both them work as modules. Would you like one modules package containing them both or two separate ones? Uhm, I don't really know much about this... Say I have vesafb as a module, how and when do I get the framebuffer running? Unfortunately, I don't know much either, and our packages are still in an early state. -- michael cardenas | lead software engineer, lindows.com hyperpoem.net | GNU/Linux software developer people.debian.org/~mbc | encrypted email preferred Neither despair nor joy seems justified before this sky and the shining suffocating heat pouring down from it. - Albert Camus pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#182349: anna: Should reload packages file if something went wrong last time
Martin Sjögren wrote: Just correcting the speeling :) Please excuse my lack of attention. First I thought you meant the Packages files that are downloaded and parsed, but then I guess you meant the actual packages? :) No. I meant the Packages file. PS: Why maintonly? As both Matt and you noted, it's best filed as a whishlist bug. I had a normal first, then remembered to correct the To for whishlist, but forgot to actually change the severity pseudo header. (Filing bugs while cooking...) Cheers Thomas pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#182349: anna: Should reload packages file if something went wrong last time
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 10:13:20PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: Matt Kraai wrote: [anna reloading package files] What problem this fix? I missing a verb. One gets invalid packages files every so often (e.g. during mirror update). The Packages file lists packages that have not been mirrored yet? If so, how would downloading it again help? Matt -- Oink! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#182357: choose-mirror: Error message for failure
Package: choose-mirror Version: N/A; reported 2003-02-24 Severity: Normal I get this /home/martin/projects/debian-installer/tools/cdebconf/src/frontend.c:16 (fronten d_add): /home/martin/projects/debian-installer/tools/cdebconf/src/frontend.c:16 (frontend_add): Assertion failed: q-next == NULL choose-mirror's postinst exited with status 36096 when I'm trying to revise my choice of mirror. Below is something like a log / instructions how to get there. (BTW: Is there a log? Oh, well cut and paste from uml is good enough.) Cheers Thomas 2. Configure the network via DHCP Prompt: 1 - 6 2 For example, this question is of medium priority, and if your priority were already 'high' or 'critical', you wouldn't see this question. 4. low Prompt: 1 - 4 4 ... 4. Choose mirror to install from Prompt: 1 - 6 4 Download files using what protocol? 1. http (default) Prompt: 1 - 2 1 Choose mirror 52. enter information manually Prompt: 1 - 52 52 Then: 192.168.100.1 /debuan 4. Choose mirror to install from Prompt: 1 - 6 4 Download files using what protocol? 1. http (default) Prompt: 1 - 2 1 Choose mirror 52. enter information manually (default) Prompt: 1 - 52 52 /home/martin/projects/debian-installer/tools/cdebconf/src/frontend.c:16 (fronten d_add): /home/martin/projects/debian-installer/tools/cdebconf/src/frontend.c:16 (frontend_add): Assertion failed: q-next == NULL choose-mirror's postinst exited with status 36096 installer[42]: Setting main menu question priority to critical Debian Installer Main Menu pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Processed: retitle 180038 mishandles comma in package description
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Re: ext3 problems
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 01:35:24PM -0800, Cardenas wrote: Unfortunately, I selected ext3 the first time for my file system. Apparently the kernel on the floppy doesn't have ext3 support, and as a result the lilo postinst failed, and upon first boot, the root partition could not be mounted. I have installed with ext3 and LILO. What was the error message? Also, I don't think that the list of extra packages to install should be part of the default priority level. That's the only really bewildering thing to your average person in the default install. During the Load installer modules step? Please file a bug against anna. Matt -- Oink! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#180032: marked as done (choose-mirror: Can't change mirror if first one doesn't work)
Your message dated 24 Feb 2003 22:19:42 +0100 with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line Bug#180032: choose-mirror: Error message for failure has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what I am talking about this indicates a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact me immediately.) Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs database) -- Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 6 Feb 2003 18:50:27 + From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Feb 06 12:50:26 2003 Return-path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from pieck.student.uva.nl [146.50.96.22] by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian)) id 18gr6Q-Dr-00; Thu, 06 Feb 2003 12:50:26 -0600 Received: from baardmijt ([146.50.160.23]) by pieck.student.uva.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id H9WHO100.J12 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 19:50:25 +0100 Received: from roodbaard ([192.168.13.2]) by baardmijt with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18gr6N-0001MW-00; Thu, 06 Feb 2003 19:50:23 +0100 Received: from tdykstra by roodbaard with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18gr6N-9X-00; Thu, 06 Feb 2003 19:50:23 +0100 From: Tim Dijkstra (tdykstra) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian Bug Tracking System [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: choose-mirror: Can't change mirror if first one doesn't work X-Mailer: reportbug 1.50 Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 19:50:23 +0100 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: Tim Dijkstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.6 required=5.0 tests=SPAM_PHRASE_00_01 version=2.41 X-Spam-Level: Package: choose-mirror Version: N/A; reported 2003-02-06 Severity: normal I'm not really sure if this is a bug in this package or rather in the one that generates the menu of the installer... but here goes. Somewhere in the process of installing I was asked to choose a mirror. It turned out that the one I chose didn't work. After that I couldn't try another one, none of the menu-entries would let me do that. That is of course really annoying. grts Tim -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux roodbaard 2.4.20 #1 di jan 14 22:17:08 CET 2003 i686 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Received: (at 180032-close) by bugs.debian.org; 24 Feb 2003 21:19:49 + From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Feb 24 15:19:48 2003 Return-path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from smtp.gu.se [130.241.150.66] by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian)) id 18nQ0p-0005vP-00; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 15:19:47 -0600 Received: from sjogren.ostkupan.studenthem.gu.se (sjogren.ostkupan.studenthem.gu.se [193.11.232.159]) by smtp.gu.se (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h1OLJkXO025691; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 22:19:46 +0100 Subject: Re: Bug#180032: choose-mirror: Error message for failure From: Martin =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sj=F6gren?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Thomas Viehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol=application/pgp-signature; boundary==-xXeN8WHz5mEmFmcu6tsx Organization: Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 Date: 24 Feb 2003 22:19:42 +0100 Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=4.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE_2,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, SPAM_PHRASE_00_01 version=2.44 X-Spam-Level: --=-xXeN8WHz5mEmFmcu6tsx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable m=E5n 2003-02-24 klockan 21.58 skrev Thomas Viehmann: Hi. =20 Martin Sj=F6gren wrote: I don't see how these bug reports are related at all. Isn't this more o= f a cdebconf issue? It fails and everything goes boom. I think you should report this on cdebconf instead. Like the submitter, I had a problem with the download mirror and tried to= change it. From the original bugreport I figured that he had got back to the main m= enu. Also, like him and you, I believe that this is probably a cdebconf proble= m. This is solved anyway, since I uploaded a new choose-mirror that has its own menu entry. Too bad I'd forgotten about this bug so it isn't in the changelog. I'm closing it now instead. So to me it looked as it was the same bug, that's why I didn't file a new= one. (I can do so, though, if you prefer.) It probably needs to be reassigned. However, I don't think I'm qualified to reassign this bug. Sorry for not
Bug#182349: anna: Should reload packages file if something went wrong last time
mån 2003-02-24 klockan 22.17 skrev Thomas Viehmann: One gets invalid packages files every so often (e.g. during mirror update). However, probably whishlist is better. Well, even if the Packages files aren't verified for integrity right now, they will be as soon as Release file support is added (which is waiting for the archive to adapt the Release file :P). Also, how will it help to get a new Packages file right again, won't it be just as broken? /Martin signature.asc Description: Detta =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=E4r?= en digitalt signeradmeddelandedel
Re: How I want languagechooser to behave
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 08:01:05PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [...] This package should behava as follows: 0. extract available languages from list of available locales (mapping language code - language name) I disagree, there is no reason to propose languages which have no translated templates. 1. present list of language names, and ask the user to pick one. 2. if the language is available in several regions (maps to several locales), ask which region / language variant to use. (allow user to [back] off to the language list. Why don't merge 1 and 2 into a single list? 3. pass the locale information on to the parts that needs it. Based on this information a locale is selected. This locale maps to one language, one region, a priority list of fallback languages, Does this mean that LANGUAGE is fully determined by this locale, or can it be edited? and a default keyboard layout. Shouldn't keyboard layout be handled by kbd-chooser? The language code is passed into cdebconf. The locale and priority list of languages is passed to base-config/termwrap as LANG_INST and LANGUAGE_INST in /target/root/dbootstrap_settings. The Ok. For each supported locale, the following information must be available: - language code (part of locale) - country code (part of locale) - priority list of fallback languages to use as translations - default keymap to use Denis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ext3 problems
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 02:04:37PM -0800, Matt Kraai wrote: On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 01:35:24PM -0800, Cardenas wrote: Unfortunately, I selected ext3 the first time for my file system. Apparently the kernel on the floppy doesn't have ext3 support, and as a result the lilo postinst failed, and upon first boot, the root partition could not be mounted. I have installed with ext3 and LILO. What was the error message? the error was a segfault in the postinst, but I wrote it down and let it in some other pants... I'll look for it tonight... Also, I don't think that the list of extra packages to install should be part of the default priority level. That's the only really bewildering thing to your average person in the default install. During the Load installer modules step? Please file a bug against anna. will do. -- michael cardenas | lead software engineer, lindows.com hyperpoem.net | GNU/Linux software developer people.debian.org/~mbc | encrypted email preferred Promote decentralization - The Good Guys pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#182349: anna: Should reload packages file if something went wrong last time
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 10:56:35PM +0100, Martin Sj?gren wrote: m?n 2003-02-24 klockan 22.17 skrev Thomas Viehmann: One gets invalid packages files every so often (e.g. during mirror update). However, probably whishlist is better. Well, even if the Packages files aren't verified for integrity right now, they will be as soon as Release file support is added (which is waiting for the archive to adapt the Release file :P). Also, how will it help to get a new Packages file right again, won't it be just as broken? I think the problem is an out-of-sync, not a corrupted, Packages file. Downloading the new version, which will match the new Release file, should work. Matt -- Oink! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#182349: anna: Should reload packages file if something went wrong last time
Matt Kraai wrote: On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 10:13:20PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: The Packages file lists packages that have not been mirrored yet? If so, how would downloading it again help? If the Packages gets updated after the packages. The downloaded Packages file can list packages that have been replaced by newer versions, the old ones ceasing to be available. Then a reload (after the Packages file has been adjusted) helps. Cheers Thomas pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#182349: anna: Should reload packages file if something went wrong last time
Martin Sjögren wrote: One gets invalid packages files every so often (e.g. during mirror update). However, probably whishlist is better. Well, even if the Packages files aren't verified for integrity right now, they will be as soon as Release file support is added (which is waiting for the archive to adapt the Release file :P). Then, if it won't let me redownload the release file when something doesn't match the release file, I shall file another bug. (d-i seems to be very strict with me when it comes to order of things...) Also, how will it help to get a new Packages file right again, won't it be just as broken? The order in which the mirrors take actions doesn't seem to be particulary predictable. So really, if something in the chain Release.gpg-Release-Packages-.*\.u?debs fails, one should start from the beginning, presently this is the Packages file. The concrete incident that caused me to file the bug was somewhat artificial, however, I see things like this from time to time when updating my mirror. Cheers Thomas pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Processed: choose-mirror fails when called for the second time
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Bug#182357: choose-mirror fails when called for the second time
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Re: How I want languagechooser to behave
[Denis Barbier] I disagree, there is no reason to propose languages which have no translated templates. Actually, I use this information to also set the default language in KDE and GNOME, as well as the default dictionary in ispell. But there is no reason to list _all_ languages available, but that was implicit in my suggestion, as the list of available locales do not need to be complete (ie. the same as the one in glibc/locales). Why don't merge 1 and 2 into a single list? To make the language list shorter, and less confusing. I guess the lists could be combined into one list. We will have to test and see which presentation is best for new users. (Old users will cope with both approaches. Does this mean that LANGUAGE is fully determined by this locale, or can it be edited? I want it to be fully determined by the locale, and do not see the need to edit it manually. Do you think the first time users need to edit this list of fallback translations? and a default keyboard layout. Shouldn't keyboard layout be handled by kbd-chooser? Sure. But the default should be updated based on the choosen locale. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#182349: anna: Should reload packages file if something went wrong last time
mån 2003-02-24 klockan 23.05 skrev Thomas Viehmann: If the Packages gets updated after the packages. The downloaded Packages file can list packages that have been replaced by newer versions, the old ones ceasing to be available. Then a reload (after the Packages file has been adjusted) helps. Really, I still don't see the problem. If the Packages file points to files that aren't downloadable, anna will freak and obviously can't install them. Then you can select anna from the menu again. The Packages files are always downloaded, and udebs are selected for installation based on 1) if priority = standard 2) if a udeb to-be-installed depends on it 3) if it's selected in the multiselect 4) it is not already installed Where is this failing? Are you saying that you want an eplicit way to re-install this already installed package? /Martin signature.asc Description: Detta =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=E4r?= en digitalt signeradmeddelandedel
Re: cvs commit to debian-installer/utils/debian by tsauter
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 03:36:53PM -0700, Debian Boot CVS Master wrote: Repository: debian-installer/utils/debian who:tsauter time: Mon Feb 24 15:36:53 MST 2003 Log Message: Update templates for new scripts. Files: changed:di-utils-choose_medium.templates di-utils-mkfs.templates di-utils-mount-partitions.templates di-utils-partitioner.templates di-utils-shell.templates Please run debconf-updatepo after editing templates files. Denis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#182349: anna: Should reload packages file if something went wrong last time
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 12:01:53AM +0100, Martin Sj?gren wrote: m?n 2003-02-24 klockan 23.05 skrev Thomas Viehmann: If the Packages gets updated after the packages. The downloaded Packages file can list packages that have been replaced by newer versions, the old ones ceasing to be available. Then a reload (after the Packages file has been adjusted) helps. Really, I still don't see the problem. If the Packages file points to files that aren't downloadable, anna will freak and obviously can't install them. Then you can select anna from the menu again. The Packages files are always downloaded, and udebs are selected for installation based on When you rerun anna, you will not get the new Packages file. The net retriever uses the -c option to wget, which will only append to the existing file. Where is this failing? Are you saying that you want an eplicit way to re-install this already installed package? anna should unlink the Packages file before redownloading to ensure that we retrieve the latest version. This isn't a problem for udebs because their contents don't change. Matt -- Oink! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#182349: anna: Should reload packages file if something went wrong last time
tis 2003-02-25 klockan 00.25 skrev Matt Kraai: When you rerun anna, you will not get the new Packages file. The net retriever uses the -c option to wget, which will only append to the existing file. Where is this failing? Are you saying that you want an eplicit way to re-install this already installed package? anna should unlink the Packages file before redownloading to ensure that we retrieve the latest version. This isn't a problem for udebs because their contents don't change. Are we talking about the same thing at all? anna removes the Packages file after parsing it: unlink(DOWNLOAD_DIR /Packages); I guess if it fails mid-download you might have an incomplete Packages file still there. In that case, I think this is something that should be changed in net-retriever. /Martin signature.asc Description: Detta =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=E4r?= en digitalt signeradmeddelandedel
Re: How I want languagechooser to behave
On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 23:33, Denis Barbier wrote: Hi, you did not send your message to debian-boot, do you want to post it again, or do you want me to reply there? Sorry. Late night. I meant debian-boot. Denis On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 11:08:23PM +, Alastair McKinstry wrote: On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 22:01, Denis Barbier wrote: On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 08:01:05PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [...] This package should behava as follows: 0. extract available languages from list of available locales (mapping language code - language name) I disagree, there is no reason to propose languages which have no translated templates. There are (partial) translations for Linux into at least 58 languages (in iso-codes, I've collected translations for 58; I know the Indian translations do more that I've not seen); we have translations for a lot less. We want the user to be able to select languages once on setup; hence allow them to do it here; maybe we just show the 7 or so template-translated languages here, with Other, allowing a fuller list, but .. given the modular nature of the installer, how do we know what translations we have in total? The full list is probably safer. 1. present list of language names, and ask the user to pick one. 2. if the language is available in several regions (maps to several locales), ask which region / language variant to use. (allow user to [back] off to the language list. Why don't merge 1 and 2 into a single list? 3. pass the locale information on to the parts that needs it. Based on this information a locale is selected. This locale maps to one language, one region, a priority list of fallback languages, Does this mean that LANGUAGE is fully determined by this locale, or can it be edited? and a default keyboard layout. Shouldn't keyboard layout be handled by kbd-chooser? kbd-chooser picks the default mostly based on language (it may also do so based on autodetecting kbd, particularly in the USB case). Please don't have languagechooser have knowledge of kbdmaps; this is complex enough as it is, and modularity should not be broken. Also, allow for the case that a (default) language and country may be autodetected and passed to languagechooser by a (as yet unwritten) previous module. Some BIOSes bootloaders, eg the SRM console on Alphas, have language, country settings; a udeb might read these and use them to pick default languages,etc for languagechooser, in which case the languagechooser might lower the priority of the question, and allow that question to be skipped. - Alastair -- Alastair McKinstry [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key fingerprint = 9E64 E714 8E08 81F9 F3DC 1020 FA8E 3790 9051 38F4 He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. - --Thomas Paine -- Alastair McKinstry [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key fingerprint = 9E64 E714 8E08 81F9 F3DC 1020 FA8E 3790 9051 38F4 He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. - --Thomas Paine signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: How I want languagechooser to behave
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 11:51:01PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Denis Barbier] I disagree, there is no reason to propose languages which have no translated templates. Actually, I use this information to also set the default language in KDE and GNOME, as well as the default dictionary in ispell. [...] Maybe I missed the purpose of languagechooser? Is it supposed to select installation language, or locales when the system is up? IMO it should be the former, then only languages which provide translated debconf templates for debian-installer should be listed. Does this mean that LANGUAGE is fully determined by this locale, or can it be edited? I want it to be fully determined by the locale, and do not see the need to edit it manually. Do you think the first time users need to edit this list of fallback translations? Sure, if I prefer reading German than English, I would like to set LANGUAGE=fr:de Being able to pass LANG and/or LANGUAGE variables on boot prompt would also be nice. Denis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#181975: di-utils-mkfs: failure with unpartitioned hard drive
Hi all, I think we really shouldn't do this It's an unusual way to use harddisks, and if the people is willing to do this, then he can always use the shell (tty2) and make it by hand. And it doesn't save lot of diskspace. Bye Thorsten -- Thorsten Sauter [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Is there life after /sbin/halt -p?) pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#180694: does not explain why no partitions are available
Hi, what do you think should happen hier? A simple message sorry, no partitions detected, please load modules (or something). Or a detailed message with something like: 2 partitions found, but no one of those contains a ext2 partition flag? Bye Thorsten -- Thorsten Sauter [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Is there life after /sbin/halt -p?) pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#182349: anna: Should reload packages file if something went wrong last time
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 12:56:22AM +0100, Martin Sj?gren wrote: tis 2003-02-25 klockan 00.25 skrev Matt Kraai: When you rerun anna, you will not get the new Packages file. The net retriever uses the -c option to wget, which will only append to the existing file. Where is this failing? Are you saying that you want an eplicit way to re-install this already installed package? anna should unlink the Packages file before redownloading to ensure that we retrieve the latest version. This isn't a problem for udebs because their contents don't change. Are we talking about the same thing at all? anna removes the Packages file after parsing it: unlink(DOWNLOAD_DIR /Packages); I guess if it fails mid-download you might have an incomplete Packages file still there. In that case, I think this is something that should be changed in net-retriever. So we already download the latest Packages file each time? Thomas, aren't we already doing what you want? # If the Packages gets updated after the packages. # The downloaded Packages file can list packages that have been replaced by newer # versions, the old ones ceasing to be available # Then a reload (after the Packages file has been adjusted) helps. Matt -- Oink! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#182349: anna: Should reload packages file if something wentwrong last time
On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Thomas Viehmann wrote: [Sorry, forgot the bug cc in my first post.] Matt Kraai wrote: [anna reloading package files] What problem this fix? One gets invalid packages files every so often (e.g. during mirror update). I get messages that my Package files are corrupt sometimes wrt my local (Woody) mirror which I've constructed from ISO images. However, there don't seem to be any adverse consequences, so I've ignored it. Should I report this as a bug, if so, against what? -- Cheers John Summerfield Please, no off-list mail. It won't be read, it will be handled as spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Running debian-installer within bochs and uml
On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Thomas Viehmann wrote:
Hi.
Because I don't have a cdrw burner nor a desire to reboot my computer with the
debian-installer mirror for installing, I've been trying to run debian-installer
within a bochs simulation session and uml.
Bochs is somewhat slow, but the alternative plex86 doesn't seem to support
networking. user-mode-linux doesn't support the mapping block devices as much
AFAIK, so one has to use the ubd devices.
Check the UML documentation. I don't have it to hand at the moment, but
I believe there is a commandline option to map drives to hd{a,b,c} etc.
BTW UML would provide a reason to not partition drives.
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Cheers
John Summerfield
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Bug#182349: anna: Should reload packages file if something went wrong last time
Package: anna Version: N/A; reported 2003-02-24 Severity: whishlist I think it would often be preferable if anna (i.e. menu option Load installer modules) would reload package files if called for the second time. (However, please feel free to close this bug if you disagree.) Cheers Thomas pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
