Re: 2003-06-02 Install failure report
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Sjögren wrote: > tis 2003-06-03 klockan 06.44 skrev Joe Nahmias: > > 3) Finally, we have (yet another) segfault during base-installer. This > > one also occurs during the debootstrap run. It is caused by the get() > > function, called by download_release(), not being passed the correct > > args. > > Actually, using > http://people.debian.org/~tfheen/d-i/images/2003-06-02/archive/netboot-initrd.gz I > cannot reproduce this. base-installer and debootstrap run just fine... Hmm, I am able to reproduce this (just tried now) -- exactly the same problem. The md5sum for the netboot-initrd.gz i'm using is: 3c2cdebc05b03ecfe45bac93f71e81a6, which should match yours. Very peculiar...Can anyone else confirm/deny? In any case, looks like we just got a new version of busybox-cvs. I will try to test tonight's image and report back. Joe -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+3JzCKl23+OYWEqURAjGNAJ9VkuE0AsIALfqd7c/R/ZlLdyD7ygCgjnoS N+z4kCMmKxOYC8Vesao18rc= =3LFr -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#195251: FW: Bug#195251: installation problem
-Original Message- From: Sharp, Thomas R Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 8:42 AM To: 'Chris Tillman' Subject: RE: Bug#195251: installation problem Chris thanks for the response. attached dbd_log.tgz file generated from another failed install, failing at the exact same location. At least the problem is persistent and deterministic. All steps appear normal and proceed up until the point that installer tries to load libdb3_ file. Tom -Original Message- From: Chris Tillman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 4:12 PM To: Sharp, Thomas R; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: Bug#195251: installation problem On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 10:26:53AM -0400, Sharp, Thomas R wrote: > Package: boot-floppies > Version: 3.0r1 > > flavor: default > architecture: i386 > model: Compaq Presario 1655 laptop > scsi: none > cd-rom: ? > network card: N/A > pcmcia: N/A > > Problem with installation of a basic Debian system on the above laptop. > Have downloaded the "woody" ISO #1 two separate times using the jigdo > procedure, and burned two separate copies of that ISO CD. Have also > obtained a burned copy of ISO #1 from a colleague, who downloaded the ISOs > himself using a simple HTTP: download procedure. > > All three CDs boot into the installation procedure successfully. I am > answering defaults for virtually all of the configuration questions asked by > the install wizard. Installation appears to start successfully, and gets > well into the installation of packages from the CD. > > However, all three copies of ISO #1 hit the same problem, installation > fails, and I have not yet discovered how to get around it. The message > appears indicating that a particular .deb package is corrupt and couldn't be > "downloaded," namely /instmnt/pool/main/d/db3/libdb3_3.2.9-16_i386.deb There have been some slightly similar reports in the past. Could you repeat the install once more, and after the problem comes up, choose the 'Problem Report' menu item, and send the resulting dbg_log.tgz to the list? -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) LEGAL NOTICE Unless expressly stated otherwise, this message is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended for the addressee(s) only. Access to this E-mail by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not an addressee, any disclosure or copying of the contents of this E-mail or any action taken (or not taken) in reliance on it is unauthorized and may be unlawful. If you are not an addressee, please inform the sender immediately. DBG_LOG.TGZ Description: Binary data
Re: Another installation failure report
> Problems: > * Isn't it a bit odd to prompt for the debconf priority before prompting for > the language? How can I read the debconf priority prompt if I don't speak > english? The first prompt should be the language prompt. Yes it's bad. I don't know a clean way to do it though, since languagechooser should depend on cdebconf-udeb, and what happens when you pick languagechooser from the menu is that packages are recursively configured. > * I'm using the newt frontend. It works pretty well most of the time. I still > haven't figured out how you get the cursor onto the 'go back' button in many > of dialog boxes. You can tab there when the backend supports backup. :) If a package doesn't support backup, IMO it's a bug and should be reported (including a patch would be great :) I haven't yet figured out how to mark the button in a different colour when it's inactive. :( > * Hardware detection is broken. I'm using discover2 debs hacked into the > build, but naturally hw-detect doesn't talk to discover2 properly anyway. What do you mean "naturally"? It doesn't work, no, since discover2 doesn't have a --format flag, and there's no "paste" program available. > * When doing the 'loading installer modules' stage, even though I select > nothing in the list, a lot of module that i really don't need are loaded. I > really don't need,eg. the irda kernel modules for an install. Not even a > little bit. Is this because they are of Priority: standard or something? Yes. A future project of mine is to change that question so that packages with priority standard will appear in the list too, with checked boxes. But this question will most likely be asked at priority low, as only a nitpicker should need to answer it. > * fdisk is not user friendly. cfdisk is in the image, so why didn't the > installer use it instead of fdisk in the 'Partition a hard disk'? Why instead > is it in 'Partition a hard disk (OLD)'? Can we kill one or both from the > installer image? partitioner (the new udeb) and di-utils-partitioner (the "OLD" udeb) both have code that checks which frontend is running (and which arch we're on) and tries to launch an appropriate partitioning program. partitioner launches cfdisk if the frontend is "slang", but it should definitely do so for "newt" too. Fixing this in CVS right now. > * Debootstrap doesn't actually appear to output its progress via the frontend > yet, it's just showing a bunch of I: and P: messages on stdout, which is less > than pretty. These are parsed by boot-floppies, and we will parse them too, eventually, but there's the problem that cdebconf progress bars use templates so the texts can be translated, whereas debootstrap just spits out English text... > * Debootstrap failed because console-tools depends on libconsole, which > doesn't exist (#195766). Unfortunately, the front-end didn't print this > information out for me - I had to go grubbing in the log file myself. It > might be good if we could display the error log for the user on debootstrap > failure, or something like that. I didn't have any problems with debootstrap when I did a test run a few hours ago... Strange. Anyway, please file a bug on base-installer for not interpreting debootstrap's error messages. > * If I execute a shell from the installer menu, once I exit the shell for some > reason the vga framebuffer module is loaded, which is actually really > annoying (it screws up the screen). It isn't loaded by default - why does > closing a shell load it? Uh. You got me there. Sounds like something crashed and init restarted everything (rootskel tries to load framebuffer modules). Hard to know what went wrong... Thanks for the report. /Martin -- Martin Sjögren [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key: http://www.mdstud.chalmers.se/~md9ms/gpg.html let hello = "hello" : hello in putStr (unlines hello) signature.asc Description: Detta =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=E4r?= en digitalt signeradmeddelandedel
Bug#193951: marked as done (linuxrc: should NOT exec /sbin/init)
Your message dated Tue, 3 Jun 2003 13:07:27 +0200 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line linuxrc: should NOT exec /sbin/init 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; 20 May 2003 04:49:35 + >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon May 19 23:49:34 2003 Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from user-0ccerf2.cable.mindspring.com (a750.nahmias.net) [24.199.109.226] by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 1 (Debian)) id 19Hz4A-0003fx-00; Mon, 19 May 2003 23:49:34 -0500 Received: by a750.nahmias.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 111B0E80D; Tue, 20 May 2003 00:49:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Joe Nahmias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: linuxrc: should NOT exec /sbin/init X-Mailer: reportbug 1.50 Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 00:49:17 -0400 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-18.0 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_10,HAS_PACKAGE,PATCH_UNIFIED_DIFF,PGP_SIGNATURE autolearn=ham version=2.53-bugs.debian.org_2003_05_09 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.53-bugs.debian.org_2003_05_09 (1.174.2.15-2003-03-30-exp) Package: rootskel Version: 0.29; not installed; reported 2003-05-20 Severity: critical Tags: patch Justification: breaks the whole system -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, The recent change to /linuxrc to make it exec /sbin/init breaks debian-installer. I get a kernel panic, using the d-i netboot image from 2003-05-19 that includes the changed /linuxrc, when trying to run init. Per Matt Kraai, this is because busybox does not like to be called as /sbin/init UNLESS it is as PID 1. The following patch fixes linuxrc to allow the installer to boot. Joe Nahmias, DD wannabe - --- rootskel-0.29/src/linuxrc.orig2003-05-03 12:48:00.0 -0400 +++ rootskel-0.29/src/linuxrc 2003-05-20 00:45:08.0 -0400 @@ -9,4 +9,6 @@ mount -t proc proc proc mount -t devfs devfs dev # Close all open files on the initrd, and run busybox init. - -exec chroot . /sbin/init dev/console 2>&1 +rm -f linuxrc # this program +ln -s /sbin/init linuxrc +exec chroot . /linuxrc dev/console 2>&1 - -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux a750.nahmias.net 2.4.20 #1 Thu Jan 9 11:22:09 EST 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+ybPaKl23+OYWEqURAqSsAJwM9zhUte6EChqhY/y0g8tIJHtbGACeKZoS ZnC0h3VX+Lj/jU10T37C8Vo= =HGY2 -END PGP SIGNATURE- --- Received: (at 193951-done) by bugs.debian.org; 3 Jun 2003 12:12:01 + >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jun 03 07:11:55 2003 Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from pat.uio.no [129.240.130.16] by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 1 (Debian)) id 19NAdu-00085W-00; Tue, 03 Jun 2003 07:11:54 -0500 Received: from mail-mx2.uio.no ([129.240.10.30]) by pat.uio.no with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #7) id 19NAds-0003F9-00 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tue, 3 Jun 2003 14:11:52 +0200 Received: from [129.240.130.14] (helo=mons.uio.no) by mail-mx2.uio.no with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 19NAdl-0004Dn-U2 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tue, 03 Jun 2003 14:11:45 +0200 Received: from ulrik.uio.no ([129.240.12.4]) by mons.uio.no with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #7) id 19N9hE-0005VL-00; Tue, 3 Jun 2003 13:11:16 +0200 Received: from saruman.uio.no ([129.240.201.202]) by ulrik.uio.no with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #7) id 19N9hA-000792-00; Tue, 3 Jun 2003 13:11:12 +0200 Received: from pre by saruman.uio.no with local (Exim 2.12 #7) id 19N9dX-0003Wc-00; Tue, 3 Jun 2003 13:07:27 +0200 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: linuxrc: should NOT exec /sbin/init From: Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sender: Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 13:07:27 +0200 X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more information X-UiO-MailScanner: Found to be clean Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.0 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_01 version=2.53-bugs.debian.org_2003_05_24 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.53-bugs.debian.org_2003_05_24 (1.174.2.15-2003-03-30-exp) This bug was fixed in v0.30 of rootskel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject
Another installation failure report
Hi... I thought I'd add my installation failure report for today too: After much screwing around (ie. creating my own local archive of udebs and base packages, d-i does not play well with apt-cacher btw), I finally almost got d-i to install debian. Installing using the 'netboot' image, from a grub floppy with netboot/tftp support built in. Current debian-installer cvs, deb/udeb packages fetched off a mirror very recently. Problems: * Isn't it a bit odd to prompt for the debconf priority before prompting for the language? How can I read the debconf priority prompt if I don't speak english? The first prompt should be the language prompt. * I'm using the newt frontend. It works pretty well most of the time. I still haven't figured out how you get the cursor onto the 'go back' button in many of dialog boxes. * Hardware detection is broken. I'm using discover2 debs hacked into the build, but naturally hw-detect doesn't talk to discover2 properly anyway. * When doing the 'loading installer modules' stage, even though I select nothing in the list, a lot of module that i really don't need are loaded. I really don't need,eg. the irda kernel modules for an install. Not even a little bit. Is this because they are of Priority: standard or something? * fdisk is not user friendly. cfdisk is in the image, so why didn't the installer use it instead of fdisk in the 'Partition a hard disk'? Why instead is it in 'Partition a hard disk (OLD)'? Can we kill one or both from the installer image? * Debootstrap doesn't actually appear to output its progress via the frontend yet, it's just showing a bunch of I: and P: messages on stdout, which is less than pretty. * Debootstrap failed because console-tools depends on libconsole, which doesn't exist (#195766). Unfortunately, the front-end didn't print this information out for me - I had to go grubbing in the log file myself. It might be good if we could display the error log for the user on debootstrap failure, or something like that. * If I execute a shell from the installer menu, once I exit the shell for some reason the vga framebuffer module is loaded, which is actually really annoying (it screws up the screen). It isn't loaded by default - why does closing a shell load it? Other than these issues, I made it impressively close to an installed system (closest I've ever got, normally things have kept dieing in the partitioning stage.) =) Peter On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 02:44 pm, Joe Nahmias wrote: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
busybox-cvs_0.60.99.cvs20030426-8_i386.changes ACCEPTED
Accepted: busybox-cvs-net-udeb_0.60.99.cvs20030426-8_i386.udeb to pool/main/b/busybox-cvs/busybox-cvs-net-udeb_0.60.99.cvs20030426-8_i386.udeb busybox-cvs-static_0.60.99.cvs20030426-8_i386.deb to pool/main/b/busybox-cvs/busybox-cvs-static_0.60.99.cvs20030426-8_i386.deb busybox-cvs-udeb_0.60.99.cvs20030426-8_i386.udeb to pool/main/b/busybox-cvs/busybox-cvs-udeb_0.60.99.cvs20030426-8_i386.udeb busybox-cvs_0.60.99.cvs20030426-8.diff.gz to pool/main/b/busybox-cvs/busybox-cvs_0.60.99.cvs20030426-8.diff.gz busybox-cvs_0.60.99.cvs20030426-8.dsc to pool/main/b/busybox-cvs/busybox-cvs_0.60.99.cvs20030426-8.dsc busybox-cvs_0.60.99.cvs20030426-8_i386.deb to pool/main/b/busybox-cvs/busybox-cvs_0.60.99.cvs20030426-8_i386.deb Announcing to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for your contribution to Debian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#195910: grub-installer: dutch translation
Package: grub-installer Version: 0.0.10 Po-debconf translation for grub-installer. Language: dutch (nl) grub-installer_0.0.10_nl.po.gz Description: Binary data
Re: 2003-06-02 Install failure report
tis 2003-06-03 klockan 06.44 skrev Joe Nahmias:
> 3) Finally, we have (yet another) segfault during base-installer. This
> one also occurs during the debootstrap run. It is caused by the get()
> function, called by download_release(), not being passed the correct
> args. Specifically, if we look at lines 367-8 of
> /usr/lib/debootstrap/functions, we have the following:
>
> 367:local debdest="$TARGET/$($DLDEST deb $details)"
> 368:if get "$m/${details##* }" $debdest $md5 $size; then
>
> When I run debootstrap with "-x", I see that debdest is getting set
> correctly:
>
> + local debdest=/target/var/cache/apt/archives/adduser_3.50_all.deb
>
> But, the value mysteriously disappears from the call to get():
>
> + get http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/adduser/adduser_3.50_all.deb
> ba9224fe6c2f9ba88eecca3848005889 77474
>
> There isn't even an extra space, which would be there if debdest were
> simply empty/null. The ommiting of the destination for the package
> causes all kinds of problems that eventually result in a segfault. How
> and why this happens is a complete mystery to me...
Actually, using
http://people.debian.org/~tfheen/d-i/images/2003-06-02/archive/netboot-initrd.gz I
cannot reproduce this. base-installer and debootstrap run just fine...
/Martin
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Re: busybox-cvs-net-udeb
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 10:38:06AM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > since some days build/pkg-lists/net/common contains > busybox-cvs-net-udeb, but this udeb is currently only built on i386. So > I think we should either move busybox-cvs-net-udeb to the file i386 or > build busybox-cvs-net-udeb on all architectures (if this is possible). i know, but it is not supposed to be fixed before i get feedback if the busybox modutils works on the other archs. the net flavor is broken anyway because of space problems. bastian -- Extreme feminine beauty is always disturbing. -- Spock, "The Cloud Minders", stardate 5818.4 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: 2003-06-02 Install failure report
tis 2003-06-03 klockan 06.44 skrev Joe Nahmias: > 0) First of all, at startup/boot we have multiple error messages: > > [...] > Cannot open template file /var/lib/cdebconf/templates.dat This is not really an error. debconf-loadtemplates creates this file if it's missing, so it's more of a warning, but it's pretty silly to print this at all. I'll remove it. > info: Trying to enable linux framebuffer. > modprobe: Can't locate module vesafb > modprobe: Can't locate module vga16fb > Debian Installer Main Menu > [...] > > The framebuffer used to load/work properly at some point not too long > ago (ie. less than a month ago)...Did the kernel in the image change and > now doesn't include the necessary modules? Well, the code is written so that framebuffer modules are loaded if available. We'll need it for proper i18n, but it's not really an issue right now. > 1) Next, when running netcfg-dhcp we have lots of extraneous > prompts/messages that don't need to be there. This includes asking for > the hostname, asking for a confirmation, and then another gratuitous > prompt saying "I will now configure the network". > > I don't think any of these prompts are necessary...perhaps we should try > to configure the network, and then -- only if it fails -- show the > prompts. What do others think of this suggestion? Well, we still want to ask about hostname, we want to do that no matter what installation scenario, so it should be split off from netcfg (it's on the TODO), but I agree that all the confirmation prompts are silly. > 2) When hw-detect-full runs, it still tries to use the eepro100 module > instead of e100. I presume this will be fixed when the transition to > discover2 has been completed. No, it probably won't, since the pci-device.xml file from discover2 still has eepro100 instead of e100. Please talk to the discover people at Progeny. > 3) Finally, we have (yet another) segfault during base-installer. This [snip] I have no idea what's going on here. :( /Martin -- Martin Sjögren [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key: http://www.mdstud.chalmers.se/~md9ms/gpg.html let hello = "hello" : hello in putStr (unlines hello) signature.asc Description: Detta =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=E4r?= en digitalt signeradmeddelandedel
busybox-cvs-net-udeb
Hi since some days build/pkg-lists/net/common contains busybox-cvs-net-udeb, but this udeb is currently only built on i386. So I think we should either move busybox-cvs-net-udeb to the file i386 or build busybox-cvs-net-udeb on all architectures (if this is possible). - gaudenz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Translating d-i (was: Translation)
On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 10:02:21AM +0300, George Papamichelakis wrote: > Chris Tillman wrote: > > >>Well, if the translations were done against the messages as > >>they were 2 years ago, then they're not much use. If instead > >>you mean they are translations of the current cvs messages, > >>then maybe. > >> > Every now and then I did some updates from cvs so they are almost (70%) > curent > but I surely have to browse and check it once more... > > >>There might be another release of boot-floppies > >>before d-i is actually ready, and if so they could be included. > >> > >>d-i is a whole new system, with all new messages, your help > >>is certainly welcome at cvs.debian.org/debian-installer. > >>There has already been some translation activity (e.g, > >>8 languages for main-menu). > >> > Same procedure as the boot floppies ? Well, the technic behind is all different (debconf templates + po-debconf), but the result is quite identical: A bunch of po files instead of one big po file. It is even possible to merge all the small po files in one big to work on only one big po file, if you prefer. The simplest way is to: - make sure nobody is already working on this (or coordinate with those involved). I don't think so, since greek is not listed here: http://www.debian.org/intl/l10n/po-debconf/ Does the debian-l10n-greek mailing list exist (to make sure)? - download the pot files to translate from: http://www.debian.org/intl/l10n/po-debconf/pot (not all those files are about the new installer, the other being for regular packages using the same infrastructure to get their debconf templates translated. They are good to translate too, but should be sent to the package maintainer as regular wishlist bug and not to this list) You can also prefer get the pot files directly from the CVS to make sure you are working on the lastest version and not on an old released file, because things are moving quite quickly in this CVS. - translate them, and get them reviewed if necessary - send them to the debian-boot mailing list for inclusion in the CVS. (or commit them yourself if you're debian developer). There is a README for CVS informations: http://cvs.debian.org/debian-installer/README?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup Check this page for some hints about translating po files produced by po-debconf (as those used in d-i): http://www.debian.org/intl/l10n/po-debconf/README-trans If you have more question, feel free to ask on this list. Good luck, Mt. -- Il y a 10 catégories de personnes : celles qui comprennent le binaire, et les autres. --- Blague d'informaticiens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: "Registered senders"
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Scott Moore] > > I'm sorry, but because I have been receiving more than 100 junk-mail > > messages an hour, I no longer accept e-mail from unregistered > > senders. To send me a message, please follow the path that best > > describes your needs: > > Please remove Scott More from the debian-boot mailing list. > > The from field listed 'Scott Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' as his > address. He's not on. Regards, Joey -- In the beginning was the word, and the word was content-type: text/plain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Status of PowerPC Debian Installer.
[Gaudenz Steinlin] > - autopartkit: I only have one harddisk, with one free partition. I > would rather not destroy all data on this disk. So I looked a little > at the code, but I did not give it a try. It was not clear wheter > the code will repartition the whole disk (as the warning says) or > use the free space (as some code suggested) It will clear the partition table of all disks in the machine and repartition them. There is some code to resize partitions and use the free space, but it isn't working yet. In other words, the warning is correct. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hi, I have just recently followed the install procedure for a minimal install using the mini-iso image cd method. After following the procedure and selecting reboot, system goes through the normal process, and when it comes to boot Debian I get a screen of continous 01’s that keep coming. Just wondering if there was any help that could be offered??? Thank you for your time!
2003-06-02 Install failure report
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Hash: SHA1
Hello,
It's time once more for another edition of Joe's d-i installation
failure report. As usual, this install was performed via PXE using
Tollef's netboot image from today (2003-06-02). Here are today's
issues:
0) First of all, at startup/boot we have multiple error messages:
[...]
Cannot open template file /var/lib/cdebconf/templates.dat
info: Trying to enable linux framebuffer.
modprobe: Can't locate module vesafb
modprobe: Can't locate module vga16fb
Debian Installer Main Menu
[...]
The framebuffer used to load/work properly at some point not too long
ago (ie. less than a month ago)...Did the kernel in the image change and
now doesn't include the necessary modules?
1) Next, when running netcfg-dhcp we have lots of extraneous
prompts/messages that don't need to be there. This includes asking for
the hostname, asking for a confirmation, and then another gratuitous
prompt saying "I will now configure the network".
I don't think any of these prompts are necessary...perhaps we should try
to configure the network, and then -- only if it fails -- show the
prompts. What do others think of this suggestion?
2) When hw-detect-full runs, it still tries to use the eepro100 module
instead of e100. I presume this will be fixed when the transition to
discover2 has been completed.
3) Finally, we have (yet another) segfault during base-installer. This
one also occurs during the debootstrap run. It is caused by the get()
function, called by download_release(), not being passed the correct
args. Specifically, if we look at lines 367-8 of
/usr/lib/debootstrap/functions, we have the following:
367:local debdest="$TARGET/$($DLDEST deb $details)"
368:if get "$m/${details##* }" $debdest $md5 $size; then
When I run debootstrap with "-x", I see that debdest is getting set
correctly:
+ local debdest=/target/var/cache/apt/archives/adduser_3.50_all.deb
But, the value mysteriously disappears from the call to get():
+ get http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/adduser/adduser_3.50_all.deb
ba9224fe6c2f9ba88eecca3848005889 77474
There isn't even an extra space, which would be there if debdest were
simply empty/null. The ommiting of the destination for the package
causes all kinds of problems that eventually result in a segfault. How
and why this happens is a complete mystery to me...
Anyone have any ideas? Should I file a bug against busybox-cvs? I have
the complete trace from debootstrap (with -x) if anyone is interested...
Well, that concludes another edition of Joe's d-i installation reports.
Be sure to tune in next week for more -- same bat time, same bat
channel.
Joe Nahmias, DD wannabe
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Hi, I am using the net installer to try and set up debain on my computer. I am using the minimal Cd iso image burnt to a cd-rw, which is around 30Mb in size. I can get through most of the set-up however when it asks me to install the base system, it cant find the file packages or basedebs.tar. I don’t know if I missed a step in the download process or read something wrong, but it’s a little annoying, and im not sure what steps I need to take to correct this. Keeping in mind I’m totally new to Debian. Btw I’m trying to install Woody. Thank you for your time
Re: elilo & initrd
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 01:10:41PM -0700, Usman S. Ansari wrote: > I have Debian 3.0 installed on IA64 system. I am experimenting with initrd and > trying to configure > elilo to use initrd for booting. So far, I am not not successfull. > > elilo prints a message > > "initrd.c (56) Open file initrd file not found" is this output from /usr/sbin/elilo, or elilo.efi? in other words, do you see this at the time of running elilo from within linux, or before it boots the kernel? > I have tried various combinations. Still cannot get elilo to find initrd.img > > What is the syntax and other considerations to configure initrd loading. > > I have used initrd with lilo many times and also on this system, I used mkinitrd to > create > initrd.img mkinitrd on woody is unlikely to do the right thing for ia64. mkcramfs will create an initrd that is not mountable by the kernel, because it is using a page size based on x86. cramfsprogs in unstable (and probably testing) does the right thing, though that doesn't mean everything else in mkinitrd will function correctly. the debian ia64 kernel packages have most required-to-boot drivers built in statically - are you sure you need an initrd? in the future, please consider the debian-ia64 list when asking ia64 specific questions - the subscribers to that list are more likely to be able to answer your question. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: Problem Booting Install CD
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 12:54:42PM -0700, John Gabriel wrote: > I have a Dell-branded Logitech Cordless Keyboard and > Mouse, and once I get to the "Choose the language" > page in the install routine they no longer function. > This is using the latest "stable" release of Debian, > i.e., Woody. > > Is there a fix for this? > > In case you need more info, my system is a Dell > Dimension 8250 w/ 2.8 gHz P4 processor, 512 MB RAM, > 112 GB HD, ATI Radeon 9700 Pro video adapter w/128 MB > RAM, a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card, and an 18" > Dell 1800FP LCD monitor plugged into the DVI video > output jack. Does the wireless device run on the USB bus internally? Some USB keyboards which fail when booting will work after the boot is complete, I believe the advice is to try a standard keyboard for the boot and then switch. More likely, the wireless device is on a non-standard proprietary interface internally, in which case maybe Dell will release the specs so someone can design a driver. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: "Registered senders"
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Re: cdrw
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elilo & initrd
I have Debian 3.0 installed on IA64 system. I am experimenting with initrd and trying to configure elilo to use initrd for booting. So far, I am not not successfull. elilo prints a message "initrd.c (56) Open file initrd file not found" I have tried various combinations. Still cannot get elilo to find initrd.img What is the syntax and other considerations to configure initrd loading. I have used initrd with lilo many times and also on this system, I used mkinitrd to create initrd.img Usman __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem Booting Install CD
I have a Dell-branded Logitech Cordless Keyboard and Mouse, and once I get to the "Choose the language" page in the install routine they no longer function. This is using the latest "stable" release of Debian, i.e., Woody. Is there a fix for this? In case you need more info, my system is a Dell Dimension 8250 w/ 2.8 gHz P4 processor, 512 MB RAM, 112 GB HD, ATI Radeon 9700 Pro video adapter w/128 MB RAM, a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card, and an 18" Dell 1800FP LCD monitor plugged into the DVI video output jack. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#194631: still FTBS on powerpc
busybox-cvs still fails to build from source on powerpc. See http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=busybox-cvs&ver=0.60.99.cvs20030426-7&arch=powerpc&stamp=1054338047&file=log&as=raw You only fixed the syscalls in syscalls.c. But busybox-cvs now fails to compile on fdisk.c and it will fail on setgroups.c if this one is fixed. My earlier patch includes fixes for these two files. Please reopen this bug. -gaudenz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: "Registered senders"
* Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-06-02 18:27]: > > I'm sorry, but because I have been receiving more than 100 junk-mail > > messages an hour, I no longer accept e-mail from unregistered > > senders. To send me a message, please follow the path that best > > describes your needs: > > Please remove Scott More from the debian-boot mailing list. > > The from field listed 'Scott Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' as his > address. or register this list as a valid-sender under $url/mail-lists/ :-) -- Thorsten Sauter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Is there life after /sbin/halt -p?) pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Status of PowerPC Debian Installer.
Hello, * Gaudenz Steinlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-06-02 18:34]: > - yaboot installer fails on my system, I did not have time to > investigate this do you think it's possible to give us a little bit more informations about this step? Any error messages or console logs? Does yaboot finds all partitions? How looks the generated yaboot.conf? Thanks for your help Thorsten -- Thorsten Sauter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Is there life after /sbin/halt -p?) pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
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Re: Status of PowerPC Debian Installer.
Hi Sven great offer! Sven Luther wrote: I will probably be doing some debian-installer work for the Pegasos powerpc motherboard in the next time. As such, i would like to enter in contact with who is currently working on debian-installer for ppc. I am also trying to get an idea of the current status of debian-installer in general and on powerpc in particular. I will try reading the mailing list archive, and i just subscribed to the list, so i will get some idea of this, but if someone feels like giving me a quick status report or something, it would be kind. I have tried to port debian-installer to powerpc in the last few weeks. But there is still a lot left to do ;-) What's almost working (or patches are pending): - text frontend - installation of base system with some manual interaction - manual partitioning - booting from cd (with patch to build/Makefile) - I have built some local udebs for things not yet in the archive, I will put them online somewhere what I had a look at, but is not jet tested or working: - autopartkit: I only have one harddisk, with one free partition. I would rather not destroy all data on this disk. So I looked a little at the code, but I did not give it a try. It was not clear wheter the code will repartition the whole disk (as the warning says) or use the free space (as some code suggested) - making cd images including the base system, I did not yet figure out how to arrange things on cd - yaboot installer fails on my system, I did not have time to investigate this what I did not look at: - I only have a TiBook first generation. I did not test anything on any other powerpc computer. So oldworld or non-mac problems are out of scope for me. - any other installer frontend than text. Specially I do not know if the directfb/gtk-directfb solution for a graphical frontend will work on powerpc or if this is i386 specific - autodetection of hardware. There is some work underway to make use of discover2 (see other thread)... - gaudenz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Please make discover2 udebs available for testing
On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 02:41, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Jeff Licquia] > > I've stashed discover 2.0.2-0.0.0.2 and discover-data 2.2003.02.05-2 > > packages in http://hackers.progeny.com/~licquia/discover/. Again, > > please don't upload these or otherwise give them "official" status. > > I'm trying to test these now. I'll let you know about my progress. Thanks for all the feedback, patches, and patience. I'm still learning my way around discover, and this is my first udeb. Today, I have an important project to deliver something for. Once that's done, I'll turn some attention to these issues. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
