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Bug#219902: anna: cuts off the last character in the udeb description
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 04:00:12AM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> In the list of modules to fetch, anna seems to cut off the last
> character from some of the descriptions. This might be a bit confusing
> to the user. :-)
Actually this seems to be a libd-i bug. src/package_parser.c:312 and out
reads
temp = memchr (value->string, '\n', value->size);
if (temp)
{
p->short_description = di_stradup (value->string, temp - value->string - 1);
p->description = di_stradup (temp, (value->string + value->size) - temp - 1);
}
else
p->short_description = di_stradup (value->string, value->size);
As the second parameter to di_stradup() is the number of characters
(excluding the terminating zero), "temp - value->string" is exactly the
length of the string excluding the newline, and the -1 subtracts one too
much.
I'm a bit unsure if I should remove the "- 1" for the second line too,
though, since I'm unable to understand what it's actually supposed to be
doing. Is the long description supposed to start with an "\n", as it does
now? Why the () around "value->string + value->size"? It looks like the code
fragment is trying to find the end of the string, subtract temp from that
(thus finding the length, _including_ both the final and initial newlines),
and finally subtracting one to remove the final newline. Should just "temp"
be changed to "temp+1" here? Or should there be a "- 2" instead of "- 1",
actually?
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Re: debian-installer images failing on ia64 autobuilder
Joey Hess wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > > debootstrap-udeb: Depends: mounted-partitions > > I see Richard Hirst fixed this, so never mind. Nope, spoke too soon, it's still failing on ia64: http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=debian-installer&ver=20031109&arch=ia64&stamp=1068431608&file=log&as=raw mkfs.msdos -i deb1 -n "Debian Inst" -C dest/cdrom-image.img.new 8192 /bin/sh: line 1: mkfs.msdos: command not found Well at least the error is different this time. Is this a missing build-dep for ia64? -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Flavors
Chris Tillman wrote: > In the old installation manual, there were four (no, 5) flavors of > kernels for i386. In the current kernel module, only one kernel > version is listed. Can we dump all the instructions for users about > choosing flavors on i386? (Please say yes). The installer chooses a flavor based on the hardware, so this should not need a great deal of consideration from users. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#219897: hw-detect: destroys debconf/priority up if run after a failed module
Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > If one first runs a module that fails (for instance, install LILO on a > non-existant drive, or install base from network with cable unplugged) > and then run hw-detect, weird stuff happens: Can you provide an easier way to reproduce this? hw-detect here does skip loading a few modules that are not present, but that's the closest it comes to failing, and I'm pretty sure I've never seen the priority bumped up to super-critical. I don't understand how the unplugged network cable is interacting with hw-detect at all, really. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: beta released
Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 07:08:49PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > I've just sent a release announcement to debian-boot. I am actually > > still waiting for tomorrow's dinstall to get the official non-cd images > > updated in the debian archive, but everything else is in place for the > > beta now. I've learned some things this time around, but am too tired to > > articulate them. Better job next time. > > We should probably fix the web pages so > - The errata is a little more complete (most notably "you can't select mirror > at priority=high, and manual mirror selection is broken") > - There is a direct link to the beta-1/ subdirectory. I commited some new errata hours ago, but it, along with a news item on the web page, will have to wait for the next build of the website. I've changed the links to point to beta-1, although currently all three sets of cd images are the same. Only members of the webwml group can edit the website, AFAIK Petter and I are in this group. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Slow redraws in the debootstrap stage
Leaving aside the cdebconf progress bar resize bug, if I were doing any number of installs over slow serial (more than 1..), I would switch d-i to use the cdebconf text frontend in my install media. Of course we don't currently ship any media with that frontend on them, but it should be an easy change, and make serial installs much more fun. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#219889: anna: Poorly handles commas in components descriptions
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 03:49:51AM +0100, Jeremie Koenig wrote: > Thanks, i didn't know debconf was offering this possibility. Here is the > new version : Applied in CVS, thanks. (Please send your patches as attachment in the future; it makes them a lot easier to apply.) /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#219902: anna: cuts off the last character in the udeb description
Package: anna Severity: minor File: anna Tags: d-i (I was quite sure I had reported this before, but can't find it. Apologies if this is a dupe. :-) ) In the list of modules to fetch, anna seems to cut off the last character from some of the descriptions. This might be a bit confusing to the user. :-) -- System Information: Debian Release: Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux trofast.sesse.net 2.4.23-pre9 #2 Wed Nov 5 17:10:54 CET 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#219889: anna: Poorly handles commas in components descriptions
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 02:11:29AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It would be better to escape the commas by preceding them with a backslash.
Thanks, i didn't know debconf was offering this possibility. Here is the
new version :
Index: util.c
===
RCS file: /cvs/debian-boot/debian-installer/anna/util.c,v
retrieving revision 1.26
diff -u -r1.26 util.c
--- util.c 2 Nov 2003 23:07:24 - 1.26
+++ util.c 10 Nov 2003 02:33:22 -
@@ -141,10 +141,29 @@
return ret;
}
+static size_t
+choice_strcpy(char *dest, char *src, size_t size)
+{
+size_t n=0;
+
+while (*src && (n < size-2)) {
+if (*src == ',')
+dest[n++] = '\';
+dest[n++] = *(src++);
+}
+dest[n] = '\0';
+
+return n;
+}
+
size_t
package_to_choice(di_package *package, char *buf, size_t size)
{
- return snprintf(buf, size, "%s: %s", package->package, package->short_description);
+int n;
+n = choice_strcpy(buf, package->package, size);
+n += choice_strcpy(buf+n, ": ", size-n);
+n += choice_strcpy(buf+n, package->short_description, size-n);
+return n;
}
char *
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Re: beta released
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 02:46:00AM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > We should probably fix the web pages so > - The errata is a little more complete (most notably "you can't select mirror > at priority=high, and manual mirror selection is broken") Add to that "multiple network cards doesn't work" (fixes are in CVS, but we forgot to upload them). :-) (Could I do these web changes myself? Where do I need access? :-) ) /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#219889: anna: Poorly handles commas in components descriptions
Jeremy Koenig wrote: > When selecting which components to load, commas in udeb description > cause debconf to split the list item in two. > > I suggest the following fix to be applied (strip out commas in > package_to_choice, in util.c) : It would be better to escape the commas by preceding them with a backslash. -- Matt - This message was sent using the LA Free-Net - LA's best kept secret. http://www.lafn.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
debian-installer_20031109_i386.changes ACCEPTED
Accepted: debian-installer-demo_20031109_i386.deb to pool/main/d/debian-installer/debian-installer-demo_20031109_i386.deb debian-installer_20031109.dsc to pool/main/d/debian-installer/debian-installer_20031109.dsc debian-installer_20031109.tar.gz to pool/main/d/debian-installer/debian-installer_20031109.tar.gz 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#219897: hw-detect: destroys debconf/priority up if run after a failed module
Package: hw-detect Severity: important Tags: d-i This has been discussed on IRC earlier, but deserves a bug report so we won't forget it before it's fixed :-) If one first runs a module that fails (for instance, install LILO on a non-existant drive, or install base from network with cable unplugged) and then run hw-detect, weird stuff happens: What actually happens is that hw-detect at some point sets debconf/priority to "". This confuses main-menu profoundly -- current version from sid manages to set pri=4, which is one step _higher_ than critical, calling it "debian-installer/generic_error" of all things. (main-menu from CVS fixes this issue, and sets pri=1, that is, "medium" instead). Even better, right after that, one can spot --> GET debconf/priority GET debconf/priority <-- 20 Incorrent number of arguments in the syslog; the origins of the double GET are rather unclear. What, amazingly, solves the problem is to remove /etc/init.d/pcmcia-cs, touching it instead to create an empty file. hw-detect runs the following code fragment in postinst: # avoid debconf daemon issues.. db_stop /etc/init.d/pcmcia start &1 | logger -t hw-detect which _seems_ innocent enough, but appearently is the source of the problems. This should probably be investigated further. :-) -- System Information: Debian Release: Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux trofast.sesse.net 2.4.23-pre9 #2 Wed Nov 5 17:10:54 CET 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Slow redraws in the debootstrap stage
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 06:46:01PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: >> during the "install base system" step in d-i, i.e. while debootstrap >> is running, there is one annoying effect. The newt frontend redraws >> the whole status box (the progress bar and the text about which file >> is retrieved respective validated currently) very often (i.e. twice >> for each package in many cases). > Please see bug #213669. :-) FWIW, I have an NMU ready to fix #213669 and #210912 (another cosmetical/user-friendliess problem with debootstrap under d-i), but my sponsor didn't have time to upload it before the beta yesterday. The changes are quite small -- if anybody else would like to take a look at it and do the NMU (as per debootstrap's README.Debian), feel free to contact me. :-) /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: beta released
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 07:08:49PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > I've just sent a release announcement to debian-boot. I am actually > still waiting for tomorrow's dinstall to get the official non-cd images > updated in the debian archive, but everything else is in place for the > beta now. I've learned some things this time around, but am too tired to > articulate them. Better job next time. We should probably fix the web pages so - The errata is a little more complete (most notably "you can't select mirror at priority=high, and manual mirror selection is broken") - There is a direct link to the beta-1/ subdirectory. /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
beta released
I've just sent a release announcement to debian-boot. I am actually still waiting for tomorrow's dinstall to get the official non-cd images updated in the debian archive, but everything else is in place for the beta now. I've learned some things this time around, but am too tired to articulate them. Better job next time. Consider the gates opened again for changes that were blocked by the beta. We just need to avoid gratuitous changes now, and strive to keep the whole installer working on a daily basis during this kinda-freeze. Thanks everyone who made this possible, and let's make the next beta twice as good, on twice as many architectures! -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: net booting
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 12:23:58AM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > Since none of the older computers can read CD-RW discs, I am > interested in trying to net boot (dhcp, tftp and nfs (or a large > initrd)) them instead. > > However, with the new installation system it is not obvious to me how > to do it. > > Is it, or will it be, supported? The netboot image (and probably all the other ones) can be booted by network. You can set up a tftp space somewhere on your network and use a network-enabled grub boot disk (google for it, there's an floppy image generator around). -- Jeremie Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#187075: marked as done (Missing module sis900?)
Your message dated Mon, 10 Nov 2003 00:20:50 +0100 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Missing module sis900? 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; 31 Mar 2003 22:05:54 + >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Mar 31 16:05:51 2003 Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from mailgate5.cinetic.de [217.72.192.165] by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian)) id 1907Pb-0001YV-00; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 16:05:51 -0600 Received: from web.de (fmomail01.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.1.45]) by mailgate5.cinetic.de (8.11.6p2/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.0-0.4) with SMTP id h2VM5Jq09842 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tue, 1 Apr 2003 00:05:19 +0200 Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 00:05:19 +0200 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Organization: http://freemail.web.de/ From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?"Florian=20Gr=E4tz"?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Missing module sis900? Precedence: fm-user Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.4 required=4.0 tests=HAS_PACKAGE,NOSPAM_INC,SPAM_PHRASE_02_03,SUPERLONG_LINE version=2.44 X-Spam-Level: Package: installation-reports Version: sarge Severity: grave I downloaded sarge-i386-netinst.iso and burned it. The CD boots correctly and after I start the network installation process by typing "net", the required ethernet module "sis900" is detected properly. Unfortunately, every attempt to load the module into memory is rejected and the system prints a message as following: installer[52]: running cmd 'modprobe -v sis900 ' installer[52]: modprobe: Can't locate module sis900 Manually loading the NIC driver in a shell fails as well and my ethernet adapter is incompatible to any other module. After I changed into the .../net/ directory and listed all files there, I figured out that there are several modules for network adapters but the required file sis900.o seems to be missing. I definitely know, that this module exists and is working well (because I am using it under a debian based distribution called KNOPPIX) Unfortunately, it seems to be missing on the minimum installation CD. If there is any workaround (like loading my module from hda3), I will be grateful for your hints. Regards, Florian __ Jetzt 52 verschiedene Briefpapiere fur Ihre E-Mails bei WEB.DE FreeMail - http://freemail.web.de/features/?mc=021140 --- Received: (at 187075-done) by bugs.debian.org; 9 Nov 2003 23:20:52 + >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Nov 09 17:20:52 2003 Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from 217-13-7-8.dd.nextgentel.com (minerva.hungry.com) [217.13.7.8] by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 1 (Debian)) id 1AIyrU-0005Oa-00; Sun, 09 Nov 2003 17:20:52 -0600 Received: from pere by minerva.hungry.com with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AIyrS-VZ-00; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 00:20:50 +0100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Missing module sis900? From: Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sender: Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 00:20:50 +0100 Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.0 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_60 version=2.53-bugs.debian.org_2003_11_9 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.53-bugs.debian.org_2003_11_9 (1.174.2.15-2003-03-30-exp) The sis900 module is now part of the nic-modules udeb. I believe this problem is solved. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#219890: ethdetect: Strange main-menu item title
Package: ethdetect Version: 0.56 Severity: minor Ethdetect's menu entry text is "Detect network hardware". However, at DEBCONF_PRIORITY=low, ethdetect's first question is "Would you like me to try to detect hardware ?", and the user can manually choose which module to install. I think the menu item should read "Configure network hardware" instead. -- Jeremie Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#219888: anna: Give the user full control of modules to be installed
Package: anna
Version: 0.043
Severity: wishlist
Hello,
The anna TODO list contains :
| * Include all packages that will be autoinstalled in the question about
| what to install, in addition to those that will not be installed.
| In corner cases the user mqay need to omit a particular package
| from being installed even though it would be normally (think kernel
| module udeb with a module that hangs with the given HW or something).
The attached patch implements it this way :
- A new template (anna/choose-mode) asks the user (priority low) the
way udebs should be selected : automatically, propose additional
modules (default, current behaviour), full control.
- If full control is chosen, automatically selected components are
added to the list, preselected. The user can deselect them and they
won't get installed.
I had to add a new template and change anna/choose-modules. Since i'm
not an native english speaker, reviewing the changes may be necessary.
If these changes are conflicting with the freeze plans going on, but
there is some interest in the patch, i'll keep it in sync with CVS until
it can be applied.
Note that the only way I can reach the partitionning (=swap-space
creating) step without getting out of memory is using these changes (as
well as the rootskel patch in #219528).
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Index: anna.c
===
RCS file: /cvs/debian-boot/debian-installer/anna/anna.c,v
retrieving revision 1.67
diff -u -r1.67 anna.c
--- anna.c 5 Nov 2003 15:49:29 - 1.67
+++ anna.c 9 Nov 2003 23:07:54 -
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
if (retriever && (p = di_packages_get_package(status, retriever, 0))) {
package_to_choice(p, buf, 200);
- set_retriever(buf);
+set_retriever(buf);
}
}
@@ -42,13 +42,38 @@
return 0;
}
+static int
+choose_mode(di_packages *status __attribute__((unused)), di_packages **packages
__attribute__((unused)), di_packages_allocator **packages_allocator
__attribute__((unused)))
+{
+debconf_fset(debconf, ANNA_CHOOSE_MODE, "seen", "false");
+debconf_input(debconf, "low", ANNA_CHOOSE_MODE);
+return 0;
+}
+
+static int
+get_choose_mode()
+{
+const char *modes[] = {
+"let the installer decide",
+"offer additional components",
+"full control",
+NULL };
+int i;
+
+debconf_get(debconf, ANNA_CHOOSE_MODE);
+if (debconf->value) {
+for (i = 0 ; modes[i] && strcmp(debconf->value, modes[i]) ; i++);
+if (modes[i]) return i;
+}
+return 1; /* default */
+}
static int
choose_modules(di_packages *status, di_packages **packages, di_packages_allocator
**packages_allocator)
{
-char *choices, *package_kernel, *running_kernel = NULL;
-int package_count = 0;
-di_package *package, *status_package, **package_array;
+char *choices, *choices_sel, *package_kernel, *running_kernel = NULL;
+int mode, package_count = 0, package_count_sel = 0;
+di_package *package, *status_package, **package_array, **package_array_sel;
di_slist_node *node, *node1;
struct utsname uts;
@@ -114,8 +139,8 @@
package->status_want = di_package_status_want_unknown;
di_log (DI_LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG, "ask for %s, matches kernel",
package->package);
}
- else if (package_kernel)
- continue;
+else if (package_kernel)
+ continue;
if (package->priority >= di_package_priority_standard)
{
package->status_want = di_package_status_want_install;
@@ -138,22 +163,39 @@
/* Slight over-allocation, but who cares */
package_array = di_new0(di_package *, di_hash_table_size((*packages)->table));
+package_array_sel = di_new0(di_package *, di_hash_table_size((*packages)->table));
/* Now build the asklist, figuring out which packages have been
* pulled into instlist */
+mode = get_choose_mode();
for (node = (*packages)->list.head; node; node = node->next) {
package = node->data;
-if (package->status_want == di_package_status_want_unknown)
-package_array[package_count++] = package;
+switch (package->status_want) {
+case di_package_status_want_install:
+ if(mode < 2) break;
+ package_array_sel[package_count_sel++] = package;
+ package->status_want = di_package_status_want_unknown;
+case di_package_status_want_unknown:
+package_array[package_count++] = package;
+ break;
+default:
+ break;
+}
}
qsort(package_array, package_count, sizeof(di_package *), package_array_compare);
-choices = list_to_choices(package_array);
+choices = list_to_choices(package_array);
+choices_sel = list_to_choices(package_array_sel);
debconf_fset(debconf, ANNA_CHOO
Bug#219889: anna: Poorly handles commas in components descriptions
Package: anna
Version: 0.044
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
When selecting which components to load, commas in udeb description
cause debconf to split the list item in two.
I suggest the following fix to be applied (strip out commas in
package_to_choice, in util.c) :
Index: util.c
===
RCS file: /cvs/debian-boot/debian-installer/anna/util.c,v
retrieving revision 1.26
diff -u -r1.26 util.c
--- util.c 2 Nov 2003 23:07:24 - 1.26
+++ util.c 9 Nov 2003 21:34:11 -
@@ -141,10 +141,29 @@
return ret;
}
+static size_t
+choice_strcpy(char *dest, char *src, size_t size)
+{
+size_t n=0;
+
+while (*src && (n < size-1)) {
+if (*src != ',')
+ dest[n++] = *src;
+ src++;
+}
+dest[n] = '\0';
+
+return n;
+}
+
size_t
package_to_choice(di_package *package, char *buf, size_t size)
{
- return snprintf(buf, size, "%s: %s", package->package, package->short_description);
+int n;
+n = choice_strcpy(buf, package->package, size);
+n += choice_strcpy(buf+n, ": ", size-n);
+n += choice_strcpy(buf+n, package->short_description, size-n);
+return n;
}
char *
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Installation report for beta1 images ppc (iBook2)
INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: http://people.debian.org/~tsauter/d-i/images-powerpc/2003-11-09/ uname -a: Linux (none) 2.4.22-powerpc #1 Sat Sep 27 06:55:23 CEST 2003 ppc unknown Date: 11/10/2003 00:33pm (CEST) Method: Creating my own busines card cdrom from d-i cvs and the daily builded images. These images should be used for beta1 cdroms. Machine: Apple iBook 2 Processor: PowerPC 750FX 800MHz (Newworld pmac) Memory: 256MB Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked:[O] Configure network HW: [O] Config network: [O] Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [O] Create file systems:[O] Mount partitions: [O] Install base system:[O] Install boot loader:[O] Reboot: [O] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: Perfect! ;-) -- Thorsten Sauter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Is there life after /sbin/halt -p?) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
net booting
Hi list-members! I am new to this list. I intend to do some test installations. I have one modern laptop, and a couple of older (first generation of Pentiums) to play with. Since none of the older computers can read CD-RW discs, I am interested in trying to net boot (dhcp, tftp and nfs (or a large initrd)) them instead. However, with the new installation system it is not obvious to me how to do it. Is it, or will it be, supported? -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Flavors
In the old installation manual, there were four (no, 5) flavors of kernels for i386. In the current kernel module, only one kernel version is listed. Can we dump all the instructions for users about choosing flavors on i386? (Please say yes). -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#219879: linux-kernel-di: please include jfs modules
Package: linux-kernel-di Version: 0.11 Severity: wishlist Hi, [I'm not sure, if this is the correct module to report this, but maybe we can clone this bug later to all kernel packages.] Please include a module for the jfs filesystem. Thanks Thorsten -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux meli 2.4.21 #1 Di Aug 12 21:20:59 CEST 2003 i686 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Processed: Make it easier to find d-i related bugs
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Bug#219868: choose-mirror: Go Back does not work properly
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 20:58, Denis Barbier wrote: > Package: choose-mirror > Version: CVS > Severity: normal > Tags: d-i > > Hi, > > if you select http protocol, continue until the last question, > go back to the first question and select ftp protocol, then > choose-mirror exits before reaching the last question. > > Denis > I've just fixed this bug in CVS. Could you please retest choose-mirror? Thanks, Alastair McKinstry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#219868: choose-mirror: Go Back does not work properly
Package: choose-mirror Version: CVS Severity: normal Tags: d-i Hi, if you select http protocol, continue until the last question, go back to the first question and select ftp protocol, then choose-mirror exits before reaching the last question. Denis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [cdebconf] Backing up can't work if seen questions are skipped
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 07:12:28PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 06:44:58PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 06:27:47PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > > > Recently cdebconf behavior has been changed to not display already seen > > > questions, in order to help non-interactive installations. > > > But this change makes back up quite useless, because one cannot go > > > back and forth without trouble, some questions are skipped. > > > So I would like to revert this change, is it okay? > > > > No, please don't revert. > > > > cdebconf (like debconf) is supposed to defer writing of all "seen" data until > > the end of the script, to fix this very issue. If this does not work, it is > > indeed a bug, but the "do not display already seen questions" behaviour is > > definitely not. :-) > > You are right, I did not remember this point. There seems to be a bug > here, will try to fix it. I initially posted this message because choose-mirror does not handle goback right. After more investigations, cdebconf seems to work just fine, so I will now look into choose-mirror. Sorry for the noise. Denis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [cdebconf] Backing up can't work if seen questions are skipped
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 06:44:58PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 06:27:47PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > > Recently cdebconf behavior has been changed to not display already seen > > questions, in order to help non-interactive installations. > > But this change makes back up quite useless, because one cannot go > > back and forth without trouble, some questions are skipped. > > So I would like to revert this change, is it okay? > > No, please don't revert. > > cdebconf (like debconf) is supposed to defer writing of all "seen" data until > the end of the script, to fix this very issue. If this does not work, it is > indeed a bug, but the "do not display already seen questions" behaviour is > definitely not. :-) You are right, I did not remember this point. There seems to be a bug here, will try to fix it. Denis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Slow redraws in the debootstrap stage
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 06:37:25PM +0100, Karsten Merker wrote: > during the "install base system" step in d-i, i.e. while debootstrap > is running, there is one annoying effect. The newt frontend redraws > the whole status box (the progress bar and the text about which file > is retrieved respective validated currently) very often (i.e. twice > for each package in many cases). This is caused by the fact that the > "retrieving"-lines are longer than the "validating"-lines and so they > wrap into the next line, which causes the newt frontend to redraw a > larger bounding box. When the next file is retrieved, the line is > shorter again, so a smaller bounding box is redrawn again. The > redrawing itself first overwrites the whole bounding box with the blue > background and then overwrites the blue background again with a new > bounding box. Please see bug #213669. :-) /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [cdebconf] Backing up can't work if seen questions are skipped
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 06:27:47PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > Recently cdebconf behavior has been changed to not display already seen > questions, in order to help non-interactive installations. > But this change makes back up quite useless, because one cannot go > back and forth without trouble, some questions are skipped. > So I would like to revert this change, is it okay? No, please don't revert. cdebconf (like debconf) is supposed to defer writing of all "seen" data until the end of the script, to fix this very issue. If this does not work, it is indeed a bug, but the "do not display already seen questions" behaviour is definitely not. :-) /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[cdebconf] Backing up can't work if seen questions are skipped
Recently cdebconf behavior has been changed to not display already seen questions, in order to help non-interactive installations. But this change makes back up quite useless, because one cannot go back and forth without trouble, some questions are skipped. So I would like to revert this change, is it okay? Denis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: beta release and freeze plans
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 11:37:54AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > I object. > > > > It is ok for me to wait until monday for the new powerpc packages to be > > added, and the kernel-di stuff to be adapted to them, but i will sure as > > hell not wait 1 month for that. > > Read it again, nothing in there says you cannot rev the kernel. Ok, then it is fine with me. > > Also, i don't particularly care about how this freeze did happen (of the > > kind we will freeze two days from now, don't care if half the stuff is > > broken, etc ...). This is no way to threat the other debian-installer > > developer, setting freezes on a whim without proper notice. > > > > Also don't use the excuse that you were speaking about a freeze since a > > long time, i have repeteadly listed my plans for the powerpc packages > > here since Oldenbourg, and even told you as you were polishing the build > > script for powerpc last week. > > Yes, you've been talking about it forever, with no apparent forward > progress to speak of. Therefore I ignored it. And my regular posts for people to test them don't count ? My quest to understand how the different kind of powerpc hardware work and boot ? Not to speak that i lost more than a week of work because debian-installer ate my harddisk, and the fact that i need 5 hours and more to compile it and more than one hour to upload it. Also, i have been working With Chris, Gaudenz and Thorsten to get a kernel ready which will work with miboot and floppies on old-world pmacs. And i _TOLD_ you about this last week on irc, so why couldn't you tell me about your freeze schedules back then ? I would have uploaded earlier if i had known, or tried to squeeze more time out of my already tight schedule. I didn't upload earlier because i was plagged by a bug which stopped me from installing the kernels on my system, related to dpkg not being able to handle the 30 char filename limit of my amigaos boot partitions, which i took a long time to find. A lot of 5 hours builds happened in that bug hunt. But still, declaring a freeze out of the blue without proper advance warning to the debian-boot mailing list is not a way to handle, and it will only make for delays of the final release. And are you sure the current state of the frozen d-i is even able to handle all the arches and subarches debian sarge is supposed to support ? I seriously doubt it for the powerpc subarches, as seen with what happened to my harddisk, but what about the 5 or so officially supported architectures d-i wasn't even tried on ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: explicit image classification in INSTALLER-HOWTO
Filippo Giunchedi wrote: > Difference between netinst and businesscard is indeed explained in section 2.1, > in section 3 I can't find anything related to explanation of different image > favours. My point was only to do a more explicit image classification Yes, I meant section 2.1 not 3. > there's a typo at line 81 in INSTALLATION-HOWTO: > > 81c81 > < Debian. You need the bootfloppy-image.ing, the floppy-image.img and > --- > > Debian. You need the bootfloppy-image.img, the floppy-image.img and Fixed. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: beta release and freeze plans
Sven Luther wrote: > I object. > > It is ok for me to wait until monday for the new powerpc packages to be > added, and the kernel-di stuff to be adapted to them, but i will sure as > hell not wait 1 month for that. Read it again, nothing in there says you cannot rev the kernel. > Also, i don't particularly care about how this freeze did happen (of the > kind we will freeze two days from now, don't care if half the stuff is > broken, etc ...). This is no way to threat the other debian-installer > developer, setting freezes on a whim without proper notice. > > Also don't use the excuse that you were speaking about a freeze since a > long time, i have repeteadly listed my plans for the powerpc packages > here since Oldenbourg, and even told you as you were polishing the build > script for powerpc last week. Yes, you've been talking about it forever, with no apparent forward progress to speak of. Therefore I ignored it. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#219829: autopartkit: confusing error message when there are no drives to partition
Package: autopartkit Severity: normal Tags: d-i If autopartkit can't find any drives to partition (say, a SCSI-only system where the SCSI card was not properly detected), it dies with the following (rather confusing) error message: Could not stat device autopartkit/device_name doesn't exist - No such file or directory. However, on syslog it gives something like "Could not find any disks to partition!" which would probably be much more sane as an error presented to the user. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux kanskje 2.4.18-1-k7 #2 Sun Aug 10 09:21:59 EST 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: explicit image classification in INSTALLER-HOWTO
Am Son, den 09.11.2003 schrieb Filippo Giunchedi um 11:02: > On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 03:55:58PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > Filippo Giunchedi wrote: > > > first of all thanks for the great work with d-i, it is really cool! after > > > playing around with some images I found netinst confusing, I thought it was > > > "full networked installation (d-i included)" but that is netboot! Attached > > > there is a patch for three types of images (maybe there are more?) > > > > Your patch is against section 2, but section 3 is what explains what > > files to use for different types of installations. There is no section > > about netboot, because nooone has written one. > > Difference between netinst and businesscard is indeed explained in section 2.1, > in section 3 I can't find anything related to explanation of different image > favours. My point was only to do a more explicit image classification I added section 2.4 about netboot and incorporated your suggestion there. I think the description of the different images is now clear enough. > > there's a typo at line 81 in INSTALLATION-HOWTO: > > 81c81 > < Debian. You need the bootfloppy-image.ing, the floppy-image.img and > --- > > Debian. You need the bootfloppy-image.img, the floppy-image.img and commited, thanks. gaudenz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: beta release and freeze plans
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 11:37:52AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > It's time to get a beta release out and get some wider testing. There are > some things that are very obviously broken still, such as mkreiserfs > hanging. I've collected the worst issues at the top of the TODO. I suggest > that we take three more days to try to resolve as many of those isses as we > can. That's not much time, but there are not many of these issues, and > we'll halt work on anything else, except for safe stuff (translations, > template cleanup, etc), to avoid breaking the installer with lots of other > last minute changes. Then we document the remaining issues as known bugs, > and put out the beta release on Sunday. > > Then I suggest that we go into a light freeze of the installer. No changes > to core components that can break other stuff (so no significant > modifications to libdebian-installer, cdebconf's core (but UI fixes are > ok), anna, main-menu, etc). If you absolutly have to make big changes, > you'll have to do it in a branch, and in experimental. I think this freeze > should last a month, and we can take this time to do a lot of important > stuff: > > - Polish all the templates. > - Give the porters a less moving target, and a month to get a port done. > We should aim to complete at least two ports in this month. > - Get translations 100% up-to-date, against a less moving target. > (This may involve a 1 week "string freeze".) > - Find and fix UI problems, like backup support everywhere. > - Get a coherent set of debian-installer images and udebs into the > testing distribution, so that Debian can include d-i in its own > freeze and beta release as part of its release cycle. > - Gather lots and lots of installation reports. > - Get major missing subsystems (wireless, ppp, etc) fully working. > - Add more filesystem types, more hardware support, raid, whatever. > All the stuff that just involves adding a new udeb to the installer. > - Finish the user manual. > - Figure out any major architectural changes we will need to do later. > > After this month of er, frost, we'll have a nicely polished version of the > installer to release, and a good idea of what the big unfixed bugs in that > release will be. So we'll take stock and decide whether we need to open the > tree back up to large changes for a while (and for how long), or whether we > can go into a firmer freeze. Then rinse, lather, repeat until done. I object. It is ok for me to wait until monday for the new powerpc packages to be added, and the kernel-di stuff to be adapted to them, but i will sure as hell not wait 1 month for that. Also, i don't particularly care about how this freeze did happen (of the kind we will freeze two days from now, don't care if half the stuff is broken, etc ...). This is no way to threat the other debian-installer developer, setting freezes on a whim without proper notice. Also don't use the excuse that you were speaking about a freeze since a long time, i have repeteadly listed my plans for the powerpc packages here since Oldenbourg, and even told you as you were polishing the build script for powerpc last week. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sarge-install onto Thinkpad
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 09:43:22PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 02:12:07PM -0600, Bibek Sahu wrote: > > Is there anything special I need to know about using XFS, or using XFS for > > boot? > > I would certainly be interested in discussing XFS support for d-i with > anyone willing to help work on it. I might be persuaded to put together > maintained kernel images using the XFS patch, if there was enough > overall interest to support a full d-i build and make the effort > worthwhile. I am interested in seen XFS support added to d-i and in helping to get it added. please let me know, filippo -- Filippo Giunchedi GNU/PG key: 6B79D401 Random signature follows: If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank. -- Woody Allen pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: explicit image classification in INSTALLER-HOWTO
On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 03:55:58PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Filippo Giunchedi wrote: > > first of all thanks for the great work with d-i, it is really cool! after > > playing around with some images I found netinst confusing, I thought it was > > "full networked installation (d-i included)" but that is netboot! Attached > > there is a patch for three types of images (maybe there are more?) > > Your patch is against section 2, but section 3 is what explains what > files to use for different types of installations. There is no section > about netboot, because nooone has written one. Difference between netinst and businesscard is indeed explained in section 2.1, in section 3 I can't find anything related to explanation of different image favours. My point was only to do a more explicit image classification there's a typo at line 81 in INSTALLATION-HOWTO: 81c81 < Debian. You need the bootfloppy-image.ing, the floppy-image.img and --- > Debian. You need the bootfloppy-image.img, the floppy-image.img and filippo -- Filippo Giunchedi GNU/PG key: 6B79D401 Random signature follows: It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens. -- Woody Allen pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: setting /etc/modules in d-i / base-config?
On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 23:59, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Alastair McKinstry] > > Do we (expect to) prime the /etc/modules on /target in d-i, in > > general, eg. for network interfaces, or should kbd-chooser add the > > USB modules if it spots a USB keyboard? > > My plan is to leave this to the HW detection system (discover), and > make sure it detect and loads the correct modules at boot time. > When it comes to USB devices, I guess hotplug is a must as well, to > make sure the required USB modules are loaded when the devices are > inserted as well. > This will not be popular with those who want to keep base small, and fast boots; but would probably be a good idea for modern desktops. It should be possible to do both: copy the current modules from d-i to /target, then the system will work; discover will then not be necessary, just a good addition. > > This could be a generic issue: eg if a PC has multiple network > > cards, and the modules are loaded at boot-time in a different order > > to that in d-i, the eth0 / eth1 aliases will be different. > > The detection order is as far as I know, the order on the PCI bus, and > this do not change without moving cards in the PC. For Disks, I believe so, but for ethernet cards, it depends on the order of modules loaded, or aliases in /etc/modules; eg alias eth0 e100 alias eth1 tulip sets things the reverse order to which they are setup in d-i. I have this in my modules setup to "autoload" e100 on reference to eth0. Regards, Alastair -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: updated lithuanian .po files
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 00:04, KÄstutis BiliÅnas wrote: > Hi, > > In attachement there are some updated lithuanian (lt_LT) > .po files for d-i. Could someone commit them for me? > > Thanks, Committed. Thanks for your contribution to Debian. Alastair -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
