Bug#395262: "Arch: all" package FTBFS due to test needing network access - RC?

2006-10-31 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 08:02:22AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> While I fully agree with you on all points, I think that this should be
> discussed post-etch with the general question of "in which environment
> are packages supposed to build ?". There are other similar issue, like:
> - should packages allow to build as root ? (aegis, bazaar, subversion
>   don't)

This question is misphrased; the real question is, "should we require that
all packages be buildable as root?"  And I don't see any reason the answer
to this question is "yes".

> - should packages build the same if they are built in a minimal debian
>   environment only satisfying their b-dep, and in a system with lots of
>   useless packages installed ?

These are already RC bugs due to non-reproducibility of builds, they just
aren't practical to find systematically.

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Re: http://wiki.debian.org/SvenLutherAndDI (Was: Open Letter to Anthony Towns about the d-i mediation ...)

2006-10-31 Thread Sven Luther
John, 

Can we take this privately next time ? 

On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 10:31:32PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 10:54:38PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > Surely we have passed this point a month or two ago.  We are wasting
> > > everyone's time.
> > > 
> > > Sven, please just live and let live.
> > 
> > John, what do you think this is all about ? I would be very very happy to
> > follow this advice, this is indeed my most express wish, but the sad truth 
> > is
> > that Frans is the one who is unable to 'live and let live'.
> 
> Sven, it doesn't matter.  It truly doesn't.
> 
> If he says an insult, please just ignore it.
> 
> If he rejects your patch, please just ignore it.
> 
> If he keeps you out of d-i, please just ignore it.

And if he hurts the powerpc users with these actions ? 

Furthermore, my professional and thus personal live is directly affected by this
issue, so ...

> Please, think about what's best for the project.

I think, and i remember my engagement on the social contract, how i would put
freee software and our users as my top priorities. The way things currently
stand hurts our users, and measuring and comparing things, i trully believe
that you and everyone other can assuredly support a few mails, for the best of
our users. 

Furthermore, if more people had steped in so many month ago instead of
ignoring this, and if the DPL had been a better mediator, this would have been
fixed at the latest in early june, and the project would have spared a lot of
disagrement, and debian would be much better off for it (well, people would
probably have spent more time flaming on assorted other stuff, but for me at
least i would have done more debian work).

> Do you think you raise other developers' opinions of you by continuing
> to raise these old issues?  My opinion of you keeps going lower and
> lower each time you do it.  Right now, I would pretty much reject an
> offer from you to help me -- with anything -- immediately, on the
> grounds that working with you is too much effort to benefit me.

Is it too much effort ? For a few mails you can easily ignore if you wanted ? 

Really, i think there is something really really sick in debian, when writing
mails can be considered as the ultimate offense. Please think about it.

> You aren't accomplishing anything for Debian with this thread.  You
> probably know that this thread isn't going to change people's minds

Well, it will not be my fault, i have written those 2 open letters in the most
reasonable way i could think of, i have written the wiki page on suggestions
given to me on the irc channels, andin the most positive way i could think of.

Yes, i expect people to change their minds on that, i think that is only fair,
and i have high hopes on the fairness of the debian developpers.

> now.  You need to accept that life is the way it is, that life is not
> fair, and that this is the way things are. It's not the first time
> someone has been excluded from a free software project, and it's not
> the last.

Well, yes, but d-i is not just any project, d-i is a debian sub-project, and
part of debian. So, i question the right of the d-i leadership, or rather
frans, to excude me.

I do good work, i have played by the rules, i have the best interest of our
users and debian in mind. Keeping me excluded is *NOT* for the best of debian,
and since the DPL totally failed to mediate, and left us in this mess, and is
silent despite my repeated calls, what other issue is left to me ? 

You know, if the DPL doesn't step in, i am seriously thinking that i will go
as far as doing an official recall of him, not only because of this, but
because he has mostly been lying to us.

> As Ted T'so pointed out in another thread, people have gotten rich off
> his work and he hasn't seen much from it.  It's not fair, but he still
> works on Linux.

So ? 

> One of my GRs was never voted on becuase the Debian secretary (NOT
> Manoj) at the time was AWOL.  That was annoying, maybe unfair, but you
> don't see me still bringing it up 6 years later (except as an example
> of how to let go!)  I still believe -- very deeply -- that I was
> right, and that Debian still follows the wrong path.

Because you are not still suffering from it in your daily debian activities,
and because you don't see our users being hurt by it. I rather strongly
believe that if these where the case, you would act as me.

> If you think you can do d-i better, then fork it, and be silent until
> you have written your better version.  Let people look at it, accept
> or reject it on its merits, and then accept whatever happens, even if
> you don't like it.

Yeah, this has been the advice others have given me. I don't think this would
be best for the project, and my course of action has been to work within the
constraints the DPL set, because i wanted to regain official access. 

> > Yeah, and since many folk have the same kind of opinion as you, we are 
> > having
> > this conversatio

Bug#395262: "Arch: all" package FTBFS due to test needing network access - RC?

2006-10-31 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
(Cced the relevant bug report)

On 31/10/06 at 23:50 -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
> Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> 
> > Some packages (e.g choose-mirror) fetch a newer version of a file during
> > build if it's possible to fetch that file. I don't think this is RC,
> > since the file is not missing from the package if the network is not
> > available.
> >   
> 
> In general, I strongly suspect that fetching updated source during build
> is RC due to a violation of the Social Contract: the source we are
> shipping intentionally does not correspond to the binary package.
> 
> I'm not sure if the above applies to choose-mirror. In particular, if
> the file shipped in the binary is its own source, then it doesn't.
> However, I'd still say it's bad idea, and a bug (maybe even RC). Some
> more general reasons (not all necessarily apply to choose-mirror)
> 
> * changes to the package are not reflected in the changelog
> * random network or remote server issues can cause a broken (or
>   worse) build. What happens if the file on the server is corrupted?
> * builds are no longer repeatable. Different source may even wind up
>   built on different architectures.
> * the package is much harder to NMU. What should be a spelling fix
>   suddenly becomes a large change (due to the automated source
>   pull), unbeknown to the NMU-er. Same problem for the security team.
> * the supposedly-signed source package isn't really; it's pulling
>   unsigned source for the build
> 
> Also, depending on what is being downloaded from the network, there
> could be security issues. What happens if the server is compromised?

While I fully agree with you on all points, I think that this should be
discussed post-etch with the general question of "in which environment
are packages supposed to build ?". There are other similar issue, like:
- should packages allow to build as root ? (aegis, bazaar, subversion
  don't)
- should packages build the same if they are built in a minimal debian
  environment only satisfying their b-dep, and in a system with lots of
  useless packages installed ?

There are RC bugs to fix now ;)
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Re: Info on partman/auto format

2006-10-31 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 31 October 2006 14:34, Alexander Vogel wrote:
> Just for Information:
> I set up a server (routing) with one drbd devices on sda . Now today i
> wanted to install (management) with 3 drbd devices on sda 9 .. 11
> over the routing server but get a kernel panic error
>
> To exclude it from from the list (and to say to my boss, that's not
> causing the error):

I doubt even a severe error in a recipe should be able to cause a kernel 
panic. It might do unexpected things to your disc, but not panic the 
kernel. After all, partman will only translate the recipe into "regular" 
calls to libparted.

> In method{ } it's also possible to use keep, so
> i asume this is formating the partition ?!
> [snap]
> 1 1 1 ext3 method{ format } format{ } use_
> filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext3 } mountpoint{ /clstdmc } .
> [snap]

Looks correct to me.

> Is there a parameter i can set in format{ } ?

No, not as far as I know.

> @Frans:  could you please give me a link to the documentation.You have
> maybe better things to do, as to answer my questions ;-)

The only documentation I'm aware of is the appendix on preseeding in the 
installation guide and this document:
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/d-i/trunk/installer/doc/devel/partman-auto-recipe.txt?op=file&rev=0&sc=0

Cheers,
FJP


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Processed: Re: Bug#396125: installation-report: PowerBook G4 installed fine

2006-10-31 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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> reassign 396125 xorg-xserver-core
Bug#396125: installation-report: PowerBook G4 installed fine
Warning: Unknown package 'xorg-xserver-core'
Bug reassigned from package `installation-reports' to `xorg-xserver-core'.

> retitle 396125 powerpc new install: selects us instead of sg (Swiss) keymap
Bug#396125: installation-report: PowerBook G4 installed fine
Warning: Unknown package 'xorg-xserver-core'
Changed Bug title.

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Bug#396125: installation-report: PowerBook G4 installed fine

2006-10-31 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 396125 xorg-xserver-core
retitle 396125 powerpc new install: selects us instead of sg (Swiss) keymap
thanks

On Monday 30 October 2006 00:23, Niklaus Giger wrote:
> Comments/Problems:
>
> I selected USB swiss german keymap.
> Installation of Desktop system, etc all was fine, but X put a wrong
> keymap into xorg (us, instead of sg).

Reassigning your report to the XOrg people for this.
Thank you for filing your installation report.


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Re: r42375 - trunk/packages/po

2006-10-31 Thread Christian Perrier
> Right, but I'd miss the fact that something changed. And next "svn up"


Well, we have a small notification robot which can mail you when some
files changes in the various packages in levels 1-5. It is a bit jerky
since the alioth relocation but it is definitely helpful.

I can add your mail address there if you're OK.




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Bug#396412: installation-reports: Installation report on AS/400 / iSeries / System i / i5

2006-10-31 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 31 October 2006 17:30, Sebastian Schmidt wrote:
> Comments/Problems:
> I tried to install Debian as a "guest" within an i5/OS (or OS/400)
> partition via the CRTNWSD (Create Network Server Description) command.

Hmm. Nice to see a report for this. I didn't even know we supported AS/400 
boxes :-)

> After booting into SMS, I was able to choose the virtual CD-ROM drive
> as IPL source. Booting and installing was straightforward (in case, one
> chose the "expert64" or "install64" yaboot entry - i5 refuses to boot
> from 32 bit kernels and crashes into ofdbg displaying a nice register
> dump). Graphics were a bit garbled[1] on the console (via telnet  partition> 2301), but d-i was usable.

The installer uses UTF-8 encoding. You may get a better display if you're 
able to configure the remote console to use that.

> D-i allowed me to make my root partition managed by LVM, what I chose
> on my first try. However, yaboot was unable to read its config from
> this partition, so I reinstalled (it was friday afternoon anyway) it
> without LVM on my /.

This probably could be made to work by using a separate /boot partition.

> yaboot was installed to a PReP partition (nothing notably until then)
> and the system rebooted. Unfortunately, I didn't start installation in
> expert mode, so I didn't notice that d-i only installed a 32 bit
> kernel. As expected, yaboot booted right into the open firmware
> debugger.
>
> After re-restarting the installation in expert mode, I hoped to find a
> 64 bit kernel in the installer's kernel selection list. However, only
> 32 bit kernels where listed, so I had to install a 64 bit version via a
> chroot environment in the command line.

I'm not quite sure how the kernel selection for powerpc works, but we 
should be able to fix this.
Could you send us the output of 'cat /proc/cpuinfo'?

> After rebooting, yaboot loaded the Elf64 kernel and all services
> started. However, a getty did not start on /dev/console (what made me a
> bit nervous first). I don't know if this is considered a bug or not...

What did you change in /etc/inittab to fix this.

D-I basically supports two modes of installation:
- regular monitor connected to video card
- serial console installs; should set up a serial console for the
  installed system too

If you used a serial console, what is its name? Is it /dev/ttyS? or 
something fancy?

Cheers,
FJP


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Bug#395886: marked as done ()

2006-10-31 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Package: installation-reports

Boot method: 
Image version: 
Date: 

Machine: 
Processor:
Memory:
Partitions: 

Output of lspci and lspci -n:

Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot worked:[O]
Configure network HW:   [E]
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]

Comments/Problems:

Multiple network card (Built in on a MSI K8N Neo4) detection is confused. The 
same card is detected as eth0, eth1 or eth2
upon subsequent install trials.


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On Saturday 28 October 2006 14:20, Giorgio Pioda wrote:
> Comments/Problems:
> Multiple network card (Built in on a MSI K8N Neo4) detection is
> confused. The same card is detected as eth0, eth1 or eth2 upon
> subsequent install trials.

Yes, that can happen. This is a "feature" of the way modern kernels detect 
devices and not something we can influence in the installer. Basically 
the kernel probes all hardware in parallel and this can lead to different 
results on different boots.

As your installation was successful, I'm closing your report. Thank you 
very much for submitting it.

Cheers,
FJP
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Bug#396483: d-i testing image 31Oct06 on amd64 failed on reboot

2006-10-31 Thread Frans Pop
Hello Clive,

On Wednesday 01 November 2006 01:16, Clive Menzies wrote:
> Comments/Problems:
> VFS Cannot open root device "hda13" or unknown-block(0,0)
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic - not syncing: VVVFS Unable to mount root fs on
> unknown-block(0,0)

In general that means that the initrd fails to load the drivers needed to 
access the hard disk, OR, if there are multiple disk controllers in the 
system, that device names are assigned differently during the boot than 
during the installation.

The messages you show here are insufficient to diagnose this. You'll need 
to look back to check:
- is the driver needed for your disk controller being loaded
- is the disk recognized
- as what is it recognized
- are the partitions seen

Are you dropped into a debug shell when the failure occurs? If you are, 
check if the modules needed are loaded (cat /proc/modules), check if the 
disk devices are listed in /dev/.

> I should mention that this was previously a PV in an LVM setup.  I'd
> already removed the partition from the VG and formatted it (I thought)
> as ext3 but the d-i read it as type LVM; so I formatted it again as
> ext3 during the install.

Hmm. Did you also remove the LVM metadata from it? That could have 
something to do with it, though I doubt it.
Any messages in the scrollback on the console related to LVM?

If you need to fix anything (like manually include a module in the 
initrd), use the installer's rescue mode.

Cheers,
FJP


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Bug#396469: Installation report: failed install on Toshiba Satellite

2006-10-31 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 31 October 2006 23:23, Bill McNeill wrote:
> Machine: Toshiba Satellite
> Processor: Intel Celeron 2.80 GHz

Strange, I have a quite similar machine which I reinstalled very recently 
and which works perfectly (Toshiba Satellite A40, Mobile Pentium 4, 2.8 
GHz).

> Comments/Problems:
> I did an install from CD taking all the defaults.  When rebooting I get
> a Segmentation Fault followed by the error message

You don't say what causes the segfault. We'll need all the information 
that you can see on the screen when it fails to help find the cause.

Can you still scroll upwards after the segfault (using shift-PgUp)? If so, 
the lines immediately before the segfault (at least 5 or so) and the 
lines of the segfault itself would be interesting to see.

> <6> Journalled Block device driver loaded
> pivot_root: No such file or directory
> /sbin/init: 432: cannot open dev/console: No such file
> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!

In general these messages mean that the initrd fails to load the drivers 
needed to access the hard disk, OR, if there are multiple disk 
controllers in the system, that device names are assigned differently 
during the boot than during the installation.

Are you dropped into a debug shell when the failure occurs? If you are, 
check if the modules needed are loaded (cat /proc/modules), check if any 
disk devices are listed in /dev/.

Cheers,
FJP


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Re: http://wiki.debian.org/SvenLutherAndDI (Was: Open Letter to Anthony Towns about the d-i mediation ...)

2006-10-31 Thread John Goerzen
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 10:54:38PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > Surely we have passed this point a month or two ago.  We are wasting
> > everyone's time.
> > 
> > Sven, please just live and let live.
> 
> John, what do you think this is all about ? I would be very very happy to
> follow this advice, this is indeed my most express wish, but the sad truth is
> that Frans is the one who is unable to 'live and let live'.

Sven, it doesn't matter.  It truly doesn't.

If he says an insult, please just ignore it.

If he rejects your patch, please just ignore it.

If he keeps you out of d-i, please just ignore it.

Please, think about what's best for the project.

Do you think you raise other developers' opinions of you by continuing
to raise these old issues?  My opinion of you keeps going lower and
lower each time you do it.  Right now, I would pretty much reject an
offer from you to help me -- with anything -- immediately, on the
grounds that working with you is too much effort to benefit me.

You aren't accomplishing anything for Debian with this thread.  You
probably know that this thread isn't going to change people's minds
now.  You need to accept that life is the way it is, that life is not
fair, and that this is the way things are. It's not the first time
someone has been excluded from a free software project, and it's not
the last.

As Ted T'so pointed out in another thread, people have gotten rich off
his work and he hasn't seen much from it.  It's not fair, but he still
works on Linux.

One of my GRs was never voted on becuase the Debian secretary (NOT
Manoj) at the time was AWOL.  That was annoying, maybe unfair, but you
don't see me still bringing it up 6 years later (except as an example
of how to let go!)  I still believe -- very deeply -- that I was
right, and that Debian still follows the wrong path.

If you think you can do d-i better, then fork it, and be silent until
you have written your better version.  Let people look at it, accept
or reject it on its merits, and then accept whatever happens, even if
you don't like it.

> Yeah, and since many folk have the same kind of opinion as you, we are having
> this conversation months after the issue could have been solved.

That fact that the conversation exists does not make it beneficial for
the project.

You need to forgive Frans and d-i for whatever you think they did to
you.

We all need to know when to just drop something.

Please, do it now.

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Bug#396494: installation-reports: Can't install LVM related packages on during AMD64 install

2006-10-31 Thread Ming Hua
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 04:41:39AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 November 2006 03:58, Ming Hua wrote:
> > Comments/Problems:
> > When partitioning disk with LVM, there is an error that lvm-common
> > and lvm2 can't be installed.
> 
> I've looked through that thread and the only things I can get from the 
> syslogs included is the following problem:
> | apt-install: WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
> 
> This seems to indicate a problem with the mirror that is used, but that 
> message would be unexpected when using a netinst CD.

It seems to me that the user gave up LVM and did a second install (which
more or less succeeded, so I am not even sure the log he posted is for
the first installation.  I'll ask for clarification, but I am afraid
that the log for the first installation is no longer available now.

> Is this problem still reproducible when using a daily built image from
> http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ ?

I'll see if he is willing to test again with new daily image.

Ming
2006.10.31


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Processed: Re: Bug#396494: change submitter, take two

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Bug#396494: installation-reports: Can't install LVM related packages on during 
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Bug#396494: installation-reports: Can't install LVM related packages on during AMD64 install

2006-10-31 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 01 November 2006 03:58, Ming Hua wrote:
> Comments/Problems:
> When partitioning disk with LVM, there is an error that lvm-common
> and lvm2 can't be installed.

I've looked through that thread and the only things I can get from the 
syslogs included is the following problem:
| apt-install: WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!

This seems to indicate a problem with the mirror that is used, but that 
message would be unexpected when using a netinst CD.

Is this problem still reproducible when using a daily built image from
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ ?

Is it possible to get the full syslog from the original installation
(if the installation was completed it could still be availabe as
/var/log/installer/syslog), or else from a new attempt?
We would need that for the exact error messages.

The syslog can be saved during the installation (after the failure 
occurred) by using the "Save logs" option in the installer's main menu.
It would be best if the installation could be done in English.

Cheers,
FJP


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Bug#396494: change submitter

2006-10-31 Thread Ming Hua
# As I've said, this report is forwarded from Chinese user list,
# therefore set submitter to the list.
package installation-reports
sumbitter 396494 debian-chinese-gb@lists.debian.org
thanks

Ming
2006.10.31


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Bug#396494: installation-reports: Can't install LVM related packages on during AMD64 install

2006-10-31 Thread Ming Hua
Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal

[This is a forwarded installation report that was reported on the
Chinese user list first.  The original discussion was mixed in English
and simplified Chinese, in the thread starting at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-chinese-gb%40lists.debian.org/msg13783.html
Hope it's still relevant.  -- Ming]

Boot method: network

Image version:
debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso and netboot.tar.gz downloaded from
http://www.us.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ on October 24th.

Date: October 26th, 2006

Machine:
DIY machine, with:
Processor: amd am2 athlon 64 3000+
Memory: 2G
Harddisk: maxtor 250G sata

Partitions: (not clear)

Output of lspci and lspci -n:
$ lspci
00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2)
00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C51G [GeForce 6100] (rev 
a2)
00:09.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP51 SMBus (rev a2)
00:0a.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2)
00:0b.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a2)
00:0b.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a2)
00:0d.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 IDE (rev a1)
00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev a1)
00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:10.2 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 AC97 Audio 
Controller (rev a2)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] 
HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address 
Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM 
Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] 
Miscellaneous Control
04:08.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. 
RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
04:09.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. 
RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
$ lspci -n
00:00.0 0500: 10de:02f1 (rev a2)
00:00.1 0500: 10de:02fa (rev a2)
00:00.2 0500: 10de:02fe (rev a2)
00:00.3 0500: 10de:02f8 (rev a2)
00:00.4 0500: 10de:02f9 (rev a2)
00:00.5 0500: 10de:02ff (rev a2)
00:00.6 0500: 10de:027f (rev a2)
00:00.7 0500: 10de:027e (rev a2)
00:02.0 0604: 10de:02fc (rev a1)
00:03.0 0604: 10de:02fd (rev a1)
00:04.0 0604: 10de:02fb (rev a1)
00:05.0 0300: 10de:0242 (rev a2)
00:09.0 0500: 10de:0270 (rev a2)
00:0a.0 0601: 10de:0261 (rev a2)
00:0a.1 0c05: 10de:0264 (rev a2)
00:0a.2 0500: 10de:0272 (rev a2)
00:0b.0 0c03: 10de:026d (rev a2)
00:0b.1 0c03: 10de:026e (rev a2)
00:0d.0 0101: 10de:0265 (rev a1)
00:0e.0 0101: 10de:0266 (rev a1)
00:10.0 0604: 10de:026f (rev a2)
00:10.2 0401: 10de:026b (rev a2)
00:18.0 0600: 1022:1100
00:18.1 0600: 1022:1101
00:18.2 0600: 1022:1102
00:18.3 0600: 1022:1103
04:08.0 0200: 10ec:8139 (rev 10)
04:09.0 0200: 10ec:8139 (rev 10)

Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot worked:[O]
Configure network HW:   [O]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD:  [No cdrom]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives:  [O]
Create file systems:[O]
Mount partitions:   [O]
Install base system:[E]
Install boot loader:[ ]
Reboot: [ ]

Comments/Problems:
When partitioning disk with LVM, there is an error that lvm-common
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Bug#396480: installation-reports: D-I does not work on ASUS P5W DH de luxe + 
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Bug#396480: marked as done (installation-reports: D-I does not work on ASUS P5W DH de luxe + E6600)

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Package: installation-reports
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

boot starts, but enter an endless loop resetting the SATA controller when it 
tries to find the disks. Also, dmesg shows spurious irq not handled on this 
hardware. Apparently fixed via the libata upgrade available in 2.6.18.x

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing-proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
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severity 396480 normal
thanks

On Wednesday 01 November 2006 00:59, Eric Valette wrote:
> boot starts, but enter an endless loop resetting the SATA controller
> when it tries to find the disks. Also, dmesg shows spurious irq not
> handled on this hardware. Apparently fixed via the libata upgrade
> available in 2.6.18.x

That means that this will be automatically fixed when the installer 
switches to the 2.6.18 kernel which we expect to do in a couple of weeks 
time.

It would be great if you could test again after we have done so. I expect 
there will be a call for testing on the debian-devel-announce list and 
the debian-boot list after we have made the switch.

Closing this report as this is not really an installer issue, but the 
result of progress in kernel support for your hardware.

Cheers,
FJP
--- End Message ---


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Bug#396482: installation-reports: S61mouse-support-x86 should use modprobe in 
the same way than other scripts (-q + || true)
Bug reassigned from package `installation-reports' to `rootskel-gtk'.

> severity 396482 minor
Bug#396482: installation-reports: S61mouse-support-x86 should use modprobe in 
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Re: Installing Debian amd64 on an asus P5W DH Deluxe + E6600 : kernel on installer broken + bugs in d-i when changing kernel + modules

2006-10-31 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 01 November 2006 01:05, Eric Valette wrote:
> Found the culprit : S61mouse-support-x86 is incorrectly written  : it
> does not use -q option for modeprobe not the || true.

Nice job of tracing that!

The installer is not really set up to work with kernels that are 
configured totally different from the standard Debian kernels.

If you really have a totally different kernel, you may run into other 
issues as well later on in the installation.

> Will fill a bug because it almost prevent to easilly upgrade to a
> newer/better configured kernel.

Note that "better configured" is a subjective opinion.
For the installer, it is much better (or at least safer) to start with the 
configuration the Debian kernel uses. How you configure the kernel for 
your installed system is of course completely up to you.

This particular issue is fairly easily avoided, so I have no problem with 
fixing it. Please file your bug report against the package rootskel-gtk.

Cheers,
FJP


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Bug#396483: d-i testing image 31Oct06 on amd64 failed on reboot

2006-10-31 Thread Clive Menzies
Package: installation-reports

Boot method: CD
Image version:
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/amd64/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso
Date: 23:15 (GMT) 31 0ct 06

Machine: Acer Aspire 1524WLMi
Processor: amd athlon 64 / 3400+
Memory:512Mb
Partitions:

Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
   /dev/hda1   1 255 2048256   12  Compaq
   diagnostics
   /dev/hda2   * 256153710297665c  W95 FAT32
   (LBA)
   /dev/hda31538729646259167+   f  W95 Ext'd
   (LBA)
   /dev/hda515382072 4297356c  W95 FAT32
   (LBA)
   /dev/hda636484285 5124703+  8e  Linux LVM
   /dev/hda742864407  979933+  82  Linux swap /
   Solaris
   /dev/hda84408632815430401   8e  Linux LVM
   /dev/hda963297296 7775428+  83  Linux
   /dev/hda10   20732078   48163+  83  Linux
   /dev/hda11   20792139  489951   8e  Linux LVM
   /dev/hda12   21402309 1365493+  82  Linux swap /
   Solaris
   /dev/hda13   26913282 4755208+  83  Linux
   /dev/hda14   32833647 2931862   83  Linux
   /dev/hda15   23102690 3060351   83  Linux

   Partition table entries are not in disk order
Test install is on /dev/hda13

Output of lspci -nn and lspci -vnn:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lspci -nn 
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge
[1106:0204]
00:00.1 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge
[1106:1204]
00:00.2 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge
[1106:2204]
00:00.3 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge
[1106:3204]
00:00.4 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge
[1106:4204]
00:00.7 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge
[1106:7204]
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI bridge
[K8T800/K8T890 South] [1106:b188]
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Linksys, A Division of Cisco Systems
[AirConn] INPROCOMM IPN 2220 Wireless LAN Adapter (rev 01) [17fe:2220]
00:0b.0 CardBus bridge [0607]: Texas Instruments PCI7420 CardBus
Controller [104c:ac8e]
00:0b.1 CardBus bridge [0607]: Texas Instruments PCI7420 CardBus
Controller [104c:ac8e]
00:0b.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Texas Instruments PCI7x20
1394a-2000 OHCI Two-Port PHY/Link-Layer Controller [104c:802e]
00:0c.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet [10ec:8169] (rev 10)
00:10.0 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82x UHCI USB
1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev 80)
00:10.1 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82x UHCI USB
1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev 80)
00:10.2 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82x UHCI USB
1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev 80)
00:10.3 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0
[1106:3104] (rev 82)
00:11.0 ISA bridge [0601]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
[1106:3177]
00:11.1 IDE interface [0101]: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE [1106:0571] (rev
06)
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller [1106:3059] (rev 50)
00:11.6 Communication controller [0780]: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC'97
Modem Controller [1106:3068] (rev 80)
00:18.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
[Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration [1022:1100]
00:18.1 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
[Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map [1022:1101]
00:18.2 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
[Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller [1022:1102]
00:18.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
[Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control [1022:1103]
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation NV36
[GeForce FX Go5700] [10de:0347] (rev a1)

$ lspci -vnn //attached as file lspci-vnn

Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot:   [o]
Detect network card:[o]
Configure network:  [o]
Detect CD:  [o]
Load installer modules: [o]
Detect hard drives: [o]
Partition hard drives:  [o]
Install base system:[o]
Clock/timezone setup:   [o]
User/password setup:[o]
Install tasks:  [o]
Install boot loader:[ ]
Overall install:[E]

Comments/Problems:

I aborted the grub install as this is one of several systems on this box
and I maintain grub from my production system; I chose to proceed
without a bootloader.  The install was very slick up to the reboot - the
system seemed to find the kernel to boot but didn't re

Bug#396482: installation-reports: S61mouse-support-x86 should use modprobe in the same way than other scripts (-q + || true)

2006-10-31 Thread Eric Valette
Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal

Using this version of the script make this system boot with a kernel where all 
modules are built-in

if [ "$DEBIAN_FRONTEND" = gtk ] ; then
modprobe -q evdev || true
modprobe psmouse || true
fi

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing-proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.19-rc3-git5
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Re: Installing Debian amd64 on an asus P5W DH Deluxe + E6600 : kernel on installer broken + bugs in d-i when changing kernel + modules

2006-10-31 Thread Eric Valette
Eric Valette wrote:
> Please CC me when anwsering: I'm not suscribed.
>
> 1) Did anybody else tried to replace a kernel with all drivers build in?
> Why did the "modprobe -q evdev ||true" fail? Has it anything to do with
> SMP support as the shell will probably spawn the two child on different
> proc but should receive exit status as on UP? Sound like a bug in d-i
> isn't it?

Found the culprit : S61mouse-support-x86 is incorrectly written  : it
does not use -q option for modeprobe not the || true.

Will fill a bug because it almost prevent to easilly upgrade to a
newer/better configured kernel.


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Bug#396480: installation-reports: D-I does not work on ASUS P5W DH de luxe + E6600

2006-10-31 Thread Eric Valette
Package: installation-reports
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

boot starts, but enter an endless loop resetting the SATA controller when it 
tries to find the disks. Also, dmesg shows spurious irq not handled on this 
hardware. Apparently fixed via the libata upgrade available in 2.6.18.x

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing-proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.19-rc3-git5
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Bug#396463: Installation Report

2006-10-31 Thread Flavio Henrique Araque Gurgel



Comment: I use the mouse left handed. Is it possible to change the
mouse buttons order someway before installation begins?



It seems that directfb supports setting this in /etc/directfbrc.
From the manpage:
[no-]lefty 
 Swaps left and right mouse buttons. Useful for left-handers.


I guess we could add a boot parameter for this.

Could you confirm if this actually works by following the following this 
procedure:

- boot the installer with 'installgui BOOT_DEBUG=3'
- at the first debug shell:
  - 'nano /etc/directfbrc'
  - add a new line containing "lefty" (without the quotes)
- type exit twice to exit debug shells
  

Works perfectly. I sugest this could be a boot parameter.

I'm not exactly a left-handed person but my right-hand tendons argue for 
this after 15 years clicking a mouse.

Left-handed users all around the world too ;)

Best regards
Flavio


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Re: Bug#396458: powerpc d-i miboot floppy doesn't boot

2006-10-31 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 12:31:40AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 November 2006 00:05, Sven Luther wrote:
> > I even commented to this effect in a direct followup to the mail benh
> > wrote with the patch :
> >
> >   http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2006/09/msg00338.html
> 
> If that bug is fixed, then why do the images still not boot?

Oh, and BTW, why you don't ask holger to investigate this, he has the
hardware and the knowledge, and claims that i have done nothing but hurt
the powerpc port, he sure can actually back up this kind of claims with
some actual work, don't you think ? 

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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Bug#396332: installation-report: Desktop environment option in tasksel should let user know it is gnome.

2006-10-31 Thread Lex Hider
I don't understand what is lost by making this change.
If this is a known issue, which bug is it a duplicate of?
The fact that this is a FAQ for tasksel should tell us something.

I can appreciate the view that "average users" don't care about the name of 
the desktop, but nothing is lost by attaching gnome in parenthesis as 
suggested. It would still clear that they are going to install a desktop 
environment.

"Average users" don't lose anything, and any user who is at all further 
advanced than "average" would be benefited.

This is my only complaint on this great project.

Cheers,

Lex.


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Re: Bug#396458: powerpc d-i miboot floppy doesn't boot

2006-10-31 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 12:31:40AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 November 2006 00:05, Sven Luther wrote:
> > I even commented to this effect in a direct followup to the mail benh
> > wrote with the patch :
> >
> >   http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2006/09/msg00338.html
> 
> If that bug is fixed, then why do the images still not boot?

Simple enough, because the fix above has nothing whatsoever to do with the
reason why the images are not booting.

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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localechooser 1.29 MIGRATED to testing

2006-10-31 Thread Debian testing watch
FYI: The status of the localechooser source package
in Debian's testing distribution has changed.

  Previous version: 1.28
  Current version:  1.29

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Re: Bug#396458: powerpc d-i miboot floppy doesn't boot

2006-10-31 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 01 November 2006 00:05, Sven Luther wrote:
> I even commented to this effect in a direct followup to the mail benh
> wrote with the patch :
>
>   http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2006/09/msg00338.html

If that bug is fixed, then why do the images still not boot?


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Bug#396458: powerpc d-i miboot floppy doesn't boot
Bug reassigned from package `linux-2.6' to `debian-installer'.

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Re: Bug#396458: powerpc d-i miboot floppy doesn't boot

2006-10-31 Thread Sven Luther
reassign 396458 debian-installer
thanks
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 11:16:24PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> severity 396458 important
> tags 396458 patch
> thanks
> 
> On Tuesday 31 October 2006 22:08, rob rob wrote:
> > While investigating that problem Benjamin Herrenschmidt sent this
> > interesting mail with a patch, which may solve the problem:
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2006/09/msg00337.html
> 
> That patch looks like it is a patch to the powerpc kernel images, not to 
> debian installer, therefore reassigning.

Frans, with all your lecturing to check a bit before commenting, i would have
hoped you would do so yourself.

The part of the kernel patched by this patch is totally unused in debian, it
is moved into mkvmlinuz, but even then, it is not used in debian-installer,
since the miboot images build code is not using mkvmlinuz since a year or so.

I even commented to this effect in a direct followup to the mail benh wrote
with the patch :

  http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2006/09/msg00338.html

So you really have no excuse for doing such sloppy work, and i expect you to
be more humble when you comment about similar error i may make in the future.

Friendly,

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Bug#396463: Installation Report

2006-10-31 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 396463 rootskel-gtk
severity 396463 wishlist
thanks

On Tuesday 31 October 2006 21:24, Flavio Henrique Araque Gurgel wrote:
> Comments/Problems:
>
> I triyed to install twice, using expert and expertgui.
> In the expertgui mode the mouse cursor changed to the text input icon
> and didn't went back to the pointer icon. This behavior did not made my
> installation to fail at all.

That is a known minor issue.

> Comment: I use the mouse left handed. Is it possible to change the
> mouse buttons order someway before installation begins?

It seems that directfb supports setting this in /etc/directfbrc.
From the manpage:
[no-]lefty 
 Swaps left and right mouse buttons. Useful for left-handers.

I guess we could add a boot parameter for this.

Could you confirm if this actually works by following the following this 
procedure:
- boot the installer with 'installgui BOOT_DEBUG=3'
- at the first debug shell:
  - 'nano /etc/directfbrc'
  - add a new line containing "lefty" (without the quotes)
- type exit twice to exit debug shells

Cheers,
FJP


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Bug#396469: Installation report: failed install on Toshiba Satellite

2006-10-31 Thread Bill McNeill
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: CDImage version: www.debian.org in October 2006
Date: 2:00 p.m. October 31, 2006
Machine: Toshiba SatelliteProcessor: Intel Celeron 2.80 GHz
Memory: ???Partitions: Can't run df.  I took the defaults the install program gave me: one for files plus
a swap partitionCan't run lspci
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot worked:[ ]Configure network HW:   [ ]
Config network: [ ]Detect CD:  [ ]
Load installer modules: [ ]Detect hard drives: [ ]
Partition hard drives:  [ ]Create file systems:[ ]
Mount partitions:   [ ]Install base system:[ ]
Install boot loader:[ ]Reboot: [E]
Comments/Problems:I did an install from CD taking all the defaults.  When rebooting I get a Segmentation Fault followed by the error message
<6> Journalled Block device driver loaded
pivot_root: No such file or directory/sbin/init: 432: cannot open dev/console: No such file
Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!I'm stuck.  Can't get Debian to work on this machine.  I did some Googling and determined that others have hit this error, but there appears to be no clear workaround.
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Bug#396458: powerpc d-i miboot floppy doesn't boot
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Bug#396458: powerpc d-i miboot floppy doesn't boot
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Bug#396458: powerpc d-i miboot floppy doesn't boot

2006-10-31 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 396458 linux-2.6
severity 396458 important
tags 396458 patch
thanks

On Tuesday 31 October 2006 22:08, rob rob wrote:
> While investigating that problem Benjamin Herrenschmidt sent this
> interesting mail with a patch, which may solve the problem:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2006/09/msg00337.html

That patch looks like it is a patch to the powerpc kernel images, not to 
debian installer, therefore reassigning.

Cheers,
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Bug#396463: Installation Report

2006-10-31 Thread Flavio Henrique Araque Gurgel

Package: installation-reports

Boot method: CD
Image version: 
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso

Date: Oct 30th, 2006 01:00am

Machine: Custom made by components
Partitions: df -Tl output bellow
Sist. Arq.Tipo1K-blocos  Usad Dispon.   Uso% Montado em
/dev/sda1 ext319125300   2272844  15880928  13% /
udev tmpfs   1024056 10184   1% /dev
devshm   tmpfs  258352 0258352   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda3 ext394814160  19124060  70873816  22% /home


Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot:   [O]
Detect network card:[O]
Configure network:  [O]
Detect CD:  [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives:  [O]
Install base system:[O]
Clock/timezone setup:   [O]
User/password setup:[O]
Install tasks:  [O]
Install boot loader:[O]
Overall install:[O]

Comments/Problems:

I triyed to install twice, using expert and expertgui.
In the expertgui mode the mouse cursor changed to the text input icon 
and didn't went back to the pointer icon. This behavior did not made my 
installation to fail at all.
Comment: I use the mouse left handed. Is it possible to change the mouse 
buttons order someway before installation begins?



umame -a: Linux dorabrasil 2.6.17-2-486 #1 Wed Sep 13 15:56:30 UTC 2006 i686 
unknown
lspci -nn: 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T800Pro Host 
Bridge [1106:0282]
lspci -nn: 00:00.1 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T800Pro Host 
Bridge [1106:1282]
lspci -nn: 00:00.2 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T800Pro Host 
Bridge [1106:2282]
lspci -nn: 00:00.3 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T800Pro Host 
Bridge [1106:3282]
lspci -nn: 00:00.4 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T800Pro Host 
Bridge [1106:4282]
lspci -nn: 00:00.7 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T800Pro Host 
Bridge [1106:7282]
lspci -nn: 00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI bridge 
[K8T800/K8T890 South] [1106:b188]
lspci -nn: 00:07.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 
1394 Host Controller [1106:3044] (rev 80)
lspci -nn: 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 
88E8001 Gigabit Ethernet Controller [11ab:4320] (rev 13)
lspci -nn: 00:0f.0 RAID bus controller [0104]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA 
VT6420 SATA RAID Controller [1106:3149] (rev 80)
lspci -nn: 00:0f.1 IDE interface [0101]: VIA Technologies, Inc. 
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE [1106:0571] (rev 06)
lspci -nn: 00:10.0 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82x UHCI 
USB 1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev 81)
lspci -nn: 00:10.1 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82x UHCI 
USB 1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev 81)
lspci -nn: 00:10.2 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82x UHCI 
USB 1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev 81)
lspci -nn: 00:10.3 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82x UHCI 
USB 1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev 81)
lspci -nn: 00:10.4 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 
[1106:3104] (rev 86)
lspci -nn: 00:11.0 ISA bridge [0601]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge 
[KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South] [1106:3227]
lspci -nn: 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: VIA Technologies, Inc. 
VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller [1106:3059] (rev 60)
lspci -nn: 00:11.6 Communication controller [0780]: VIA Technologies, Inc. 
AC'97 Modem Controller [1106:3068] (rev 80)
lspci -nn: 00:18.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 
[Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration [1022:1100]
lspci -nn: 00:18.1 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 
[Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map [1022:1101]
lspci -nn: 00:18.2 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 
[Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller [1022:1102]
lspci -nn: 00:18.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 
[Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control [1022:1103]
lspci -nn: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation NV18 
[GeForce4 MX 4000 AGP 8x] [10de:0185] (rev c1)
lspci -vnn: 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T800Pro Host 
Bridge [1106:0282]
lspci -vnn: Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device [1043:80a3]
lspci -vnn: Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
lspci -vnn: Memory at e800 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
lspci -vnn: Capabilities: [80] AGP version 3.0
lspci -vnn: Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
lspci -vnn: Capabilities: [60] HyperTransport: Slave or Primary Interface
lspci -vnn: Capabilities: [58] HyperTransport: Interrupt Discovery and 
Configuration
lspci -vnn: 
lspci -vnn: 00:00.1 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T800Pr

Bug#396307: installation-report: does not recover properly from broken d-i mirror

2006-10-31 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 396307 choose-mirror


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Bug#396071: segfaults when attempting to take a screenshot while wget is running

2006-10-31 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 31 October 2006 12:08, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote:
> The attached patch fixes this bug: the screenshot button is disabled
> after the user exits from a questions, and a bit earlier than before to
> prevent possible nasty timing issues.

Please commit this patch in SVN.
I don't think the issue is important enough to delay RC1 for though.

Note: please commit only this patch, not the one for #395052. I'd like to 
see how that looks first, but that won't be until after RC1 and possibly 
until after I'm back from Bhutan.

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Bug#396071: segfaults when attempting to take a screenshot while wget is running

2006-10-31 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti

Frans Pop wrote:

On Tuesday 31 October 2006 12:08, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote:


The attached patch fixes this bug: the screenshot button is disabled
after the user exits from a questions, and a bit earlier than before to
prevent possible nasty timing issues.



Please commit this patch in SVN.
I don't think the issue is important enough to delay RC1 for though.

Note: please commit only this patch, not the one for #395052. I'd like to 
see how that looks first, but that won't be until after RC1 and possibly 
until after I'm back from Bhutan.


Thanks for fixing this.


Coommit for the only 396071 bug done.

cheers

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Bug#396458: powerpc d-i miboot floppy doesn't boot

2006-10-31 Thread rob rob

Package:kernel-image-2.6.17-2-powerpc-miboot-di
Version:1.22

Hi,
tried booting the powerpc debian installer floppy disk for etch/sid but it 
just got spat out. I used:

dd if=boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024; sync
to put the image on disk and booted with the option key pressed, but didn't 
get any debug.
The boot.img from etch installer beta3 with 
kernel-image-2.6.16-2-powerpc-miboot-di worked, however the net-drivers.img 
was too big and I had to break up the install at that point
While investigating that problem Benjamin Herrenschmidt sent this 
interesting mail with a patch, which may solve the problem:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2006/09/msg00337.html

I have a powerpc power macintosh 6500/225.

Thanks in advance. Yours, Rob Homsi

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Re: http://wiki.debian.org/SvenLutherAndDI

2006-10-31 Thread Geert Stappers
Op 31-10-2006 om 15:13 schreef John Goerzen:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 09:20:24PM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 31, 2006, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > Well, on various suggestions, i have written the following text : 
> > >   http://wiki.debian.org/SvenLutherAndDI
> > 
> >  Would have been nice to clarify that this is your personal opinion on
> >  the subject, or (instead) that anyone is free to change the page, but
> >  at least one of the two.
> > 
> >  I suggest you open a page "SvensPOV", copy paste everything, and use
> >  SvenLutherAndDI to hold links to the opinions of various persons (and
> >  only that).
> 
> There has to be some time where we all let bygones be bygones.
> 
> Surely we have passed this point a month or two ago.  We are wasting
> everyone's time.

Yep, it does suck time.

Bearing my story of this stupid fight does also take energy,
so felt the need to start http://wiki.debian.org/SvenLutherAndDiBg

> Sven, please just live and let live.

A good advice, that I just have damaged, sorry.



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Bug#396327: FSC Lifebook S7020

2006-10-31 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote:
> That is currently not part nor a goal of the installation. You are 
> expected to set this up yourself afterwards.

It's a tasksel goal, but the code to handle detecting the modules is not
yet available in Debian.

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Re: http://wiki.debian.org/SvenLutherAndDI (Was: Open Letter to Anthony Towns about the d-i mediation ...)

2006-10-31 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 03:13:06PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 09:20:24PM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 31, 2006, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > Well, on various suggestions, i have written the following text : 
> > >   http://wiki.debian.org/SvenLutherAndDI
> > 
> >  Would have been nice to clarify that this is your personal opinion on
> >  the subject, or (instead) that anyone is free to change the page, but
> >  at least one of the two.
> > 
> >  I suggest you open a page "SvensPOV", copy paste everything, and use
> >  SvenLutherAndDI to hold links to the opinions of various persons (and
> >  only that).
> 
> There has to be some time where we all let bygones be bygones.
> 
> Surely we have passed this point a month or two ago.  We are wasting
> everyone's time.
> 
> Sven, please just live and let live.

John, what do you think this is all about ? I would be very very happy to
follow this advice, this is indeed my most express wish, but the sad truth is
that Frans is the one who is unable to 'live and let live'.

> I don't want to see a single piece of mail about the d-i team unless it
> relates to the Debian installer itself.

Yeah, and since many folk have the same kind of opinion as you, we are having
this conversation months after the issue could have been solved.

Friendly,

Sven Luther


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Re: http://wiki.debian.org/SvenLutherAndDI (Was: Open Letter to Anthony Towns about the d-i mediation ...)

2006-10-31 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 09:20:24PM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2006, Sven Luther wrote:
> > Well, on various suggestions, i have written the following text : 
> >   http://wiki.debian.org/SvenLutherAndDI
> 
>  Would have been nice to clarify that this is your personal opinion on
>  the subject, or (instead) that anyone is free to change the page, but
>  at least one of the two.

Thanks, i will change that.

>  I suggest you open a page "SvensPOV", copy paste everything, and use
>  SvenLutherAndDI to hold links to the opinions of various persons (and
>  only that).

Euh, i am not sure i want a wiki page with my name in it written by anyone
random. If they want to write a wiki page, they sure can write it under
another name.

Friendly,

Sven Luther


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Bug#396412: installation-reports: Installation report on AS/400 / iSeries / System i / i5

2006-10-31 Thread Sebastian Schmidt
Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal

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  Boot method: Virtual CD-ROM (LODIMGCLG IMGCLG(MYCLG) DEV(OPTVRT01)
   OPTION(*LOAD))
Image version: etch with d-i beta3 (as of August 2006) -
   http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/etch_di_beta3/powerpc/iso-dvd
 Date: 27 Oct 2006

  Machine: IBM iSeries / i5 / AS/400 / System i (whatever IBM calls it
   now) Model 570
Processor: POWER5+, 2.2GHz, dual-core
   Memory: 1275696 kB
Partitions: sda1 PPC PReP Partition, sda2 /, sda5 swap

Output of lspci -nn and lspci -vnn: Machine has no PCI

Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot:   [E]
Detect network card:[O]
Configure network:  [ ]
Detect CD:  [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives:  [E]
Install base system:[O]
Clock/timezone setup:   [O]
User/password setup:[O]
Install tasks:  [O]
Install boot loader:[E]
Overall install:[O]

Comments/Problems:
I tried to install Debian as a "guest" within an i5/OS (or OS/400)
partition via the CRTNWSD (Create Network Server Description) command.
Unfortunately, i5/OS refused to recognize neither the yaird image nor the
kernel itself as a valid IPL source.
However, turning the partition on via the HMC and booting into SMS
worked. Note that the the NWS has still to be varied on via WRKCFGSTS
*NWS. Else, virtual I/O devices (and most notably NWSSTG) are missing.

After booting into SMS, I was able to choose the virtual CD-ROM drive as
IPL source. Booting and installing was straightforward (in case, one
chose the "expert64" or "install64" yaboot entry - i5 refuses to boot
from 32 bit kernels and crashes into ofdbg displaying a nice register
dump). Graphics were a bit garbled[1] on the console (via telnet
 2301), but d-i was usable.

D-i allowed me to make my root partition managed by LVM, what I chose on
my first try. However, yaboot was unable to read its config from this
partition, so I reinstalled (it was friday afternoon anyway) it without
LVM on my /.

yaboot was installed to a PReP partition (nothing notably until then)
and the system rebooted. Unfortunately, I didn't start installation in
expert mode, so I didn't notice that d-i only installed a 32 bit kernel.
As expected, yaboot booted right into the open firmware debugger.

After re-restarting the installation in expert mode, I hoped to find a
64 bit kernel in the installer's kernel selection list. However, only 32
bit kernels where listed, so I had to install a 64 bit version via a
chroot environment in the command line.

After rebooting, yaboot loaded the Elf64 kernel and all services
started. However, a getty did not start on /dev/console (what made me a
bit nervous first). I don't know if this is considered a bug or not...

Anyway - nice job! I didn't expect the installation to go on that
smoothly ;-)


Footnotes
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Re: http://wiki.debian.org/SvenLutherAndDI (Was: Open Letter to Anthony Towns about the d-i mediation ...)

2006-10-31 Thread John Goerzen
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 09:20:24PM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2006, Sven Luther wrote:
> > Well, on various suggestions, i have written the following text : 
> >   http://wiki.debian.org/SvenLutherAndDI
> 
>  Would have been nice to clarify that this is your personal opinion on
>  the subject, or (instead) that anyone is free to change the page, but
>  at least one of the two.
> 
>  I suggest you open a page "SvensPOV", copy paste everything, and use
>  SvenLutherAndDI to hold links to the opinions of various persons (and
>  only that).

There has to be some time where we all let bygones be bygones.

Surely we have passed this point a month or two ago.  We are wasting
everyone's time.

Sven, please just live and let live.

I don't want to see a single piece of mail about the d-i team unless it
relates to the Debian installer itself.

-- John



Bug#395052: Please provide the GTK frontend with a better handler for BOOLEAN questions

2006-10-31 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
One more thing: please evaluate if it's better having the active by 
default radio button focused, so that the user has to move up/down with 
the arrows and then press enter, or if it's better having the focus on 
the inactive button.
I assigned focus to the inactive radio button, so that i can simply 
press spacebar with the thumb and hit enter with the middle finger 
without using the arrow keys, but i'm not sure this is not confusing.


Attilio


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Re: http://wiki.debian.org/SvenLutherAndDI (Was: Open Letter to Anthony Towns about the d-i mediation ...)

2006-10-31 Thread Loïc Minier
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006, Sven Luther wrote:
> Well, on various suggestions, i have written the following text : 
>   http://wiki.debian.org/SvenLutherAndDI

 Would have been nice to clarify that this is your personal opinion on
 the subject, or (instead) that anyone is free to change the page, but
 at least one of the two.

 I suggest you open a page "SvensPOV", copy paste everything, and use
 SvenLutherAndDI to hold links to the opinions of various persons (and
 only that).

 I don't intend to write a page there myself, but it would make things
 clearer to the reader that what they are reading is written by SvenL,
 and not the position of the project for example.  It would also leave
 room for AJsPOV and FJPsPOV if they wish commenting as involved
 parties (I'm not saying they should do it, but that it would make it
 easier).

  EOD for me,
-- 
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Re: Problem with SVN repository

2006-10-31 Thread Geert Stappers
Op 31-10-2006 om 17:54 schreef Christian Perrier:
> > I created a guest account on https://alioth.debian.org and when I try to do:
> > $ svn co svn+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/d-i/trunk
> > A password I use to log into the alioth service is not the correct password 
> > for ssh - as I should guess ;)
> > Do I need a developer account to get this work?
> 
> 
> Alioth admins may have de-activated password-based logins on alioth
> since the server relocation.
> 
> In such case, you need to put a SSH pubkey at the right place in your
> account on Alioth (from the pae where you manage your account settings).
 account on Alioth (from the page where you manage your account settings).
> 

Feel free to ask further information (when needed)


Cheers
Geert Stappers
remembering his d-i checkout


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Bug#396294: marked as done (Package: installation-reports)

2006-10-31 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
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Package: installation-reports

Boot method: CD
Image version: 
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/etch_di_beta3/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso
Date: October 30, 2006

Machine: Dell Inspiron e1505
Processor: Core Duo
Memory: 768MB RAM
Partitions: 
FilesystemType   1K-blocks  Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6 reiserfs17413864   5582596  11831268  33% /
udev tmpfs  382972   144382828   1% /dev
/dev/sda5 reiserfs25164988   7170348  17994640  29% /home
/dev/sda2 ntfs31158064  30876008282056 100% /windows/C

Output of lspci -nn and lspci -vnn:
Everybody-knows:~ # lspci -nn
00:00.0 Class 0600: 8086:27a0 (rev 03)
00:02.0 Class 0300: 8086:27a2 (rev 03)
00:02.1 Class 0380: 8086:27a6 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Class 0403: 8086:27d8 (rev 01)
00:1c.0 Class 0604: 8086:27d0 (rev 01)
00:1c.3 Class 0604: 8086:27d6 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 Class 0c03: 8086:27c8 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 Class 0c03: 8086:27c9 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 Class 0c03: 8086:27ca (rev 01)
00:1d.3 Class 0c03: 8086:27cb (rev 01)
00:1d.7 Class 0c03: 8086:27cc (rev 01)
00:1e.0 Class 0604: 8086:2448 (rev e1)
00:1f.0 Class 0601: 8086:27b9 (rev 01)
00:1f.2 Class 0101: 8086:27c4 (rev 01)
00:1f.3 Class 0c05: 8086:27da (rev 01)
03:00.0 Class 0200: 14e4:170c (rev 02)
03:01.0 Class 0c00: 1180:0832
03:01.1 Class 0805: 1180:0822 (rev 19)
03:01.2 Class 0880: 1180:0843 (rev 01)
03:01.3 Class 0880: 1180:0592 (rev 0a)
03:01.4 Class 0880: 1180:0852 (rev 05)
0b:00.0 Class 0280: 8086:4222 (rev 02)
Everybody-knows:~ # lspci -vnn
00:00.0 Class 0600: 8086:27a0 (rev 03)
Subsystem: 1028:01bd
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: [e0] Vendor Specific Information

00:02.0 Class 0300: 8086:27a2 (rev 03)
Subsystem: 1028:01bd
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 169
Memory at dff0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
I/O ports at eff8 [size=8]
Memory at c000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at dfec (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
Capabilities: [90] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0 
Enable-
Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2

00:02.1 Class 0380: 8086:27a6 (rev 03)
Subsystem: 1028:01bd
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Memory at dff8 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2

00:1b.0 Class 0403: 8086:27d8 (rev 01)
Subsystem: 1028:01bd
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 225
Memory at dfebc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [60] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0 
Enable-
Capabilities: [70] Express Unknown type IRQ 0
Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [130] Unknown (5)

00:1c.0 Class 0604: 8086:27d0 (rev 01)
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=0b, subordinate=0b, sec-latency=0
Memory behind bridge: dfd0-dfdf
Capabilities: [40] Express Root Port (Slot+) IRQ 0
Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0 
Enable+
Capabilities: [90] #0d []
Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [180] Unknown (5)

00:1c.3 Class 0604: 8086:27d6 (rev 01)
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=0c, subordinate=0d, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: d000-dfff
Memory behind bridge: dfa0-dfcf
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: d000-d010
Capabilities: [40] Express Root Port (Slot+) IRQ 0
Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0 
Enable+
Capabilities: [90] #0d []
Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [180] Unknown (5)

00:1d.0 Class 0c03: 8086:27c8 (rev 01)
Subsystem: 1028:01bd
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 217
I/O ports at bf80 [size=32]

00:1d.1 Class 0c03: 8086:27c9 (rev 01)
Subsystem: 1028:01bd
Flags: bus m

Bug#396327: FSC Lifebook S7020

2006-10-31 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 31 October 2006 09:40, Bjoern Boschman wrote:
> Comments/Problems:
>
> speedstep modules not loaded. suspend and hibernate non-functional

That is currently not part nor a goal of the installation. You are 
expected to set this up yourself afterwards.

As the installation was otherwise successful, I'm closing your report. 
Thank you very much for submitting it.

Cheers,
FJP


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Re: Bug#396365: please add a gdb .udeb, for easier debugging inside d-i

2006-10-31 Thread Frans Pop
Hello Daniel,

I am glad you took this to the debian-boot mailing list as Sven Luther, 
who currently is not even a member of the Debian Installer team, filed 
this request without discussing it on the debian-boot list first.
As such, this is an "unauthorized" request.

On Tuesday 31 October 2006 20:44, Joey Hess wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > If they did that, you could just wget a full GDB binary.  It doesn't
> > need anything else in the package besides the executable.  But I
> > don't think d-i does what you describe (since I tried to use this
> > approach for strace recently, and there were missing symbols in
> > libc.so.6).
>
> I don't see any benefit to having a udeb, beyond being able to load the
> udeb in anna.

Please take this conclusion from Joey Hess as the final statement on this 
request. It would have limited benefits, but not enough to warrant the 
creation and the maintenance of the udeb.

Feel free to either close this BR or mark it wontfix.

Cheers,
Frans Pop
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Re: miboot net-install floppies too big

2006-10-31 Thread rob rob

Hi,
well the good news is that somebody shrank the net-drivers.img, and it 
builds properly too, see:


people.debian.org/~wouter/d-i/powerpc-miboot/2006-10-30/build_powerpc_floppy_net-drivers.log

Don't know who did it or how, but thank you. Unfortunately the modules in 
the floppy are for linux-image-2.6.17-2-powerpc-miboot-di, which, here it 
comes, won't boot. Nothing, just gets spat out. Not even a debug message.
Oh well, at least this problem is straight forward. I guess I'll fill out a 
bug report.

Rob

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Re: r42375 - trunk/packages/po

2006-10-31 Thread Damyan Ivanov
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Christian Perrier написа:
> Quoting Damyan Ivanov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>> [I'm not subscribed to -boot]
> 
> You maybe should. At least you should be subscribed to -i18n to get
> important announcements.

I am subscribed to -i18n, yes. I can't wait to see Bulgarian translation
progressing up :)
- -boot seems too high traffic for me. I posted here regardless, since
here as I see it the proper place to ask questions about the daily builds.

>>> You should work outside your SVN checkout tree. Put your bg.po file in
>>> a work directory. Update/complete it.
>>>
>>> Then go back to you SVN checkout, run a "svn up" there.and *then*
>>> put your new bg.po file and *then* run a "svn commit".
>> This is perhaps OK in a string freeze period, but normally, I'd like
>> to receive the updates, not overwrite them. Taking special care of
> 
> Don't worry, updates will be resynced later when the next automated
> sync will happen, so even if you overwrite new or modified strings in
> your update, they'll be updated later.

Right, but I'd miss the fact that something changed. And next "svn up"
will result in (possible) conflicts anyway.

Either way, I promise to be extra careful when committing.


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Bug#396307: installation-report: does not recover properly from broken d-i mirror

2006-10-31 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 396307choose-mirror
severity 396307 minor
thanks

On Tuesday 31 October 2006 04:57, Ratiu Petru wrote:
> I used a preseed setup based on Joey Hess's scripts and pointed both
> d-i mirror/http/hostname and base-config apt-setup/hostname to my local
> apt-proxy URL. However, Packages.gz had the wrong checksum (probably a
> stale file) and I was presented with a menu with 3 options: Retry,
> Choose another mirror (or something along this line), and Cancel.
> However, when I chose the second option, it kept trying the apt-proxy
> mirror and failing, without prompting me for a different url. I tend to
> believe that this is not the expected behaviour, preseeding or not.

This is expected behavior with preseeding as the question is marked as 
seen. You are supposed to make sure your environment is "clean" and 
working when using preseeding.
When an error occurs during a preseeded install, the only method 
to "recover" that is guaranteed to work is: abort the install, fix the 
error and retry.

However, in this case I guess we could "reset" the questions in case of an 
error so that they will be asked and current values can be changed.
This is a low priority issue though.

Thanks for the report.


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Processed (with 1 errors): Re: Bug#396307: installation-report: does not recover properly from broken d-i mirror

2006-10-31 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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> reassign 396307choose-mirror
Unknown command or malformed arguments to command.

> severity 396307 minor
Bug#396307: installation-report: does not recover properly from broken d-i 
mirror
Severity set to `minor' from `normal'

> thanks
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Bug#396294: Package: installation-reports

2006-10-31 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 31 October 2006 06:34, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > > Should I try the nightlies?
> >
> > Yes, please to.
>
> Shouldn't we close that bug report?

I expect the submitter will follow up after trying a daily image. Let's 
wait for that.


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Re: Bug#396365: please add a gdb .udeb, for easier debugging inside d-i

2006-10-31 Thread Joey Hess
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> If they did that, you could just wget a full GDB binary.  It doesn't
> need anything else in the package besides the executable.  But I don't
> think d-i does what you describe (since I tried to use this approach
> for strace recently, and there were missing symbols in libc.so.6).

d-i reduces libc for the boot image, but then loads a full one from
install media/network. So if you want to debug something before the full
libc is available, you're SOL.

However, d-i also already offers a way to include a strace, gdb, or
whatever you want onto the boot image, without a udeb, and including any
dependant symbols and other libraries:

# This variable can be used to copy in additional files from the system
# that is doing the build. Useful if you need to include strace, or gdb,
# etc.
#EXTRAFILES = /usr/bin/strace

> If someone more familiar with d-i than I am can confirm that the udeb
> will be useful, I can try to get GDB to build one, but it seems like
> a very strange package to have a udeb.

I don't see any benefit to having a udeb, beyond being able to load the udeb
in anna.

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Re: r42375 - trunk/packages/po

2006-10-31 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Damyan Ivanov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> [I'm not subscribed to -boot]

You maybe should. At least you should be subscribed to -i18n to get
important announcements.

> > You should work outside your SVN checkout tree. Put your bg.po file in
> > a work directory. Update/complete it.
> > 
> > Then go back to you SVN checkout, run a "svn up" there.and *then*
> > put your new bg.po file and *then* run a "svn commit".
> 
> This is perhaps OK in a string freeze period, but normally, I'd like
> to receive the updates, not overwrite them. Taking special care of

Don't worry, updates will be resynced later when the next automated
sync will happen, so even if you overwrite new or modified strings in
your update, they'll be updated later.

> 
> Or, should I simply overwrite XX.po as you suggest and later merge any
> new strings from template.pot? I thought the point of the
> synchronizing scripts was exactly to spare the manual merge.

That's their point, yes. However, the sync only happens twice a day.

> > this error by running:
> > 
> > msgfmt -o /dev/null -c --statistics bg.po
> > 
> > before committing it. Please always check your PO files this way
> > before committing them.
> 
> Point taken. Sorry for losing your time.


No problem. I take this as investiment for the future..:)




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Re: Problem with SVN repository

2006-10-31 Thread Christian Perrier
> I created a guest account on https://alioth.debian.org and when I try to do:
> $ svn co svn+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/d-i/trunk
> A password I use to log into the alioth service is not the correct password 
> for ssh - as I should guess ;)
> Do I need a developer account to get this work?


Alioth admins may have de-activated password-based logins on alioth
since the server relocation.

In such case, you need to put a SSH pubkey at the right place in your
account on Alioth (from the pae where you manage your account settings).




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http://wiki.debian.org/SvenLutherAndDI (Was: Open Letter to Anthony Towns about the d-i mediation ...)

2006-10-31 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 11:22:30AM +, MJ Ray wrote:
> Please do not take these requests as an insult to anyone - I simply 
> haven't been paying this topic much attention for months (and suspect 
> many other readers haven't been doing so either), so I'd like to see 
> some recent examples.

Well, on various suggestions, i have written the following text : 

  http://wiki.debian.org/SvenLutherAndDI

Which i will try to improve and complete, accordying to remarks and questions
people may ask me about this.

For those awaiting evil gossip, you will be strongly disapointed though, since
i have decided to not go and add links of those bashings and other not-nice
things frans has said about me, but instead, i have written what i believe is
a reasonable explanation of why my commit should be re-activated, including
information on all the bugs and patches i commited accordying to the rules
sets up by the DPL during the mediation, which as you will see ammount to
quite a lot, and the sad fact that there was no-one able to take an active
d-i powerpc porter lead role, even after all these months.

As a conclusion, i believe that the above page clearly shows why my d-i svn
commit access should be restored, and that this sad dispute should be
forgotten, as i hope we are all mature enough to be able to set aside past
differences, and work together for the bettering of debian (and no, the
current climate of flamewars and GRs-for-every-flightly-excuse does not
contribute to that).

So, again, i ask that this issue is but to a stop, that my svn commit access
to the d-i repository is restored, that frans stops his provocations against
me, and that we go back to coding hapily ever after.

Friendly,

Sven Luther


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Re: D-I - Official warning not to upload any packages containing udebs

2006-10-31 Thread Geert Stappers
Op 30-10-2006 om 13:53 schreef Sven Luther:
> On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 11:28:34AM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote:
> > [ reasonable E-mail about how Sven Luther postings are recieved ]
> > This really helps to be able to concentrate and work. But as I am again now 
> > wasting my time again on your stupid "mission" (though only 5mins for this 
> > mail) I am seriously thinking about marking all mails as read which refer 
> > to 
> > any msgid of yours.
> 
> And what will you gain by this ? People like you are so feedup with my mails,
> like it was the ultimate crime or something. And on the other side, people
> like Alphix say this does not concern them, so they ignore it.
> 
> But why are you letting Frans handle me like dirt ? Why did you, you the d-i
> team, let this messy situation drag on for months ? You cannot honestly
> complain about these recurring threads, while on the same time supporting
> frans in his current behaviour ? 
> 
> At least you could have said something too to him, or something.
> 
> > Sven, you hurt the powerpc port more than anybody else.
> 
> Holger, i extremely recent that. I like you and have respect for you, but
> really, i would very much like you to think about what has been going on for
> months now, and then come back here and say the same. 
> 
> Friendly, but hurt,
> 
> Sven Luther
> 
> At least you could have said something too to him, or something.
| At least you could have said something to Frans, or something.


Frans,

I would understand your P.O.V. if you ignored Sven Luther completely.


GSt


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Re: It takes two to fight^Wtango

2006-10-31 Thread An Individual
Op 29-10-2006 om 22:58 schreef Sven Luther:
> On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 10:46:43PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote:
> > Allow me to express my observation:
> > 
> >I see an energy drain.
> >The sad thing is that the energy going to the fight,
> >doesn't go the thing this mailinglist is about:
> > 
> >   debian-installer
> 
> Geert, even though i know that you right now strongly dislike me, i do
> appreciate you a lot.
> 
> I wonder why you didn't make this kind of observation when Frans goes in
> another round of sven-bashing though ? 

FYI: My interest is a good installer.

Further information: d-i is made by individuals.


An individual having a hard time ignoring another idividual ...


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Re: Bug#396365: please add a gdb .udeb, for easier debugging inside d-i

2006-10-31 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 05:09:46PM +0200, Eddy Petrișor wrote:
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> 
> Sven Luther wrote:
> > My impression is that d-i loads the full libraries later on, or something
> > such.
> 
> AFAIK, this never happens. The reduction is done mainly for the thing
> not to be too big in the memory while running.

Hi Eddy,

I wonder how the current situation works for .udebs not in the image ? How do
you find out whose symbols are used by them and know not to strip them ? Is
this just luck ? I sincerely doubt that.

> > In any case if you have a better idea on how to do this, maybe having a
> > statically built gdb, it would be welcome too.
> 
> A statically built gdb is he way to go, IMHO.
> 
> If you'd want a udeb for gdb, then the library reduction should take
> into account its dependencies (symbols). This would mean:
> - - either you make a custom image which uses mklibs-copy (no reduction)
> and you can use a regular binary or a gdb udeb which contains just the
> gdb binary (dynamically linked)
> - - build a custom image with gdb's needed symbols not stripped - but this
> means that gdb could not be used for regulaly built images.

We need a custom image anyway, since we need a -debug version of the
binaries we want to debug.

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Re: Bug#396365: please add a gdb .udeb, for easier debugging inside d-i

2006-10-31 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 01:06:12PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> A version of gdb as .udeb, which could easily be loaded inside the d-i would
> be very useful for developers. This would come in handy to debug various bugs
> which are otherwise hard to track, like crashes in the graphical installer,
> or problems like i am having right now, in parted/libparted, which only are
> apparent inside the d-i environment.

Is this really a good idea?  It seems like the wrong way round; you
could manually load a full GDB and associated libraries, if you need
it for debugging, but having it as part of a d-i image would e.g.
change the required bits of libraries.

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Re: Bug#396365: please add a gdb .udeb, for easier debugging inside d-i

2006-10-31 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 03:30:23PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> So, i am not entirely sure how d-i handles the case at hand here, where
> libraries are part of the actual image, but symbols are removed during
> reduction, because they are not needed by the .udebs in the image, but they
> are needed by .udebs loaded later on.
> 
> My impression is that d-i loads the full libraries later on, or something
> such.

If they did that, you could just wget a full GDB binary.  It doesn't
need anything else in the package besides the executable.  But I don't
think d-i does what you describe (since I tried to use this approach
for strace recently, and there were missing symbols in libc.so.6).

If someone more familiar with d-i than I am can confirm that the udeb
will be useful, I can try to get GDB to build one, but it seems like
a very strange package to have a udeb.

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Re: Bug#396365: please add a gdb .udeb, for easier debugging inside d-i

2006-10-31 Thread Eddy Petrișor
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Sven Luther wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 05:09:46PM +0200, Eddy Petrișor wrote:
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>> Sven Luther wrote:
>>> My impression is that d-i loads the full libraries later on, or something
>>> such.
>> AFAIK, this never happens. The reduction is done mainly for the thing
>> not to be too big in the memory while running.
> 
> Hi Eddy,
> 
> I wonder how the current situation works for .udebs not in the image ? How do
> you find out whose symbols are used by them and know not to strip them ? Is
> this just luck ? I sincerely doubt that.

No, is not luck, just that all udebs which could be used are added to
the pool of binaries which need symbols, AFAICT:

from build/Makefile :

- 8<--
ifdef EXTRADRIVERS
# Unpack the udebs of additional driver disks, so mklibs runs on them 
too.
dpkg $(DPKG_UNPACK_OPTIONS) --log=/dev/null --root=$(EXTRAUDEBSDIR)
- --unpack \
$(wildcard $(foreach dir,$(EXTRADRIVERS),$(dir)/*.udeb))
endif
ifdef EXTRAUDEBS
# Get and unpack extra udebs too.
get-packages udeb $(EXTRAUDEBS)
dpkg $(DPKG_UNPACK_OPTIONS) --log=/dev/null --root=$(EXTRAUDEBSDIR)
- --unpack \
$(foreach udeb,$(EXTRAUDEBS),$(UDEBDIR)/$(udeb).udeb)
endif
- 8<--

>> If you'd want a udeb for gdb, then the library reduction should take
>> into account its dependencies (symbols). This would mean:
>> - - either you make a custom image which uses mklibs-copy (no reduction)
>> and you can use a regular binary or a gdb udeb which contains just the
>> gdb binary (dynamically linked)
>> - - build a custom image with gdb's needed symbols not stripped - but this
>> means that gdb could not be used for regulaly built images.
> 
> We need a custom image anyway, since we need a -debug version of the
> binaries we want to debug.

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Re: Bug#396365: please add a gdb .udeb, for easier debugging inside d-i

2006-10-31 Thread Eddy Petrișor
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Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 03:30:23PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
>> So, i am not entirely sure how d-i handles the case at hand here, where
>> libraries are part of the actual image, but symbols are removed during
>> reduction, because they are not needed by the .udebs in the image, but they
>> are needed by .udebs loaded later on.
>>
>> My impression is that d-i loads the full libraries later on, or something
>> such.
> 
> If they did that, you could just wget a full GDB binary.  It doesn't

Note that networking might not be enabled at the point gdb is needed.
placing the udeb/gdb statically linked binary on the CD might be helpful.

> If someone more familiar with d-i than I am can confirm that the udeb
> will be useful, I can try to get GDB to build one, but it seems like
> a very strange package to have a udeb.

Probably a udeb with a statically linked binary would be a package that
might be somewhat useful.

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Re: Bug#396365: please add a gdb .udeb, for easier debugging inside d-i

2006-10-31 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 09:36:54AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 03:30:23PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > So, i am not entirely sure how d-i handles the case at hand here, where
> > libraries are part of the actual image, but symbols are removed during
> > reduction, because they are not needed by the .udebs in the image, but they
> > are needed by .udebs loaded later on.
> > 
> > My impression is that d-i loads the full libraries later on, or something
> > such.
> 
> If they did that, you could just wget a full GDB binary.  It doesn't

Mmm.

> need anything else in the package besides the executable.  But I don't
> think d-i does what you describe (since I tried to use this approach
> for strace recently, and there were missing symbols in libc.so.6).

I really don't see how reduction could work if it has to take into account all
.udebs which can possibly or not be loaded into d-i. I also have not noticed
the d-i build process loading not-in-the-ramdisk .udebs, but i have missed
them. Also, i don't see how such a process could survive for example a package
which was added after the build of the image, or modified or whatever.

What did you do with strace ? Create a .udeb out of it and include this one ?
or just load in the binary ? Or did you include the strace.udeb into the
ramdisk image ? 

> If someone more familiar with d-i than I am can confirm that the udeb
> will be useful, I can try to get GDB to build one, but it seems like
> a very strange package to have a udeb.

Well, gdb and strace would be two great packages to have as .udeb. Also,
.udebs can be useful even outside of d-i, at least those not having any menu
item thingy, like libraries, and utility packages (like ssh or parted or
whatever for example).

Friendly,

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Re: Bug#396365: please add a gdb .udeb, for easier debugging inside d-i

2006-10-31 Thread Eddy Petrișor
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Sven Luther wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 09:05:26AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 01:06:12PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
>>> A version of gdb as .udeb, which could easily be loaded inside the d-i would
>>> be very useful for developers. This would come in handy to debug various 
>>> bugs
>>> which are otherwise hard to track, like crashes in the graphical installer,
>>> or problems like i am having right now, in parted/libparted, which only are
>>> apparent inside the d-i environment.
>> Is this really a good idea?  It seems like the wrong way round; you
>> could manually load a full GDB and associated libraries, if you need
>> it for debugging, but having it as part of a d-i image would e.g.
>> change the required bits of libraries.
> 
> Mmm, you mean the mklibs'ed library in the standard image, i hadn't thought of
> that. 
> 
> My idea was not to include it by default, but to be able to load it in the
> ramdisk, if needed, so as a .udeb in the archive, but *NOT* as part of the d-i
> image.
> 
> So, i am not entirely sure how d-i handles the case at hand here, where
> libraries are part of the actual image, but symbols are removed during
> reduction, because they are not needed by the .udebs in the image, but they
> are needed by .udebs loaded later on.
> 
> My impression is that d-i loads the full libraries later on, or something
> such.

AFAIK, this never happens. The reduction is done mainly for the thing
not to be too big in the memory while running.

> In any case if you have a better idea on how to do this, maybe having a
> statically built gdb, it would be welcome too.

A statically built gdb is he way to go, IMHO.

If you'd want a udeb for gdb, then the library reduction should take
into account its dependencies (symbols). This would mean:
- - either you make a custom image which uses mklibs-copy (no reduction)
and you can use a regular binary or a gdb udeb which contains just the
gdb binary (dynamically linked)
- - build a custom image with gdb's needed symbols not stripped - but this
means that gdb could not be used for regulaly built images.


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Re: Bug#396365: please add a gdb .udeb, for easier debugging inside d-i

2006-10-31 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 09:05:26AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 01:06:12PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > A version of gdb as .udeb, which could easily be loaded inside the d-i would
> > be very useful for developers. This would come in handy to debug various 
> > bugs
> > which are otherwise hard to track, like crashes in the graphical installer,
> > or problems like i am having right now, in parted/libparted, which only are
> > apparent inside the d-i environment.
> 
> Is this really a good idea?  It seems like the wrong way round; you
> could manually load a full GDB and associated libraries, if you need
> it for debugging, but having it as part of a d-i image would e.g.
> change the required bits of libraries.

Mmm, you mean the mklibs'ed library in the standard image, i hadn't thought of
that. 

My idea was not to include it by default, but to be able to load it in the
ramdisk, if needed, so as a .udeb in the archive, but *NOT* as part of the d-i
image.

So, i am not entirely sure how d-i handles the case at hand here, where
libraries are part of the actual image, but symbols are removed during
reduction, because they are not needed by the .udebs in the image, but they
are needed by .udebs loaded later on.

My impression is that d-i loads the full libraries later on, or something
such.

In any case if you have a better idea on how to do this, maybe having a
statically built gdb, it would be welcome too.

> Hoping for feedback.

Hope this helps.

Friendly,

Sven Luther


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Info on partman/auto format

2006-10-31 Thread Alexander Vogel
Hello,

Just for Information:
I set up a server (routing) with one drbd devices on sda . Now today i wanted 
to install (management) with 3 drbd devices on sda 9 .. 11
over the routing server but get a kernel panic error

To exclude it from from the list (and to say to my boss, that's not causing 
the error):

In method{ } it's also possible to use keep, so
i asume this is formating the partition ?!
[snap] 
1 1 1 ext3 method{ format } format{ } use_
filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext3 } mountpoint{ /clstdmc } .
[snap]

Is there a parameter i can set in format{ } ?

@Frans:  could you please give me a link to the documentation.You have maybe 
better things to do, as to answer my questions ;-)

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Bug#395052: Please provide the GTK frontend with a better handler for BOOLEAN questions

2006-10-31 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti

Hi

Here is a cleaner patch for this bug: don't feel impressed/scared by the 
number of changed lines, it's mostly due to re-indentation of code after 
removing a couple of if()s.

This patch was tested by me during the whole past week and worked well.
Most important, this handler no longer erroneously updates the question 
database like the current one does when the user checks/unchecks the 
checkbox.


cheers

Attilio
Index: gtk.c
===
--- gtk.c	(revisione 42389)
+++ gtk.c	(copia locale)
@@ -374,16 +374,6 @@
 gtk_main_quit();
 }
 
-void check_toggled_callback (GtkWidget *toggle, gpointer data)
-{
-struct question *q = (struct question*)data;
-gboolean value;
-
-/* INFO(INFO_DEBUG, "GTK_DI - check_toggled_callback() called"); */
-value = gtk_toggle_button_get_active (GTK_TOGGLE_BUTTON(toggle));
-bool_setter (toggle, q);
-}
-
 void boolean_single_callback(GtkWidget *button, struct frontend_question_data* data )
 {
 struct frontend *obj = data->obj;
@@ -612,23 +602,21 @@
 gtk_widget_modify_base(GTK_WIDGET(ext_description_view), GTK_STATE_NORMAL, bg_color);
 }
 
-/* here is created the question's description, unless question is BOOLEAN */
-if( strcmp(q->template->type, "boolean") != 0 ) {
-description_view = gtk_text_view_new ();
-description_buffer = gtk_text_view_get_buffer (GTK_TEXT_VIEW (description_view));
-gtk_text_buffer_set_text (description_buffer, q_get_description(q), -1);
-gtk_text_view_set_editable (GTK_TEXT_VIEW(description_view), FALSE);
-gtk_text_view_set_cursor_visible (GTK_TEXT_VIEW(description_view), FALSE);
-gtk_text_view_set_wrap_mode (GTK_TEXT_VIEW(description_view), GTK_WRAP_WORD);
-gtk_text_view_set_left_margin (GTK_TEXT_VIEW(description_view), 4);
-gtk_text_view_set_right_margin (GTK_TEXT_VIEW(description_view), 4);
-gtk_text_buffer_create_tag (description_buffer, "italic", "style", PANGO_STYLE_ITALIC, NULL);
-g_object_set_data (G_OBJECT (description_view), "tag", "italic");
-gtk_text_buffer_get_start_iter  (description_buffer, &start);
-gtk_text_buffer_get_end_iter  (description_buffer, &end);
-gtk_text_buffer_apply_tag_by_name (description_buffer, "italic", &start, &end);
-gtk_widget_modify_base(GTK_WIDGET(description_view), GTK_STATE_NORMAL, bg_color);
-}
+/* here is created the question's description */
+description_view = gtk_text_view_new ();
+description_buffer = gtk_text_view_get_buffer (GTK_TEXT_VIEW (description_view));
+gtk_text_buffer_set_text (description_buffer, q_get_description(q), -1);
+gtk_text_view_set_editable (GTK_TEXT_VIEW(description_view), FALSE);
+gtk_text_view_set_cursor_visible (GTK_TEXT_VIEW(description_view), FALSE);
+gtk_text_view_set_wrap_mode (GTK_TEXT_VIEW(description_view), GTK_WRAP_WORD);
+gtk_text_view_set_left_margin (GTK_TEXT_VIEW(description_view), 4);
+gtk_text_view_set_right_margin (GTK_TEXT_VIEW(description_view), 4);
+gtk_text_buffer_create_tag (description_buffer, "italic", "style", PANGO_STYLE_ITALIC, NULL);
+g_object_set_data (G_OBJECT (description_view), "tag", "italic");
+gtk_text_buffer_get_start_iter  (description_buffer, &start);
+gtk_text_buffer_get_end_iter  (description_buffer, &end);
+gtk_text_buffer_apply_tag_by_name (description_buffer, "italic", &start, &end);
+gtk_widget_modify_base(GTK_WIDGET(description_view), GTK_STATE_NORMAL, bg_color);
 
 gtk_container_set_focus_chain(GTK_CONTAINER(description_box), NULL);
 
@@ -642,8 +630,7 @@
 {
 if (strlen (q_get_extended_description(q)) > 0)
 gtk_box_pack_start(GTK_BOX (description_box), ext_description_view, FALSE, FALSE, 2);
-if( strcmp(q->template->type, "boolean") != 0 )
-gtk_box_pack_start(GTK_BOX (description_box), description_view, FALSE, FALSE, 3);
+gtk_box_pack_start(GTK_BOX (description_box), description_view, FALSE, FALSE, 3);
 }
 
 if ( strcmp(q->template->type,"note") == 0 )
@@ -665,7 +652,7 @@
 
 static int gtkhandler_boolean(struct frontend *obj, struct question *q, GtkWidget *qbox)
 {
-GtkWidget *description_box, *check, *hpadbox, *vpadbox;
+GtkWidget *description_box, *radio_false, *radio_true, *hpadbox, *vpadbox;
 struct frontend_question_data *data;
 const char *defval = question_getvalue(q, "");
 
@@ -675,30 +662,38 @@
 data->obj = obj;
 data->q = q;
 
-check = gtk_check_button_new_with_label(q_get_description(q));
-if (strcmp(defval, "true") == 0)
-gtk_toggle_button_set_active(GTK_TOGGLE_BUTTON(check), TRUE);
-else
-gtk_toggle_button_set_active(GTK_TOGGLE_BUTTON(check), FALSE);
+   radio_false = gtk_radio_button_new_with_label (NULL, question_get_text(obj, "debconf/no", "No"));
+   radio_true = gtk_radio_button_new_with_label_from_widget (GTK_RADIO_BUTTON (radio_fals

Bug#396071: segfaults when attempting to take a screenshot while wget is running

2006-10-31 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti

Robert Millan wrote:

On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 09:14:57PM +0100, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote:


Frans Pop wrote:


reassign 396071 cdebconf-gtk-udeb
thanks

On Sunday 29 October 2006 17:23, Robert Millan wrote:



If you hit the Screenshot button while wget is fetching [1] your
mirror's Release file, d-i will segfault.  Inmediately after that, you
see [2], and after a console switch, the d-i logs [3].



Known issue and the reason why the screenshot button is disabled when a 
progress bar is running.

Apparently we are disabling the screenshot button too late here.

Reassigning to cdebconf-gtk-udeb as that is what causes the crash, and it 
would be good to investigate the actual cause of the crash and seeing if 
we can solve that. Disabling the button was only a workaround.


Note that in the mean time we may need to fix this in choose-mirror after 
all by displaying a progress bar at this point.


Accessing the GdkWindow by a thread while the window is being updated by 
another thread in the gtk_main_loop() causes crashes, and this is the 
reason why i made the screenshot button disappear during a 
progress_xxx() call, in fact past experiments aimed at gaining exclusive 
access to the gdkwidow led to deadlocks between threads.
Robert, did you press the button before the progressbar was displayed or 
were you able to press it while the progressbar was running?



When I pressed it no progress bar was being displayed.  I don't know if one was
going to show up eventualy, but it was taking too much time and in fact the
system appeared to be hang because of this.


I've been able to reproduce the crash as Robert described it.
The problem is that i forgot to disable the screenshot button when 
exiting from a frontend_go(), like i did for the "next" and "back" ones.
When the user clicks "back" or "next", the GTK application exits the 
gtk's main loop and there the callback function associated to the 
screenshot button, which is still active, causes the crash as expected.
This is also the reason why i disabled the screenshot button while a 
progessbar is being updated: the callback would have arrived between two 
progress_xxx() calls, outside gtk main loop.
The attached patch fixes this bug: the screenshot button is disabled 
after the user exits from a questions, and a bit earlier than before to 
prevent possible nasty timing issues.


cheers

attilio
Index: gtk.c
===
--- gtk.c   (revisione 42389)
+++ gtk.c   (copia locale)
@@ -1661,6 +1661,10 @@

 gdk_threads_enter();

+gtk_widget_set_sensitive (data->button_prev, FALSE);
+gtk_widget_set_sensitive (data->button_next, FALSE);
+gtk_widget_set_sensitive (data->button_screenshot, FALSE);
+
 if (data->button_val == DC_OK)
 {
 call_setters(obj);
@@ -1679,9 +1683,6 @@
 else
 gtk_widget_destroy(questionbox_scroll);

-gtk_widget_set_sensitive (data->button_prev, FALSE);
-gtk_widget_set_sensitive (data->button_next, FALSE);
-
 gdk_threads_leave();

 if (data->button_val == DC_OK)


Open letter to the debian-installer team, do we really need to drag this petty conflict so much longer ?

2006-10-31 Thread Sven Luther
Hi Debian-installer team members.

As you all know, there is a petty dispute going on between me and frans (and
maybe a few silent others), and this issue has been open since over 6 months
now, and there seems to be no end in sight.

Some (like Alphix), have said they feel not concerned by this, while frans and
a few others insist it is not a personal issue, i don't really know what to
think about it, but my own impression is that the only thing really at issue
at this point, and so long after the events, are frans's pride, and my
frustration at being unable to properly and efficiently working on
debian-installer and fixing bugs nobody else seems to be caring about.

Anyway, the fact that we are still having this issue months after the facts,
and despite me working constructively and within the constraints imposed to me
by the DPL mediation, just shows that the current situation is broken, and
that there is no hope of it ever getting solved, and that the original
mediation proposal was flawed, as i warned about so many months back.

As long as Frans is at the same time judge and party to the dispute, and given
the fact that he seems unable to admit his own errors in this mess, there will
never be a problem, and Frans will continue to constantly provoke me, and i
will from time to time be unable to resist responding to said provocations.

So, do we really want this to be dragged on forever ? I don't think so, i
believe everyone, including me, is sick to death about this. I thus make the
following proposal :

  1) someone neutral or maybe a neutral committee or whatever, is the one in
  charge of judging me, and does so honestly and publicly.

  2) frans stops immediately his provocations against me.

  3) at some predefined time, those judging the issue, will do so. This needs
  to be some finite and clearly stated time, though. My personal opinion in
  this is that 6 months would have been well enough, if not for the fact that
  frans is both the judge on this, and has been provoking me voluntarily
  during this whole time.

  4) if frans behaves badly, then those judging it should not be afraid to say
  so, and frans should accept the reprimand for it.

  5) nobody gets offended when technical proposals are discussed, even if
  those proposals are not within the official dogma.

We are all sick of this, i have been trying to be positive and constructive
since months now, but there is really no hope of it ever going better, so
let's all remember what we promised in the social contract, that we would put
free software and our users as our priority, and set aside those personal
petty disputes, so we can all again concentrate on doing the best technical
work we can.

In hope of finding fair and reasonable readers, ...

Friendly,

Sven Luther


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Re: Problem with SVN repository

2006-10-31 Thread Maciej Barnim Kosmulski
Dnia poniedziałek 30 października 2006 21:59, Joey Hess napisał:
> Maciej Barnim Kosmulski wrote:
> > I have a problem to make a checkout on d-i repository.
> >
> > $ svn co svn://svn.debian.org/d-i/trunk
> > svn: Can't connect to host 'svn.debian.org': Connection refused
> >
> > Does anybody know whether I'am doing sth wrong or the SVN server is
> > temporarily down?
>
> Alioth was moved to a new server whose ISP unfortunatly blocks the port
> used for svn://. You'll need to use svn+ssh:// for now (which needs an
> alioth account). Its admins are trying to get this fixed..

I created a guest account on https://alioth.debian.org and when I try to do:
$ svn co svn+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/d-i/trunk
A password I use to log into the alioth service is not the correct password 
for ssh - as I should guess ;)
Do I need a developer account to get this work?

./Barnim

P.s. I'm working on adapting d-i to the cdlinux.pl distribution (which is a 
LiveCD based on Debian) for educational purposes.

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Bug#396340: choose-mirror doesn't allow to use a d-i only mirror for .udebs.

2006-10-31 Thread Sven Luther
Package: choose-mirror
Severity: normal


I have a local mirror of the .udeb debian-installer repo, and want to use this
one for d-i testing, and another mirror for the full debian archive.

I thought i would set the mirror to my local .udeb archive, and then later
change it in expert mode to the debian archive, to get all the .debs.

choose-mirror did not let me do this though, and gave me an error message
saying that my mirror doesn't support my architecture, and the log showed it
checked for the main .deb archive, not the .udeb one.

Friendly,

Sven Luther

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Bug#395886: Further Info for bug 395886

2006-10-31 Thread Giorgio Fernando Pioda
Hallo

System AMD Opteron 175 on MSI K8N Neo4, nvidia graphics

lspci:

:00:00.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory
Controller (rev a3)
:00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 ISA Bridge (rev a3)
:00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation CK804 SMBus (rev a2)
:00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller
(rev a2)
:00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller
(rev a3)
:00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97
Audio Controller (rev a2)
:00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 IDE (rev f2)
:00:07.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA
Controller (rev f3)
:00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA
Controller (rev f3)
:00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
:00:0a.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
:00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
:00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
:00:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
:00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
:00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
[Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
:00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
[Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
:00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
[Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
:00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8
[Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
:01:0c.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host
Controller (rev 80)
:01:0d.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3114
[SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)
:03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8053
Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 15)
:05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 6200
TurboCache(TM) (rev a1)

lspci -n:

:00:00.0 0580: 10de:005e (rev a3)
:00:01.0 0601: 10de:0050 (rev a3)
:00:01.1 0c05: 10de:0052 (rev a2)
:00:02.0 0c03: 10de:005a (rev a2)
:00:02.1 0c03: 10de:005b (rev a3)
:00:04.0 0401: 10de:0059 (rev a2)
:00:06.0 0101: 10de:0053 (rev f2)
:00:07.0 0101: 10de:0054 (rev f3)
:00:08.0 0101: 10de:0055 (rev f3)
:00:09.0 0604: 10de:005c (rev a2)
:00:0a.0 0680: 10de:0057 (rev a3)
:00:0b.0 0604: 10de:005d (rev a3)
:00:0c.0 0604: 10de:005d (rev a3)
:00:0d.0 0604: 10de:005d (rev a3)
:00:0e.0 0604: 10de:005d (rev a3)
:00:18.0 0600: 1022:1100
:00:18.1 0600: 1022:1101
:00:18.2 0600: 1022:1102
:00:18.3 0600: 1022:1103
:01:0c.0 0c00: 1106:3044 (rev 80)
:01:0d.0 0104: 1095:3114 (rev 02)
:03:00.0 0200: 11ab:4362 (rev 15)
:05:00.0 0300: 10de:0161 (rev a1)

df -Tf:

FilesystemType blocchi di   1K   Usati Disponib. Uso% Montato su
/dev/sda7 ext348062440   4372332  41248632  10% /
varrun   tmpfs  51422888514140   1% /var/run
varlock  tmpfs  514228 4514224   1% /var/lock
udev tmpfs  514228   132514096   1% /dev
devshm   tmpfs  514228 0514228   0% /dev/shm
lrm  tmpfs  514228 21532492696   5%
/lib/modules/2.6.15-27-amd64-k8/volatile
/dev/sda6 ext3 4807056141332   4421540   4% /boot
/dev/sda9 ext328834716   4778908  22591084  18% /home
/dev/sda1 ntfs20482840   6085060  14397780  30% /media/sda1
/dev/sda5 vfat20472816   1427248  19045568   7% /media/sda5
/dev/sda10
  reiserfs39060816   3380840  35679976   9% /prt2
/dev/sda11ext377000740  17185188  55904128  24% /video
/home none28834716   4778908  22591084  18% /chroot/home
/tmp  none48062440   4372332  41248632  10% /chroot/tmp
/dev  none  514228   132514096   1% /chroot/dev
/media/cdrom0 none48062440   4372332  41248632  10% /chroot/media/cdrom0
/usr/share/fonts
  none48062440   4372332  41248632  10%
/chroot/usr/share/fonts


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Bug#396327: FSC Lifebook S7020

2006-10-31 Thread Bjoern Boschman

Package: installation-reports

Boot method: CD-netinstall
Image version: 
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso

Date: Di Okt 31 09:24:07 CET 2006

Machine: FSC Lifebook S7020
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHz (centrino)
Memory: 1027164 kB
Partitions:
/dev/sda2 ext316626988   2695212  13087160  18% /
udev tmpfs   1024068 10172   1% /dev
devshm   tmpfs  513580 0513580   0% /dev/shm


Output of lspci -nn and lspci -vnn attached

Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot:   [O]
Detect network card:[O]
Configure network:  [O]
Detect CD:  [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives:  [O]
Install base system:[O]
Clock/timezone setup:   [O]
User/password setup:[O]
Install tasks:  [O]
Install boot loader:[O]
Overall install:[O]

Comments/Problems:

speedstep modules not loaded. suspend and hibernate non-functional

Cheers
Bjoern


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Re: r42375 - trunk/packages/po

2006-10-31 Thread Damyan Ivanov
[I'm not subscribed to -boot]

Christian Perrier -- 31.10.2006 08:00 --:
> Quoting Damyan Ivanov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>> Author: dam-guest
>> Date: Mon Oct 30 23:50:51 2006
>> New Revision: 42375
>>
>> Modified:
>>trunk/packages/po/bg.po
>> Log:
>> More corrections to Bulgarian translation (l1). Still more to come, but this 
>> is useful to the point to be released as is
> 
> No, it is not that useful, I'm afraid:
> 
> You committed a file that contains SVN conflict markers. This probably

Sorry about that. I am sure I resolved any conflicts, before
committing, but anyway...

> You should work outside your SVN checkout tree. Put your bg.po file in
> a work directory. Update/complete it.
> 
> Then go back to you SVN checkout, run a "svn up" there.and *then*
> put your new bg.po file and *then* run a "svn commit".

This is perhaps OK in a string freeze period, but normally, I'd like
to receive the updates, not overwrite them. Taking special care of
conflict resolution, this should be no problem any more.

Or, should I simply overwrite XX.po as you suggest and later merge any
new strings from template.pot? I thought the point of the
synchronizing scripts was exactly to spare the manual merge.

> Also, I found out that even when correcting these conflicts, the bg.po
> file has 83 fuzzy strings. Is that intended?

I am working on these. (And they were here when I started as translator)

> I will correct the current bg.po file in the SVN so that it doesn't
> break the sync scripts like it does currently. You should have found

Thanks.

> this error by running:
> 
> msgfmt -o /dev/null -c --statistics bg.po
> 
> before committing it. Please always check your PO files this way
> before committing them.

Point taken. Sorry for losing your time.


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Bug#396294: Package: installation-reports

2006-10-31 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Tuesday 31 October 2006 01:01, Alexander Antoniades wrote:
> > Comments/Problems:
> > The install didn't get far because it couldn't get past the CD
> > detection. This was with beta 3. As far as I know this is pretty
> > standard sata.
> >
> > Should I try the nightlies?
> 
> Yes, please to.


Shouldn't we close that bug report?



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