Re: Is Debian on PowerPC dead? [Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]]
On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 16:23 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: This bug is still present in the Thu Jan 14 16:08:46 UTC 2010 businesscard CD downloaded from http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/ So far as I can tell, this bug has not been looked at by the debian- installer folks. Is PowerPC simply so unimportant that resources cannot be spared to even *look* at a problem that renders the installer unusable on that hardware? It means there hasn't been a volunteer so far. Are you volunteering? -- Earthling Michel Dänzer |http://www.vmware.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#563035: console-setup: bottom 2-3 lines are cut off in virtual terminals with Fixed14
retitle 563035 Doesn't preserve the number of lines on the console reassign 563035 xserver-xorg-video-nv 1.6.5-1 thanks On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 04:40:43AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: I need to wait for bug 564203 to be fixed in Debian. For the moment, here's some information: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M. I suppose this means you are using xserver-xorg-video-nv (not the non-free driver by nvidia). Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Processed: Re: Bug#563035: console-setup: bottom 2-3 lines are cut off in virtual terminals with Fixed14
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: retitle 563035 Doesn't preserve the number of lines on the console Bug #563035 [console-setup] console-setup: bottom 2-3 lines are cut off in virtual terminals with Fixed14 Changed Bug title to 'Doesn't preserve the number of lines on the console' from 'console-setup: bottom 2-3 lines are cut off in virtual terminals with Fixed14' reassign 563035 xserver-xorg-video-nv 1.6.5-1 Bug #563035 [console-setup] Doesn't preserve the number of lines on the console Bug reassigned from package 'console-setup' to 'xserver-xorg-video-nv'. Bug No longer marked as found in versions console-setup/1.50. Bug #563035 [xserver-xorg-video-nv] Doesn't preserve the number of lines on the console There is no source info for the package 'xserver-xorg-video-nv' at version '1.6.5-1' with architecture '' Unable to make a source version for version '1.6.5-1' Bug Marked as found in versions 1.6.5-1. thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs database) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#565394: pppd available but chat missing
Package: installation-reports hi! i tried to install on a laptop with unsupported nic and unsupported wlan - but with a working gsm usb stick. finding out that pppd is available was really great. finding out that ppp configuration like options and chat script (and ofc auth) have to be done manually is totally ok imho. finding out that the chat binary is missing is - at least after the other promising findings - a massive fail. please just add chat to the ppp installer component or as an extra installer component, i guess this is probably a piece of cake to do, but enables any serial line ppp networking which i guess would be a very valuable feature. and while we're at it: i guess shipping (a) simple chat script(s) e.g. like: # e.g. /etc/ppp/gsm.chat for generic GSM: ATZ OK AT+CGDCONT=1,IP,\U OK ATD\T CONNECT and maybe more generic options even if it's just a template like: /dev/ttyUSB0 connect /usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/ppp/gsm.chat -T *99# -U surfo2 usepeerdns defaultroute persist takes probably not much effort but would be a big leap forward for every installation via ppp. kind regards, Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#565391: console-setup: typo in FAQ
Package: console-setup Version: 1.51 Severity: minor /usr/share/doc/console-setup/FAQ.gz says: And sometimes the console setup is never remembered. In this case you will have to use framebuffer (try modprobe vga16fb). Another uption is to to use the setupcon utility whenever you need to ^^ I suppose this should be option. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages console-setup depends on: ii console-terminus 4.30-2 Fixed-width fonts for fast reading ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.28 Debian configuration management sy ii keyboard-configuration1.51 system-wide keyboard preferences ii xkb-data 1.7-1 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu Versions of packages console-setup recommends: ii kbd 1.15.1-2 Linux console font and keytable ut Versions of packages console-setup suggests: ii locales 2.10.2-5 Embedded GNU C Library: National L ii lsb-base 3.2-23 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip -- debconf information: console-setup/codeset47: # Latin1 and Latin5 - western Europe and Turkic languages * console-setup/fontface47: Fixed * console-setup/fontsize-text47: 16 console-setup/charmap47: UTF-8 console-setup/codesetcode: Lat15 console-setup/fontsize-fb47: 16 console-setup/use_system_font: console-setup/fontsize: 16 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Processing of tzsetup_0.28_amd64.changes
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Re: Bug#564150: Is Debian on PowerPC dead? [Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]]
On Jan 15, 2010, at 5:00 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 16:23 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: This bug is still present in the Thu Jan 14 16:08:46 UTC 2010 businesscard CD downloaded from http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/ So far as I can tell, this bug has not been looked at by the debian- installer folks. Is PowerPC simply so unimportant that resources cannot be spared to even *look* at a problem that renders the installer unusable on that hardware? It means there hasn't been a volunteer so far. Are you volunteering? Yes. I'm volunteering to help anyone who knows the structure of the installer disks better than I do. I have hardware I can test things on. I have a good general knowledge of Unix and Linux. I can perform experiments and report on the results. As far as diagnosing the problem: It looks like a necessary library is missing, but I don't have the background knowledge to figure out which one, and I don't have the knowledge of the installer disk build processes to figure out how it's getting missed, even if I knew which one it was. As it stands, unless somebody knowledgeable can help me track this down, Squeeze will not be available for PowerPC. That will be too bad. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#564033: tasksel forces installation of many useless packages on hr locale setups even when you don't select anything
These dependencies need auditing anyhow. Meanwhile, we can have these dictionaries shifted to a lower priority, like recommended instead of required. Little is known by the general userbase about these dictionaries and their purpose and usefulness. Thank you for including me on this topic. Safir On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Josip Rodin j...@debbugs.entuzijast.netwrote: Josip Rodin wrote: IMHO the non-desktop installation for Croatian needs to lose all of: [...] dict-*, [...] because none of these packages are *required* for a Croatian Debian system. On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 06:19:29PM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: So, it would seem logical to me that the decision about should we by default install some spelling software along with the needed dictionary(ies) in localized non-desktop systems should be a general decision. Either all language tasks include a dictionary or none of them does. On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 09:49:22PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: The localization tasks are not about what is *required*, but about what an average Croation user might *expect* to have installed by default. IMO that includes basic localized documentation and spell checking. OK. The last language-specific issue here are the dictionaries. I'm explicitly Cc:ing Safir just in case he isn't following closely. These seem to be the only dict-* dependencies among the tasks: bosnian: dict-freedict-scr-eng croatian: dict-freedict-cro-eng croatian: dict-freedict-eng-cro croatian: dict-freedict-scr-eng serbian: dict-freedict-scr-eng serbian: opendict-plugins-lingvosoft They're not a horribly bad idea, but I don't see how they would really be something that is expected, if no other language tasks include anything like this. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.
Processed: reassign 565394 to ppp
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: reassign 565394 ppp Bug #565394 [installation-reports] pppd available but chat missing Bug reassigned from package 'installation-reports' to 'ppp'. thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs database) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#352758: -- installation: etch installer fails to detect/configure PC card NIC
Hi, Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote: A comment to this bugreport told you, that this is a firmware issue. Sorry, I have little familiarity with the bug reporting system and I did no see this comment. Where can read the comments? I don't see any comments at: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=352758 All I see are my two entries. Ah, you are right, of course. I didn't saw that the comment I mentioned was from you yourself. Somehow I thought it was from someone else. Support for loading firmware during installation was added to the lenny installer. Please try the lenny installer. I have been running lenny for a couple of years, and am in the process of assessing Squeeze prior to switching. Since I usually upgrade by cloning the current stable to another partition and running a dist-upgrade, I was not aware of this change. Being unfamiliar with the bug reporting system, and not seeing anything on the above-mentioned page, I mistakenly assumed that the problem had not been corrected, especially since it is still present in fairly recent distributions and live CD's that are based on debian. All apologies for the confusion and please let me know where in the debian manuals I can find a description of the debian bug tracking system in order to avoid such problems in the future. As wrote above, you didn't miss anything, and you had was no problem with the bug reporting system. If someone writes a comment to your bugreport (writes a mail to 352...@bugs.debian.org), as subscriber you normally get a copy of this comment. So, you should not miss any information on this bugreport. To investigate, if this problem still exists in the recent installer and to help fixing it (if it still exists), you could try a daily build of the installer for squeeze: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ (You don't need to do a full installation, just start the installer and go through the process until the step where network hardware is detected. No harm to your harddrive will happen, if you stop the installation process when it comes to partitioning the disk.) Holger -- = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Created with Sylpheed 2.5.0 under DEBIAN GNU/LINUX 5.0.0 - L e n n y Registered LinuxUser #311290 - http://counter.li.org/ = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Bug#352758: -- installation: etch installer fails to detect/configure PC card NIC
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 03:58:03PM EST, Holger Wansing wrote: Hi, Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote: As wrote above, you didn't miss anything, and you had was no problem with the bug reporting system. If someone writes a comment to your bugreport (writes a mail to 352...@bugs.debian.org), as subscriber you normally get a copy of this comment. So, you should not miss any information on this bugreport. To investigate, if this problem still exists in the recent installer and to help fixing it (if it still exists), you could try a daily build of the installer for squeeze: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ I anticipated and tested the current squeeze .iso from Jan 11th and things have definitely changed. The installer detects the card correctly and pops up a new screen asking me whether I want to load the firmware from external media - usb stick, etc. Much less confusing than with the etch installer but the firmware is apparently still not available as part of the .iso that I downloaded. Will run another test with the daily build as you requested. Thank you for your comments. CJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
[RFC] Blockers for Debian Installer - Alpha1 release
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Bug#565452: AMD64 Squeeze install not working
Package: installation-reports Boot method: USB memory stick Image version: AMD64 Squeeze Date: 13th through 15th of January Machine: Mainboard Asus M4A785TD-V EVO, Realtek RTL8111/8168 onboard nic, 785G mainboard chipset, Radeon 4600 series video card, SCSI controller AHA-2940U Processor: Phenom II Memory: 4 GB Partitions: /boot, WinXP, Swap, Root, Home For two days now I have been unsuccessful in trying to install Debian Squeeze AMD64 on a new machine (described above). I decided to write the experience down. After the first couple tries (I had no problem in setting up the machine I am writing on now back in November, but it is i386), I decided to install Lenny and just upgrade to Squeeze. Installing Lenny from USB on this machine is no problem. Everything runs as it should. But the upgrade does not work. I tried it a couple times. First with apt-get dist-upgrade (after changing apt sources to squeeze), then with aptitude install apt dpkg aptitude and then safe-upgrade. The upgrade fails and the system ist hosed. So back to trying to get Squeeze on the machine. First I went to this webpage: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ and used this image: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily.old/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-businesscard.iso together with this boot.tar.gz: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/main/installer-amd64/current/images/hd-media/boot.tar.gz with these instructions: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03.html.en Boot was fine. I clicked through to network detection. It detected my network and set it up via DHCP, but right after that I got the red screen saying that network setup has failed. Manually setting up the network (without DHCP) has the same result. So I tried the same boot.tar.gz above with this iso image: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-businesscard.iso Here I get the error, that the kernel versions of the boot image and the iso don't match. Next I wasted a CD-R by burning this same image: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-businesscard.iso to CD and get a lot of error messages of syntax-errors and segmentation faults for about 5-10 minutes the red screen saying that choosing language has failed. If I use expert mode or a couple options (like fb=false, mem=512M) I get a kernel panic - not syncing. I did try a couple other methods to get the AMD64 Squeeze install. For example I unpacked a netboot.tar.gz and used syslinux and put it on the USB stick. The install had a different issue, but also crashed at some point. I also tried different boot.tar.gz images from sid and squeeze and combined them with different iso images from sid and squeeze. I might try and continue tomorrow or some other day. But I thought you would find this mail useful. OTOH, maybe I just made some stupid mistake and this email will be very useful to me, because someone who reads this might point that mistage out to me. Thx, Malte -- Malte Schmidt-Tychsen Backbergstr. 4H 12359 Berlin Tel.:+49 (0) 30 28378078 Mobil: +49 (0) 17622616529 Don't delay! Make backups now! () ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML email /\ Jetzt kostenlos herunterladen: Internet Explorer 8 und Mozilla Firefox 3.5 - sicherer, schneller und einfacher! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/chbrowser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
