Bug#284082: marked as done (Incomplete entry in the errata of rc2)

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Package: debian-installer
Severity: critical

Merit for the severity: may cause serious data loss.

The current text in the errata is:

  * LVM failure on Sparc32 (at least). If you want to create LVM volume
  groups, the physical volumes must not reside at the beginning of the
  disk, or else activating new logical volumes within the volume group
  will fail. This is due to some unforeseen quirks in Sun disk labels.

This failure happened because the the sun disk label resides at the
beginning of the disk and the first partition may start from the
beginning of the disk.  Hence the partition table becomes part of the
first partition. Most file systems are smart enough not to write data at
the beginning of their place but this is not the case with the phisical
volumes for LVM or RAID and not the case with the swap spaces.

The users MAY NOT create swap spaces or partitions for LVM and RAID at
the beginning of the disk or the partition table will be subsequently
completely erased.

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Bug#284152: marked as done ([patch] small edits to d-i rc2 errata)

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Package: www.debian.org
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This applies to
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/errata

Is it correct to patch the html directly or is there some repo
that I should be getting sgml from?

Cheers
Vince


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Proofread request for patch which fixes a/an errors

2004-12-04 Thread Jens Seidel
Hi all,

I checked the website for errors related to the indefinite articles "a"
and "an".
As usual I found again many errors and need your approval before I apply
this patch. I will not commit it when I get no OK!

A short summary of this rule can be found on
http://www.fortunecity.com/bally/durrus/153/gramch14.html#2

Nevertheless this article doesn't answer all my questions:

Please check the following:

A or an FTP|URL|HTML|LDAP? (Both versions are used regularly)
Why is "an SSH (key|...)" used so often and not "a SSH"?

Please note that I also attached files "a" and "an" which contain
the grep output of phrases containing a resp. an where I'm not sure and
which contain probably many errors too.

Jens
Index: CD/vendors/info.wml
===
RCS file: /cvs/webwml/webwml/english/CD/vendors/info.wml,v
retrieving revision 1.7
diff -u -r1.7 info.wml
--- CD/vendors/info.wml 30 Jul 2002 00:15:58 -  1.7
+++ CD/vendors/info.wml 4 Dec 2004 21:17:25 -
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 Produce your own CDs using the Official Debian
 CD Images.
 
-Note that it is possible to sell the 'Official Debian CD', and add a extra disk
+Note that it is possible to sell the 'Official Debian CD', and add an extra 
disk
 containing vendor additions and still use the term 'Official Debian CD'.
 
 Note: if you just want to install Debian, then you do not
Index: MailingLists/desc/devel/debian-python
===
RCS file: /cvs/webwml/webwml/english/MailingLists/desc/devel/debian-python,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.4 debian-python
--- MailingLists/desc/devel/debian-python   15 Feb 2003 11:16:08 -  
1.4
+++ MailingLists/desc/devel/debian-python   4 Dec 2004 21:17:25 -
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 Discussion of issues related to Python on Debian
-systems with an stress on packaging standards. Therefore
+systems with a stress on packaging standards. Therefore
 relevant for maintainers of Python related packages.
Index: MailingLists/desc/devel/debian-ruby
===
RCS file: /cvs/webwml/webwml/english/MailingLists/desc/devel/debian-ruby,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -u -r1.1 debian-ruby
--- MailingLists/desc/devel/debian-ruby 14 Mar 2004 14:47:32 -  1.1
+++ MailingLists/desc/devel/debian-ruby 4 Dec 2004 21:17:25 -
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 Discussion of issues related to Ruby on Debian systems
-with an stress on packaging standards. Therefore
+with a stress on packaging standards. Therefore
 relevant for maintainers of Ruby related packages.
Index: MailingLists/desc/devel/debian-sgml
===
RCS file: /cvs/webwml/webwml/english/MailingLists/desc/devel/debian-sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.4 debian-sgml
--- MailingLists/desc/devel/debian-sgml 15 Feb 2003 11:16:08 -  1.4
+++ MailingLists/desc/devel/debian-sgml 4 Dec 2004 21:17:25 -
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Discussion of issues related to SGML on Debian systems
-with an stress on proper integration of tools, packaging
+with a stress on proper integration of tools, packaging
 standards and the writing of documentation for SGML
 users. Therefore relevant for maintainers of SGML
 related packages.
Index: News/weekly/2000/34/index.wml
===
RCS file: /cvs/webwml/webwml/english/News/weekly/2000/34/index.wml,v
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -r1.6 index.wml
--- News/weekly/2000/34/index.wml   2 Oct 2004 19:56:49 -   1.6
+++ News/weekly/2000/34/index.wml   4 Dec 2004 21:17:26 -
@@ -37,12 +37,12 @@
 
 
 
-This week's security fixes are: A update to
+This week's security fixes are: An update to
 curl fixing a
 remotely-exploitable buffer overflow, a fix for a printf formatting attack
 in nis, a fix for a remote
 exploit in php3 and
-php4, and a update to
+php4, and an update to
 traceroute fixing a local
 root exploit.
 
Index: News/weekly/2001/2/mail.wml
===
RCS file: /cvs/webwml/webwml/english/News/weekly/2001/2/mail.wml,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -r1.2 mail.wml
--- News/weekly/2001/2/mail.wml 20 Feb 2001 02:09:41 -  1.2
+++ News/weekly/2001/2/mail.wml 4 Dec 2004 21:17:26 -
@@ -5,11 +5,11 @@
 From: Thierry Laronde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 22:27:05 +0100
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-devel-announce@lists.debian.org
-Subject: News about Debian Conference... and have an happy new year !
+Subject: News about Debian Conference... and have a happy new year!
 
 Hello,
 
-First, I'd like to wish you all an happy new year !
+First, I'd like to wish you all a happy new year!
 
 Here are some news about the Debian Conference 1.
 
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 First of all, the "Speech from the Throne" where we will hear about the
 past, present and future of Debian : we do need t

CSS for packages.debian.org, was: switching packages.debian.org first?

2004-12-04 Thread Jutta Wrage


Am Freitag, 03.12.04 um 00:44 Uhr schrieb Frank Lichtenheld:


Just a little addition to the whole XHTML, CSS discussion:
If someone would provide me with a sample layout for 
packages.debian.org

and a CSS file I could switch these pages within a day to this new
layout.


I got a new cvs tree yesterday and apply changes there now.
Seems Denis's changes have made it a bit easier. Most work is 
recompliling and look, where I was in error.


If you want something similar (debian pages should have a similar look 
and feel), I can do that, if someone tells me what to get where, to 
figure out, what has to be done.


I do not know, if someone cares, but I cannot view the pages with 
InError Browser else than that for OS X 10.2. The Debian Women Pages 
needed a workaround for that versions, I have no access here (only OS X 
and Debian GNU Linux).


greetings

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Bug#284082: Incomplete entry in the errata of rc2

2004-12-04 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 05:45:16PM +1100, Vincent McIntyre wrote:
> 
> Here is the same patch, but this time against the website cvs.

Yes, the text is correct.  I used your text to create another shorter
version that fits in one paragraph.

Anton Zinoviev

--- errata-orig.wml Sat Dec  4 14:23:13 2004
+++ errata.wml  Sat Dec  4 14:23:01 2004
@@ -43,11 +43,13 @@
As a workaround, use a different guided partitioning profile or 
partition your disk manually.

-   LVM failure on Sparc32 (at least).
-   If you want to create LVM volume groups, the physical volumes must not
-   reside at the beginning of the disk, or else activating new logical
-   volumes within the volume group will fail. This is due to some
-   unforeseen quirks in Sun disk labels.
+   Erased partition table on Sparc (at least).
+   On Sparc (and other machines with Sun disk label)
+   users may not create swap space partitions, 
+   or partitions for LVM or RAID, at the beginning of the 
+   disk.  When users do this, the partition table resides in the 
+   first partition and will be subsequently completely erased when 
+   this partition is used.

2.6 install have the potential to mess up Windows 
partitioning.
The fixes of the 2.6 CHS issue in parted are apparently


Minute Man? No More!

2004-12-04 Thread Justin Parr
Selling every prescription u can think of! 
http://www.someone8avenue.info/?Z5r/LhNo/f=2/jBAUQ


backside cerebellum public drudge organ central rosette at constantinople 
ribose 


Re: problem

2004-12-04 Thread Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
He says he doesn't want any informations about Debian, and that Debian's 
webpage appeared on his screen. I suppose that it's usual situation with
newly installed Apache.

I'm trying to explain him that Debian has nothing to do with that.

On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 10:03:05AM +0100, Krzysztof Polanowski wrote:

> Wasza strona wcisnęła mi sie do kompa.Nie chcę ,żadnych informacji na 
> temat debiana itp

Debian nie ma nic wspólnego z tą stroną. No może poza faktem, że Twój 
dostawca sieci najwyraźniej używa Debiana. Strona, którą zobaczyłeś jest po
prostu domyślną stroną po instalacji serwera WWW w systemie Debian.
Kontaktuj się ze swoim dostawcą sieci jeśli problem będzie się powtarzał.

Tutaj naprawdę nikt Ci w tej sprawie nie pomoże. To tak jakbyś pisał do
producenta mopów, że sprzątaczka źle wyczyściła klatkę schodową.

pozdr,
fEnIo

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2004-12-04 Thread Krzysztof Polanowski



Witam
 
Wasza strona wcisnęła mi sie do kompa.Nie chcę 
,żadnych informacji na temat debiana itp
 
 


Re: broken Polish translations

2004-12-04 Thread Denis Barbier
On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 01:12:37AM +0100, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote:
[...]
> > are 'broken'. Instead of normal html page user can see only very few 
> > words about some mailing list or just a blank page...
> 
> Blank page is the most common result for me.

It is likely that www-master disk is full, someone needs to remove
useless stuff, and then all empty files wrongly generated.
But few people have access to this machine.

Denis



Bug#284082: Incomplete entry in the errata of rc2

2004-12-04 Thread Vincent McIntyre

Here is the same patch, but this time against the website cvs.

Vince

Index: webwml/english/devel/debian-installer/errata.wml
===
RCS file: /cvs/webwml/webwml/english/devel/debian-installer/errata.wml,v
retrieving revision 1.61
diff -u -r1.61 errata.wml
--- webwml/english/devel/debian-installer/errata.wml3 Dec 2004 18:20:04 
-   1.61
+++ webwml/english/devel/debian-installer/errata.wml4 Dec 2004 06:43:20 
-
@@ -46,8 +46,24 @@
LVM failure on Sparc32 (at least).
If you want to create LVM volume groups, the physical volumes must not
reside at the beginning of the disk, or else activating new logical
-   volumes within the volume group will fail. This is due to some
-   unforeseen quirks in Sun disk labels.
+   volumes within the volume group will fail.
+   
+   This happens because the Sun disk label resides at the beginning
+   of the disk and the first partition may start from the beginning
+   of the disk. Hence the partition table becomes part of the first
+   partition. Most file systems are smart enough not to write data
+   at the start of their partition (which in this case clobbers the
+   partition table). Two important types of partition where data
+   will be written to the start of the partion are the physical
+   volumes for LVM or RAID, and swap space.
+   
+   
+   Therefore, on Sparc32 (at least) users may not create
+   swap space partitions, or partitions for LVM or RAID, at the
+   beginning of the disk. If users do this, the partition table
+   will subsequently be completely erased when the partition is used,
+   for example when booting a freshly installed system.
+   

2.6 install have the potential to mess up Windows 
partitioning.
The fixes of the 2.6 CHS issue in parted are apparently


Bug#284152: [patch] small edits to d-i rc2 errata

2004-12-04 Thread Vincent McIntyre
>  http://www.debian.org/devel/website/
thanks for the pointer.

Here is a diff against the cvs. I didn't do any of the translations.
At present I am trying to understand how all this works so I tried a
very simple change.

If it isn't useful, feel free to close this bug.
Vince

Index: webwml/english/devel/debian-installer/errata.wml
===
RCS file: /cvs/webwml/webwml/english/devel/debian-installer/errata.wml,v
retrieving revision 1.61
diff -u -r1.61 errata.wml
--- webwml/english/devel/debian-installer/errata.wml3 Dec 2004 18:20:04 
-   1.61
+++ webwml/english/devel/debian-installer/errata.wml4 Dec 2004 06:13:09 
-
@@ -49,15 +49,15 @@
volumes within the volume group will fail. This is due to some
unforeseen quirks in Sun disk labels.

-   2.6 install have the potential to mess up Windows 
partitioning.
+   2.6 installer has the potential to mess up Windows 
partitioning.
The fixes of the 2.6 CHS issue in parted are apparently
-   incomplete and some people have reported that windows did not boot
+   incomplete and some people have reported that Windows did not boot
after they installed Debian. This does not seem to affect all
systems, or even most systems, but we haven't enough data to be
-   sure. If your windows partition is important to you and you don't
+   sure. If your Windows partition is important to you and you don't
want to take the risk, do not use the "linux26" boot method for
-   the installer, and install with a 2.4 kernel. You can always
-   upgrade the installed kernel to 2.6 later.
+   the installer, and install with a 2.4 kernel ("linux" boot method).
+   You can always upgrade the installed kernel to 2.6 later.