Re: Installation report: mirror asked twice during the installation

2004-11-05 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I am not complaining about the fact that you are sending emails, but that > your sending emails is not contributing anything. Well, I slightly disagree here. Jérôme first checks whether a given problem is a known problem before reporting it. At least, th

Re: Installation report: belgian keyboard

2004-11-05 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > There already is a bug report for this: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=276067 By the way, your comment in this bug report is slightly wrong, I will correct it : the countries displayed after the language selection are not those "that h

Bug#279936: [i386][20041104][netinst] partial success: Dell PowerEdge 1850

2004-11-05 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Some additional info about these raid controllers, copied from http://mlug.missouri.edu/pipermail/members/2004-September/006213.html Discussion: Some of the new Dell PowerEdge servers use Dell's PERC4ei (alternate spellings for search: PERC 4/ei, PERC4/ei, PERC4 EI, PERC 4ei) RAID controller, w

Re: Bug#279320: Package: installation-reports

2004-11-05 Thread Stallone
Thanks for the added info. I finally got my installation working after lots of umount/mount of CD-ROMS and restarting disk scanning steps. I am sorry I don't remember the exact sequence that got it to work. I wasn't really sure how to apply that patch, especially with a partially installed s

base-config_2.56_i386.changes ACCEPTED

2004-11-05 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: base-config_2.56.dsc to pool/main/b/base-config/base-config_2.56.dsc base-config_2.56.tar.gz to pool/main/b/base-config/base-config_2.56.tar.gz base-config_2.56_all.deb to pool/main/b/base-config/base-config_2.56_all.deb Announcing to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for your contribu

Processing of base-config_2.56_i386.changes

2004-11-05 Thread Archive Administrator
base-config_2.56_i386.changes uploaded successfully to localhost along with the files: base-config_2.56.dsc base-config_2.56.tar.gz base-config_2.56_all.deb Greetings, Your Debian queue daemon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Bug#279911: debian-installer: initrd not mentioned when no bootloader is chosen

2004-11-05 Thread Philipp Kern
Package: debian-installer Severity: important Justification: System would not boot if initrd is not passed to the kernel. The debian-installer provides the option to ``continue without a bootloader''. It might be an option for experts only but still it displays a note which should help configuring

Processed: Reassign to kernel-image

2004-11-05 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 273171 kernel-image-2.6.8-1-386 Bug#273171: CDROM undetected Bug reassigned from package `installation-reports' to `kernel-image-2.6.8-1-386'. > merge 273171 279902 Bug#273171: CDROM undetected Bug#279902: CDROM not detected on Intel 440BX bas

Re: debconf: country code in a base-config script

2004-11-05 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On ÎÎÏ 05 ÎÎÎ 2004 21:36, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > However in my case I need the country code for a script that simply > needs a country code and not much more. No extra logic is involved > besides maintaining a list of valid country codes. > > I also don't like the dependency on perl. So far I have

linux-kernel-di-ia64-2.6 override disparity

2004-11-05 Thread Debian Installer
There are disparities between your recently accepted upload and the override file for the following file(s): usb-storage-modules-2.6.8-1-itanium-smp-di_0.05_ia64.udeb: package says priority is standard, override says extra. Either the package or the override file is incorrect. If you think the

linux-kernel-di-ia64-2.6_0.05_ia64.changes ACCEPTED

2004-11-05 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: cdrom-core-modules-2.6.8-1-itanium-smp-di_0.05_ia64.udeb to pool/main/l/linux-kernel-di-ia64-2.6/cdrom-core-modules-2.6.8-1-itanium-smp-di_0.05_ia64.udeb ext3-modules-2.6.8-1-itanium-smp-di_0.05_ia64.udeb to pool/main/l/linux-kernel-di-ia64-2.6/ext3-modules-2.6.8-1-itanium-smp-di_0

Re: Bug#273171: Any Progress?

2004-11-05 Thread Michael Lueck
Frans Pop wrote: Your problem looks like a bug in the ata_piix kernel module, not in debian installer. Fine, I took the time to log a bug against the kernel, referring back to this Bug#273171. I guess I was wasting my time watching for this bug to go away. -- Michael Lueck Lueck Data Systems Remo

Bug#279085: tasksel: Support executable .desc scripts

2004-11-05 Thread Denis Barbier
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 11:27:11AM +0100, Free Ekanayaka wrote: [...] > DB> Out of curiosity, how do you manage translations when tasks are > DB> dynamically created? > > FE> That's a problem I did not take into account. Is there any straight > FE> solution? Tasksel prints translated t

Bug#273171: Any Progress?

2004-11-05 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 05 November 2004 20:38, Michael Lueck wrote: > I just pulled down the Sarge CD again today. This issue still affects > the Dell Optiplex GX1 (Intel 440BX based system) - unable to detect the > CDROM at bootup. Did you see the reply from Joey Hess to this bug? If not, check http://bugs.de

Processing of linux-kernel-di-ia64-2.6_0.05_ia64.changes

2004-11-05 Thread Archive Administrator
linux-kernel-di-ia64-2.6_0.05_ia64.changes uploaded successfully to localhost along with the files: linux-kernel-di-ia64-2.6_0.05.dsc linux-kernel-di-ia64-2.6_0.05.tar.gz kernel-image-2.6.8-1-itanium-smp-di_0.05_ia64.udeb nic-modules-2.6.8-1-itanium-smp-di_0.05_ia64.udeb nic-shared-module

Re: Installation report: mirror asked twice during the installation

2004-11-05 Thread Frans Pop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 05 November 2004 20:34, Jerome Warnier wrote: > On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 20:25 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > > This is beginning to look like spam! All your comments could have > > been made in _one_ proper installation report [1]. > > I know that p

Bug#279590: base-config: http/proxy fails to preseed

2004-11-05 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: > Once that is fixed, I imagine it will indeed start prompting for a proxy > twice. Checking the seen flag won't work, we need to unset the seen flag > to allow apt-setup to prompt for a proxy when re-run. Probably a new > environment variable can be used. It also turned out that

base-config_2.53.2_i386.changes ACCEPTED

2004-11-05 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: base-config_2.53.2.dsc to pool/main/b/base-config/base-config_2.53.2.dsc base-config_2.53.2.tar.gz to pool/main/b/base-config/base-config_2.53.2.tar.gz base-config_2.53.2_all.deb to pool/main/b/base-config/base-config_2.53.2_all.deb Thank you for your contribution to Debian. --

Bug#273171: Any Progress?

2004-11-05 Thread Michael Lueck
I just pulled down the Sarge CD again today. This issue still affects the Dell Optiplex GX1 (Intel 440BX based system) - unable to detect the CDROM at bootup. Thanks! Michael Lueck Lueck Data Systems http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

base-config_2.55_i386.changes ACCEPTED

2004-11-05 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: base-config_2.55.dsc to pool/main/b/base-config/base-config_2.55.dsc base-config_2.55.tar.gz to pool/main/b/base-config/base-config_2.55.tar.gz base-config_2.55_all.deb to pool/main/b/base-config/base-config_2.55_all.deb Announcing to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Closing bugs: 279590 Thank

Processing of base-config_2.53.2_i386.changes

2004-11-05 Thread Archive Administrator
base-config_2.53.2_i386.changes uploaded successfully to localhost along with the files: base-config_2.53.2.dsc base-config_2.53.2.tar.gz base-config_2.53.2_all.deb Greetings, Your Debian queue daemon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Bug#279590: marked as done (base-config: http/proxy fails to preseed)

2004-11-05 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Fri, 05 Nov 2004 14:17:03 -0500 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Bug#279590: fixed in base-config 2.55 has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now y

Re: Installation report: mirror asked twice during the installation

2004-11-05 Thread Jerome Warnier
On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 20:25 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Friday 05 November 2004 19:58, Jerome Warnier wrote: > > During the installation, I don't understand why it asks a first time > > for a mirror (based on the country) once before the reboot,

Re: debconf: country code in a base-config script

2004-11-05 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 07:02:24PM +0200, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > On ÎÎÏ 05 ÎÎÎ 2004 15:55, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > Hi > > > > I want to configure some packages in the base-config script using > > the value of the two-letter country code (e.g: "us", "gb", "il"). > > > > The information is

Re: Installation report: mirror asked twice during the installation

2004-11-05 Thread Frans Pop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 05 November 2004 19:58, Jerome Warnier wrote: > During the installation, I don't understand why it asks a first time > for a mirror (based on the country) once before the reboot, and once > again after the reboot. It doesn't even default to t

Re: Installation report: belgian keyboard

2004-11-05 Thread Jerome Warnier
On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 20:13 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Friday 05 November 2004 19:49, Jerome Warnier wrote: > > Well, not exactly. As it is talking about strange keyboard layouts. > > I'm asking to depend on both country and language, not to de

Bug#279590: base-config: http/proxy fails to preseed

2004-11-05 Thread Joey Hess
> With that, if the earlier stages have already prompted the user for a > proxy and the user did not enter anything because she doesn't need > one...then she will be prompted again for a proxy. In short, netboot > and businesscard installs are likely to prompt twice for a proxy. > > A better fix w

Bug#279590: base-config: http/proxy fails to preseed

2004-11-05 Thread Joey Hess
Christian Perrier wrote: > With that, if the earlier stages have already prompted the user for a > proxy and the user did not enter anything because she doesn't need > one...then she will be prompted again for a proxy. In short, netboot > and businesscard installs are likely to prompt twice for a p

Processing of base-config_2.55_i386.changes

2004-11-05 Thread Archive Administrator
base-config_2.55_i386.changes uploaded successfully to localhost along with the files: base-config_2.55.dsc base-config_2.55.tar.gz base-config_2.55_all.deb Greetings, Your Debian queue daemon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Installation report: belgian keyboard

2004-11-05 Thread Frans Pop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 05 November 2004 19:49, Jerome Warnier wrote: > Well, not exactly. As it is talking about strange keyboard layouts. > I'm asking to depend on both country and language, not to depend only > on one. And, I'm asking only to change the default,

Bug#262200: Re: Bug#262200: debian-installer: d-i downloads unneeded packages

2004-11-05 Thread Philipp Kern
Hi there, > What suddenly makes it hard to download stuff? The network's still > there. Is this a design issue? if you install from a modem connection anyway most people want to save money by disconnecting after the packages are transmitted, thus the installer would not be able to suck packages

Installation report: mirror asked twice during the installation

2004-11-05 Thread Jerome Warnier
Still using ... you know what ;-) During the installation, I don't understand why it asks a first time for a mirror (based on the country) once before the reboot, and once again after the reboot. It doesn't even default to the previous choice. It would be great to keep this between stages of the i

Bug#279590: base-config: http/proxy fails to preseed

2004-11-05 Thread Joey Hess
Analysis of this bug: - mirror/http/proxy is preseeded, and does not exist in the cdebconf database at preseed time, so debconf-set-selections registers it to the debian-installer/dummy template - base-config copies mirror/http/proxy to the debconf db using debconf-copydb, which copies templ

Re: Installation report: belgian keyboard

2004-11-05 Thread Jerome Warnier
On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 19:09 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Friday 05 November 2004 18:51, Jerome Warnier wrote: > > Installer asks for the language, I answer "French". > > It asks me for the country and defaults to "France", I answer > > "Belgium".

Re: Installation report: why does it download mdetect and read-edid?

2004-11-05 Thread Frans Pop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 05 November 2004 18:58, Jerome Warnier wrote: > I don't understand why d-i keeps downloading and installing mdetect and > read-edid while it doesn't know if I want a GUI at all. > Anybody can explain? Because they need to be installed _befor

Re: Installation report: error while not selecting any choice of packages

2004-11-05 Thread Jerome Warnier
On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 19:12 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Friday 05 November 2004 18:56, Jerome Warnier wrote: > > At the very end of the installation, it asks me to chose selection(s) > > of packages. If I check no box at all, I get an error of a

Re: Installation report: error while not selecting any choice of packages

2004-11-05 Thread Frans Pop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 05 November 2004 18:56, Jerome Warnier wrote: > At the very end of the installation, it asks me to chose selection(s) > of packages. If I check no box at all, I get an error of aptitude being > unable to do something (I don't have the time to

Re: Installation report: belgian keyboard

2004-11-05 Thread Frans Pop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 05 November 2004 18:51, Jerome Warnier wrote: > Installer asks for the language, I answer "French". > It asks me for the country and defaults to "France", I answer > "Belgium". It asks me for a keyboard layout and defaults to "French", > whil

Bug#279888: yaboot-installer: support pegasos2 ...

2004-11-05 Thread Sven Luther
Package: yaboot-installer Severity: wishlist Kamion, as discussed on irc, i am filling here a bug report to add support yaboot on pegasos 2. This is not urgent, since first we need to convinve Ethan to let Warren include the amiga partition table patch, and second i need to release the fixed OF u

Installation report: why does it download mdetect and read-edid?

2004-11-05 Thread Jerome Warnier
Still using daily build netboot from yesterday (4 Nov, hope you get it now ;-)). I don't understand why d-i keeps downloading and installing mdetect and read-edid while it doesn't know if I want a GUI at all. Anybody can explain? Thanks -- Jerome Warnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BeezNest -- To UNS

Installation report: error while not selecting any choice of packages

2004-11-05 Thread Jerome Warnier
Still using daily build netboot from yesterday (4 Nov). At the very end of the installation, it asks me to chose selection(s) of packages. If I check no box at all, I get an error of aptitude being unable to do something (I don't have the time to read the exact message, sorry) and it comes back to

Installation report: belgian keyboard

2004-11-05 Thread Jerome Warnier
Using daily build netboot from yesterday (4 Nov). Installer asks for the language, I answer "French". It asks me for the country and defaults to "France", I answer "Belgium". It asks me for a keyboard layout and defaults to "French", while I would expect "Belgian". Thanks to fix this. -- Jerome

Re: debconf: country code in a base-config script

2004-11-05 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
First I would suggest for localization stuff to use the appropriate package, localization-config. It offers the framework to do package configuration based on the locale info, without so much as changing base-config itself. There are some example scripts there that you could use as base. What in

Re: debconf: country code in a base-config script

2004-11-05 Thread Joey Hess
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > Hi > > I want to configure some packages in the base-config script using the > value of the two-letter country code (e.g: "us", "uk", "il"). > > The information is available in debconf. However the following command > seems t give an indication that the debconf database is

Bug#279065: marked as done (Package: installation-reports)

2004-11-05 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Fri, 5 Nov 2004 16:00:36 +0100 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Bug#279065: Package: installation-reports has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is no

Bug#276901: d-i on Thinkpad R40e unresponsive/hangs

2004-11-05 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 19:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks for the advice. > In the BIOS I set: Config -> USB -> USB BIOS Support: [Disabled] > > And now, where the ISO of unknown version, using 'linux', previously > hung, it now works. And where test 2-pre, using 'linux', hung, it now > w

Bug#279506: installation-reports

2004-11-05 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 04 November 2004 09:29, madjpm wrote: > I ve got a 'legacy usb' option in my bios but even if I disable or > enable it, i ve got no usb keyboard with a 2.6 kernel. And this option > is a little bit dangerous because i only have a usb keyboard and after > disableling it i was unable to e

Bug#279086: marked as done (installation-reports)

2004-11-05 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Fri, 5 Nov 2004 15:24:45 +0100 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Bug#279086: installation-reports has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your re

Processed: retitle #279017

2004-11-05 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > retitle 279017 partman: Does not change partition type Bug#279017: partconf: Does not change partition type Changed Bug title. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system administrator (admi

Bug#278462: marked as done (Debian Installation Report: Kernel Panic)

2004-11-05 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Fri, 5 Nov 2004 15:11:06 +0100 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Debian Installation Report: Kernel Panic has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now

debconf: country code in a base-config script

2004-11-05 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Hi I want to configure some packages in the base-config script using the value of the two-letter country code (e.g: "us", "uk", "il"). The information is available in debconf. However the following command seems t give an indication that the debconf database is locked when run from a base-config

Bug#279855: debian-installer: Support PPPoE

2004-11-05 Thread Dennis Brakhane
Package: debian-installer Severity: wishlist It would be nice if the debian-installer would include pppoe (even in businesscard) and provide PPPoE as an option when asking if a PPP connection should be created. Right now I have to download the netinst-image (because business does not contain pp

Re: svn-account not accessible anymore

2004-11-05 Thread Christian Perrier
> If only LDAP is the problem, won't a watchdog "patch" these problems by > restarting LDAP when it hangs? I think it's not just a matter of restarting the daemon, most often. But I do not get more cluesalioth admins probably now far more stuff than me on that topic. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: installing on ASUS K8N-E Deluxe

2004-11-05 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 05:02:10PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Christian T. Steigies wrote: > > The i386 install had one major obstacle, the onboard network was not > > detected, it might have loaded the nic module, but DHCP and manual network > > config did not work. I think this is due to a second

Re: svn-account not accessible anymore

2004-11-05 Thread Ognyan Kulev
Christian Perrier wrote: This looks like one of our traditional alioth breakages. Hint : LDAP down. System halted. If only LDAP is the problem, won't a watchdog "patch" these problems by restarting LDAP when it hangs? Regards, ogi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Bug#279085: tasksel: Support executable .desc scripts

2004-11-05 Thread Free Ekanayaka
|--==> Free Ekanayaka writes: |--==> Denis Barbier writes: DB> Package: tasksel DB> Version: 2.14 DB> Followup-For: Bug #279085 DB> You wrote: >>>Here is a little patch to support executable .desc files. This way one >>>can dynamically create the list of available tasks, for ex

Bug#279086: installation-reports

2004-11-05 Thread Jocke Selin
> On Sunday 31 October 2004 16:41, Jocke Selin wrote: > > Comments/Problems: > > The install booted up fine, selecting language, keyboard etc worked > > fine. But then the install detected hardware which didn't give any > > errors. When it came to "Detect and mount CD-ROM" the install > reported >

Processed: severity of 273465 is wishlist ...

2004-11-05 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.8.5 > severity 273465 wishlist Bug#273465: netcfg: Can only set the first WEP key Severity set to `wishlist'. > retitle 273465 netcfg: Please make it possible to set WEP keys other than the

Processed: tagging 274714

2004-11-05 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.8.5 > tags 274714 moreinfo Bug#274714: d-i: fails to configure networking with 3c59x under Linux 2.4 There were no tags set. Tags added: moreinfo > End of message, stopping processing here.

Processed: retitle 270304 to netcfg: netcfg/wireless_wep template contains falsehood

2004-11-05 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.8.5 > retitle 270304 netcfg: netcfg/wireless_wep template contains falsehood Bug#270304: netcfg: help for WEP-key-entry screen is very unclear Changed Bug title. > End of message, stopping