Bug#288280: sarge cd install hangs in reboot

2005-01-02 Thread Geert Stappers
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 09:27:15PM +0100, Johan Ebbinghaus wrote: > Package: installation-reports > > Debian-installer-version: 2005-01-01 sarge-i386-1.iso Happy Newyear > uname -a: Not possible > Date: 2005-01-01 > Method: cd > > Machine: Laptop Acer TravelMate4502WLMi Mmm, you have the honour

Re: Debian installer: partman-prep

2005-01-02 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Am 03.01.2005 um 06:51 schrieb Christian Perrier: (CC'ing you just to be sure you get this, but please answer only in the list) Quoting Cajus Pollmeier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi I've prepared a partman-prep package which should add support for PPC PReP boot partitions to the installer. The package ha

[D-I Manual] Build log for en (03 Jan 2005)

2005-01-02 Thread Frans Pop
A build of the Debian Installer Manual was triggered by an update to SVN. There were no errors during the build process. The new version of the manual has been uploaded successfully. A log of the build is available at: - http://home.tiscali.nl/isildur/d-i/log/en.log === New in this theater: thes

Bug#288217: marked as done (Debian Testing - Installation Report)

2005-01-02 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Mon, 3 Jan 2005 06:58:07 +0100 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Bug#288217: Debian Testing - Installation Report 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 i

Bug#288269: localechooser: Can cause problems in floppy/netboot installations for unstable

2005-01-02 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > This leads to the following comments: > - Can we prevent the installation of localechooser if languagechooser is > already installed? We can probably. Indeed, I never focused on that as, in my mind, languagechooser should disappear as soone as localechoo

Bug#248075: about your Debian installation report

2005-01-02 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Greg Baker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I just tried this again with rc2 netinst and it seemed to work just > fine. > > I had to use linux26 to get the SATA drive working (at least, I think > that was the problem). But after that, everything was smooth sailing: > both SATA and on-board ethernet

Re: Bug#287932: debian-installer: serial console detection will fail if two console= kernel args are provided.

2005-01-02 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I feel it would be good to create a function that is run during > initialization of d-i that tests this once and saves relevant data so > other components can retrieve it. Localechooser could make use of it for showing only languages that can be displaye

Re: Debian installer: partman-prep

2005-01-02 Thread Christian Perrier
(CC'ing you just to be sure you get this, but please answer only in the list) Quoting Cajus Pollmeier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi > > I've prepared a partman-prep package which should add support for PPC > PReP > boot partitions to the installer. The package has been forked from > partman-palo.

Re: Sarge branch build dies with free blocks count == 0

2005-01-02 Thread Daniel Dickinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joey Hess wrote: | Daniel Dickinson wrote: | |> Hmmm... if it's a build dependency it's not one listed by |>dpkg-checkbuilddeps (I just ran it to check). Could you enumerate the |>build requirements and I'll see what's missing? |> |>I get this with bot

Bug#248075: about your Debian installation report

2005-01-02 Thread Greg Baker
I just tried this again with rc2 netinst and it seemed to work just fine. I had to use linux26 to get the SATA drive working (at least, I think that was the problem). But after that, everything was smooth sailing: both SATA and on-board ethernet. -- Greg Baker, Lecturer School of Computing Scie

Processed: Reassigning to kernel-image-2.4.27-sparc

2005-01-02 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 288140 kernel-image-2.4.27-sparc Bug#288140: [d-i rc2 and daily 20041219] [sparc] Keyboard handling broken on SS20 Bug reassigned from package `installation-reports' to `kernel-image-2.4.27-sparc'. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please

Bug#288140: [sparc] Keyboard handling broken on SS20

2005-01-02 Thread Jurij Smakov
On Sat, 1 Jan 2005, Karsten Merker wrote: From there on, further installation is impossible, as all keypresses deliver the wrong characters, looks like with a broken keymap -> no selection in the menu possible. This problem has also been confirmed by another user in #debian-boot. Hello, I am pretty

Re: [PATCH] choose-mirror.c

2005-01-02 Thread Joey Hess
Jerry Haltom wrote: > The following patch to choose-mirror.c removes the need for the hard > coded PREFERRED_DISTRIBUTION variable by allowing it to be overridden > with a pre-seeded value (good for non-Debian Debian's (Ubuntu)). I'm othered by the way this changes mirror/suite's value as part of

Bug#287932: debian-installer: serial console detection will fail if two console= kernel args are provided.

2005-01-02 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 31 December 2004 01:00, Sven Luther wrote: > The current way for detecting a serial console is to grep for > "console=ttyS" on the /proc/cmdline, which naturally fails in this > setup, and resulted on an impossibility to chose a keyboard on my prep > motorola powerstack install. fjp tells

Bug#288205: Deb Installer Bug 288205

2005-01-02 Thread Nick Bartle
Thanks for the reply, here's what I get: "Alt-F3" Mke2fs 1.35 28-feb-2004 Warning: could not read block 0: attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read Ext2fs_mkdir: attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read While creating root dir "Alt-F4" Main-menu[505]: DEB

Bug#288053: network-console - Regression: is not correctly added in menu

2005-01-02 Thread Frans Pop
reopen 288053 reassign 288053 main-menu severity 288053 wishlist retitle 288053 New items should be inserted after the one that loads them thanks On Saturday 01 January 2005 02:25, Frans Pop wrote: > I ended up with a menu that had _two_ "Language chooser" > options and where "Continue over SSH" w

Processed: Re: Bug#288053: network-console - Regression: is not correctly added in menu

2005-01-02 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reopen 288053 Bug#288053: network-console - Regression: is not correctly added in menu Bug reopened, originator not changed. > reassign 288053 main-menu Bug#288053: network-console - Regression: is not correctly added in menu Bug reassigned from packag

Bug#288280: sarge cd install hangs in reboot

2005-01-02 Thread Johan Ebbinghaus
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: 2005-01-01 sarge-i386-1.iso uname -a: Not possible Date: 2005-01-01 Method: cd Machine: Laptop Acer TravelMate4502WLMi Processor:Intel M725 1.6GHz Memory: 512MB Root Device: IDE Root Size/partition table: 50MB Output of lspci and lspci -n:

Bug#288269: localechooser: Can cause problems in floppy/netboot installations for unstable

2005-01-02 Thread Frans Pop
Package: localechooser Version: 0.03 This week I did a netboot installation on Sparc and selected an unstable mirror. After "Download installer components" I noticed there were _two_ items "Choose language" in the menu. /me was completely baffled. When I later repeated the installation I notice

Re: Desktop task broken on !(i386/powerpc)

2005-01-02 Thread Frans Pop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 January 2005 19:17, Joey Hess wrote: > You've just described the class of users whom the debian task system is > not designed. There exist plenty of users who do *not* know what > software they want, and just want a reasonale selection of

Bug#287125: install report

2005-01-02 Thread Joey Hess
Cathy Gramze wrote: > There is still a link light on both the NIC and the router. There > seems to be a lot of traffic every few seconds, then it settles down > to a routine blink, and then repeats. No change when I ping, i.e. no > extra activity blinks. It's interesting that the ping shows > unrea

Re: Desktop task broken on !(i386/powerpc)

2005-01-02 Thread Joey Hess
Joerg Friedrich wrote: > Because the user is aware of what he wants to use and does not need the > other part of the world. You've just described the class of users whom the debian task system is not designed. There exist plenty of users who do *not* know what software they want, and just want a r

Bug#288049: installation-reports: LSI MegaRAID 467 (aka Dell PERC2/DC) not detected, was detected in RC1 w/2.6 kernel

2005-01-02 Thread Dan Dennison
On 1/2/05 1:54 AM, "Geert Stappers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> megaraid >> (not megaraid2) > > Are you saying: > > RC1 detected a megaraid controller, but it should be megaraid2? RC1 using linux26 detected correctly the MegaRAID controller and installed correctly "megaraid" >> For 2.4 ser

Bug#186594:

2005-01-02 Thread Hightails B. Expansionists
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Bug#183811:

2005-01-02 Thread Coldness H. Dabbler
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Bug#288205: Installation Reports

2005-01-02 Thread Geert Stappers
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 01:35:52PM -, Nick Bartle wrote: > Comments/Problems: > > This happens on 2.4 or 2.6 Install kernels with acpi on or off, using either > installer RC1 or RC2 > > Using Guided Partitioning failed every time, when formatting Root partition > it hung at 33%. When settin

Bug#183541:

2005-01-02 Thread Insubordination R. Employes
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Bug#252995: marked as done ((no subject))

2005-01-02 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sun, 2 Jan 2005 16:31:20 +0100 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Bug#252995: about your Debian installation report 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

Bug#288217: Debian Testing - Installation Report

2005-01-02 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 02 January 2005 15:13, Andrew Tuitt wrote: > Comments/Problems: > After X was setup and it loaded, a second, un-moveable mouse cursor was > visible on the screen that could not be removed from the screen (until > a certain amount of time passed, which was a few minutes or so). I am > not

Bug#288220: marked as done (Package: installation-reports)

2005-01-02 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sun, 2 Jan 2005 16:39:06 +0100 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Bug#288220: 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#288220: Package: installation-reports

2005-01-02 Thread Dominik Zogg
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: RC2 -> Chance to the unstable tree uname -a: Linux laptop-s 2.6.10-m6n #6 SMP Mon Dec 27 17:12:08 CET 2004 i686 GNU/Linux (create by original kernel-source from kernel.org, but with the original (kernel-source-2.6.9) the sytem also works f

Bug#288217: Debian Testing - Installation Report

2005-01-02 Thread Andrew Tuitt
Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: rc2 (downloaded around Dec 20, 2004) uname -a: Linux debian 2.4.27-1-386 #1 Fri Sep 3 06:24:46 UTC 2004 i586 GNU/Linux Date: January 2, 2005 around 6:00am EST Method: Net install, booted from a CDROM, from mirrors.kernel.org, a

Bug#288205: Installation Reports

2005-01-02 Thread Nick Bartle
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: 02 Jan 05 Debian Installer Release Candidate 2 from http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/i386/rc2/sarge-i386- businesscard.iso uname -a: "Linux debian 2.6.8-1-386 #1 Thu Oct 7 02:21:16 EDT 2004 i586 Unkown" Date: 02 Jan 05

Bug#252995: about your Debian installation report

2005-01-02 Thread Thomas J. Zeeman
Hi, On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Joey Hess wrote: Hello, I'm writing you because you filed an installation report a while ago on an old version of the debian installer. Your installation report was #252995 and can be viewed online at . Sorry for the delay on this. I only rece

Bug#287587: installation-reports: MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum, install failed with SATA-devices Samsung SP1213C 120GB

2005-01-02 Thread Thomas Koeppen
Sven Luther wrote: On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 12:53:59AM +0100, Thomas Koeppen wrote: Package: installation-reports Severity: normal an-installer-version:http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/debian-installer/2004-12-26/netboot/netboot.tar.gz uname -a: Linux aphrodite 2.6.8-9-amd64-k8 #1 Sat Dec 4

Re: Desktop task broken on !(i386/powerpc)

2005-01-02 Thread Joerg Friedrich
Petter Reinholdtsen schrieb am Sonntag, 02. Januar 2005 um 12:17:33 +0100: > [Sven Luther] > > I think the real solution to this recuring problem is to split the > > dekstop patch into a "just X", "gnome" and "KDE" task. This is much > > more friendlier to our non-broadband users, and it makes the

Re: Desktop task broken on !(i386/powerpc)

2005-01-02 Thread Joerg Friedrich
Sven Luther schrieb am Sonntag, 02. Januar 2005 um 12:20:43 +0100: > On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 08:08:16PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: > > * Martin Michlmayr [Sat, 01 Jan 2005 18:09:39 +]: > > > The "Desktop environment" task is broken on non-i386/powerc machines > > > because of kdegraphics: > >

Re: Desktop task broken on !(i386/powerpc)

2005-01-02 Thread Joerg Friedrich
Martin Michlmayr schrieb am Samstag, 01. Januar 2005 um 18:09:39 +: > The "Desktop environment" task is broken on non-i386/powerc machines > because of kdegraphics: http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2004/11/msg00218.html -- Jörg Friedrich There are only 10 types of people: Those who unde

[D-I Manual] Build log for en (02 Jan 2005)

2005-01-02 Thread Frans Pop
A build of the Debian Installer Manual was triggered by an update to SVN. There were no errors during the build process. The new version of the manual has been uploaded successfully. A log of the build is available at: - http://home.tiscali.nl/isildur/d-i/log/en.log === New in this theater: thes

Re: Bug#287533: Acknowledgement ([daily 20041227][i386] stop when loading sd_mod if Tekram SCSI board is present)

2005-01-02 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
Il giorno gio, 30-12-2004 alle 18:00 +0100, Geert Stappers ha scritto: > On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 02:44:11PM +0100, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > > After some more tests I admit I was wrong: the problem is still there. > > [...] > Provide also the output of `lspci -n` > or even better: > > ( lspci ; ls

Re: Desktop task broken on !(i386/powerpc)

2005-01-02 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Sven Luther] > I think the real solution to this recuring problem is to split the > dekstop patch into a "just X", "gnome" and "KDE" task. This is much > more friendlier to our non-broadband users, and it makes the task > stuff actually usable. As it stands, we could as well not show it. Personal

Re: Desktop task broken on !(i386/powerpc)

2005-01-02 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 08:08:16PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Martin Michlmayr [Sat, 01 Jan 2005 18:09:39 +]: > > The "Desktop environment" task is broken on non-i386/powerc machines > > because of kdegraphics: > > I don't know what response is expected from the KDE Team. just to do a >

Bug#288049: installation-reports: LSI MegaRAID 467 (aka Dell PERC2/DC) not detected, was detected in RC1 w/2.6 kernel

2005-01-02 Thread Geert Stappers
Hello Dan, Hello others that read this bugreport update, It is a request for unambiguous answers. On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 03:18:13PM -0800, Dan Dennison wrote: > On 1/1/05 6:27 AM, "Geert Stappers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 02:00:33PM -0800, Dan Dennison wrote: >

Re: 43p-140 install issues

2005-01-02 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 08:15:13PM -0500, Mike Martin wrote: > I can boot with this image: > http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-powerpc/current/images/powerpc/netboot/vmlinuz-prep.initrd Cool. > And things seems to go very well. Network configures, hard drives > partition,