Bug#369256: installation-reports: modprobe does not find kernel modules

2006-05-28 Thread Eddy Petrişor
On 5/29/06, Eddy Petrişor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/29/06, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eddy Petrisor wrote: > > The modprobe command bundled in d-i environment does not work out of the > > box. If one starts the installer in expert mode and skips directly to > > the "Load install

Bug#369256: installation-reports: modprobe does not find kernel modules

2006-05-28 Thread Eddy Petrişor
On 5/29/06, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Eddy Petrisor wrote: > The modprobe command bundled in d-i environment does not work out of the > box. If one starts the installer in expert mode and skips directly to > the "Load installer components from CD" menu item, chooses a kernel > module (

Bug#369038: marked as done (debian-installer: [PPC] [Old World] May 24th and May 25th 2006 miBoot floppy images broken)

2006-05-28 Thread Daniel Dickinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 28 May 2006 23:44:01 -0400 Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --447a6fa2_40410769_4354 > > Daniel Dickinson wrote: > > Okay, there is something very strange going on here. I just checked > > the 13th, and it's image is now empty as wel

Bug#369038: marked as done (debian-installer: [PPC] [Old World] May 24th and May 25th 2006 miBoot floppy images broken)

2006-05-28 Thread Joey Hess
Daniel Dickinson wrote: > Okay, there is something very strange going on here. I just checked > the 13th, and it's image is now empty as well, and it was the first > image that worked for me. Sure you downloaded it from ~cjwatson? Maybe you got someone else's build, that includes miboot locally

Bug#369038: marked as done (debian-installer: [PPC] [Old World] May 24th and May 25th 2006 miBoot floppy images broken)

2006-05-28 Thread Daniel Dickinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 28 May 2006 22:07:01 -0400 Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --447a5b42_7346d134_4354 > > Daniel Dickinson wrote: > > Well, I just loop mounted the 27th's floppy image and copied it's > > contents to a temporary directory for compariso

Bug#369038: marked as done (debian-installer: [PPC] [Old World] May 24th and May 25th 2006 miBoot floppy images broken)

2006-05-28 Thread Joey Hess
Daniel Dickinson wrote: > Well, I just loop mounted the 27th's floppy image and copied it's > contents to a temporary directory for comparison with the 25th, but > > The 25th's floppy image was empty! > > And so was the 24th's. That would explain why the disk was ejected > almost immediately aft

Bug#369038: marked as done (debian-installer: [PPC] [Old World] May 24th and May 25th 2006 miBoot floppy images broken)

2006-05-28 Thread Daniel Dickinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 28 May 2006 20:39:02 -0400 Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, the weird thing here is that nothing on the powerpc or boot floppy > side of things is exactly currently in a state of flux. As far as I > can see, the code is exactly th

Bug#365074: marked as done (support for kFreeBSD)

2006-05-28 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sun, 28 May 2006 17:32:05 -0700 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Bug#365074: fixed in kernel-wedge 2.22 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

Bug#369038: marked as done (debian-installer: [PPC] [Old World] May 24th and May 25th 2006 miBoot floppy images broken)

2006-05-28 Thread Joey Hess
Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > On a Motorola StarMax 4000/160 mac-clone based on the Apple Tanzania > motherboard > (MacOS 9.1 reports it as a PowerMac 4400), the daily miBoot floppy images for > old world > powerpc work for May 13th to May 23rd builds, but as of the May 24th and 25th > b

Re: RFC: [powerpc] fixing quik-installer

2006-05-28 Thread Joey Hess
Daniel Dickinson wrote: > I plan on fixing quik-installer so that it actually works (apparently > it currently never works). IIRC Colin wrote it but may have never actually been able to test it himself, so I'm not really suprised if it's never really worked. Is the problem just that you need a se

Bug#369256: installation-reports: modprobe does not find kernel modules

2006-05-28 Thread Joey Hess
Eddy Petrisor wrote: > The modprobe command bundled in d-i environment does not work out of the > box. If one starts the installer in expert mode and skips directly to > the "Load installer components from CD" menu item, chooses a kernel > module (let's say crypto modules) after the package's insta

Re: partman-lvm testing/review wanted

2006-05-28 Thread Joey Hess
David Härdeman wrote: > The only TODO on my list is to modify partman-auto-lvm to use the > generic functions provided by the lvm_tools.sh script provided by > partman-lvm, so I was hoping that someone could test and/or review the > updated packages and see if anything breaks (I'm not able to br

Re: glibc udebs

2006-05-28 Thread Joey Hess
Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Well if it is only for d-i, maybe it should be a udeb package? The only > concern I have with that is that it has to go through NEW... A udeb isn't really appropriate for a -pic package, since it would be used at image build time, not run time, and the pic library would no

Re: How to deal with bad floppies/cd's

2006-05-28 Thread Joey Hess
Daniel Dickinson wrote: > I've noticed that if a udeb fails to load from a floppy that the > installer is unable to recover gracefully. First you get an error > message, but once you press ENTER, it get locked in a loop where it > draws a black screen, then a white screen, and back. This presumab

kernel-wedge_2.22_i386.changes ACCEPTED

2006-05-28 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: kernel-wedge_2.22.dsc to pool/main/k/kernel-wedge/kernel-wedge_2.22.dsc kernel-wedge_2.22.tar.gz to pool/main/k/kernel-wedge/kernel-wedge_2.22.tar.gz kernel-wedge_2.22_all.deb to pool/main/k/kernel-wedge/kernel-wedge_2.22_all.deb Announcing to debian-devel-changes@lists.debian.org

Re: slow list of package names in low-memory install

2006-05-28 Thread Joey Hess
John Reiser wrote: > While using the Debian installer in low-memory mode to put a Debian system > onto a NSLU2 (ARM processor with 32MB RAM), I noticed that the installer > seemed slow. Running "ps" repeatedly in a concurrent session, I often > saw about 80 processes per second, and many command l

Processing of kernel-wedge_2.22_i386.changes

2006-05-28 Thread Archive Administrator
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RFC: [powerpc] fixing quik-installer

2006-05-28 Thread Daniel Dickinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I plan on fixing quik-installer so that it actually works (apparently it currently never works). This would involve modifying the openfirmware variables for the boot device, as well as the of variables for console. The reason I'm requesting comments,

Bug#369312: miBoot enable floppies don't eject; must use a paperclip

2006-05-28 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal On Macs floppy drives don't come with a manual eject button; you are expected to eject floppies through software. This is a problem for floppy installs of debian because the boot floppy is not ejected to permit the insertion of the root floppy, nor is th

Re: [powerpc] Stable install from daily d-i works

2006-05-28 Thread Daniel Dickinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 28 May 2006 19:03:35 -0400 Daniel Dickinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just thought I'd let you know that using the May 23rd disk set, I have > successfully installed sarge on an oldworld powerpc (it was, of > course, necessary to manually

Bug#369307: quik-installer-udeb

2006-05-28 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: quik-installer Version: 0.0.10 Severity: normal quik-installer complains that quik requires that /boot and root be on the same partition. This is incorrect. quik only requires that boot and root be on the same disk. -- And that's my crabbing done for the day. Got it out of the way ea

Re: partman-lvm testing/review wanted

2006-05-28 Thread David Härdeman
On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 12:43:26AM +0200, David Härdeman wrote: ...will report back once I've fixed it Should be fixed now in SVN -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[powerpc] Stable install from daily d-i works

2006-05-28 Thread Daniel Dickinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just thought I'd let you know that using the May 23rd disk set, I have successfully installed sarge on an oldworld powerpc (it was, of course, necessary to manually modify the open firmware variables). There are some hiccups, but they also occur with

Re: partman-lvm testing/review wanted

2006-05-28 Thread David Härdeman
On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 12:14:40AM +0200, David Härdeman wrote: ... so I was hoping that someone could test and/or review the updated packages and see if anything breaks (I'm not able to break it myself anymore). Of course posting to a public mailing list means that I'll discover a bug second

Processed: Re: installation-reports: modprobe does not find kernel modules

2006-05-28 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 369256 installation-reports Bug#369256: module-init-tools-udeb: modprobe does not find kernel modules Bug reassigned from package `module-init-tools-udeb' to `installation-reports'. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you

Re: installation-reports: modprobe does not find kernel modules

2006-05-28 Thread Marco d'Itri
reassign 369256 installation-reports thanks On May 29, Eddy Petri??or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is module-init-tools-udeb the package which provides modprobe in > the d-i environment, right? So it is the logical choice. Not so logical, actually. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description:

partman-lvm testing/review wanted

2006-05-28 Thread David Härdeman
Hi all, in the last few days I've rewritten much of the functionality in partman-lvm by merging the lvm functionality in lvmcfg and partman-auto-lvm. It has gained a number of new features, and has dropped the dependency on lvmcfg in the process. Noteworthy changes: o Displays overview of

Re: glibc udebs

2006-05-28 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Joey Hess wrote: Aurelien Jarno wrote: I manage to build smaller udebs for the glibc. I built it with -Os, and disabled support for 2.4 kernels. On i386, the gain is 124kB on the udebs size and 260kB on the installed size. Currently it is built in a dirty way by doing that on the main library

How to deal with bad floppies/cd's

2006-05-28 Thread Daniel Dickinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've noticed that if a udeb fails to load from a floppy that the installer is unable to recover gracefully. First you get an error message, but once you press ENTER, it get locked in a loop where it draws a black screen, then a white screen, and back.

Re: libdebian-installer build fails on hurd-i386

2006-05-28 Thread Matheus Morais
Perfectly, sorry for the mistake and thanks for the explanation.Thanks,Matheus Morais

Re: libdebian-installer build fails on hurd-i386

2006-05-28 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 05:39:35PM -0300, Matheus Morais wrote: > On 5/28/06, Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Which version? 0.41 builds fine. > libdebian-installer (0.42) UNRELEASED; So you build out of the repository. > >It always does this. > Hmm, maybe this is the problem, there i

Additions to powerpc Beta2 errata & notes on a fix

2006-05-28 Thread Daniel Dickinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Would it be possible to add a note to the beta2 errata for oldworld powerpc that the quik-install/openfirmware setups fails, and that one needs to manually set the OpenFirmware boot-device. It should also be noted that in many cases, ouput-device and

Re: libdebian-installer build fails on hurd-i386

2006-05-28 Thread Matheus Morais
On 5/28/06, Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Which version? 0.41 builds fine. libdebian-installer (0.42) UNRELEASED; It always does this.Hmm, maybe this is the problem, there is no installer.sh/instaler-sh inside libdebian-installer directory. Is it installer.sh should be generated automati

Re: libdebian-installer build fails on hurd-i386

2006-05-28 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 05:17:59PM -0300, Matheus Morais wrote: > I was trying to build libdebian-installer on hurd-i386 port and that is the > result of the proccess: Which version? 0.41 builds fine. > Why configure is looking for install-sh or install.sh? I'm reviewing my > build procedures to

Re: installation-reports: modprobe does not find kernel modules

2006-05-28 Thread Marco d'Itri
> The modprobe command bundled in d-i environment does not work out of the > box. If one starts the installer in expert mode and skips directly to > the "Load installer components from CD" menu item, chooses a kernel > module (let's say crypto modules) after the package's installation > attempting

libdebian-installer build fails on hurd-i386

2006-05-28 Thread Matheus Morais
Hi there, I was trying to build libdebian-installer on hurd-i386 port and that is the result of the proccess:debian/rules cleandh_testdirdh_testrootrm -f build-stamprm -rf buildcp -f /usr/share/misc/config.sub config.subcp -f /usr/share/misc/config.guess config.guessdh_clean debian/rules builddh_t

Re: [RECAP] Can libdebian-installer be unblocked from entering testing?

2006-05-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 01:11:40PM -0400, Filipus Klutiero wrote: > >Unblocking libdebian-installer 0.97 might cause problems due to this > >change: > > * archdetect: Rename sb1-swarm-bn to sb1-bcm91250a for consistency. > Then Martin Michlmayr clarified (at least for me) that the problem was >

Processed: yeah, that was easy

2006-05-28 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > tags 369256 d-i Bug#369256: installation-reports: modprobe does not find kernel modules There were no tags set. Tags added: d-i > reassign 369256 module-init-tools-udeb Bug#369256: installation-reports: modprobe does not find kernel modules Bug reassig

Re: Idea: making it easier to change DEBCONF_PRIORITY

2006-05-28 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 08:25:31PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 07:13:31PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 11:18:32AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > The main problem I have with the current setup is that out of the > > > choices which are current

fetch+run extra rcS.d init script via livecd+dhcpcd

2006-05-28 Thread Scott Edwards
I'd like to roll my own livecd (anything debian proper, or debian like will do). The one piece of my puzzle I'm still puzzled about is allowing the cd to make a dhcp request I can distinguish as coming from the livecd. Based on that, I'd also like to offer an init script (gpg signature thereof m

Re: Idea: making it easier to change DEBCONF_PRIORITY

2006-05-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 07:13:31PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 11:18:32AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > The main problem I have with the current setup is that out of the > > choices which are currently available, I never know which to pick since > > none of them seems to

Re: Idea: making it easier to change DEBCONF_PRIORITY

2006-05-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 05:30:58PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > > Something like the following template would work: > > With one huge drawback. It is way too long and thus does not fit in a > standard 80x25 window (even the current one is too long, > IIRC). Moreover, such long text will indee

localechooser_1.17_i386.changes ACCEPTED

2006-05-28 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: localechooser_1.17.dsc to pool/main/l/localechooser/localechooser_1.17.dsc localechooser_1.17.tar.gz to pool/main/l/localechooser/localechooser_1.17.tar.gz localechooser_1.17_all.udeb to pool/main/l/localechooser/localechooser_1.17_all.udeb Announcing to debian-devel-changes@lists.

Processing of localechooser_1.17_i386.changes

2006-05-28 Thread Archive Administrator
localechooser_1.17_i386.changes uploaded successfully to localhost along with the files: localechooser_1.17.dsc localechooser_1.17.tar.gz localechooser_1.17_all.udeb Greetings, Your Debian queue daemon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Idea: making it easier to change DEBCONF_PRIORITY

2006-05-28 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 11:18:32AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 08:59:31AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 07:38:23PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 12:21:17PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > > > The problem is that there is

[RECAP] Can libdebian-installer be unblocked from entering testing?

2006-05-28 Thread Filipus Klutiero
I'm trying to recapitulate on what was said. Please correct me if I got something wrong. cdebconf Joey Hess approved unblocking cdebconf 0.101. Then, Colin Watson noticed this thread after uploading 0.102 and said he was sorry. I discussed this with him on IRC: [...] first, what are the im

Bug#369256: installation-reports: modprobe does not find kernel modules

2006-05-28 Thread Eddy Petrisor
Package: installation-reports Severity: important The modprobe command bundled in d-i environment does not work out of the box. If one starts the installer in expert mode and skips directly to the "Load installer components from CD" menu item, chooses a kernel module (let's say crypto modules) aft

Bug#369249: marked as done (installation-report hp-compaq nc6220 notebook)

2006-05-28 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sun, 28 May 2006 18:39:35 +0200 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Bug#369249: installation-report hp-compaq nc6220 notebook 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

slow list of package names in low-memory install

2006-05-28 Thread John Reiser
While using the Debian installer in low-memory mode to put a Debian system onto a NSLU2 (ARM processor with 32MB RAM), I noticed that the installer seemed slow. Running "ps" repeatedly in a concurrent session, I often saw about 80 processes per second, and many command lines of the form: [ = ]

Bug#369249: installation-report hp-compaq nc6220 notebook

2006-05-28 Thread Greg Larson
Package: installation-reportsBoot method: CDImage version: 05/27/2006 10:29 AM 128,841,728 debian-testing-i386-netinst.isoDate: 05/27/2006 13:00Machine: HP-Compaq nc6220 notebookProcessor: Centrino Pentium M 2.00 GHzMemory: 1 GBPartitions: (I had partitioned the disk earlier with knoppix)

Bug#369212: installation-report

2006-05-28 Thread Christian Perrier
> 4.Time setting is incorrect. The installer seems to automatically > set the timezone to Tokyo/Japan, and using UTC setting. In result, > the time is set to 9 hours advance to JST. That seems correct as long as we can assume you did choose Japanese as installation language, which at default pri

Re: Having Difficulties

2006-05-28 Thread Jens Seidel
Hi Steven, On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 03:16:40PM +0100, steven willis wrote: > hey guys not sure if i am talking to the right people but you might be > able to help me. Debian-Installers responsibility stops after intial boot IIRC. Maybe you should ask on debian-user. > just got hold of debian linu

Re: Idea: making it easier to change DEBCONF_PRIORITY

2006-05-28 Thread Christian Perrier
> Something like the following template would work: With one huge drawback. It is way too long and thus does not fit in a standard 80x25 window (even the current one is too long, IIRC). Moreover, such long text will indeed not be read by the main target, aka end users with minimal clues about mai

Bug#369038: marked as done (debian-installer: [PPC] [Old World] May 24th and May 25th 2006 miBoot floppy images broken)

2006-05-28 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sun, 28 May 2006 11:02:14 -0400 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Fixed in May 27th images 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 responsib

Re: Idea: making it easier to change DEBCONF_PRIORITY

2006-05-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 11:18:32AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 08:59:31AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > I am open to suggestions. Back when the exim4 packages were developed, > > we mainly copied what exim 3 did and debconfed the questions. > > I'll try to come up with s

Having Difficulties

2006-05-28 Thread steven willis
hey guys not sure if i am talking to the right people but you might be able to help me. just got hold of debian linux 3.1r2 Sarge been checking it out and looks good only problem is once i have installed it and go to reboot for the first time it crashes with a kernel error for the audio module, my

Bug#369212: installation-report

2006-05-28 Thread KOYAMA Teruo
Package: installation-reports Boot method: network Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/ arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso ftp://ftp2.jp.debian.org/ Date: 2006/May/28 Machine: Sotec Winbook Processor: Celeron 400MHz Memory: 12

Bug#368881: linuxgui install

2006-05-28 Thread Davide Viti
Hi Holger, On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 07:06:22PM +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 25 May 2006 18:58:13 +0200 Patrick Cornelißen wrote: > > Package: installation-reports > > > Comments/Problems: > > > > There are some missing translations in the installer for the german > > language.

Re: Idea: making it easier to change DEBCONF_PRIORITY

2006-05-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 08:59:31AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 07:38:23PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 12:21:17PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > > The problem is that there is no way to automatically determine the > > > "best choice". > > > > I dis

Re: Request for a DFB version of libcairo2

2006-05-28 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Dave Beckett wrote: Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: The graphical frontend to the debian-installer is now part of standard daily builds and we're ready to switch to standard GTK+ and Cairo libraries in their DFB version (a patch to add the DFB backend to standard GTK+ 2.8.17 was already provided). We

Re: Idea: making it easier to change DEBCONF_PRIORITY

2006-05-28 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 07:38:23PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 12:21:17PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > The problem is that there is no way to automatically determine the > > "best choice". > > I disagree. > > > There are common setups contradicting each other, > > Can