Re: Debian has failed us

2007-01-13 Thread Clyde E. Kunkel
Geert Stappers wrote: A more constructive way of solving "the greater issue", could have be done by asking in november a question like Bug #391451, about a kernel module, is reported as fixed. What is needed to get in the Debian installer? One should lead to another, assuming proper ini

Bug#373704: sort -k does not count fields the same as gnu sort

2007-01-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 13 January 2007 22:10, Steve Langasek wrote: > "Potentially leading to random breakage" doesn't really justify a > critical severity when there are a limited number of packages making > use of busybox (and busybox sort in particular). Does this bug > actually break d-i, and if so how?

Bug#373704: sort -k does not count fields the same as gnu sort

2007-01-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Steve Langasek, le Sat 13 Jan 2007 13:10:25 -0800, a écrit : > "Potentially leading to random breakage" doesn't really justify a critical > severity when there are a limited number of packages making use of busybox > (and busybox sort in particular). Does this bug actually break d-i, and if > so h

Re: miboot floppies from layer-acht

2007-01-13 Thread Geert Stappers
Op 13-01-2007 om 23:00 schreef rob rob: > Hello, > > [ good introduction ] > > I get the following message: > > No filesystem could mount root, tried cramfs > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on > unknown-block(1,0) > > Also strange is when I put the image on floppy it'

Re: Debian has failed us

2007-01-13 Thread Geert Stappers
Op 11-01-2007 om 13:24 schreef Mathew Binkley: > Frans Pop wrote: > > Since the bug report hasn't changed since my initial bug report, you may > try that. Those blades are now running RHEL 5. Debian lost its > opportunity. Mathew Binkley filed bugreport #391451 on friday october 6th 2006. On mo

miboot floppies from layer-acht

2007-01-13 Thread rob rob
Hello, as some of you may not remember, I posted a few times last year trying to get the miboot floppies available at people.debian.org/~wouterd-i/powerpc-miboot/.. to work. For those of you who don't know, the floppies are used for installing debian on 'old world' powerpc. The floppies are e

Re: oem-config

2007-01-13 Thread Geert Stappers
Op 12-01-2007 om 01:19 schreef Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton: > oh btw i hacked oem-config from ubuntu onto debian, and it works. > really i should do languagechooser-data as well. > > anyone interested let me know. What does oem-config, what is it? Consider that a "some one letting know he migh

Bug#373704: sort -k does not count fields the same as gnu sort

2007-01-13 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 01:50:15PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > severity 373704 critical > found 373704 1:1.1.3-3 > thanks > I had meant to look into this much earlier, but unfortunately it slipped > my mind. Severity critical as this behavior can cause hard to trace > unpredictable behavior in any

Bug#406770: Installation Report on Acer Aspire 2003 WLMI

2007-01-13 Thread Clive Menzies
Package: installation-reports Boot method: netinst.iso CD Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/etch_di_rc1/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso Date: Sat 13 Jan 07 c. 3pm GMT Machine: Acer Aspire 2003 WLMI Processor:Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1600MHz Memory:512Mb Partitio

Bug#373704: Patch for sort issues

2007-01-13 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Package: busybox Version: 1:1.1.3-3 Followup-For: Bug #373704 Attached is a patch for the sort issues. A few have croped up while testing this. Hopefully busybox sort now behaves like coreutils sort. About the patch (line numbers of result): Line 65 : Fix -b -f -i -d and trailing spaces. Try

Re: Debian has failed us

2007-01-13 Thread Arnaud Delobelle
On 13 Jan 2007, at 14:47, Mark Brown wrote: [...] Sven hasn't been banned, he decided of his own accord to take a break for two months: [...] OK so can't everyone "decide of their own accord" to give him a break for these two months? -- Arnaud Delobelle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#405971: Installation report: works on SGI 02 (mips r5k-ip32)

2007-01-13 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Joerg Hoh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-01-12 20:52]: > ~ # echo $ram > 58 Thanks. > Memory: 56976k/65536k available (3412k kernel code, 8500k reserved, 920k Right, it's probably only 58 because the boot image is so large. I've changed the lowmem value in SVN. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyri

Processed: Re: Bug#406735: installation report: HP Workstation Model 712/60

2007-01-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 406735 hw-detect Bug#406735: installation report: HP Workstation Model 712/60 Bug reassigned from package `installation-reports' to `hw-detect'. > retitle 406735 hp-bus scsi modules should be loaded in initrd Bug#406735: installation report: H

Bug#406735: installation report: HP Workstation Model 712/60

2007-01-13 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 406735 hw-detect retitle 406735 hp-bus scsi modules should be loaded in initrd tags 406735 + pending thanks On Saturday 13 January 2007 15:26, root wrote: > Problem 1: > The installation seemed to halt after 95% was installed. The latest > message was "Installed update-inetd". After that

Bug#406399: installation-report: Dell Inspiron 6400: X server configuration problems

2007-01-13 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi Joey, Joey Hess [2007-01-12 16:40 -0500]: > Ok, but post-etch I would prefer it if there were a static package name > I could put in the task instead of myself tracking minor version numbers > embedded in package names. OK, no problem. I can just keep the 'postgresql' binary package and have i

Processed: tagging 405364

2007-01-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > tags 405364 moreinfo Bug#405364: installation-report: does not detect tg3 NIC on Dell Optiplex 745 There were no tags set. Tags added: moreinfo > End of message, stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking

Re: Debian has failed us

2007-01-13 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 01:06:08PM +, Arnaud Delobelle wrote: > AFAIK Sven Luther has not contributed to this thread and seems to be > banned from posting on debian lists. Thus it strikes me that to bring Sven hasn't been banned, he decided of his own accord to take a break for two months:

Bug#404554: marked as done (tasksel-data: Please remove xsane from desktop)

2007-01-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#404567: marked as done (patch for traditional Chinese desktop task)

2007-01-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sat, 13 Jan 2007 09:24:50 -0500 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Fixed 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 responsibility to reopen the

Bug#405737: Installation report : etch(daily build 20070103-21:52 ) installgui fails on i810

2007-01-13 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Frans Pop wrote: On Saturday 13 January 2007 10:42, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: Since i810 isn't simply supported by vesafb, a way out for this could be providing i810fb module in the installer/ in the kernel and loading it at boot time when i810 chip is detected. Tests on my laptop showed tha

Bug#373704: sort -k does not count fields the same as gnu sort

2007-01-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 13 January 2007 13:50, Frans Pop wrote: > Conclusion: when sorting with delimiter on the last field, the > last-but-one field is sorted instead. [...] > Conclusion: with a leading delimiter, the sort is somehow _always_ done > on the first field. The last conclusion is not correct as t

Bug#373704: sort -k does not count fields the same as gnu sort

2007-01-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 13 January 2007 13:50, Frans Pop wrote: > The testcase included in the busybox testsuite seems to work only by > accident as it is a numeric sort and the last field to be sorted is the > only numerical data in each line. It turns out the testcase based on the D-I situation is broken in

Re: Debian has failed us

2007-01-13 Thread Arnaud Delobelle
On 13 Jan 2007, at 08:49, Holger Levsen wrote: [...] I dont think _this_ thread is the cause for Bens perception, rather those threads which _started_ with these mails (and others): http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2006/04/msg00407.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2006/08/msg

Bug#373704: sort -k does not count fields the same as gnu sort

2007-01-13 Thread Frans Pop
severity 373704 critical found 373704 1:1.1.3-3 thanks I had meant to look into this much earlier, but unfortunately it slipped my mind. Severity critical as this behavior can cause hard to trace unpredictable behavior in any script using sort with a delimiter, potentially leading to random bre

Processed: Bug#373704: sort -k does not count fields the same as gnu sort

2007-01-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > severity 373704 critical Bug#373704: sort -k does not count fields the same as gnu sort Severity set to `critical' from `normal' > found 373704 1:1.1.3-3 Bug#373704: sort -k does not count fields the same as gnu sort Bug marked as found in version 1:1.

Bug#406620: R: Bug#406620: user-setup: Failed to ask its questions when run during default install

2007-01-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 13 January 2007 07:53, Benelli Luca wrote: > I don't know when the server will go into production, so i'm not sure > how many tests we can do, at the moment it's still a clean install and > it will probably need to be reinstalled as debian 3.1 (using HPDE > installers) so i think i shou

Bug#405737: Installation report : etch(daily build 20070103-21:52 ) installgui fails on i810

2007-01-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 13 January 2007 10:42, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: > Since i810 isn't simply supported by vesafb, a way out for this could > be providing i810fb module in the installer/ in the kernel and loading > it at boot time when i810 chip is detected. Tests on my laptop showed that it is absolutel

Bug#405737: Installation report : etch(daily build 20070103-21:52 ) installgui fails on i810

2007-01-13 Thread Attilio Fiandrotti
Frans Pop wrote: reassign 405737 cdebconf-gtk-udeb retitle 405737 G-I does not support some i810 graphics cards thanks On Sunday 07 January 2007 15:03, Roy Francis wrote: If I simply insmod a precompiled i810fb.ko, will it work ? I've been testing a bit with that, but at least on my laptop

Re: Debian has failed us

2007-01-13 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Saturday 13 January 2007 08:47, Joey Hess wrote: > Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > Yes, I've seen various mails/rants etc... and haven't wanted to take > > part of it neither in the past, but it looks like this has gone too far, > > and it's more and more looking like even perfectly good