Bug#413814: installing Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 on a Power Macintosh G3 Server

2007-03-07 Thread Alex Teclo
Package: installation-reports Boot method: BootX Image version: Debian etch powerpc weekly build Date: February 4th 2007 Machine: Power Macintosh G3 Server Architecture: powerpc Processor: PowerPC 740/750 (G3) Memory: 256 MB Partitions: Result of df -Tl: FilesystemType 1K-blocks Used

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-07 Thread Robert Millan [ackstorm]
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 04:41:19PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 01:15:23PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Mar 06, Robert Millan [ackstorm] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I urge you to reconsider severity of this problem. There's another situation that makes it much

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-07 Thread Robert Millan [ackstorm]
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 09:44:31AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Mar 06, Robert Millan [ackstorm] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I urge you to reconsider severity of this problem. There's another situation that makes it much worse: The correct

Re: RAID - Crypto wiki page

2007-03-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 00:58, David Härdeman wrote: On FJP's request I've put up a wiki page describing the problem with combined crypto and RAID setups in the current installer and how it can be worked around. Here's the url for the page:

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-07 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Mar 07, Robert Millan [ackstorm] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Labels are not well tested and a source of problems indeed. The /dev/disk/by-*/ devices are well tested and I do not know about problems posed by them. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-07 Thread peter green
-Original Message- From: Marco d'Itri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 March 2007 11:05 To: Robert Millan [ackstorm] Cc: Mike Hommey; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-release@lists.debian.org Subject: Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug On Mar 07, Robert Millan [ackstorm] [EMAIL

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-07 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Mar 07, peter green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: by-uuid contains my two ext3 partitions but not my swap partition, it also seems like it may be vulnerable to becoming confused. Only if the admin is a moron and keeps around multiple file systems cloned with dd. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-07 Thread Robert Millan [ackstorm]
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:05:09PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Mar 07, Robert Millan [ackstorm] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Labels are not well tested and a source of problems indeed. The /dev/disk/by-*/ devices are well tested and I do not know about problems posed by them. I thought we

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-07 Thread Otavio Salvador
Robert Millan [ackstorm] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 09:44:31AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Mar 06, Robert Millan [ackstorm] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I urge you to reconsider severity of this problem. There's another

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-07 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 01:26:47PM +0100, Robert Millan [ackstorm] wrote: On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:05:09PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Mar 07, Robert Millan [ackstorm] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Labels are not well tested and a source of problems indeed. The /dev/disk/by-*/ devices

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-07 Thread Otavio Salvador
Robert Millan [ackstorm] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 09:33:47AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: Robert Millan [ackstorm] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 09:44:31AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Mar 06,

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-07 Thread Robert Millan [ackstorm]
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 09:33:47AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: Robert Millan [ackstorm] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 09:44:31AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Mar 06, Robert Millan [ackstorm] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Bug#413836: installation-reports

2007-03-07 Thread Lars Storm
Package: installation-reports Boot method: Netinstall CD-image Image version: etch RC1 Date: 28 january 2007 Machine: Processor: p4 ( but installed with i386 ) Memory: Partitions: system, home, swap Output of lspci -nn and lspci -vnn: Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-07 Thread peter green
by-uuid contains my two ext3 partitions but not my swap partition, it also seems like it may be vulnerable to becoming confused. Only if the admin is a moron and keeps around multiple file systems cloned with dd. are you calling it moronic to make a backup of a partition by dding to to a

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-07 Thread Otavio Salvador
Robert Millan [ackstorm] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 09:55:45AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: With USB, you can't just boot a rescue system and repair a broken install from there, because /dev/sda will still be your USB drive. Of course, there are lots of hacks

Bug#413836: marked as done (installation-reports)

2007-03-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Wed, 07 Mar 2007 14:16:38 +0100 with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line Bug#413836: 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

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-07 Thread Robert Millan [ackstorm]
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 09:55:45AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: With USB, you can't just boot a rescue system and repair a broken install from there, because /dev/sda will still be your USB drive. Of course, there are lots of hacks you can do to workaround that, but if we go this way,

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-07 Thread peter green
I don't know how invasive those changes might be. AFAIK Ubuntu already does it (Colin?) and wouldn't be too hard to pick the changes from them but we would also need RM and Frans approval :( ubuntu already does what? there are four possible soloutions proposed aren't there (labels in fstab

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-07 Thread Otavio Salvador
peter green [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't know how invasive those changes might be. AFAIK Ubuntu already does it (Colin?) and wouldn't be too hard to pick the changes from them but we would also need RM and Frans approval :( ubuntu already does what? there are four possible soloutions

Bug#413788: Daily Etch build fails to install on iMac G5 - Ethernet not detected

2007-03-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 03:47, Mike Hore wrote: Comments/Problems: The Ethernet connection is not detected. This machine has an 10/100BASE-T Ethernet port. I suspect the correct driver hasn't been included in the netinstall image. After network detection failed, please switch to VT2 (on

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-07 Thread David Härdeman
On Wed, March 7, 2007 13:55, Otavio Salvador said: I don't know how invasive those changes might be. AFAIK Ubuntu already does it (Colin?) and wouldn't be too hard to pick the changes from them but we would also need RM and Frans approval :( initramfs-tools already supports using

Bug#413814: installing Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 on a Power Macintosh G3 Server

2007-03-07 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi Alex! Welcome to an elite minority of those of us who have got this to work! Below are a couple of hints from my own experience in doing this. Rick On Mar 7, 2007, at 5:21 AM, Alex Teclo wrote: Package: installation-reports Boot method: BootX Image version: Debian etch powerpc weekly

Bug#413851: missing build-depends on automake1.8

2007-03-07 Thread Robert Millan
Package: hw-detect Severity: serious debian/rules build AUTOMAKE=automake-1.8 ACLOCAL=aclocal-1.8 \ autoreconf -i -v Can't exec aclocal-1.8: El fitxer o directori no existeix at /usr/bin/autoreconf line 182. Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at

Bug#413854: v880 sparc install problem

2007-03-07 Thread Alex Deucher
Package: installation-reports Boot method: CD, netboot Image version: sarge, etch, and daily netboot and CD images Date: March 5-7, 2007 Machine: Sunfire v880 Processor: 4x ultrasparc Memory: 8 GB Partitions: nothing yet. Output of lspci -nn and lspci -vnn: Can't get the box to boot. Base

Bug#413855: Apple check is i386-specific

2007-03-07 Thread Robert Millan
Package: grub-installer Severity: normal Tags: patch Any reason why we shouldn't check for amd64 here ? (other than 64-bit Macs not yet being in the market) Index: debian/isinstallable === --- debian/isinstallable(revision

Processed: and libtool too

2007-03-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#413851: and libtool too

2007-03-07 Thread Robert Millan
severity 413851 normal thanks # sorry, didn't notice this target is svn-only Anyway, you need libtool too: configure.ac:6: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow. See the Autoconf documentation.

Bug#413851: marked as done (missing build-depends on automake1.8)

2007-03-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#413858: archdetect: detect amd64 as a subarch of i386

2007-03-07 Thread Robert Millan
Package: libdebian-installer4 Version: 0.49 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch With this patch, amd64 can be detected as a subarch of i386. e.g. $ ./archdetect i386/amd64 This can be useful to conditionalise install of stuff like libc6-amd64, and possibly other things. -- System Information:

Bug#413788: Daily Etch build fails to install on iMac G5 - Ethernet not detected

2007-03-07 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 07 March 2007 14:46, Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 07 March 2007 03:47, Mike Hore wrote: Comments/Problems: The Ethernet connection is not detected. This machine has an 10/100BASE-T Ethernet port. I suspect the correct driver hasn't been included in the netinstall

Bug#413851: closed by Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Re: Bug#413851: missing build-depends on automake1.8)

2007-03-07 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 03:57:08PM +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: I have no idea where you are getting this from. hw-detect does not use automake. Uhm sorry, I mean to file this on libdebian-installer (I was jumping from one place to another, in pursuit of #413858). Note: don't

Bug#413851: closed by Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Re: Bug#413851: missing build-depends on automake1.8)

2007-03-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 17:09, Robert Millan wrote: Ok then. You still could add Build-Depends-Indep though. I've added a HACKING file with the needed info instead. pgpEvYaWyVyBF.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-07 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 10:50:46AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: peter green [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't know how invasive those changes might be. AFAIK Ubuntu already does it (Colin?) and wouldn't be too hard to pick the changes from them but we would also need RM and Frans

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-07 Thread Joey Hess
Robert Millan [ackstorm] wrote: I urge you to reconsider severity of this problem. There's another situation that makes it much worse: - User boots off USB stick - sda is USB, sdb is SCSI or SATA - GRUB install on (hd0) (i.e. sda) fails. - Manual repairing is not possible, because

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-07 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:28:09PM -0500, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Millan [ackstorm] wrote: I urge you to reconsider severity of this problem. There's another situation that makes it much worse: - User boots off USB stick - sda is USB, sdb is SCSI or SATA -

Processed: reassign 413875 to installation-reports, severity of 413875 is normal, tagging 413875

2007-03-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.9.27 reassign 413875 installation-reports Bug#413875: 1 - Install the Debian with DVD 4.0 2 - Select a mirror 3 - The bug born in the middle of the Installing Bug reassigned from

Bug#380226: NTFS (partition) not recreated correctly after resize:incorrect start sector

2007-03-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 06:11:27PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Friday 02 March 2007 03:11, Ben Hutchings wrote: What is the intended difference in semantics between RESIZE_PARTITION and VIRTUAL_RESIZE_PARTITION? In the resize_partition() function these are distinguished by the

Processing of partman-base_105_amd64.changes

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partman-lvm_52_amd64.changes ACCEPTED

2007-03-07 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: partman-lvm_52.dsc to pool/main/p/partman-lvm/partman-lvm_52.dsc partman-lvm_52.tar.gz to pool/main/p/partman-lvm/partman-lvm_52.tar.gz partman-lvm_52_all.udeb to pool/main/p/partman-lvm/partman-lvm_52_all.udeb Override entries for your package: partman-lvm_52.dsc - source

partman-base_105_amd64.changes ACCEPTED

2007-03-07 Thread Debian Installer
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partman-md_33_amd64.changes ACCEPTED

2007-03-07 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: partman-md_33.dsc to pool/main/p/partman-md/partman-md_33.dsc partman-md_33.tar.gz to pool/main/p/partman-md/partman-md_33.tar.gz partman-md_33_all.udeb to pool/main/p/partman-md/partman-md_33_all.udeb Override entries for your package: partman-md_33.dsc - source

partman-partitioning_47_amd64.changes ACCEPTED

2007-03-07 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: partman-partitioning_47.dsc to pool/main/p/partman-partitioning/partman-partitioning_47.dsc partman-partitioning_47.tar.gz to pool/main/p/partman-partitioning/partman-partitioning_47.tar.gz partman-partitioning_47_amd64.udeb to

Bug#397973: marked as done ([powerpci/mac] partman-md appears to not write back the raid flag to partitions.)

2007-03-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#380226: marked as done (NTFS (partition) not recreated correctly after resize:incorrect start sector)

2007-03-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#413183: marked as done ([powerpci/mac] partman-md appears to not write back the raid flag to partitions.)

2007-03-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#379835: marked as done (Windows Vista fails to boot after resizing in d-i)

2007-03-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#412769: marked as done (partman-base: parted_server creates FIFOs with wrong mode)

2007-03-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#413931: d-i missing ide modules

2007-03-07 Thread Lou Poppler
Package: installation-reports Boot method: CD Image version: debian-31r5-i386-netinst.iso, from usc.edu mirror, md5sum good Date: 7 Mar 2007, 22:00 UTC Machine: Old Gateway, Tabor{2,3} motherboard Processor: P3 (Katmai) 596MHz Memory: 384 MB ECC Partitions: none Output of lspci and lspci

Bug#413931: d-i missing ide modules

2007-03-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 23:58, Lou Poppler wrote: Comments/Problems: : The unavailable modules, and the devices that need them are: agpgart : (Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge), ide-scsi : (Linux IDE-SCSI emulation layer), ide-mod (Linux IDE driver), :

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-07 Thread David Härdeman
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 03:18:19PM +0100, David Härdeman wrote: On Wed, March 7, 2007 13:55, Otavio Salvador said: I don't know how invasive those changes might be. AFAIK Ubuntu already does it (Colin?) and wouldn't be too hard to pick the changes from them but we would also need RM and Frans

lvm volume group name

2007-03-07 Thread Andrew Leach
Hi, Can you override the default lvm volume name used by d-i using a preseed file (priority=critical)? By default it seems to use the hostname which isn't what I want and would like to override it to vg00 for instance. I found this entry somewhere by googling but it doesn't seem to have the

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 12:44:05AM +0100, David Härdeman wrote: initramfs-tools already supports using /dev/disk/by-* entries in fstab. As for the installer, I'm not sure that looking at Ubuntu will help since they use something different than d-i for the regular installs (and I don't know if

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-07 Thread peter green
I don't believe this should be changed for etch at this point in the release process, and that's speaking as someone who's run into this problem myself with SCSI device renumbering -- it's awkward and annoying to have to manually fiddle your boot config because a USB device is no longer

Re: Bug#413931: d-i missing ide modules

2007-03-07 Thread Lou Poppler
On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 07 March 2007 23:58, Lou Poppler wrote: The text of the error screen, and the text of the Installation Guide, seem to be saying clearly that these modules are needed to drive the IDE hardware, and this was the last chance to automatically

Bug#413788: Daily Etch build fails to install on iMac G5 - Ethernet not detected

2007-03-07 Thread Mike Hore
Hi Frans, On Wednesday 07 March 2007 03:47, Mike Hore wrote: Comments/Problems: The Ethernet connection is not detected. This machine has an 10/100BASE-T Ethernet port. I suspect the correct driver hasn't been included in the netinstall image. After network detection failed, please switch

Re: lvm volume group name

2007-03-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 08 March 2007 00:53, Andrew Leach wrote: # Volume group name: d-i lvmcfg/vgcreate_namestring Try: partman-lvm/vgcreate_name -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#413931: marked as done (d-i missing ide modules)

2007-03-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-07 Thread David Härdeman
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 04:09:48PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 12:44:05AM +0100, David Härdeman wrote: I've attached a patch which implements persistent device names in partman by checking for devices which are mounted under /target and which have a suitable link in