Processed: No d-i bug; etch install and dist-upgrade to lenny also fails to boot

2007-12-17 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 456032 initramfs-tools Bug#456032: Crypto LVM fails on first reboot Bug reassigned from package `installation-reports' to `initramfs-tools'. > -- Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system

Bug#456032: Same behaviour with Etch install then dist-upgrade to lenny, therefore no d-i bug

2007-12-17 Thread Daniel Dickinson
I have just tried to make this (LVM on crypto partition on top of real hardware RAID) work by doing an Etch install (which works) and then dist-upgrading to lenny. That doesn't work, and one ends up with the same unbootable system as in the original bug report. I suspect the problem is that th

Re: Malayalam fonts are not getting installed

2007-12-17 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Added (in alphabetical order). > Christian: please also consider my other question about the sort order. Yes, still in TODO..:-) To be sure: you expect me to provide a list with a "natural" sorting, right? I also need to add a section in D-I l10n manual

Bug#456817: Installation of base system fails due to missing busybox

2007-12-17 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Package: installation-reports Boot method: netinst CD-ROM Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/20071217-2/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso Date: Monday, December 17, 2007 23:30 EST (Tuesday, December 18, 2007 04:30 UTC) Machine: generic PC-compatible

Official powerpc xfce-CD Binary-1 20070819-16:07

2007-12-17 Thread homeboy
Hallo Leute, gerade habe ich die oben genannte Distr. installiert. In voller Erwartung Startete ich das System, alles da nur kein XFce! Nicht eine einzige Datei wurde von XFce4 war zu finden. GNOME war da!! Das ist aber für einen: Appel Macintosh PowerBook G3 400 (433) Mhz (MJ 1999)

Bug#456623: debian-installer: Please offer the option of using an unpartitioned disk as an FS

2007-12-17 Thread Peter Skogström
Josh Triplett wrote: > Package: debian-installer > Severity: wishlist > > When installing a virtual machine, I'd really like to use the entire > unpartitioned virtual disk as a filesystem, rather than partitioning > it. Doing so then makes the virtual disk contain a filesystem image > directly, w

Bug#409905: Unresponsive ftp server freezes install

2007-12-17 Thread Nick Harrison
Please include a time-out or cancel button in all sections of the installer which access remote files... the extra bandwidth caused by all these users restarting installations from scratch due to bad mirrors (Singapore/Asia seems to have a lot of them!) must be a drain. A option to break back

Re: r50470 - trunk/packages/kbd-chooser/debian

2007-12-17 Thread peter green
But it would affect an 'aptitude reinstall' of the package. As the user did not _himself_ ask for a seen flag to be set here (as in the case of preseeding [2]), I did not consider this a very nice solution. The user has effectively seen the question, they were just asked it by d-i instead o

Bug#456784: grub-installer: Please support Xen virtual disks /dev/xvd[a-z]

2007-12-17 Thread Ian Campbell
Package: grub-installer Version: 1.28 Severity: normal Tags: patch The grub package does not currently support installation in a Xen guest domain because it does not understand the Xen virtual block devices (/dev/xvd[a-z]). Patches have already been posted against grub (#456776) and grub-pc (#456

Re: r50470 - trunk/packages/kbd-chooser/debian

2007-12-17 Thread Otavio Salvador
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Frans Pop wrote: >> We are talking about a debconf setting in the _installed_ system after all, >> and one that should _only_ be valid while D-I is running. > > preseeding console-data/keymap/policy seen should work ok. If > console-common is later dpkg-rec

Processed: Re: Bug#283521: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [Debian Wiki] Update of "DebianInstaller/ReleaseProcess" by FransPop]

2007-12-17 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > tags 283521 - patch Bug#283521: no pointer to manual in syslinux screens Tags were: patch Tags removed: patch > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian

Bug#283521: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [Debian Wiki] Update of "DebianInstaller/ReleaseProcess" by FransPop]

2007-12-17 Thread Frans Pop
tags 283521 - patch thanks On Thursday 13 December 2007, Holger Levsen wrote: > Three years ago I thought it was better to point to the installation > manual. Today I think it's better to point to _the_ page about > documentation for Debian. For which http://www.debian.org/doc/ IMO > qualifies. T

Re: Malayalam fonts are not getting installed

2007-12-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 17 December 2007, Christian Perrier wrote: > Actually, active tasks, for languages that we really propose in D-I, > that are missing in tasks.list are: Added (in alphabetical order). Christian: please also consider my other question about the sort order. I saw that Joey committed my sug

Re: r50470 - trunk/packages/kbd-chooser/debian

2007-12-17 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: > Because a dpkg-reconfigure needs to ask the question even if a keymap is > installed. if [ ! -e /etc/whatever_file ] || [ "$1" = reconfigure ]; then # ask question fi > I decided on /tmp as the file really _is_ a temporary file: exists only for > the duration of the i

Re: r50470 - trunk/packages/kbd-chooser/debian

2007-12-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 17 December 2007, Joey Hess wrote: > If the keymap has already been installed earlier in the installation, > why can't console-* notice that there is a keymap installed, and skip > asking about it? Why do we need a separate way to communicate this to > console-* at all? Because a dpkg-re

Re: r50470 - trunk/packages/kbd-chooser/debian

2007-12-17 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: > We are talking about a debconf setting in the _installed_ system after all, > and one that should _only_ be valid while D-I is running. preseeding console-data/keymap/policy seen should work ok. If console-common is later dpkg-reconfigured, the seen flag will be ignored. > Ple

Re: r50470 - trunk/packages/kbd-chooser/debian

2007-12-17 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: > See #456029 and especially #452331. Both BRs were discussed on the list and > I did ask for alternative suggestions. > I had hoped for a reaction from either you or Colin to my proposal. However, > Christian did not leave very much time before applying my patch which > probabl

Re: Malayalam fonts are not getting installed

2007-12-17 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Christian: > 1) Could you check whether there are other l10n tasks missing (and propose a > patch for debian-cd)? Actually, active tasks, for languages that we really propose in D-I, that are missing in tasks.list are: gujarati-desktop malayalam-desktop

Re: r50470 - trunk/packages/kbd-chooser/debian

2007-12-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 17 December 2007, Otavio Salvador wrote: > A debconf setting would be more interesting from my POV. I did consider that but came to the conclusion that it would be debconf abuse and also that it would not work. We are talking about a debconf setting in the _installed_ system after all,

Re: r50470 - trunk/packages/kbd-chooser/debian

2007-12-17 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > How was this value chosen? I don't feel that relying on files in /tmp is Proposed by Frans and, as noone popped up to propose something else better, implemented by me by using Frans' proposed patch. I'm well opened to improve this in console-data, of cou

Re: r50470 - trunk/packages/kbd-chooser/debian

2007-12-17 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I had hoped for a reaction from either you or Colin to my proposal. However, > Christian did not leave very much time before applying my patch which > probably meant that he did not see alternatives either. Frankly, no..:-) It just happened that I had

Bug#456623: debian-installer: Please offer the option of using an unpartitioned disk as an FS

2007-12-17 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 456623 partman-base tags 456623 help thanks On Monday 17 December 2007, Josh Triplett wrote: > When installing a virtual machine, I'd really like to use the entire > unpartitioned virtual disk as a filesystem, rather than partitioning > it. Doing so then makes the virtual disk contain a

Processed: Re: Bug#456623: debian-installer: Please offer the option of using an unpartitioned disk as an FS

2007-12-17 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 456623 partman-base Bug#456623: debian-installer: Please offer the option of using an unpartitioned disk as an FS Bug reassigned from package `debian-installer' to `partman-base'. > tags 456623 help Bug#456623: debian-installer: Please offer

Bug#456683: Dell Inspiron 530: Missing network module (e1000_ich9)

2007-12-17 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 456683 kernel-wedge severity 456683 wishlist retitle 456683 Please add e1000e module (available in 2.6.23) thanks On Monday 17 December 2007, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 04:11:39PM +0100, Stefan Ritter wrote: > > 00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 825

Re: r50470 - trunk/packages/kbd-chooser/debian

2007-12-17 Thread Otavio Salvador
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Frans Pop wrote: >> Log: >> After recent changes in apt-install, we need to tell console-data not to >> display its keymap/policy question when it is being installed during a D-I >> installation. console-data (>= 2:1.04-2) will check for the existence of >>

Re: r50470 - trunk/packages/kbd-chooser/debian

2007-12-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 17 December 2007, Joey Hess wrote: > Frans Pop wrote: > > Log: > > After recent changes in apt-install, we need to tell console-data not > > to display its keymap/policy question when it is being installed during > > a D-I installation. console-data (>= 2:1.04-2) will check for the > > ex

Processed: Re: Bug#456683: Dell Inspiron 530: Missing network module (e1000_ich9)

2007-12-17 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 456683 kernel-wedge Bug#456683: Dell Inspiron 530: Missing network module (e1000_ich9) Bug reassigned from package `installation-reports' to `kernel-wedge'. > severity 456683 wishlist Bug#456683: Dell Inspiron 530: Missing network module (e100

Re: 404 Not FoundFailed to download

2007-12-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 17 December 2007, Alexander Golovin wrote: > $ debmirror debian --nosource --host=ftp.fi.debian.org --method=http > --progress --dist=etch --section=main,contrib,non-free --arch=amd64 > --ignore-release-gpg You are missing section main/debian-installer. Note that this question is more s

Re: r50470 - trunk/packages/kbd-chooser/debian

2007-12-17 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: > Log: > After recent changes in apt-install, we need to tell console-data not to > display its keymap/policy question when it is being installed during a D-I > installation. console-data (>= 2:1.04-2) will check for the existence of > the file /tmp/debian-installer/keymap-policy-d

Bug#334672: busybox-static: Using fallback suid method

2007-12-17 Thread Steve Lane
Greetings. If 'busybox-static' is installed (instead of 'busybox'), and the system has a kernel from a Debian 'linux-image...' package, then when the initrd image for the 'linux-image...' package is built (using by the scripts in the 'initramfs-tools' package), 'busybox-static' is included in the

404 Not FoundFailed to download

2007-12-17 Thread Alexander Golovin
When I use the ftp debian mirrors for creating Etch amd64 Debian dvd's, in it a case I receive error: some files is missing on Primary Debian mirror sites. if we shall look at the Packages file, that we shall see there which files are not present on a server. debmirror works with options: $

Bug#456683: Dell Inspiron 530: Missing network module (e1000_ich9)

2007-12-17 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 04:11:39PM +0100, Stefan Ritter wrote: > 00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82562V-2 10/100 Network > Connection [8086:10c0] (rev 02) Supported bei e1000e. Bastian -- Those who hate and fight must stop themselves -- otherwise it is not stopped.

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Bug#456683: Dell Inspiron 530: Missing network module (e1000_ich9)

2007-12-17 Thread Stefan Ritter
Package: installation-reports Boot method: CD Image version: Debian Lenny Netinstall 2007-12-11 Date: 2007-12-17 Machine: Dell Inspiron 530 (preinstalled with Ubuntu) Processor: Core 2 Duo 2,33 GHz Memory: 2048 MB DDR2 RAM Output of lspci -nn and lspci -vnn: 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Co

Re: unicode support in w32-loader

2007-12-17 Thread Kartik Mistry
On Dec 17, 2007 3:42 AM, Praveen A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is a unicode version of nsis that support unicode at > http://www.scratchpaper.com/ Probably, we can patch what w32-loader is using for that. > Can we use that version for w32-loader? I'm trying to add Malayalam > support to w3

Re: cross compiling d-i

2007-12-17 Thread Geert Stappers
Op 17-12-2007 om 15:48 schreef Abraham Varricatt: > Dear All, > > I'm running with Ubuntu(7.10) on an i386 system. What I need to do is to > compile the debian installer for a powerpc platform. > Can I do it on my system? > The makefile says that it does not support cross-compling. That means you

cross compiling

2007-12-17 Thread Abraham Varricatt
Dear All, I'm running with Ubuntu(7.10) on an i386 system. What I need to do is to compile the debian installer for a powerpc platform. Can I do it on my system? The makefile says that it does not support cross-compling. So, is there any other way? Yours, Abraham V.

Re: hwclock is not working correctly on compaq 6510b, compaq presario c700

2007-12-17 Thread Geert Stappers
Op 16-12-2007 om 13:40 schreef Praveen A: > Hi, > I am not able to set clock on compaq 6510b and compaq presario c700 > model laptops. > > $ sudo hwclock > select() to /dev/rtc to wait for clock tick timed out > The same error shows while booting up. I seen that also on some hardware. Adding the