New Debian Installer related hints

2008-02-18 Thread Otavio Salvador
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello RM team, Here goes a new set of hints, commented. # aren't in sync on all arches yet, but should be ok urgent cdebconf/0.128 unblock cdebconf/0.128 # aren't in sync on all arches yet, but should be ok urgent os-prober/1.24 unblock os-prober/1.

Debian Installer Lenny Beta1: Status Update 2

2008-02-18 Thread Otavio Salvador
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Here goes a new status update about release. Please respect the reply-to header and please follow up to debian-boot mailing list. Bellow is the timeline we're following. +--+---+ |

Re: daily netinst image: problems with installing grub(2)

2008-02-18 Thread Otavio Salvador
Jonas Meurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So I guess that somewhere in the installation process an apt-get update > is missing. A new apt has been uploaded and is suppose to fix that issue. This is still on sid and won't be used on dailies until it hits testing[1]. As soon as it has the missing

Re: Patch to tidy up wget use, and add return=4 when 404's are seen

2008-02-18 Thread Philip Hands
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 04:58:24PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Saturday 16 February 2008, Philip Hands wrote: > > I've tested this briefly, and it seems to work OK, but failed > > with a grub error (that I notice has been mentioned by other, so > > I'm currently assuming that's not related to this

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daily netinst image: problems with installing grub(2)

2008-02-18 Thread Jonas Meurer
Hello, I just tried the daily built netinst image (for i386) from http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/ in qemu, and they worked well. I setup several test systems with encrypted root with and without lvm. I used the debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso image fr

Re: Persistent disk naming - wild idea for a solution

2008-02-18 Thread Ian McDonald
Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 18 February 2008, Martin Michlmayr wrote: I'm in the process of porting d-i to a number of NAS devices that can hold 2 or 4 disks. The long standing problem of persistent disk naming is thus an issue for me. Why exactly is it an issue? As long as all devices are on

Re: Persistent disk naming: per controller/host

2008-02-18 Thread David Härdeman
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 10:00:02AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: <...> Do people think this would be a reasonable approach, or is a generic solution finally coming forth? I think that this is much clear the uuid for the user however uuid is still m

Re: Persistent disk naming - wild idea for a solution

2008-02-18 Thread Jim Paris
Frans Pop wrote: > Why exactly is it an issue? As long as all devices are on the same > controller (and I'd expect them to be), AFAIK there is no issue: the device > naming should be stable across reboots. > I can imagine it becoming an issue when you expect these devices to be > frequently boot

Re: Boot from iSCSI

2008-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 16 February 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm interested in getting iSCSI boot to work. There is one challenge: > multipath should also work during boot phase. After some research and > development, a prototype in my sandbox is working. Maybe some ideas > and source code are of ge

marvell chip on intel DP965LT

2008-02-18 Thread Bachman Kharazmi
Original Message Subject: marvell chip on intel DP965LT Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:13:39 +0100 From: Bachman Kharazmi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: debian-boot@lists.debian.org Hi, Kmuto, I would first like to thank you for your installation cd contribution. I've

marvell chip on intel DP965LT

2008-02-18 Thread Bachman Kharazmi
Hi, Kmuto, I would first like to thank you for your installation cd contribution. I've downloaded your 2.6.24 debian package with the hope of getting my cd/dvd-drive properly working. But still it doesn't work. All kernels, are debian packages. 2.6.18-6, drive not detected at all 2.6.24 from

Re: Bug#466194: ttf-cjk-compact-udeb: Some Korean glyphs missing

2008-02-18 Thread Davide Viti
Hi, On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 02:20:47AM +0900, Changwoo Ryu wrote: > 2008-02-17 (일), 23:35 +0900, Kenshi Muto: > > > > I found some Hangul glyphs are missing during "expertgui" installation, > > > with sid d-i 16-Feb-2008. Mojibakes seemed to happen on revised > > > translations. > > > > > I won

Re: Persistent disk naming - wild idea for a solution

2008-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 18 February 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > I'd suggest to create new, really persistent, short and humanly readable > device names. I'd like to see these devices named by type with "real" > (permanent) hard disks distinguised from removable devices like USB > sticks (yes, I know the distinction

Re: Future of the linux udebs

2008-02-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 12:11:26AM +0100, Frederik Schueler wrote: > Coordination is already needed now, and will be needed even more when > this change is implemented. > If this means waiting with a new upstream kernel version for a week or > two until the next beta of d-i is done, we will of co

Re: Persistent disk naming - wild idea for a solution

2008-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 18 February 2008, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 07:45:40PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > > Why exactly is it an issue? As long as all devices are on the same > > controller (and I'd expect them to be), AFAIK there is no issue: the > > device naming should be stable across reb

Re: Persistent disk naming - wild idea for a solution

2008-02-18 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 07:45:40PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > Why exactly is it an issue? As long as all devices are on the same > controller (and I'd expect them to be), AFAIK there is no issue: the device > naming should be stable across reboots. Nope. This is not guaranteed and there was drive

Re: Persistent disk naming - wild idea for a solution

2008-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 18 February 2008, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > I'm in the process of porting d-i to a number of NAS devices that can > hold 2 or 4 disks. The long standing problem of persistent disk > naming is thus an issue for me. Why exactly is it an issue? As long as all devices are on the same contr

Re: Bug#466194: ttf-cjk-compact-udeb: Some Korean glyphs missing

2008-02-18 Thread Changwoo Ryu
2008-02-17 (일), 23:35 +0900, Kenshi Muto: > > I found some Hangul glyphs are missing during "expertgui" installation, > > with sid d-i 16-Feb-2008. Mojibakes seemed to happen on revised > > translations. > > > I wonder this udeb needs to be rebuilt in every CJK translation > > updates.. > > Yep

Re: Future of the linux udebs

2008-02-18 Thread Otavio Salvador
Frederik Schueler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: <...> >> I personally have a good relation with all active people in >> debian-kernel but I think that we might have a "policy" to avoid >> problems to happen. Good will isn't enough, IMO. > > We should decide case by case, considering what is best to

Re: Future of the linux udebs

2008-02-18 Thread Frederik Schueler
Hi, On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 10:52:17PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Please read the thread we had about 2.6.24 kernel testing > migration... this is what worries me. I don't want to reopen that discussion here, and I see your argument. There are really good reasons to do beta1 with .24, and go

Re: Patch to tidy up wget use, and add return=4 when 404's are seen

2008-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 16 February 2008, Philip Hands wrote: > I've tested this briefly, and it seems to work OK, but failed > with a grub error (that I notice has been mentioned by other, so > I'm currently assuming that's not related to this patch) > > First I've made preseed_fetch callable as fetch_url, so

Re: Call for Debian Installer testing, before D-I Beta1 release

2008-02-18 Thread Otavio Salvador
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Monday 18 February 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: >> I did it just after answer his mail and was going to ask someone to >> test. Could you see the attached patch? > > I've about to commit a different solution where /var/numcpus is set in > rootskel. Main

Re: Call for Debian Installer testing, before D-I Beta1 release

2008-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 18 February 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: > + if grep -q 0x00 /sys/bus/parisc/devices/*/hw_type; then You're only testing for the presence of _a_ processor here. You're not testing _how many_ there are. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Call for Debian Installer testing, before D-I Beta1 release

2008-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 18 February 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: > I did it just after answer his mail and was going to ask someone to > test. Could you see the attached patch? I've about to commit a different solution where /var/numcpus is set in rootskel. Main reason is that that will work better with the ba

Re: iso-codes ready for migration

2008-02-18 Thread Philipp Kern
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 12:25:26PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Tobias Toedter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > if the Installer team does not object, iso-codes could be moved into > > testing. > > unblock iso-codes/1.9-1 > > The actual udeb contents did not change, but there have been translatio

Re: iso-codes ready for migration

2008-02-18 Thread Otavio Salvador
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tobias Toedter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > if the Installer team does not object, iso-codes could be moved into > testing. > > unblock iso-codes/1.9-1 > > The actual udeb contents did not change, but there have been translation > updates

Re: Call for Debian Installer testing, before D-I Beta1 release

2008-02-18 Thread Otavio Salvador
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Monday 18 February 2008, Grant Grundler wrote: >> Runtime test for the hppa installer might be to scrounge in >> /sys/bus/parisc/devices for "hw_type" contains "0x00". >> >> e.g.: >> j6k:~# fgrep 0x00 /sys/bus/parisc/devices/*/hw_type >> /sys/bus/parisc/d

iso-codes ready for migration

2008-02-18 Thread Tobias Toedter
Hello, if the Installer team does not object, iso-codes could be moved into testing. unblock iso-codes/1.9-1 The actual udeb contents did not change, but there have been translation updates of the ISO 3166 list. Regards, Tobias -- Tobias Toedter | An optimist believes we live in the best of

Re: Call for Debian Installer testing, before D-I Beta1 release

2008-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 18 February 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Grant Grundler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > e.g.: > > j6k:~# fgrep 0x00 /sys/bus/parisc/devices/*/hw_type > > /sys/bus/parisc/devices/32/hw_type:0x00 > > /sys/bus/parisc/devices/34/hw_type:0x00 > > I don't have access to get this data however

Re: Call for Debian Installer testing, before D-I Beta1 release

2008-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 18 February 2008, Grant Grundler wrote: > Runtime test for the hppa installer might be to scrounge in > /sys/bus/parisc/devices for "hw_type" contains "0x00". > > e.g.: > j6k:~# fgrep 0x00 /sys/bus/parisc/devices/*/hw_type > /sys/bus/parisc/devices/32/hw_type:0x00 > /sys/bus/parisc/device

Re: Persistent disk naming: per controller/host

2008-02-18 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 10:00:02AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > I think that this is much clear the uuid for the user however uuid is > still more powerful then that allowing that the device can be moved in > the controller or like and the system still finds it out. And everyone can substitute

Processed: tagging 466333

2008-02-18 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.9.26 > tags 466333 pending Bug#466333: Wrong capitalization for "Xfce" There were no tags set. Tags added: pending > End of message, stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need

Bug#466333: Wrong capitalization for "Xfce"

2008-02-18 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 08:17:08AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Philippe Cloutier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Package: win32-loader > > Version: 0.6.1 > > Severity: minor > > > > In the question about the desktop environment, "Xfce" is completely > > capitalized ("XFCE"). It should be "

Re: Persistent disk naming: per controller/host

2008-02-18 Thread Otavio Salvador
Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: <...> > Do people think this would be a reasonable approach, or is a generic solution > finally coming forth? I think that this is much clear the uuid for the user however uuid is still more powerful then that allowing that the device can be moved in t

Processed: Re: Bug#466333: Wrong capitalization for "Xfce"

2008-02-18 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reopen 466333 Bug#466333: Wrong capitalization for "Xfce" Bug reopened, originator not changed. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs database

Bug#466333: Wrong capitalization for "Xfce"

2008-02-18 Thread Robert Millan
reopen 466333 thanks On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 01:18:53AM -0500, Jim Paris wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 12:00:44AM -0500, Philippe Cloutier wrote: > > > Package: win32-loader > > > Version: 0.6.1 > > > Severity: minor > > > > > > In the question about the desktop enviro

Re: Call for Debian Installer testing, before D-I Beta1 release

2008-02-18 Thread Otavio Salvador
Grant Grundler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: <...> > SMP would have been appropriate though. Installing SMP kernel is not > a critical issue. Folks can easily figure out how to install an SMP > kernel and SMP kernel might not be as stable for some configurations. > So leaving that to the user is fi

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Persistent disk naming: per controller/host

2008-02-18 Thread Martin Michlmayr
I'm in the process of porting d-i to a number of NAS devices that can hold 2 or 4 disks. The long standing problem of persistent disk naming is thus an issue for me. Since the hardware in those NAS devices doesn't change, I was thinking that controller-host would be a good idea to identify a disk

Bug#466333: Wrong capitalization for "Xfce"

2008-02-18 Thread Philippe Cloutier
Le February 18, 2008 02:17:08 am Christian Perrier, vous avez écrit : > Quoting Philippe Cloutier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Package: win32-loader > > Version: 0.6.1 > > Severity: minor > > > > In the question about the desktop environment, "Xfce" is completely > > capitalized ("XFCE"). It should be

Bug#466333: Wrong capitalization for "Xfce"

2008-02-18 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Philippe Cloutier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: win32-loader > Version: 0.6.1 > Severity: minor > > In the question about the desktop environment, "Xfce" is completely > capitalized ("XFCE"). It should be "Xfce". I think that translations unfuzzy is OK for this one (basically, that me

Bug#466348: cdebconf-newt-udeb breaks if ALT-TAB is pressed

2008-02-18 Thread bgrpt2
Package: cdebconf-newt-udeb Version: 0.114etch1 cdebconf-newt-udeb breaks if ALT-TAB is pressed while progress bar is displayed. After pressing the keys the screen isn't updated anymore, while installation is continuing in background (and console 4). Installation hangs when the next input from the