Bug#511452: installation-report: Installer automatically uses swap partitions, makes partitioner very frustrating

2009-01-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Michael Goetze mgoe...@mgoetze.net [2009-01-11 03:56]: In any case, I was completely unable to change anything the partition layout, always getting errors about the kernel being unable to reread the partition table, I'll have to reboot first, etc. #507653 describes the same situation, but

Bug#507653: #511452 describes the same problem

2009-01-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
#511452 describes the same problem and includes some more information. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#509798: Debian on the HP mv2120

2009-01-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
reassign 509798 partman retitle 509798 partitioning of some of the RAID partitions couldn't be saved and I must reboot thanks * Martin Michlmayr t...@cyrius.com [2008-12-26 14:40]: The third issue showed up when I was setting up the partitions as follows (I have 2 1TB drives): I don't

Processed: Re: Bug#509798: Debian on the HP mv2120

2009-01-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: reassign 509798 partman Bug#509798: Debian on the HP mv2120 Warning: Unknown package 'partman' Bug reassigned from package `installation-reports' to `partman'. retitle 509798 partitioning of some of the RAID partitions couldn't be saved and I

Processed: partman

2009-01-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: reassign 511452 partman Bug#511452: installation-report: Installer automatically uses swap partitions, makes partitioner very frustrating Warning: Unknown package 'partman' Bug reassigned from package `installation-reports' to `partman'.

Processed: correct package

2009-01-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: reassign 509798 partman-md Bug#509798: partitioning of some of the RAID partitions couldn't be saved and I must reboot Warning: Unknown package 'partman' Bug reassigned from package `partman' to `partman-md'. reassign 511452 partman-md

Bug#184581: grratify paralysation coadunates lustier

2009-01-11 Thread Sinclaire Spana
While the fiddles and bassoons tuned up from the expecting dead bodies to feast upon, began to and greek: noesis is dealt with in exactly the heart, you know or i will say you have not the mount, who had been furtively licking his lips. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Bug#509798: Debian on the HP mv2120

2009-01-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 11 January 2009, Martin Michlmayr wrote: reassign 509798 partman The package 'partman' does not exist anymore. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Bug#509798: Debian on the HP mv2120

2009-01-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 11 January 2009, Frans Pop wrote: On Sunday 11 January 2009, Martin Michlmayr wrote: reassign 509798 partman The package 'partman' does not exist anymore. Already corrected I see. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Bug#510928: Needs way to set tasksel/desktop with hacking /var/cache/debconf/config.dat

2009-01-11 Thread Frans Pop
Just adding some thoughts. On Tuesday 06 January 2009, Daniel Dickinson wrote: It'd be useful to be able to set the desktop for tasksel after installing a standard system (e.g. when not using an xfce cdrom but wanting xfce as the desktop later). This also could help with preseeding a desktop

Bug#507653: #511452 describes the same problem

2009-01-11 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Martin Michlmayr (t...@cyrius.com): #511452 describes the same problem and includes some more information. Maybe the two bugs could be merged, then? signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#511473: debian-installer: daily build seems to generate of by one partition numbers for Windows boot

2009-01-11 Thread Michael Meskes
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal I downloaded the installed as a daily build yesterday (so, no idea where to find a version number if there is one) and reinstalled one of my old systems. This old system has an old Windows installation on /dev/hda1. I chose grub2 as boot manager in the

Processed: Re: Bug#507653: #511452 describes the same problem

2009-01-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: merge 511452 507653 Bug#507653: installation-reports: partitioner shows warning: 'The kernel was unable to re-read the partition table on /dev/md0' Bug#511452: installation-report: Installer automatically uses swap partitions, makes partitioner

Bug#507653: #511452 describes the same problem

2009-01-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
merge 511452 507653 thanks * Christian Perrier bubu...@debian.org [2009-01-11 12:04]: Quoting Martin Michlmayr (t...@cyrius.com): #511452 describes the same problem and includes some more information. Maybe the two bugs could be merged, then? Yep. -- Martin Michlmayr

Bug#506406: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#506406: xfce4: apt bug causes gdm to pull in unneeded/unwanted gnome dependencies

2009-01-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 07 January 2009, Daniel Dickinson wrote: 1) Install a standard system (say from netboot, netinst, or because you only have regular CD #1 not the xfce CD #1) You can also very easily install alternative desktop environments using the buisinesscard or netinst CDs, or DVDs. See the

Bug#511473: marked as done (debian-installer: daily build seems to generate of by one partition numbers for Windows boot)

2009-01-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sun, 11 Jan 2009 12:51:05 +0100 with message-id 20090251.06411.elen...@planet.nl and subject line Re: Bug#511473: debian-installer: daily build seems to generate of by one partition numbers for Windows boot has caused the Debian Bug report #511473, regarding

Bug#510544: Installer/partition guide tried to use 500GB as swap

2009-01-11 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl writes: On Sunday 11 January 2009, Frans Pop wrote: short: the maximal size of the unlimited partition is specified as 1,000,000,000 in the recipes, and the numbers there mean MBs, so that's 1000 TB. OK, but IMO this is more a structural flaw in partman-auto's

Bug#510544: Installer/partition guide tried to use 500GB as swap

2009-01-11 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu writes: Yes, at above 4 TB in kB based (LVM/crypto) calculation and above 4 EB in the MB based case. I wonder what would be the overhead Of course I meant 4000 TB = 4 PB, not 4 EB here. And wondered the overhead of compiling dc into busybox, for doing unlimited

40r6 locks up during boot

2009-01-11 Thread John
I'm running Windows Virtual Server on Windows Server 2003 on and HP DC5950, Athlon 4550B CPU running in IA32. It's not clear to me whether it has hardware virtualisation, I thought all recent AMD CPUs do, but virtual PC (which got removed when I installed Server 2003) said not. It's not

Re: 40r6 locks up during boot

2009-01-11 Thread John Summerfield
John wrote: I'm running Windows Virtual Server on Windows Server 2003 on and HP DC5950, Athlon 4550B CPU running in IA32. It's not clear to me whether it has hardware virtualisation, I thought all recent AMD CPUs do, but virtual PC (which got removed when I installed Server 2003) said not.

Re: linux-2.6 upload planned

2009-01-11 Thread Luk Claes
Otavio Salvador wrote: dann frazier da...@debian.org writes: hey, I wanted to give -release -boot a heads up that the kernel team is looking to do a linux-2.6 upload to sid tomorrow. As discussed on the d-i channel, delays in the d-i release have given us a short window to introduce a

Bug#500995: Installation report

2009-01-11 Thread Bernhard
Hello I tested it again with the daily build and all packages are up-to-date. You can close this bug report. Regards Bernhard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#511452: one more problem with d-i reusing RAID partitions

2009-01-11 Thread Michael Goetze
It seems it kept believing in (parts of) QNAP's original RAID configuration. This was also sort of the feeling I got, but actually after I deactivated the swap partitions I was able to delete md0 and create a fresh one without problems. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#500995: marked as done (Installation report)

2009-01-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:33:28 +0100 with message-id 2009083328.gd16...@mykerinos.kheops.frmug.org and subject line Re: Bug#500995: Installation report has caused the Debian Bug report #500995, regarding Installation report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that

Bug#511518: os-prober: probes extended and swap partitions

2009-01-11 Thread Philipp Kern
Package: os-prober Version: 1.28 Severity: normal On my machine os-prober probes also extended and swap partitions leading to quite a bunch of kernel failure messages about the various filesystems not being able to mount the partitions. Shouldn't the partition type be considered first? The

Re: 40r6 locks up during boot

2009-01-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 11 January 2009, John wrote: This time I'm using the first 40r6 DVD image which I downloaded today. It's been spinning there for 1 hour 11 minutes, running 100% CPU. It's read 5.1 Mbytes from disk (that would be the virtual DVD), written 0. There's been a few K of network I/O, I

Bug#510544: Installer/partition guide tried to use 500GB as swap

2009-01-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 11 January 2009, Ferenc Wagner wrote: Yes, at above 4 TB in kB based (LVM/crypto) calculation and above 4 EB in the MB based case. I wonder what would be the overhead I'm not going to worry about 4TB support at this point. I think it would be more logical to specify unlimited as 0

Bug#283279: Upgrade uw web-e-mail account nu

2009-01-11 Thread email.acco...@upgrade.com
Beste Web-mail E-mail account owner, Dit bericht is afkomstig van (E-mail, WEB-MAIL) berichtencentrale admin center Alle WEB-MAIL en E-mail account eigenaars. We zijn momenteel herinrichting en het verbeteren van ons Databank of E-mail Account Center te wijten aan een ongewone activiteiten in

Re: 40r6 locks up during boot

2009-01-11 Thread John
Frans Pop wrote: On Sunday 11 January 2009, John wrote: This time I'm using the first 40r6 DVD image which I downloaded today. It's been spinning there for 1 hour 11 minutes, running 100% CPU. It's read 5.1 Mbytes from disk (that would be the virtual DVD), written 0. There's been a few K of

Re: 40r6 locks up during boot

2009-01-11 Thread John
John wrote: Frans Pop wrote: Ah, so. It's the DVD image. It's different, but not satisfactory. I'm copying by hand atm, I'll look at a serial cable (I think I can do that) later, so I will give a bare minimum for the moment. Security framework initialized SELinux diasbled at boot

Re: 40r6 locks up during boot

2009-01-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 12 January 2009, John wrote: general protection fault: 3edc [#1] Modules linked in: Pid 0, comm: swapper Not tainted (2.6.26-1-486 #1) EIP 0060:[c03633f0d] EFLAGS 0286 CPU: 0 EIP is at 0xc0363f0d I will leave off now, lots of hex numbers which I'm likely to mistranscribe.

Re: 40r6 locks up during boot

2009-01-11 Thread John
Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 12 January 2009, John wrote: general protection fault: 3edc [#1] Modules linked in: Pid 0, comm: swapper Not tainted (2.6.26-1-486 #1) EIP 0060:[c03633f0d] EFLAGS 0286 CPU: 0 EIP is at 0xc0363f0d I will leave off now, lots of hex numbers which I'm likely to

Re: 40r6 locks up during boot

2009-01-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 12 January 2009, John wrote: One thing you could try is booting with the framebuffer disabled (add fb=false or video=vfb:off as boot parameter). Neither of those work. Is the script in your initrd trying to initialise framebuffer regardless? No, it shouldn't. -- To

About translating debootstrap

2009-01-11 Thread Noel David Torres TaƱo
with CC and Replay-to to debian-l10n-span...@lists.debian.org no need to reply directly to me Dear debian-boot team: I've tried to translate (into spanish) debootstrap 1.0.10 and I've found that there is a PO file but there is no POT file. Is this intentional? Many thanks Noel Torres er

Re: 40r6 locks up during boot

2009-01-11 Thread John
Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 12 January 2009, John wrote: One thing you could try is booting with the framebuffer disabled (add fb=false or video=vfb:off as boot parameter). Neither of those work. Is the script in your initrd trying to initialise framebuffer regardless? No, it shouldn't.

Re: 40r6 locks up during boot

2009-01-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 12 January 2009, John wrote: What prevents /lib/debian-installer-startup.d/S40framebuffer-module-linux=x86 from running? I'd be more convinced if it tested the environment variable fb. The boot parameter fb is an alias for debian-installer/framebuffer (defined in the preseed

Re: 40r6 locks up during boot

2009-01-11 Thread John
Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 12 January 2009, John wrote: What prevents /lib/debian-installer-startup.d/S40framebuffer-module-linux=x86 from running? I'd be more convinced if it tested the environment variable fb. The boot parameter fb is an alias for debian-installer/framebuffer (defined in

Re: 40r6 locks up during boot

2009-01-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 12 January 2009, John wrote: Frans Pop wrote: The boot parameter fb is an alias for debian-installer/framebuffer (defined in the preseed udeb). I know that, my examination of the initrd showed it. However, fb should be set in the environment, and I couldn't see anything that

Bug#510271: installation-report: Lenny on a Slug - eventual success after a few tries and some fixups

2009-01-11 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 6, 2009, at 3:59 PM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Rick Thomas rbtho...@slug.rcthomas.org [2008-12-30 19:12]: One thing worth mentioning though: I have a full-service DHCP on this subnet, so it got the network parameters from DHCP. This was successful, but for some reason it decided that

Bug#510271: installation-report: Lenny on a Slug - eventual success after a few tries and some fixups

2009-01-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Rick Thomas rbthoma...@pobox.com [2009-01-12 02:22]: d-i netcfg/get_hostname string debian d-i netcfg/get_domain string example.org ... d-i netcfg/get_ipaddress string 192.168.1.177 d-i netcfg/get_netmask string 255.255.255.0 d-i netcfg/get_gateway string 192.168.1.254 d-i