Bug#514055: debian still not working on PS3

2009-03-22 Thread Wartan Hachaturow
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 06:38:20PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: The correct installer is chosen based on a set of rules for the subsystem. I'm assuming that there's no rule for PS3 here. Similar things are true for the partitioner. Nope, there isn't. Hrm. Does the PS3 boot with yaboot? If

Re: Still daily build problems

2009-03-22 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Luk Claes (l...@debian.org): Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Luk Claes (l...@debian.org): I guess this got solved in the meantime? I'm afraid not. The following packages have unmet dependencies: cdebconf-gtk-terminal: Depends: libvte9 (= 1:0.17.1) but it is not

debconf frontends selection based on language

2009-03-22 Thread Praveen A
Hi, Currently we have many debconf templates translated into Malayalam, but dialog frontend is unable to display it properly. The solution is to chose gnome front end (kde front seems to be non-existent, though there is a choice) manually and install libgnome2-perl. Can we make this automatic

Re: debconf frontends selection based on language

2009-03-22 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Praveen A (prav...@gmail.com): Hi, Currently we have many debconf templates translated into Malayalam, but dialog frontend is unable to display it properly. The solution is to chose gnome front end (kde front seems to be non-existent, though there is a choice) manually and install

Re: Still daily build problems

2009-03-22 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Christian Perrier [Sat, 21 Mar 2009 23:39:06 +0100]: Looking at this this morning, I finally found out that I had locally built packages sitting in localudebs, one of them being cdebconf-gtk-terminal, and: The following packages have unmet dependencies: cdebconf-gtk-terminal: Depends:

Bug#520711: installation-reports: The squeeze netinst doesn't find archive

2009-03-22 Thread Alexander V.Inyakin
Package: installation-reports Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso22-Mar-2009 05:02 152M Date: 10:00 22.03.2009 Machine: Compaq CQ60 Partitions: df -Tl will do; the raw partition

Debian installer

2009-03-22 Thread zorgatim
Debian Mentors, Hi, I'am Zorgati Mohamed Bechir, a student of Ecole Nationalle d'Informatique et Mathématiques In Grenoble/FRANCE. I 'am very interessted about your subjects concerning Debian Installer. I 'am a good C programmer and i am familiar with bash shell scripting. I have good

please test udev 0.140

2009-03-22 Thread Marco d'Itri
http://www.bofh.it/~md/debian/ It changed a lot, so I wonder if it breaks d-i. Do not worry about the size increase, next month there will be big changes anyway (libvolume will be replaced by a new libblkid). -- ciao, Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Still daily build problems

2009-03-22 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sonntag, 22. März 2009, Christian Perrier wrote: So, my problem is: what the hell could I do to have mr einformation about what makes the package uninstallable http://edos.debian.net/edos-debcheck/ regards, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

nead informations : google summer of code

2009-03-22 Thread sana bensalma
Hello, I'am Ben Salma SANA, a student in ENSIMAG (ingeneering) Bac +4 In Grenoble/FRANCE. I 'am very interessted about your subjects Debian Installer. I have good knowledge of kernel developement in fact we had a school project in witch we programmed a timer(PIC), a keyboard driver,and display

MTD Installation

2009-03-22 Thread Per Andersson
(This presentational e-mail is sent to debian-boot, soc-coordination and pkg-fso-maint.) Hi there! For those that don't know, my name is Per and I am at my final year studying a master's degree in computer science. Last year I did a (successful) GSoC project called Debian NAS. [0] After GSoC I

Re: Still daily build problems

2009-03-22 Thread Luk Claes
Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Luk Claes (l...@debian.org): Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Luk Claes (l...@debian.org): I guess this got solved in the meantime? I'm afraid not. The following packages have unmet dependencies: cdebconf-gtk-terminal: Depends: libvte9 (= 1:0.17.1) but it

Bug#450822: marked as done (base-installer: kernel installation fails if run twice)

2009-03-22 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:40:36 +0100 with message-id 200903221740.37551.elen...@planet.nl and subject line Bug#450822: base-installer: kernel installation fails if run twice has caused the Debian Bug report #450822, regarding base-installer: kernel installation fails if run twice

Bug#520767: Installation Report - Trouble with loading missing firmware

2009-03-22 Thread Boris
Package: installation-reports Boot method: Netinst-CD Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.0/i386/iso-cd/debian-500-i386-netinst.iso Date: Thursday, 2009 March, 19th Machine: HP Server with Broadcom NetXtreme Processor: XEON Memory: 2 GB Partitions: not yet Output of lspci

Bug#514055: debian still not working on PS3

2009-03-22 Thread Geoff Levand
On 03/21/2009 11:05 PM, Wartan Hachaturow wrote: PS3 is booted with kboot, which is able to interpret yaboot.conf. Thus, the correct behaviour on that platform would be to create yaboot.conf, but without bootloader installation itself :) (as Debian does not have kboot, and I presume hardly

Bug#514055: debian still not working on PS3

2009-03-22 Thread Geoff Levand
On 03/21/2009 10:38 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 04:40:51PM -0700, Geoff Levand wrote: On 03/20/2009 02:21 PM, Wartan Hachaturow wrote: On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 03:00:37PM +0300, Wartan Hachaturow wrote: The short answer is that there isn't really an active powerpc

Re: [PATCH 01/15] [kernel-wedge] core-modules: firmware_class is no longer available

2009-03-22 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Otavio Salvador ota...@ossystems.com.br [2009-03-21 17:02]: + [ Otavio Salvador ] + * core-modules: firmware_class is no longer available. Yeah, it's built in now because a if EMBEDDED was added to Kconfig. maks, I suggest you change config/config CONFIG_FW_LOADER=m to =y. -- Martin

Re: updating kernel-wedge

2009-03-22 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Otavio Salvador ota...@ossystems.com.br [2009-03-21 17:02]: This is the first proposal of patches to update our kernel to 2.6.29. I belive we'll still have changes to do on this set of patches before really commiting it but it would be nice if porters could take a look at them and propose

upcoming point releases

2009-03-22 Thread Luk Claes
Hi The upcoming point releases for both Etch and Lenny are planned for April 4th. Please have a look at the respective websites [0] [1] [2] for a more or less up-to-date status of the preparations. Security updates that are complete could still make it till after March 28th, though this has to

5.0.1 kernel upload, ABI change

2009-03-22 Thread dann frazier
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 04:47:35PM -0700, dann frazier wrote: hey, The first lenny update is scheduled for early April, so I wanted to start coordinating the kernel update. Security The lenny-security branch is currently caught up on security issues, so I'd like to release a DSA

Bug#514055: debian still not working on PS3

2009-03-22 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 09:05:44AM +0300, Wartan Hachaturow wrote: On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 06:38:20PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: The correct installer is chosen based on a set of rules for the Obviously I meant to say 'kernel' here :-) subsystem. I'm assuming that

Re: upcoming point releases

2009-03-22 Thread W. Martin Borgert
On 2009-03-22 20:26, Luk Claes wrote: @jens+debacle: Can you please try to have the Release Notes as up-to-date as possible, TIA? These days are busy for me. Any help very much appreciated! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#514055: debian still not working on PS3

2009-03-22 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 10:45:25AM -0700, Geoff Levand wrote: On 03/21/2009 10:38 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: That is the BD drive. Did you have a disc in the drive at that point? If so, what kind of disc? The mini.iso installer, a CD-ROM. The fact that you were successful makes me doubt

wait for the boot device (was: please test udev 0.140)

2009-03-22 Thread Ferenc Wagner
m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes: It changed a lot, so I wonder if it breaks d-i. Speaking of this, maybe we could try to get rid of a good bunch of rootdelay issues with your help. I talked about this with maks on #debian-kernel, and he suggested that udev should load scsi_wait_scan in

Bug#514055: debian still not working on PS3

2009-03-22 Thread Wartan Hachaturow
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Wouter Verhelst w...@uter.be wrote: (as Debian does not have kboot, and I presume hardly ever will). Why not? Non-free? Not distributable? Because ftp-masters wouldn't allow it :) It is basically a small OpenWRT-based system, and its building process includes

Processed: severity of 520711 is normal

2009-03-22 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: severity 520711 normal Bug#520711: installation-reports: The squeeze netinst doesn't find archive Severity set to `normal' from `critical' End of message, stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking

Bug#520820: installation-reports: Successful Lenny Install

2009-03-22 Thread crhode
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: Official i386 CD Binary-1 20090214-16:29 Date: Date and time of the install Machine: Pentium II 550MHz -- 196MB Ram -- 13GB Hard Drive Partitions: df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is

Re: Suggestions for improving the (Xfce) Desktop install

2009-03-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,17.Mar.09, 18:57:49, Xavier Oswald wrote: On 19:49 Tue 17 Mar , Andrei Popescu wrote: - infrastructure: hal (without hal no icon will show up for plugged in removable media) - GUI package manager: synaptic - image viewer: gpicview you have mirage as an alternative, Im the

Re: Suggestions for improving the (Xfce) Desktop install

2009-03-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,18.Mar.09, 07:02:08, Christian Perrier wrote: Shouldn't this be discussed with Debian Xfce maintainers mor ethan tasksel maintainers (aka the D-I team)? In our POV, the content of the desktop tasks themselves is more up to the respective maintenance teams... I didn't know that...

Re: wait for the boot device (was: please test udev 0.140)

2009-03-22 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Mar 22, Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu wrote: devices, btw. How do you feel about including something like this? I am not aware of this issue. Do you have a patch? -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Suggestions for improving the (Xfce) Desktop install

2009-03-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,18.Mar.09, 23:04:25, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: On mer, 2009-03-18 at 18:59 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: Yves-Alexis Perez cor...@debian.org writes: [...] Good point, but the change need to be made in tasksel, so it's not irrelevant to discuss that in tasksel lists. But

Re: 5.0.1 kernel upload, ABI change

2009-03-22 Thread maximilian attems
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 01:13:49PM -0600, dann frazier wrote: Though several of the openvz changes have been committed and do not break the ABI, there are several openvz changes pending that do. These fix nfs support, ipv6, and some additional netfilter fixes. Maks is currently staging these

Re: wait for the boot device

2009-03-22 Thread Ferenc Wagner
m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Mar 22, Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu wrote: devices, btw. How do you feel about including something like this? I am not aware of this issue. Do you have a patch? This is what I usually employ: $ cat

Bug#520828: [INTL:be] Updated Belarusian debconf for console-setup

2009-03-22 Thread Pavel Piatruk
Package: console-setup Version: 1.30 Severity: wishlist Please update Belarusian debconf translation -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=be_BY.CP1251,

Re: wait for the boot device

2009-03-22 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Mar 22, Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu wrote: necessary devices to appear. Of course not all systems have a SCSI bus, so some extra cleverness would also be required. But this is a So submit a proper, tested and complete patch... -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: upcoming point releases

2009-03-22 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 22 mars 2009 à 20:26 +0100, Luk Claes a écrit : Please have a look at the respective websites [0] [1] [2] for a more or less up-to-date status of the preparations. The installer team requested that gtk+ 2.12.12 made it soon enough for the d-i update, but I see it is still pending.

Bug#243233: Tu Wanadoo / Orange cuenta de correo electrónico Expira en 2 Días

2009-03-22 Thread ORANGE INTERNET
Tu Wanadoo / Orange cuenta de correo electrónico Expira en 2 Días Estimado Cliente, Esta información es enviada por el Programa de Ayuda que Wanadoo.es comprueba periódicamente el tamaño de E-mail del Espacio, cuando se reciban mensajes nuevos. El programa se ejecuta semanalmente para

Re: wait for the boot device

2009-03-22 Thread Ferenc Wagner
m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Mar 22, Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu wrote: necessary devices to appear. Of course not all systems have a SCSI bus, so some extra cleverness would also be required. But this is a So submit a proper, tested and complete patch... Ah. Is that all? :)

Re: wait for the boot device

2009-03-22 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Mar 22, Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu wrote: I really hoped you'd provide some pointers how to attack this best, or I have never used this feature. If you are not totally sure about what you are doing please refrain from dumping a probable grave bugs generator on me... :-) if [ -d

Re: wait for the boot device

2009-03-22 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Ian McDonald i...@st-andrews.ac.uk writes: Have you seen bug 501969? Yes, superficially, but the issue isn't specific to LILO. And it won't be solved by changing what you wait for, unless your root device is a bare partition, because RAID and LVM activation isn't periodically rerun while

Re: wait for the boot device

2009-03-22 Thread Ferenc Wagner
m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Mar 22, Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu wrote: I really hoped you'd provide some pointers how to attack this best, or I have never used this feature. If you are not totally sure about what you are doing please refrain from dumping a probable grave bugs

Bug#514055: debian still not working on PS3

2009-03-22 Thread Geoff Levand
On 03/22/2009 12:44 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 10:45:25AM -0700, Geoff Levand wrote: On 03/21/2009 10:38 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: That is the BD drive. Did you have a disc in the drive at that point? If so, what kind of disc? The mini.iso installer, a CD-ROM.

Re: Serious SCSI problem on Lenny networkinstall image

2009-03-22 Thread Otavio Salvador
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 lets...@home.nl lets...@home.nl writes: [...] I consider it Debian's problem, and I am willing to invest some time to help, if needed. That is great and it is very welcome. I think I have given enough info via mail until now: 03/08 - a link

Bug#520443: The installer hangs when the packages are downloaded

2009-03-22 Thread Otavio Salvador
Stine Kristiansen stk...@gmail.com writes: [...] Using the text mode installer I eventually select the default packages suggested (desktop, laptop, standard) and the installer downloads. After a while it writes Retrieving file 808 of 808 and then just stops. I can still use ctrl+alt+Fx to

Re: Commit rights

2009-03-22 Thread Otavio Salvador
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christian Perrier bubu...@debian.org writes: [...] So, your call: either you think your patches might need comment and you post them...or you're fairly sure of them and you just commit..:-) I'd prefer that until someone is used to d-i and

Bug#520581: debootstrap should create loopback network interface

2009-03-22 Thread Otavio Salvador
scientes scientes-b...@jengr.com writes: is there any reason debootrap doesnt create the loopback device? is there any install that wouldnt want a loopback device? just one less thing when you debootstrap manually. Systems nowadays has udev installed and installer itself uses udev so all this

Re: WPA installations?

2009-03-22 Thread Otavio Salvador
Luk Claes l...@debian.org writes: Hi Some user complained that he could not install via wireless WPA. I guess this has been discussed already? Can one of you give a quick overview of the reasons why it's not yet supported (and maybe will never be supported), TIA? We'll support it and we

Re: Debian installer

2009-03-22 Thread Otavio Salvador
zorga...@ensimag.imag.fr writes: Debian Mentors, Hi, I'am Zorgati Mohamed Bechir, a student of Ecole Nationalle d'Informatique et Mathématiques In Grenoble/FRANCE. [...] Thanks by your interest in joining our Work ForcE (TM) ;-). You're welcome to subscribe to the mailing list and

Re: upcoming point releases

2009-03-22 Thread Otavio Salvador
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org writes: Le dimanche 22 mars 2009 à 20:26 +0100, Luk Claes a écrit : Please have a look at the respective websites [0] [1] [2] for a more or less up-to-date status of the preparations. The installer team requested

Re: r57886 - trunk/installer/build/config

2009-03-22 Thread Otavio Salvador
Wartan Hachaturow w...@alioth.debian.org writes: Author: wart Date: Sat Mar 21 07:30:01 2009 New Revision: 57886 Log: Add CHRP boot structure on ISO images [...] Please Wartan, add the changelog entry for it. It would be nice if we could test it and I belive it could be backported to

Re: r57889 - trunk/installer/debian

2009-03-22 Thread Otavio Salvador
Wartan Hachaturow w...@alioth.debian.org writes: Author: wart Date: Sat Mar 21 10:39:08 2009 New Revision: 57889 Log: Update changelog. Forgot about the first request. -- O T A V I OS A L V A D O R - E-mail: ota...@debian.org