install debian into hyper-v

2014-04-28 Thread Nick 'tarantul' Novikov
Hello! I tried to install current debian testing into Hyper-V (Windows 2012 R2) virtual machine (generation 2, UEFI boot). The virtual machine has booted successfully, the installer starts in text mode, but the keyboard does not respond. If I select "Graphical install" mouse works, but keyboard ju

Re: Support for sunxi-based ARM systems in d-i

2014-04-28 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 11:01:06PM +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: > On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 07:35:35AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > I think u-boot has some sh-style control loops you can use? (for x in > > fstype1 fstype2; do ...). People keep saying one can just use "fsload" > > too, but I've n

Bug#731806: debian-installer: FTBFS on sparc: genisoimage errors

2014-04-28 Thread Sébastien Bernard
Le 28/04/2014 22:25, Sébastien Bernard a écrit : Le 28/04/2014 22:01, Thomas Schmitt a écrit : Hi, Sebastien's machine now has a xorriso-1.3.7 (the current development snapshot) with changed libburn/async.c. The callers of add_worker() now declare: union w_list_data o; rather than

Bug#731806: debian-installer: FTBFS on sparc: genisoimage errors

2014-04-28 Thread Sébastien Bernard
Le 28/04/2014 20:21, Patrick Baggett a écrit : Seb, Yes, I can reproduce this issue. { 1, 0 } { 1, 1 } returns 0, when it should return -1. Interestingly, if you use: { 1, 1, 1, 1, 0 } //i.e. 5 bytes { 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 } //i.e. 5 bytes as the strings, it returns -1. So it clearly has a probl

Bug#731806: debian-installer: FTBFS on sparc: genisoimage errors

2014-04-28 Thread Sébastien Bernard
Le 28/04/2014 22:01, Thomas Schmitt a écrit : Hi, Sebastien's machine now has a xorriso-1.3.7 (the current development snapshot) with changed libburn/async.c. The callers of add_worker() now declare: union w_list_data o; rather than struct union_member o; The type of the f

Bug#731806: debian-installer: FTBFS on sparc: genisoimage errors

2014-04-28 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Sebastien's machine now has a xorriso-1.3.7 (the current development snapshot) with changed libburn/async.c. The callers of add_worker() now declare: union w_list_data o; rather than struct union_member o; The type of the fourth parameter of add_worker has been changed fro

Bug#731806: debian-installer: FTBFS on sparc: genisoimage errors

2014-04-28 Thread Richard Mortimer
Hi, On 28/04/2014 18:25, Thomas Schmitt wrote: has a struct on heap (#L102, #L138, #L146): struct w_list{ ... union w_list_data { ... struct write_opts write; ... } u; } ... struct w_list *a; ... a = ca

Bug#731806: debian-installer: FTBFS on sparc: genisoimage errors

2014-04-28 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > No, it's plain wrong. Unions are fine, if used properly. You aren't > using them properly. Duh. You convinced me. The callers do it wrong, indeed. They would have to use local union variables instead of their actual structs. The parameter of add_worker() should be a pointer to the union, no

Bug#743058: rationale

2014-04-28 Thread Richard Starkey
> As a cherry on top of this cake, we would also be very happy to > understand why a non crypted swap device on an hardware-encrypted > disk is good enough while it is not for other partitions. Every partition can potentially have different security requirements. Software encryption is useful for

Bug#731806: debian-installer: FTBFS on sparc: genisoimage errors

2014-04-28 Thread Patrick Baggett
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > > I really need a disassembly and to be able to probe the runtime > It's the job of a C union to provide a common hull around objects > of different size. One may dispute whether using union is a good > idea (like overloading in the

Bug#731806: debian-installer: FTBFS on sparc: genisoimage errors

2014-04-28 Thread Patrick Baggett
Seb, Yes, I can reproduce this issue. { 1, 0 } { 1, 1 } returns 0, when it should return -1. Interestingly, if you use: { 1, 1, 1, 1, 0 } //i.e. 5 bytes { 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 } //i.e. 5 bytes as the strings, it returns -1. So it clearly has a problem if the string is exceptionally short. That got

Bug#731806: debian-installer: FTBFS on sparc: genisoimage errors

2014-04-28 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > I really need a disassembly and to be able to probe the runtime > stack a bit, so that really means that I need to build the code. :) The current example would be a bit too opulent, i guess: -rwxr-xr-x 1 thomas thomas 3753398 avril 28 17:49 xorriso/xorriso (wget http://www.gnu.org/softw

Bug#731806: debian-installer: FTBFS on sparc: genisoimage errors

2014-04-28 Thread Patrick Baggett
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Patrick Baggett: > > Could you explain the context around this code? Perhaps the source is > > not really "alignment safe" and could use some patching upstream? I'd > > be happy to provide advice or code samples. > > The context wa

Bug#731806: debian-installer: FTBFS on sparc: genisoimage errors

2014-04-28 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > struct write_opts write; > ... > add_worker(Burnworker_type_writE, d, > (WorkerFunc) write_disc_worker_func, &o); Urgh. I copied the wrong struct definition. Line 592 bears of course: struct write_opts o; which is used in the call of add_worker(). Ha

Bug#731806: debian-installer: FTBFS on sparc: genisoimage errors

2014-04-28 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Patrick Baggett: > Could you explain the context around this code? Perhaps the source is > not really "alignment safe" and could use some patching upstream? I'd > be happy to provide advice or code samples. The context was misposted to bug report 731806 as message #87: https://bugs.debian.o

Bug#731806: debian-installer: FTBFS on sparc: genisoimage errors

2014-04-28 Thread Patrick Baggett
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > sorry for mis-posting the first reply for bug 746254 to this bug 731806. > > Meanwhile it turned out that the SIGBUS vanishes if i do not > compile with -O2 or if i replace "a->u =" by memcpy(). > > Could you explain the context ar

Bug#731806: debian-installer: FTBFS on sparc: genisoimage errors

2014-04-28 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, sorry for mis-posting the first reply for bug 746254 to this bug 731806. Meanwhile it turned out that the SIGBUS vanishes if i do not compile with -O2 or if i replace "a->u =" by memcpy(). So it seems worth to check whether genisoimage resp. strcmp() work properly if not compiled with -O2.

Bug#731806: debian-installer: FTBFS on sparc: genisoimage errors

2014-04-28 Thread Patrick Baggett
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Sébastien Bernard wrote: > Le 28/04/2014 16:05, Patrick Baggett a écrit : > > strcmp() may well be implemented by word comparisons. But then it > >> is the duty of the implementation to properly handle the ends of >>> the strings even if those are not word alig

Bug#731806: debian-installer: FTBFS on sparc: genisoimage errors

2014-04-28 Thread Sébastien Bernard
Le 28/04/2014 16:05, Patrick Baggett a écrit : strcmp() may well be implemented by word comparisons. But then it is the duty of the implementation to properly handle the ends of the strings even if those are not word aligned. Indeed, the correct fix is using strcmp. Meanwhil

Bug#731806: Bug#746254: xorriso: Sigbus on sparc when generating iso file.

2014-04-28 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > Program received signal SIGBUS, Bus error. > add_worker (w_type=3, d=0x161128 , f=0xd1b20 > 149 a->u = *(union w_list_data *)data; Other than expected from the first report in bug 731806, the problem does not sit in libisofs but in libburn/async.c. (Other predecessor developer

Bug#731806: debian-installer: FTBFS on sparc: genisoimage errors

2014-04-28 Thread Patrick Baggett
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 8:17 AM, Sébastien Bernard wrote: > Le 28/04/2014 14:15, Thomas Schmitt a écrit : > > Hi, >> >> Sébastien Bernard: >> >>> result from strcmp('\','\0001' is 0) >>> result from strcmp('\','\0001' is -1) >>> Typicaly, an endianness error. >>> >> But one in strcmp(), n

Bug#731806: debian-installer: FTBFS on sparc: genisoimage errors

2014-04-28 Thread Sébastien Bernard
Le 28/04/2014 14:15, Thomas Schmitt a écrit : Hi, Sébastien Bernard: result from strcmp('\','\0001' is 0) result from strcmp('\','\0001' is -1) Typicaly, an endianness error. But one in strcmp(), not in your code or the one of genisoimage. You compare an empty string with a string that

Bug#746245: installation-reports: Jessie daily amd64 netinst from 25/04/2014 won't even load

2014-04-28 Thread Raphael Geissert
Package: installation-reports Hi, As briefly mentioned in IRC, trying to install from debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso[1] on an SD card in an UEFI-hybrid laptop the installer won't even appear. A series of "syntax error" scroll down the screen very fast and after about one or two seconds the grub

Bug#731806: debian-installer: FTBFS on sparc: genisoimage errors

2014-04-28 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Sébastien Bernard: > result from strcmp('\','\0001' is 0) > result from strcmp('\','\0001' is -1) > Typicaly, an endianness error. But one in strcmp(), not in your code or the one of genisoimage. You compare an empty string with a string that contains one character 0x01. This is under

cdebconf_0.190_amd64.changes ACCEPTED into unstable

2014-04-28 Thread Debian FTP Masters
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Processing of cdebconf_0.190_amd64.changes

2014-04-28 Thread Debian FTP Masters
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Bug#731806: debian-installer: FTBFS on sparc: genisoimage errors

2014-04-28 Thread Sébastien Bernard
Le 28/04/2014 13:20, Thomas Schmitt a écrit : [genisoimage] (gdb) x rpnt 0x1ea7f9:0x (gdb) x lpnt 0x1e9dc1:0x0100 (gdb) n 659if (strcmp(rpnt, lpnt) == 0) { Both values match the prescribed names for "." and ".." in ECMA-119 (aka ISO 9660), 6.8.2.2 Identification of

Bug#731806: debian-installer: FTBFS on sparc: genisoimage errors

2014-04-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 01:20:20PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: >Hi, > >> I may provide you access to a shell account on my machines if needed. > >Yes, please. > >Plus a directory tree > ./tmp/miniiso/cd_tree >which can cause the xorriso crash. > > >> Sparc architecture is extremely picky about al

Bug#745359: marked as done (cdebconf-gtk-udeb: fails to extend banner when needed)

2014-04-28 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Mon, 28 Apr 2014 11:33:51 + with message-id and subject line Bug#745359: fixed in cdebconf 0.190 has caused the Debian Bug report #745359, regarding cdebconf-gtk-udeb: fails to extend banner when needed to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has be

Bug#741027: News about this bug #741027

2014-04-28 Thread Marc Jouan
Morning, I have several servers that block regularly is very random, some were stuck 4 times in one month, another 2 times and only one time. The space between the blocks is truly random. I noticed that information was common in these blocks, and allowed me the grace logs Kelvin González l

Bug#731806: debian-installer: FTBFS on sparc: genisoimage errors

2014-04-28 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > I may provide you access to a shell account on my machines if needed. Yes, please. Plus a directory tree ./tmp/miniiso/cd_tree which can cause the xorriso crash. > Sparc architecture is extremely picky about alignement. Bad alignement, > yields SIGSEGV whereas intel only do it in the l

Bug#731806: debian-installer: FTBFS on sparc: genisoimage errors

2014-04-28 Thread Sébastien Bernard
Le 28/04/2014 12:09, Thomas Schmitt a écrit : Hi, I tried with the xorriso -as mkisofs command, with no luck. This command terminates with a SIGBUS no matter of the options I pass on the command line. Ouch. I have no Debian of arch "sparc" in reach. I may provide you access to a shell account

Re: Proposed changes to installer for armhf

2014-04-28 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2014-04-25 at 19:06 +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: > On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 08:42:23AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > Aside: "EfikaMX" is listed in 2.1.2.4 as no longer supported, but we do > > supply a specific image for it using the armmp kernel: > > http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/a

Bug#731806: debian-installer: FTBFS on sparc: genisoimage errors

2014-04-28 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > I tried with the xorriso -as mkisofs command, with no luck. > This command terminates with a SIGBUS no matter of the options I pass on > the command line. Ouch. I have no Debian of arch "sparc" in reach. > xorriso -as mkisofs -r -J -o ./tmp/miniiso/mini.iso -G /boot/isofs.b -B > ... ./t

Bug#731806: debian-installer: FTBFS on sparc: genisoimage errors

2014-04-28 Thread Sébastien Bernard
I've been looking through this problem. genisoimage is reporting a problem with . and .. aliased to the same '' name. logs of the problem: - genisoimage -r -J -o ./tmp/miniiso/mini.iso -G /boot/isofs.b -B ... ./tmp/miniiso/cd_tree I: -input-charset not specified, using utf-8 (dete