Bug#724931: Please include the patch in git

2015-08-18 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi adrian15, On 18.08.2015 10:47, adrian15 wrote: > Can you please explain why you are using: get_fstype () function which it's > based > on blkid instead of just using the old method of relying in auto function > from the kernel itself? The reason is simply that 'mount -tauto' didn't work, whi

Bug#724931: Please include the patch in git

2014-03-24 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi, On 08.03.2014 02:13, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Given the apt-cdrom regression we're hitting (#740673), I don't feel like shipping this amount of additional modifications in jessie alpha 1 images; Given that Bug #740673 is fixed and jessie alpha 1 is released, can you review and upload these

Re: Debian Installer Jessie Alpha 1 release

2014-03-19 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
On 19.03.2014 14:52, Cyril Brulebois wrote: If you're getting a translated version of the website, and if the translation for this page has not been updated for the announce yet, you're likely getting a “Note: the original document is more recent than this translation” in that language at the top

Bug#742127: Alternative desktop environments->GNOME is empty

2014-03-19 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, It is not possible to install GNOME with jessie alpha 1 netinst [1]: Advanced options->Alternative desktop environments->GNOME is empty except for the 'Back' option. Please fix this. Best regards, Andreas 1: http://cdimage.debian.

Re: Debian Installer Jessie Alpha 1 release

2014-03-19 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
On 19.03.2014 14:42, Steve McIntyre wrote: Sorry, I hadn't realised until just now. You're not looking at the jessie alpha 1 release directory (from Tuesday), you're looking at the last weekly build (from Monday). You need to see: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/jessie_di_alpha_1/ OK? Th

Re: Debian Installer Jessie Alpha 1 release

2014-03-19 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
On 19.03.2014 14:02, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 01:56:16PM +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: * There is no installation image for GNOME on [1], but the Xfce image is still there (and for some reason is 4MB smaller than the default). debian-jessie-DI-a1-amd64-gnome-CD-1.iso

Re: Debian Installer Jessie Alpha 1 release

2014-03-19 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi, On 19.03.2014 02:42, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Behavorial changes in this release == * Xfce is the default desktop environment for the time being. Quoting tasksel's changelog: "this will be re-evaluated in August 2014, and may change again before Jessi

Bug#734154: evdev regression: touchpad cursor not working

2014-03-13 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
olger Wansing wrote: Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: It works with the wheezy 7.1 CD. Maybe it has to do with mtdev? The following line is in the jessie Xorg.0.log, but not in the wheezy one. evdev: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Using mtdev for this device Also the 'Found absolute multitouch axes'

Bug#734154: debian-installer: touchpad driver missing

2014-03-11 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi, On 11.03.2014 21:03, Holger Wansing wrote: So it's hardware specific? It seems so. I remember there are ones working in absolute mode and others with relative mode? (or similar, just typed from mind) From my /var/log/messages: -snip - synaptics: Touchpad model: 1, fw: 6.2, id:

Bug#734154: debian-installer: touchpad driver missing

2014-03-11 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi, On 11.03.2014 02:03, Cyril Brulebois wrote: It would be nice to know how it goes with a 3.13-based installation image. (No need to test the whole installation, just trying to figure out if there's still something that needs fixing.) Daily d-i builds or upcoming jessie alpha 1 images should

Bug#724931: Please include the patch in git

2014-03-08 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi, On 08.03.2014 19:04, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Andreas Cadhalpun (2014-03-08): I generally agree that it would be good to have an alpha 1 installer to use for testing regressions of this patch, but on the other hand using loopmount to install Debian *works*. Sorry, but until it's

Bug#724931: Please include the patch in git

2014-03-08 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi, On 08.03.2014 02:13, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Given the apt-cdrom regression we're hitting (#740673), I don't feel like shipping this amount of additional modifications in jessie alpha 1 images; on the other hand, not uploading what's in apt-setup's master currently would mean not using update

Re: UEFI corner case we don't handle yet - dual-boot with non-UEFI Windows

2014-02-12 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi Steve, On 11.02.2014 02:01, Steve McIntyre wrote: Gah... Just ended up playing with Colin's thinkpad; he'd reported problems with installation that sounded odd. Worked through it, and found a hole in what we recognise and support during installation (and maybe later). We have a machine with

Bug#738267: installation-reports: Include easier way to unistall previous installations of debian and remove it from GRUB menu.

2014-02-12 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
On 12.02.2014 12:07, Andrew Louis wrote: yes the old installation exists, it shows on the grub menu. i wasnt anticipating an answer, sorry for my delayed response. i installed it on the same partition, yes. The older setup does not open up. it gets stuck at a login screen where the display goes b

Bug#738267: installation-reports: Include easier way to unistall previous installations of debian and remove it from GRUB menu.

2014-02-08 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi, On 08.02.2014 19:19, andrewlouis6511 wrote: * What led up to the situation? My previous version encountered some problems during installing commodo firewall and debian wouldnt start up. So i did a fresh install but couldnt remove the previous installation from the GRUB menu. * What e

Bug#712696: debian-installer: Add Cinnamon and Mate as alternative DEs.

2014-02-02 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi, On 02.02.2014 02:32, Steven Chamberlain wrote: The bug wasn't closed by spam, but by Ben Hutchings who said: That was the first time it got closed, but the second time it was definitely spam, unless Ben Hutchings changed his mail to: "UNITED NATIONS" Best regards, Andreas -- To UNSUBS

Bug#712696: closed by spam, thus reopening

2014-02-01 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Control: reopen -1 Hi, spam should not close bugs, thus I'm reopening this one. Best regards, Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52ecf807.8020..

Bug#736965: Network detection fails in 2014-01-28 daily installer

2014-01-29 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Control: reassign -1 src:linux Control: forcemerge 725714 -1 Hi, On 28.01.2014 20:15, ano...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Preparing to install Debian on my new T430, which has an e1000e on eth0 and an Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 (supported with iwlwifi and non-free firmware) as wlan0. I for

Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-22 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi Josh, On 22.01.2014 17:50, Josh Triplett wrote: Odd. Please report a bug in the fd.o bugzilla on the i915 driver. This seems to be already reported [1], as i915.disable_power_well=0 stops the errors (but there is still mode change). I tried: sudo journalctl -F BOOTCHART This gave no ou

Bug#736234: installation-reports: Boot loader install did not work

2014-01-22 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi Harri, thanks for your installation report. On 21.01.2014 11:13, Harri Kiiskinen wrote: Problems: - Network card: did not install drivers for wifi card, for iwlwifi-firmware was not on netinst cd. Wired connection worked ok. This firmware is not on the netinst CD, because it is non-free

Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-21 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
On 22.01.2014 03:05, Josh Triplett wrote: On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 02:53:51AM +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: Why do you think it would be bad to enable 'splash' by default? Because then the splash screen would show up. :) See my previous mails in this thread; I would like to avoi

Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-21 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi Josh, On 22.01.2014 01:30, j...@joshtriplett.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 12:53:05AM +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: So you agree that it is easy enough to manually remove the 'splash' boot option if you don't like it (assuming it was enabled by default)? I don'

Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-21 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi Joey, On 20.01.2014 16:28, Joey Hess wrote: Josh Triplett wrote: If the goal here is to hide the boot messages by default, note that the default kernel command line includes "quiet", which hides most kernel messages and systemd messages. Note that the hiding of systemd messages is unintent

Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-21 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
add a trigger if no boot loader is installed yet... But the installer could add the 'splash' boot option, when installing the boot loader. > On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 07:43:41PM +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: >> On 21.01.2014 03:35, Josh Triplett wrote: On current systems, there'

Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-21 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
ns I wanted to compare the whole boot time with/without plymouth, but unfortunately for me any difference vanishes in the noise. If you don't have such varying boot times, it would help if you could carry out this measurement. > On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 11:12:21PM +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wr

Bug#736195: network/USB not working on Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 mainboard with IOMMU disabled in BIOS [BIOS bug?]

2014-01-20 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Control: reassign -1 linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64 Control: retitle -1 network/USB not working on Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 mainboard with IOMMU disabled in BIOS [BIOS bug?] Control: tags -1 d-i [An English translation of this message can be found at the end.] Hallo Rainer, vielen Dank für deinen Insta

Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-20 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi Josh, On 20.01.2014 02:07, Josh Triplett wrote: If the goal here is to hide the boot messages by default, note that the default kernel command line includes "quiet", which hides most kernel messages and systemd messages. In my opinion the boot options 'quiet' (hide unnecessary kernel messa

Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-05 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi, On 05.01.2014 11:51, Julien Cristau wrote: On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 08:29:24 +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: OK, then. Reassigning to tasksel (as we should have done for quite a while, indeed It is probably best to include plymouth in tasksel, but still the installer would have to rec

Re: Problem with firmware loading

2014-01-05 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi Heiko, On 05.01.2014 12:16, Heiko Ernst wrote: I have download the debian testing iso file from 05.01.20114. My laptop have a intel centrino 1000 wlan card. this card needs non-free firmware but the debian installer dont load the firmware from usb device. the usb device ist fromated with FAT

Bug#734154: debian-installer: touchpad driver missing

2014-01-04 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
On 04.01.2014 16:02, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Andreas Cadhalpun (2014-01-04): I just meant, that the touchpad cannot move the cursor, although evdev is loaded. Might be a kernel or driver bug. Can you please attach Xorg log and kernel log from the installer? I attached Xorg.0.log and syslog

Bug#734154: debian-installer: touchpad driver missing

2014-01-04 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi KiBi, On 04.01.2014 15:37, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Err. It should work with evdev (without touchpad-specific features though). Can you please clarify what you meant? I just meant, that the touchpad cannot move the cursor, although evdev is loaded. But when task-desktop is installed, this in

Bug#733948: duplicate of Bug#697331: Please add the first created user to lpadmin

2014-01-04 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi, I think #733948 is a duplicate of #697331. Best regards, Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52c81002.8000...@googlemail.com

Bug#734154: debian-installer: touchpad driver missing

2014-01-04 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, the Debian installer does not contain the synaptics driver for touchpads (xserver-xorg-input-synaptics). Therefore the touchpad does not work in the graphical installer. I think the driver should be added to the gtk/initrd.gz. Best

Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-04 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
On 04.01.2014 11:06, Daniel Baumann wrote: there is no problem with plymouth on systems that do not have a display attached. Thanks for providing this information. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lis

Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-04 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
On 04.01.2014 00:19, Steve McIntyre wrote: No, please! Let's not add more fluff to the base system. Maybe it is better to install plymouth only, if task-desktop is installed? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact lis

Bug#734116: debian-installer: don't overwrite debian UEFI entry without asking

2014-01-03 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi Steve, On 04.01.2014 00:17, Steve McIntyre wrote: I think a better way to do this would be to add an extra grub menu entry for the other installation; the namespace for UEFI is not designed to work with multiple entries like this AFAICS. This would also solve the problem. It seems this does

Bug#734116: debian-installer: don't overwrite debian UEFI entry without asking

2014-01-03 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Package: debian-installer Severity: serious Justification: causes data loss (in a way) Dear Maintainer, I recently installed Debian in a second partition (for testing purposes) on an UEFI system. The installer didn't ask, whether or not to install grub/an UEFI entry, instead it happily overwro

Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-03 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
On 03.01.2014 21:37, Lennart Sorensen wrote: I like the fact a debian base system by default is a working base system, with no useless junk for me to have to remove later. Perhaps if I slected 'graphical desktop' in the task selector, then it could be considered, but as part of the default base

Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-03 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi, On 03.01.2014 20:59, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 07:03:26PM +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: >> Package: debian-installer >> Severity: wishlist >> X-Debbugs-CC: Antoine Beaupré >> >> Dear Maintainer, >> >> in his installation

Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-03 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
On 03.01.2014 20:50, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Yes, I checked the BTS before replying. I'm just not sure end users having troubles to boot are actually able to work around those issues and to report bugs. (I've at least seen people switch distro instead of figuring out what went wrong.) That's of

Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-03 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi KiBi, On 03.01.2014 20:05, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Last I remember from squeeze (didn't check wheezy too much), plymouth was quite buggy/broken, and has been RC buggy for a long while (hello libdrm-nouveau); I'm not sure it's a good idea to install it by default, but I'm happy to take opinions

Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-03 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Package: debian-installer Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: Antoine Beaupré Dear Maintainer, in his installation report [1] Antoine Beaupré requested to have plymouth installed by default. While some want to have it and some don't, I think it really might be a good idea to install plymouth b

Re: init-select

2014-01-03 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi, On 03.01.2014 10:16, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: Michael Gilbert writes: So, today I wrote init-select. It's a small tool that empowers users to freely and simply choose among all of the available init systems. It also empowers Debian contributors to devote their energy toward their favorite

Re: init-select

2014-01-03 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi, On 03.01.2014 04:24, Michael Gilbert wrote: So, I suppose this isn't immediately obvious, but there is another solved problem here. Say the TC ultimately does not choose systemd as the default, and one day gnome entirely drops compatibility with the other inits. The gnome maintainers can t

Bug#733706: installation-report: installation on a Lenovo Thinkpad E431

2014-01-01 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
On 01.01.2014 18:56, Antoine Beaupré wrote: In my days, you had to to move bits around with a magnet to resize FAT12 partitions and NTFS was satan! You kids have it t easy. ;) Oh yeah, the good old days... ;) Yes, there was a firmware folder, it only contained a .deb of linux-firmware

Bug#733706: installation-report: installation on a Lenovo Thinkpad E431

2014-01-01 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi, On 31.12.2013 16:23, Luca Capello wrote: On Tue, 31 Dec 2013 15:50:39 +0100, Antoine Beaupré wrote: On 2013-12-31 05:45:01, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: Installing on UEFI firmware is supported, but is a little bit tricky, see for example [1]. Particularly you need a GPT partitioned hard disk

Bug#733706: installation-report: installation on a Lenovo Thinkpad E431

2013-12-31 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi anarcat, On 31.12.2013 05:00, anarcat wrote: > Comments/Problems: > > Install went generally well and fast. There was a problem installing > the boot loader during the install, and although I didn't investigate > during the install, when I rebooted, grub was not installed in the > MBR and I wa

Bug#732039: installation-reports: success on Lenovo Thinkpad X201 using Jessie current ISO copies to USB stick

2013-12-29 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
On 29.12.2013 04:20, Buck Huppmann wrote: Agreed; i was mostly just dutifully filing a success report, not looking for any sort of resolution, since my system is working fine It's good to know, that it sometimes even works. ;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org w

Bug#732039: installation-reports: success on Lenovo Thinkpad X201 using Jessie current ISO copies to USB stick

2013-12-28 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi Buck, On 13.12.2013 00:29, Buck Huppmann wrote: After failing to install using the latest image, because the md5sum.txt file had a bad md5sum for one of the installation packages (e2fsprogs*udeb*), This is usually due to an error while copying to the USB stick. i downloaded the image from

Bug#725714: reassign to linux

2013-12-21 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Control: reassign -1 src:linux Hi, as nobody objected to my proposal, I'm reassigning this bug back to linux. In my opinion FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER should default to no, since the functionality is not in udev anymore. Furthermore it seems, that when this functionality was moved to the kernel, it

Re: Bugs #728936, #730789, #731939 are duplicates: no USB input in debian-installer due to missing ohci-pci

2013-12-15 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi Manfred, thanks for providing this information. I think your problem was similar to the current ohci_hcd driver split, only for ehci_hcd, as in linux 3.8 the ehci-pci was introdced and linux 3.9.6-1 migrated to testing on 2013-06-21, where before that it was still 3.2. Apparently this has b

Bug#728936: Bugs #728936, #730789, #731939 are duplicates: no USB input in debian-installer due to missing ohci-pci

2013-12-14 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
06:11:12PM +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: I noticed one difference between my and Manfred's setup to Jason's: It seems USB input works now on Intel hardware (hadn't worked in the past), but not on AMD hardware (and also not on PowerPC). I seriously doubt that this is the impor

Bug#725714: the kernel should write missing firmware to a file

2013-12-13 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi, Thanks, Kay, for the very fast response and the detailed reasoning. Your arguments convinced me, that it is technically a very good idea to keep userspace out of the firmware loading. This should definitely not be reintroduced upstream or in the Debian version of udev. (Originally I thou

Bug#725714: udev firmware loading does not work in the Debian installer

2013-12-12 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi, On 12.12.2013 23:19, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 10:58 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: >> This was removed upstream [1] and is highly unlikely to be added back. >> Especially considering that the user space firmware loader is scheduled >> to be removed sooner rather then later. >

Bug#725714: udev firmware loading does not work in the Debian installer

2013-12-12 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Control: reassign -1 udev 204-5 Hi, On 12.12.2013 19:43, Ben Hutchings wrote: Yes. This is what is supposed to happen when firmware is missing: 1. The driver requests firmware. 2. The kernel tries to load a file under /lib/firmware, and fails. (This is not implemented in the wheezy kernel

Bug#728936: Bug#731939: debian-installer: USB input not functioning during install

2013-12-12 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi, I noticed one difference between my and Manfred's setup to Jason's: It seems USB input works now on Intel hardware (hadn't worked in the past), but not on AMD hardware (and also not on PowerPC). Can someone else with AMD and/or Intel hardware test this hypothesis? Best regards, Andreas

Bug#725714: Bug#715408: fixed now, but firmware problems with new installer

2013-12-12 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi Ben, On 12.12.2013 01:50, Ben Hutchings wrote: Control: reassign -1 installation-reports On Wed, 2013-12-11 at 21:56 +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: It looks like a bug in the linux kernel. I don't think so. The kernel log indicates that it got a negative response from the user

Bug#725714: Bug#715408: fixed now, but firmware problems with new installer

2013-12-11 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Control: reassign 725714 linux Control: tags 725714 d-i Hi Manfred, On 11.12.2013 05:55, Manfred Rebentisch wrote: Burned the Jessie-Image on a CD and start the PC with the Logitech Illuminated Keyboard. I tried to use graphical and textual install. In both cases all have worked. This installer

Bug#715408: possibly duplicate: Bug#728936: Debian testing installer does not dectect USB keyboard

2013-12-09 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi Rick, On 09.12.2013 22:19, Rick Thomas wrote: As noted in bugreport 728936, I tried this with a recent amd64 netinst daily. > It works fine. The problem only appears on PowerPC hardware. I also have the impression that the amd64 installer works with USB keyboards, which I find great, since

Bug#715408: possibly duplicate: Bug#728936: Debian testing installer does not dectect USB keyboard

2013-12-09 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi Manfred, I tried to reproduce the problem on my Laptop (i3-2330M) with a Logitech USB keyboard, that Windows 7 reports as: HID\VID_046D&PID_C312\7&26B80A52&0& For me the external keyboard worked in the installer. Furthermore I found the strikingly similar bug #728936 [1], where it was

Bug#724931: Please include the patch in git

2013-12-03 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
On 03.12.2013 00:46, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Andreas Cadhalpun (2013-12-02): this is now the second time that I did not get your mail. If you have any idea what could cause that, please let me know, because it is not really practical to always check bugs.debian.org. Gmail, spam folder? It

Bug#724931: Please include the patch in git

2013-12-02 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi, this is now the second time that I did not get your mail. If you have any idea what could cause that, please let me know, because it is not really practical to always check bugs.debian.org. On Topic: It's always better, if more people look at a patch, so I'd be grateful for KiBi's though

Bug#724931: Please include the patch in git

2013-11-30 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi, I have researched how to include the needed modules in the initrd. If I understand it correctly, it would be possible to add the modules as dependencies of cdrom-detect. But that would not be feasible, because the kernel modules have the version of the kernel in their name and therefore th

Bug#724931: Please include the patch in git

2013-11-24 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi, On 24.11.2013 12:50, Christian PERRIER wrote: That (imho) won't work : if that module is not in D-I kernel then it should be added there. Why do you think this wouldn't work? The same stands here, but I suspect all these modules are already in D-I kernel image packages. Needs to be carefu

Bug#724931: Please include the patch in git

2013-11-24 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi, I just created patches against cdrom-detect-1.46, hw-detect-1.98 and mountmedia-0.23. I hope that helps. For the patch to work, the loop-module is needed in the initrd, so I suggest to make it a dependency of cdrom-detect. I furthermore highly recommend to make the ext4, ntfs and udf modul

Bug#724931: Please include the patch in git

2013-11-23 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
23.11.2013 22:31, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Andreas Cadhalpun (andreas.cadhal...@googlemail.com): In general I think, that it would be good to include the patch now and add any additional improvements later. I just committed the changes to apt-setup. I will probably soon upload the package

Bug#724931: Please include the patch in git

2013-11-01 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi, I don't know why, but I didn't receive your email. I just read it on bugs.debian.org. Using the patched ISOs I noticed an error in the patch: In 41cdset $filename was incorrectly used instead of $ISOname. Therefore too many ISOs were considered as part of the set. The corrected patch is

Bug#724931: Please include the patch in git

2013-10-13 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi, On 13.10.2013 10:21, ian_br...@fastmail.net wrote: I'm not done with this yet. I'm working on a more general patch with new features, which will be forthcoming shortly. I would ask that nothing major be done until that is ready. I'm curious, what features do you want to add? "loopback" is

Bug#715408: Error in Testing installier

2013-10-13 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
On 13.10.2013 09:38, Manfred Rebentisch wrote: Hello Andreas, thank you for the answer. I have no time in the next few month to test the actual versions. I am not a guru, but a professional debian user since many years - so the problem *was* really a problem. Next year I can test installing agai

Bug#715408: Error in Testing installier

2013-10-12 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Control: tags -1 + moreinfo unreproducible Hi, I do not have this problem with the recent Debian installer. Have you tried it with the debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso from the following site? http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/20131012-1/amd64/iso-cd/ Please send a mail, wh

Bug#724931: Please include the patch in git

2013-10-12 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Control: affects -1 + hw-detect mountmedia Hi, the patch for this bug affects the following packages: * apt-setup * cdrom-detect * hw-detect (check-missing-firmware) * mountmedia Since among the maintainers of all these packages is Christian Perrier, I'm sending this to you. A short summa

Bug#726137: debian-installer: CD eject button not working

2013-10-12 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Package: debian-installer Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I installed Debian using debian-7.1.0-amd64-CD-1.iso and debian-7.2.0-amd64-CD-2.iso burned to CD. However, the eject button of the drive does not work during installation (afterwards, it works fine), so I have to switch to another

Bug#724931: Final? patch for bug #724931

2013-10-08 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Control: retitle -1 ISO loopback support for Debian installer Control: affects -1 + cdrom-detect + apt-setup Hi, I further improved the patch by solving three problems and merging with the second patch from Ian. First the solved problems: * Filesystem support: On 06.10.2013 04:06, Andreas

Bug#725714: installation-reports: Recent netinst.iso doesn't write missing firmware to /run/udev/firmware-missing

2013-10-07 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Package: installation-reports Severity: serious Dear Maintainer, The current debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso is broken: It does detect missing firmware, but does not place this information in the correct folder /run/udev/fimrware-missing. This directory does not exist, when check-missing-fir

Bug#724931: Patch for bugs #724931 and #724933

2013-10-05 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
tags 724931 patch tags 724933 patch thanks Hi, I made some changes/improvements to the patch provided by Ian: * Support a 'firmware' folder on the same device as the ISO: Due to being mounted, it was not automatically checked with the old patch. * Removed "DISTRIB_LABEL" variable: Such things

Bug#724931: PATCH: improved ISO loopmount option

2013-10-04 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi, @Ian: Thanks for working on this feature. On 04.10.2013 11:27, ian_br...@fastmail.net wrote: Testing seems to show that the patch works well; the relevant portion of the installation log is reproduced below. Sadly it only "seems" to work well, but in fact, your previous (and I assume als

Bug#724933: Bug #724933 is related to #724931

2013-10-04 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi, this bug is strongly related with the following: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=724931 Best regards, Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://list

Bug#724928: Please commit solution for #724928 (duplicate of #717449)

2013-10-01 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi, Michael Biebl suggested a 'change one line' fix for this problem in: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=717449#22 Would you be so kind as to commit this fix to git? Thank you, Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Bug#724931: Problem with apt-setup

2013-10-01 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi, The size difference in the ISO was due to an additional vmlinuz (2.5 MB) in /install.amd/gtk. If have created a shell script to patch an existing ISO and attached it to this mail. This script has to be executed with root privileges! It expects to find a debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso mou

Bug#724931: Patch works great

2013-09-30 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
tags 724931 patch thanks Hi, On 30.09.2013 14:52, wrote ian_br...@fastmail.net: Note that "loop.ko" is included on the ISO (but not the initrd), in the form of /pool/main/l/linux/loop-modules-*.udeb packages. Thank you for mentioning this. I didn't look there. I have applied your patch to th

Bug#724931: loop-mounted ISO images

2013-09-30 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
[Now follows a somewhat lengthy text. If you are bored, jump directly to the conclusion.] On 30.09.2013 01:58, wrote ian_br...@fastmail.net: you wrote: Please include the kernel module loop.ko in all installation ISOs. It would be awesome, if you could also add iso-scan to the install ISOs, s

Bug#724928: debian-installer: eth0 configured wrong

2013-09-29 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi, Did this install GNOME during installation? Or did you do that afterwards? I choose the software 'Debian desktop environment' during installation and this installed GNOME 3.4 as expected. Best regards, Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

Bug#698727: Bug #698727 is still an issue

2013-09-29 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi, this is still an issue: When installing Debian from an USB stick, an entry for the USB stick is added to /etc/fstab: '/dev/sdb1 /media/usb0 autorw,user,noauto 0 0' Therefore every stick inserted in the /dev/sdb1 slot is mounted without permission for a normal user and

Bug#724933: Grub2-Multiboot-ISO-USB: apt-setup service failed

2013-09-29 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Package: debian-installer Severity: important Dear Maintainer, When installing from the Debian netinstall ISO using Grub2's loopback method, and manually mounting the ISO to /cdrom, the installation process gets stuck at apt-setup only printing: 'apt-setup: /usr/lib/apt-setup/generators/50mir

Bug#724931: Grub2-Multiboot-ISO-USB-Stick needs loop.ko and iso-scan

2013-09-29 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Package: debian-installer Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, The module 'loop.ko' is not shipped with the Debian testing netinstall ISO. It should reside in /lib/modules/3.10-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/block/. Because it is missing, it is impossible to mount ISO images during the install and thus

Bug#724928: debian-installer: eth0 configured wrong

2013-09-29 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Package: debian-installer Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I recently installed Debian testing from the netinstall ISO using internet via eth0. The debian installer created the file /etc/network/interfaces with the following content: --- # This file describes the network interfaces availa