Bug#1024870: Scenario in which --extra-suites leads to breakage

2022-11-27 Thread Daniel Richard G.
I remove the --extra-suites option, the bootstrap completes successfully. It appears that the relevant portion of the script is not guarding against the possibility of an empty package list. --Daniel -- Daniel Richard G. || sk...@iskunk.org My ASCII-art .sig got a bad case of Times New Roman.

Bug#629842: Kernel BUG in ext3 filesystem creation

2011-06-09 Thread Daniel Richard G.
On Thu, 2011 Jun 9 07:56+0200, Norbert Kiszka wrote: > > Did You checked this hdd for bad sectors? Check SMART first if > possible. SMART shows no errors. Zero sectors reallocated, zero pending. Besides, a daily d-i image doesn't run into this problem. > PS. Why 486 kernel instead 686? That's t

Bug#629842: Kernel BUG in ext3 filesystem creation

2011-06-08 Thread Daniel Richard G.
and poke around, but the installer is horked. The console log, recorded via serial cable, is attached. Note that this error does not occur with testing/unstable installers. -- NAME = Daniel Richard G. _\|/_Remember, skunks MAIL = sk...@iskunk.org (/o|o\) _- don't smell bad--- MAIL+

Bug#592770: Daily build d-i + lenny + GRUB2: "Unable to install GRUB in /dev/sda"

2010-08-12 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Package: debian-installer Version: 20100805-15:58 Severity: important I am attempting to install lenny with GRUB2 using a daily build of d-i. After being prompted whether or not to install to the MBR, I get a red- screen error as follows: [!!] Configuring grub-pc Unable to install GRUB i

Bug#589213: Do not install Exim in minimal system

2010-07-17 Thread Daniel Richard G.
On Sun, 2010 Jul 18 06:09+0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > No. Those are *not* daily built images. Follow the relevant links from > the page I referred to! For netboot you need "other images". Oh, right---I see the different set of links, that go to various places (e.g. people.debian.org) not in the rep

Bug#589213: Do not install Exim in minimal system

2010-07-17 Thread Daniel Richard G.
On Sun, 2010 Jul 18 04:46+0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > No, that's no update. Only a date change for some reason. The images > are still identical to the alpha1 release from February. One way to > see that is to check the kernel version: it uses 2.6.30 instead of > 2.6.32. Another is to check the /etc

Bug#589213: Do not install Exim in minimal system

2010-07-17 Thread Daniel Richard G.
On Sat, 2010 Jul 17 21:40+0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > I'm not sure what image was used by the bug reporter, but I assume a > current "D-I alpha 1" image. The alpha1 images date from mid Februari. These received a refresh a few days ago: http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/main/inst

Bug#589213: Do not install Exim in minimal system

2010-07-17 Thread Daniel Richard G.
On Sat, 2010 Jul 17 13:35+0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > So: as the reported issue is already fixed in current daily built D-I > images and as the Recommends in popcon is functionally correct, there > is absolutely zero need to make any changes in popcon. Okay, now I'm a little confused. So I see in

Bug#589213: Do not install Exim in minimal system

2010-07-17 Thread Daniel Richard G.
On Sat, 2010 Jul 17 09:56+0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > The obvious fix is to change popularity-contest to suggest instead of > recommend, to avoid pulling in a MTA when popularity-contest is > installed. Cc to the maintainer list to see if that is an interesting > alternative. Hunh. I was

Bug#589213: Do not install Exim in minimal system

2010-07-15 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Package: debian-installer Version: 20100211+b1 (Note: I'm not sure that d-i is the correct package for this bug; please reassign if needed.) I want to install a minimal Debian/squeeze system. When the installer presents the tasksel screen, I unselect everything, even "Standard system utilities".

Bug#587570: New, non-broken squeeze images are needed

2010-06-29 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Package: debian-installer Version: 20100211 Severity: grave The installers are currently broken due to bug 583551, which prevents mkfs.ext3 et al. from working. New images are needed, per tytso in this message: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=583551#117 Please ensure that th

Bug#509168: Dell Dimension 2350 + PCI video = kernel oops on bootup

2008-12-18 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Package: installation-reports Severity: important Installing debian-testing-i386-businesscard.iso, dated 17-Dec-2008, on a Dell Dimension 2350 with an add-on PCI video card. There is an existing kernel bug (see bug 507955) that causes the newly installed Debian system to oops and become unrespo