Bug#682211: wheezy installation report: some rough edges

2012-07-20 Thread Yann Dirson
Subject: installation-reports: d630 Package: installation-reports Severity: normal (sorry for lack of logs, sending from different machine) -- Package-specific info: Boot method: Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/wheezy_di_alpha1/i386/iso-cd/debian-wheezy-DI-a1-i386-netinst.iso

Bug#588773: debootstrap: cannot use fakechroot variant

2010-07-12 Thread Yann Dirson
Extracting base-files... local...@chalon:~$ echo $? 2 -- Yann Dirson - Bertin Technologies -- 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/

Bug#543149: console-setup: perl errors during installation

2009-08-31 Thread Yann Dirson
> On Monday 31 August 2009, Yann Dirson wrote: >> This seems to be similar to #480533, which was apparently fixed by >> moving more stuff to perl-base. > > I very much doubt it is related as the version of perl that fixed #480533 > is ancient (included in stable). So if

Bug#543149:

2009-08-31 Thread Yann Dirson
This seems to be similar to #480533, which was apparently fixed by moving more stuff to perl-base. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#538397: console-setup: complains about unsupported ctrl:nocaps on upgrade

2009-07-26 Thread Yann Dirson
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 09:30:10PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 03:50:31PM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote: > > > > I use ctrl:nocaps since ages, and only now (upgrading from 1.36) does > > console-setup start to complain about it. > > What do you m

Bug#538397: console-setup: complains about unsupported ctrl:nocaps on upgrade

2009-07-25 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: console-setup Version: 1.44 Severity: normal I use ctrl:nocaps since ages, and only now (upgrading from 1.36) does console-setup start to complain about it. I could not find a reason for this from a quick search in the changelog. I just hope it will continue to work in X despite console

Bug#230440: FWD: Re: INSTALL REPORT with 2004-01-09 netinst, failed

2004-05-27 Thread Yann Dirson
I created (which could have been a reasonable suggestion), whereas it was telling me something different - see above. > > - Selecting "French" as the keyboard layout after reboot, I do not > > have time to see the keymap name, and subsequent error message, before > > t

Bug#241647: base-config: wrong dialog ordering at user creation

2004-04-02 Thread Yann Dirson
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 06:35:25AM -0800, Matt Kraai wrote: > On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 10:00:41AM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote: > > When asking questions to create the non-root user, the question for the > > user's name appears before the explanation saying that a non-root user

Bug#241697: base-config: "standalone" choice in exim4-config returns to main menu

2004-04-02 Thread Yann Dirson
this (obvious ?) choice, I'm asked questions at medium priority, give default answer to all, and I'm then left back to main menu, with next step selected (so I assume this time it had worked). This may be an exim4 bug instead, you know better :) -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#241647: base-config: wrong dialog ordering at user creation

2004-04-02 Thread Yann Dirson
on is about the name of the root user. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Senior Free-Software Consultant Consultant senior en Logiciels Libres Debian developer ([EMAIL PROTECTED])DĂ©veloppeur Debian -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Bug#241644: d-i: bad french title for last dialog

2004-04-01 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: debian-installer Version: 20040331 Tags: d-i One of the last boxes says "Terminer l'installation", while it would much probably be "Fin de l'installation" or "Finalisation de l'installation". -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |

Bug#241478: partman: fatal error : OK - cancel ?

2004-04-01 Thread Yann Dirson
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 08:53:27PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Yann Dirson wrote: > > Package: debian-installer > > Version: 20040331 > > Tags: d-i > > Since you know the package is partman, please file the bug report on > partman. Hm, I should have checked further re

Bug#241434: d-i: multiple paths for keyboard selector, "back" broken

2004-04-01 Thread Yann Dirson
mediumso this is indeed tricky as trying to go > back to main-menu with priority=high will never display the menu..:-) What about giving it a high priority, but ensuring it is not in the direct path for normal install ? -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Why make M$-Bill riche

Bug#241478: partman: fatal error : OK - cancel ?

2004-04-01 Thread Yann Dirson
, being careful not to hit any "back" button, and when I asked for autopartitionning, I don't remember seing a different dialog than the 1st time. But it's easily reproduceable: - install qemu - dd if=/dev/zero of=hda count=409600 - make sure you have TUN/TAP available to your ho

Bug#241494: partman: cannot reuse existing partition

2004-04-01 Thread Yann Dirson
delete the partition, things proceed as expected. -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Why make M$-Bill richer & richer ? Debian-related: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Support Debian GNU/Linux: Pro:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Freedom, Power, Stability, Gratuity ht

Bug#241491: d-i: cannot install without a network card

2004-04-01 Thread Yann Dirson
to start qemu in such a way that it has a network interface, even if it's not connected to a usable network, to go further. This will be annoying to install on some embedded systems such as PDAs. -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Why make M$-Bill richer & richer ?

Bug#241490: d-i: manual IP conf may suggest self IP as gateway

2004-04-01 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: debian-installer Version: 20040331 Severity: minor Tags: d-i If I enter an IP ending with .1, the suggested IPs for gw and ns end up being the same as the machine's IP. Surely not accurate to the gateway. -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Why make M$-Bill rich

Bug#241478: partman: fatal error : OK - cancel ?

2004-04-01 Thread Yann Dirson
is not enough space. This in itself look suspect. And below that I get 2 buttons : "back" and "continue". In what are those supposed to be different ? Reminds me of the old Windows dialog proposing "OK" and "Cancel" when a fatal error occured - no offe

Bug#241476: partman: automatic/manual switch not consistent with d-i

2004-04-01 Thread Yann Dirson
what I want. IMHO it would be much more consistent and intuitive to get rid of this "automatically partition the HD" item, and rely on "back" for this feature. -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Why make M$-Bill richer & richer ? Debian-related: <[E

Bug#241467: d-i: too many things happen when wrong network driver is selected

2004-04-01 Thread Yann Dirson
n the installer goes on autodetecting hardware, including attempts to load vesafb and friends. Whenever I try another _network_ driver I have to wait for the installer to redo the same unrelated probing again. -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Why make M$-Bill richer & richer ?

Bug#241434: d-i: multiple paths for keyboard selector, "back" broken

2004-04-01 Thread Yann Dirson
obably have seen it when hitting "back" (which would have been highly counter-intuitive as well). > Thus, you were on main menu at medium priority. > > Choosing back lowered the priority again.and you end up with > installing at "low" priority and be prompted

Bug#241434: d-i: multiple paths for keyboard selector, "back" broken

2004-04-01 Thread Yann Dirson
experience of the average user who just hit enter at the boot prompt... -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Why make M$-Bill richer & richer ? Debian-related: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Support Debian GNU/Linux: Pro:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Freedom, Power,

Bug#241434: d-i: multiple paths for keyboard selector, "back" broken

2004-04-01 Thread Yann Dirson
about keyboard type (AT vs. USB). When I select AT I now get the list I was expecting. If now I hit "back" again I (presumably correctly) get the AT vs. USB list. Those 2 issues seem closely related. -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Why make M$-Bill richer & richer

Bug#221908: initrd image name

2004-01-13 Thread Yann Dirson
e OK again... Regards, -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical support managerResponsable de l'assistance technique Senior Free-Software Consultant Consultant senior en Logiciels Libres Debian develo

Missing packages on initial install

2004-01-12 Thread Yann Dirson
about that, assuming most people agree with this ? Requesting priorities to be raised in the override file ? Or is there some d-i-specific action to be done ? Regards, -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical support managerRespon

Re: INSTALL REPORT with 2004-01-09 netinst, failed

2004-01-12 Thread Yann Dirson
-pc" I get the same error messages. - When asked to select (again) an http mirror for downloading packages, 1) my previous selection is not the default, maybe because of 2) the country names being listed in english, despite all other text being correctly in french. However, the proxy

Re: INSTALL REPORT with 2004-01-09 netinst, failed

2004-01-12 Thread Yann Dirson
(eg. "/", which then causes an error because of duplicate / being found) -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical support managerResponsable de l'assistance technique Senior Free-Software Consultant Consult

Re: INSTALL REPORT with 2004-01-09 netinst, failed

2004-01-12 Thread Yann Dirson
bug main-menu[227]: DEBUG: Menu item 'di-utils-partitioner' selected Jan 12 13:02:25 (none) user.debug main-menu[227]: DEBUG: configure di-utils-partitioner, status: 2 Jan 12 13:02:25 (none) user.warn main-menu[227]: WARNING **: Unable to set title for di-utils-partitioner. HTH, -- Y

INSTALL REPORT with 2004-01-09 netinst, failed

2004-01-12 Thread Yann Dirson
but that was just because its build procedure explicitely tested for it and used it if available. And the current /bin/mount I have on another sarge box does not have this symbol. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical support manager

Re: Bug#183453: e2fsprogs-bf: Please provide a lintian override for man pages

2003-03-05 Thread Yann Dirson
uss the issue first with the lintian maintainer and the bf team ? Regards, -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Why make M$-Bill richer & richer ? Debian-related: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Support Debian GNU/Linux: Pro:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Freedom, Power, Stability, G

Bug#161999: boot-floppies: 3.0r0 install can end with no /etc/host{s,name}

2002-09-24 Thread Yann Dirson
have much time tonight, will try to test things tomorrow. Regards, -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Why make M$-Bill richer & richer ? Debian-related: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Support Debian GNU/Linux: Pro:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Freedom, Power, Stabil

Bug#161999: boot-floppies: 3.0r0 install can end with no /etc/host{s,name}

2002-09-23 Thread Yann Dirson
386 Kernel: Linux vitel 2.4.19-station #1 Tue Aug 6 11:36:58 CEST 2002 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE= -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical support managerResponsable de l'assistance technique Senior Free-Software Consultant

Bug#161998: boot-floppies: wrong fr translations

2002-09-23 Thread Yann Dirson
27;t the 3rd be "autre choix 2" ? -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux vitel 2.4.19-station #1 Tue Aug 6 11:36:58 CEST 2002 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE= -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Tech

sarge, console-tools, debconf or not

2002-07-22 Thread Yann Dirson
another way. Yet I don't see how it could get done properly within debconf otherwise. What I'd suggest would be first to check with Joey Hess his opinions on the subject - I know he would be of valuable help if convinced - before going another way. Opinions, anyone ? -- Yann Dirson&l

pcmcia_core module missing from woody installer ?

2002-05-27 Thread Yann Dirson
Hi, Looks like the pcmcia_core module is missing from the woody installer ? Regards, -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical support managerResponsable de l'assistance technique Senior Free-Software Consultant

Re: e2fsprogs 1.26

2002-02-05 Thread Yann Dirson
ebuild (delo dump gnome-utils mc quik silo). IMHO, that'd be possible to achieve. Green light ? Red light ? -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Free-Software EngineerIngénieur Logiciel-Libre Free-Software time

Re: e2fsprogs 1.26

2002-02-04 Thread Yann Dirson
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 12:01:12PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > > So I suppose it won't be OK, then... better provide an alternative > > package ? > > Better to not provide an alternative. Woops, wrong wording :) Sure ! Replaces/Conflicts/Provides -- Yann D

Re: e2fsprogs 1.26

2002-02-04 Thread Yann Dirson
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 02:07:43AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 10:39:25AM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote: > > e2fsprogs 1.26 is out, including fixes for one but tagged important, > > ext3-related fixes, reiserfs support in fsck, and more complete > > suppo

e2fsprogs 1.26

2002-02-04 Thread Yann Dirson
it would probably be better if it could go in base... What do boot-floppies and release manager think ? Full list of changes at http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=73260 -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Free-Software

Re: more space spared in e2fsprogs-bf

2001-06-21 Thread Yann Dirson
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 12:41:55AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Unless you have objections, I'll build e2fsprogs-bf with -Os. > > Probably many other packages would benefit from this flag as well... > > Sounds goo

more space spared in e2fsprogs-bf

2001-06-21 Thread Yann Dirson
hey, their symlinks, and their dir tree take on my 4k-blocks filesystem, but clearly there are a couple of KBs to take here. Unless you have objections, I'll build e2fsprogs-bf with -Os. Probably many other packages would benefit from this flag as well... Regards, -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PR

Re: Patch not included in e2fsprogs 1.21.

2001-06-19 Thread Yann Dirson
I think of it, e2fsprogs is Essential, so it can't be replaced by non-Essential e2fsprogs-bf, so life is cool. Will do that. Regards, -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Why make M$-Bill richer & richer ? debian-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: Patch not included in e2fsprogs 1.21.

2001-06-16 Thread Yann Dirson
some tweeking so that the bf package does not get built and uploaded into the dist, but it may be worth it. Regards, -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Why make M$-Bill richer & richer ? debian-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Support Debian GNU/Linux:

Re: Patch not included in e2fsprogs 1.21.

2001-06-16 Thread Yann Dirson
laced with rules that do a separate build in a second > directory using the --disable-swapfs, --disable-debugfs, et. al. flags. You might as well remove the refs to *pic from the control and rules files, or the build will fail because of the missing pic targets in the Makefile's. Regards, --

Re: E2fsprogs 1.20 released

2001-06-14 Thread Yann Dirson
ork. Anyway the only breakage that can arise here by using the reduced libs will be an undefined symbol when a non-supported program will start, right ? My understanding of how the shared libs work lets me think there should not be other problems, but well... -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: E2fsprogs 1.20 released

2001-06-08 Thread Yann Dirson
[CCing the boot-floppies team] On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 08:49:54AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 10:24:54AM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote: > > > > FWIW, I've added support for pic libraries to the elf-lib Makefile, on > > request of the boot-floopies

Re: Bug#99285: would be nice to produce a -pic version of the libraries

2001-05-30 Thread Yann Dirson
ake a difference to put .o files where libtool is not in use :) For e2fsprogs the minimal patch will be in upstream sources - you guys will tell me if the saving are worth sending the change upstream. Regards, -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Why make M$-Bill richer & richer ?

Re: Bug#99285: would be nice to produce a -pic version of the libraries

2001-05-30 Thread Yann Dirson
way of doing things, or does each package make its own cooking ? Eg, glibc has some other files in addition to the pic lib... -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Why make M$-Bill richer & richer ? debian-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Bug#75106: dbootstrap: wrong choice for partition for LILO bootsector

2000-12-04 Thread Yann Dirson
om the bios at boot-time - that's why I put /boot at the beginning of the drive, anyway. And yes, it's really feasible. I installed at least 3 potato boxes with this setup, with each time this quite annoying choice: install lilo either in the mbr, or in a place where it won't be able

Bug#75106: dbootstrap: wrong choice for partition for LILO bootsector

2000-10-18 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: boot-floppies Version: N/A; potato RC3 Severity: normal I did an install from my RC3 floppies this week - still do not have r1 CDs, waiting for r2 to be there :} - and went into the following problem. It was not a blocking problem for me, but I guess it may be to others. Partionning: /

Bug#68373: fresh install: some dependency problems ?

2000-08-13 Thread Yann Dirson
otential dependancy issues. Maybe I'll find some time to do this - but maybe not ;) -- Yann Dirson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |Why make M$-Bill richer & richer ? debian-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Support Debian GNU/Linux: | Ch

Bug#68373: fresh install: some dependency problems ?

2000-08-01 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: boot-floppies Version: 2.2.16 Severity: normal Another small issue I had was that after a first pass at installing packages, apt told me it had problems unpacking some packages, and that it could not install or configure (was not clear, but I'd say it was a configuration problem, as only

Bug#68372: fresh install: xdm does not start

2000-08-01 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: boot-floppies Version: 2.2.16 Severity: normal Just had my first install of potato TC3. No major problems. The main one was that xdm did not start at the end of the install procedure - I was left at the consoel prompt. The xdm package (and X server) was properly configured, and xdm st