Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults

2009-12-25 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: installation-reports Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/ Daily build #1 for powerpc, using installer build from sid debian-t

Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]

2009-12-28 Thread Rick Thomas
This bug (562575) is still present in today's netinst CD. The businesscard installer boots and prints the ususal flock of kernel startup messages. then it says: Starting system log daemon Segmentation fault and then it loops saying INFO: kbd-mode: setting console mode to Unicode (UTF-

Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]

2010-01-04 Thread Rick Thomas
Interestingly enough, this problem does not seem to be present in the i386 daily installer CDs. Just another datapoint... Rick On Dec 28, 2009, at 6:18 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: This bug (562575) is still present in today's netinst CD. The businesscard installer boots and prints the ususal fl

Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]

2010-01-28 Thread Rick Thomas
I tested it today with the sid-di daily PowerPC buisnesscard dated "Thu Jan 28 22:35:10 UTC 2010" It still segfaults at startup. Sadly, I don't have the chops to fix this myself. If someone else doesn't step up, PowerPC will not be working when Squeeze releases. I can test anything you want

Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]

2010-01-31 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello, On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:28 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > I tested it today with the sid-di daily PowerPC buisnesscard dated > "Thu Jan 28 22:35:10 UTC 2010" > > It still segfaults at startup. I've built cdebconf in the development machine and I failed to reproduce this failure. We need s

Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]

2010-01-31 Thread Norberto Feliberty
-- From: "Otavio Salvador" Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2010 1:49 PM To: "Rick Thomas" Cc: <562...@bugs.debian.org>; ; "PowerPC List Debian" Subject: Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-repo

Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]

2010-01-31 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello, I'll resume what I've gotten from my debugging session today. It happens in cdebconf. I could only reproduce the failure inside of the installer and not on the regular system. To reproduce it I unpacked the initrd and did a chroot for it, after just calling 'debconf' is enough to reproduc

Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]

2010-01-31 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello, Good news :-) On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote: > I'll resume what I've gotten from my debugging session today. I got it working and I've asked for a binNMU for cdebconf to be queued. It looks to fix it, at least it did for my test here. Let's see how it goes. --

Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]

2010-01-31 Thread Norberto Feliberty
present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults] Hello, Good news :-) On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote: I'll resume what I've gotten from my debugging session today. I got it working and I've asked f

Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]

2010-01-31 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello, On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Norberto Feliberty wrote: > That's great to hear Hopefully this will get things rolling again since I > see that the latest daily squeeze build has stopped on Jan 11. This is also fixed now. -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems E-mail: ota...

Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]

2010-01-31 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 31, 2010, at 6:45 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote: Hello, On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Norberto Feliberty wrote: That's great to hear Hopefully this will get things rolling again since I see that the latest daily squeeze build has stopped on Jan 11. This is also fixed now. Wonderf

Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]

2010-02-01 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello, On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 1:53 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Jan 31, 2010, at 6:45 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Norberto Feliberty >> wrote: >>> >>> That's great to hear Hopefully this will get things rolling again since I >>> see that the lat

Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]

2010-02-12 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 1:53 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: On Jan 31, 2010, at 6:45 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote: Hello, On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Norberto Feliberty wrote: That's great to hear Hopefully this will get things rolling again since I see that the latest daily squeeze build

RE: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]

2010-02-12 Thread Norberto Feliberty
-Original Message- From: Rick Thomas Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 8:18 AM To: 562...@bugs.debian.org Cc: debian-boot@lists.debian.org; debian-powe...@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with

Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]

2010-02-17 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello, Please test the images at http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/squeeze_di_alpha1/powerpc Those are suppose to be OK; I want the confirmation to announce it. TIA, -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems E-mail: ota...@ossystems.com.br http://www.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 53 998

Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]

2010-02-17 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 17, 2010, at 8:05 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote: Hello, Please test the images at http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/squeeze_di_alpha1/powerpc Those are suppose to be OK; I want the confirmation to announce it. I just completed a successful install using the DVD-1 from http://cd

Bug#562575: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]

2010-01-28 Thread Rick Thomas
I tested it today with the sid-di daily PowerPC buisnesscard dated "Thu Jan 28 22:35:10 UTC 2010" It still segfaults at startup. Sadly, I don't have the chops to fix this myself. If someone else doesn't step up, PowerPC will not be working when Squeeze releases. I can test anything you want

Re: Is Debian on PowerPC dead? [Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]]

2010-01-14 Thread Brian Morris
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > This bug is still present in the "Thu Jan 14 16:08:46 UTC 2010" > businesscard CD downloaded from > > > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/ > > So far as I can tell, this bug has not been look

RE: Is Debian on PowerPC dead? [Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]]

2010-01-14 Thread Norberto Feliberty
Norberto Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:07:22 -0800 Subject: Re: Is Debian on PowerPC dead? [Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]] From: cymraeg...@gmail.com To: rbtho...@pobox.com CC: 562

Re: Is Debian on PowerPC dead? [Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]]

2010-01-15 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 16:23 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > > This bug is still present in the "Thu Jan 14 16:08:46 UTC 2010" > businesscard CD downloaded from > > > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/ > > So far as I can tell, this bug has not

Bug#562575: Is Debian on PowerPC dead? [Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]]

2010-01-14 Thread Rick Thomas
This bug is still present in the "Thu Jan 14 16:08:46 UTC 2010" businesscard CD downloaded from http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/ So far as I can tell, this bug has not been looked at by the debian- installer folks. Is PowerPC simply s

Re: Bug#564150: Is Debian on PowerPC dead? [Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]]

2010-01-15 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 15, 2010, at 5:00 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 16:23 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: This bug is still present in the "Thu Jan 14 16:08:46 UTC 2010" businesscard CD downloaded from http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/ So f

Re: Bug#564150: Is Debian on PowerPC dead? [Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]]

2010-01-16 Thread Julian Hernandez Gomez
Hi, More hints: * D-I 20091223-00:00 doesn't have this problem (but has other bugs related to dhcp and then the install fails also) * D-I 20091224-00:00 is the first image to introduce the bug. I'm attaching the udeb list diff for those builds. * Problem seems to be related to the changes made

Re: Bug#564150: Is Debian on PowerPC dead? [Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]]

2010-01-16 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 17:56 +0800, Julian Hernandez Gomez wrote: > * Problem seems to be related to the changes made to cdebconf 0.146 > (debconf-get segfault) Can you repro in a non-d-i environment with the non-udeb cdebconf? Or maybe by unpacking the cdebconf udeb onto your system? Or by unpacki

Re: Bug#564150: Is Debian on PowerPC dead? [Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]]

2010-01-17 Thread Julian Hernandez Gomez
Hi, I ran the debian-installer in another tty and here is the output (I had to wrote it by hand due to a dhclient error) ~ # set -x ~# . /sbin/debian-installer + set -e + export MENU=/usr/bin/main-menu + . /lib/debian-installer.d/S20speakup + lsmod + grep -q speakup_ + . /lib/debian-installer.d/S

Re: Bug#564150: Is Debian on PowerPC dead? [Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]]

2010-01-17 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 17, 2010, at 10:31 AM, Julian Hernandez Gomez wrote: The only powerpc computer that I have (PS3) is the one that I'm trying to install :( maybe Rick had other machines previously installed and he could run the cdebconf powerpc version. -- Julian. I do have such machines, and I'd

Re: Bug#564150: Is Debian on PowerPC dead? [Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]]

2010-01-18 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 13:17 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Jan 17, 2010, at 10:31 AM, Julian Hernandez Gomez wrote: > > > The only powerpc computer that I have (PS3) is the one that I'm > > trying to install :( I think someone reported that there were images from last year which worked -- I th

Re: Bug#564150: Is Debian on PowerPC dead? [Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]]

2010-01-18 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 18, 2010, at 10:14 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 13:17 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: On Jan 17, 2010, at 10:31 AM, Julian Hernandez Gomez wrote: The only powerpc computer that I have (PS3) is the one that I'm trying to install :( I think someone reported that there were

Re: Bug#564150: Is Debian on PowerPC dead? [Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]]

2010-01-19 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 00:17 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Jan 18, 2010, at 10:14 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 13:17 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > >> On Jan 17, 2010, at 10:31 AM, Julian Hernandez Gomez wrote: > >> > >>> The only powerpc computer that I have (PS3) is the one t

Re: Bug#564150: Is Debian on PowerPC dead? [Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]]

2010-01-19 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 19, 2010, at 7:29 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: I'd recommend grabbing cdebconf from the d-i svn repo and building a few test versions at various points between 0.145 and 0.146. Just running cdebconf-get from the built source tree may prove informative. Ian. Once again, I have the hardwa

Re: Bug#564150: Is Debian on PowerPC dead? [Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]]

2010-01-19 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 07:59 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Jan 19, 2010, at 7:29 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: > > >>> I'd recommend grabbing cdebconf from the d-i svn repo and building a > >>> few > >>> test versions at various points between 0.145 and 0.146. Just > >>> running > >>> cdebconf-get fro

Bug present in Sid D-i, but not in Squeeze d-i [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]

2010-02-15 Thread Rick Thomas
At Norberto's suggestion I did a side-by side comparison of the PowerPC daily buisnesscard installer from the Sid d-i and the Squeeze d-i at http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/{squeeze,sid}_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/ This build finished at Mon Feb 15 04:15:05 UTC 2010. (for S

RE: Bug present in Sid D-i, but not in Squeeze d-i [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]

2010-02-15 Thread Norberto Feliberty
-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults] At Norberto's suggestion I did a side-by side comparison of the PowerPC daily buisnesscard installer from the Sid d-i and the Squeeze d-i at http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/{squeeze,sid}_d-i/arch-latest/po

Re: Bug present in Sid D-i, but not in Squeeze d-i [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]

2010-02-15 Thread Rick Thomas
, but not in Squeeze d-i [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults] At Norberto's suggestion I did a side-by side comparison of the PowerPC daily buisnesscard installer from the Sid d-i and the Squeeze d-i at

RE: Bug present in Sid D-i, but not in Squeeze d-i [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]

2010-02-15 Thread Norberto Feliberty
boot@lists.debian.org; > debian-powe...@lists.debian.org > Subject: Bug present in Sid D-i, but not in Squeeze d-i [Re:  > Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer  > loops with Segmentation faults] > > > At Norberto's suggestion I did a side

Re: Bug present in Sid D-i, but not in Squeeze d-i [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]

2010-02-15 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 15, 2010, at 10:05 PM, Norberto Feliberty wrote: It used to have the drivers for the ps3 network card and it would install but now it just fails at configuring network. I dont know how to provide extra info from the logs or how to access them. Thanks. I've never seen a PS3 so I don'

Re: Bug present in Sid D-i, but not in Squeeze d-i [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]

2010-02-16 Thread Geoff Levand
On 02/15/2010 02:41 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: >> Rick >> Rick on what machine did you test on. I tested on my playstation 3 >> about 3 or 4 days ago and the installation failed at configuring >> network with installation step failed i tested the daily netboot >> image. Thanks. >> > > I used an

RE: Bug present in Sid D-i, but not in Squeeze d-i [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]

2010-02-16 Thread Norberto Feliberty
-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults] On 02/15/2010 02:41 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: >> Rick >> Rick on what machine did you test on. I tested on my playstation 3  >> about 3 or 4 days ago and the installation failed at configuring  >> networ

Re: Bug present in Sid D-i, but not in Squeeze d-i [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]

2010-02-17 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello, On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 6:38 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > At Norberto's suggestion I did a side-by side comparison of the PowerPC > daily buisnesscard installer from the Sid d-i and the Squeeze d-i at > > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/{squeeze,sid}_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/is