Bug#253211: me too

2004-06-09 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I also see this bug with the unstable d-i. My console-tools/config has APP_CHARSET_MAP=is015 and SCREEN_FONT=lat0-sun16. I choose the default in languagechooser, C. But there is no C choice in languagechooser...:-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#253404: debian-installer: The default locale should be seted to POSIX after installation

2004-06-09 Thread Christian Perrier
Message localization is not so important for administration, and I slightly object to that specific sentence. Thinking that system administration should be reserved to people able to read and understand English narrows the potential target we have. Of course, there are a lot of issues with

Bug#253184: discover hebrew translation

2004-06-10 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Dennis Stampfer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): What about discover1_debian_po.po which I sent with the discover1_po.po? Can you commit it? Yes, I commited it a few seconds ago. Now the debconf-translation and the program translation (already commited by Christian Perrier) are in SVN

Bug#253211: Fix and some thoughts [Was: Bug#253211: Problems with the screen display in second stage]

2004-06-10 Thread Christian Perrier
reassign 253211 base-config retitle 253211 No line box drawing characters in 2.4 installs for Latin languages thanks Quoting Recai Oktas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): (1) For all languages, use the proper fonts with the box drawing chars in everywhere (both in termwrap and console-tools/config),

Re: New amd64 Debian-installer cdrom iso image

2004-06-10 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Goswin von Brederlow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi, I have updated the sid-amd64-cdrom.iso on alioth to the latest D-I images, debs and udebs from alioth including a fixed sid console-data. I suppose that testing it on an already installed machine is not dangerous ? No risk of breaking an

(forw) ne reconnait pas le disque dur

2004-06-10 Thread Christian Perrier
OK, this is in french and I currently don't have time for translating carefully. I asked Sophie to report here in English possibly with needed details (is this with Debian Installer? If so, which image exactly? Which kind of PowerMac?). She will maybe report in French...and then I'll translate.

Re: (forw) ne reconnait pas le disque dur

2004-06-10 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): There's no install24 in d-i, indeed. I suspect she's talking about 3.0r2. Hmmm, you're certainly right. So let's convince her to test d-i, now..:-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Review of arcboot-installer template wanted

2004-06-11 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Alastair McKinstry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi, I'm planning to include a patch to arcboot-installer, for #241178, which posts a reminder note about prom variables. (Assuming joeyh says ok). It seems to me this note is already hereand translated by most of us..:-) Template:

Re: Review of arcboot-installer template wanted

2004-06-11 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): What is the current priority of this message? Maybe it should be raised to HIGH. It is already high..:-) db_subst arcboot-installer/prom-variables BOOTBUS ${BOOTBUS} db_subst arcboot-installer/prom-variables BOOTID ${BOOTID} db_subst

Re: How much mem is low, exactly?

2004-06-11 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting W. Borgert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): nobootloader - I can't remember all, sorry. Also I'm not sure, whether the countrychooser could be optional for lowmem. IMHO, the goal for lowmem on ia32 should be Countrychooser can probably be optional in lowmem mode. After all, its only

Re: reporting translation errors (was Re: Bug#253445: german translation error in countrychooser

2004-06-11 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Holger Levsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Is X-debbugs-CC a mail-header or a BTS-command ? mail header But I think, on single spelling-mistakes, a mail to the translator would be enough - and if he does not reply, you can then file the bug. Nope. Than I (or whoever) and the

Re: lowmem_0.8_i386.changes REJECTED

2004-06-11 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Soneone must have uploaded a lowmem 0.8 without committing to svn or tagging it. I'll upload a 0.9 to make sure we have something consistent. I am the someone. Sorry for this. The upload was intended to fix the grave bug introduced by languagechooser

Re: lowmem_0.8_i386.changes REJECTED

2004-06-11 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): So, did you also not commit the fix to the bug to svn? There's at least nothing in the changelog. If so a .10 release should be made with your fixes. The fix mas commited. However, I forgot to add the changelog entry. Funnily, when looking at the

Bug#250789: About Bug#250789

2004-06-11 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I'm currently trying to get a usable base-config into testing to use for the tc1 release, and since recent, insufficiently tested, font changes have led to the current mess, the last thing I want to do is make any Well, I think we can't call this a

Bug#253102: Installation on a recent ibook G4 (Beta 4)

2004-06-12 Thread Christian Perrier
I point things related to german translation so that Dennis Stampfer (seppy) can fix them Dennis, you should definitely recruit Helge in the german translator team, as (s)he seems to have very careful proofreading..:-) Quoting Helge Kreutzmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * The sorting of the

Re: Sarge Test Candidate 1 broke WinXP on my triple-boot i386

2004-06-13 Thread Christian Perrier
When the system rebooted I did not immediately boot Debian to continue the install. Instead, I asked GRUB to boot Windows, which correctly booted the NT boot loader. When I asked the NT boot loader to boot WinXP, however, XP errored out with a message saying that Windows

Bug#254068: base-config log should not be world readable

2004-06-13 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Vassilii Khachaturov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Package: base-config Version: 2.25 Severity: normal Tags: security I believe that the base-config logs should not be world readable. Some of the packages ask for passwords that are echoed back during the configuration (e.g. pppoeconf),

Bug#254027: installation-reports TC1 on Acer TravelMate 800

2004-06-13 Thread Christian Perrier
clone 254027 -1 reassign -1 base-config retitle -1 High-ASCII characters do not display properly after 2nd reboot with kernel 2.6 reassign 254027 prebaseconfig retitle 254027 Seems to unmount ext2/ext3 uncleanly, forcing a fs check after reboot thanks 1) if you select fr_FR during installation

sid_d-i 20040612 OK/KO tests

2004-06-14 Thread Christian Perrier
As I nearly daily test the sid_d-i images, I will start here reporting about its OK/KO status on my system. These reports will be always made in VmWare, 96Mb RAM, 1Gb HD. They are focused on detecting some nasty things happening on the most common installation scheme (all defaults) as well a

Re: Sarge Test Candidate 1 broke WinXP on my triple-boot i386

2004-06-14 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Franz Amador ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Thanks for the reply. I figured out what happened. The Debian installer changed the partition number of my XP partition, I think by changing it from a primary partition to a logical partition. After a lot of Googling, I learned that the NT boot

Re: World Domination 102: Bi-di text support in d-i

2004-06-14 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I've submitted an updated patch to bug #252956 which now uses dlopen() to load the fribidi routines. This means, once the patch is applied, we will immediately have opportunistic bidi text support in debconf *and* d-i! But, will this patch be

Re: How much mem is low, exactly?

2004-06-14 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting sylvain ferriol ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): it's because os-prober depends on xfs, ext3, reiserfs,... but even in lowmem mode, i don't want to play with dependencies. so if a module depends on others, d-i will load them. but now we can check if dependencies for all udebs are 'really'

Bug#253102: Installation on a recent ibook G4 (Beta 4)

2004-06-14 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Helge Kreutzmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Let's ring Seppy... If I can forward all things found in d-i directly to seppy in the future, that would be great. Well, there is no good answer to this. The best is probably forwarding them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] which all german translators

Re: sid_d-i 20040612 OK/KO tests

2004-06-14 Thread Christian Perrier
i386 test only 2.4 fr+FR : OK 2.6 fr+FR : OK 2.4 en+US : OK 2.6 en+US : OK All of these have the missing lines around dialog boxes bug in 2nd stage, however. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Farsi translation started

2004-06-14 Thread Christian Perrier
Looks like Arash began working on Farsi translation of d-i... (Farsi, sometimes called Persian, is the official language in Iran) - Forwarded message from Cron Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Cron Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] cd

Re: World Domination 102: Bi-di text support in d-i

2004-06-14 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Alastair has already uploaded -3, it's sitting in the NEW queue on ftp-master right now. It's being blocked at my request, because it OK, I forgot the package is maintained by Alastair (seems to me that the name on the bug page is different...maybe

Re: dropping tc1

2004-06-14 Thread Christian Perrier
I'll be away for a week after Tuesday. I hope some of these issues are resolved when I get back so that we can begin getting a tc2 ready. In the meantime, tbm and kamion have the ability to get fixed udebs into testing. Since tc1 is a lost cause, there's no reason not to start with getting

Re: dropping tc1

2004-06-14 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Christian Perrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): IMHO, it's worth it as it definitely solves the invalid locales problems when choosing unsupported combinations such as English in Brazil. But, well, I would perfectly understand if this is delayed because of potential unknown implications

Re: dropping tc1

2004-06-14 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): In the tests I've done with the new languagechooser, almost all of the entries are displayed in English, and there doesn't seem to be a short list provided by countrychooser. This seems like a significant regression for the common case; I think

Bug#254167: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#254027: installation-reports TC1 on Acer TravelMate 800)

2004-06-14 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Olivier ROLAND ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I'm sorry but I can reproduce this bug with the last daily built CD image (13-Jun-2004). First boot is ok, second boot no. I have check all and confirm that bug on my system. Any clue for deeper investigation ? Is there someone else

Re: dropping tc1

2004-06-15 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Maybe one issue: I now get LANG=nl_NL in /etc/environment; I think this used to be [EMAIL PROTECTED]; was that changed ?? The way the locale is built. It is now language_COUNTRY, built from the languagechooser choices. Formerly, in all in one

Re: Sarge Test Candidate 1 broke WinXP on my triple-boot i386

2004-06-15 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Franz Amador ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I dunno. I had, at various times, installed two versions of Mandrake and one of Red Hat, and none of them moved my XP partition. It's been a while, but I believe I initially partitioned the drive with Win98 in primary partition 1, WinXP in primary

Bug#254167: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#254027: installation-reports TC1 on Acer TravelMate 800)

2004-06-15 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I'm sorry but I can reproduce this bug with the last daily built CD image (13-Jun-2004). daily is not the same as sid_d-i ... I think we have some terminology problem around here...and probably some explanations are needed. It took me time for

Bug#250530: nl_NL install: still some problems with accented characters

2004-06-15 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): tags 250530 + l10n thanks I think the basic problem has been fixed now, but I still see some encoding problems in the full country list in countrychooser (after choosing 'other'): - most continents and countries are shown correctly - two continents

Bug#254452: Languages switches to english after rebooting during base-config

2004-06-15 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Thorsten Schaefer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Package: base-config Version: 2.23 Debian version: Debian Installer (testcandidate 1, also various daily builds of beta 4 versions) Hmm. I don't really see what's meant by various daily builds of beta4. Beta4 is now over and not rebuilt. Still

Big problem with 20040614 sid_d-i i386 netinst image

2004-06-15 Thread Christian Perrier
20040614 sid_d-i i386 netinst 1st stage is OK (choose french+Brazil) After reboot, it seems that termwrap fails: /bin/sh: line1: /dev/vc/1: No such file or directory And then init respawns base-config over and over -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Bug#250530: nl_NL install: still some problems with accented characters

2004-06-15 Thread Christian Perrier
clone 250530 -1 reassign -1 iso-codes retitle -1 Reunion has wrong encoding in dutch translation reassign 250530 countrychooser retitle 250530 Wrong encoding for dutch translation tags -1 pending tags 250530 pending thanks Quoting Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): tags 250530 + l10n thanks I

Proposal for a d-i IRC meeting (was: Re: dropping tc1)

2004-06-15 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): It looks like we have to throw out tc1 as not good enough for release. The release critical problems include: It seems to me that a kind of formal meeting on IRC would help all of us in organising our work. We maybe lack that kind of formal stuff (just an

Re: Big problem with 20040614 sid_d-i i386 netinst image

2004-06-15 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): /bin/sh: line1: /dev/vc/1: No such file or directory And then init respawns base-config over and over I broke this in my changes to mapdevfs, uploading a fix now. Which should make it in today's build, fine. Thus I'll be able to test the 2nd

Re: Proposal for a d-i IRC meeting (was: Re: dropping tc1)

2004-06-15 Thread Christian Perrier
for going back home daily). I currently propose Saturday June 19th, 16:00 UTC as a first possibility. #debian-boot channel, of course. Folks, please confirm wheher you can attend this meeting. (Joey already counted as not attending) 1) Christian Perrier / bubulle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Proposal for a d-i IRC meeting (was: Re: dropping tc1)

2004-06-16 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I can't make that, I'm afraid. Of your other slots, 23:00 UTC on Saturday is fine, and 16:00 UTC works practically every day apart from this Wednesday and Saturday. Hmm, you were among my key people...:-). If Steve isn't available, we'll either

Debian Installer: 1st stage stats broken (anonymous SVN checkout broken)

2004-06-16 Thread Christian Perrier
Because anonymous SVN checkout is currently broken for d-i, the 1st stages statistics are also broken. I'll try to keep you posted with possible changes. Non anonymous checkout is possible, however, so you can still commit your changes. Can someone fix the anonymous checkout on the SVN

Bug#254167: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#254027: installation-reports TC1 on Acer TravelMate 800)

2004-06-16 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Christian Perrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Could you please exactly explain what is wrong? OK/not OK is a bit short. What can you do and what cannot you do? Olivier gave me details in private. Basically this is an issue on sarge_d-i and still the same bug. This is definitely

Bug#254452: Languages switches to english after rebooting during base-config

2004-06-16 Thread Christian Perrier
To be hundred percent sure I just downloaded again a daily build of the debian-installer for i386 here: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/i386/20040614/. This version has still the issue. OK. This is a sarge_d-i build, IIRC. Thus d-i packages are from testing (and non d-i

20040615 sid_d-i quick test: success

2004-06-16 Thread Christian Perrier
Default install, 2.4, French, France No obvious glitch. The nasty problem we had yesterday (/dev/vc/1 missing on 2nd stage) is over We have the lines around dialog boxes in 2nd stage French accented characters input and output at console is correct I continue with fr_FR 2.6, ja_JP 2.4 and

Fixed in NMU of lowmem 0.10

2004-06-16 Thread Christian Perrier
i386 all Version: 0.10 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Install System Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Christian Perrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: lowmem - free memory for lowmem install (udeb) lowmemcheck - detect low-memory systems and enter lowmem mode (udeb

Re: Proposal for a d-i IRC meeting (was: Re: dropping tc1)

2004-06-16 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Kenshi Muto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I prefer Saturday 23:00 UTC than Saturday 16:00 UTC. Because I have a party with friends and drinks at Saturday evening (noon in UTC). :-) As the meeting has been announced on IRC /topic, I prefer currently leaving this hour of 16:00. If too much

Re: Debian Installer Manual - Autobuild enabled

2004-06-16 Thread Christian Perrier
The manual currently is far from ready. Still a lot of stuff is more Woody oriented than applicable to Sarge. Only 4 translations are currently complete (well, almost). Do you think you'll soon be able to publish these translation statistics? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#254631: Infinite loop displaying 'Unknown localized field' messages

2004-06-16 Thread Christian Perrier
severity 254631 grave reassign 254631 lowmem thanks Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Matt Kraai wrote: Package: debian-installer Version: http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/2004-06-14/floppy/ After booting and displaying the low memory warning, d-i loops forever

Re: Request to add my guest account to the debian-installer project, for portuguese translation

2004-06-16 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Simao Pedro Cardoso ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hello, I'm with some free time to translate, And you don't waste it watching soccer/futebol? Are you a real Portuguese, my friend ?:-) can my Alioth guest acount be added to debian-installer project for portuguese translation purposes?

Re: newtasksel repository

2004-06-17 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Giuseppe Sacco ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Where do I find the newtasksel repository? svn co svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/tasksel/branches/newtasksel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#254754: Grub added a Other operating systems entry, that does nothing.

2004-06-17 Thread Christian Perrier
reassign 254754 grub severity 254754 wishlist retitle 254754 Please allow for a title entry in menu.lst thanks Quoting Margarita Manterola ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Package: installation-reports Severity: minor When installing Grub with the new debian-installer in a machine that already has

Re: svn access

2004-06-17 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Lucas Wall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi! I'm in the process of translating a pot file for the spanish l10n. I need access to the svn repo. My alioth account is kthulhu-guest. Thanks! There are already people with commit access in the -l10n-spanish team. I prefer receiving a

Debian Installer IRC meeting on Saturday 6/19 16:00 UTC

2004-06-17 Thread Christian Perrier
After the discussions in debian-boot and even though several people identified as key people cannot attend this meeting, I confirm that an opened meeting of the d-i team will happen on IRC. Servers: freenode.net (just point your client to irc.debian.org) Channel: #debian-boot Time  : Saturday

Re: PPP(oe) problem and installation report

2004-06-17 Thread Christian Perrier
* here' the bug ** I opt for Create a connection named provider and when I have to configure dns I decide to go back with cancel then i try again to select Create a connection named provider and nothing happens. Instead of having the chance to configure dns as I did before

Bug#254452: Languages switches to english after rebooting during base-config

2004-06-17 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Thorsten Schäfer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): - When I select German and complete the base-config and start it again afterwards (it makes no difference if I reboot after completing the config or don't reboot) the base-config is in German again. - However if I reboot during the initial run of

Bug#254860: discover1: Korean messages and debconf template translations

2004-06-17 Thread Christian Perrier
tags 254860 pending thanks Quoting Changwoo Ryu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Package: discover1 Version: 1.5-12 Severity: wishlist Tags: l10n patch Here is newly transated Korean message translation (po/ko.po) and debconf template translation (debian/po/ko.po). Please include these files in

sid_d-i 20040616 netinst/businesscard OK

2004-06-17 Thread Christian Perrier
My daily tests on these images do not show any nasty things. All went OK. lowmem is still broken. I guess it's because lowmem 0.10 did not made it into this image. We'll see tomorrow. FIREWIRE works! At least with my Dell Latitude X200 CD, the CD is now detected both for 2.4 and 2.6. This

Bug#254905: partman-auto: Uses strange dialogs when applying recipes

2004-06-17 Thread Christian Perrier
Package: partman-auto Severity: normal Tags: patch While applying the guided partitoning recipes, partman-auto displays progress dialogs with Please wait... as title.and sometimes Please wait... as info... This obviously make these dialogs a bit funny. Anyway, I think that title should not

Bug#254452: Languages switches to english after rebooting during base-config

2004-06-17 Thread Christian Perrier
reassign 254452 base-config retitle 254452 Should use again the 1st stage language when run again after a reboot thanks (I'm unsure which package this was assigned toso, I assign it to what it pertains--base-config) Its a bit different. When you install the machine and base-config is

Re: PPP / PPPoE / APT sources

2004-06-17 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Maybe the CD-ROM as APT source thing makes sense since I am using the netinst image, but the other two are confusing. Your guess is right. Try with businesscard images. How can I configure PPP and/or PPPoE to be used for the installation?

Bug#254452: Languages switches to english after rebooting during base-config

2004-06-17 Thread Christian Perrier
retitle 254452 Should use again the 1st stage language when run again after a reboot tags 254452 + confirmed thanks Its a bit different. When you install the machine and base-config is started automatically after the first reboot you usually configure the machine. If you just reboot (via

Bug#254905: Acknowledgement (partman-auto: Uses strange dialogs when applying recipes)

2004-06-17 Thread Christian Perrier
tags 254905 pending thanks I commited the change. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: installer screenshots

2004-06-18 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): i have made a thorough set of screenshots of the d-i images netboot 20040616 and netinst 20040616. http://people.debian.org/~madduck/d-i/screenshots/ I think we should replace the screnshots link on the d-i page (which currently points to old

Re: PPP / PPPoE / APT sources

2004-06-18 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Marco d'Itri ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): The 50 MB image is supposed to be all you need to configure PPPoE networking *before* you reboot your system. I think this is this part that Martin didn't find And, well, I must admit that I too have no idea oh where PPPoE (or simple PPP) may be

Re: LDAP-based authentication with the d-i?

2004-06-18 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Fabio Tranchitella ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi, even if I have not yet tried the new d-i, I'm very curious about this: can I setup an ldap-based authentication environment while installing the base system with the d-i? Well, I'm not sure this is the purpose of d-i. All neeed stuff for

Bug#254452: Languages switches to english after rebooting during base-config

2004-06-18 Thread Christian Perrier
Should you also copy the code that handles LANGUAGE and LANGUAGE_INST? Recai, can you answer Matt's question before we decide to apply your patch? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

sid_d-i 20040617 netinst/businesscard DID NOT BUILD

2004-06-18 Thread Christian Perrier
No tests today for these images. Looks like they did not build yesterday. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#254764: sarge-i386-netinst (20040616) fails .... I may have found fix

2004-06-18 Thread Christian Perrier
I may be better off doing umount /cdrom 2/dev/null 1/dev/null :) Or even more better umount /cdrom /dev/null 21 true No? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#254452: Languages switches to english after rebooting during base-config

2004-06-18 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Recai Oktas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi, In the second stage the missing locale is generated, but if we reboot, the LANG (and the related variables) won't be exported despite the fact that the locale is valid. There is certainly an unhandled state in termwrap. Could you please

Bug#254764: sarge-i386-netinst (20040616) fails .... I may have found fix

2004-06-18 Thread Christian Perrier
umount /cdrom /dev/null 21 true No? || true. /me is definitely a moron..:-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#254992: installation-reports: RAID setup cumbersome

2004-06-18 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Package: installation-reports Version: N/A Severity: important It's just not 'possible' to setup RAID in the new d-i. It takes ages, a lot of special knowledge is needed, and you can't do everything from the d-i (you have to do a lot of

Support for bi-directional languages (Arabic, Hebrew, Farsi...) now completely included in Debian Installer

2004-06-18 Thread Christian Perrier
Subject says it all. Steve already had it in a test environment. Today, I have built a mini.iso netboot image by using ONLY already uploaded stuff (except languagechooser I compiled from trunk so that Farsi appears on it) and BIDI seems to work on it. So, the hard work Steve Langasek (and

Bug#254994: installation-reports: expert26 is TO MUCH, linux26 is not enough

2004-06-18 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): It would be nice to have something in between. I'm not interested (nor do i need) to input 'Additional parameters for module xxx' etc... How about a 'semi26' with a resonable amount of control. More than 'linux26', but not as much as

Bug#255012: debian-installer: d-i tc1 still has broken busybox, unusable on all sparc machines made last 5 years

2004-06-18 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Blars Blarson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Package: debian-installer Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable d-i tc1 downloaded from http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/sparc/tc1/sarge-sparc-netinst.iso still has the old broken busybox, when the fixed

Ideas thrown around for Fully Automated Installations

2004-06-18 Thread Christian Perrier
I think Holger had interest in this topic, IIRC... A few days ago, I had a look at the lowmem package in d-i, for fixing it. I discovered that this was a very simple package which basically sets a few d-i debconf variables before any other package is used: #!/bin/sh .

Bug#254452: Languages switches to english after rebooting during base-config

2004-06-18 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Recai Oktas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): In fact, due to its importance, we should make the locale setting code more evident. Following patch resolves the code repetiveness problem and also ensures this requirement. It needs a test though. Could you review the patch? A first look

Bug#254452: Languages switches to english after rebooting during base-config

2004-06-18 Thread Christian Perrier
tags 254452 pending thanks Quoting Recai Oktas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi, In the second stage the missing locale is generated, but if we reboot, the LANG (and the related variables) won't be exported despite the fact that the locale is valid. There is certainly an unhandled state in

Bug#254994: installation-reports: expert26 is TO MUCH, linux26 is not enough

2004-06-18 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): How about a 'semi26' with a resonable amount of control. More than 'linux26', but not as much as 'expert26'? 'linux26 DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium'? maybe a small shortcut such as medium (but NOT *medium* because of the M letter) All people who tried

Bug#254452: Languages switches to english after rebooting during base-config

2004-06-19 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Matt Kraai ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): In fact, due to its importance, we should make the locale setting code more evident. Following patch resolves the code repetiveness problem and also ensures this requirement. It needs a test though. Could you review the patch? Why does it

Bug#255012: debian-installer: d-i tc1 still has broken busybox, unusable on all sparc machines made last 5 years

2004-06-19 Thread Christian Perrier
Then the http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer web page needs to be updated to reflect that. Not everyone has time to follow the high-volume low-signal debian-boot mailing list. You're right about this. This will indeed be discussed at d-i meeting this evening (16:00UTC #debian-boot).

Re: Ideas thrown around for Fully Automated Installations

2004-06-19 Thread Christian Perrier
This looks suspiciously like a Kickstart file ;) Well, maybe. The idea was having something even if it's a bit gory... .../... -feed debconf with these values (small script to be written) -run the installer Partitioning will be difficult. I think we'd need our own special format

Bug#254994: installation-reports: expert26 is TO MUCH, linux26 is not enough

2004-06-19 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I maintain that expert should map to DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium, and that it should be DEBCONF_PRIORITY=*low* that requires people to type the incantation by hand. Most people who are considering themselves expert for these purposes are going to want

Bug#245296: Installer don't install and fails to load 3c59x module

2004-06-19 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Andre Felipe Machado ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hello, I am trying to migrate (new install) from a Conectiva Linux (RH variant) to Debian. Downloaded first sarge-i386-1.iso from unofficial hungarian site, dated 13 jun 2004. (did not get jigdo to download all needed files by that

Bug#255135: debian-installer: Filesystem flags allow for install snafu

2004-06-19 Thread Christian Perrier
reassign 255135 partman severity 249322 normal merge 249322 255135 thanks Quoting Stephen Touset ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Apparently, setting the noexec, nosuid, and/or nodev flags on the tmp partition cause the base installer to fail to execute, upon

Re: Bug#255012: debian-installer: d-i tc1 still has broken busybox, unusable on all sparc machines made last 5 years

2004-06-19 Thread Christian Perrier
When there is something to test, please let me know, or let the debian-sparc list know. I've got an Ultra 30 and an Ultra 2 dedicated to testing d-i. (As well as a sparcstation LX and a sparcstation 20.) If you have time at 16:00 UTC today, please join us on #debian-boot. About 1-hour

Re: screenshots into svn?

2004-06-19 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Can I move the installer screenshots I made into the alioth svn? I'd like to get them out of my hierarchy and manage them independently. We're talking 2 Mb... Awaiting your responses... maybe private... I think they definitely do not belong to

Debian Installer IRC meeting on Saturday 6/19 16:00 UTC : discussed topics

2004-06-19 Thread Christian Perrier
I have summarized some points to be discussed during this meeting. Now very well written and organised, but better this than nothing..:-) http://people.debian.org/~bubulle/d-i/irc-meeting-20040619/topics.txt People attending the meeting, please keep a window with this opened, as a reference.

Re: screenshots into svn?

2004-06-19 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I can host them privately, no problem. I just thought it'd be logical. Well, you assigned yourself this task of maintaining a set of screenshots (which is definitely a good idea), thus I feel it's logical they're hosted on your home in

Bug#255003: Package: installation-reports

2004-06-19 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Aza Php ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Ok En fait, l'installation se passez très bien jusqu'au reboot et lors du démarrage, grub ne parait pas bien installé, l'ordinateur dit qu'il y a un problème de head sector et me propose soit d'appuyer sur H pour démarrer sur le disque dur (si j'appuie

Bug#254630: LVM names

2004-06-19 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Martin Michlmayr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * Patrick Caulfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-06-19 14:14]: Allowable characters are: alphanumerics and . _ - + What about stuff like umlauts? (e.g. ä) [sorry, cannot test right now] Currently unusable in cdebconf (seems to be a whiptail bug in

Bug#251550: Bug#254630: LVM names

2004-06-20 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Eugeniy Meshcheryakov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Christian Perrier wrote: Currently unusable in cdebconf (seems to be a whiptail bug in Unicode environments). Just try to enter any non ASCII character in a dialog box..:-( #251550 I can enter cyrillic characters (that are not ASCII

Re: logs of today's irc meeting

2004-06-20 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Today's meeting: http://people.debian.org/~madduck/d-i/debian-boot-meeting-200406191600.irclog.gz Matt, could you add some king on the d-i page. Let's say IRC meetings and a list with this one as first entry..:-) I will make a summary of what was

Bug#252109: some improvements

2004-06-20 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Giuseppe Sacco ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I just downloaded and tested the netinstall image for i386 from http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/ and installed Debian. In any field, I did type '/' and any other normal characters without problem, while, if I use 'ò' or other

Bug#255219: some chars are incorrect after rebooting

2004-06-20 Thread Christian Perrier
reassign 255219 base-config thanks Quoting Giuseppe Sacco ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Package: installation-reports Version: sid_d-i, 20040618 Severity: important I just did a normal installation and rebooted the machine. Now I am prompted by debconf for the base system configuration. I did

Bug#255206: os-prober does not find solaris

2004-06-20 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Giuseppe Sacco ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Package: os-prober Version: daily, sid_d-i Severity: normal I just downloaded and tested the netinstall image for i386 from http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/ and installed Debian. I found a problem when d-i proposed to

Bug#255077: cannot reproduce

2004-06-20 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I have tried three times now with sid_d-i and it definitely works for me. However, I am using the CD-ROM as install medium. Trying with mirror download now... Let's ask the bug submitter if he can reproduce this bug. Otherwise, we will close it.

Summary do D-I IRC meeting 20040619

2004-06-20 Thread Christian Perrier
The full log is available at: http://people.debian.org/~madduck/d-i/debian-boot-meeting-200406191600.irclog.gz Attending the meeting (sorry in advance for those of you I missed...): fjp, Frans Pop bubulle, Christian Perrier madduck, Martin Krafft migus, Pierre Machard kmuto, Kenshi sleepy Muto

Re: Summary do D-I IRC meeting 20040619

2004-06-20 Thread Christian Perrier
As I said on IRC, the bit about images being built on gluck was a mysterious invention (and I don't have root on gluck anyway). They're built on one of Joey's machines. Christian is looking at setting up another i386 daily build for now. Yes. It seems that I misunderstood completely the

Re: Summary do D-I IRC meeting 20040619

2004-06-20 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Kenshi Muto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): In my opinion, it is better to remove current 2.6.6 from testing, and use 2.6.5 till 2.6.7 appear (soon?) and go into testing. Martin, can you do something for this ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

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