Bug#373594: installation-report: daily snapshot on compaq armada m700

2006-07-03 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 02:54:40PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: Could you restart the installer I can now confirm that the end_request IO errors concede with the waiting period before the partitioning screen comes up. There also lengthy delays while Scanning disks with the IO errors being logged

Bug#373594: installation-report: daily snapshot on compaq armada m700

2006-06-22 Thread Frans Pop
Marc, What is the reason you have taken the BTS off the address list? To be honest, I'm not very interested in following up on this if it is not tracked through the BTS. Please make sure that the follow-ups so far get added to the original installation report. Cheers, Frans On Thursday 22

Bug#373594: installation-report: daily snapshot on compaq armada m700

2006-06-22 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 01:24:50PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: What is the reason you have taken the BTS off the address list? Mistake on my part, and missing reply-to in your original answer. Usually, the reply-to is there, which in turn promptet my mistake. Greetings Marc --

Bug#373594: installation-report: daily snapshot on compaq armada m700

2006-06-22 Thread Michael Prokop
* Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20060622 07:15]: On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 12:09:33AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Tuesday 20 June 2006 23:32, Marc Haber wrote: No, the notebook does not have a floppy drive. It has a floppy LED though. Huh? Then how the hell does the kernel manage to make

Bug#373594: installation-report: daily snapshot on compaq armada m700

2006-06-22 Thread Marc Haber
[Mika, the last paragraph might be of interest of you] On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 12:09:33AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Tuesday 20 June 2006 23:32, Marc Haber wrote: No, the notebook does not have a floppy drive. It has a floppy LED though. Huh? Then how the hell does the kernel manage to

Bug#373594: installation-report: daily snapshot on compaq armada m700

2006-06-22 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 10:26:01AM +0200, Michael Prokop wrote: Marc, does the same behaviour (hanging for ~2 min) occur on harddisk installation or is it just at d-i? It does only happen at installation time. The installed system boots flawlessly (if that's what you mean). Greetings Marc --

Bug#373594: installation-report: daily snapshot on compaq armada m700

2006-06-22 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 22 June 2006 10:26, Michael Prokop wrote: IMHO this looks like an userland application is trying to access /dev/fd0 several times (as the 'end_request: I/O error...' is present several times). This usually happens when scanning for disks/partitions/... Might this be the case, Frans

Bug#373594: installation-report: daily snapshot on compaq armada m700

2006-06-22 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 02:54:40PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: Marc: Could you restart the installer and when you get to the partitioning screen switch to VT2 and run parted_devices manually? Does it pause then and do you get the same errors in syslog? I could, but it is rather painful to get

Bug#373594: installation-report: daily snapshot on compaq armada m700

2006-06-20 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 08:19:10PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 15:13:26 +0200 Marc Haber wrote: Before starting the partitioner, system halts for like two minutes on a blank blue screen with the floppy light on That must be during driver loading. Strange that it takes so

Bug#373594: installation-report: daily snapshot on compaq armada m700

2006-06-20 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 20 June 2006 23:32, Marc Haber wrote: No, the notebook does not have a floppy drive. It has a floppy LED though. Huh? Then how the hell does the kernel manage to make the floppy light light up? I suspect that your hardware does support a floppy device to some extend and that that