Bug#1052545: os-prober in initramfs gets repeatedly disabled
Package: os-prober Version: 1.81 Severity: normal Something happened in the last months. Whenever I upgrade, it seems like the os-prober part is disabled. This is just PITA. I can use the usual: dpkg-reconfigure -plow grub-efi-amd64 ... to turn it back on, and after an upgrade it's lost again. WHY? Now I started seeing messages after installing a new kernel package: Warning: os-prober will not be executed to detect other bootable partitions. Systems on them will not be added to the GRUB boot configuration. Check GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER documentation entry. Adding boot menu entry for UEFI Firmware Settings ... Sorry, dear maintainer, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? Which documentation? From which package? Why does this reset my settings? Best regards, Eduard. -- System Information: Debian Release: trixie/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.5.0 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages os-prober depends on: ii grub-common 2.12~rc1-10 ii libc62.37-10 ii mount2.39.2-1 os-prober recommends no packages. os-prober suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- * falky kann die Frauen einfach nicht verstehen Die Frau, das unbekannte Wesen. To boldy come where no man has come before?
Bug#929224: apt-cacher-ng, debootstrap and deb.debian.org combination fails
Hallo, * Sean Whitton [Wed, May 22 2019, 06:02:15PM]: > Hello Eduard, > > On Wed 22 May 2019 at 09:24PM +02, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > > Uhm, I suggest you do what it says and read the manual? > > I am not trying to use an https mirror. > > I don't know what's responsible for the attempt to use https, but I want > to use http://deb.debian.org/debian, and one of apt-cacher-ng, > debootstrap or the deb.debian.org service is blocking doing that. Sure you do, guess what "URL transformed to HTTPS due to an HSTS policy" is supposed to mean. --no-hsts Wget supports HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security, RFC 6797) by default. Use --no-hsts to make Wget act as a non-HSTS-compliant UA. As a consequence, Wget would ignore all the "Strict-Transport-Security" headers, and would not enforce any existing HSTS policy. Best regards, Eduard. -- Was gibt es denn für Alternativen zu file-roller? 100er Block Kästchenpapier und weicher Bleistift? frobnic: Ich wollte eigentlich keine Hardware-Lösung
Bug#929224: apt-cacher-ng, debootstrap and deb.debian.org combination fails
Hallo, * Sean Whitton [Sun, May 19 2019, 08:08:07AM]: > I thought that the problem is that apt-cacher-ng is not able to resolve > SRV records. However, I'm not so sure about that now. debootstrap uses > wget to download stuff, so I tried this: > > root@iris:/srv/chroot>http_proxy=http://localhost:3142 wget > http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/Release > URL transformed to HTTPS due to an HSTS policy > --2019-05-19 07:54:37-- https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/Release > Resolving localhost (localhost)... ::1, 127.0.0.1 > Connecting to localhost (localhost)|::1|:3142... connected. > Proxy tunneling failed: CONNECT denied (ask the admin to allow HTTPS > tunnels)Unable to establish SSL connection. Uhm, I suggest you do what it says and read the manual? https://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~bloch/acng/html/howtos.html#ssluse The "laissez-faire method": in acng.conf (or related) configure the PassThroughPattern option to contain a regex like .* and configure the clients to use apt-cacher-ng as HTTP proxy and let the clients connect to https URLs "as usual". Some limited access control can be achieved through adjustment of the regular expression (.* permits access to any host and any port, including 443 for https). Data is not cached on the server. Also modified by debconf: dpkg-reconfigure -plow apt-cacher-ng Best regards, Eduard.
Bug#873923: installer not detecting/configuring existing LUKS/LVM setup
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal this is a follow-up to #873862 , see there for most details. So, the outcome is, when the installer fails with the problem mentioned there, I can still reboot the system. But then, the d-i is basically stuck at the same step. The LUKS partition is not displayed as LUKS or crypto but "unused". There is no way to tell it "this is crypto, unencrypt it only". The only sensible option in the usage types is apparently "PV for encryption". But then, nothing asks me for the password, instead it presents me a list of cryptsetup parameters. Hard to tell for a normal user whether it did detect LUKS or not. When I go to the main partman menu, there is the option "configure crypto volumes". But it does NOT configure the existing one. It only offers me the choice "create a new crypto volume" and "go back". This is pretty ... useless if I want to keep existing data. So apparently the d-i is inept to use the same device setup that it has created before or there is maybe no LUKS detection whatsoever? When I try to investigate later with Ubuntu Live, the file manager shows the encrypted volume and lets me unencrypt it with a a double-click and it even detects and scans the LVM and registers LVs there). It doesn't redisplay the discovered PVs in the filemanager, though, but I can mkfs and mount them manually. Regards, Eduard.
Bug#873857: Cannot use the screenshot button with keyboard
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal This is followup to #873854, see there for details. In the graphical installer, I am not able to access the "Screen picture" button in the bottom left corner with the KEYBOARD. When I use tab, the visible focus (i.e. the element with the rectangle somewhere) moves between the upper controls and the buttons in the bottom right corner, but apparently the picture button never gets focus. Regards, Eduard. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.12.2 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) -- GyrosGeier: We are Debian. You will be zicked. Resitance is futile.
Bug#763695: console-setup: even worse than assumed
Hallo, * Samuel Thibault [Wed, Aug 26 2015, 12:21:19AM]: Eduard Bloch, le Wed 26 Aug 2015 00:11:10 +0200, a écrit : So... ok, maybe getting times from the log was a bad idea and causes exageration. Err, were you using strace for your whole timing of setupcon? It's no wonder it takes so long in that case :) Well, during initial look at the strace log the overall execution time matched the value systemd-analyze chart very well (both indicated ~5s for the whole process) and I didn't bother to cross-check. Regards, Eduard. -- Alfie Ah. Frankfurt/Main. * weasel fragt sich ja immer, ob's auch ein Frankfurt/Contrib und Frankfurt/Non-Free gibt signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#763695: console-setup: even worse than assumed
Hallo, * Samuel Thibault [Tue, Aug 25 2015, 10:52:29PM]: Eduard Bloch, le Tue 25 Aug 2015 22:34:17 +0200, a écrit : Hallo, * Samuel Thibault [Tue, Aug 25 2015, 09:56:39PM]: Eduard Bloch, le Tue 25 Aug 2015 21:35:36 +0200, a écrit : * Samuel Thibault [Tue, Aug 25 2015, 08:54:35PM]: Just so that people reading the log don't take it too exagerated: Eduard Bloch, le Tue 25 Aug 2015 20:24:22 +0200, a écrit : I checked again... about 20% of the time is spent in two calls of pidof We're here talking about ~15ms each. I don't. It's ~270ms each (I added another log with timestamps). How long is the readlink /proc/*/exe | grep? ~70ms (strace -f -tt -o logfile sh -c 'readlink /proc/*/exe | fgrep slash') strace is quite expensive, better use just Oh, you are right. I didn't expect that impact. Without strace, pidof takes ~22ms on this laptop. OTOH same with sh readlink...|grep also needs about ~10ms. So... ok, maybe getting times from the log was a bad idea and causes exageration. time (readlink /proc/*/exe | fgrep slash) But that's already a big improvement, I'm surprised that pidof can be so expensive. Mea culpa; pidof probably creates lots of work for strace because of the many IO operations on /proc. Sorry... Regards, Eduard.
Bug#763695: console-setup: even worse than assumed
Hallo, * Anton Zinoviev [Mon, Aug 24 2015, 01:24:15PM]: On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 02:02:30AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: $ grep ioctl log | wc -l 14035 OVER 9000 ioctls! Are you kidding me? Console-setup is definitely not THAT slow. It is. Kind of. I checked again... about 20% of the time is spent in two calls of pidof which IMHO on Linux can be easily replaced with ONE simple readlink /proc/*/exe | grep bin/.?splashy? And about 70% is spent by loadkeys executing the mentioned storm of ioctls. Unless your directory /etc/console-setup/ doesn't contain a cached keymap It's there. Just look at the strace log I mentioned before, here: https://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~bloch/.wearetheborg/strace-log-setupcon.xz in which case ckbcomp has to be invoked. And yes - AFAICS no call of ckbcomp there. Regards, Eduard.
Bug#763695: console-setup: even worse than assumed
Hallo, * Samuel Thibault [Tue, Aug 25 2015, 08:54:35PM]: Just so that people reading the log don't take it too exagerated: Eduard Bloch, le Tue 25 Aug 2015 20:24:22 +0200, a écrit : I checked again... about 20% of the time is spent in two calls of pidof We're here talking about ~15ms each. I don't. It's ~270ms each (I added another log with timestamps). It might be true for a shiny Core-i7 system. But a low-end laptop like the mentioned one is a different league. OTOH it's just one year old and manages to boot in ~1min. Wasting 5-10% of the boot time just for keyboard/console setup is ridiculous. And about 70% is spent by loadkeys executing the mentioned storm of ioctls. And about 70ms. Or ~1.8s on the mentioned device. Even on my not-so-lame desktop (Phenom II 3.2ghz) setupcon needs almost 1.7s. That is WAY too much, IMHO. Regards, Eduard.
Bug#763695: console-setup: even worse than assumed
Hallo, * Samuel Thibault [Tue, Aug 25 2015, 09:56:39PM]: Eduard Bloch, le Tue 25 Aug 2015 21:35:36 +0200, a écrit : * Samuel Thibault [Tue, Aug 25 2015, 08:54:35PM]: Just so that people reading the log don't take it too exagerated: Eduard Bloch, le Tue 25 Aug 2015 20:24:22 +0200, a écrit : I checked again... about 20% of the time is spent in two calls of pidof We're here talking about ~15ms each. I don't. It's ~270ms each (I added another log with timestamps). How long is the readlink /proc/*/exe | grep? ~70ms (strace -f -tt -o logfile sh -c 'readlink /proc/*/exe | fgrep slash') And about 70% is spent by loadkeys executing the mentioned storm of ioctls. And about 70ms. Or ~1.8s on the mentioned device. Ouch. The optimization I mentioned could perhaps reduce that, in a not too complex setup (shift, alt, control, altgr, capslock modifiers) by a 4x factor. To go further a kernel patch is really needed, there is no way around it. Ok, thanks for investigation. Regards, Eduard.
Bug#763695: console-setup: even worse than assumed
Package: console-setup Version: 1.132 Followup-For: Bug #763695 Dear Maintainer, inspired by the recent talk about systemd utilities I analyzed my boot process on my lower-level laptop (CPU is ok but the harddisk is plain old mechanic thing). And it's even worse than in jak's original report, it spends 5s there and the HDD seems to be pretty busy. Just have a look at it: https://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~bloch/.wearetheborg/ $ wc -l log 23053 log $ grep ioctl log | wc -l 14035 OVER 9000 ioctls! Are you kidding me? $ grep 'open\|read\|stat' log | wc -l 3881 OVER 3000 filesystem related syscalls. That all is needed to just configure the console? Seriously? Please find a way to cut down this activity, there must be a way to do that. Regards, Eduard. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.1.5+ (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages console-setup depends on: ii console-setup-linux 1.132 ii debconf 1.5.57 ii keyboard-configuration 1.132 ii xkb-data2.14-1 console-setup recommends no packages. Versions of packages console-setup suggests: ii locales 2.19-19 ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian14 Versions of packages keyboard-configuration depends on: ii debconf 1.5.57 ii initscripts 2.88dsf-59 ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-9 Versions of packages console-setup-linux depends on: ii kbd 1.15.5-2 ii keyboard-configuration 1.132 console-setup-linux suggests no packages. Versions of packages console-setup is related to: pn console-common none pn console-datanone pn console-tools none ii kbd 1.15.5-2 -- debconf information: * keyboard-configuration/ctrl_alt_bksp: true console-setup/fontsize-text47: 8x14 * keyboard-configuration/variantcode: console-setup/charmap47: UTF-8 * keyboard-configuration/modelcode: pc105 keyboard-configuration/unsupported_options: true * keyboard-configuration/layout: console-setup/fontsize: 8x14 console-setup/use_system_font: * keyboard-configuration/layoutcode: de * keyboard-configuration/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true console-setup/framebuffer_only: * keyboard-configuration/toggle: No toggling * keyboard-configuration/variant: Deutsch * keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap: de * console-setup/fontsize-fb47: 8x14 * keyboard-configuration/compose: No compose key * keyboard-configuration/other: console-setup/codeset47: # Latin1 and Latin5 - western Europe and Turkic languages console-setup/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_options: true * keyboard-configuration/altgr: The default for the keyboard layout debian-installer/console-setup-udeb/title: * console-setup/fontface47: Fixed console-setup/guess_font: * keyboard-configuration/model: Generische PC-Tastatur mit 105 Tasten (Intl) keyboard-configuration/unsupported_layout: true * keyboard-configuration/optionscode: terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp * keyboard-configuration/switch: No temporary switch keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_layout: true console-setup/codesetcode: Lat15
Re: Processed: dealing with old installation-reports
reassign 642159 thanks * Debian Bug Tracking System [Sat, Jul 20 2013, 01:21:16PM]: reassign 642159 apt-cacher-ng Bug #642159 [debian-installer] debian-installer preseed broken with apt-cacher-ng mirror Bug reassigned from package 'debian-installer' to 'apt-cacher-ng'. No longer marked as found in versions debian-installer/20110106+squeeze3. Ignoring request to alter fixed versions of bug #642159 to the same values previously set No, please don't reassign this to me because I have no idea whether and when this bug was fixed. In case you missed the main part of this bug report, here it is: Instead when I run applications from the Kickstart %post section, all HTTP connections are proxied; curl, wget, lynx, hg (mercurial), everything. Once the system installs and reboots all is good, the only remanence of the mirror/http/proxy setting is in /etc/apt/apt.conf, which is fine (though I think that should be configurable too). mirror/http/proxy is setting the environment variable http_proxy. Which means: you cheat with the environment, breaking unrelated programs. Not the finest art. Regards, Eduard. -- 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/20130720221808.ga6...@rotes76.wohnheim.uni-kl.de
Bug#590507: please allow proxy specification without http:// prefix
Package: debian-installer Version: http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/kfreebsd-amd64/20100726-10:40/ Severity: wishlist Hello, the subject says it all. I would like to quickly enter 10.1.2.3:1234 without the http:// prefix. Because the question is about http proxy anyway, the installer could append http:// internally if it was not specified by user. Regards, Eduard. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.35-rc4 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- 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/20100726213957.ga24...@rotes76.wohnheim.uni-kl.de
Re: removal of svenl from the project
#include hallo.h * Andres Salomon [Tue, Mar 14 2006, 09:01:09PM]: harm upon another developer in a public forum, and then a week later publically insults/taunts a developer (one of the Release Managers, even), behind his back. This is incredibly childish, aggressive behavior, and should not be tolerated within the project (IMO). He were slandering somebody and others were listening/reading without telling him that the behaviour is impolite? Well, then maybe it shows us all (or at least the readers) in a bad light. Even then, you have to deal with such offence in a more contructive way, definitely not by stupid expulsion process. Heck, even our current DPL may not be there if I would have acted like you few years ago (I did not forget comments like Ah, Eduard Bloch joined the club of debian-legal experts, hahaha and similar stupid rants found in IRC logs but, hey, people can change, and people can learn, and kicking someone out without giving at least one second chance is equally childish). And if I would have acted like a hot potato, I would have gone the path of Adrian Bunk at the time. Eduard. -- Auf ähnlichem Niveau bewegen sich die Gehältern von Webdesignern, die ebenfalls zu den Verlierern unter den *Informatikern* zählen. -- Unispiegel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#265183: pppoe workaround of the post-reboot problem
#include hallo.h * Vassilii Khachaturov [Mon, Sep 20 2004, 11:51:31AM]: PS: I won't clone 265183, there are already enough bug reports to the pppoe module problem. But what about the routing loop problem I had mentioned in the original 265183 report? It is something pretty confusing for a new user. Which loop? I do not know why your modem has an own IP, maybe it is a router and not a modem? Why does it give your local systems DHCP adresses? How are they related to whatever is connected there? Or maybe it is not a usual PPPoE modem but this other weird ip-route-over-fake-internal-network-with-dhcp-over-DSL system (*). Or what t.f. is a LAN duplex link? Does not say anything to me. Maybe a phantasy name from your ISP? If yes, what is in the real world terms? Regards, Eduard. PS: (*) I am still looking for somebody to explain me how this technology works and can provide a reliable step-for-step howto to add support for it to pppoeconf. Or even patches. From time to time people asked me to add support for their DHCP DSL but for real support more is needed. -- So, your solution is to ask Should I break your system now or after the next reboot?. Debconf is not an alternative to fixing the problem. Such questions are still unacceptable bugs. -- asuffield in debian-devel about crazy linux-2.4 repackaging -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#272209: the dhcp progress bar could have a button to skip
Package: debian-installer Severity: wishlist Hello, when I install ubuntu in its default JohnDoe-user mode, I always have to see this DHCP lookup dialog. It needs too long. I wish there would be a button skip below the progress bar to stop searching and specify the network data later. Regards, Eduard. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8.1 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#265183: pppoe workaround of the post-reboot problem
severity 263224 serious reassign 262941 modutils severity 262941 serious merge 262941 263224 thanks #include hallo.h * Vassilii Khachaturov [Fri, Aug 13 2004, 08:50:58AM]: The thing that happens as a by-product of pppoeconf that enables the pppoe to work later on is the loading of the pppoe module. So to have pppoe working after reboot, `modprobe pppoe' is needed before `pon dsl-provider'. I think pppoeconf should have done something differently transparent to the user. FWIW, here's the /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider it had generated. See this also in connection with the routing quirk described in the original report (that had to be worked around with the assigning of a static address). Eduard: please feel free to fork #265183 to pppoeconf bugs (on the As said to the previous bug reporters, it is simply not my job to load _kernel_ modules for some other package. It would just additional complexity while there are other places where it must be fixed. I agree that this bug looks very shameful for a fresh Debian release so it should be release critical. Especially when there is such a simple fix. PS: I won't clone 265183, there are already enough bug reports to the pppoe module problem. Regards, Eduard. -- OpenBSD fails miserably in this respect, and makes for an example of how NOT to work with the community on security issues. Their approach is, roughly, we fixed this a while ago but didn't tell anyone, so you're vulnerable and we're not, ha-ha-ha. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#264375: apt-setup does no save choosen cdrom device anyhwere
Package: base-config Version: 2.40 Severity: normal Hello, as a Joe user, I tried to install Sarge having a small netinst CD in the first drive and a few weeks old Sarge DVD in the second. In the second phase with apt-setup, I was asked to specify the device where apt should locate the media. Since the netinst CD was ejected (for reboot), I specified /dev/hdb. But this setting is not stored anwhere! When the sources are choosed, I see the prompt requesting me to insert the DVD called Sarge... to the drive /cdrom. But it is not very understandable (it should say: The drive that belongs to /path) AND it does not know which CD has been choose. APT stupidly accepts /dev/cdrom (hda) as /cdrom, though I have explicitely choosen to use /dev/sdb few seconds ago. This is uncomfortable and may be confusing. Especially since it is not clear at all how to EXIT from this prompt. There is no word about Ctrl-C or any other solution, this interaction mode looks just stupid and not userfriendly. Regards, Eduard. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.7 Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 Versions of packages base-config depends on: ii adduser 3.59 Add and remove users and groups ii apt 0.5.27 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii bsdutils1:2.12-7 Basic utilities from 4.4BSD-Lite ii console-data2002.12.04dbs-44 Keymaps, fonts, charset maps, fall ii console-tools 1:0.2.3dbs-55Linux console and font utilities ii debconf 1.4.30 Debian configuration management sy ii debianutils 2.8.4Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii gettext-base0.14.1-5 GNU Internationalization utilities ii passwd 1:4.0.3-30 Change and administer password and -- debconf information: tzconfig/choose_country_zone_single: true tzconfig/select_zone: tzconfig/verify_choices: * apt-setup/another: false base-config/start-display-manager: true apt-setup/directory: /debian/ base-config/menu/hostname: * apt-setup/cd/another: false apt-setup/badedit: mirror/suite: testing apt-setup/baddir: base-config/menu/pkgsel: base-config/menu/apt-get: base-config/menu/timezone: apt-setup/hostname: ftp2.de.debian.org base-config/menu/pon: * tzconfig/gmt: false apt-setup/title: mirror/http/proxy: * apt-setup/contrib: true apt-setup/non-us-failed: * tzconfig/geographic_area: Europe apt-setup/cd/dev: /dev/cdrom * apt-setup/country: Germany apt-setup/uri_type: http apt-setup/not-mirror: base-config/retry-ppp: true apt-setup/security-updates-failed: * apt-setup/cd/bad: base-config/menu/mta: tzconfig/choose_country_zone/BR: East * base-config/intro: * tzconfig/select_zone/Europe: Berlin * apt-setup/security-updates: true * base-config/run-tasksel: true mirror/distribution: base-config/title: base-config/menu/finish: base-config/stop-ppp: true debian-installer/language: * apt-setup/mirror: ftp2.de.debian.org base-config/menu/apt-setup: base-config/menu/keyboard: tzconfig/title: debian-installer/country: base-config/install-problem: true tzconfig/change_timezone: false * base-config/pkgsel: dselect - old package selector (experts only) * apt-setup/non-free: true * apt-setup/non-us: true base-config/menu/intro: base-config/menu/passwd: base-config/login: base-config/main-menu: * base-config/run-dselect: false debian-installer/keymap: base-config/remove-pcmcia: true apt-setup/badsource: * base-config/use-ppp: false tzconfig/choose_country_zone/US: Eastern base-config/get-hostname: tzconfig/choose_country_zone_multiple: tzconfig/choose_country_zone/CA: Eastern * base-config/login-with-tty: base-config/menu/shell: base-config/invalid-hostname: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#202907: Processed: language tasks pull in reams of huge packages
#include hallo.h * Debian Bug Tracking System [Thu, Jul 29 2004, 11:03:04PM]: Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reopen 202907 Bug#202907: language tasks pull in reams of huge packages Haha. Now you stumble around the problem that I have predicted years ago, requesting conditional dependencies in dpkg. Either this or another apt-get extension implementing basicaly the same feature. IMO the only good way to manage such things. Package: spanish-lang-packs Depends: openoffice.org - openoffice.org-l10n-es, kdebase - kde-i18n-es, ... Eduard. -- ace\aruu2 23 bans ... die Illuminaten waren hier weasel .oO( /kb ace lueg nicht, 24 ) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pppoe install
Moin Jan! Jan Schukat schrieb am Tuesday, den 08. June 2004: Yesterday (June 7) I downloaded the sarge-i386-netinst.iso and installed the base system on my new VIA CL9000 board for soon to become my DSL Router. Now, after the first reboot, I set up root and normal user and then the ppp configuration script starts. Well, I need pppoe with my Teledat 300 LAN. So I changed the console and stated pppoeconf. Works fine, and I even get a connection to my provider (plog confirms this and the received dynamic DNS IPs). But nothing else to the outside works. I cannot even ping to any outside IP. So either I'm completely stupid, or something pretty weird is going on. Check your default route setting. If there is one (gateway in /etc/network/interfaces), remove it, it confuses ppp. Regards, Eduard. -- KaiL susn: koffice ist ein proof-of-concept, aber praktisch nicht wirklich nutzbar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#235068: modconf: FTBFS: Cannot find unpacked kernel source
severity 235068 important thanks E: Package kernel-source has no installation candidate - Considering kernel-source-2.2.25 to satisfy the dependency Oha. I'd suggest using a more specific kernel-source Build-Depends like kernel-source-2.4 or kernel-source-2.4.24. Also, the kernel-source packages only include the tar.bz2 files, while a look at debian/mkkerneldesc.pl indicates it expects to find unpacked trees. As many other debian-boot products, this requires a human operator to get the build done. In this case it could be automated though, and if someone has the motivation to fix it, please do. Eduard. -- Ideen sind wie Kinder: Die eigenen liebt man am meisten. -- Lothar Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#231634: modconf dialog has broken text
retitle 231634 yesno box does not wrap text lines severity 231634 grave severity 224333 grave reassign 224333 whiptail reassign 231634 whiptail merge 231634 224333 thanks -- Seid realistisch - fordert das Unmögliche. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#227691: Really serious?
#include hallo.h * Thomas Hood [Mon, Feb 09 2004, 12:11:42AM]: Eduard Bloch wrote: severity 227691 serious thanks [...] Something that must be fixed before the Sarge release. Do you think that this bug is so severe that if it is not fixed then the package had better not be released with Sarge? Yes. And I think someone will fix it, I won't now (no time). If so then the severity should be grave, not serious. Wrong. serious is also the severity for deliberate package freezes in Sid. MfG, Eduard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#227691: modconf: I can't enter in kernel/drivers/net section
severity 227691 serious thanks #include hallo.h * willy [Wed, Jan 14 2004, 12:36:24PM]: Package: modconf Version: 0.2.45 Severity: important If i try to select kernel/drivers/net modules section it return to modules section main list. I can't choose net modules. Something that must be fixed before the Sarge release. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fixed in NMU of modconf 0.2.45
tag 174833 + fixed tag 192232 + fixed quit This message was generated automatically in response to a non-maintainer upload. The .changes file follows. -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 17:06:43 +0100 Source: modconf Binary: modconf Architecture: source all Version: 0.2.45 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Boot Floppies Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Eduard Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: modconf- Device Driver Configuration Closes: 174833 192232 Changes: modconf (0.2.45) unstable; urgency=low . * Kernel 2.6 support based on the latest patch in the bugreport, thanks to all submitters (closes: #192232) * new 2.6 compatible description harvesting method for mkkerneldesc.pl * Makefile cleanups: generic manpage installation rule, no duplicated mkkerneldesc.pl executions * added French manpage, thanks to Julien Louis (closes: #174833) Files: 8fd89f903d756e3e2c7a2bc194b0a1f9 528 base optional modconf_0.2.45.dsc 088d2e33faf3d2de5bc63e3fa5d209f1 153315 base optional modconf_0.2.45.tar.gz 5ed7c92fbb7531cbf7d8c13ef0af57b8 759644 base optional modconf_0.2.45_all.deb -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/7Jcn4QZIHu3wCMURAg8RAKCHuwJVrpAd7SLXOmC1fPkqIxNq9QCaA3p1 aRxJLHfLx2zBuDUrD5WhHvw= =CxrQ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#221266: 'images-1.44/rescue.bin bug
Moin Goswin! Goswin von Brederlow schrieb am Monday, den 17. November 2003: Tarun Kundhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN HTMLHEAD META HTTP-EQUIV=Content-Type CONTENT=text/html; charset=us-ascii TITLEMessage/TITLE ... It would realy help if you could write a mail in english text instead of publishing a website. He has done both. Get a MUA which can handle Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit SCNR, Eduard. -- Warum überquerte das Huhn die Straße? Albert Einstein: Ob das Huhn die Straße überquert hat oder die Straße sich unter dem Huhn bewegte, hängt von Ihrem Referenzrahmen ab. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#209301: modconf: on module installation failure, suggest isa-pnp.o to the user
#include hallo.h * Ryan Underwood [Sun, Sep 14 2003, 10:27:40PM]: If the module itself is aware of isa-pnp, then yes, this is the case. However, consider this scenario: The card is a PnP card, the driver is not PnP aware and would like to know the I/O and IRQ resources when loaded. The card must first be configured by loading isa-pnp, and then the other driver can be loaded based on the resources that the card is assigned. Nonsense, pure nonsence. Please read the isapnp_init function of isapnp.c before claiming such thing. Then show me the place where random cards are configured to random ressources by isa-pnp and the users gets information about the ressources. Please refer to linux/Documentation/isapnp.txt: Write commands: --- With the write interface you can activate or modify the configuration of ISA Plug Play devices. It is mainly useful for drivers which have not been rewritten to use the ISA Plug Play kernel support yet. Sorry, what is your point? First, you tell us that isa-pnp module configures the cards when loaded. Now, you show a way to *configure the ressources manually* via the proc interface. Just for the case that you missed it, we do already include isapnptools for pre-2.4 kernels. And pnpdumpisapnp are a way more user-friendly and better documented than the proc interface. MfG, Eduard. -- In der Mitte von Schwierigkeiten liegen die Möglichkeiten. -- Albert Einstein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#209301: modconf: on module installation failure, suggest isa-pnp.o to the user
#include hallo.h * Ryan Underwood [Mon, Sep 15 2003, 02:55:37AM]: Please refer to linux/Documentation/isapnp.txt: Write commands: --- With the write interface you can activate or modify the configuration of ISA Plug Play devices. It is mainly useful for drivers which have not been rewritten to use the ISA Plug Play kernel support yet. Sorry, what is your point? Please go outside and get some fresh air. For your own good. I just have been there. First, you tell us that isa-pnp module configures the cards when loaded. Now, you show a way to *configure the ressources manually* via the proc interface. No, I didn't say that. (Please quote me instead of paraphrasing.) You did imply that. |After a module fails initialization, the suggestion should be made that |the user install the isa-pnp module if the hardware in question is an |ISA-PnP card. | |The module failed initialization. Check the hardware resources (I/O, |IRQ) and if the card is a ISA PnP card, ensure that you have installed |the isa-pnp module first. And I have just told you that loading isa-pnp is not enough. The only practicable think I can imagine is extending this message to a micro-Howto about how to use isapnptools or the isa-pnp's proc interface. Both things that user can learn from RTFM before going to install. Another idea may be silent loading of isa-pnp when available and including the list of the devices in the message, suggesting how to continue. My contention is that without isa-pnp loaded, the user could not use modules that do not support ISA-PnP configuration themselves when the card is not in a configured state. In the case of a new user, they see isa-pnp does not configure them when the module is just loaded. only a failure when inserting the module for their hardware which is clearly installed in the system, and have no idea where to proceed. The general hint is _okay_ but the advisory to load isa-pnp is not okay in the suggested form, and will confuse the user more to the end. Just for the case that you missed it, we do already include isapnptools for pre-2.4 kernels. And pnpdumpisapnp are a way more user-friendly and better documented than the proc interface. The user was installing from bf2.4. Is isapnptools included in that case? If so, then this wishlist bug is in error and you may ignore It is not included. For the simple reason, I could not find a driver for any _essential (for installation)_ ISA PnP card that is not supported by isapnp manegement in 2.4.18. it. If it is not, then I stand by my statement that there must be a documented way for the user to configure the ISA-PnP cards, or there is a good chance of significant confusion occurring during an installation. I am not the only modconf maintainer but I won't do much more on that because of the reasons described above and because I think that there is enough documentation around. But patches are welcome, there are surely ways to improve the failure message. MfG, Eduauard. -- Sich selbst darf man nicht für so göttlich halten, daß man seine eigenen Werke nicht gelegentlich verbessern könnte. -- Ludwig van Beethoven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#209301: modconf: on module installation failure, suggest isa-pnp.o to the user
#include hallo.h * Ryan Underwood [Fri, Sep 12 2003, 10:21:21PM]: Short answer: use precompiled kernels if you cannot do it properly in your own. If you build the isa-pnp module with the kernel, the created modules (ISA drivers) will depend on it and autoload when needed. I'm not sure what you are talking about. I am referring specifically about when modconf is called during Debian installation. The new user Me too. Modconf used modprobe, modprobe looks on on modules.dep, the particular module (_if_ it works together with isa-pnp) needs isa-pnp so modprobe loads isa-pnp. Your scenario can only appear if you have a mix of modules from different kernel builds. may have no idea that he or she needs to insert the isa-pnp module to configure the PnP cards, before inserting the driver modules for the (s)he does not have to. When you see a such problem, examine modules.dep and file a bug report against your kernel. In my opinion, this is a bug because modconf, an easy to use frontend, is failing to inform the user of a step they may have forgotten to take It does sometimes, eg. for USB keyboards. For other things, we rely on module dependencies. if they are unfamiliar with the system. I posted this bug on behalf of a frustrated user who wasted many hours with an (unknown to him) unconfigured ISA PnP card. As said before, isa-pnp is loaded when the kernel has been built with the isa-pnp module. If the particular driver does _not_ communicate with the isa-pnp module, loading it would not help anyways. MfG, Eduard. -- Das Alter hat auch gesundheitliche Vorteile: Zum Beispiel verschüttet man ziemlich viel von dem Alkohol, den man trinken möchte. -- André Gide -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Network card driver not found - bf24
#include hallo.h * Uwe Dippel [Mon, Sep 01 2003, 11:33:12AM]: A minor hitch: While installing 3.0rc1 as default (Enter) on a DELL Inspiron 8100, the NIC-module (3c59x.o) is found and installed automatically. With bf24, it isn't. It requires manual intervention (and knowledge about the module) to install. And that is the normal way to go. Boot-floppies in Woody did not have hardware autodetection. I doubt a 2.4-kernel issue, because RedHat 7.3 installs flawlessly as well. They use modularized kernel with autodetection. MfG, Eduard. -- BMW - Bei Mercedes Weggeworfen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#206616: modconf: too wide for 80-column console
reassign 206616 whiptail thanks Moin Thomas! Thomas Koenig schrieb am Thursday, den 21. August 2003: Package: modconf Version: 0.2.44 Severity: important I just ran modconf from a virtual console, and was confused when I saw all module paths start with /drivers. Here's what it looks like: ??? Select Category Modules are loadable device drivers. Please go through the menus for each category and look for devices, network protocols, filesystems, etc. that you would like to have supported by your system. You should not install modules for devices that aren't installed in your system, as they will sometimes cause the system to pause for a long time while it is searching for the device. Also, drivers for devices that you don't have use memory that you could put to better use. Please select the category of modules. Finished. Return to previous menu. /drivers/bluetooth. /drivers/acpi . /drivers/acpi/ospm/ac_adapter . /drivers/acpi/ospm/battery. /drivers/acpi/ospm/busmgr . Ok Cancel ? ? This may be also be a whiptail bug, or it may be due to the interaction of whiptail and modconf. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux meiner 2.4.20-3-k7 #1 Sun Jul 27 21:10:39 EST 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=C, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Versions of packages modconf depends on: ii modutils 2.4.21-3 Linux module utilities ii whiptail [whiptail-provider] 0.51.4-15 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe -- no debconf information -- Phantasie ist wichtiger als Wissen. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#205519: installation: Wrong error message when disk is full
severity 205519 minor tags 205519 + wontfix thanks #include hallo.h * Michiel Holtkamp [Fri, Aug 15 2003, 09:47:19AM]: Package: installation Version: unavailable; reported 2003-08-15 Severity: important When a partition is too small to install everything on, and packages are unpacked to the harddisk, the install menu will fail with an error message: package corrupt or similar. After checking debug messages on console 3 (I think) it becomes clear that the disk is full. Thus the error messages the user receives is misleading. Install should not assume that a package is corrupt because unpacking fails. I'm not sure how the internals work in this case, but I'm sure somebody knows :) But I do a bit and if you are too lazy for RTFM, noone can help you. MfG, Eduard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: d-i debcamp in Oldenburg 2003-09-25 to 2003-09-28
Moin Petter! Petter Reinholdtsen schrieb am Sunday, den 10. August 2003: I've noted interest from the following people: Michael Cardenas - San Diego, USA Joey Hess - Bristol, TN, USA Tollef Fog Heen - Trondheim, Norway Falk Hueffner - Tuebingen, Germany Matt Kraai - Los Angeles, USA Sebastian Ley - Aachen, Germany Alastair McKinstry - Dublin, Ireland Petter Reinholdtsen - Oslo, Norway Giuseppe Sacco - Turin, Italy. Thorsten Sauter - Stuttgart, Germany Martin Sjögren - Göteborg, Sweden Gaudenz Steinlin - Bern, Switzerland Thomas Viehmann - ? Eduard Bloch - Karlsruhe, Germany Eduard. -- So einfach wie möglich, aber nicht einfacher! -- Albert Einstein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: boot.iso
#include hallo.h * jayson [Tue, Aug 12 2003, 03:05:08PM]: from http://people.debian.org/~dwhedon/boot-floppies/ when i try to install, it boots, i press enter at the prompt then it says keyboard: timeout - at keyboard not present? it is a ps2 keyboard and it obviously works if i pressed enter seconds before.. The problem is known with some x86 hardware and kernel 2.2.x. Try the other install image with kernel 2.4 instead. MfG, Eduard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Status of aic79xx driver
#include hallo.h * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Tue, Aug 05 2003, 10:49:34PM]: I have recently bought a fine server running 3 raid disks on an Adaptec 39320D SCSI card. This card is supported by the Linux aic79xx driver (the old one aic7xxx does not work). == Is there someone out there who has a compiled module driver that can stick on a module floppy to load the driver during installation? I guess you do not have a source package which does not depend on a certain kernel source three? I hear rumors again good/bad aic79xx driver, but either people point me to some Adaptec driver source which is meant to replace the kernel dir, or to some another source which relies on newer kernel versions or seems to rely on 2.4.20 but still does not build with them, then there is another story about working aic79xx driver in 2.4.21 (which AFAICS won't go into boot-floppies) but others said that it is not recent enough for the latest models and you some hacker patch to make it work. So could anyone bringt light into this issue and summarize all the information about this weird Adaptec product and Linux support issues? MfG, Eduard. -- Was hat denn der Gast von Tisch drei ins Beschwerdebuch geschrieben? Gar nichts, er hat das Schnitzel eingeklebt. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ITP shell-parted and debconf-partitioner
#include hallo.h * Thorsten Sauter [Thu, Jul 31 2003, 10:50:12PM]: | It would perhaps be a good idea to integrate partitioner and | partconf, if this succeeds... I'm not sure, that this is the best solution. If you would like to merge both programs, then we also need support for lvm and raid in this program. And this makes the whole d-i concept useless. After the merge you can't simply extend the d-i with new The whole d-i concept is useless when it comes to extensions that are outside of the default mkfs-install-bootconfig path. Whatever we will use, an advanced partitioner will be much more complicated than the simple question-repsonse scheme of debconf. I suggest keeping the default tools for text mode (cfdisk or shell with fdisk, lvm-tools, mdadm, evms-utils) and a nice partitioner for GUI mode only. Of course when some volumes are already prepared on the target system, we can use usual methods to autodetect them (mdrun, ?lvmstart?, evms by default) and make them useable for partconf, but every other development in TUI mode is IMO just not feasible, given the short time period for the Sarge release. MfG, Eduard. -- Verheiratete Männer leben länger als unverheiratete, aber sie sind viel eher bereit zu sterben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#191636: fix to this bug.
#include hallo.h * Alastair McKinstry [Sun, Jul 27 2003, 02:26:46PM]: As the maintainer of whiptail, I was not aware of this bug, which was filed against modconf. In the current newt package, whiptail and whiptail-utf8 were merged; modconf seems to work fine for me now. (There are some minor graphical issues in utf-8 mode, due to an error in slang, for which a patch as been submitted; see eg. 195010). Could you please retest modconf against the latest whiptail, 0.51.4-8; and if either confirm the bug or close it? Still broken. With LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, semi-graphical chars are not displayed correctly, example attached. Incidentally, there appear to be a large number of bugs filed against slang / slang-utf8 that I believe to be fixed by recent uploads. I may help go through those and close some. The bug report that Junichi requested is: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=201767 MfG, Eduard. -- weasel nobse: du kannst gerne http://wwwbrauer.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/ praktikum/verifikation/WS2001-2002/p244-clarke.pdf fuer mich durcharbeiten, wenn dir langweilig ist nobse weasel: iieh, ein pdf GNU nobse soll ich es dir nach DOC konvertieren? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: aic79xx
#include hallo.h * Petter Reinholdtsen [Fri, Jul 25 2003, 10:22:21AM]: I believe this driver first appeared in kernel 2.4.21, so it will be available when d-i moves from kernel 2.4.20 to 2.4.21. This transition was delayed when we discovered that the new kernel was a lot bigger then the currently used kernel. Same story with BF. I did try to make a 2.4.21 version for the LinuxTag-CDs, but there were a problem with size and unknown compatibility. Rumors claimed the kernel would become smaller if another gcc version is used to compile. I'm not sure if this is true. I tried different compilers and different flags, and all builds were much larger. Finally, some things like nfs support hat to go, but the result was still not acceptable. -Os saved few kilobytes. gcc-2.95 produced the smallest code but failed to build a driver (IIRC I had to drop a driver to work around it), gcc-3.2 a bit larger (not significantly, but it's not available on Woody), while gcc-3.0 code was about 80kB larger. Another issue is the IDE code stability. I have been told bad things about it, and could reproduce a hard crash/reboot with enabled DMA (ATAPI writes on ServerWorks chipset). Let's hope that 2.4.22 will be better. MfG, Eduard. -- KaiL susn: koffice ist ein proof-of-concept, aber praktisch nicht wirklich nutzbar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Support for Linux Driver for the Pro/1000 MT NIC -- Debian bf2.4 Woody -- Dell Optiplex 260
#include hallo.h * Basab Maulik [Sat, Jul 19 2003, 06:46:22PM]: ifconfig eth0 xx:xx:xx:xx netmask 255.255.252.0 up I am getting a segmentation fault and message of trying to dereference a null pointer. Also: SIOCSIFADDR: No buffer space available Please help. Similar problems/issues with the 4.3.15 driver. Also any Try the kernel-image-2.4.20-bf2.4 kernel package from the pool (woody-proposed-updates). This will have the e1000 driver. MfG, Eduard. -- sveri woran erkenn ich denn, dass ich ein 80-adriges Kabel drin habe? vchrizz hm... indem du jede ader zählst? vchrizz und wenn du bei 40 in der mitte bist, brauchst du nichtmehr weiterzählen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#201619: modconf: non-visible module names in some sections
reassign 201619 whiptail thanks #include hallo.h * Robert Millan [Wed, Jul 16 2003, 10:49:13PM]: gnome-terminal is broken? well actualy the same happens for TERM=linux and TERM=screen so it clearly has nothing to do with the terminal emulator, or even with X. Please? You most-saying screenshots showed a terminal with overlapping chars (read: broken terminal app), and your bug report basically existed of this screenshot. So can you reproduce this in a terminal with fixed fonts or not? As I said, the bug doesn't depend on the terminal type or the fonts in use. Erm, that is exactly what you did NOT say. And when you do, please reassign your report to whiptail or whiptail-utf8 (man, you are a developer and should be able to recognize where a such problem comes from). No, I'm not suposed to know anything about the whiptail interface if i haven't hacked on it. All i can say, from a quick test, is that the same problem is reproductible with whiptail 0.51.4-6 (from testing). Asides from this, if you think gnome-terminal is broken in some way, then I suggest you speak with Marillat about it; I'm sure you'll understand each other very well. WTF do you mean? You send an unreproducible bug report without a sufficient explanation, refuse to give clear answers and expect us to deal with that? MfG, Eduard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Freeze after startup with bf24
#include hallo.h * Jeremy Hankins [Thu, Jul 17 2003, 10:39:36AM]: Unfortunately, right after the boot up (when the select language display is up) the machine freezes and wont accept any input -- capslock doesn't light the keyboard led, either. The machine is a Precision 350 from Dell that came preinstalled with Redhat and was running kernel 2.4.18. The floppies I made work fine on another machine here. For what it's worth, this happens with the standard bf2.4 as well. Try the default 2.2.20-idepci flavor, or use Google. You have a Dell box, live with that. MfG, Eduard. -- CHS hobbies: Linux, IRC - ehm ja - get a life! ij life? wasn das? CHS ij: das is das problem vor dem du stehst wenn du im urlaub ohne computer bist ij CHS: urlaub? noch son unbekanntes wort... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Freeze after startup with bf24
#include hallo.h * Jeremy Hankins [Thu, Jul 17 2003, 12:19:46PM]: Just thought I'd ask to see if anyone knew why it was freezing like that and save myself a bit of work. I'm just hoping it's a boot-floppies issue and not a kernel issue, so I can install 2.4 on it It sounds like a kernel issue, with borken hardware. You may try to disable framebuffer, see boot screens. Background: when the first screen appears and fb is enabled, the installer looks for translation catalogs on CDROM drives. Maybe some of your CD drives is broken, or the kernel freezes because of broken IDE driver or chipset, or whatever. As said, it's a DELL, you can never be sure when such things appear there. MfG, Eduard. -- Woglinde bobby locales einstellen _Bobby ? Aquarioph dpkg-reconfigure locales Aquarioph also diese dau's -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#201619: modconf: non-visible module names in some sections
#include hallo.h * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Wed, Jul 16 2003, 08:27:42PM]: Package: modconf Version: 0.2.44 Severity: important An image better than thousand words. PNG attached. What is wrong? Please retry in a not broken terminal, eg. xterm or rxvt, or load a fixed font in this one if you can. MfG, Eduard. -- CHS hobbies: Linux, IRC - ehm ja - get a life! ij life? wasn das? CHS ij: das is das problem vor dem du stehst wenn du im urlaub ohne computer bist ij CHS: urlaub? noch son unbekanntes wort... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't change running i386 Woody 3.0 to LSI 53C1020
#include hallo.h * Markus Rupprecht [Fri, Jul 04 2003, 07:43:50AM]: Now I have read, that some 53C1030 users took the 2.4.20 modules floppy to install the system. When I use mptbase.o from the 2.4.20 floppy modconf says, that they were build for kernel 2.4.20 and loading fails. http://people.debian.org/~blade/bf3024/ -- Woglinde bobby locales einstellen _Bobby ? Aquarioph dpkg-reconfigure locales Aquarioph also diese dau's -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Building boot images with boot-floppies on PowerMac
#include hallo.h * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Sat, Jun 28 2003, 11:16:30AM]: The arch maintainer for what? My problem is with b-f, according to those documents you mention, this list is the right place. For the problem with your powerpc kernel package which was your initial problem. whereever it now are, it is the location of the supplementary packages like kernel-image-*; they are still located in unstable while the build scripts look in Woody. Why is that? I would have thought it logical to distribute b-f configured Because we need a controllable way to take the _stable_ packages for _stable_ branch of boot-floppies. My initial problem is that that is precisely what I cannot do. If I can And that is, precisely, and edge and chicken problem. The build cannot take the kernel images since they are not in the archive, but it uses the archive structure to decide which package to take (expecting stable package). And the packages do _not_ land in the stable branch immediately because the distro is frozen. So you stuff _will_ be buildable when r2 has been released and the SRM accepted the kernel-image* and according pcmcia-modules-* packages to stable. Until this happens and since you are using a development version of boot-floppies (*), please stop fighting windmills. (*): or an outdated/wrong version, bug FTP maintainers, and this is another story do that, then I have a base to work on. As said, your work won't be honored enough. Something needs to be done in the short term. From what I've seen there are quite a few refugees from Red Hat come to Debian recently. A lot of them are capable at what they do (installing and configuring Linux), and they will be finding this part of Debian a nasty shock. Who are you speaking for? Newbies? They are users, not developers. I am a user. I'm one of many who's been using Red Hat Linux for years (in my case since some time in '96), who's been helping out on the various Red Hat support lists, and who doesn't like recent changes to Red Hat's business model. Fine. Comming back to your mkisofs example, it's typical daily job for a normal user to recompile mkisofs again and again? Why /etc? We are just building a package, the changes on the host system should be minimal. At this level, b-f is a tool, not so different from mkisofs, that takes Loool. And KDE is just a user tool, not so different from cdrecord (in your categories), isn't? Certainly, it's tool, but I don't see that it has much similarity to cdrecord;-) Oh, please, you tried to escape the correct answer. data from various sources, processes it in magical ways, and produces outputs. There is not magic in mkisofs, clean code based on almost clean specs. The job ob BFs is quite different. (and before you start bichting: I am the cdrtools comaintainer). I think you're concentrating on differences, I see similarities. As a I do not concentrate on anything or close my eyes, I just tell you the facts. Please estimate the level of complexity in the cooperation of different tool, platforms specifics, etc. user, I don't care for specs, I care for results. Both take some data There won't be any results if you break with the roots. (files), fiddle round and create files containing essentially the same data structured differently. With this attitude you can argument even for LFS. As for you being the cdrtools comaintainer, that doesn't carry much weight: I have used mkisofs and cdrecord, I know what they do. I don't care how they do it, though you might;-) I did not say cdrecord. It was your idea to distract from the KDE-vs.-single-tool argument. I've not tried using it except as root - in my environment the usual advice not not be root doesn't seem so sensible - but it does require configuration, and /etc seems to me a sensible place for that configuration. And if a developers wants to commit the changes on his personal files, he has to move it first? Sounds more like a cludge for me. I don't understand what you're saying here. Doesn't matter. Redhat does not have multiple kernels (does it?), so many installation ways withing the first stage installer, etc. Red Hat has many kernels for IA32. I'm not sure what the latest Yet another distraction. How many do you select when starting the installer? I've seen i386 i386-BOOT i586 i586-smp i686 i686-smp i686-enterprise athlon athlon-smp athlon-enterprise We have a similar set of kernels, the user is free to install them. After the base system and the installation kernel has been installed. RHL is also available for other architectures, to be sure not as many as Debian. YEAH! And exactly here is the problem. Redhat supports only the new architectures which don't create much trouble. If I were to install Red Hat Linux on my Athlon, Anaconda (Red Hat's Maybe. We have this idea too and I think the D-I people wanted to
Re: Building boot images with boot-floppies on PowerMac
#include hallo.h * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Thu, Jun 26 2003, 11:11:39AM]: I have tried the testing version. It fails too: 1393+1 records out You did not understand the problem. It is not the version of BFs The problem, I thought, is that the three versions of b-f I've used do not produce bootable images. That is the reason for first asking the arch maintainer. RTF intro files in the package, starting at README. whereever it now are, it is the location of the supplementary packages like kernel-image-*; they are still located in unstable while the build scripts look in Woody. Why is that? I would have thought it logical to distribute b-f configured Because we need a controllable way to take the _stable_ packages for _stable_ branch of boot-floppies. to look for kernels in places where they may be found. I'm new to all this, I don't have a clue where to look. A-Ha. /archive/debian/download/var/lib/apt/lists/debootstrap.invalid_dists_woody_main_binary-powerpc_Packages E: Couldn't download pcmcia-modules-2.4.18-newpmac E: ./kernel.sh abort And the solution is: get those packages from the pool and store them in your local package directory (see the config file). IMV that's more a workaround than a cure. While it will likely fix it for me, the next person along will encounter the same difficulties. And it won't change. If you are willing to make radical changes, look at the Debian installer project. There a such problem has never existed since they have a separated tree in the FTP archive. You can define a mirror in the config, that is not the problem. The problem is the Debian release which the packages belong to. A possible workaround would be modifying the build scripts to work with the pool structure (read: having a private version of the /etc/apt directory where you can specify the priority of the packages, scanning every Packages file available on that mirror), taking the stable version of a package if possible and if not, fall-back on the Sid version of the same package. Maybe you can use apt for this purpose, but who is going to make this work? Many people declared the BFs as doomed, I doubt that you really wish to stand up and work on it. Something needs to be done in the short term. From what I've seen there are quite a few refugees from Red Hat come to Debian recently. A lot of them are capable at what they do (installing and configuring Linux), and they will be finding this part of Debian a nasty shock. Who are you speaking for? Newbies? They are users, not developers. 3. Maybe source a site configuration file from /etc/bootfloppies/ where the results of steps 1 and 2 can be adjusted. Why /etc? We are just building a package, the changes on the host system should be minimal. At this level, b-f is a tool, not so different from mkisofs, that takes Loool. And KDE is just a user tool, not so different from cdrecord (in your categories), isn't? data from various sources, processes it in magical ways, and produces outputs. There is not magic in mkisofs, clean code based on almost clean specs. The job ob BFs is quite different. (and before you start bichting: I am the cdrtools comaintainer). I've not tried using it except as root - in my environment the usual advice not not be root doesn't seem so sensible - but it does require configuration, and /etc seems to me a sensible place for that configuration. And if a developers wants to commit the changes on his personal files, he has to move it first? Sounds more like a cludge for me. Red Hat's equivalent tool is Anaconda, and you don't go fooling round with the package itself to build your CDs (Anaconda does a bit more) and boot images. Redhat does not have multiple kernels (does it?), so many installation ways withing the first stage installer, etc. Even if you disagree on /etc, ~/boot-floppies/ remains a good place for personal customisation. WHY? We are developers, not users. We can use diff, patch and cvs. I'm sure you can argue whether this idea is slightly broken: the main objective is to achieve something that is robust enough to work for the It is quite robust as-is. It is just the FTP archive that is incosistent. Robust? It doesn't work at all at present. As a user, I don't care whether the particular problem is that the Debian respository has changed since b-f was packaged. I don't have to be a car mechanic to diagnose that my car won't start, and I don't care whether it's because it's out of fuel or the spark plugs are dirty. Either way, the engine cranks but doesn't start. Talk is cheap. Robust means to me that when someone updates the repository, especially with an official update, it continues to work. That is the core problem, and if you wanna complain, file a bug against ftp.debian.org. I may be mistaken, but I think that if you changed a line near here, then my attempt to update from CVS would run
Re: Building boot images with boot-floppies on PowerMac
#include hallo.h * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Wed, Jun 25 2003, 02:47:44PM]: Stable still has 3.0.22. Is there a reason 3.0.23 never moved to stable, Eduard? See above. Woody has been moved to stable under our asses, and to this time there were an RC bug about potential security problems. One of the problems with Debian's release system. I have tried the testing version. It fails too: 1393+1 records out You did not understand the problem. It is not the version of BFs whereever it now are, it is the location of the supplementary packages like kernel-image-*; they are still located in unstable while the build scripts look in Woody. /archive/debian/download/var/lib/apt/lists/debootstrap.invalid_dists_woody_main_binary-powerpc_Packages E: Couldn't download pcmcia-modules-2.4.18-newpmac E: ./kernel.sh abort And the solution is: get those packages from the pool and store them in your local package directory (see the config file). It seems to me part of the problem is that it has hard-coded into it versions of kernels to use, and the kernel maintainers have replaced those packages. The kernel maintainers cannot replace or move packages easily - Woody is stale^h^hble. I'm sure I can hack this thing to build the bootfloppies _I_ need, but that won't help others. Part of what I would do is prevent it from building for boxes I don't have. And that is the reason why boot-floppies are no built by build daemons but manually by each architecture maintainer. What I think should be happening is this: 1. Default to using mirror(s) from /etc/apt/sources.list. That would eliminate one of the customisations I must make. 2. Parse the Packages to the extent necessary to discover the most recent of each of the packages needed. You can define a mirror in the config, that is not the problem. The problem is the Debian release which the packages belong to. A possible workaround would be modifying the build scripts to work with the pool structure (read: having a private version of the /etc/apt directory where you can specify the priority of the packages, scanning every Packages file available on that mirror), taking the stable version of a package if possible and if not, fall-back on the Sid version of the same package. Maybe you can use apt for this purpose, but who is going to make this work? Many people declared the BFs as doomed, I doubt that you really wish to stand up and work on it. 3. Maybe source a site configuration file from /etc/bootfloppies/ where the results of steps 1 and 2 can be adjusted. Why /etc? We are just building a package, the changes on the host system should be minimal. 4. Source a personal configuration file for further fine-tuning. Feel free to create a such thing, I won't accept it in the stable branch. I'm sure you can argue whether this idea is slightly broken: the main objective is to achieve something that is robust enough to work for the It is quite robust as-is. It is just the FTP archive that is incosistent. unsuspecting (me, for example) and to simplify customisation for more advanced use. Customising the config file doesn't seem to me especially elegant or robust, and I can imagine it causing problems with updates from CVS. Nack. There only were few problems with CVS mergin in the hot development phase. MfG, Eduard. -- Joey Zeit fuer Bloedsinn zu haben, bedeutet noch lange nicht, ihn auch zu machen. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Building boot images with boot-floppies on PowerMac
#include hallo.h * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Mon, Jun 23 2003, 07:19:54AM]: /archive/debian/download/var/lib/apt/lists/debootstrap.invalid_dists_woody_main_binary-powerpc_Packages E: Couldn't download pcmcia-modules-2.4.18-newpmac E: ./kernel.sh abort make[1]: *** [linuxnewpmac.bin] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/cvs/bf/boot-floppies' make: *** [build] Error 2 According to madison's output, the package is in unstable only. The reason may be some temporary RC bug that prevented the package from beeing accepted in Woody. Stable still has 3.0.22. Is there a reason 3.0.23 never moved to stable, Eduard? See above. Woody has been moved to stable under our asses, and to this time there were an RC bug about potential security problems. One of the problems with Debian's release system. What should be in stable is working tools that may be used to create the binaries created;-) How else can uses enjoy their GPL-given rights? It should. My bug report against ftp.debian.org has been closed quickly, so blame those guys. MfG, Eduard. -- falky *patsch* was bin ich bloed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: de/install broken
#include hallo.h * Josip Rodin [Sun, Jun 15 2003, 08:53:10PM]: debiandoc2text -l de -O install.de.sgml install.de.txt nsgmls:de/hardware.sgml:184:8:E: document type does not allow element EXAMPLE here; assuming missing P start-tag make[3]: *** [install.de.txt] Error 1 We know and someone is already working on it. In the meantime, take de from the list in documentation/Makefile.docs. MfG, Eduard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: de/install broken
#include hallo.h * Josip Rodin [Mon, Jun 16 2003, 03:02:16PM]: On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 02:23:33PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: debiandoc2text -l de -O install.de.sgml install.de.txt nsgmls:de/hardware.sgml:184:8:E: document type does not allow element EXAMPLE here; assuming missing P start-tag make[3]: *** [install.de.txt] Error 1 We know and someone is already working on it. In the meantime, take de from the list in documentation/Makefile.docs. Why didn't you do it?! It doesn't take a wizard to figure out you're breaking other languages' builds. Because I was not aware of the fact(?) that you are building BF's docs periodicaly. MfG, Eduard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem Booting Install CD
#include hallo.h * Chris Tillman [Mon, Jun 02 2003, 05:58:47PM]: In case you need more info, my system is a Dell Dimension 8250 w/ 2.8 gHz P4 processor, 512 MB RAM, 112 GB HD, ATI Radeon 9700 Pro video adapter w/128 MB RAM, a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card, and an 18 Dell 1800FP LCD monitor plugged into the DVI video output jack. Does the wireless device run on the USB bus internally? Some USB keyboards which fail when booting will work after the boot is complete, I believe the advice is to try a standard keyboard for the boot and then switch. There is USB keyboard support in the bf2.4 flavor, just try to boot with it. On the other hand, I had similar problems with a Logitech wireless keyboard with kernel versions up to 2.4.17. Pressing some keys simultaneously or just too fast made getty hang for 10..60 seconds. MfG, Eduard. -- Alfie Getty: Solche Aussagen tätigt man hier nicht - sonst kommt wieder der weasel daher und zitiert einen auf der #-Seite! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#186927 acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#186927: romfs builtin)
#include hallo.h * Glenn McGrath [Mon, Mar 31 2003, 09:03:51PM]: Both ext2 and romfs could be compiled into the kernel and as long as romfs is used for the initrd it will save space. If we use ext2 or cramfs on the initrd it will add 2kB. I cant think of any reason against using romfs for the initrd, if anyone can please speak up. Of course there is one. Both ext2 and romfs do not compress each file, you use compression on the whole image, and the kernel extracts the beast into a ramdisk of the appropriate size. But files in cramfs are compressed separated and extracted separated on the fly, so you do not need the memory to hold the whole image. However, this is not important for a modern system with 16MB RAM. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- Es fehlt immer ein Minimum, um ein Maximum zu erreichen. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SCSI boot
#include hallo.h * MJM Wright [Tue, Mar 25 2003, 11:50:50PM]: I want a dual system -- not a dual-boot system. The IDE drives contain Win 98, with all of the Debian installation on the SCSI drives. Dual system? What exactly is your meaning of this term? Separating to different harddisks wont work to 100% since they share the boot sequence. I also made a Debian rescue floppy. Fine. Use that floppy till you fix LILO. If I try to boot by setting the first boot device in the CMOS to SCSI. I get an L, followed by 01, space, 01, space, ad infinitum. Known and well documented problem. LILO and BIOS have different ideas about the logical disk order. Read man lilo.conf and comments in /etc/lilo.conf about disk/bios pairs. If I use the rescue floppy, I get a boot: prompt. With no key presses it loads linux.bin from the floppy, and after about 5 minutes, everything loads from the SCSI drive (/dev/sda1). Fine. I have used the Adaptec utility (CTRL A after POST) and as far as I can tell it should allow the boot. I have tried things like: boot: /vmlinux root=/dev/sda1 Please, read the boot screens. It is linux.bin root= Any advice on how to boot directly from the SCSI drive would be very much appreciated. Also, please allow for a novice user of Debian. See lilo.conf Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- Ein berühmter Mann verliert nicht, gewinnt vielmehr durch eine Lächerlichkeit, die man von ihm erzählt oder lieset -; aber begeht er sie vor unsern Augen, so verliert er. Allein warum? Hier wirkt die Gegenwart zu mächtig, und der Mann, erscheinend darin, nur stückweise aufglänzt; hingegen in der Erzählung herrscht und glänzt die Idee des Ganzen über den Mann. -- Jean Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#185420: marked as done (boot-floppies - bad kernel choice)
reopen 185420 severity 185420 normal tags 185420 + help thanks #include hallo.h * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Fri, Mar 21 2003, 10:46:24AM]: Second, I agree with you that it should default to installing the same version of the kernel I chose to install with. My install kernel is debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/3.0.23-2002-05-21/bf2.4/tftpboot.img which I have verified by md5summing all the tftpboot.img files I have in THIS IS what you should have reported from the beginning. How should I have known what t.f. you are talking about? debian/... and the one in /tftboot. Consequently, I think the fact it installs a 2.2 kernel is wrong. There is a small problem with tftp/PXE installs since the installer does not get the needed options and takes the wrong kernel. I am not sure how to fix this. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- The chances of anything coming from mars are a million to one But still the come. -- War of the Worlds -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [pcmcia-problem] kernel-image-2.4.20-bf2.4 -5
#include hallo.h * Brian Mays [Tue, Mar 18 2003, 04:04:25PM]: The 2.4.20 kernel source (in the kernel-source package) has version 0.11b (I think that 2.4.18 also has this version), which is why this problem doesn't appear more frequently. What patches did you apply to this kernel? Where did the newer driver come from? Nothing relevant. It is pure 2.4.20 build from Herbert's kernle-source package. But we use Woody's version of pcmcia-source because it is for stable, and because the Sid version refuses to build anything if pcmcia in kernel has been enabled. One way to fix this would be to use insmod to explicitly load the correct drivers, or to delete the orinoco and hermes drivers under the kernel subdirectory and run depmod. The real problem is that there should not be two modules with the same name. I think I will workaround by removing the kernel versions from the drivers tarball on boot-floppies. Any objections? Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- Wußten Sie schon... ... daß die Zahl der jugendlichen Aussteiger bei uns sehr hoch ist, vor allem frühmorgens an den Bushaltestellen und Bahnhöfen? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: TheBase System Installation
#include hallo.h * Bernard Jean Dale [Sat, Mar 01 2003, 06:58:10PM]: I've tried a number of times to install 3.0r0 from a set of 7 cd's purchased over the internet but before the first installation cd has finished I'm advised that it is unable to install the base system. file:/instmnt/pool/main/a/adduser/adduser_3.47_all.deb was corrupt couldn't download adduser. What is so hard to understand this message? Something is going wrong with your CDROM device or installation media. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- sed 's+|++g;s| *||g;s| *||g;s/$/\\bigskip/;s/\([_$]\)/\\\1/g'\ u-liste unterschriften.tex -- Oliver Zendel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#182642: boot-floppies: boottime keymap makes 88 key adb keyboard unusable on oldworld powermac
#include hallo.h * Lee Adamson [Wed, Feb 26 2003, 06:47:31PM]: When the box reboots after initial base system install, a boottime keymap is loaded that seems to cause my old 88 key adb keyboard to be mapped wrong (using the qwerty/us keymap). The solution I have found is to use the shell on VT2 to remove the /target/etc/init.d/keymap.sh script (or just move it out of the way) so that the kernel keymap is kept on reboot. Once console-tools or console date (whichever it is that allows you to select a more specific keymap) is configured, a working keymap (that is KERNEL) can be chosen. This problem arose when manually editing the sources list at install time to point to unstable rather than stable. I do not know if the problem appears if stable or testing are installed instead. The system used is a power macintosh 8500/[EMAIL PROTECTED] (xlr8), though I doubt that has any bearing on the problem, as an apple extended 101 key adb keyboard does not exhibit the same problem. Could anyone prove this and tell the exact reason of the problem? Problem of console-tools? Anything that can or should be fixed in boot-floppies for Woody? Please keep Cc'ing to debian-boot or me. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- cat `locate .signature` -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Testing netinstall and others
#include hallo.h * Klaus Imgrund [Wed, Feb 26 2003, 03:05:23PM]: With those (tried them all) the splash screen or whatever that screen It's called framebuffer console. with tux is comes up and it loads the kernel until a error msg about a reiser superblock that it cant find. I do have all reiser partitions on my box but they are not even mounted at that point. A old potato cd boot just fine. Are you sure you have enough RAM? (eg. 14meg for i386). Your problem sounds like there was some problem extracting the installation root filesystem to the memory. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- Es gibt Zeiten, wo einem alles gelingt. Aber das braucht niemanden zu beunruhigen. Sie gehen sehr schnell vorüber. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SV: loop: can't get info on device
#include hallo.h * Emile van Bergen [Fri, Feb 21 2003, 09:47:25AM]: I found a spot in boot-floppies where this could happen, and added a check. I think this will have to wait for r3 though. Do you see any possible workarounds in the find_unused_loop_device() code in losetup.c? Yes, don't try extracting the kernel more than 7 times (assuming del_loop doesn't get called appropriately) ;-) Heh? IIRC this is dead code, I replaced loop-device operations with direct losetup calls during the Woody freeze because of unexplainable problems with our functions. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- Mit Kirch und Thoma geht's ins Medienkoma! -- Jörg Prante [EMAIL PROTECTED] msg26007/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: SV: loop: can't get info on device
#include hallo.h * Eduard Bloch [Fri, Feb 21 2003, 10:20:45AM]: Yes, don't try extracting the kernel more than 7 times (assuming del_loop doesn't get called appropriately) ;-) Heh? IIRC this is dead code, I replaced loop-device operations with direct losetup calls during the Woody freeze because of unexplainable problems with our functions. Err, forget it. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- Letzte Worte eines Rennfahrers: Ob der Mechaniker weiß, daß ich was mit seiner Freundin habe? msg26008/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Network install of Woody
#include hallo.h * John Summerfield [Fri, Feb 21 2003, 02:10:57PM]: to be a lot of interest, but not too much concrete input. Maybe one of the issues is there are so many ways to get it to work? If I were to write it (assuming I knew enough, which at present I don't), you could probably point out errors, but not the inadequacies. At present, I in my ignorance am well-equipped to locate the latter. If I wait until I have worked through it and found a path that works, then it will become clear enough that I will no longer be able to indentify clearly what's missing, what facts I have assumed but which might not be known to others. What about making notices on your way? Later, you can review them and remember what caused the problems and how another person may solve the problem easier. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- Um sich von einer zu großen Liebe oder Duldsamkeit für etwas zu heilen, muß man nicht die Feinde davon lesen, sondern die Freunde. Lavater -- Jean Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#181739: how to fix?!
And what is your idea about the possible solution for #181739? Another kernel? Feasible without breaking other things? Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A boot floppy which boots a CD ROM?!
#include hallo.h Sebastian Schuon wrote on Fri Feb 14, 2003 um 11:22:49PM: Hi all! Does anyone happen to know if a boot floppy exists which only loads a driver fpr the CD-Rom drive and launches the boot image found there? My computer (P100) isn't capable to boot via CDrom and i'm to lazy to create all these boot floppies. Anyone got an idea? If your CD-ROM drive is supported by the kernel's drivers, you need only two, boot and root floppies. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hung at RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0.... need more RAM?
#include hallo.h * Adam Robson [Sun, Feb 09 2003, 11:33:28PM]: I think I only have 8MB of RAM is that maybe the problem? If so, is Yes. there a way to work around that? Get Slink disks from archive.debian.org and install with them. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- Die Realität ist eine Illusion, die durch einen Mangel an Whiskey hervorgerufen wird. -- Schottisches Sprichwort -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Status of boot-floppies for Debian 3.0r2
Hello, after more than a month of wake-up phase, it is time to push the development a bit. Boot-Floppies 3.0.24 are almost ready, ports for most architectures have been build and we got positive test results. Outstanding issues are: - test the sparc build, any report welcome - testing and fixing the s390 build with kernel 2.4.19. A problem was figured out with our current dbootstrap code - it seems to reset the network connection that you need to continue in the combination of ctc and kernel 2.4.19. Stefan Gybas [EMAIL PROTECTED] and Bastian Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] are working on a possible solution, please help if you can. If there will be no fix in a reasonable period, the changes will be reverted and s390 will keep the old kernel. - arm port gets a new installation flavor (riscstation), however the kernel and all needed patch packages are not ready. Please help with this task, otherwise the riscstation flavor has to go (#177187, #177188, #177192, #177196). EOD. For all other info: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2002/debian-boot-200212/msg00798.html Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- No, really: Outlook Express is an excellent newsreader. But you should not use it as a newsPOSTER. msg25732/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Russian localized install?
#include hallo.h Martin Quinson wrote on Thu Feb 06, 2003 um 09:33:14AM: First of all, I'm not really the right person to help you coordinate your efforts. I don't speak russian *at all*. But I participate to the french translation effort, and can give some hints. I think I was the right person for a such request 10 months ago, see http://lists.debian.org/debian-russian/2002/debian-russian-200203/msg00081.html However, nobody volunteered to make a complete and error-free translation, so the russian version has been excluded. Today, I would only accept russian translation for boot-floppies if someone sends me a translation in the next seven days and I can proof-read it. For long-term work, please help translation the next generation Debian-Installer. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cannot boot to install woody
#include hallo.h * Fabio Calefato [Thu, Feb 06 2003, 07:46:06PM]: anyway, boot hangs. i've tried re-writing it twice again, but noway. so i switched from root.bin to other img, till i succeded in booting with the rescue.bin img file. After uncompressing the img and detecting my hw, i got a kernel panic msg: cannot find init [...] try to pass init=param to the kernel. what's wrong? is it possibile to install it using the rescue img? and Please RTFM. You need both floppies, you boot with rescue and insert the root when the kernel asks for it. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- Besser heimlich schlau als unheimlich blöd. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: making my own netinstall CD
Moin Markus! Markus Schabel schrieb am Wednesday, den 05. February 2003: Eduard Bloch wrote: snip/ Use floppies and read in the manuall about kernel replacement. However, the old driver CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD680 is enabled in the new kernel of next (testing) release of boot-floppies. Please look at http://people.debian.org/~blade/bf3024/ and report the results. The module 3c59x seems to be broken in your bf's. Loads without problems, I'm able to configure the interface manually, but I'm not able to use the interface. ping get's no responses. Tried the same with the official 2.4.18-bf24 bootfloppies, works fine... Any ideas what's wrong? Not really. I have a 3c59x, and it works fine for me. You could play with different module options: filename:/lib/modules/2.4.21-pre4/kernel/drivers/net/3c59x.o description: 3Com 3c59x/3c9xx ethernet driver LK1.1.16 19 July 2001 author: Donald Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] license: GPL parm:debug int, description 3c59x debug level (0-6) parm:options int array (min = 1, max = 8), description 3c59x: Bits 0-3: media type, bit 4: bus mastering, bit 9: full duplex parm:full_duplex int array (min = 1, max = 8), description 3c59x full duplex setting(s) (1) parm:hw_checksums int array (min = 1, max = 8), description 3c59x Hardware checksum checking by adapter(s) (0-1) parm:flow_ctrl int array (min = 1, max = 8), description 3c59x 802.3x flow control usage (PAUSE only) (0-1) parm:enable_wol int array (min = 1, max = 8), description 3c59x: Turn on Wake-on-LAN for adapter(s) (0-1) parm:rx_copybreak int, description 3c59x copy breakpoint for copy-only-tiny-frames parm:max_interrupt_work int, description 3c59x maximum events handled per interrupt parm:compaq_ioaddr int, description 3c59x PCI I/O base address (Compaq BIOS problem workaround) parm:compaq_irq int, description 3c59x PCI IRQ number (Compaq BIOS problem workaround) parm:compaq_device_id int, description 3c59x PCI device ID (Compaq BIOS problem workaround) parm:watchdog int, description 3c59x transmit timeout in milliseconds Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- Mache alles so einfach wie möglich, doch nicht einfacher. -- Albert Einstein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: trouble starting up
#include hallo.h * Benjamin Meakin [Sat, Feb 01 2003, 01:41:01AM]: hello, Hello - this List is for base-installation related topics, please report funny bugs of extra package to the appropriate maintainers. Cc'ing to gnome-session maintainer. I am having trouble getting debian and gnome to work properly. When I start gnome, the GUI goes crazy. The desktop is offset, random icons appear in the middle of the screen, images are distorted... Another problem I encountered was while installing the packages for debian. I got an error message that says: Errors encountered while processing: cxref This may be a related problem, I don't know. If anybody could tell me how I could fix either or both of these problems I would appreciate it. -Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Was die neuen Unwissenden holen müssen: Böschungshobel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Promise FastTrak133 Raid again
Moin Wolfgang! Wolfgang Pawlinetz schrieb am Saturday, den 01. February 2003: Hi List, I was searching the web for any new ideas on installing a fairly current Debian distribution (bf24 is an installation option) on a MSI Motherboard featuring the Fasttrak133 IDE RAID Controller from Promise in RAID configuration. Has anybody got something which can solve the - admittedly well known - problem that the installation does not detect the RAID configured harddisks? Try the new module from http://people.debian.org/~blade/install/preload/ and PLEASE report the result. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- Found one of the original LinuxTag event organisers gazing around in a stupified state. He said that when they'd started it five years ago, it was one evening, about Linux and about LaTeX, I think, and they'd had seventy attenders. And now... and he waved an arm around helplessly. -- Telsa Gwynne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#174050: What do you mean?
severity 174050 normal tags 174050 + moreinfo unreproducible thanks A-Ha. Sorry, your paths are Windows paths and do not tell us ANYTHING about which device is C, which is D, etc. Also, a problem with the bsdmainutils package has almost nothing in common with loadlin, so I wonder about your bug description. And, the whole story sounds like bad installation media (assuming that D: is your CD-ROM). Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- Ist das Absicht, daß da nirgends drin steht, wo das ist? Nicht mal das Land steht drin ... -- Rainer Bawidamann -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Status of boot-floppies for Debian 3.0r2
#include hallo.h * dann frazier [Fri, Jan 24 2003, 01:20:29AM]: done. http://people.debian.org/~dannf/boot-floppies/sparc/ let me know if i missed anything. Fine. BenC claimed to be the one how knows what is needed to build, but I cannot count on his promises and response times. Now, I would like to see at least one installation report with Dann's build - especially when they are problems. TOFU kept. I have a sparcstation 4 running straight woody that i'd be willing to build stuff on - i'm afraid i missed some context though - is this for a boot-floppies update for woody? Yes, we're trying to get boot-floppies 3.0.24 for Debian 3.0r2. See http://people.debian.org/~blade/bf3024/ . -- ...Adam Di Carlo..[EMAIL PROTECTED]...URL:http://www.onshored.com/ -- Letzte Worte des Elektrikers: Alles klar, kannst einschalten. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Status of boot-floppies for Debian 3.0r2
Hello, after a month of wake-up phase, it is time to push the development a bit. Boot-Floppies 3.0.24 are almost ready, ports for most architectures have been build and we got positive test results. Outstanding issues are: - help Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] to test the Sparc boot-floppies - testing and fixing the s390 build with kernel 2.4.19. A problem was figured out with our current dbootstrap code - under certain circumstances, it seems to reset the network connection that you need to continue. Bastian Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] is preparing a possible solution, please help him with testing. - arm port gets a new installation flavor (riscstation), please help Othmar Pasteka [EMAIL PROTECTED] with testing of the new kernel if you own a such system - rebuilding kernel 2.4.20-bf2.4 on i386 because of #176178. IMHO not critical, but should be closed on the most used architecture. For all other info: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2002/debian-boot-200212/msg00798.html Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- Kleines Lexikon der Computerwerbung: integriert minderwertige Einzelteile vereint in einem katastrophalem Ganzen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: m68k 3.0.24 boot-floppies
#include hallo.h * Christian T. Steigies [Sun, Jan 19 2003, 12:47:22AM]: I've (re)built boot-floppies for m68k a few days ago and finally managed to test them on my Amiga. Installation went fine. One thing I noticed, the installer downloaded mac-fdisk, on an Amiga, is this necessary? Fine (kreuzmach). We could exclude mac-fdisk from the basedebs list with an debootstrap argument if the Arch is really an Amiga, but nobody complained here before about this behaviour. Another problem I noticed today is with amiga-fdisk: According to Policy Section 2.2: Priorities packages MUST NOT depend on packages with lower priority values (excluding build-time dependencies). In IIRC this was discussed during the Woody freeze and the consens was: serious bugs caused by formailities are not RC if they do not break anything. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! +*! Rettet diese Lebensform! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help, can't boot bf24 on laptop
#include hallo.h * Marsh [Thu, Jan 16 2003, 09:23:19PM]: Compaq SMART2 Driver (v 2.4.21) Compaq CISS (v 2.4.5) then hangs. It sure looks as though it's necessary to get a kernel without the Compaq drivers, or at least be able to disable them at boot time? Any suggestions? Why. Do. You. Think. Is. The. IDEPCI. Flavor. Good? For. RTFM. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- Microsoft: Where do you want to go today? Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? BSD: Are you guys coming or what? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: detecting keyboard and mouse
#include hallo.h * kumar swamy [Thu, Jan 16 2003, 03:10:01PM]: i am trying to build own debian cd. i have some problem here how do go about configuring mouse and keyboard? is there any tool that is available that will do this probing for me? a) This is the wrong list for such questions b) If you really need autodetection, have a look at KNOPPIX (www.knopper.net/knoppix). You can modify and remaster KNOPPIX. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- B.Gates: quality software :: R.McDonald: gourmet cuisine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help, can't boot bf24 on laptop
#include hallo.h * Marsh [Wed, Jan 15 2003, 02:16:06PM]: When I select the boot method bf24 the cd is accessed and the kernel begins to load. The load proceeds normally then hangs at the point where the following messages are displayed: ... Loading I2O Core - (c) Copyright 1999 Red Hat Sofware I2O configuration manager v 0.04 (C) Copyright 1999 Red Hat Sofware loop: loaded (max 8 devices) Compaq CISS (v 2.4.5) hangs here At this point I must power down are restart. Any ideas as to how to proceed? a) User idepci flavor. That one is created to support broken systems. b) Try experimental boot-floppies with 2.4.20-bf2.4. http://people.debian.org/~blade/bf3024/. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- The UNIX Guru's view of Sex: unzip ; strip ; touch ; finger ; mount ; fsck ; more ; yes ; umount ; sleep [Hauke Heidtmann in dcoud] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help, can't boot bf24 on laptop
#include hallo.h * Marsh [Thu, Jan 16 2003, 08:48:59AM]: edi a) User idepci flavor. That one is created to support broken edi systems. b) Try experimental boot-floppies with edi 2.4.20-bf2.4. http://people.debian.org/~blade/bf3024/. Would it be possible to install the kernel boot-floppy image on the CD and reburn, then reboot? Required files: basedebs.tar (from the archive or other netinst CDs), drivers.tgz and rescue.bin (2880kb version), both from the new BFs repository, bf2.4 trees. Then use http://cvs.debian.org/*checkout*/boot-floppies/i386-specials/mini-iso.sh?rev=1.10content-type=text/plain to remaster the Image. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- weasel for i in *; do if ( cat $i | grep -q hallo ); then echo $i; fi; done [einen Tag später] -:- Topic (#debian.de): changed by _shorty_: Award fuer useless use of cat an Weasel verliehen. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help, can't boot bf24 on laptop
#include hallo.h
* Marsh [Thu, Jan 16 2003, 04:54:12PM]:
edi Required files: basedebs.tar (from the archive or other
edi netinst CDs), drivers.tgz and rescue.bin (2880kb version),
edi both from the new BFs repository, bf2.4 trees.
I could not locate the basedebs.tar. Could you give me a
pointer?
In the archive, .../disks-i386/base-images-current/.
I found rescue.bin in the images-2880 area. Renamed it to
resc2880.bin.
resc2800bf2.4.bin please
There wasn't a corresponding drivers.tgz in the same area. I'm
assuming the drivers.tgz file in
/~blade/boot-floppies/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current is generic?
No, of course not, it is unique for every kernel flavor.
edi Then use
edihttp://cvs.debian.org/*checkout*/boot-floppies/i386-specials/mini-iso.\
sh?rev=1.10content-type=text/plain
edi to remaster the Image.
Wouldn't it be possible to just put the rescue.bin file in the
/install dir of the binary CD-1 unpacked image tree. Make a new iso
image and burn it? If so where would the drivers.tgz go?
What about just fetching the image available on the page I told you?
Gruss/Regards,
Eduard.
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Re: Patch for utilities/dbootstrap/kbdconfig.c
#include hallo.h
* Stephen R Marenka [Wed, Jan 15 2003, 12:04:18PM]:
| }
| else if (strstr(Arch2, PowerMac) != NULL) {
| choices = keymaps_mac;
| nchoices = nchoices_mac;
| prefix = i386/;
| } else {
| choices= keymaps;
| nchoices=sizeof(keymaps)/sizeof(struct d_choices);
| prefix=i386/;
| }
In any case, to be fully anal, I tested with and without the above
change and found that the patch works as expected, whereas the current
behavior is broken. I wonder when it crept in, because I sure don't
remember seeing this behavior.
I see. I have commited his change few minutes ago.
Gruss/Regards,
Eduard.
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Re: Patch for utilities/dbootstrap/kbdconfig.c
#include hallo.h
* Ross Vumbaca [Tue, Jan 14 2003, 09:49:53PM]:
Here's a patch which fixes the incorrect usage of strstr for PowerPC
in kbdconfig.c - which causes the wrong keyboard choices to appear on
non-apus PowerPC hardware.
a) please, create a new thread and do not sent a follow-up mail for
existing one
--- boot-floppies-cvs-original/utilities/dbootstrap/kbdconfig.c Tue Aug 13
01:32:30 2002
+++ boot-floppies-cvs/utilities/dbootstrap/kbdconfig.cTue Jan 14 21:22:51
2003
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@
nchoices = nchoices_ami;
prefix=amiga/;
}
-else if (strstr(Arch2, PowerMac) == 0) {
+else if (strstr(Arch2, PowerMac)) {
choices = keymaps_mac;
nchoices = nchoices_mac;
prefix = i386/;
b) You suggest an exact opposite of the previous behaviour, and my
judgement says that the it was right. So could you find someone to
confirm that there was a problem and your change fix it _without_
breaking any stuff, anywhere?
Gruss/Regards,
Eduard.
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Re: USB and 2.4 kernel
#include hallo.h * Steve Cutler [Mon, Jan 13 2003, 03:19:32PM]: I have a compaq presario 1200z laptop, and in every flavor of linux I ... me the following messages and then freezes, and makes me pull the plug to get it to come back. usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 10:29:43 Apr 14 2002 usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x1800, IRQ 5 usb-uchi.c: Detected 2 ports usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 Yeah, Compaq and Dell should inverst more money in proper hardware enginnering than in marketing. Is there any argument that would shut off USB support or hardware probing? I can install just fine with the 2.2 kernel but I have some software that wants 2.4, so I would kind of like to get it to work. Not yet, the next boot-floppies release will contain the nousb argument. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- Fernsehen ist das einzige Schlafmittel, das mit den Augen eingenommen wird. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: intel e1000 gigabyte
#include hallo.h * Adam Di Carlo [Sun, Jan 12 2003, 02:26:21PM]: The PERC3/Di SCSI controller did seem supported, although it may be buggy, according to URL:http://www.domsch.com/linux/ (cf interrupt fix patch). Weird, I had a quick look at this pages, and was not able to find any patch for kernel versions past 2.4.17pre. Maybe all that problems are resolved? The Intel (R) PRO/1000 Gigabit Ethernet Card (e1000) doesn't seem to be mainline kernel source. I wonder if we could provide this as a loadable module in the well-known location. I dunno if there are license issues that prevent us from shipping this with the kernel itself Intel's driver license was complicated, because of an unclear patent clause. However, it seems that somebody was able to add their drivers to kernel 2.4.20, so next bf2.4 kernel will have the e1000 module. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- Wenn er die Reise bloß gut übersteht - sonst heißt es nachher noch, dass wir alle 2000 Jahre einen von ihnen umbringen. - Amnon Abramowitsch, israelischer Journalist, zur Reise des Papstes ins heilige Land (zitiert nach: Die Zeit Nr. 13/2000) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: This bug should be fixed on boot-floppies side
Moin Junichi! Junichi Uekawa schrieb am Thursday, den 09. January 2003: eject is missing from the woody basedebs. On powerpc, this makes changing the CDs extremely awkward (newbies rarely dare poke a paper clip into the CD tray). Installation from CD is impeded severely, hence the severity of critical. I think this bug should be dealt on boot-floppies side. Shouldn't it ? HOW? It would be easy to add this to debootstrap's call, but if the packaging is missing in basedebs.tar, people installing from it would fail. So debootstrap would require an update, or at least a change in basedebs.tar building script and an update of basedebs.tar. I think Anthony is the one to make this decission. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- Don't drink as root! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Current EEPRO100 Driver in boot-floppies
#include hallo.h * Adam Di Carlo [Thu, Jan 09 2003, 09:59:14AM]: 2. http://support.intel.com/support/network/adapter/index.htm As for the issue of the shipped EEPro, are you using the bf2.4 to boot with or no? This seems like an issue with the stable kernel-source-* package. There is hope - new boot-floppies in r2 (I hope) have the new driver developed by Intel. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- Am 8. Tag schuf Gott Linux und er sah das es gut war. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't boot on a machine with LSI Logic 53C1030 Raid controller
#include hallo.h * Jorge Martinez [Tue, Jan 07 2003, 10:47:22AM]: downloaded it, and created the floppy with the extra drivers, but not much luck. I tried the 'mptbase.o' and 'mptscsih.o' drivers, which I think are the correct ones for my hardware. I also tried many others just for kicks. The question is - which controller is it? LSI Logic Fusion or Symbios-based series? For Symbios, you could try the ncr* driver. I am wondering if those may be the right drivers, but I need to pass some additional arguments that I am not aware of. It is hard to say what is going wrong without having such hardware to test and without knowing what actually the module reports to you. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- Man gewöhnt sich an allem - sogar am Dativ. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: making my own netinstall CD
#include hallo.h * Bertrand d'Herouville [Wed, Jan 08 2003, 01:15:07AM]: I need to enable the support of the Silicon Image 6880 directly into the kernel. I want to make my own netinstall CD and i don't find any documentations. Does anybody have some good links for me ? Use floppies and read in the manuall about kernel replacement. However, the old driver CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD680 is enabled in the new kernel of next (testing) release of boot-floppies. Please look at http://people.debian.org/~blade/bf3024/ and report the results. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- [ddeus_work] welche moeglichkeiten gibt es eine festplate zu beschleunigen ausser DMA und 32bit zugeng einschalten ? [ddeus_work] welche moeglichkeiten gibt es eine festplate zu beschleunigen ausser DMA und 32bit zugang einschalten ? noel wir wantworten erst, wenn mandie Frage 5 mal stellt. -- #debian.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't boot on a machine with LSI Logic 53C1030 Raid controller
#include hallo.h * Jorge Martinez [Wed, Jan 08 2003, 10:28:50AM]: [date, and time] (none) user.info dbootstrap[80]: Warning: loading mptbase.o will taint the kernel: forced load [date, and time] (none) user.info dbootstrap[80]: mptbase.o: init_module: No such device Weird. Maybe it is incompatible with Woody's kernel, it is almost one year old. If you wish to try the updated installation floppies, visit http://people.debian.org/~blade/bf3024/ and take modules floppy from http://people.debian.org/~blade/preload-2.4.20.bin. [date, and time] (none) user.info dbootstrap[80]: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters [date, and time] (none) user.err dbootstrap[80]: The loading has failed Therefore, it seems that it wants me to pass it some parameters. I then That is just the default message when something uknown failed on loading. try to install mptscsih.o, but I get a lot of error messages (I assume the mptbase.o has to be sucessfully loaded first): Exactly. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- Genieße dein Leben ständig, denn du bist länger tot als lebendig. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#175241: boot-floppies: fails to ask for NONUS cdrom
reassign 175241 apt thanks #include hallo.h * James R. Van Zandt [Fri, Jan 03 2003, 05:11:07PM]: Package: boot-floppies Version: 20030103 Severity: normal I have just installed Woody onto two machines using cdrom images downloaded via jigdo. After selecting packages with dselect, I loaded cdroms as requested. Both times, apt-get printed an error about mailcrypt installation failing. Retrying didn't help. Finally, when prompted with Media Change: Please insert the disc labeled 'Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ -Official i386 Binary-1 (20020718)' in the drive '/cdrom/' and press enter I fail to see how this is an error of the _base_ installation system aka boot-floppies. I put in the binary-1NONUS disk instead. mailcrypt was then installed successfully. Apparently the NONUS part of the cdrom name is being dropped from the prompt. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- We just typed make... (Stephen Lambrigh, Director of Server Product Marketing at Informix about porting their Database to Linux) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#174887: [THOMAS CUNY tec121@msn.com] Re: Bug#174887: (no subject)
reassign 174887 debconf thanks #include hallo.h * Adam DiCarlo [Fri, Jan 03 2003, 12:43:32PM]: Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 23:19:01 -0600 From: THOMAS CUNY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bug#174887: (no subject) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Adam DiCarlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: THOMAS CUNY [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bug#174887: (no subject) Date: 01 Jan 2003 13:59:40 -0600 reassign 174887 boot-floppies retitle 174887 [i386] keyboard problem on emachines t1742 thanks THOMAS CUNY [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: System: eMachines T1742 purchased from Best Buy with Windows XP preinstalled Software: Debian Woody 3.0 cdroms purchased from Linux Central Problem: Installation in screen Configuring Locales a box is displayed of locales to select The only keys that are accepted from the keyboard are up arrow, down arrow, and F12. up arrow and down arrow move the cursor up and down the box. F12 terminates processing the page and probably causes abnormal operation of the configuration script. You are saying the enter key doesn't work? Thus you are not able to continue from this screen? -- The enter key does not work. Looks like some breakage in the debconf frontend. Nothing in the box can be selected or deselected. The F12 key continues the installation process in some abnormal mode. The kernel is 2.2.20. Debian has bf2.4 but when I tried one time to install it it would not boot due to some missing drivers. The keyboard is PS/2 with Din connector. The keyboard meets the description of a PC-104 keyboard. The BIOS says nothing about keyboard emulation. The BIOS is Phoenix 6.0 After the system it completely installed with root login and user login created, the problem can be recreated by running: apt-get install locales The system never gets xserver installed without manual editing of the config file. This system uses an Intel 845 motherboard and I have to download kernel 2.4.20 and various other files to get it to run correctly. I have not done that yet. _ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus -- Wer Stabilität aufgibt, um Benutzerfreundlichkeit zu bekommen, verdient keins der beiden und bekommt meist auch keins. -- frei nach B. Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: i386 3.0.24 v2.4 boot floppies, installation report
#include hallo.h ant wrote on Tue Dec 31, 2002 um 11:45:31PM: hi, had some time to give them[*] a try today. Thanks. some trouble i had was that the installer skipped over things before i could read them. Besides of that trouble, was the installation okay? i was able to select the language ok, i could select the us-english, Okay. at some point it skipped over something too quickly for me to read it. At which point, exactly after the language selection? Could you please create a debug report? To do this, enter linux.bin debug (or cdflavor debug) at the boot prompt, wait till the glitch appears and then save the installation log on a blanc floppy or so. This is done with the Create a Problem Report) in the main menu. Also interessting are kernel logs (create them with dmesg /kernel.log) and the list of your cdrom drives, /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info. for reference i do have an existing partition table that i want to use so it might be skipping over that, but the message goes by so quickly that i cannot read it. That should not be a problem. It would be interessting if you have been using an exotic partition table tough. also in the Alt-F3 window the message: Dec date (none) user-info dbootstrap[138] : mount Mounting /dev/hdc on nstmnt : No medium found Installer looks for Debian-CDs. When this is your CDROM, then the issue is solved - the quickly disappeared message may be just a message about loading of the language catalogue from the CD. Thank you for testing! Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Possible bug in installation
#include hallo.h * Skip Queen [Wed, Jan 01 2003, 12:54:43AM]: I have tried to install Debian Woody 3.0 a total of six times and each time the same thing happens. My video is all screwed up. XWindows does not work. When I pick up video card (i810) it won't work at all. If I pick VESA it will sort of work - i.e., not the resolution I pick so things float across the screen and the resolution will not go above 800X600. Someone told me there was a bug in the kernel. I have had no problem with my system using either Mandrake, Redhat, SuSE or Knoppix - only Debian (Woody). Can you help! Thanks! How is this related to debian-boot, or boot-floppies? Like you passed the installation fine and fail on ocnfiguration. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- Someone said that X is a difficult package to maintain and that there is nothing wrong if PACKAGING it takes 3+ months. People have managed to install it from sources in matter of HOURS (well, that didn't work for me, dunno why). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#174833: modconf.8 manpage translate in French
tags 174833 + pending thanks The modconf.8 manpage had been translated in French. Could add it in your package ? Okay. -- solaris- smoki_: Hab ich ja nicht behauptet oder? KDE hab ich nur auf meinem SuSE System... das hab ich strikt von meinem Debian getrennt ;) [..] mrvn Er hat das S-Wort gesagt. -- #debian.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install dialogs
#include hallo.h * Narins, Josh [Tue, Dec 31 2002, 10:30:13AM]: The combination of the two kernel images do not, I repeat, do not fit in a 10MB /boot partition. Please consider changing the recommendation in the install dialogs, so other people won't be forced to Which recommendation? Currently, we have on boot-floppies: containing a FAT filesystem. The boot partition should be at\n least 32MB. On the next screen you will choose which disk\n Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- Fortunes löschen ist wie Bücher verbrennen. -- weasel in #debian.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install dialogs
#include hallo.h * Narins, Josh [Tue, Dec 31 2002, 01:09:22PM]: Eduard Bloch wrote: Which recommendation? Currently, we have on boot-floppies: containing a FAT filesystem. The boot partition should be at\n least 32MB. On the next screen you will choose which disk\n I was using woody-30r0 I downloaded with jidgo-lite from http://us.cdimage.debian.org/jigdo-area/current/jigdo/powerpc/woody-powerpc- 1.template Uhm, that message did not change in the meantime. Where did you saw the recommendation with 10MB? Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: keyboard generates no response
#include hallo.h * Jonathan Coe [Mon, Dec 30 2002, 07:43:44PM]: I'm trying to get a 2.4-18 kernel installed on my DELL Dimension 8250. When I've chosen the kernel I want (bf24) everything starts up but when I USB keyboard? that I could build a 2.4 kernel from my working 2.2 kernel, I wondered if there was another way. Incidentally Mandrake 9.0, which uses a 2.4-19 kernel doesn't have any such problems, though the rescue CD supplied with Mdk9.0 similarly leaves the keyboard non-responsive. Please try testing boot-floppies from http://people.debian.org/~blade/bf3024/ and report the results. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- Das wahrlich arnoootische daran ist, das wahrscheinlich _alle_ Regulars diesem Thread absolut faziniert folgen, nur traut sich keiner was zu sagen, weil man die beiden ja offiziell im Killfile hat. Alexander Stielau in de.alt.arnooo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#129090: (no subject)
reassign 129090 modutils thanks How should this be a modconf problem if you add some junk to /etc/modutils/...? Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- Alpträumer! AOL-Surfer! Apfelschorle-Besteller! Pannenhilfe-Anrufer! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#174360: Bug#174348: this bug is not about boot-floppies
#include hallo.h * Zefram [Thu, Dec 26 2002, 11:16:05PM]: There's been a lot of confusion about this, and for bugs 174348 and 174360 it's led to complaints that I'm asking for major changes to be Hey, _sorry_. Feel happy to read it from me. It does not happen too often. ;-) Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- Möchten Sie Ihre Festplatten formatieren? [J]etzt nicht [N]a klar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#174360: DNS configuration section is inflexible
severity 174360 wishlist retitle 174360 Hostname setup should be more self-explainable thanks #include hallo.h Zefram wrote on Thu Dec 26, 2002 um 01:32:40PM: When asking for a hostname, dbootstrap rejects any hostname containing dots; it demands an unqualified name. This contradicts the reasonably RTFM. popular practice of making the hostname an FQDN, as promoted by Paul Vixie in BIND documentation. Obviously this doesn't make much difference to Hostname is a part of FQDN. the network install process, but it annoyingly forces the administrator to modify this part of the configuration once the system is installed and running. Nonsense. The next configuration dialogue asks for the domain name of the network. This is a rather confused request. This information is actually used in I guess you have read lots of braindead documentation if it confuses you. FQDN consists of hostname.domain-name. Secondly, the mention of the network seems to refer back to the IPv4 network-layer configuration that immediately precedes the DNS-related configuration dialogues. That might be accidental, a case of poor proofreading, but I don't see what else could be being referred to by the words the network. The domain part of the host FQDN, and the default domain for unqualified names, needn't identify anything really meaningful, such as a piece of network-layer topology or an administrative grouping. All it can be said to identify is a group of related *names*, which I wouldn't refer to as a network. Now, either you read the manual or you ask your administrator to setup DHCP for you. As a solution, I propose that the DNS configuration should ask the following questions (with more explanation for those that don't know the terminology): This is not the DNS configuration. It is a common hostname of the system and has primarily nothing to do with DNS. 2. [If hostname given was unqualified.] What is the domain name It has to be. If you do not want an FQDN, leave it empty. Or chose the Configure hostname step which does not setup FQDN etc. that should be attached to the hostname to make the host's FQDN? [Default blank, which should be permitted. If non-blank, this domain name is used to create an FQDN alias in /etc/hosts.] We could create a message before the question comes, telling about the FQDN scheme. Some people seem to be realy confused about it. 3. What domains should be searched to look up unqualified hostnames? No, this is something not used by most users. Power-users can setup it manually. Remember, this is the INSTALLER. It configures the essential things. Keep it simple. And, finaly, please provide patches if you need some functionality. Talking and requesting features wont help us. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: install bug; after swap-init fail, errmsg about flpy
#include hallo.h
* JD [Sun, Dec 22 2002, 11:34:23PM]:
Hello INSTALLER-coding Debianians
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if this belongs better in debian-testing, please advise
please edit this as the shoe may fit
It's okay here.
-- INSTALL BUG -- Severity=nuisance --
CD1-Install of 3.0r1 glitched on a pc with
- no floppy drive and FDC=off in CMOS-Setup
- swap happened to be a logical volume inside an extnded part'n, and
- that swap happened to need initialization
Of course it did.
It kacked just as it was trying to initialize the swap partition, and
heaved up a hairball.. failed with the Rescue Floppy.
What do you mean? What was the error messages?
A stronger hand would have been able to Alt_F2 and phony-up an
imaginary /mnt/floppy or something to satisfy this step. Not me.
Dunno what you mean. Just created the same szenario and the installation
worked fine.
Fortunately, as it was, it could go back to the stage of offering to
Back? You are not forced to go the steps in some order by our
installer.
--40gB hda PARTITIONING--
1=primary[ 5.67g, fat32, win..DOH!s ]
2=primary[ 5.67g, LnxExt2, Deb30r1 ]
3=primary[ 5.67g, 0xEB, BeOS ]
4=EXTENDED[
__LOGICAL1-{ 256mB, Type82_linuxSwap }
__LOGICAL2-{ 24gigs, this week it's been FAT32 }
]
Sure that your kernel got that partition table correctly? Did you reboot
as told by cfdisk?
I am mulling over spinning that install again onto another hack hard
disk, with an LS-120 in the mix, and see what happens, at the risk of
maybe learning something.
You should be able to install from it with the next generation of
boot-floppies, see http://people.debian.org/~blade/bf3024/. Just specify
root=/dev/hdX for your LS120 drive.
SUGGESTION: Might be cool at that place in the install to offer to
write that floppy stuff as a FLOPPY-IMAGE (rawrite-variety), in lieu
of (or in addition to) dealing with an actual, lowly FDD and accursed
floppy. 1.44mB or 2.88mB shouldn't be too hard to hold in the
ramdisk 'til the filesystem's ready. Having such a (system-specific?)
floppy-image sitting around might be handy if you can't boot into a
higher run-level.
That is on you to find a boot loader that could work with images.
[...stupid attacks against floppy media deleted... ]
Gruss/Regards,
Eduard.
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The feature you'd like to have is probably already installed on your
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