Bug#599115: debian-installer: grub's target examples still reflect grub-legacy's behavior

2010-10-05 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Alon Horn (sal...@t2.technion.ac.il): Package: debian-installer Severity: normal hi, using the mini.iso to install sid, choosing expert install (KDE), when getting to the install grub part, after refusing MBR, the examples for (hdx,y) reflect grub legacy behavior. following

Bug#599157: debian-installer: freeze at APT configuration

2010-10-05 Thread Raseni
Package: debian-installer Version: (?) cdimage 04-Oct-2010 cdimage: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-cd/ (CD1) Excuse for my bad English. The installation freeze at APT Configuration - Cdset 25%. The system ask if I wanto to check other CD/DVD. I answer No.

Bug#599156: installation-reports: debian-netinst/grub detects others systems but do not insert it in grub.cfg

2010-10-05 Thread Pierre Saramito
Package: installation-reports Abstract: debian-netinst/grub detects others systems but do not insert it in grub.cfg Boot method: CD Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso Date: 2010/09/30 11:20 Machine: PC

Re: D-I Manual: updating PO(T) files

2010-10-05 Thread Miguel Figueiredo
Hi, it is documented on debian-installer/manual/doc/translations_po.txt on debian-installer/manual$ ./scripts/merge_xml en ./scripts/update_pot ./scripts/update_po pt (i believe the last command must be done manually for each language) Ter, 2010-10-05 às 05:51 +0200, Christian PERRIER

Bug#599162: installation-reports: /proc/bus/usb/devices file not found

2010-10-05 Thread Pierre Saramito
Package: installation-reports Abstract: debian-netinst: /proc/bus/usb/devices file not found Boot method: CD Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso Date: 2010/09/30 11:20 Machine: PC Processor: Intel(R)

Re: [PATCH] d-i manual: nuke references to kernel-img.conf

2010-10-05 Thread maximilian attems
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 06:45:22AM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting maximilian attems (m...@stro.at): In squeeze it is no longer necessary or useful to generate or to consult kernel-img.conf. Thanks to the new bootloader policy, see:

Bug#599041: debian-installer: Menu mismatch

2010-10-05 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
The attached file is a patch for this bug. --- a/installer/build/boot/x86/f6.txt 2010-10-05 20:52:51.0 +1100 +++ b/installer/build/boot/x86/f6.txt 2010-10-05 20:53:56.0 +1100 @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Some IBM ThinkPads  Protect I/O port regions

Bug#517121: debian-installer: installs linux-image-2.6-486 instead of linux-image-2.6-686 with a VIA C7-D Processor

2010-10-05 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
The code has changed slighly in svn. This patch seem to match the previous proposal, updated and made relative to the current svn. Index: i386.sh === --- i386.sh (revision 63405) +++ i386.sh (working copy) @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@

Bug#599200: base-installer: Install amd64 kernel on i686 kvm guest - and fail to boot

2010-10-05 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: base-installer Version: 1.110 Severity: grave User: debian-...@lists.debian.org UserTags: debian-edu I discovered this using the Debian Edu DVD and installing on a i686 kvm guest on a i686 Lenny host. The problem is that installation now is successfull, but the installed machine

Bug#599115: debian-installer: grub's target examples still reflect grub-legacy's behavior

2010-10-05 Thread salonh
attached a screenshot.attachment: grub.png

Bug#599115: debian-installer: grub's target examples still reflect grub-legacy's behavior

2010-10-05 Thread salonh
Quoting Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org: - Were you using a localized install? no, english - What mini.iso are you talking about? Daily build from http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer? yes, following the other images link, inside the netboot dir. image downloaded 17.9, 8pm. -

Bug#599203: os-prober: Causes Data Corruption on a SAN setup; Mounts SAN volumes that are already mounted on a different host.

2010-10-05 Thread Aleksandr Levchuk
Package: os-prober Version: 1.39 Severity: important An upgrade (os-prober 1.35 - 1.39) corrupted 3.3 TB of data on our SAN. I was upgrading the host space1 and the data corruption occurred on space2. An install script of os-prober tried mounting as read-only a SAN volume which was already

Bug#517121: debian-installer: installs linux-image-2.6-486 instead of linux-image-2.6-686 with a VIA C7-D Processor

2010-10-05 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Petter Reinholdtsen] The code has changed slighly in svn. This patch seem to match the previous proposal, updated and made relative to the current svn. Except that it was not against the current svn. I was looking at the wrong version. Ignore this patch and look at the one from Christian

Bug#599200: base-installer: Install amd64 kernel on i686 kvm guest - and fail to boot

2010-10-05 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
This is the /proc/cpuinfo in the i686 kvm guest: processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 2 model name : QEMU Virtual CPU version 0.10.0 stepping: 3 cpu MHz : 2999.338 cache size : 2048 KB fdiv_bug: no hlt_bug

Bug#599203: More information

2010-10-05 Thread Aleksandr Levchuk
Oops, attaching the missing aptitiude log and syslog of space1. Original Text (with line-wrapping): ~~~ An upgrade (os-prober 1.35 - 1.39) corrupted 3.3 TB of data on our SAN. I was upgrading the host space1 and the data corruption occurred on space2. An

Bug#599200: base-installer: Install amd64 kernel on i686 kvm guest - and fail to boot

2010-10-05 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 18:28:43 +0200, Jürgen Leibner wrote: I installed today the same way as Petter Reinholdtsen does, but on virtualbox-ose version 3.2.8-dfsg-2. uname -a on the host system gives: Linux laptop-jl 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Fri Sep 17 21:50:19 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Bug#599162: installation-reports: /proc/bus/usb/devices file not found

2010-10-05 Thread Christian PERRIER
reassign 599162 usbview thanks Comments/Problems: I install and run usbview: apt-get install usbview usbview The usbview program claims that the file /proc/bus/usb/devices is not present. Afer a look at that error over internet I add the following line in /etc/fstab :

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2010-10-05 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: reassign 599162 usbview Bug #599162 [installation-reports] installation-reports: /proc/bus/usb/devices file not found Bug reassigned from package 'installation-reports' to 'usbview'. thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you

Bug#599203: os-prober: Causes Data Corruption on a SAN setup; Mounts SAN volumes that are already mounted on a different host.

2010-10-05 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Aleksandr Levchuk (alevc...@cs.ucr.edu): Package: os-prober Version: 1.39 Severity: important An upgrade (os-prober 1.35 - 1.39) corrupted 3.3 TB of data on our SAN. Sigh. From what I've witnessed over the years, os-prober has always been designed as a component of Debian

Bug#599203: os-prober: Causes Data Corruption on a SAN setup; Mounts SAN volumes that are already mounted on a different host.

2010-10-05 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Christian PERRIER (bubu...@debian.org): Quoting Aleksandr Levchuk (alevc...@cs.ucr.edu): Package: os-prober Version: 1.39 Severity: important An upgrade (os-prober 1.35 - 1.39) corrupted 3.3 TB of data on our SAN. Sigh. From what I've witnessed over the years, os-prober

Bug#599200: base-installer: Install amd64 kernel on i686 kvm guest - and fail to boot

2010-10-05 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 07:08:03PM +0200, Jürgen Leibner wrote: If there would be an addititional menu which gives one the possibility to choose such a mixed system then I would be able to choose a mixed system. But in this case, there is an Install, suggesting a 32-bit overall system and on

Bug#599200: base-installer: Install amd64 kernel on i686 kvm guest - and fail to boot

2010-10-05 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 06:27:55PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: This is the /proc/cpuinfo in the i686 kvm guest: processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 2 model name : QEMU Virtual CPU version 0.10.0 stepping: 3 cpu MHz

Bug#599157: debian-installer: freeze at APT configuration

2010-10-05 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Raseni (rasen...@gmail.com): Package: debian-installer Version: (?) cdimage 04-Oct-2010 cdimage: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-cd/ (CD1) Excuse for my bad English. The installation freeze at APT Configuration - Cdset 25%. The system ask

Bug#599213: debian-installer: broadcom.ko is missing

2010-10-05 Thread Klaus Umbach
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Tags: d-i d-i lacks /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/phy/broadcom.ko, so I cannot use network during the installation. The module is part of linux- image-2.6.32-5-amd64, so I copied the file from another machine in the running installer,

Bug#599200: base-installer: Install amd64 kernel on i686 kvm guest - and fail to boot

2010-10-05 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 08:42:18PM +0200, Jürgen Leibner wrote: On Tuesday 05 October 2010 19:41 Lennart Sorensen wrote: ... Most people would prefer the 64bit kernel with 32bit userspace. I think there is an option in expert mode to select your kernel yourself from a list, but unless

Bug#597087: swap space comparison with other distros

2010-10-05 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! Comparing Debian with other distros, using 2 GB of RAM and a disk with 1.00 TB, we have this (using the default partition layout of the installers, full disk): Debian: 7.0 GB / 6.2 GB swap 1.1 TB /home Mandriva One 2010 Spring: 12 GB / 3.8 GB swap 1008 GB /home Fedora 13: 500 MB /boot

Bug#599213: debian-installer: broadcom.ko is missing

2010-10-05 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello, On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Klaus Umbach klaus-bugs.debian@uxix.de wrote: Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Tags: d-i d-i lacks /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/phy/broadcom.ko, so I cannot use network during the installation. The module is part of

Bug#599157: debian-installer: freeze at APT configuration

2010-10-05 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello, On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org wrote: Were you using a language different from English during your install? This has been fixed in last apt-setup upload but not available in weekly builds yet. -- Otavio Salvador                  O.S. Systems

Bug#599156: installation-reports: debian-netinst/grub detects others systems but do not insert it in grub.cfg

2010-10-05 Thread Stefano Canepa
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 10:00:07AM +0200, Pierre Saramito wrote: Package: installation-reports ... Initial boot: [O] Detect network card:[O] Configure network: [O] Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard

Bug#599115: debian-installer: grub's target examples still reflect grub-legacy's behavior

2010-10-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
reassign 599115 grub-installer thanks sal...@t2.technion.ac.il, le Tue 05 Oct 2010 17:39:54 +0200, a écrit : attached a screenshot. Indeed, that comes from grub-installer, reassigning. Samuel attachment: grub.png

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2010-10-05 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: reassign 599115 grub-installer Bug #599115 [debian-installer] debian-installer: grub's target examples still reflect grub-legacy's behavior Bug reassigned from package 'debian-installer' to 'grub-installer'. thanks Stopping processing here.

Bug#599200: base-installer: Install amd64 kernel on i686 kvm guest - and fail to boot

2010-10-05 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
affects 599200 qemu-kvm thanks [Lennart Sorensen] The 'lm' flag means this system has 64bit support. If in fact it doesn't, then the VM is broken. The installer did the right thing based on the CPU feature flags. Assuming this is true, I suggest two things are done to make sure d-i work on

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2010-10-05 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: affects 599200 qemu-kvm Bug #599200 [base-installer] base-installer: Install amd64 kernel on i686 kvm guest - and fail to boot Added indication that 599200 affects qemu-kvm thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need

Re: [PATCH] d-i manual: Preparing Files for USB Memory Stick Booting

2010-10-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Holger Wansing, le Mon 04 Oct 2010 21:55:17 +0200, a écrit : And: at the beginning of that file (../en/install-methods/boot-usb-files.xml) I read several times about Linux, even in the kfreebsd manual. Could you check, if this is correct? It is not, I've already asked BSD people to check what

Bug#599200: base-installer: Install amd64 kernel on i686 kvm guest - and fail to boot

2010-10-05 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 11:07:15PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: affects 599200 qemu-kvm thanks [Lennart Sorensen] The 'lm' flag means this system has 64bit support. If in fact it doesn't, then the VM is broken. The installer did the right thing based on the CPU feature flags.

Bug#599200: base-installer: Install amd64 kernel on i686 kvm guest - and fail to boot

2010-10-05 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Lennart Sorensen] I suspect if you run kvm with the -cpu option you can specify what you desire. I believe the default is to simply match whatever the host has, so if the host has a 64bit cpu, then the guest will too. Well, the host is using a 32-bit kernel too, so 64-bit kvm with hardware

Bug#581756: keyboard-configuration: XKBOPTIONS does not properly propagate to xserver-xorg

2010-10-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Anton Zinoviev, le Tue 14 Sep 2010 13:24:59 +0300, a écrit : On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:18:44PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: Do you think it will be useful if keyboard-configuration provides a /etc/foo.d directory where the interested packages (console-setup, X) can install

Completed Spanish conversion to gettext

2010-10-05 Thread Omar Campagne
Hello: I just committed revision 64907, migrating d-i's manual Spanish translation to gettext. Moving to other issue, some builds fail for every lang lately, I guess it has do to with changes in the docs and that you know it. Just felt I should mention. Sorry if I raised an eyebrow

Bug#599200: base-installer: Install amd64 kernel on i686 kvm guest - and fail to boot

2010-10-05 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 12:01:45AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Lennart Sorensen] I suspect if you run kvm with the -cpu option you can specify what you desire. I believe the default is to simply match whatever the host has, so if the host has a 64bit cpu, then the guest will too.

Bug#599200: base-installer: Install amd64 kernel on i686 kvm guest - and fail to boot

2010-10-05 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Lennart Sorensen] Well try starting the kvm with '-cpu qemu32'. That should provide the feature flags of a nice 32bit x86. I tried this by adding cpu match='exact' modelqemu32/model /cpu to the libvirtm XML file for the virtual machine, which caused '-cpu qemu32' to be part of the

Bug#599200: base-installer: Install amd64 kernel on i686 kvm guest - and fail to boot

2010-10-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 23:07 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: affects 599200 qemu-kvm thanks [Lennart Sorensen] The 'lm' flag means this system has 64bit support. If in fact it doesn't, then the VM is broken. The installer did the right thing based on the CPU feature flags.