recursively reading symlinks is not going to help.
But clearly if /sbin/init is a symlink to somewhere under /usr then we
need to mount it!
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> Why not just call it i686 then, in the Arch style?
Debian architecture names identify ABIs, not hardware requirements.
We've progressively raised the minimum processor requirement for i386
over the last 10 years or so.
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gt; isenkram and all others interested in operating on firmware data.
[...]
Like this (patch attached)?
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E + GNOME with less than 10 GB. A desktop user might want to do
> > this.
> >
> > In the two installation options I described, /usr is part of / (root) and /
> > (root) is 10 GB or less.
>
> Agreed that this is an issue.
Yes, so I think we ought to raise the maximum
On Sat, 2016-01-02 at 11:17 +0100, Karsten Merker wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 01, 2016 at 10:22:21PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>
> > I intend to upload linux version 4.3.3-3 to unstable tomorrow. Various
> > bug fixes, no ABI change.
>
> Hello Ben,
>
> I had yesterda
I intend to upload linux version 4.3.3-3 to unstable tomorrow. Various
bug fixes, no ABI change.
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On Fri, 2016-01-01 at 23:33 +0100, Karsten Merker wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 01, 2016 at 10:22:21PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>
> > I intend to upload linux version 4.3.3-3 to unstable tomorrow. Various
> > bug fixes, no ABI change.
>
> Hello Ben,
>
> could you addres
s.
>
> Do you think that the cryptsetup packages should depend on
> initramfs-tools and busybox despite the fact that they're usable without?
No, they should only recommend them. The busybox hook script is
changed in initramfs-tools 0.121~rc2 to hard fail if busybox is wanted
b
On Thu, 2015-12-24 at 03:30 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> (2015-12-24):
> > I already updated base-installer for this, and I think the only other
> > change needed was in build/config/i386.cfg. I've pushed a change to
> > t
) experimental; urgency=medium
> >
> > […]
> > * [i386] Replace 586 flavour with 686
> > - Enable support for OLPC and other Geode-based systems in the 686
> > flavour
> > - udeb: Update kernel-versions
> >
> > -- Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org
selection, but the build
configuration will also need to be updated to pick the 686 udebs.
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I intend to upload linux version 4.2.6-2 to unstable on Friday or
Saturday.
This has a few security fixes, plus I've cherry-picked all the relevant
bug fixes from the master branch.
There should not be any ABI change.
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Control: reassign -1 grub-installer
Control: forcemerge 806164 -1
This is a known bug.
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vide?
Some kernel parameters to try:
pci=assign-busses
pci=realloc
or together:
pci=assign-busses,realloc
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> >> > for MODULE in $MODULES; do
At least dm-service-time and dm-round-robin will be automatically
loaded by the kernel when needed. I'm not sure about the others.
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https://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html#s-common-official-vcs
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> Dnia 15 listopad 2015 o 22:54 Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> napisał(a):
[...]
> >
> > > I may only suspect that
> > > the code containing $FLAVOUR has been moved from some file without
> > &
ty?
> I may only suspect that
> the code containing $FLAVOUR has been moved from some file without
> moving actual assignment (like the one in
> debian/bootstrap-base.postinst)
[...]
These functions are only ever called by debian/bootstrap-base.postinst.
I think the problem is that arch_g
ty?
> I may only suspect that
> the code containing $FLAVOUR has been moved from some file without
> moving actual assignment (like the one in
> debian/bootstrap-base.postinst)
[...]
These functions are only ever called by debian/bootstrap-base.postinst.
I think the problem is that arch_g
and then the UUID is not found ]
>
> Any idea what these messages about modules.dep are about?
All those modaliases correspond to devices whose drivers are built-in.
So it's not surprising that they're not found in modules.dep, and I
don't think this has anything to do with the failure.
Ben.
On Tue, 2015-10-27 at 10:25 +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote:
[...]
> I'm not maintaining mdadm anymore.
[...]
Then why have you not orphaned it?
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On Tue, 2015-10-27 at 18:30 +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> 27.10.2015 18:23, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Tue, 2015-10-27 at 10:25 +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> > > I'm not maintaining mdadm anymore.
> >
> > Then why have you not orphaned it?
>
> It is te
ze of d-i kernel smaller than common linux-image kernel?
[...]
No, it is the exact same kernel.
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On Tue, 2015-10-27 at 17:04 +, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> On 27 October 2015 at 15:42, Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2015-10-27 at 18:30 +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> > > 27.10.2015 18:23, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > > On Tue
session worker
> > > process
> > >
> > > I'm about to try other desktops.
> >
> > XFCE and KDE both seem to work fine. \o/
>
> As does Gnome on real hardware. Sigh at YA place where Gnome looks to
> be failing in VM installations. :-(
This pro
installation time but is unreliable later. But it will always
request the firmware blob for a chip that has problems like this.
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dialog based
> frontend cannot be used. at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm line
> 76.)
> debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
> readlink: invalid option -- 'm'
[...]
I think the problem is that you're using busybox instead of coreutils
(which is essential and the
of the scripts provided by another package.
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On Fri, 2015-09-18 at 12:51 +0300, Ivan Shapovalov wrote:
> On 2015-09-17 at 23:51 +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote:
[...]
> > The proper way to put extra dependencies in modules is:
> >
> > /* Soft module dependencies. See man modprobe.d for details.
> > * Example: MODU
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> (2015) <ftpmas...@debian-ports.org>"
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> (2015) <ftpmas...@debian-ports.org>&q
ule dependency in the code (to make module reiser4 depend on
> module crc32c).
>
> Edward's patch selects module crc32c when reiser4 is selected in the
> build config, but it does not make sure that crc32c will end up in the
> initramfs if reiser4 is there (that is, modules.dep will not be
>
On Sun, 2015-08-23 at 00:44 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
Ben Hutchings, le Sun 23 Aug 2015 00:39:20 +0200, a écrit :
On Sat, 2015-08-22 at 22:30 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
As raised during the accessibility talk, we need to emit a beep at boot
menu in the UEFI case too (grub menu
invoking QEMU directly, the option '-soundhw pcspk,hda' seems
like it should do the right thing, but I don't hear a beep even when
booting in BIOS mode.
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On Sun, 2015-08-09 at 13:39 +, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
Ben Hutchings dixit:
Which watchdog device is this, that is enabled by the BIOS? Normally I
expect them to be enabled only by the kernel driver.
It’s a 19″ server from Supermicro; Dominik would’ve to provide details.
install
they aren't needed at
install time since the watchdog devices are not enabled by the system
firmware.
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change, and I believe the 32-bit and 64-bit modes for userland are not
that different.
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: EXPORT_SYMBOL
Removed symbols:
bdi_unregister ignored, module:
vmlinux, version: 0xa88ae9e6, export: EXPORT_SYMBOL
[...]
See
http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-versions.html#s-abi-maintenance
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It is easier to change
option. Now there is only separate /var, /tmp, /home, which
seems to be a bug.
As I previously explained, that is not a bug, and is not related to
this problem. The rules for the root partition size were changed at
the same time to account for this.
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This is a bug.
Yes, it's a documentation bug.
Ben.
If possible, please let me know if this was fixed and if the bug was
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This change will prevent mount to hang on extended part (#768902)
[...]
Please fix blkid instead of working around it.
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On Thu, 2015-05-21 at 00:12 +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 01:36:53PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
On Sun, 2015-05-17 at 13:25 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
At the moment only spl is available in the archive, using dkms, and
for zfs it's similar in the way
than letting the
kernel team do that through kernel-wedge config.
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CH3SNAS) will only have 500kB
left for a future initrd size increase. If we go over the limit we can
switch to xz compression.
[...]
The DNS-323 will not be supported in stretch anyway because the kernel
will no longer fit.
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It is likely that we will add more hardware support in a 8.x point
release, but not for 6.0.x or 7.x.
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Am 09.05.2015 um 03:32 schrieb Michael Biebl:
On Sun, 03 May 2015 17:23:30 +0100 Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk
1. Install/enable NTP client
2. Disable hwclock-save.service
See below for the changes in systemd
3. Disable
On Sat, 2015-05-09 at 03:32 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
On Sun, 03 May 2015 17:23:30 +0100 Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk
wrote:
Control: reassign -1 clock-setup
Control: retitle -1 Missing support for systems without battery-backed RTC
On Sun, 2015-05-03 at 17:40 +0200, Geert
I've only now discovered we're documenting how to compile a kernel
in the installation guide… Wouldn't it make sense to just point at the
kernel handbook instead, so that we don't have to chase updates and
duplicate work (e.g. “make deb-pkg” being preferred to make-kpkg)?
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think the same is true for KDE.)
We should probably document in the installation guide and/or release
notes that these desktops need either multiple CDs (how many?) or
network access.
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On Sun, 2015-05-03 at 18:55 +0200, Geert Stappers wrote:
On Sun, May 03, 2015 at 05:23:30PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
On Sun, 2015-05-03 at 17:40 +0200, Geert Stappers wrote:
Debian installations on hardware with no (battery-backuped) RTC
is likely an installation that hasn't network
Answer: use http://cdimage-search.debian.org/. (I don't think this
existed at the time you asked.)
Maybe this should be documented, though we are unlikely to continue
generating large numbers of CD iamges for future releases.
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Startign with loadlin is now documented, though it's now long past the
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On Sun, 2015-05-03 at 08:35 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
On Sun, 2015-05-03 at 00:40 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
On Sat, 2015-05-02 at 20:09 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
On Sat, 2015-05-02 at 16:35 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
[...]
Essentially if Boot-Device is set then Boot-*-Path should
Somewhat relatedly, if there is no RTC then the systemd unit
hwclock-save.service should be disabled.
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Package: base-installer
Severity: important
It is very important that Debian systems have an accurate system clock.
However not all supported systems include a battery-backed RTC (or any
working RTC).
Whenever there is not an RTC (and perhaps if there is an RTC but we
somehow recognise that it's
NTP client
2. Disable hwclock-save.service
3. Disable e2fsck time check
I think these could all be done in clock-setup, so I'm reassigning to
that.
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The last time I had that sort of problem, it was due to an omission from
the file /etc/securetty (list of devices that root may log in through).
But in wheezy that file does include hvc0.
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A. I don't know
, irda-modules, parport-modules, plip-modules,
qnx4-modules, reiserfs-modules, ufs-modules
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On Sat, 2015-05-02 at 16:35 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
(CCing Nobuhiro who contributed the flash-kernel db entry for this
device)
On Sat, 2015-05-02 at 15:40 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
On Sun, 2015-04-26 at 00:39 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
On Sat, 25 Apr 2015 23:39:44 +0100 Ben
On Sat, 2015-05-02 at 20:09 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
On Sat, 2015-05-02 at 16:35 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
[...]
Essentially if Boot-Device is set then Boot-*-Path should be relative to
that device, if Boot-Device is not set then Boot-*-Path are relative
to /.
I think /dev/sda1
there will not be
an automated installer for Debian 8 VMs in VirtualBox.
You should be able to add the preseed file to the initrd like this:
echo preseed.cfg | cpio -o -H newc | gzip initrd.gz
Does that not work for you?
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. (preseed.cfg wasn't added)
It certainly works if you use GNU cpio (that's what we use to build the
shipped initramfs, after all). FreeBSD cpio also supports the '-H newc'
option, but it looks like the NetBSD and OpenBSD equivalent is
'-H sv4cpio'. I didn't test any of those, though.
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as recommends of task-laptop so that hdparm is included in
live images.
hdparm is in no way specific to laptops, so it doesn't belong in
task-laptop. Perhaps it should have standard priority instead?
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On Sat, 25 Apr 2015 23:39:44 +0100 Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote:
Secondly, if the installation uses LVM, /dev/sda1 is the /boot
partition, not the root partition. After fixing the first problem,
flash-kernel fails like this:
Actually, this doesn't depend on LVM. The installer
Package: flash-kernel
Version: 3.35
Severity: important
flash-kernel has this entry for the OpenBlocks AX3-4:
Machine: PlatHome OpenBlocks AX3-4 board
Kernel-Flavors: armmp
DTB-Id: armada-xp-openblocks-ax3-4.dtb
DTB-Append: yes
U-Boot-Kernel-Address: 0x200
netinst images generally work on USB sticks.
[...]
[2] sudo cp *.iso /dev/sdb
[...]
Why *.iso? Are you sure this matched only one file?
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On Fri, 2015-04-17 at 16:20 +0200, Thomas Koch wrote:
On Friday, April 17, 2015 03:02:28 PM Ben Hutchings wrote:
[2] sudo cp *.iso /dev/sdb
Why *.iso? Are you sure this matched only one file?
Sorry. I wanted to keep the mail short. Of course I specified the correct
file
On Fri, 2015-04-17 at 19:29 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org (2015-03-04):
Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk (2015-03-03):
Yes, that's right. The problem is that we now detect missing firmware
by scraping the kernel log, and we still pick up old ones after
the documentation?
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On Sun, 2015-04-12 at 22:04 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
Ben Hutchings, le Sun 12 Apr 2015 20:27:29 +0100, a écrit :
On Sun, 2015-04-12 at 20:45 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
Ben Hutchings, le Sun 12 Apr 2015 00:35:33 +0100, a écrit :
On Sat, 2015-04-11 at 20:22 +0200, Holger Wansing
On Sun, 2015-04-12 at 20:45 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
Ben Hutchings, le Sun 12 Apr 2015 00:35:33 +0100, a écrit :
On Sat, 2015-04-11 at 20:22 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote:
supports-smp-sometimes - that generation of cpu will most likely
fully support smp, right
architectures, '64-bit
PowerPC (little-endian)' would be more consistent.
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likely
fully support smp, right?
[...]
Yes.
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removed in jessie. It was
only provided to support our own build machines that have now been
retired.
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/build/pkg-lists/netboot/powerpc.cfg
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ mountmedia
media-retriever
usb-storage-modules-${kernel:Version}
pcmciautils-udeb
-#fb-modules-${kernel:Version}
+fb-modules-${kernel:Version} ?
usb-modules-${kernel:Version}
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/fstab.
This is problematic because users are not allowed to mount CD-ROMs with
udisk2.
Besides which, /dev/sr0 is not a stable name.
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within the next days, I'll remove the references
to the IXP4xx platform in the installation guide.
It might be helpful to link to
http://www.cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/unpack/.
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Priorities are set by the FTP team. A package's control file is only a
hint as to what its priority should be.
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(Closes: #762042)
This is needed for booting on some ARM platforms.
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installing firmware and poking the driver.
I think we could solve this by noting the timestamp at the bottom of the
kernel log every time we scan it, then only checking lines after that on
the next scan.
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drives. Reducing the
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On Tue, 2015-02-17 at 17:31 +0300, Andrey Tataranovich wrote:
On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 14:13:30 +
Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote:
Control: severity -1 wishlist
On Tue, 2015-02-17 at 16:55 +0300, Andrey Tataranovich wrote:
Package: debian
? I'd really like to get this solved.
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Control: reopen -1
Control: reassign -1 netcfg
On Sun, 2015-02-08 at 19:09 +0100, Heiko Ernst wrote:
On Sun, 08 Feb 2015 15:10:15 + Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote:
[...]
This is normal behaviour after installing the Desktop task. You should
then use Network Manager
installation.
Or you can use an installation image that has all the non-free firmware
packages included.
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The problem is that adding linux-image-3.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64/wheezy-backports
into pkgsel/include line does not quote work - Breaks: initramfs-tools
error occurs (visible in syslog).
[...]
What if you set it to linux-image/wheezy-backports
initramfs-tools/wheezy-backports?
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function. I believe anything which uses an mtdblock device
passes through that function to translate the name into a device node.
What do you think?
You also need 'udevadm settle' to wait for the device nodes to appear.
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On Sat, 2014-12-13 at 21:51 +0100, Lukasz Stelmach wrote:
On 11.12.2014 21:57, Ben Hutchings wrote:
On Thu, 2014-12-11 at 19:28 +0100, Łukasz Stelmach wrote:
Package: installation-reports
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Dear Maintainer,
I downloaded Debian 7.7 installation image[1].
I
, and as the driver requests all those
files it will list all the files. But really you only need one of them.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
If more than one person is responsible for a bug, no one is at fault.
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the regulations correctly.
Please specify what wireless network adapter you are using (if it's
something built in and you don't know, lspci or lsusb will help to
identify it).
Also please provide the system log from the installer.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
You can't have everything. Where would you
install it?
The i217 network chip is too new to work with the kernel in wheezy.
[...]
This is not true if you use the latest point release.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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On Mon, 2014-12-08 at 17:00 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 07:50:57PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote:
On Mon, 2014-12-08 at 12:26 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
The i217 network chip is too new to work with the kernel in wheezy.
[...]
This is not true if you use
that didn't include this particular one. Unfortunately I don't
have time to work on backporting more driver updates at the moment.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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