Bug#770658: fails to debootstrap debian on fedora: Failure trying to run: chroot /debian mount -t proc proc /proc

2014-11-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
a separator; $PATH cannot include directories whose names contain colons. But does it make sense to use the outer system's $PATH at all? Why shouldn't debootstrap reset it to the Debian default whenever it runs a command in chroot? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid

Bug#769107: debian-installer: grub-installer fails if more than 26 SCSI devices are present

2014-11-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
partition table of the disk containing our boot partition bootfslabel=$(partmap $disc_offered || echo unknown) --- END --- Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Absolutum obsoletum. (If it works, it's out of date.) - Stafford Beer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#737750: debian-installer: Netboot initrd does not download, ata-modules or sata-modules udebs

2014-11-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2014-11-18 at 12:25 +, Kieran Mansley wrote: On Wed, 26 Feb 2014 01:09:38 + Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: I just tested it in KVM/QEMU. It does download ata-modules. Are you using the current (7.4) netboot images? If I remember rightly, old netboot

Bug#769107: debian-installer: grub-installer fails if more than 26 SCSI devices are present

2014-11-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
: Philippe Miltin Sitz/Registered Office: Tuebingen Registergericht/Registration Court: Stuttgart Registernummer/Commercial Register No.: HRB 382196 -- Ben Hutchings Experience is directly proportional to the value of equipment destroyed

Bug#611250: please support network bonding

2014-11-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
install, and can be made later. But more feature makes d-i complex for both developers and users... If the bond uses the IEEE 802.1ax protocol (fka IEEE 802.3ad) then you cannot use it without sending and receiving some configuration packets. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Time is nature's way of making

Bug#767042: [jessie daily 2014-10-27] [armhf] Installation report: LeMaker Banana Pi - problems with autoloading the realtek ethernet PHY driver module

2014-11-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
) and then rebuild the installer. Possibly you could use systemtap for this, but it will be difficult to install the necessary packages within the installation environment. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular. - Adlai Stevenson signature.asc Description

Bug#767042: [jessie daily 2014-10-27] [armhf] Installation report: LeMaker Banana Pi - problems with autoloading the realtek ethernet PHY driver module

2014-10-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
to monitor what's going on. You could replace modprobe with a script that logs its arguments to a file before calling the real modprobe. That should tell us whether the bug is in the kernel or userland. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Theory and practice are closer in theory than in practice

Bug#766815: installation-reports: please omit quiet option

2014-10-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
to interpret the extra information that may be logged to the console are exactly the users that are most likely to know how to override this default. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Theory and practice are closer in theory than in practice. - John Levine, moderator

Re: Debian 7 with i486 non pae

2014-10-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
choose expert mode then you can override this.) The problem you're seeing seems likely to be a driver issue and not related to use of PAE. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Theory and practice are closer in theory than in practice. - John Levine, moderator of comp.compilers

Re: Bug#725714: (re)implement missing firmware support through kernel log grepping

2014-10-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
precise/correct. I really meant to make sure we got this right before an upload so that we could point people at a proper changelog entry… We did also disable this in the kernel config after it was dropped from udev, so it seems reasonable to me. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Life is what happens

Re: Bug#725714: Partial fix using hw-setup for the missing firmware problem in d-i?

2014-10-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2014-10-15 at 22:39 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Ben Hutchings] Again, this is not a workaround, this is the only fix there will be for that bug. The only thing that may change in the kernel to make this easier is that it will do structured logging so in theory you don't need

Re: Bug#725714: Partial fix using hw-setup for the missing firmware problem in d-i?

2014-10-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
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Re: Bug#725714: Partial fix using hw-setup for the missing firmware problem in d-i?

2014-10-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
return 1 fi } -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- Ben Hutchings Logic doesn't apply to the real world. - Marvin Minsky signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Bug#725714: Partial fix using hw-setup for the missing firmware problem in d-i?

2014-10-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2014-10-07 at 17:09 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Thank you for the code review. :) [Ben Hutchings] The firmware agent is never coming back, so please do remove the related code. I know and agree, but URL: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=725714#163

Re: Partial fix using hw-setup for the missing firmware problem in d-i?

2014-10-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
use of structured log data. However the firmware core code is already patched so that it logs all failure in a consistent format that you can grep for: firmware: failed to load %s (%d) The parameters are the filename and negative error code; usually that will be -ENOENT == -2. Ben. -- Ben

Uploading linux (3.16.4-1)

2014-10-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
I intend to upload linux version 3.16.4-1 to unstable early next week. This will require another ABI bump due to upstream changes. Let me know if this should wait for the d-i release. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings One of the nice things about standards is that there are so many of them

Bug#763127: UEFI corner case - installer booted in UEFI mode, existing system in BIOS mode - PLEASE REVIEW

2014-10-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
) + return 1; Should be return 0? + else + return 1; [...] Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. - Albert Einstein signature.asc

Re: Bug#762634: initramfs-tools: [armhf] mounting rootfs on USB disk fails / some USB host controller drivers missing in initramfs

2014-09-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2014-09-30 at 08:19 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Fri, 2014-09-26 at 00:08 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: However, at the moment initramfs-tools won't include PHY drivers even in that configuration. I spent some time last week hunting for a sysfs link between a device and the phys

Re: efivars should be included in initramfs

2014-09-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: reassign -1 partman-md On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 16:06:04 +0100 Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: clone 704779 -1 retitle -1 efivars should be included in initramfs reassign -1 initramfs-tools 0.109 thanks Actually, I think it makes more sense to do this in partman-md (or possibly

[PATCH v2] Update new-kernel-checklist.txt for the last few years' changes

2014-09-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
/manuals.sgml/release-notes/release-notes.ent in CVS). -- Ben Hutchings This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[PATCH] Keep Linux modules.builtin file in the initrd

2014-09-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
kernel images for some -- Ben Hutchings This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Bug#762634: initramfs-tools: [armhf] mounting rootfs on USB disk fails / some USB host controller drivers missing in initramfs

2014-09-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
. However, at the moment initramfs-tools won't include PHY drivers even in that configuration. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: the the on a sentence on the installation manual

2014-09-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
for Linux 3.16. It will be gone after jessie though. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Hoare's Law of Large Problems: Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get out. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Bug#762024: installation-guide-amd64: Please add caution warning to instructions to create a usb bootable stick

2014-09-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
/sdb1. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. - Anne Morrow Lindberg signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#760712: WEP vs WPA2

2014-09-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
using wext, or requires wext configuration to be done in a different order than netcfg and wpa_supplicant currently use. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Make three consecutive correct guesses and you will be considered an expert. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#761501: partman-ext3: add acl mount options for ext4?

2014-09-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
asked for this change. :) Unfortunately /proc/mounts only shows whether the default options have been overwritten. You would need to combine the options listed there with the default options for the filesystem as shown by 'tune2fs -l'. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The world is coming to an end. Please

Bug#761400: debian-installer-7.0-netboot-amd64: jessie netinstaller amd64 doesn't recognize wifi card in hp15 touchsmart 15g069cl

2014-09-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
. -- Ben Hutchings I'm always amazed by the number of people who take up solipsism because they heard someone else explain it. - E*Borg on alt.fan.pratchett signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Build squeeze debian-installer with 3.2 kernel from backports

2014-09-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
EVERYTHING IS BROKEN. So far as I am aware, this is not true for Debian's kernel packages. The last time we had a udev/kernel incompatibility across releases was between lenny and squeeze: https://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#upgrading-udev Ben. -- Ben

Re: Build squeeze debian-installer with 3.2 kernel from backports

2014-09-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
, and that's what we do now. [...] So I am wondering if it is possible to build the debian-installer with the 3.2 kernel. It seems like it might be possible if you take kernel udebs from the stable (wheezy) suite and everything else from the oldstable (squeeze) suite. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Experience

Bug#712907: grub-installer: No longer installs automatically on a normal machine with one hard drive

2014-08-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
of the installed system and we shouldn't use them here (not primarily, anyway). Under Linux, we should ask udev for the model name (and maybe serial number) and show this as well as the device name. I expect there is some similar facility under kFreeBSD but I don't know what it is. Ben. -- Ben

Re: Alpha install ISOs

2014-08-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
, this broke kernel building as well. You could try reverting this to get a starting point for fixing the alpha udebs: --- r18249 | benh | 2011-11-12 22:51:36 -0800 (Sat, 12 Nov 2011) | 1 line [alpha] Remove old, broken udeb configuration --- Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If you seem to know what you

Bug#752410: libdebian-installer: ppc64el support

2014-08-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2014-08-25 at 14:11 -0300, Breno Leitao wrote: HI Ben, Do you still have any feedback about the new patch? I have no objections, but I am not a maintainer for this package so it is not for me to apply. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings All extremists should be taken out and shot

Bug#758752: Please enable building for arm64 (and armhf?)

2014-08-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
comments than after commits/uploads, here's one: you'll need efi-modules for the armhf part to be useful, since this package is currently uninstallable there. http://d-i.debian.org/edos/graph-unstable-armhf.png These will be added in the next linux upload. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Everything

Re: Plan of action for Secure Boot support

2014-08-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
, no progress has been made on the above steps or any alternate approach. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Anthony's Law of Force: Don't force it, get a larger hammer. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Use dedicated partition for /boot/grub instead of /boot

2014-08-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
, with different limitations. 2. Would it be a better idea to only have /boot/grub, instead of /boot, on a separate partition? (I can confirm that it works both when installing and in existing setups, i.e. grub-install and update-grub both work as expected.) [...] I don't think so. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
CD (rather than 2+ CDs or downloads) then Xfce would probably be the right default DE for that single CD. I do not support making it the default in general, though. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Humans are not rational beings; they are rationalising beings. signature.asc Description

Bug#756996: mentions of 2.6 kernel in the d-i manual

2014-08-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
+ entryVirtual directory for system information (2.6 and 3.x kernels)/entry I'd rather patch into Linux 2.6 and further, I don't think /sys is to go away. I agree. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Tomorrow will be cancelled due to lack of interest. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: Bug#686636: Please backport virtio-scsi to wheezy

2014-07-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
. -- Ben Hutchings Always try to do things in chronological order; it's less confusing that way. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: debian-installer: Use GeoIP support in installer

2014-07-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2014-07-23 at 18:46 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 07:56:52PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: (Not posting to the bug, because this is not GeoIP.) Has anyone looked into whether the EFI PlatformLang variable is at all useful? Windows 7 does not appear to use

Re: debian-installer: Use GeoIP support in installer

2014-07-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
the computer was sold in, which would be a good starting point. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers. - Leonard Brandwein signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#752410: libdebian-installer: ppc64el support

2014-06-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
} +}; + +static struct map map_platform[] = { + { PS3, ps3 }, + { Cell, cell }, + { PA Semi, pasemi }, + { Maple, chrp_ibm }, + { pSeries, chrp_ibm }, + { P4080 DS, fsl }, + { QEMU e500, fsl }, [...] At least PS3/Cell are big-endian only. Ben. -- Ben

Bug#752445: partman-prep: ppc64el support

2014-06-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
for architecture ppc64el, F. You forget the patch. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings For every complex problem there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#748211: os-prober: Dangerous failure during kernel upgrade (probed NFS?)

2014-05-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
a kernel update. In fact I don't think it should ever be run automatically, aside from during installation. I think this is a bug in GRUB (which invokes it during kernel update) rather than os-prober. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking

Re: Daily debian installer not working on qnap TS-212P arm kirkwook

2014-05-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
on specific machines. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Support for sunxi-based ARM systems in d-i

2014-05-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
leave Debian alone and stick to your own project. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers. - Leonard Brandwein signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Support for sunxi-based ARM systems in d-i

2014-05-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
to be more careful about overwriting /boot/vmlinuz in case it is a symlink. The official kernel packages will put symlinks in boot if you put: link_in_boot = yes in /etc/kernel-img.conf. I believe the Debian installer does that for some architectures. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The obvious

Re: install debian into hyper-v

2014-04-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Life would be so much easier if we could look at the source code. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Support for sunxi-based ARM systems in d-i

2014-04-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
own list. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. - John Lehman, Secretary of the US Navy 1981-1987 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#745555: Multi-Arch: foreign please

2014-04-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
-A:foreign a non-option. I can confirm that I can cross-build src:linux for armel and armhf (though I don't test the resulting udebs). So I'll make this change in git at least. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers. - Leonard Brandwein signature.asc Description

Bug#743796: flash-kernel: kirkwood+ should be considered the same as kirkwood

2014-04-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
is to commit changes before building. But I think it is reasonable to expect flash-kernel to tolerate the '+'. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I say we take off; nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Updating the installation guide, arm platform support

2014-03-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2014-03-21 at 08:27 +, Ian Campbell wrote: On Fri, 2014-03-21 at 02:56 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: Kernels and initramfses will be in /boot, as for most Linux distributions. However, we currently install DTBs in /usr/lib/package-name. Maybe it would be helpful to copy

Re: Updating the installation guide, arm platform support

2014-03-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2014-03-21 at 12:38 +, Ian Campbell wrote: On Fri, 2014-03-21 at 10:41 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Fri, 2014-03-21 at 08:27 +, Ian Campbell wrote: On Fri, 2014-03-21 at 02:56 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: Kernels and initramfses will be in /boot, as for most Linux

Re: Updating the installation guide, arm platform support

2014-03-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
/lib/package-name. Maybe it would be helpful to copy the latest applicable DTB into /boot, on some machines. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings One of the nice things about standards is that there are so many of them. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#741889: os-prober: The 90fallback script lists the least recent kernels first

2014-03-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
? [...] If you can assume linux-base is installed (it is required by all official kernel packages) then use the linux-version command. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I'm always amazed by the number of people who take up solipsism because they heard someone else explain it. - E*Borg on alt.fan.pratchett

Bug#741622: installation-reports: Jessie can not connect to the access point during the install process

2014-03-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings When you say `I wrote a program that crashed Windows', people just stare ... and say `Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*'. - Linus Torvalds signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#741155: bug report installing Wheezy, unable to boot

2014-03-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
'Rapid Restore' feature, and if that is disabled then this doesn't occur. However, it must be disabled *before* installing. Unfortunately, your laptop will probably need a motherboard replacement now. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I say we take off; nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure

Bug#724891: [debian-installer] debian-installer: Build firmware for the DNS-320/DNS-325

2014-03-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings When you say `I wrote a program that crashed Windows', people just stare ... and say `Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*'. - Linus Torvalds signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#724891: [debian-installer] debian-installer: Build firmware for the DNS-320/DNS-325

2014-03-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2014-03-03 at 02:25 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Mon, 2014-03-03 at 02:37 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Control: retitle -1 debian-installer: Build firmware for the DNS-320/DNS-325 bastien ROUCARIES roucaries.bast...@gmail.com (2013-09-29): Package: debian-installer

Bug#740397: busybox: please add support for parallel building

2014-03-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
. It sets DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. This is done precisely so that build daemons can use dpkg-buildpackage -j for everything but it will only result in a parallel make where the maintainer has checked that this works. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If at first you don't succeed, you're doing about average

Bug#740397: busybox: please add support for parallel building

2014-03-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2014-03-01 at 12:51 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk (2014-03-01): dpkg-buildpackage -j does *not* put -j on the debian/rules command line. It sets DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. This is done precisely so that build daemons can use dpkg-buildpackage -j

Re: Bug#740330: dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-3.13-1-amd64_3.13.4-1_amd64.deb (--unpack): (no space left) ошибка создания каталога

2014-03-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
installer with separate partitions for / /home /var /usr /tmp filesystems) -- Ben Hutchings If at first you don't succeed, you're doing about average. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#740330: [PATCH] Combine / and /usr partitions in 'multi' recipes

2014-03-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
(+), 193 deletions(-) diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 3d120ee..a37d076 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +partman-auto (119) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium + + [ Ben Hutchings ] + * Combine / and /usr partitions in 'multi' recipes + + -- Ben

Bug#539512: prevent running kernel warning during d-i

2014-03-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
was completely removed long ago. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#287412: Bug#287344: rc2 netinst install on hp pavilion ze4900 laptop

2014-02-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
-linux-x86 instead. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Gates has joked that everything goes on and off unexepectedly in the house, which is run by a high-end PC network built on Windows NT. - Seattle Times signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#369256: installation-reports: modprobe does not find kernel modules

2014-02-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
thought we did because kernel-wedge does run depmod, but that's just so it can use modules.dep at build time). This won't work if there are OOT module udebs, though. (There aren't any in Debian any more, but there might be in derivatives.) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If at first you don't succeed, you're

Bug#602506: HP DL165 boot crash with lenny i386 686 but OK with -bigmem or amd64

2014-02-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
on a 64-bit capable system, anyway. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. - Albert Einstein signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#249757: should install nwutil on arm/netwinder

2014-02-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
you please either close this bug report or enlighten me about netwinder vs. arm*? It's not supported by any kernel image in the armel port. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. - Albert

Bug#626217: Default /etc/kernel-img.conf should have do_symlinks=no; nothing needs those links now

2014-02-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2014-02-25 at 16:18 +0300, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Hi Ben, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk (2011-05-16): On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 17:17 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: Package: base-installer Severity: normal Now that the various bootloaders have hooks to handle kernel

Bug#626217: Default /etc/kernel-img.conf should have do_symlinks=no; nothing needs those links now

2014-02-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2014-02-25 at 09:30 -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 05:10:42PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Tue, 2014-02-25 at 16:18 +0300, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Hi Ben, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk (2011-05-16): On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 17:17 -0700, Josh

Bug#737750: debian-installer: Netboot initrd does not download ata-modules or sata-modules udebs

2014-02-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2014-02-25 at 13:43 -0600, Elizabeth Myers wrote: On 23/02/14 05:58, Ben Hutchings wrote: Control: tag -1 unreproducible On Sat, 2014-02-22 at 21:43 -0600, Elizabeth Myers wrote: On 05/02/14 11:45, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 12:17 -0500, Elizabeth Myers wrote

Bug#737750: debian-installer: Netboot initrd does not download ata-modules or sata-modules udebs

2014-02-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: tag -1 unreproducible On Sat, 2014-02-22 at 21:43 -0600, Elizabeth Myers wrote: On 05/02/14 11:45, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 12:17 -0500, Elizabeth Myers wrote: Package: debian-installer Version: wheezy Severity: normal Tags: d-i Debian's initrd.gz

Bug#737750: debian-installer: Netboot initrd does not download ata-modules or sata-modules udebs

2014-02-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
, so it can't download anything. Please can you specify what network controller(s) this sytem has? The command 'lspci -vnn' should provide the model name and numeric ID for all PCI devices; look for 'Network controller' or 'Ethernet controller'. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up

Bug#737170: debian-installer: hd-media installer says it didn't find ISO image, modprobe error in the logs

2014-01-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
verified that the modprobe tool used in the squeeze installer did in fact have a -l option (it listed all available modules), but now it doesn't. Busybox's modprobe also has a -l option. This option was dropped when module-init-tools was replaced by kmod. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings It is a miracle

Bug#736126: Processed: Re: Bug#736126: /dev/random entropy depletion on a fresh install

2014-01-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
read(). Yes, it can return a short length. You must call it again if you want more. (This doesn't normally happen with regular files, although it will if you specify a length = (1U 31).) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings One of the nice things about standards is that there are so many of them

Bug#736126: Processed: Re: Bug#736126: /dev/random entropy depletion on a fresh install

2014-01-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2014-01-20 at 08:50 -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 8:33 AM, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: noloa...@gmail.com wrote: I installed Debian 7.3 x64 on a Core i5 laptop for some testing (real hardware, not a VM). When testing a program I wrote, I noticed

Bug#735092: flash-kernel: add Raspberry Pi support

2014-01-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2014-01-18 at 17:26 +0100, Luca Capello wrote: Hi there! On Sat, 18 Jan 2014 12:02:56 +0100, Luca Capello wrote: On Sun, 12 Jan 2014 22:18:51 +0100, Karsten Merker wrote: On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 08:40:29PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: There is obvious precedent for systems

Bug#735092: flash-kernel: add Raspberry Pi support

2014-01-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
path to this file (default value: /boot/config.txt). + [...] So the boot partition is mounted at /boot? Doesn't that make it impossible to install packaged kernels (as dpkg needs to create hard links)? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Quantity is no substitute for quality, but it's the only one we've got

Bug#735092: flash-kernel: add Raspberry Pi support

2014-01-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2014-01-12 at 19:24 +0100, Karsten Merker wrote: On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 06:00:24PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sun, 2014-01-12 at 18:34 +0100, Karsten Merker wrote: The attached patch adds Raspberry Pi support to flash-kernel. [SNIP] --- a/README +++ b/README

Bug#735092: flash-kernel: add Raspberry Pi support

2014-01-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2014-01-12 at 21:16 +0100, Karsten Merker wrote: On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 07:01:36PM +, Ian Campbell wrote: On Sun, 2014-01-12 at 19:24 +0100, Karsten Merker wrote: On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 06:00:24PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sun, 2014-01-12 at 18:34 +0100, Karsten Merker

Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
. [...] I believe plymouth supports both text and graphical modes. The default should probably be set based on whether task-desktop (or alternate) is installed. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The program is absolutely right; therefore, the computer must be wrong. signature.asc Description

Re: Bug#725714: reassign to linux

2013-12-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
[1], in the places, where fw_load_from_user_helper is called. Right, I plan to implement structured logging as suggested by Kay. Ben. Best regards, Andreas 1: http://sources.debian.net/src/linux/3.12.3-1~exp1/drivers/base/firmware_class.c -- Ben Hutchings If at first you don't succeed

Re: Please enable udebs when backporting src:linux

2013-12-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
disable udebs when uploading to backports. I've removed this on the sid branch and will try to remember to do that separately when backporting 3.11.10-1. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Q. Which is the greater problem in the world today, ignorance or apathy? A. I don't know and I couldn't care less

Re: Debian testing installer does not dectect USB keyboard.

2013-12-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2013-12-15 at 21:16 +0100, aexlfowley wrote: This seems closed. http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/kernel?view=revisionrevision=20878 Right, Ben? It's pending. It won't be closed until the new kernel package is uploaded. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Q. Which is the greater problem

Re: Bugs #728936, #730789, #731939 are duplicates: no USB input in debian-installer due to missing ohci-pci

2013-12-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
), or is it just not included in the installer (which would make this a bug in debian-installer)? [...] Module selection for the intaller is also largely defined by the linux package. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Q. Which is the greater problem in the world today, ignorance or apathy? A. I don't know and I

Bug#725714: Bug#715408: fixed now, but firmware problems with new installer

2013-12-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 09:51:48AM +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: Hi Ben, On 12.12.2013 01:50, Ben Hutchings wrote: Control: reassign -1 installation-reports On Wed, 2013-12-11 at 21:56 +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: It looks like a bug in the linux kernel. I don't think so

Bug#728936: Bug#731939: debian-installer: USB input not functioning during install

2013-12-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
be high speed. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Bug#725714: udev firmware loading does not work in the Debian installer

2013-12-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
files in the module's metadata. We use that static approach in initramfs-tools and it seems to work pretty well, though I don't know how many people actually depend on firmware in their initramfs. I've occasionally had to fix the metadata in drivers. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Knowledge is power

Re: Processed: Bug#725714: udev firmware loading does not work in the Debian installer

2013-12-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
with it, or provide the data to other consumers. Good idea, but I don't expect to see systemd in the installer quite yet! Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Knowledge is power. France is bacon. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Bug#725714: udev firmware loading does not work in the Debian installer

2013-12-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
. [...] For the record, 3.12 still has: config FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER bool Fallback user-helper invocation for firmware loading depends on FW_LOADER default y But at this point I suppose there is no point leaving it enabled. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Knowledge is power

Bug#731939: debian-installer: USB input not functioning during install

2013-12-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
sure they're aware of your report. Jason, if you have a working Linux installation on the same system, can you send the output of 'lsusb' wehn the USB keyboard and mouse are plugged in to the same ports as before? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway

Re: install/run problems with Debian 7.1.0

2013-11-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
for the installed system, where apparently X gets it wrong, The installer does NOT use X. Using graphics is not equal to using X. [...] It does, at least since squeeze, because GTK+-DirectFB is not maintained. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Usenet is essentially a HUGE group of people passing notes

Bug#730162: apt-install: prevent autoremoval of packages installed by the installer

2013-11-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
, [...] Then they get what they deserve. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Any smoothly functioning technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#717791: debian-installer: virtualbox guest additions not installed correctly

2013-11-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
-headers-686-pae. I guess, this can be fixed by explicitly requesting the kernel headers package, matching the kernel installed. Right. Recommendation of linux-headers packages is never going to work for all cases. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings DNRC Motto: I can please only one person per day

Re: Changes for d-i, tasksel and d-cd

2013-10-31 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2013-10-31 at 23:39 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: [...] * tools for wireless [...] Should be included in task-desktop and task-laptop. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Life is like a sewer: what you get out of it depends on what you put into it. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Bug#717236: partman-reiserfs: depends on obsolete package reiserfs-modules

2013-10-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
installatons. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#717236: partman-reiserfs: depends on obsolete package reiserfs-modules

2013-10-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
systems that use reiserfs, though I would suggest you do so soon. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#717236: partman-reiserfs: depends on obsolete package reiserfs-modules

2013-10-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
systems that use reiserfs, though I would suggest you do so soon. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#724931: Please include the patch in git

2013-10-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
the reverse would not be true. [...] The ext2 and ext3 modules are also being removed from Debian kernel packages, starting with Linux 3.11. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. - Donald Knuth signature.asc Description

Uploading linux (3.11.5-1)

2013-10-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
useless drivers were disabled Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. - Donald Knuth signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Uploading linux (3.11.5-1)

2013-10-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
modules listed in the kernel-wedge configuration but I think these are fixed in svn. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. - Donald Knuth signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

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