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

2014-08-11 Thread Thomas Weber
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 03:20:49AM +0100, Anthony F McInerney wrote: Would the people who are claiming that blank cdr are cheaper than dvdr, especially in third world countries, please cite sources (shops, price checkers etc) of the price of say 5 pack or 10 pack, even up to 50pack of CD's, vs

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

2014-08-11 Thread Anthony F McInerney
On Mon, 11 Aug, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Thomas Weber twe...@debian.org wrote: Not sure why you'd want to go for third world countries, but let's look at Germany (Aldi is one of the two biggest discounters here):

Bug#757787: installation-reports: sparc netboot install wheezy works only with boot.img from 2013

2014-08-11 Thread Hermann Lauer
Package: installation-reports Severity: important Dear Maintainer, the modules on the debian mirrors for the sparc architecture (wheezy) did not match the kernel in the current wheezy netboot image. Finaly found that

Processed: Re: Bug#757711: netcfg: promptly kills dhclient, deconfigures interface

2014-08-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: retitle 757711 netcfg: promptly kills dhclient, deconfigures interface Bug #757711 [debian-installer] DHCP client shutdown right after network detection (Hyper-V VM) Changed Bug title to 'netcfg: promptly kills dhclient, deconfigures interface'

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

2014-08-11 Thread shirish शिरीष
at bottom :- On 8/11/14, Thomas Weber twe...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 03:20:49AM +0100, Anthony F McInerney wrote: Would the people who are claiming that blank cdr are cheaper than dvdr, especially in third world countries, please cite sources (shops, price checkers etc) of

Bug#757711: netcfg: promptly kills dhclient, deconfigures interface

2014-08-11 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org (2014-08-11): retitle 757711 netcfg: promptly kills dhclient, deconfigures interface reassign 757711 src:netcfg found 757711 netcfg/1.118 severity 757711 grave user debian-...@lists.debian.org usertags 757711 + kfreebsd thanks Steve, if you want to

Bug#757711: netcfg: promptly kills dhclient, deconfigures interface

2014-08-11 Thread Steven Chamberlain
retitle 757711 netcfg: promptly kills dhclient, deconfigures interface reassign 757711 src:netcfg found 757711 netcfg/1.118 severity 757711 grave user debian-...@lists.debian.org usertags 757711 + kfreebsd thanks Hi, On 11/08/14 08:18, Jan Henke wrote: [...] DHCP client terminating directly

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

2014-08-11 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 11:15:15AM +0200, Thomas Weber wrote: Not sure why you'd want to go for third world countries, but let's look at Germany (Aldi is one of the two biggest discounters here): http://www.presseportal.de/pm/112096/2653870/aldi-senkt-preise-fuer-fischprodukte-oel-und-smoothies

Bug#757818: partman-lvm: Refuses to reinstall if it find old lvm volume

2014-08-11 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: partman-lvm Version: 91 After the parted API change and fixes, I ran into a new problem when testing Debian Edu based on Jessie. The installation hang and the log report that something is waiting on a prompt. I normally test in a virtual machine, and reuse the hard drive every time.

Bug#757819: qemu-debootstrap fails on systemd-sysv issue

2014-08-11 Thread Joey Hess
Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.60 Severity: normal After a foreign deboostrap, the second stage failed: dpkg: regarding .../systemd-sysv_208-7_armhf.deb containing systemd-sysv, pre-dependency problem: systemd-sysv pre-depends on systemd systemd is unpacked, but has never been configured.

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

2014-08-11 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Lennart Sorensen: it needs buttons on windows that people expect to see where they expect to see them You mean left vs. right side? Would Debian be willing to make gnome3 have different defaults than upstream in the interest of actually being useable to new users who are used to other

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-11 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting David Weinehall (2014-08-10 22:59:45) On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 11:10:50AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: The issue here really is how big is it? rather than hos many disks [of which kind] does it fit onto?. unable to fit on a single image is not only about use of said storage

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-11 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Olav Vitters (2014-08-11 11:21:14) On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 11:10:50AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Quite a few places in the World have poor and/or expensive internet access. Larger default desktop will hurt the most in developing countries: non-techies gets discourages to use

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-11 Thread Joel Rees
2014/08/12 1:12 Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk: [...] Still you are talking about cost in time. Few I have met in developing countries were poor measured in time available. [...] Developed country (Japan). My wife makes me scrimp on everything, so I still have megabit/sec download. Fiber or

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

2014-08-11 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 10:23:38AM +0001, Anthony F McInerney wrote: And if it's machines in the wild with CD drives still again, we have woody, squeeze and wheezy for them. Does woody still have security support? In not, there are many old machines for which it is no longer an

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

2014-08-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2014-08-11 at 03:20 +0100, Anthony F McInerney wrote: [...] If people have old CD only machines i would not like to attempt to get kernel 3.16 +drivers +userland working on that. I've been in that situation plenty of times, where woody or potato are better simply because the drivers

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

2014-08-11 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 05:34:04PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: You mean left vs. right side? Or even showing them at all (certainly last time I bothered to look at gnome 3 it seemed to think buttons on windows were mostly to be avoided). People who are so afraid of new stuff to learn that

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-11 Thread David Weinehall
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 06:00:05PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: I do: I see a reason to netinst a 0.629xCD size desktop install rather than a 0.829xCD size desktop when bandwidth is costly. Yes, but if you netinst you can *pick* your desktop, it's not like you have to pick the default. Do a

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

2014-08-11 Thread David Weinehall
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 01:35:28PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: All I personally expect from a window manager is: Be able to launch programs (ideally using alt+F2) Available in GNOME 3. Be able to resize the window using the edge of the window Available in GNOME 3. Have a

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

2014-08-11 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 01:35:28PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 05:34:04PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: Or even showing them at all (certainly last time I bothered to look at gnome 3 it seemed to think buttons on windows were mostly to be avoided). People who

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

2014-08-11 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 07:42:41PM +0200, David Weinehall wrote: Available in GNOME 3. Available in GNOME 3. Not enabled by default (if I remember correctly), but possible to enable using gnome-tweak-tool. I shouldn't have to know that. And I am pretty sure when gnome3 appeared in sid,

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

2014-08-11 Thread Anthony F McInerney
How do you measure memory? Free? Could you quite possibly post the output of free and whatever else you measure with? (the full output) For reference against jessie, i'm installing an up to date jessie right now... Thanks Anthony (bofh80)

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 11 aug 14, 19:38:47, David Weinehall wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 06:00:05PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: I do: I see a reason to netinst a 0.629xCD size desktop install rather than a 0.829xCD size desktop when bandwidth is costly. Yes, but if you netinst you can *pick* your

Re: Bug#757650: override: sysvinit:admin/optional sysvinit-core:admin/extra

2014-08-11 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org (2014-08-10): Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal As part of the transition plan to switch the default init system to system for Jessie, the priorities of the sysvinit and sysvinit-core package were lowered. See also [1] Please change them to

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

2014-08-11 Thread David Weinehall
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 01:47:53PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 07:42:41PM +0200, David Weinehall wrote: Available in GNOME 3. Available in GNOME 3. Not enabled by default (if I remember correctly), but possible to enable using gnome-tweak-tool. I

Re: Bug#757650: override: sysvinit:admin/optional sysvinit-core:admin/extra

2014-08-11 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi KiBi, Am 11.08.2014 21:58, schrieb Cyril Brulebois: Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org (2014-08-10): Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal As part of the transition plan to switch the default init system to system for Jessie, the priorities of the sysvinit and sysvinit-core package were

Re: Bug#757650: override: sysvinit:admin/optional sysvinit-core:admin/extra

2014-08-11 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 11.08.2014 22:31, schrieb Michael Biebl: Hi KiBi, Am 11.08.2014 21:58, schrieb Cyril Brulebois: Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org (2014-08-10): Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal As part of the transition plan to switch the default init system to system for Jessie, the priorities

Re: Bug#757650: override: sysvinit:admin/optional sysvinit-core:admin/extra

2014-08-11 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Michael Biebl em...@michaelbiebl.de (2014-08-11): Am 11.08.2014 21:58, schrieb Cyril Brulebois: It really would have been nice to put debian-boot@ in the loop though. Changing init when we're in the middle of trying to release d-i isn't really something that has no consequences… Your

Re: Bug#757650: override: sysvinit:admin/optional sysvinit-core:admin/extra

2014-08-11 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 11.08.2014 22:51, schrieb Cyril Brulebois: Michael Biebl em...@michaelbiebl.de (2014-08-11): Your second mail: Btw, since init still pulls in sysvinit-core atm, lowering the severity of sysvinit and sysvinit-core shouldn't have an effect for d-i. If it does, could you elaborate, what

Bug#757861: debian-installer: wifi / wlan can not connect to wpa secured networks

2014-08-11 Thread Lars Cebulla
Package: debian-installer Version: 20140802 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Try to install Debian Testing with current network-iso. Select wlan0 as network interface (Qualcomm Atheros AR8162 (ath_9k module ?)) and connect to your WPA- secured wlan / wifi

Re: Bug#757650: override: sysvinit:admin/optional sysvinit-core:admin/extra

2014-08-11 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org (2014-08-11): That is https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=754987 https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/07/msg01509.html I know a workaround, but haven't figured out the underlying cause yet. FWIW I spent some time on #debian-systemd and idly

Bug#757861: debian-installer: wifi / wlan can not connect to wpa secured networks

2014-08-11 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Lars, and thanks for your report. Lars Cebulla lars.c...@gmail.com (2014-08-11): Package: debian-installer Version: 20140802 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Try to install Debian Testing with current network-iso. Select wlan0 as network

Re: Bug#757650: override: sysvinit:admin/optional sysvinit-core:admin/extra

2014-08-11 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 11.08.2014 23:15, schrieb Cyril Brulebois: Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org (2014-08-11): A minimal installation should still pull sysvinit-core as it is the first alternative in init. Since that's not happening I'm going to guess that systemd-sysv's priority being higher than

Bug#757882: pkgsel: [text frontend] No feedback right after selecting the software tasks

2014-08-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: pkgsel Version: 0.42 Severity: normal Hello, This is a problem only with the test frontend, used by our speech synthesizer version. This can be tested easily by booting the installer with the Install with speech synthesis boot entry. Right after answering the Software selection tasksel

Re: Bug#757650: override: sysvinit:admin/optional sysvinit-core:admin/extra

2014-08-11 Thread Matthias Klumpp
2014-08-11 23:32 GMT+02:00 Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org: Am 11.08.2014 23:15, schrieb Cyril Brulebois: Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org (2014-08-11): A minimal installation should still pull sysvinit-core as it is the first alternative in init. Since that's not happening I'm going to guess

Bug#757711: netcfg: promptly kills dhclient, deconfigures interface

2014-08-11 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Control: found -1 netcfg/1.117 Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org (2014-08-11): Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org (2014-08-11): retitle 757711 netcfg: promptly kills dhclient, deconfigures interface reassign 757711 src:netcfg found 757711 netcfg/1.118 severity 757711 grave Eeww, I

Processed: Re: Bug#757711: netcfg: promptly kills dhclient, deconfigures interface

2014-08-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: found -1 netcfg/1.117 Bug #757711 [src:netcfg] netcfg: promptly kills dhclient, deconfigures interface Marked as found in versions netcfg/1.117. -- 757711: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=757711 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact

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

2014-08-11 Thread Anthony F McInerney
XFCE: total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:506756 362468 144288 6568 22756 179264 -/+ buffers/cache: 160448 346308 Swap: 392188 0 392188 GNOME: total used free shared

Final steps for Jessie Beta 1

2014-08-11 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi people, two parts in this mail: information for everyone, and action for debian-cd@ at the end. Bits of infomation: --- Thanks to Colin's last parted upload, partitioning is in a much better shape now. I've successfully tested the following things using an i386 netinstall

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

2014-08-11 Thread Kees de Jong
Are we really comparing RAM here as if it were the 90's? How many people here use Android? Today it needs 512 MB to function properly. In two years that could be 1 or 2 GB and that's a mobile OS. How much RAM does your browser use? My Chrome/Firefox easily uses 1 GB. My GNOME 3.10 desktop (running

Bug#757711: netcfg: promptly kills dhclient, deconfigures interface

2014-08-11 Thread Steven Chamberlain
' selected Aug 11 23:47:15 netcfg[1872]: INFO: Starting netcfg v.1.108+deb7u1 (built 20140811-2124) Aug 11 23:47:15 netcfg[1872]: INFO: Taking down interface em0 Aug 11 23:47:15 netcfg[1872]: INFO: Taking down interface lo0 Aug 11 23:47:15 netcfg[1872]: INFO: Activating interface em0 Aug 11 23:47:15

Processed: Re: Bug#757711: netcfg: promptly kills dhclient, deconfigures interface

2014-08-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: found 757711 1.108+deb7u1 Bug #757711 [src:netcfg] netcfg: promptly kills dhclient, deconfigures interface Marked as found in versions netcfg/1.108+deb7u1. thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. -- 757711:

Bug#757711: netcfg: promptly kills dhclient, deconfigures interface

2014-08-11 Thread Steven Chamberlain
AFAICT so far: * netcfg kills the running DHCP client after a hostname is set - this could be a bug * on kFreeBSD, isc-dhcp-client-udeb is used; killing it releases the DHCP lease and deconfigures the interface, which could be intentional * on Linux, Busybox udhcpc is used, killing it seems to

Bug#757711: netcfg: promptly kills dhclient, deconfigures interface

2014-08-11 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org (2014-08-12): found 757711 1.108+deb7u1 thanks On 11/08/14 23:57, Cyril Brulebois wrote: found 757711 netcfg/1.118 severity 757711 grave Eeww, I missed that. Sorry, assumed you'd seen this... though I did feel the severity was justified

Bug#757711: netcfg: promptly kills dhclient, deconfigures interface

2014-08-11 Thread Steven Chamberlain
I hope someone can explain the intent of the code below from netcfg: why are DHCP clients killed here? Is it to avoid them clobbering a manual hostname/domain setting? And is that really an issue in practice, with whatever DHCP client[s] we use now? The other thing is, the whole idea of DHCP is

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

2014-08-11 Thread Anthony F McInerney
On 12 August 2014 01:03, Kees de Jong keesdej...@gmail.com wrote: Are we really comparing RAM here as if it were the 90's? I had stated previously XFCE had started showing memory usage similar to gnome. This has quite obviously changed. I was wrong, and i'm posting it as a correction to my

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

2014-08-11 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 02:03:39AM +0200, Kees de Jong wrote: Are we really comparing RAM here as if it were the 90's? How many people here use Android? Today it needs 512 MB to function properly. In two years that could be 1 or 2 GB and that's a mobile OS. How much RAM does your browser use?

Re: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#757650: override: sysvinit:admin/optional sysvinit-core:admin/extra

2014-08-11 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Matthias Klumpp] However, d-i has some issues there (insserv loop, which nobody was able to resolve yet) - we are not really sure about the cause yet, Got any details on the insserv loop? Perhaps I can help? Do /usr/share/insserv/check-initd-order report anything useful? BTW: I get