Re: status of pppoe support in d-i ?

2003-12-16 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to rebuild d-i with ppp-udeb.deb in the local-udeb but it do not build anymore: 461 symbols, 375 unresolved Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/mklibs, line 469, in ? raise No library provides non-weak + symbol No library provides non-weak

Re: status of pppoe support in d-i ?

2003-12-16 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It could also be put on the net_drivers floppy, for use with a 3 floppy full net/ppp install. That floppy currently has only 71k free (but already includes ppp and serial port modules), so if that is not enough space, we'd need a separate ppp_drivers floppy. Do not

Re: status of pppoe support in d-i ?

2003-12-17 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This variable is used in the rp-pppoe.so plugin. Mklibs cannot know that this library is only linked against programs defining this symbol, and complains. You can rename this library not to have a .so extension so that it does not get checked by mklibs, define a wwak

Re: Praise + possible bugs

2003-12-17 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mmmm, debian-installer is some what targeted to the masses[1] by default. Pretending that the masses have a DHCP server available is just silly. -- ciao, Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

2.6 support

2003-12-17 Thread Marco d'Itri
This patch adds preliminar support for .ko kernel modules. Please apply. -- ciao, | Marco | [3654 coOaZqA3WDJk2] diff -ur ORIG.debian-installer/build/Makefile debian-installer/build/Makefile --- ORIG.debian-installer/build/Makefile2003-12-14 17:19:16.0 +0100 +++

Re: 2.6 debian-installer

2003-12-19 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2.6 will need a bit more maturity and better architecture support for that to happen though. Definitively post sarge release stuff. This is a very bad idea, because more and more modern hardware will require 2.6 kernels. If it's OK to support 2.2 kernels (!) for doorstops

Re: 2.6 debian-installer

2003-12-19 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Revise Hotplug pci.rc to use the sysfs mechanism to identify PCI devices and thus make it 2.6 compatible. Really trivial shell programming, and gets rid of the can't synthesize PCI hotplug events boot-time message. I don't understand why nobody has

Re: 2.6 debian-installer

2003-12-19 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 19, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, as far as i see, the problem is about the devfs stuff, and i guess I can't see why devfs should be a problem. 2.6 kernels still support it, and anyway we are supporting 2.2 kernels which do not have it at all. -- ciao, | Marco | [3683

Re: 2.6 debian-installer

2003-12-19 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 19, Bruce Perens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did, but upstream is very slow at accepting patches. I also removed all bashisms. Please send the patches to me. Done. * Add these facilities to hotplug: o Detect parallel ports. Load the drivers first, then probe them. o

Re: Booting to floppy

2001-02-27 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Feb 27, Andrew Sharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are two floppy images in the powerpc dist that might be mentioned. One is called rescue.bin, the other boot-floppy-hfs.img, and hence a newbie might easily think that the former is the rescue floppy mentioned often in the docs, but is

ppp-udeb

2003-09-27 Thread Marco d'Itri
[Please Cc: me, as I'm not subscribed to this mailing list.] I plan to move the ppp package currently in experimental to unstable in about two weeks. Since the program has some new features and the build system has changed a bit, I would like to know which features should be removed from the udeb

Re: ppp-udeb

2003-10-18 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 18, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry to be late about this, but i think that removing plugin support is not so nice, especially as you then loose pppoatm support, and this would mean no installation over pppoatm ADSL modems. You are *very* late, as ppp-udeb was killed a few

Re: ppp-udeb

2003-10-18 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 18, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you think about Goswin's solution, and building both a ppp-udeb and a ppp+plugin-udeb package. The normal ppp-udeb is the one used by the normal d-i, while the ppp+plugin-udeb could be put together with the non-free per device .udebs on

Re: Bug#220484: speedtouch: Provide a udeb for debian-installer

2003-11-13 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 13, Mario Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WIBNI one could install Debian via an USB ADSL connection? Maybe. But this does not requires an .udeb, only that you install the needed regular .deb packages after you installed the base system. Actually, a few weeks ago I killed ppp.udeb because

Re: Bug#220484: speedtouch: Provide a udeb for debian-installer

2003-11-13 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 13, Pierre Machard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Should not we add a note in the Debian-installer FAQ or inside the install manual about drivers that required external frimware ? The drivers I packaged have this documented in README.Debian, I do not think there is any use in duplicating this

DSL netinstall

2003-11-16 Thread Marco d'Itri
[Cc'ed to the maintainers of a few related packages. Please Cc replies, as I'm not subscribed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is the log of a chat I had today on #debian-boot with mrvn (and before him with other developers). The consensus is that d-i will not support modem netinstall (both POTS and

Re: DSL netinstall

2003-11-16 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 16, Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The configurator should help the user to choose the right firmware too where needed and distributable. Again, this is only relevant for the USB modem case and so is not needed for d-i. -- ciao, | Marco | [3094 atps/tgHjZDDA] -- To

help needed with ppp-udeb

2003-12-04 Thread Marco d'Itri
The ppp-udeb .udeb package is available at http://www.bofh.it/~md/debian/ . It contains an incomplete configuration frontend, I'm asking for the help of other developers to complete it. Related question: are modules autoloaded as usual or should postinst manually modprobe all the modules needed?

Re: status of pppoe support in d-i ?

2003-12-13 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There have been some work toward pppoe support in d-i. I tried to test the ppp postinst script, but apparently I was not skilled to even manage to run it. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/USR3/src/P/ppp/ppp-2.4.2+20031127$head -3 debian/ppp-udeb.postinst #!/bin/sh -e echo

Re: status of pppoe support in d-i ?

2003-12-15 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which one of the images? How big will it be? Is the netinstall initrd full? I see no reason to put it on the CD initrd, but it can be added to the What is the CD initrd used for? Do you mean the hd-media initrd? business card CD, where it will be available to the

Bug#265183: pppoe workaround of the post-reboot problem

2004-09-20 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 20, Eduard Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Bug#265183: pppoe workaround of the post-reboot problem

2004-09-22 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 23, Vassilii Khachaturov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marco has pretty much summed it up. I fail to see though why the modem asking the host to consider the modem the default gateway is a bug. The routing Because the modem is not a gateway and will not work as such? I think that to add

Bug#265183: pppoe workaround of the post-reboot problem

2004-09-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 23, Vassilii Khachaturov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is a gateway and does work as such. Did I not write in my last e-mail that *without* starting pppoe one can reach the provider's WAN via the default route going via the speedtouch? Then the modem is configured as a router and you

Bug#265183: pppoe workaround of the post-reboot problem

2004-09-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 23, Vassilii Khachaturov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then the modem is configured as a router and you don't need need PPTP at all... Marco, you seem to have forgotten another portion of the info I had mentioned earlier in the thread (to another portion of the same mail I had referred

Bug#265183: pppoe workaround of the post-reboot problem

2004-09-25 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 24, Vassilii Khachaturov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then you are not using PPTP to your modem but to your ISP, your modem is behaving correctly and you don't need pppoeconf at all, because there is no way we can know the details of PPTP tunneling used by every provider. pppoe does run

DSL netinstall instructions

2004-06-06 Thread Marco d'Itri
http://dsl.linux.it/DebianNetinstall Comments and improvements are welcome (but please do not make the document become a PPP-HOWTO...) BTW, I would *really* appreciate pointers to the lists of packages (both .debs and .udebs) available in each image. -- ciao, | Marco | [6644 sfxnnFmaq3Rh6]

Re: Install via PPPoE

2004-06-10 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't been able to find any info on how to install Sarge through the Internet using PPPoE to connect. Is this possible yet? If so how? I haven't been able to test the latest test candidate because Virtual PC can't initialize the virtual switch. Any pointers

Re: Bug#244978: is usbutils ever needed?

2004-06-11 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know much about this stuff, but I've been told that on the 2.6 kernel, lack of usbutils results in hotplug complaining that it can't synthesize root hub events. No, it works the other way: usbutils is needed for *2.4* kernels only, on 2.6 kernels sysfs is used.

Re: Install via PPPoE

2004-06-11 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The TC1 i386 netinst iso contains: Only the netinst iso? This sucks, I tought we agreed to add ppp-udeb to the netboot image. There is no reason to put ppp-udeb and ppp-modules*udeb on the 110 MB ISO image, because it will be easier to install the base system and then

Bug#253814: please add ppp-udeb and ppp-modules to the netboot image

2004-06-11 Thread Marco d'Itri
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Tags: d-i These packages are needed for PPPoE network installs. -- ciao, | Marco | [6719 trvoVw.0KIbY6] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#253813: please remove pppoeconf and pppoe from netinst.iso

2004-06-11 Thread Marco d'Itri
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Tags: d-i pppoe is considered deprecated and should be removed from the image, the usual ppp package is the preferred way to use the PPPoE protocol. pppoeconf should be removed as well because it supports only the pppoe package. -- ciao, | Marco |

Re: Install via PPPoE

2004-06-11 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Only the netinst iso? This sucks, I tought we agreed to add ppp-udeb to the netboot image. Aren't you confusing the netboot image with the businesscard image? No, I'm not. It sucks a bit less, but it's still annoying. -- ciao, Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#253814: please add ppp-udeb and ppp-modules to the netboot image

2004-06-11 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jun 11, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there an agreement that the netboot image is a correct image for pppoe installs? That seems rather out of its scope to me. I tought we had one the last time we discussed this... PPPoE support needs everything available in the netboot image (i.e.

Bug#253814: please add ppp-udeb and ppp-modules to the netboot image

2004-06-11 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jun 11, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PPPoE support needs everything available in the netboot image (i.e. the drivers for ethernet cards) and nothing else than ppp-udeb and the ppp kernel modules package[1], so it looks quite appropriate to me. If you've netbooted a machine, then

Re: PPP / PPPoE / APT sources

2004-06-17 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wrote a tutorial on installing via PPPoE today. It's not 100% complete yet but it has details all the way up to configuring PPPoE to connect to the internet. No, it's wrong. You just explained how to install the distribution and THEN how to configure networking, and

Re: PPP / PPPoE / APT sources

2004-06-18 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The businesscard is the 50Mb CD image and does NOT have the complete system to be installed from CD ROM. You need network to use that one. Yes, but it contains the ppp-udeb package which allows setting up a PPPoE connection. -- ciao, Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: RFC: discover 1 - 2 transition plan for Debian

2004-03-16 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 03:37:50PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Jeff Bailey] I'm curious, though. The new hotplug seems to have the goal of replacing discover. It may make sense to use that instead of discover2 on 2.6 based systems (since it's likely that everyone will want

Re: RFC: discover 1 - 2 transition plan for Debian

2004-03-16 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Mar 16, Petter Reinholdtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually I consider discover broken by design because it needs a proprietary database which must be updated for each driver added to the kernel and for each new device supported by each driver. What do you mean by proprietary database

Re: RFC: discover 1 - 2 transition plan for Debian

2004-03-16 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Mar 16, Jeff Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How difficult is this blacklisting to do? Is filing bugs against the hotplug package sufficient? Yes, the name of the module has to be added to /etc/hotplug/blacklist. Please provide a detailed explanation of why the blacklisting is needed in the

Re: RFC: discover 1 - 2 transition plan for Debian

2004-03-16 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Mar 16, Jeff Licquia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Which XFree86 driver works with my video card? - How do I format PostScript to talk to my printer? - What software do I need to install for my new scanner to work? - What package contains the special tweak utilities for my laptop? -

Re: RFC: discover 1 - 2 transition plan for Debian

2004-03-16 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Mar 16, Jeff Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not saying that there is no use for discover, but that hotplug is more suitable to manage loading of kernel drivers (i.e. just about everything which appears in /sys/). By looking at this, can we assume that it's uncontested that discover

Re: Sarge/beta-3 on a RS6000/7025-F50 (PPC 604e, CHRP)

2004-03-20 Thread Marco d'Itri
In linux.debian.maint.boot Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cool. BTW, is there anything particular needed for a PReP partition ? Or No, it only needs to be a 4 MB raw partition of type 0x41. I believe that we may create a PReP-bootloader-installer or something which would take care of

Re: Sarge/beta-3 on a RS6000/7025-F50 (PPC 604e, CHRP)

2004-03-22 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Mar 22, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, wait... we really want to use yaboot. And, are you sure yaboot works on PReP machines ? Not on CHRP boxes I really don't know. But at least on CHRP machines it *should* be used. I used to dd the kernel on my B50 but had to stop after

module-init-tools-udeb

2004-03-22 Thread Marco d'Itri
I uploaded it at http://www.bofh.it/~md/debian/, please check it and let me know if I can upload it. (Kudos to Joey Hess for the new features in debhelper 4.2 which make building udebs trivial.) -- ciao, | Marco | [5257 or6wJLNXSBgYQ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: module-init-tools-udeb

2004-03-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Mar 23, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I uploaded it at http://www.bofh.it/~md/debian/, please check it and let me know if I can upload it. Am I blind, or did you forget to upload the actual udeb? Oops... done. Anyway: debian/module-init-tools-udeb |-- DEBIAN | `-- control |-- etc

Bug#248820: Install Report [Virus checked]

2004-05-13 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 13, Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marco, what's the status of your ppp udeb? It should work (except that resolv.conf is not updated), but AFAIK nobody ever tested it. BTW, the ppp kernel modules udeb should be removed from images on which ppp-udeb is not available... --

Re: Sarge Install Report

2004-05-14 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 14, Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marco, seems we've found a tester for your ppp udeb. Can you provide some help? No, I do not maintain nor support pppoeconf, and by the time he runs it ppp-udeb is obviously not needed anymore. -- ciao, | Marco | [6284 diyTn13iBB0PA] --

Re: Sarge Install Report

2004-05-14 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 14, James Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it's possible that there is a problem with kernel 2.6.3? Maybe pppoeconf or other ppp tools that adjust the routes table do that properly, but the kernel doesn't fix them up and make them active immediately? No. -- ciao, | Marco

Re: A design draft for a debconf based PPP/PPPoE configurator

2004-05-19 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about discussing this kind of things with the ppp maintainer? I only read debian-boot from time to time. pppconfig should load stuff like serial_cs and the PPP modules when it starts. No, it should not. Modules should be autoloaded by modprobe and/or detect/hotplug.

Re: Packages fixing RC bugs frozen due to having udebs

2008-08-06 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: About udev .. I was mostly out last week and I'll gather some information about its status and if it's OK I send a mail to debian-release ml asking for the unblocking. Hello Otavio, any news on this? I keep doing new uploads, but as soon as it will be old enough to

please hint udev

2008-09-04 Thread Marco d'Itri
. (Closes: #493865) * Remove /lib/udev/rules.d/ from the udeb. (Closes: #494458) -- Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:38:26 +0200 -- ciao, Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: please hint udev

2008-09-04 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 04, Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-09-04 14:21]: * Move in the udeb /lib/debian-installer-startup.d/S02udev to /lib/debian-installer/start-udev because udev will now be started before the busybox init. Patch by Jérémy

Re: installation-reports: modprobe does not find kernel modules

2006-05-28 Thread Marco d'Itri
The modprobe command bundled in d-i environment does not work out of the box. If one starts the installer in expert mode and skips directly to the Load installer components from CD menu item, chooses a kernel module (let's say crypto modules) after the package's installation attempting to run

Re: installation-reports: modprobe does not find kernel modules

2006-05-28 Thread Marco d'Itri
reassign 369256 installation-reports thanks On May 29, Eddy Petri??or [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is module-init-tools-udeb the package which provides modprobe in the d-i environment, right? So it is the logical choice. Not so logical, actually. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description:

Re: Debian IRC channels moving to OFTC....we shoudl do something

2006-06-03 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After tha announcement of irc.debian.org being moved to OFTC, I think we should take care of moving #debian-boot there. Why? -- ciao, Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian IRC channels moving to OFTC....we shoudl do something

2006-06-04 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After tha announcement of irc.debian.org being moved to OFTC, I think we should take care of moving #debian-boot there. Why? Because it makes sense to have the Debian Installer development channel on the Debian IRC server. People used OFTC for development channels even

Re: ppp-udeb debconf translations and D-I levels

2006-07-15 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 15, Christian Perrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and, in agreement with the maintainer, is allowed to handle l10n bug reports and commit fixes in the package's VCS repository. VCS are not an option since I have not found yet a way to make them deal in an useful way with DBS packages

Re: ppp-udeb debconf translations and D-I levels

2006-07-15 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 15, Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure. Including it by default also means pulling in the dependencies (total installed size ~0.5 MB). Which dependencies? ppp-udeb is 100 KB. Anyway, it would be useful to know this now. Either ppp-udeb goes in an install image or we save

Re: ppp-udeb debconf translations and D-I levels

2006-07-15 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 15, Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was talking about _installed_ size which is 276 KB for i386. Why does this matter? For low-memory systems? Dependencies that are pulled in additionally are ppp-modules (152 KB) and serial-modules (60 KB). serial-modules is obviously useless if

Re: ppp-udeb debconf translations and D-I levels

2006-07-16 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ADSL does not imply PPPoE though. I have ADSL too, but don't need PPPoE. In some countries (e.g. DE, IT) is always does for consumer connections. -- ciao, Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#352610: Please create a udeb for ntpdate

2006-07-16 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 15, Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this libcrypto dependency strictly needed (what for) or could the udeb be built in a way that it's needed? libcrypto0.9.8-udeb appears to be about a meg in size while ntpdate has less than 50K. It's still very big. For d-i we should use

Re: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#352610: Please create a udeb for ntpdate

2006-07-16 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 16, Kurt Roeckx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's still very big. For d-i we should use a simpler SNTP-only client, which would not be bigger than a few KB. sntp was never part of the debian ntp package, and has license problems so is removed in the current svn version. As it is in the

Re: Persistent network devices in Debian Installer

2006-08-06 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 06, Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And it seems to me we may also be missing /lib/udev/net.agent. If d-i does not have ifupdown then it's not needed. (It should really live in the ifupdown package, but I have not been able to persuade aj to take it...) I understand that persistent

Bug#384248: installation-report: Almost successful Etch installation with di-beta3

2006-08-24 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 24, Dmitry Semyonov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What could be done here? eciadsl (is this the only available package for USB DSL modems?) + pppoe + dependencies should be included on netinst CD. eciadsl documentation should be improved, and D-I should detect DSL modems automatically.

Bug#384248: installation-report: Almost successful Etch installation with di-beta3

2006-08-26 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 26, Christian Perrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe it's still time to try working to support such modems from the installer, through the ppp-udeb and all that kind of stuff. It's not practical. Either it can work in the installer without fiddling or it's easier for the user to install

Re: udevd-event[1478]: rename_net_if: error changing net interface name eth1_temp to eth0: timeout

2006-09-06 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |udevd-event[1478]: rename_net_if: error changing net interface name eth1_temp to eth0: timeout Please do not open bugs against udev unless you have verified that you are using the latest release and first deleted z25_persistent-net.rules. The version of udev currently

Re: /sys/class/net/lo missing, no lo interface

2006-09-15 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Installation went fine, but after reboot, the network startup fails somehow and the box comes up with no network interface, the output from the ifconfig command is empty. Please try updating the package udev to the version currently in unstable. *And* then delete

Bug#533384: do not add ff02::3 to /etc/hosts

2009-06-16 Thread Marco d'Itri
Package: netcfg Version: 0.66 Severity: normal Please remove the ff02::3 address from netcfg.h, it is not actually assigned and the same change has already been done in netbase. Reference: http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv6-multicast-addresses/ -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description:

Re: wait for the boot device

2009-06-25 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jun 25, Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu wrote: Any word on this? I'd like to get an explanation from the kernel maintainers about why this would be needed (and it would be needed in my package). -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: wait for the boot device

2009-07-19 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 19, Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu wrote: Now that a kernel (and initramfs-tools) maintainer gave the explanation you requested, how do you think we could proceed with this? As I explained, I will consider this after I will have finished the next upload. I'd like to add that udevsettle

Re: wait for the boot device

2009-07-19 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 19, Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu wrote: If you need udevsettle anywhere else than after running udevtrigger then something is either buggy or broken by design. Really? So is /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/mdadm (from the mdadm package) wrong, or something else buggy or

Re: wait for the boot device

2009-07-20 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 20, martin f krafft madd...@debian.org wrote: 1. use --run to start arrays as soon as possible, or only start an array when it's completely assembled? Why wait? 2. when can we assume that the arrays are ready to be started? When all members have appeared. 3. how does the rest of the

Bug#542282: firmware.agent broken with current udev

2009-08-18 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 18, Joey Hess jo...@debian.org wrote: This no longer works; PHYSDEVDRIVER is not set. I think $PHYSDEVDRIVER has been deprecated for ages. In turn this breaks check-missing-firmware, so it never tries to load firmware. What about using /dev/.udev/firmware-missing/ instead? -- ciao,

Bug#542282: firmware.agent broken with current udev

2009-08-18 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 19, Joey Hess jo...@debian.org wrote: hw-detect now uses an unmodified firmware.agent from stock udev. If you add the file back to udev-udeb we can remove it from hw-detect. OK, will happen in the next upload. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

udev 146 in experimental

2009-08-22 Thread Marco d'Itri
is * installed. * Stop copying /etc/udev/rules.d/ in the initramfs. * Renamed some rules files for uniformity with other distributions: 50-udev.rules = 50-udev-default.rules, 95-late.rules = 95-udev-late.rules. -- Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it Sat, 22 Aug 2009 05:50:20 +0200 [1] just

Bug#543256: Make installing recommends optional

2009-08-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 23, Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org wrote: I think the use case is users who are being control freaks about the set of packages on their systems. If the set of packages being pulled in as recommends is *wrong* (they don't fit the Policy definition of Recommends), bugs should be filed

please unblock module-init-tools

2009-08-29 Thread Marco d'Itri
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Bug#558823: /dev/disk/by-uuid not populated in d-i with RAID

2009-12-02 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 30, Martin Michlmayr t...@cyrius.com wrote: into it again. Normally I don't use RAID but today I did, so I'm wondering if it's related to that. Yes, because the udev rules do not deal with md* devices. The mdadm udeb needs to ship an appropriate rules file like the plain deb does. --

Bug#558823: /dev/disk/by-uuid not populated in d-i with RAID

2009-12-02 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 02, Martin Michlmayr t...@cyrius.com wrote: Okay, thanks. I guess the same applies to the lvm2 udeb? Any other Yes. udebs that will need such rules? Any one which ships in the .deb rules also needed in d-i? -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#403136: XServe G5 has no hardware deffect, so this *IS* a udev bug :/

2007-01-26 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jan 26, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) write a program writing to stdout and dropping the actual error message somewhere. Just add something like this to the top of the affected scripts: exec /dev/xxx.log 21 -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

please ship a complete /etc/networks

2007-02-02 Thread Marco d'Itri
retitle 399293 please ship a complete /etc/networks reassign 399293 netcfg thanks Please fix this in time for etch or many systems will never get the complete set of default entries. This is what netbase puts in /etc/networks if it does not exist: default 0.0.0.0 loopback

Bug#407460: USB ethernet interface renamed after installation on NSLU2 which causes the system to be inaccessible

2007-02-12 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Feb 12, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem seems as simple as that the ipx4xx driver is *not* included in d-i, but is included in the installed kernel; so in the installer, the module is never loaded resulting in the USB adapter getting the eth0 name, but after a reboot

Bug#407460: USB ethernet interface renamed after installation on NSLU2 which causes the system to be inaccessible

2007-02-12 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Feb 12, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, wait... When a new network interface is added it will get the next available name, this is a supported configuration. Ok, so this is true when the built-in device is loaded first at boot time and is initially assigned eth0, there is no

Bug#407460: USB ethernet interface renamed after installation on NSLU2 which causes the system to be inaccessible

2007-02-12 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Feb 12, Gordon Farquharson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will udev add this new rule to /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules ? Since no new rules are Yes, this is the whole point. being added on my test system, does this tells whether something like DRIVERS==?* is matching or not ?

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-06 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Mar 06, Robert Millan [ackstorm] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I urge you to reconsider severity of this problem. There's another situation that makes it much worse: The correct solution is to make d-i use labels in fstab and to find the root file system. udev has not much to do with this. --

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-07 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Mar 07, Robert Millan [ackstorm] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Labels are not well tested and a source of problems indeed. The /dev/disk/by-*/ devices are well tested and I do not know about problems posed by them. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-07 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Mar 07, peter green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: by-uuid contains my two ext3 partitions but not my swap partition, it also seems like it may be vulnerable to becoming confused. Only if the admin is a moron and keeps around multiple file systems cloned with dd. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc

Re: Bug#421805: installation-reports: Network setup incorrect after installation

2007-05-01 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 01, Frank Lenaerts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Searched for similar bugreports and found out that Debian bug #394047 seems to resemble it. My system has eth0 (on-board) and eth{1,2,3,4} (a qfe card). Which uses the same MAC address for all interfaces. Your system sucks, sorry. You can

Bug#262941: pppoe problems = d-i does not install resolvconf

2004-08-04 Thread Marco d'Itri
I found at july debian-users list archive that d-i is not installing resolvconf package. And that it is the main cause of pppoe problems. No, it's not. ppp or pppoe do NOT depend on resolvconf. -- ciao, | Marco | [7440 fiI0Mh1yMeKQA] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

preseeding not working

2008-04-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
Why? I uploaded the log at http://www.bofh.it/~md/syslog and the preseeding file at http://www.bofh.it/~md/preseed.cfg . It says that it correctly loaded the preseeding file, but the options are apparently not being updated (e.g. d-i debian-installer/country). Then choose-mirrors crashes and

Re: preseeding not working

2008-04-24 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Apr 24, Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then choose-mirrors crashes and burn trying to download http://ftp.debian.org(null)/dists/etch/... For future reference: Frans later explained that I was using the preseeing data for lenny, which had a bad value for mirror/country and apparently

Bug#477701: I want my gettys back!

2008-04-24 Thread Marco d'Itri
Package: finish-install Severity: wishlist Please add a preseedable option to NOT disable the /dev/tty[0-9] gettys when the system is installed over a serial console. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#477700: please add localhost as an alias for ::1 like netbase does

2008-04-24 Thread Marco d'Itri
Package: netcfg Severity: normal Tags: patch Rationale and supporting references are in #427067. --- netcfg.h.orig 2008-01-18 12:20:02.0 +0100 +++ netcfg.h2008-04-24 19:00:33.0 +0200 @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ #define IPV6_HOSTS \ # The following lines are desirable for IPv6

Re: Confusion about /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider file.

2008-05-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please file a bug report about this against ppp-udeb with severity minor and I'll look into it. Make sure you include the info above as that does seem to explain the difference. It's just a name. Don't sweat over it. -- ciao, Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Considerations for lilo removal

2008-06-17 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jun 17, Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frans Pop wrote: AFAIK grub (at least the default legacy version) also still has problems with / on XFS. That's the one other case where D-I automatically falls back to lilo. I think you mean /boot on XFS. Having / as XFS seems to work fine for

Re: Bug#487764: closed by Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bug#487764: fixed in udev 0.124-1)

2008-07-07 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 07, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: udev is already frozen as part of the base freeze. Do you hope to get a freeze exception for this new upstream release? If not, before the next I definitely hope to get multiple exceptions later, or lenny will have quite a crappy udev... Hmm,

Re: How to use PPP to install Debian?

2004-11-07 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PPP is not supported for the first stage install, so get a netinst image instead. What am I building ppp-udeb for, then? -- ciao, Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to use PPP to install Debian?

2004-11-08 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 08, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marco d'Itri wrote: What am I building ppp-udeb for, then? Well we would like to support it eventually, it's a matter of getting a frontend written and integrating it with the ret of the installer though. There /is/ a configuration frontend

Re: How to use PPP to install Debian?

2004-11-09 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: also sprach Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.11.08.0946 +0100]: Well we would like to support it eventually, it's a matter of getting a frontend written and integrating it with the ret of the installer though. There /is/ a configuration frontend. What's missing

Re: How to use PPP to install Debian?

2004-11-09 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, you are understanding this wrongly. He's talking about the ppp _udeb_. That means 1st stage. This is the optional d-i module that can be selected for installation during 'load installer components'. The only PPP module I see there is ppp-modules. And it has no

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