Re: Debian Installer Bullseye RC 3 release

[Samuel Thibault]

Hello,

Kenneth Schack Banner wrote:
> The torrent mirror seems to have a bug, i was not able to download the
> unofficial release using a bittorrent clinet, but i was able to download it
> with http/ftp

This is completely out of our area :)

I don't know who would be best to contact, but probably
debian-...@lists.debian.org
will know.

> Under the installation I used high contrast mode and am wondering if its
> possible to use "automatically login" due to my next bug?

Mmm, I don't think there is something like that implemented already, but
I'll not as a TODO.

> After the installation and a reboot i meet a login window, where im not able
> to use the magnifier (super + mouse wheel) and either invert colors (super +
> m/n)

Indeed, now submitted upstream

https://github.com/canonical/lightdm/issues/206
https://github.com/canonical/lightdm/issues/207

Note that you have the F1 and F2 shortcuts which provide limited visual
tricks.

> The other bug i experienced is if i use F2 + alt (run program)
> And i type terminal and hit enter i get an error, there is 1 choice
> "mate-terminal".

Well, yes. I don't think they will consider it as a bug, because
apparently the text field is supposed to be the command name, not just
an approximation of the name, even if the list below provides hints as
what an approximation could be.

> In high contrast there is maby more icons there is not in high contast, one
> i found was Firefox.

Indeed.

For firefox that's because we have firefox-esr. I have reported it as
https://bugs.debian.org/992982

For the others it's just missing icons, I have reported it as
https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-themes/issues/293

Thanks for your reports,
Samuel

Re: Debian Installer Bullseye RC 3 release

[Kenneth Schack Banner]

Hi,

I just installed it and i have 4 bugs.

The torrent mirror seems to have a bug, i was not able to download the 
unofficial release using a bittorrent clinet, but i was able to download 
it with http/ftp


Under the installation I used high contrast mode and am wondering if its 
possible to use "automatically login" due to my next bug?


After the installation and a reboot i meet a login window, where im not 
able to use the magnifier (super + mouse wheel) and either invert colors 
(super + m/n)


The other bug i experienced is if i use F2 + alt (run program)
And i type terminal and hit enter i get an error, there is 1 choice 
"mate-terminal".


So i tried just to type fire and it found firefox and i was able to 
launch it.


In high contrast there is maby more icons there is not in high contast, 
one i found was Firefox.


Best regards
Kenneth


Den 02.08.2021 kl. 15.10 skrev Samuel Thibault:

Hello,

Cyril Brulebois, le lun. 02 août 2021 11:59:51 +0200, a ecrit:

The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the third
release candidate of the installer for Debian 11 "Bullseye".

Now is the last opportunity to make some tests before the release which
is planned to happen around 14-15th August.

http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/bullseye_di_rc3/amd64/iso-cd/debian-bullseye-DI-rc3-amd64-netinst.iso

Samuel

Re: Debian Installer Bullseye RC 3 release

[Samuel Thibault]

Hello,

Cyril Brulebois, le lun. 02 août 2021 11:59:51 +0200, a ecrit:
> The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the third
> release candidate of the installer for Debian 11 "Bullseye".

Now is the last opportunity to make some tests before the release which
is planned to happen around 14-15th August.

http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/bullseye_di_rc3/amd64/iso-cd/debian-bullseye-DI-rc3-amd64-netinst.iso

Samuel

Debian Installer Bullseye RC 3 release

[Cyril Brulebois]

The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the third
release candidate of the installer for Debian 11 "Bullseye".

Let's start with some news regarding firmware support (#989863):
 - We don't want to leave users in the dark if the installed system
   doesn't boot correctly (e.g. black screen, garbled display). We
   mentioned that possibility in the installation guide[2], and listed
   a few workarounds[3] that might help log in anyway.
 - We also documented an isenkram-based procedure[3] which lets users
   detect and fix missing firmware on their systems, in an automated
   fashion. Of course, one has to weigh the pros and cons of using
   that tool since it's very likely that it will need to install
   non-free packages.

In addition to those documentation efforts, the non-free installer
images that include firmware packages[4] have been improved so that
they can anticipate the need for firmware in the installed system
(e.g. firmware for AMD or Nvidia graphics cards, or newer generations
of Intel audio hardware).


Improvements in this release


 * cdrom-detect:
- Tell hw-detect not to warn and prompt about missing firmware:
  finding and mounting the ISO image happens so early that nothing
  could be done about missing firmware at this stage anyway
  (#991587).
 * hw-detect:
- Add support for installing additional firmware packages if items
  in the udev database match some modalias-based patterns, based
  on DEP-11 metadata (#989863).
- Make sure to reload the appropriate kernel module after having
  injected some firmware: there might be some discrepancy as can
  be seen with rtw_8821ce vs. rtw88_8821ce (#973733).
- Improve firmware-related logging by removing obsolete code,
  removing duplicates, adjusting format strings.
- Add support for ignoring some particular firmware files that
  might be neither actually required, nor packaged; start with
  iwl-debug-yoyo.bin, requested by iwlwifi (#969264, #966218).
- Make it possible for callers to disable warning and prompting
  about missing firmware.
 * debian-cd:
- Add brltty and espeakup to all images from netinst up (#678065).
- Generate firmware metadata from AppStream/DEP-11 metadata, and
  use it when building a media tree (#989863).
 * debian-installer:
- Bump Linux kernel ABI to 5.10.0-8.
 * pcmciautils:
- Update /etc/pcmciautils/ dir to /etc/pcmcia/ in udeb (#980271).
 * udpkg:
- Add locking for the status file, avoiding failures on the first
  installation step when multiple consoles are involved (#987368).


Hardware support changes


 * linux:
- arm64: Add pwm-rockchip to fb-modules udeb.
- arm64: Add fusb302, tcpm and typec to usb-modules udeb.
- armhf: Fix network detection on various i.MX6 boards (#982270).
- armhf: Add mdio-aspeed to nic-modules (#991262).
- s390x: Fix console name to match device (#961056).


Localization status
===

 * 78 languages are supported in this release.
 * Full translation for 36 of them.


Known bugs in this release
==

 * No known major bugs yet.

See the errata[5] for details and a full list of known issues.


Feedback for this release
=

We need your help to find bugs and further improve the installer, so
please try it. Installation images, and everything else you will need
are available at our web site[6].


Thanks
==

The Debian Installer team thanks everybody who has contributed to this
release.


 1. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Team
 2. https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/amd64/ch02s02
 3. 
https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/amd64/ch06s04#completing-installed-system
 4. 
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/
 5. https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/errata
 6. https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer


Cheers,
-- 
Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant


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