date:20040229


 Some action for awaking translators may be needed (no offense
 intended here).
 
 Spanish

Good news : Spanish is again on its way towards 100%.



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Re: release status

On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 08:39:23PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
[...]
 There is not a lot of time in 3 weeks for a protracted string freeze,
 so I would like to know whter one seems necessary at all, and whether
 a very short one, such as a 2 day string freeze, would be enough to at
 least get the top 20 languages to 100%.

You are certainly right, but I would much prefer having a 1 week string
freeze to make sure that people will not be tempted to delay reviewing
of English templates until the last minute.  Developers should use to
take care of translatable text before it is too late.
If some programs (like partman) are in a hurry, their string freeze
might be shortened or even cancelled, but they should be exceptions and
not the rule.

Denis


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Re: To partman or not to partman (was Re: release status)

On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 08:11:42AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
 Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
 
  What say you gentlemen?
 
 Based on what I know of partman and with newbie installation in mind,
 I would definitely say go fo partman as default on i386 and as an
 option on other archs (except powerpc if it works OK for them?).

Why do you say except powerpc ? Because it currently seems broken ? 

I would definitively want to go full partman for powerpc, it is the
thing that makes more sense. Maybe it isn't even broken, just that i
wasn't patient enough to wait for it to show something on the screen
after a few minutes.

 It's some time since I tested it. The only big problem I found was the
 complexity of menus which sometimes could leave the user lost.
 
 As André wrote, making it the default for beta3 will immediately
 trigger a lot of testing. I hope Anton is ready for this (we will all
 help, of course, but basically, partman is his beast).

And i will be willing to test all the stuff that needs testing for
powerpc, and fix it if needed.

Friendly,

Sven Luther


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Re: partman review

On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 12:34:03AM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
 On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 01:55:17PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
  
  Mmm, how long is this delay ?
 
 It depends.  I don't expect it to be more than 30 sec in the worst
 case.  If the delay you observed is longer then maybe you discovered
 some bug?  If this happens again, please send me the output of the
 command ps as well as the contents of the file /var/log/partman.

Ok, here they are attached.

  Yeah, it should be a arch/subarch dependant thingy. Also, in some case,
  the hardware can use different partition table formats, but this may
  have influence on what other OS you can run on the OS together. Maybe a
  possibility to add a per subarch information screen would be nice.
 
 OK.
 
  And reiserfs seems to have been broken in the past, not sure though.
 
 Does this mean it is better to use external tool rather than parted to
 format reiserfs?

I don't know, i think not, we just have to make sure that everything is
well in sync. I don't remember the details though.

 Actualy I have observed parted to fail to format even ext2.  That's
 why now partman tries to use mkfs.ext2 if parted fails to format a
 partition.

Yeah, me too, but this was probably due to a problem with the amiga
patch, and libparted being broken when a filesystem only provided probe,
but not clober and create. This should be fixed now though.

Also, one of my plans was to fix ext3 partition creation in parted, but
i didn't really have time for it, will find time next week.

Friendly,

Sven Luther


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Re: partman review

On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 12:34:03AM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
 On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 01:55:17PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
  
  Mmm, how long is this delay ?
 
 It depends.  I don't expect it to be more than 30 sec in the worst
 case.  If the delay you observed is longer then maybe you discovered
 some bug?  If this happens again, please send me the output of the
 command ps as well as the contents of the file /var/log/partman.

Arg, forgot them, naturally. Here they are :

  PID  Uid VmSize Stat Command
1 root476 S   init   
2 rootSW  [keventd]
3 rootSWN [ksoftirqd_CPU0]
4 rootSW  [kswapd]
5 rootSW  [bdflush]
6 rootSW  [kupdated]
9 rootSW  [knodemgrd_0]
   10 rootSW  [khubd]
   46 root448 S   /sbin/syslogd -m 0 -O /var/log/syslog 
   49 root456 S   /sbin/klogd -c 2 
   59 root492 S   /bin/sh /sbin/debian-installer 
   60 root328 S   /usr/bin/tail -f /var/log/messages 
   61 root336 S   /usr/bin/tail -f /var/log/syslog 
   62 root612 S   /bin/sh 
  194 root728 S   /usr/bin/bterm -f /unifont.bgf -l C.UTF-8 /sbin/di-main-menu 
  195 root   3888 S   /usr/share/debconf/frontend -o d-i /usr/bin/main-menu 
  196 root592 S   /usr/bin/main-menu 
  974 root596 S   /sbin/dhclient -e eth0 
 2824 rootSW  [jfsIO]
 2825 rootSW  [jfsCommit]
 2826 rootSW  [jfsSync]
 2836 root620 S   udpkg --configure partman 
 2837 root548 S   /bin/sh /var/lib/dpkg/info/partman.postinst configure 
 2838 root672 S   /bin/sh /bin/partman 
 2872 root656 S   /bin/sh /lib/partman/init.d/30parted 
 2879 root868 R   parted_server 
 2901 root580 R   ps  

parted_server: === Starting the server
parted_server: main_loop: iteration 1
parted_server: Opening infifo
/lib/partman/init.d/30parted: IN: OPEN hd-1 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
parted_server: Read command: OPEN
parted_server: command_open()
parted_server: Request to open hd-1
parted_server: Opening outfifo
parted_server: OUT: OK


parted_server: OUT: OK


parted_server: Closing infifo and outfifo

Hope you can do something with that, and i waited a bit more than a
minute.

Particularity is naturally that the disk has an amiga partition table : 

GNU Parted 1.6.6
Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Free Software
Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public
License.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the
implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
See the GNU General Public License for
more details.

Using /dev/hda
(parted) p
Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-38166.679 megabytes
Disk label type: amiga
MinorStart   End Filesystem  Name  Flags
1  0.492199.828  ext2boot  
2199.828   4000.007  ext3morphos   boot
3   4000.008   5000.132  ext3root  hidden
4   5000.133  13000.148  ext3usr   hidden
5  13000.148  13999.781  ext3tmp   hidden
6  13999.781  14999.906  ext3var   hidden
7  14999.906  16000.031  linux-swap  swap  hidden
8  16000.031  2.039  ext3cache hidden
9  2.039  38166.679  ext3home  hidden

Should be ok though.

Friendly,

Sven Luther

Friendly,

Sven Luther


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Re: To partman or not to partman (was Re: release status)

2004-02-29 Thread Martin Michlmayr

* Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-02-29 14:25]:
  Based on what I know of partman and with newbie installation in mind,
  I would definitely say go fo partman as default on i386 and as an
  option on other archs (except powerpc if it works OK for them?).
 
 Why do you say except powerpc ? Because it currently seems broken ? 

Read the sentence again.  He says he considers it the default for i386
and maybe powerpc.
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release status -- l10n enhanced status

Below is a tab-separated list with a
detailed status of d-i translations as of this morning.

Attached is the same file in CSV format (for OpenOffice import).

I added to the usual percentages you may find on Denis Barbier status
pages, some data about additionnal packages:

-po-debconf translations for
 -console-data (keyboard names used by kbd-config)
 -discover (templates probably useless in d-i, however)
 -exim4 (2nd stage configuration)
 -popularity-contest (templates show up when installing a base system
  at high priority)
 -shadow (password setting)

-po translations (this means program output translation)
 -apt
 -aptitude
 -dpkg
 -newt (buttons Yes/No/Cancel/Back on all screens)

You may see that, even for languages which have reached 100%, some
work remain to be done.

Translators, please try to make these translations as they will lower
the english output for a base system install.

Some of the missing or incomplete translations are indeed waiting in
the BTS. The most important concerns are:

-shadow package--several translations are waiting for an upload. I'm 
 considering a NMU for this
-dpkg--translations do not seem to be included very quickly

lang% consistency console-data discoverexim4 popularity-contest   
 shadowapt   aptitude  dpkg  newt
 1 zh_CN 100% 100% 0%   100%0%  0%  81% 0% 
 0%  100%
10sq 100%   0% 0%   0%  0%  0%  0%  0% 
 0%  0%
 3 pt_BR 100% 100% 100% 100%66% 88% 100%92%
 99% 100%
18pl 100%   0% 0%   0%  0%  81% 98% 62%
 95% 100%
 4lt 100%   0% 0%   0%  0%  0%  0%  0% 
 0%  100%
 5ja 100% 100% 100% 100%100%88% 97% 4% 
 94% 100%
 6hu 100% 100% 0%   0%  0%  0%  81% 0% 
 0%  100%
 7fr 100% 100% 100% 100%100%100%100%15%
 99% 100%
17fi 100%  98% 100% 100%0%  0%  0%  66%
 0%  100%
 8el 100% 100% 100% 100%0%  0%  100%0% 
 0%  100%
12cs 100%  98% 100% 100%0%  0%  100%99%
 79% 100%
 2uk  99%   0% 0%   0%  0%  0%  0%  0% 
 0%  100%
11sk  99%   0% 0%   0%  0%  0%  0%  0% 
 0%  0%
13nl  99% 100% 100% 100%100%88% 100%0% 
 95% 100%
15da  99%  98% 0%   100%100%88% 100%68%
 99% 100%
 9ca  99%  98%  0%  0%  100%100%0%  100%   
 100%
25es  96%  98% 0%   100%0%  100%92%
 95% 100%
14de  96%  98% 0%   100%66% 77% 100%0% 
 99% 100%
16pt  93%  
 
21nn  93%  
 
19ru  91%  
 
20bs  91%  
 
22it  86%  
 
23ko  80%  
 
24sv  78%  
 
26bg  77%  
 
31 zh_TW  74%  
 
27ar  74%  
 
28tr  72%  
 
30sl  71%  
 
29nb  68%  
 
32gl   5%  
 
33ga   5%  
 
34en   4%  
 
35fa   3%  
 
36se   2%  
 
37lv   2%  
 
38he   1%  
 
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Re: To partman or not to partman (was Re: release status)

Quoting Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):

  Read the sentence again.  He says he considers it the default for i386
  and maybe powerpc.
 
 Ok, then, sounds nice for me.

Yes, this is what I intended to write. The idea is : the two archs
were the newbie ratio may be high are i386 and powerpc. That's why I
think that both these should have a user-friendly partitioning program
as a default.

Other archs are probably used by people who aren't afraid by crude
fdisks interfaces.



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Re: To partman or not to partman (was Re: release status)

On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 01:19:35PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
 * Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-02-29 14:25]:
   Based on what I know of partman and with newbie installation in mind,
   I would definitely say go fo partman as default on i386 and as an
   option on other archs (except powerpc if it works OK for them?).
  
  Why do you say except powerpc ? Because it currently seems broken ? 
 
 Read the sentence again.  He says he considers it the default for i386
 and maybe powerpc.

Ok, then, sounds nice for me.

Friendly,

Sven Luther


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Shadow package translations

2004-02-29 Thread Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader

Hello Karl,

The shadow package is used during the second stage of Debian
Installer. 

Thus, having its templates properly translated in all languages
supported by Debian Installer (will be 23 to 31 languages) is an
important target.

As a d-i beta3 release is in preparation, I'd like to ask you whether
you can upload a version of the shadow package which includes all
already sent translations from the BTS (bugs 229125, 227237, 227619,
227883, 228080, 229334, 229504, 229528, 230369, 232710, 233560).

As 221151 didn't lead to any change, I think it's a bit late now for
changing templates, so please drop it. I'll send you an update for the
french translation, relative to the current templates.

If you planned templates changes, please tell us very quickly and send
us a templates.pot file so that all these pending translations may be updated.

If, for some reason, you lack time for this, some of us in the d-i
team, including myself, can help in preparing and even uploading a NMU
(or a normal upload if you can upload it).

Many thanks in advance from the whole Debian Installer team,
especially translators


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Bug#235444: base-config loops over the same questions

2004-02-29 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis

Package: base-config
Version: 2.13
Severity: normal

after successfully installing and configuring the system with
base-config, instead of letting me login to the system, base-config
restarts and makes me answer the same questions all over.

Konstantinos

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.24
Locale: LANG=el_GR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=el_GR.UTF-8

Versions of packages base-config depends on:
ii  adduser 3.51 Add and remove users and groups
ii  apt 0.5.22   Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  aptitude0.2.14-3 curses-based apt frontend
ii  bsdutils1:2.12-3 Basic utilities from 4.4BSD-Lite
ii  console-data2002.12.04dbs-29 Keymaps, fonts, charset maps, fall
ii  console-tools   1:0.2.3dbs-48Linux console and font utilities
ii  debconf 1.3.22   Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils 2.6.2Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  gettext-base0.14.1-1 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  passwd  1:4.0.3-17   Change and administer password and

-- debconf information excluded



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Sun contacts, does d-i need anything from Sun?

Hi, I talked to the Chief Technology Evangelist of Sun at the Open
Source World Conference in Malaga, Spain two weeks ago for a while.
We discussed closer cooperation and he asked what Sun can do for
Debian.  I said I'd try to find out if there's anything specific we
need from Sun (like hardware for our SPARC port), and get back to him
with a list.  Do we need any specific hardware to accelerate the d-i
port, or help from engineers about specific issues?  One thing I'll
certainly mention to him (mention again, that is; I already mentioned
it in our discussions) is that I'd like to have contacts at Sun who
can test debian-installer on a wide range of Sun hardware (SPARC,
Intel and Opteron based).  Is there anything else we need?

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Re: Shadow package translations

2004-02-29 Thread Carlos Z.F. Liu

On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 14:56:15 +0100
Christian Perrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 If, for some reason, you lack time for this, some of us in the d-i
 team, including myself, can help in preparing and even uploading a NMU
 (or a normal upload if you can upload it).
Hey, could you wait for two days before uploading it?
My zh_CN translation was finished already, but I need some time to review it
again.

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Bug#232899: marked as done (ua keymap does not work at all)

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Package: kbd-chooser
Severity: normal

  I tried to use Debian installer (netboot image) with Ukrainian
keyboard layout and found that it does not work, I cannot
enter even latin symbols with it.

  After looking into keymap file (ua.kmap) I found that
scancodes from it does not match ones from us.kmap.
After that I tried to replace ua.kmap file with ua.kmap (for KOI8-U)
and ua-utf.kmap (for UTF-8) files from console-data package
(version 2002.12.04dbs-29). With both files I can enter latin 
symbols but I cannot enter cyrillic ones.

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(forw) arch, svn.debian.org and Alioth moving

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Bug#235468: 2004-02-28: PC USB keyboard assumed to be Mac USB keyboard

2004-02-29 Thread Lee Maguire

Package: installation-reports

INSTALL REPORT

Debian-installer-version: 2004-02-28 sarge netinst CD
Date: 2004-02-29
Method: boot and install from netinst CD (in normal mode)

Machine: desktop PC
Processor: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor
Memory: 128MB
Root Device: /dev/hda1

Base System Installation Checklist:

Initial boot worked:[O]
Configure network HW:   [O]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD:  [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives:  [O]
Create file systems:[O]
Mount partitions:   [O]
Install base system:[O]
Install boot loader:[O]
Reboot: [O]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Comments/Problems:

Everything seemed fine, aside from the fact that the keymap
for my PC keyboard was automatically configured as a Mac USB keyboard
(with no prompting).

This doesn't prevent me from installing, but there are significant
differences in the UK Mac and PC keyboards for characters like (,@,etc) so
editing files with the boottime keymap can be difficult.

 syslog.info klogd: hub.c: new USB device 00:01.2-2, assigned address 2
 syslog.info klogd: input0: CHESEN USB Keyboard on usb1:2.0
 user.debug frontend: Setting debconf/language to en
 user.notice languagechooser: info: debian-installer/locale   = 'en_GB'
 user.notice languagechooser: info: languagechooser/locale   = 'en_GB'
 user.notice languagechooser: info: debian-installer/language = 'en'
 user.notice languagechooser: info: debian-installer/country  = 'GB'
 user.info main-menu[232]: INFO: Priority changed externally, setting main-menu 
default to 'high' (high)
 user.info kbd-chooser[360]: INFO: Setting debian-installer/serial-console to false
 user.info kbd-chooser[360]: INFO: choose_keymap: keymap = mac-usb-uk
 user.info kbd-chooser[360]: INFO: kbd_chooser: setting keymap mac-usb-uk

My keyboard details:

0a81  Chesen Electronics Corp.
0a810101unknown unknown  Keyboard

T:  Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=01 Dev#=  2 Spd=1.5 MxCh= 0
D:  Ver= 1.10 Cls=00(ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=0a81 ProdID=0101 Rev= 1.10
S:  Manufacturer=CHESEN
S:  Product=USB Keyboard
C:* #Ifs= 2 Cfg#= 1 Atr=a0 MxPwr=100mA
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I:  If#= 1 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=03(HID  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hid
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Bug#235444: base-config loops over the same questions

Konstantinos Margaritis wrote:
 after successfully installing and configuring the system with
 base-config, instead of letting me login to the system, base-config
 restarts and makes me answer the same questions all over.

I can't reproduce this. What does your /etc/inittab look like?
Do you have an /etc/inittab.real?

/usr/lib/base-config/menu/finish is responsible for replacing the
inittab with one that does not use base-config. Add debugging commands
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Bug#235358: marked as done (After partitioning the filesystems, the installer just waits...)

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Package: partman
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I tried to do a simple partitioning scheme with partman (1 root, 1
swap). After finishing the filesystem creation, it should begin
installing the base system. Instead it just hangs showing a blue screen
(the system is not crashed, but the installer just waits there.)
A couple of days ago this worked ok.

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This is fixed in recent uploads of partman-basicfilesystems and
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Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal


Debian-installer-version: daily snapshot dated 20040220 from the d-i website

uname -a: Linux laptop 2.4.24-1-386 #1 Wed Feb 18 19:44:56 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux

Date: Sat, Feb 21 2004 18:25 UTC+1
Method: CD based installation of the base system, updated to unstable later on

Machine: HP/Compaq nc6000 Laptop
Processor: Pentium M 1.6 GHz
Memory: 512 MB DDR
Root Device: IDE hda: FUJITSU MHT2040AH, ATA DISK drive

Root Size/partition table: 
laptop:/lib/modules# fdisk -l /dev/hda

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 5168 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes

   Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *   1135510243768+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda220335167237006007  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda313561969 4641840   83  Linux   - /
/dev/hda419702032  4762805  Extended
/dev/hda519702032  476248+  82  Linux swap

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Output of lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB (Hub #1) (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB (Hub #2) (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB (Hub #3) (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB2 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BAM/CAM PCI Bridge (rev 83)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DBM LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DBM Ultra ATA Storage Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 
03)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801DB AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4e50
02:06.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc.: Unknown device 7223
02:06.1 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc.: Unknown device 7223
02:06.2 System peripheral: O2 Micro, Inc.: Unknown device 7110
02:06.3 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc.: Unknown device 7223
02:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation: Unknown device 165e (rev 03)

Base System Installation Checklist:

Initial boot worked:[o]
Configure network HW:   [o]
Config network: [o]
Detect CD:  [o]
Load installer modules: [o]
Detect hard drives: [o]
Partition hard drives:  [o]
Create file systems:[o]
Mount partitions:   [o]
Install base system:

Re: partman review

Anton Zinoviev wrote:
 On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 12:08:03PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
  
   With make TYPE= demo I am unable to reproduce the bugs with the
   missing swap, forced ext3 and the strange /var/lib.  I suppose that
   they all have one common reason related to cdebconf.
  
  Does partman ask the filesystem type at a medium or low priority
  perhaps?
 
 No.  

This was another missing package: partman-basicfilesystems also needs to
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Bug#235488: Package: installation reports

2004-02-29 Thread Maurizio

Package: installation reports
Debian-installer-version:  file sarge-i386-netinst.iso
from:http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
uname -a: 2.4.24-i386
Date of install:26-02-2004
Method: from CD-RW obtained from file iso (sarge-i386-netinst.iso) daily
version 24-02-2004
Machine: Laptop Acer Extensa 501T
Processor: Pentium MMX 266Mhz
Memory: 96 MB
Root: device: IDE hda7
Partition Table:
major minor  #blocks  name rio rmerge rsect ruse wio wmerge wsect
wuse running use aveq
  3 09820440 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc 4743 4242 71551
18440 840 1808 21296 18670 -2 228720 42530512
  3 13036253 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0
  3 2  1 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0
  3 53140676 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 11 0 11 140 0 0
0 0 0 140 140
  3 61357461 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 5 0 34 40 3 0 24
0 0 40 40
  3 71943833 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7 4716 4212 71418
18010 837 1808 21272 18670 0 19040 36680
  3 8 337333 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part8 1 0 8 20 0 0 0 0
0 20 20
Output of  lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: ALi Corporation M1531 [Aladdin IV] (rev b3)
00:02.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV]
(rev 0a)
00:05.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ6832/6833 Cardbus Controller
(rev 34)
00:05.1 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ6832/6833 Cardbus Controller
(rev 34)
00:06.0 VGA compatible controller: Neomagic Corporation NM2160
[MagicGraph 128XD] (rev 01)
00:0b.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev 20)
00:0c.0 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 PMU (rev 09)
00:0f.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
Base System Installation Checklist:
Initial boot worked:[O]
Configure network HW: [E]
Config network: [  ]
Detected CD: [O]
Load installer modules:   [O]
Partition hard drives:   [  ]
Create file systems: [O]
Mount partitions:[O]
Install base system: [O]
Install boot loader:  [O]
Reboot:   [E]
[O]= OK, [E]=Error,   [ ]=I didn't try it

Comments:
My PCMCIA card is a  Ark Sky Link Express PA2600 well know by knoppix 
and Mandrake 9.0
this is the modules that knoppix use:
Module  Size  Used byNot tainted
autofs4 8756   1  (autoclean)
nls_iso8859-1   2876   0  (autoclean)
nls_cp437   4380   0  (autoclean)
ad1848 20812   0  (unused)
sound  55276   0  [ad1848]
soundcore   3428   2  [sound]
serial 52004   0  (autoclean)
usb-storage60960   0
usb-ohci   18184   0  (unused)
usbcore57472   1  [usb-storage usb-ohci]
af_packet  13448   0  (autoclean)
ds  6536   2
yenta_socket9408   2
pcmcia_core39712   0  [ds yenta_socket]
apm 9768   2
rtc 6940   0  (autoclean)
cloop   8068   2

I tryed to insert appropriate many times module but pcnet_cs is ever
(unused).
Any more experts friends told me that i must to recompile the kernel!
Is correct about you?


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Re: Bug#234397: marked as done (Timezone selection is too us-centric)


 I assume that you told d-i that you spoke english using the en_US
 locale. This is the default. This means there is a good chance you live
 in the US, so it is a good idea to give you a list of US timezones. If
 you had chosen some other en_* locale, or another language, you would
 have been placed in a different country and gotten an appropriate list
 for that country.

:-)

Using too US centric when not choosing his own language was
kinda funny, by the way.

Moreover, when one considers the (very low) number of US (of America, by the
way...There are *other* US...) developers compared to non-US
developers, this is *really* funny:-)



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Bug#235504: recipe menu should include simple descriptions

Package: partman-auto
Severity: wishlist
Tags: d-i

I think it would be useful to include short descriptions of what type of
systems each recipe would be good from on the menu. Something like:

simple general purpose setup: /, /home and swap
mail server: /, /usr/, /var, /var/mail, /tmp, /home and swap

Etc. The idea being that the list of partition names may not make sense
to a new user, but the system type may.

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partman-basicfilesystems override disparity

2004-02-29 Thread Debian Installer

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Bug#235505: if it's possible to make a locical partition, that should be the default

Package: partman
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i

I've gotten confused using partman several times, and ended up with
unusable free space because I had too many primary partitions. I think a
simple change can make it much harder to mess this up.

Let me explain the most recent time I messed up. I created a root I
understand that when the first partition is made, partman creates an
extended partition table after it automatically.

Next I created a second partition, for /home. It asked me if I wanted
the second partition to be primary or logical, but the default was
primary, and like a fool I took it. This meant that the logical
partition table was now unusable.

I went on to create more partitions, and ran out of primary partitions,
and could not make a logical one. So my mistake was back when I took the
default of primary for my /home partition. If it had instead defaulted
to logical, I would have used that, and done the same for my other
partitions, and not ran out of partition entries.

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Re: willing to help

2004-02-29 Thread Geert Stappers

On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 11:50:50PM +0100, Valentin Brard wrote:
 hello,

Welcome Valentin Brard,

 
 I'm Valentin Brard. I'm really interested in Linux. I've been using it 
 for several years now. I have tried several distributions and knoppix 
 helped me switching to debian (after a broken hdinstall i finally 
 installed debian from scratch).
 
 Anyways, I would like to help develop linux and debian.
 After taking a look at the sections that need some help, I found out 
 working on the installer could be a good first step.
 
 Concerning my knowledge, I am an electronics engineer. I've been working 
 in the field of video compression. I have done some hardware 
 development, but also a lot of software development, integration and 
 testing (mainly C, but also perl and others). Thus I could help for 
 development and testing. I am also a native french and german speaker, 
 so I could help for some translation if required.
 
 So droop me a line if you think I can be of any help...

Hey, that looks like the first point of

  What can I do to help?

  Debian-Installer is in need of your help. We need both C and shell hackers in 
addition to translations,
  and documentation.

  * Sign up to the debian-boot mailing list and introduce yourself.
  * Get a CVS checkout of Debian-Installer
  * Check the TODO for tasks needing attention.
  * Fix any of the d-i tagged bug reports in the Debian BTS. 

from http://www.de.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/

 
 best regards,
 
 Valentin Brard

Cheers
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Re: willing to help

2004-02-29 Thread Simon Hürlimann

Hi Valentin

Am Saturday 28 February 2004 23:50 schrieb Valentin Brard:
hello,

I'm Valentin Brard. I'm really interested in Linux. I've been using it
for several years now. I have tried several distributions and knoppix
helped me switching to debian (after a broken hdinstall i finally
installed debian from scratch).

Anyways, I would like to help develop linux and debian.
After taking a look at the sections that need some help, I found out
working on the installer could be a good first step.
Yeah, cool! Welcome!

Concerning my knowledge, I am an electronics engineer. I've been working
in the field of video compression. I have done some hardware
development, but also a lot of software development, integration and
testing (mainly C, but also perl and others). Thus I could help for
development and testing. I am also a native french and german speaker,
so I could help for some translation if required.
The most valuable ressource for finding todos is this mailinglist. d-i is in
the beta cycle in the moment. A lot of work is done. The translations are
reaching 100%. But there is, of course, still much to do...

First thing is to do an install using d-i. You will then get a feeling for the
current state of the project.

Then you could write a installation-report. A template comes with the
installation.

You could categorize installation-reports. Have a look at:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/debian-boot-200401/msg02862.html

Translation for de and fr is quite mature. There was a mail on the list with
same status information for the translations, from Christian Perrier IIRC.
(it isn't in the archive yet...the title is: release status -- l10n enhanced
status)

A hot topic is the new partitionmanager. The next beta and the release of
sarge is getting closer every day. And partman is not yet ready... Joey Hess
has filed many bugreports for it. Maybe you could help there.
See the treath started with:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/debian-boot-200402/msg01788.html

There is a call for help, with some TODOs at:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2004/debian-devel-announce-200401/msg00015.html

So droop me a line if you think I can be of any help...
Done:-)

best regards,
Valentin Brard
Gruss
Simon

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Sarge new installer | Continue does not work

2004-02-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]




I am using debian installer  sarge-i386-netinst.iso
downloaded from http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/daily/i386/20040228/

My machine: no special brand, assembled
Processor: Pentium III (Coppermine)
Memory: I do not know the command to show memory...
Root Device: IDE

I arrived to the point where a message shows: The following Linux kernel
modules were detected as matching your hardware. If you know some are
unnecessary, or cause problems, you can choose not to load them...
Actually, many ethernet modules were shown: my machine has two ethernet cards.
The modules were (I guess) right choosen  by the installer.

Well, there was NO WAY for me to continue:
- ENTER button did not react.
- the arrows were jus useful to skip from one choice to the next, from module to
module...
- C(ontinue) letter did not react.

So, I gave up.
Is it a bug, or am I too much of a beginner?
What shall I do?

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What's wrong with Denis Barbier's status pages ?

2004-02-29 Thread Andre Luis Lopes

Hi,

I use Denis Barbier's d-i translation status pages daily in order to
check if my translations are up-to-date or are needing some love.

Right know, the page for my language (pt_BR) reads :

===
  debian-installer/partman/partman-partitioning: 41t2f  [Anr Lus Lopes]
  debian-installer/partman/partman: 18t5f7u  [Andr Lus Lopes]

Missing file: tasksel/po/pt_BR.po
Missing file: tasksel/tasks/po/pt_BR.po

All debian-installer PO files merged together: pt_BR.po  855t7f4u

Global statistics: 1008t7f35u   (88%)

PO files are available at
http://people.debian.org/~barbier/d-i/l10n/pt_BR/

Files fetched and report generated on: Sun Feb 29 20:40:51 UTC 2004

If you want to update a translation, please *always* contact the previous
translator in order to prevent duplication of work.  His mail address   can
be found in the PO file.  Other informations are also available at
  http://people.debian.org/~barbier/d-i/l10n/README.txt
please read these instructions before updating PO files.
===

I've already updated partman and partman-partitioning templates and they
wouldn't show up as needing to be updated the next the page's generated.

However, the problem is the text :

===
Missing file: tasksel/po/pt_BR.po
Missing file: tasksel/tasks/po/pt_BR.po
===

I've just updated my taksel SVN repository copy and surely the files
mentioned as missing are there. Also, the pt_BR language is correctly
included into the Makefile to be built.

Could someone give me a hint as to how could be happening with these
pages ? Is this temporary know problem or should I do something else to
help ?

Regards,

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Re: What's wrong with Denis Barbier's status pages ?

On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 06:37:37PM -0300, Andre Luis Lopes wrote:
 Hi,
 
 I use Denis Barbier's d-i translation status pages daily in order to
 check if my translations are up-to-date or are needing some love.

See Wichert's post on d-d-a, svn.debian.org is moving and thus my
script cannot access to tasksel repository.
No action is needed, it should hopefully be fixed soon.

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Re: partman review

Anton Zinoviev wrote:
 I have observed misterious artifacts similar to /var/lib when I
 communicated with cdebconf from a pipe.  For example in a construction
 like this one:
 
 cat something | while read x; do some_communication with cdebconf; done

It was a missing newline between disk entries in
partman-auto/automatically_partition/some_device/choices. Fixed.

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Re: Trouble installing debian onto a Proliant server

2004-02-29 Thread Geert Stappers

On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 01:05:19PM -0600, Douglas A. Paquette Jr. wrote:
 To whom it may concern at Debian,
 
 I have a Compaq Proliant 8000 server with 4 Ultra 320 10k 72.8 gig scsi hard drives.
 
 http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliant8000/
 
 I had a guy from a computer store successfully install debian into my proliant 8000,
 but ran into some problems between my webmaster and this guy
 and this guy will not tell me anything as to how he got it installed.
Buy another Proliant 8000  :-)

Please read on for more information.

 
 I want to format and reinstall debian into my proliant 8000 again
 for a fresh install but for some reason Debian is not detecting
 any hard drives during the first part of the install process.
 
 I have setup raid 5 array and a system partition using Compaq's Smart Start CD
 and still it does not detect any drives.
 
 I have even wiped out all the data and installed the debian cd with no drives 
 partitioned,
 no raid, no array config or anything and still no go.
 
 Is there anyone who has any experience installing debian on proliant servers who 
 could help me out with this.
 
 I have done everything i know of to do.
 
 I have no problem installing Red hat linux version 9, it detects the drives and the 
 raid config without hesitation.
 
 But debian doesnt.

So I think there was no no Debian Volunteer with acces to that hardware.


 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 708-334-5845
 
 Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated.

_You_ could be that volunteer.


 
 Thanks for your time.

* Visit http://bugs.debian.org/234887 it is about a Proliant with array controllor.

* Build the kernel module.

* Update discover-data 

* Include it in your home build debian-installer

* Do the next install attempt


Anyone with smart questions[1] is welcome.


 
 Sincerely,
 
 Doug Paquette
 

Cheers
Me, probably too sarcastic.

[1] http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html 


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Re: What's wrong with Denis Barbier's status pages ?

2004-02-29 Thread Andre Luis Lopes

On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 10:51:10PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote:
 On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 06:37:37PM -0300, Andre Luis Lopes wrote:
  Hi,
  
  I use Denis Barbier's d-i translation status pages daily in order to
  check if my translations are up-to-date or are needing some love.
 
 See Wichert's post on d-d-a, svn.debian.org is moving and thus my
 script cannot access to tasksel repository.
 No action is needed, it should hopefully be fixed soon.

Actually, I already had read Wichert's post, but completely forgot about
it while writing my original message.

Sorry for the noise :-)

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Re: Are boot floppies broken?

2004-02-29 Thread Jukka Neppius

Testing 2004-02-28 floppies ...

SUCCESS!!!  This looks very good!


Installer selected mirror site without asking me.  It didn't even tell
me what it was trying to use.  I don't like this feature. It is OK to
guess mirror site based on earlier language selection, but it should
ask user confirmation.  (It is easier to write a bug report, if I
choose English.  I guess some far away mirror site was selected -
failure)


Using local mirror is possible, if I go back from proxy selection.
(I didn't use expert mode.)


- Jukka


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Re: partman review

2004-02-29 Thread Anton Zinoviev

On 29.II.2004 at 14:30 Joey Hess wrote:
 
 The missing swap problem, like the forced ext3, was a missing udeb,
 partman-basicfilesystems in this case. After adding that udeb, swap is
 marked as swap.

partman depends on partman-target and partman-target depends on
partman-basicfilesystems.  All of them had to be installed without
standard priority.

Anton Zinoviev


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Partitioning schemes for partman-auto

2004-02-29 Thread Anton Zinoviev

Hi!

The partitioning schemes of partman-auto currently are only examples.
So if you have some idea for usefull partitioning just tell it.  I
have to know what partitions your scheme has and an example size of
each partition as well as the minimal and the maximal usefull size.
For example:

   Minimal Typical Maximal
/  50Mb300Mb   300Mb
/usr   1Gb 3Gb 5Gb
/var   100Mb   500Mb   1000Mb
/home  100Mb   10Gb1000Gb
swap   100%400%2Gb

(The percents are relatively the RAM.)

If you want you can also specify symbolic links (although partman
doesn't support them yet).  For example this is the scheme I usualy
use:

   Minimal Typical Maximal
/  300Mb   3Gb 7Gb
/home  100Mb   10Gb1000Gb
swap   100%400%2Gb
/usr/local -- /home/local
/opt -- /home/opt
/var/www - /home/www
/var/mail - /home/mail

Anton Zinoviev


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Re: partman review

2004-02-29 Thread Anton Zinoviev

On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 02:41:46PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
 
 Hope you can do something with that, and i waited a bit more than a
 minute.

I expected much longer log file.  On your machine partman has fallen
from the beginning in some infinite loop.  This happens before any use
of libparted.  It may be something with the synchronisation between
the server and the clients.  Does your architecture use some different
version of libc?

Here is how the connections between parted_server and the clients are
organised in partman.  partman_server runs in background, holds all
necessary structures of libparted and accepts commands from shell
scripts.  The clients write to a FIFO named infifo and read from
outfifo.  parted_server reads from infifo and writes to infifo.

This is the scenario:

1. The server opens infifo for reading.  This stops it until some
   client opens infifo for writting.

2. A client opens infifo for writting (it will be stopped if the
   server has not yet opened infifo for reading).

3. The server reads a command from infifo (it waits until the client
   supplies such a command).

4. The client writes a command to infifo.  Then it opens outifo for
   reading -- this stops it until the server reads the command.

5. The server reads the command and opens outfifo for writting.

6. The server writes some responce to outfifo.

7. If this is not the final of the dialogue then the server will be
   waiting for a data from the client (supplied via infifo).  The
   client writes the necessary data to infifo.  If this is also not
   the final of the dialogue then the client will be waiting for a
   data from the server (supplied via outfifo).  The server writes the
   necessary data to outfifo.  This repeates as many times as
   necessary.  All writes are flushed.

8. When the server or the client writes the last data to outfifo (or
   to infifo) then it closes infifo and outfifo.  When the client (the
   server) receives the last data from outfifo (from infifo) then it
   also closes infifo and outfifo.

Now the interesting part comes.  The closing of the FIFOs could
happend in any order.  In order to synchronise the client and the
server open the FIFOs in the opposite direction.

9. The server opens outfifo for reading.  Notice that it is possible
   that the server has written to outfifo some data that the client
   has not had the time to read yet.  Nevertheless on i386 and libc6
   the server will be stopped waiting for the client to be ready.

10. The same happens with the client.  It opens outfifo for writting.
This stops it until the server manages to open outfifo for
reading.  At this time both processes are synchronised.

11. The client closes the oufifo without supplying any data in it.
The server reads everything until EOF from outfifo and then closes
it.  (This reading is protection against bugs -- there might be
some unread data in outfifo.)

12. Do the same for infifo.  The client opens infifo for reading and
the server for writting (at that moment again both processes will
be synchronised).

13. The server closes infifo and continues goes to 1.

14. The client reads the data from infifo and closes it.  It may go to
2. at any time.


Attached to this mail you will find a small script `client' and a
small C-program server.c.  Compile the server and then start the
client.  The client should print infininte number of strings 'How do
you do'.  If it doesn't do this on your machine I will be happy as
this means that you have to debug two very short programs.  Acording
to the log file you send the server has finished 8. from the scenario
only once and then never reaches again 1.  The client waits for it.
This means that the problem is somewhere between 9. and 13.

Anton Zinoviev
#!/bin/sh

[ ! -f infifo ] || rm infifo
[ ! -f outfifo ] || rm outfifo

mknod infifo p
mknod outfifo p

./server 

while true; do
exec 6infifo
echo Hello world 6
exec 7outfifo
read responce 7
echo $responce
exec 7-
exec 6-
# open the fifos in oposite direction in order to synchronise
exec 7outfifo
exec 7-
exec 6infifo
cat 6 /dev/null
exec 6-
done

#include stdlib.h
#include stdio.h

int
main ()
{
  char *str;
  char c;
  FILE *infifo, *outfifo;
  for (;;)
{
  infifo = fopen (infifo, r);
  if (infifo == NULL)
	return 1;
  fscanf (infifo, %as, str);
  free (str);
  outfifo = fopen (outfifo, w);
  fprintf (outfifo, How do you do?\n);
  fflush (outfifo);
  fclose (infifo);
  fclose (outfifo);
  /* open the fifos in oposite direction in order to synchronise */
  outfifo = fopen (outfifo, r);
  if (outfifo == NULL)
	return 1;
  while (EOF != (c = fgetc (outfifo)))
	{
	}
  fclose (outfifo);
  infifo = fopen (infifo, w);
  if (infifo == NULL)
	return 1;
  fclose (infifo);
}
  return 0;
}

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Re: Sarge new installer | Continue does not work

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I am using debian installer  sarge-i386-netinst.iso
 downloaded from http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/daily/i386/20040228/
 
 My machine: no special brand, assembled
 Processor: Pentium III (Coppermine)
 Memory: I do not know the command to show memory...
 Root Device: IDE
 
 I arrived to the point where a message shows: The following Linux kernel
 modules were detected as matching your hardware. If you know some are
 unnecessary, or cause problems, you can choose not to load them...
 Actually, many ethernet modules were shown: my machine has two ethernet cards.
 The modules were (I guess) right choosen  by the installer.
 
 Well, there was NO WAY for me to continue:
 - ENTER button did not react.
 - the arrows were jus useful to skip from one choice to the next, from module to
 module...
 - C(ontinue) letter did not react.
 
 So, I gave up.
 Is it a bug, or am I too much of a beginner?
 What shall I do?

You might try hitting tab, this is the standard way of moving around in
dialog boxes, and it will work.

I'd recommend not running the installer in expert mode, as it seems you
have done here, unless you have a good reason to do so and know what you
are doing.

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Re: What's wrong with Denis Barbier's status pages ?

Andre Luis Lopes wrote:
 However, the problem is the text :
 
 ===
 Missing file: tasksel/po/pt_BR.po
 Missing file: tasksel/tasks/po/pt_BR.po
 ===

Tasksel's repo was down earlier today, it's possible that this messed up
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Re: partman review

One nice thing we could do with partman during the default,
high-priority install, would be to make it offer automatic partitioning
more promenetntly. This seems like an easy change; the submenu for
automatic partitioning is just right, it even includes a menu item for
manual partitioning (which goes back to the full partman interface).

I've been thinking that perhaps at high priority partman could display
the automatic partitioning menu first. If the user chooses to
autopartition, they would still see the full partman menu afterwards, to
verify the setup and make any changes they wish.

Looking at the automatic partitoning menu, I get the feeling this menu
was designed to be used this way.. was it?

As to implementation, I think partman-auto could simply povide an init.d
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Bug#235540: Debian-installer

2004-02-29 Thread Jack Carroll

Package: installation-reports

Debian-installer-version: 2/28/2004 ftp.debian.org
uname -a: N/A, couldn't get that far
Date: 2/28/2004  1600 EST
Method: Booted from floppies, and loaded installer kernel modules from
floppies.  Intended to download system, didn't get that far.

Machine: Frankenstein, assembled from used parts.  In service since 1996.
Processor: 486
Memory: 48 MB
Root Device: SCSI  Name of device: /dev/sdb
Root Size/partition table: Pre-existing.  50 MB /boot on /dev/sdb1, 256 MB
swap, remainder of 2.1 GB disk /
Output of lspci:

Base System Installation Checklist:

Initial boot worked:[O]
Configure network HW:   [O]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD:  [ ]
Load installer modules: [E]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives:  [E]
Create file systems:[E]
Mount partitions:   [E]
Install base system:[ ]
Install boot loader:[ ]
Reboot: [ ]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Comments/Problems:

1.  The fatal error occurred at the Configure and mount screen.  Only the
partitions on /dev/sda were displayed and offered for assignment of mount
points.  I was trying to install on /dev/sdb.  No further progress was
possible.
   The previous screen, Partition, correctly showed all the partitions on
all the SCSI hard disks connected at the time.  cfdisk also showed all
partitions on all disks.
   This implies that the bug is local to the configure routine, and not
anything fundamental.
   For comparision, the Debian 3.0 boot floppy set was able to install
successfully on /dev/sdb.

2.  There were difficulties in loading the correct kernel module for the
AHA1542 SCSI host adapter.  None of the screens offering modules to be
loaded ever mentioned specific SCSI board drivers at all.  (Mostly, they
went on at length about IDE modules -- my system has no IDE devices and no
IDE interfaces.)  I managed it by reading through all of the driver disks. 
The board was never detected, so I had to load aha1542 by hand with a
modprobe command from virtual terminal 2.  This would have stopped a newbie
cold.
   I've noticed that recent installers for other distributions also no
longer work properly with older hardware, particularly SCSI boards and
genuine, Novell brand NE-2000 Ethernet boards.  Considering that one of
Linux's claims to fame is that it installs on practically anything, this is
a fairly serious deficiency.  I recommend going back to the practice of
listing _all_ available modules for manual selection, regardless of whether
the program thinks they're needed.  Also, the first driver floppy should
install a complete list of modules and what they're for, and which disk each
one is on.  It is also necessary to offer the possibility of setting IRQs,
base addresses, etc. manually, since not all hardware supports doing it
automatically.  It worked great back in 1996.  The sysadmin often knows
best.

3.  The filenames of the driver floppy images weren't particularly
informative.  I really couldn't tell which one had the SCSI drivers on it,
so I ran through them all.

4.  The Install HOWTO doesn't specify the exact syntax for the dd command to
write the boot, root, and driver floppies.  I guessed, based on the old
install manual.  I seem to have gotten away with it.  But it would be better
to explain what block size and count to use, whether to use the conv=sync
parameter, and _why_.

5.  The HOWTO talks a lot about the unreliability of floppies.  That has
never been my experience.  I buy good brands, though.  Imation rates theirs
for 25 years data storage longevity.  Verbatim also has a good reputation.

6.  The Configure and lay out screen only offered to create ext2 file
systems, not ext3 or Reiser.  Supposedly this was fixed, but I didn't see
that.

7.  In my opinion, attempting to partition and lay out target drives before
establishing access to the installation media (CDs, Debian mirror, or local
hard disk, etc.) isn't the ideal sequence of steps.  I realize it's late in
the project to bring this up, but I think some problems could be avoided by
re-examining the order things are done in.
   Since a lot of the recent difficulty seems to come from limited space for
the ever-growing installation kernel on the floppies, which forces a lot of
modules off onto driver floppies, a better approach would be to have the
boot/root floppy set concentrate on just opening a path to the main
installation media.  Once the first-stage installer can read or download
files, it could load an installer kernel of unlimited size, with drivers for
everything in the world compiled in, and hand off control to it.
   At that point it would be a lot easier to partition and lay out the
drives.
   Another benefit of that approach would be simpler boot floppies, and
maybe the possibility of more descriptive naming:

IDE install media boot floppy
SCSI install media boot floppy
Network install media boot floppy


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problems booting

2004-02-29 Thread mikrow80

Hi,

When I am trying to boot from cd I get the start up menu, but after I hit enter to 
boot it will detect my hardware but after that it does nothing. The CD stops and 
nothing happens. I try'd loading other OS's but I get the same problem. Is there a 
setting that I am missing in BIOS? I am clueless. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thank you,
Mike


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Re: Shadow package translations

2004-02-29 Thread Nikolai Prokoschenko

On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 02:56:15PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
 The shadow package is used during the second stage of Debian
 Installer. 
 Thus, having its templates properly translated in all languages
 supported by Debian Installer (will be 23 to 31 languages) is an
 important target.

Speaking of which, there is a line in the package, which offers the
enter the name for the new normal user, which is Debian User by
default. I've had a temptation to translate it, but I also know this
would get into the /etc/passwd file, which is not yet UTF-8 ready, as
far as I can tell. At the same time, I could insert a remark about not
using cyrillic in user name to the introduction text, but that's
somehow uncool ;) Is there any clear policy, whether UTF-8 is
allowed/usable in /etc/passwd?

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Re: What's wrong with Denis Barbier's status pages ?

On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 05:00:43PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
 Andre Luis Lopes wrote:
  However, the problem is the text :
  
  ===
  Missing file: tasksel/po/pt_BR.po
  Missing file: tasksel/tasks/po/pt_BR.po
  ===
 
 Tasksel's repo was down earlier today, it's possible that this messed up
 something in Denis's scripts. Just a guess.

Anonymous access seems to be disabled on svn.d.o.

Denis


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no support for anything but ext2?

2004-02-29 Thread Vaclav Dvorak

Hello,

I am trying to install current Debian testing on i386. I have experience 
with SuSE, RedHat and Mandrake but none with Debian, so please forgive 
me if I am missing some obvious Debianness. :-)

The problem is that there doesn't seem to be support for any filesystems 
except for ext2. I already have a reiserfs partition that I want to 
install on. If reiserfs is unworkable, then I'd be willing to use ext3 
or try xfs or jfs, but I don't want to settle with ext2.

I downloaded this ISO image, dated 21/02/2004, with jigdo: 
http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/cd/jigdo-area/i386/sarge-i386-1.jigdo

The CD boots fine and the installation gets to the point where it starts 
cfdisk. I just quit it because the partitions are already as I want them 
(and it correctly shows hda3 as reiserfs). Then it asks me about 
mounting the filesystem, so I choose hda3. It gives me a choice to use 
the partition as it is, or to format it with ext2, or to make it swap, 
or abort. This is the first surprise: there's no other filesystem to 
choose than ext2. But, I figured that perhaps there's at least support 
for mounting the filesystem if not creating it. Alas, it seems not. When 
I tell it to mount the partition, it pretends that everything's fine and 
starts installing. After a minute or so, it says there was a problem in 
debootstrap and that's it. I start up a shell and find out that:
- /target is not a mount point - it's in the ramdisk, and it's full (df 
shows 100MB used out of 100MB). I suppose that the target filesystem 
should be mounted there?
- cat /proc/filesystems shows only ext2, isofs and vfat (IIRC) and a 
bunch of nodev filesystems - no reiser, xfs, jfs or even ext3.
- /lib/modules/(whatever)/fs contains only isofs and vfat (again, IIRC).

I googled around and found some messages in mailing lists that said that 
reiserfs is supported. So I thought perhaps I need to download a current 
version of the installer? So I downloaded:
http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/floppy/boot.img
http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/floppy/root.img
http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/floppy/cd-drivers.img
and after throwing out four faulty floppies, I managed to write the 
images. (I didn't want to waste another CDR.) Unfortunately, the 
situation is virtually identical, except for the fact that there is now 
a graphical boot screen, and that the installer auto-configures my 
network and downloads some parts of itself off it, without even 
bothering to check whether they are on the CD, which I suppose they are 
(and the drivers are loaded).

So, is there anything else I'm supposed to download? Or perhaps some 
boot-time parameter? Or is it simply currently broken?

Thanks for any advice!

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Bug#235544: Debian-installer

2004-02-29 Thread Jack Carroll

Package: installation-reports

Debian-installer-version: 2/28/2004 uname -a: Date: 2/28/2444 1900
Method: How did you install?  Network.  What did you boot off?  Floppies.  If
  network install, from where?  Debian US mirror.  Proxied?   No. 
  Masquerade firewall with DHCP server, running on Libranet 2.7.

Machine: Tyan S2469 SMP motherboard with on-board SCSI-320 and Ethernet
Processor: Athlon MP, one CPU installed
Memory: 512 MB
Root Device: SCSI  Name of device: /dev/sda
Root Size/partition table: 100 MB /boot, 512 MB swap, 8 GB /, 2 GB /var, 14
GB /home
Output of lspci:

Base System Installation Checklist:

Initial boot worked:[O]
Configure network HW:   [O]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD:  [ ]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives:  [ ]
Create file systems:[O]
Mount partitions:   [O]
Install base system:[E]
Install boot loader:[ ]
Reboot: [ ]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Comments/Problems:

1.  Base system install ended in the error message
Debootstrap ended with an error
followed by 
tar: unrecognized file type
debootstrap.log contained only a copy of
tar: unrecognized file type
The error log was empty.

2.  The Configure and lay out screen offered to create only ext2
filesystems.  ext3 and reiser were not offered.


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Re: no support for anything but ext2?

Vaclav Dvorak wrote:
 I downloaded this ISO image, dated 21/02/2004, with jigdo: 
 http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/cd/jigdo-area/i386/sarge-i386-1.jigdo

As far as I know, before yesterday the jigdo images were using a
muixture of d-i versions that would not work.

 http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/floppy/boot.img
 http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/floppy/root.img
 http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/floppy/cd-drivers.img

Using these with your old CD is not going to work.

The easy way to get something that works is to follow the prominant
links to netinst CD image downloads on our home page,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer

We support ext3, reiserfs, and ext2, with xfs coming in the next few
days.

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Re: Shadow package translations

2004-02-29 Thread Steve Langasek

On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 12:56:21AM +0100, Nikolai Prokoschenko wrote:
 On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 02:56:15PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
  The shadow package is used during the second stage of Debian
  Installer. 
  Thus, having its templates properly translated in all languages
  supported by Debian Installer (will be 23 to 31 languages) is an
  important target.

 Speaking of which, there is a line in the package, which offers the
 enter the name for the new normal user, which is Debian User by
 default. I've had a temptation to translate it, but I also know this
 would get into the /etc/passwd file, which is not yet UTF-8 ready, as
 far as I can tell. At the same time, I could insert a remark about not
 using cyrillic in user name to the introduction text, but that's
 somehow uncool ;) Is there any clear policy, whether UTF-8 is
 allowed/usable in /etc/passwd?

The only real issue is that there's no defined standard for the encoding
of /etc/passwd, so the only globally safe encoding is ASCII.  However,
this is no reason to discourage local use of other charsets; I know many
localized sites use localized gecos in their passwd files.

Cheers,
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Re: What's wrong with Denis Barbier's status pages ?

2004-02-29 Thread Otavio Salvador

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Denis Barbier) writes:

 On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 05:00:43PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
 Andre Luis Lopes wrote:
  However, the problem is the text :
  
  ===
  Missing file: tasksel/po/pt_BR.po
  Missing file: tasksel/tasks/po/pt_BR.po
  ===
 
 Tasksel's repo was down earlier today, it's possible that this messed up
 something in Denis's scripts. Just a guess.

 Anonymous access seems to be disabled on svn.d.o.

No, they are down. You can check it at d-d-a mailing list.

In next 24h should be ok.

[]s

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Re: Shadow package translations

2004-02-29 Thread Nikolai Prokoschenko

On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 08:28:27PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote:
  text, but that's somehow uncool ;) Is there any clear policy,
  whether UTF-8 is allowed/usable in /etc/passwd?
 The only real issue is that there's no defined standard for the
 encoding of /etc/passwd, so the only globally safe encoding is
 ASCII.  However, this is no reason to discourage local use of other
 charsets; I know many localized sites use localized gecos in their
 passwd files.

Yeah, _local_ use That's exactly the problem, as long as we don't
know which encoding will be used by default. Enforcing UTF-8 as the
system encoding, encouraging users to use another one from .bashrc ?
Any other solutions? If the installation is run in say ru_RU.KOI8 and
then the system is switched to UTF-8 because there is no option to
select this at the installation stage, /etc/passwd will be screwed
until recoded.

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Re: no support for anything but ext2?

2004-02-29 Thread Greg Folkert

On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 20:00, Joey Hess wrote:
 Vaclav Dvorak wrote:
  I downloaded this ISO image, dated 21/02/2004, with jigdo: 
  http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/cd/jigdo-area/i386/sarge-i386-1.jigdo
 
[...]
 
 We support ext3, reiserfs, and ext2, with xfs coming in the next few
 days.

What you say! XFS, wonderful!! Now please don't tell me JFS support is
coming in as well, me heart just couldn't take it.

And I suppose you are going to tell me EVMS and LVM(1 and 2) are gonna
be supported to. 

The D-I boot team is doing wonderful magic. So far, only 1 machine not
successfully installed using the daily images. But partly due bootable
usb media readers in them.

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Re: What's wrong with Denis Barbier's status pages ?

On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 11:31:29PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Denis Barbier) writes:
 
  On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 05:00:43PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
  Andre Luis Lopes wrote:
   However, the problem is the text :
   
   ===
   Missing file: tasksel/po/pt_BR.po
   Missing file: tasksel/tasks/po/pt_BR.po
   ===
  
  Tasksel's repo was down earlier today, it's possible that this messed up
  something in Denis's scripts. Just a guess.
 
  Anonymous access seems to be disabled on svn.d.o.
 
 No, they are down. You can check it at d-d-a mailing list.

No, svn+ssh does work but not anonymous.

Denis


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mkisofs for build_netboot

2004-02-29 Thread Geert Stappers


Hello,

At a

  make build_netboot

I got 

mkisofs -r -J -b isolinux.bin -c boot.cat \
-no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table \
-o ./tmp/netboot/mini.iso ./tmp/netboot/cd_tree
make[2]: mkisofs: Command not found


Installing mkisofs fixed it.

For what does the netboot need the mini.iso ?


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Re: What's wrong with Denis Barbier's status pages ?

Quoting Otavio Salvador ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):

  Anonymous access seems to be disabled on svn.d.o.
 
 No, they are down. You can check it at d-d-a mailing list.
 
 In next 24h should be ok.

This has to be confirmed, however as the server was down yesterday
(GMT), BEFORE the day (today GMT) it was supposed to be down.

What Joey mentioned is the SVN tasksel database being messed up. This
was discovered yesterday Feb 29th around 18h GMT and then fixed by
Joey. But the problems encountered by Denis scripts remained *after*
this while non anonymous access to tasksel SVN was possible.

When I checked at about 22:30 GMT yesterday, the tasksel trunk was
completely missing...and it seems that the machine indeed already
migrated, but I'm not sure.



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Re: partman review