Re: [RFR] News entry about Beta2 work
Quoting Otavio Salvador ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): define-tag pagetitlePreparations for lenny beta 2 release will break most beta 2 images/define-tag define-tag release_date2008-05-07/define-tag #use wml::debian::news p Final preparations have begun for the beta 2 release of Debian Installerfor Lenny. ^^^ Missing space No other comment from my POV. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [RFR] Errata update for Beta2
Quoting Otavio Salvador ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hello, Here goes the proposed errata update for Beta2 release. Please take a look and see if you have any suggestion/addition/change for it. Index: errata.wml === RCS file: /cvs/webwml/webwml/english/devel/debian-installer/errata.wml,v retrieving revision 1.110 diff -u -r1.110 errata.wml --- errata.wml 18 Mar 2008 22:31:49 - 1.110 +++ errata.wml 3 May 2008 21:46:09 - @@ -1,16 +1,23 @@ #use wml::debian::template title=Debian-Installer errata #use wml::debian::recent_list -h1 id=lenny-beta1Errata for lenny release beta1/h1 +h1 id=lenny-beta2Errata for lenny release beta 2/h1 p -This is a list of known problems in the lenny Beta1 release of +This is a list of known problems in the lenny beta 2 release of Debian Installer. If you do not see your problem listed here, please send us an a href=report-templateinstallation report/a describing the problem. /p dl class=gloss + dtNo i386 floppy installation method available/dt + dd + The 2.6.24 kernel doesn't fit and we've disabled the floppy images for s/does not fit/is too big to fit on a floppy + beta 2 release. This will be enabled back for Release Candidate 1, that + will be based at 2.6.25 kernel. s/be based at/use the signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [RFR] Errata update for Beta2
On Sunday 04 May 2008, Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Otavio Salvador ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Here goes the proposed errata update for Beta2 release. Please take a look and see if you have any suggestion/addition/change for it. IMO it's maybe a bit early for this. There may be more changes and I'd personally rather do one larger review than loads of small ones. dl class=gloss + dtNo i386 floppy installation method available/dt This should be: i386: No floppy installation method available And it should be listed as the first of the architecture-specific issues, not at the top of the list. + dd + The 2.6.24 kernel doesn't fit and we've disabled the floppy images for s/does not fit/is too big to fit on a floppy + beta 2 release. This will be enabled back for Release Candidate 1, that + will be based at 2.6.25 kernel. s/be based at/use the Better to just say: We expect to be able to enable floppy images again for the next release. Reasons: maybe we'll do a beta3 and maybe the next release will not be based on .25; you never know... signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [RFR] News entry about Beta2 work
On Saturday 03 May 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: p Final preparations have begun for the beta 2 release of Debian Installerfor Lenny. The changes to the Debian archive are known to break most of the installation media from lenny beta 1. We hope to get beta 2 out as soon as possible to fix this. /p p The only images that should remain usable are the full installation CDs and DVDs. The other CD images are possibly still usable, but that is not guaranteed. /p I don't think this is correct in this case. I expect only installs that load udebs from a mirror will break (netboot, mini.iso and floppy installs that don't use a CD). All regular CD images should remain usable. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Bug report: installer messed up mdadm.conf
Hi, I'm writing you to report you what i noticed during an install of Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ - Official Snapshot i386 kde-CD Binary-1 20080314-21:55 some weeks ago. I'm not opening a bug record for now as this report contains only what i remember but i'm not able to reproduce the problem and give more accurate info. THE PROBLEM Install was run on an x86 pc previously containing a set of linux software raid disks (md0 raid1, md1 raid5). During the partioning step of the install i choose manual partitioning. The old raid sets where correctly detected and shown in the list. I deleted the old raid sets and recreated them changing disk order, number of raid devices and spare devices. Everything looked fine and after finishing the install i rebooted the pc. The booting process stopped at some point complaining about a missing root device. THE DIAGNOSYS I used a live cd to inspect the installed system after a long resync of the raid sets and found that the mdadm.conf file (in /etc and probably in the initrd) created during the install contained the definitions of the old (deleted) raid sets (on top) and also of the new ones. I retried the install this time inspecting the mdadm.conf file after every of the relevant steps and in fact it contained the old and new raid sets. I recreated it before the end of the install with mdadm --detail --scan /etc/mdadm.conf copied it to new install chrooted into it and updated the initrd with update-initramfs and at the reboot everythingh was ok. THE SOLUTION (just a proposal) Rewrite /etc/mdadm.conf after the partitining step of the installer rather than append to it. Best regards. Ciao, Tito -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#479325: cdebconf-gtk-entropy: minor usability issues
Package: cdebconf-gtk-entropy Version: 0.7 Severity: minor I've just tried out the entropy gathering in the graphical frontend, and it seems to work great. However, I do have a few minor nitpicks. * The text You can speed up... seems to have some hardcoded line feeds in it, which means its not using the full width of the display as other dialogs do. * The progress bar is missing a percentage indicator. However, that's really a general issue in the graphical installer. I seem to miss it here more than elsewhere though. * When entering character using the keyboard, cdebconf-newt-entropy will periodically clear the text box so that it does not overflow. The gtk variant currently lacks that. All three issues can be seen on this screenshot: http://people.debian.org/%7Efjp/tmp/d-i/cdebconf-gtk-entropy.png Cheers, FJP signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Bug#478598: partman-crypto: problems with using random keys
severity 478598 minor clone 478598 -1 retitle 478598 partman-crypto: make clearer that changing method resets defaults reassign -1 installation-guide retitle -1 encrypted partitioning: better document what user input may be needed thanks On Sunday 04 May 2008, Max Vozeler wrote: Does that mean that I should not have been shown *either* of the two dialogs (passphrase and random typing) with the incorrect method? No. By switching encryption methods, you got the default of the selected method (loop-AES), which is keyfile. It involves asking for a passphrase and getting random input. OK. Should cdebconf-entropy be used only with dm-crypt? No. Here is a table to clear up any misunderstandings: Method | Type | Key generation -- dm-crypt | passphrase| persistent key from /dev/urandom, wrapped || with passphrase dm-crypt | random| volatile key from /dev/random loop-AES | keyfile | persistent key from /dev/random, wrapped with GnuPG loop-AES | random| volatile key from /dev/urandom Ah. I have never even come close to being aware that loop-AES + keyfile required both. I think having this table in the manual would help too. FWIW, the partman dialog should reflect the reset keytype after switching the encryption type. IIRC it did not. My test should be trivial to reproduce though. It does - I just verified it. Yes, you're right. I see it too now. I wonder how that could be improved from a usability PoV because it's not obvious. One option could be to add a separator below Encryption method. That would make it somewhat clear that it's an option that's on a different level than the others. Hmm, maybe we should do the same below Use as too. If we do that Use as and Encryption method could probably be kept together. OK. So it seems there is no real bug, just a minor usability issue. Thanks for the explanations Max. At least it's gotten some extra testing. BTW, I think the fact that I needed to generate more entropy could be due to changes in the kernel. I seem to remember reading that they've become more strict on entropy sources. Cheers, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Locales in d-i and openoffice.org, iceweasel et al.
Hi, I am working on Canadian English defaults system-wide for systems I put out and will be doing up packages for myspell dictionaries and such. I was wondering if I need to do something in d-i to get them picked up automatically, or if that is even possible. I know that the default is en-US for these packages; I was hoping that I could have things set so that if en_CA is picked during install that canadian english dictionaries are installed instead of american english ones (also for aspell, the default world lists and all that kind of stuff that is locale dependent). I might be able to make time for this, but I'm in the process of learning preseeding and how to do post-install scripts that integrate with d-i for the etch media (will do lenny once that is working), so that I can put out -stable oem media in the event users of the used computers I put together (for free) need to reinstall. (I install more packages than the default, in fact there is something from every cd-rom in the latest install I've done (I want to make the user getting the system can reinstall even if high speed is not available in their area as that's common enough around here)). You may recall I also want to get amanda working as an available option for bare metal recovery using d-i, and to make partimage available under d-i (because d-i boot from so much) for windows and linux system imaging prior to working on a system (or restore if necessary too). That last bit may have to be a spinoff project though because of the fact that udebs affect d-i as a whole and can't just exist in the archive independently. Regards, Daniel -- And that's my crabbing done for the day. Got it out of the way early, now I have the rest of the afternoon to sniff fragrant tea-roses or strangle cute bunnies or something. -- Michael Devore GnuPG Key Fingerprint 86 F5 81 A5 D4 2E 1F 1C http://gnupg.org No more sea shells: Daniel's Webloghttp://cshore.wordpress.com signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Locales in d-i and openoffice.org, iceweasel et al.
On Sunday 04 May 2008, Daniel Dickinson wrote: I am working on Canadian English defaults system-wide for systems I put out and will be doing up packages for myspell dictionaries and such. I was wondering if I need to do something in d-i to get them picked up automatically, or if that is even possible. I know that the default is en-US for these packages; I was hoping that I could have things set so that if en_CA is picked during install that canadian english dictionaries are installed instead of american english ones (also for aspell, the default world lists and all that kind of stuff that is locale dependent). I think it should be possible to have a separate language task in tasksel for en_CA that includes the correct dictionaries. After all, there already are separate British English tasks as you can see if you fire up aptitude and select Tasks/End-user/Localization. I suggest you check out the source of tasksel and take a look around. Creating new tasks based on existing examples should not be too hard. When you have them, file a wishlist bug against tasksel. When the dictionaries are installed when dictionaries are first configured, the maintainer scripts in dictionaries-common should automatically select the correct ones as defaults. Note that the en_CA dictionaries will be installed in addition to the default ones and not instead of. Cheers, FJP signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[PATCH] cdebconf: Fix build of ncurses,bogl,slang frontends
Hi all,
They need to be adapted to the changed API for q_get_* etc.
The attached patch should be obviously correct and safe to apply,
but I'm sending it here for review just in case.
Max
Index: debian/changelog
===
--- debian/changelog (Revision 53045)
+++ debian/changelog (Arbeitskopie)
@@ -1,8 +1,13 @@
cdebconf (0.131) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+ [ Frans Pop ]
* gtk frontend: remove special handling for countrychooser/country-name as
that template no longer exists. Requires: localechooser (= 2.02).
+ [ Max Vozeler ]
+ * src/modules/frontend/{ncurses,slang,bogl}: Adapt to API changes made in
+cdebconf 0.129 - q_get_*() and question_get_value().
+
-- Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:21:40 +0200
cdebconf (0.130) unstable; urgency=low
Index: src/modules/frontend/ncurses/ncurses.c
===
--- src/modules/frontend/ncurses/ncurses.c (Revision 53045)
+++ src/modules/frontend/ncurses/ncurses.c (Arbeitskopie)
@@ -225,8 +225,8 @@
{
WINDOW *qrywin = UIDATA(ui)-qrywin;
WINDOW *descwin = UIDATA(ui)-descwin;
- char *descr = q_get_description(q);
- char *ext_descr = q_get_extended_description(q);
+ char *descr = q_get_description(ui, q);
+ char *ext_descr = q_get_extended_description(ui, q);
drawframe(ui, WIN_QUERY, ui-title);
wrapprint(qrywin, descr, 0, COLS-2);
@@ -369,13 +369,13 @@
WINDOW *win = UIDATA(ui)-qrywin;
/* Parse out all the choices */
- count = strchoicesplit(q_get_choices_vals(q), choices, DIM(choices));
+ count = strchoicesplit(q_get_choices_vals(ui, q), choices, DIM(choices));
if (count = 0) return DC_NOTOK;
if (count == 1)
defval = choices[0];
- strchoicesplit(q_get_choices(q), choices_translated, DIM(choices_translated));
- dcount = strchoicesplit(question_get_field(q, C, value), defaults, DIM(defaults));
+ strchoicesplit(q_get_choices(ui, q), choices_translated, DIM(choices_translated));
+ dcount = strchoicesplit(question_get_field(ui, q, C, value), defaults, DIM(defaults));
/* See what the currently selected value should be -- either a
* previously selected value, or the default for the question
Index: src/modules/frontend/slang/slang.c
===
--- src/modules/frontend/slang/slang.c (Revision 53045)
+++ src/modules/frontend/slang/slang.c (Arbeitskopie)
@@ -202,8 +202,8 @@
static void slang_drawdesc(struct frontend *ui, struct question *q)
{
struct uidata *uid = UIDATA(ui);
- char *descr = q_get_description(q);
- char *ext_descr = q_get_extended_description(q);
+ char *descr = q_get_description(ui, q);
+ char *ext_descr = q_get_extended_description(ui, q);
/* Clear the windows */
slang_drawwin(uid-qrywin);
@@ -290,14 +290,14 @@
static char *get_text(struct frontend *obj, const char *template, char *fallback)
{
struct question *q = obj-qdb-methods.get(obj-qdb, template);
-return q ? q_get_description(q) : fallback;
+return q ? q_get_description(obj, q) : fallback;
}
static char *button_text(struct frontend *obj, const char *template, char *fallback)
{
char text[50];
struct question *q = obj-qdb-methods.get(obj-qdb, template);
- sprintf(text, %s , q ? q_get_description(q) : fallback);
+ sprintf(text, %s , q ? q_get_description(obj, q) : fallback);
return strdup(text);
}
@@ -368,7 +368,7 @@
if (!yes_text) yes_text = get_text(ui, debconf/button-yes, Yes);
if (!no_text) no_text = get_text(ui, debconf/button-no, No);
- value = question_get_field(q, C, value);
+ value = question_get_field(ui, q, C, value);
ans = (strcmp(value, true) == 0);
pos = (ans ? 2 : 3);
@@ -428,24 +428,24 @@
char *selected;
char answer[1024] = {0};
int *tindex = NULL;
- const char *indices = q_get_indices(q);
+ const char *indices = q_get_indices(ui, q);
int i, j, count, dcount, ret = 0, val = 0, pos = 2, xpos, ypos;
int top, bottom, longest, ch;
struct uidata *uid = UIDATA(ui);
struct slwindow *win = uid-qrywin;
/* Parse out all the choices */
- count = strgetargc(q_get_choices_vals(q));
+ count = strgetargc(q_get_choices_vals(ui, q));
if (count = 0)
return DC_NOTOK;
choices = malloc(sizeof(char *) * count);
choices_translated = malloc(sizeof(char *) * count);
tindex = malloc(sizeof(int) * count);
- if (strchoicesplitsort(q_get_choices_vals(q), q_get_choices(q), indices, choices, choices_translated, tindex, count) != count)
+ if (strchoicesplitsort(q_get_choices_vals(ui, q), q_get_choices(ui, q), indices, choices, choices_translated, tindex, count) != count)
return DC_NOTOK;
defaults = malloc(sizeof(char *) * count);
- dcount = strchoicesplit(question_get_field(q, C, value), defaults, count);
+ dcount = strchoicesplit(question_get_field(ui, q, C, value), defaults, count);
INFO(INFO_VERBOSE, Parsed out %d choices, %d defaults, count, dcount);
if (dcount =
Bug#478591: cdebconf-entropy: Dialog texts and buttons
On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 10:12:05PM +0200, Max Vozeler wrote: I think that having a Go back button to break off the process of gathering entropy would make more sense. This could still be useful. Agreed here too. I'll change the newt frontend to allow aborting. Strange - we already do, but the cancel button is not shown. We show it only if the frontend indicates that it can go back (newt_can_go_back()). I'm currently lost as to why the frontend would not have the BACKUP capability. It does when I build cdebconf locally. Any ideas? Else I will try to dig deeper.. Max -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PATCH] cdebconf: Fix *_can_align() signatures to match the prototype
Hi all,
gcc correctly warns about a pointer mismatch assigning to
methods.can_align for newt and the generic default:
struct frontend_module {
..
bool (*can_align)(struct frontend *, struct question *);
vs.
static bool newt_can_align(struct frontend *obj)
static bool frontend_can_align(struct frontend *ui)
The attached patch fixes those two to take the additional
struct question * parameter.
Max
diff -r fce562ac73a5 debian/changelog
--- a/debian/changelog Sun May 04 15:32:01 2008 +0200
+++ b/debian/changelog Sun May 04 15:33:29 2008 +0200
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
[ Max Vozeler ]
* src/modules/frontend/{ncurses,slang,bogl}: Adapt to API changes made in
cdebconf 0.129 - q_get_*() and question_get_value().
+ * Fix *_can_align() function signatures to match the prototype.
-- Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:21:40 +0200
diff -r fce562ac73a5 src/frontend.c
--- a/src/frontend.c Sun May 04 15:32:01 2008 +0200
+++ b/src/frontend.c Sun May 04 15:33:29 2008 +0200
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@
return false;
}
-static bool frontend_can_align(struct frontend *ui)
+static bool frontend_can_align(struct frontend *ui, struct question *q)
{
return false;
}
diff -r fce562ac73a5 src/modules/frontend/newt/newt.c
--- a/src/modules/frontend/newt/newt.c Sun May 04 15:32:01 2008 +0200
+++ b/src/modules/frontend/newt/newt.c Sun May 04 15:33:29 2008 +0200
@@ -1148,7 +1148,7 @@
}
static bool
-newt_can_align(struct frontend *obj)
+newt_can_align(struct frontend *obj, struct question *q)
{
return (obj-capability DCF_CAPB_ALIGN);
}
Bug#478591: cdebconf-entropy: Dialog texts and buttons
tags 478591 + patch
thanks
On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 10:45:22PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
On Saturday 03 May 2008, Max Vozeler wrote:
How do we go about changing the string? Should we ask for review
from -l10n-english first?
IMO not needed. It would be good to post the patch to the BR first for
review though.
Patch attached - Review is much appreciated :-)
Note that Otavio has just started preparations for Beta2 and I think we
should delay this string change until just after that.
Okay. Let's delay it.
Max
Index: partman-crypto/debian/partman-crypto.templates
===
--- partman-crypto/debian/partman-crypto.templates (revision 53030)
+++ partman-crypto/debian/partman-crypto.templates (working copy)
@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@
Template: partman-crypto/entropy-success
Type: text
# :sl3:
-_Description: Key data has been created successfully.
+_Description: The encryption key for ${DEVICE} has been created successfully.
Template: partman-crypto/keyfile-problem
Type: error
Bug#478591: cdebconf-entropy: Dialog texts and buttons
On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 03:19:19PM +0200, Max Vozeler wrote: On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 10:12:05PM +0200, Max Vozeler wrote: I think that having a Go back button to break off the process of gathering entropy would make more sense. This could still be useful. Agreed here too. I'll change the newt frontend to allow aborting. Strange - we already do, but the cancel button is not shown. We show it only if the frontend indicates that it can go back (newt_can_go_back()). I'm currently lost as to why the frontend would not have the BACKUP capability. It does when I build cdebconf locally. Any ideas? Else I will try to dig deeper.. That was just missing a call to db_capb backup :-) Fixed in SVN. The entropy dialog can now be cancelled. Max -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Processed: Re: Bug#478591: cdebconf-entropy: Dialog texts and buttons
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: tags 478591 + patch Bug#478591: cdebconf-entropy: Dialog texts and buttons There were no tags set. Tags added: patch thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs database) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug report: installer messed up mdadm.conf
On Sunday 04 May 2008, Tito wrote: I'm not opening a bug record for now as this report contains only what i remember but i'm not able to reproduce the problem and give more accurate info. I can also not reproduce this, and cannot remember seeing anything similar. I do know a bit about how the mdadm.conf file is generated, and I cannot imagine how it could go wrong like that. At this point I see no other option than just to keep your report in the back of our minds, but take no other action. If you can ever reproduce it, please file an installation report and make sure to save the syslog of the installation. Cheers, FJP signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: Bug report: installer messed up mdadm.conf
On Sunday 04 May 2008, Frans Pop wrote: I can also not reproduce this, and cannot remember seeing anything similar. Additional note. There have been some very recent improvements in the handling of pre-existing RAID devices and the deletion of RAID devices, so even if there was an issue, there's a good chance it's fixed now. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Processed: Re: Bug#479181: cdrom: Unable to mount CD-ROM drive
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign 479181 installation-reports Bug#479181: cdrom: Unable to mount CD-ROM drive Bug reassigned from package `cdrom' to `installation-reports'. thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs database) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#479181: cdrom: Unable to mount CD-ROM drive
reassign 479181 installation-reports thanks On Saturday 03 May 2008, Dusan wrote: The netinstall routine fails on mounting the CD-Rom Samsung SCR 3232 VH102 and it's not possible to proceed the installation process. The CD-ROM drive seems to operate properly (otherwise I wouldn't get this far, I assume). Being able to boot from the CD does not have all that much to do with being able to use it from within Linux. The information you provided is not enough to help you further. We need at least: - the _exact_ installer image you used (complete URL of the image you downloaded) - the output of 'lspci -nn' (which you can get from a debug shell on virtual console 2) Please also try the troubleshooting procedure for CD issues documented at: http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/i386/ch05s03.html.en#unreliable-cd Cheers, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#479391: Asks for PCMCIA, if refused, asks more about it
Package: hw-detect Hi, I'm running an install with Lenny beta 1 netinst i386 in expert mode. During the process I get asked Start PC card services? to which I answer No. Right after that, I'm presented with the question PCMCIA resource range options:. It seems to me that if I don't want PCMCIA then the resource range options are also not that relevant to me. Another thing is that I get the pcmcia question thrice during the process, but I'm not sure whether that's intentional. cheers, Thijs pgpdLjNd5Z4ia.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#478591: cdebconf-entropy: Dialog texts and buttons
On Sunday 04 May 2008, Max Vozeler wrote: On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 10:45:22PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Saturday 03 May 2008, Max Vozeler wrote: How do we go about changing the string? Should we ask for review from -l10n-english first? IMO not needed. It would be good to post the patch to the BR first for review though. Patch attached - Review is much appreciated :-) Hmm. Should the string not also be changed in the templates and .c code of cdebconf-entropy for all frontends? String itself is fine by me. Also, that does not cover the other suggestion I had for a string change. We should probably do both at the same time. ! I also suggest changing: ! Enter random characters or move mouse randomly ! to: ! Enter random characters or make random movements with your mouse This one probably needs changing twice: once for the title and once in the longer description. Maybe: Template: debconf/entropy/gtk/action Type: text # :sl3: -_Description: Enter random characters or move mouse randomly +_Description: Enter random characters or make random mouse movements Template: debconf/entropy/gtk/help Type: text # :sl3: -_Description: You can help speed up the process by entering random -characters on the keyboard or by moving the mouse randomly, or just wait -until enough key data has been collected (which can take a long time). +_Description: You can help speed up the process by entering random +characters on the keyboard or by making random movements with the mouse, +or just wait until enough key data has been collected (which can take a +long time). And today I noticed something else. When no action is taken (keyboard or mouse) no entropy is gathered _at all_. So the last part of the sentence above (or just wait ...) is IMO not correct. IIRC the kernel was changed not too long ago to use less sources for entropy and in particular no longer uses network interrupts [1]. This of course also affects the templates for the other frontends. [1] http://lwn.net/Articles/182495/ On the safety of Linux random numbers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Processed: Re: Bug#478598: partman-crypto: problems with using random keys
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: severity 478598 minor Bug#478598: partman-crypto: problems with using random keys Severity set to `minor' from `normal' clone 478598 -1 Bug#478598: partman-crypto: problems with using random keys Bug 478598 cloned as bug 479394. retitle 478598 partman-crypto: make clearer that changing method resets defaults Bug#478598: partman-crypto: problems with using random keys Changed Bug title to `partman-crypto: make clearer that changing method resets defaults' from `partman-crypto: problems with using random keys'. reassign -1 installation-guide Bug#479394: partman-crypto: problems with using random keys Bug reassigned from package `partman-crypto' to `installation-guide'. retitle -1 encrypted partitioning: better document what user input may be needed Bug#479394: partman-crypto: problems with using random keys Changed Bug title to `encrypted partitioning: better document what user input may be needed' from `partman-crypto: problems with using random keys'. End of message, stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs database) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian installer and braille
On Friday 02 May 2008, Samuel Thibault wrote: Starting from version 0.9.1-4, debian's qemu has support for virtual braille device. That means that you can very easily (i.e. without any hardware) test the debian installer support for braille device by just installing brltty, running: brltty -b xw -A auth=user,host=:1 BRLAPI_HOST=:1 qemu -usbdevice braille -cdrom mini.iso and checking that debinst properly remains in text mode and that the brltty window shows what happens in the dialogs. I wonder whether that test could be part of a debinst testsuite, if there is one? We don't really have a test suite. We do have individuals who care about a certain aspect of the installer who test certain things regularly, especially when a D-I release is being prepared. I guess for accessibility that would be you :-) It would also be good if someone tested the alternative themes that were created. That info about qemu would be good to have available though. Maybe you could create a DebianInstaller/Accessibility wiki page and add that info there? Feel free to link that page from the main DebianInstaller page. I tried it (only quickly) and could not get it working, so some more precise instructions would be welcome (the first command at least needs sudo): baum_init: brlapi_openConnection: Unknown error Warning: could not add USB device braille I have: ii qemu0.9.1-5 fast processor emulator I think the problem may be group memberships or something? Cheers, FJP signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
kernel config
I have updated my motherboard to a GA-ma78gm-sh2 using a caustom 2.6.24.6 kernel. Now i have a GA-ma78gm-sh2 whith a 2.6.24.6 kernel and it works fine. I want to make a new installation for cleaning and repartitionning my hd. Unfortunatly neither the lenny installer nor the sid installer detect my sata hd and cdrom and the 2.6.24 build are not downloadable. So i try to build a custom image an use and an usb key with syslinux and the netinst.iso. an mkinitramfs but the install fail on error waiting for root file system ALERT does not exist dropping dropping to a shell I read the docs but it is not clear. So could you tell me what kernel options i should enable. initial ram filesystem ? initramfs source ? ramdisk support romfs support ? cramfs support ? ext2 support? best regards Claude -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Processed: Re: Bug#479391: Asks for PCMCIA, if refused, asks more about it
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: severity 479391 minor Bug#479391: Asks for PCMCIA, if refused, asks more about it Severity set to `minor' from `normal' thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs database) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian installer and braille
On Sunday 04 May 2008, Frans Pop wrote: I wonder whether that test could be part of a debinst testsuite, if there is one? We don't really have a test suite. That's not completely true. We do have a test setup (run mostly by Joey), but that is completely automated and I doubt that the kind of checks you want could be implemented in that. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Bug#479391: Asks for PCMCIA, if refused, asks more about it
severity 479391 minor thanks On Sunday 04 May 2008, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: During the process I get asked Start PC card services? to which I answer No. Right after that, I'm presented with the question PCMCIA resource range options:. Reason is that they are not really separate questions. If you try the same in the graphical installer, you will see both questions are displayed together. It's more a limitation of the newt frontend. Another thing is that I get the pcmcia question thrice during the process, but I'm not sure whether that's intentional. Known issue. Basically because someone might change his mind and want to enable it after all. Cheers, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian installer and braille
On Sunday 04 May 2008, Frans Pop wrote: I tried it (only quickly) and could not get it working, so some more precise instructions would be welcome (the first command at least needs sudo): baum_init: brlapi_openConnection: Unknown error Warning: could not add USB device braille The cause may be this (repeated loads of times): May 4 18:33:23 faramir brltty[18548]: cannot load braille driver: /lib/brltty/libbrlttybxw.so May 4 18:33:23 faramir brltty[18548]: braille driver not loadable: xw May 4 18:33:25 faramir brltty[18555]: /lib/brltty/libbrlttybxw.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory This was after a default installation of brltty on amd64/unstable. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Bug#479391: Asks for PCMCIA, if refused, asks more about it
On Sunday 4 May 2008 18:43, Frans Pop wrote: On Sunday 04 May 2008, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: During the process I get asked Start PC card services? to which I answer No. Right after that, I'm presented with the question PCMCIA resource range options:. Reason is that they are not really separate questions. If you try the same in the graphical installer, you will see both questions are displayed together. It's more a limitation of the newt frontend. I'm not knowledgable of D-I internals, but why couldn't you make the second question conditional of the first, like in this example (untested, just to show what I mean): db_input medium hw-detect/start_pcmcia || true db_go || true if db_get hw-detect/start_pcmcia [ $RET ]; then db_input low hw-detect/pcmcia_resources || true db_go || true if db_get hw-detect/pcmcia_resources [ $RET ]; then apply_pcmcia_resource_opts $RET fi fi cheers, Thijs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian installer and braille
Frans Pop, le Sun 04 May 2008 19:29:08 +0200, a écrit : On Sunday 04 May 2008, Frans Pop wrote: I tried it (only quickly) and could not get it working, so some more precise instructions would be welcome (the first command at least needs sudo): baum_init: brlapi_openConnection: Unknown error Warning: could not add USB device braille The cause may be this (repeated loads of times): May 4 18:33:23 faramir brltty[18548]: cannot load braille driver: /lib/brltty/libbrlttybxw.so May 4 18:33:23 faramir brltty[18548]: braille driver not loadable: xw May 4 18:33:25 faramir brltty[18555]: /lib/brltty/libbrlttybxw.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Aaaah, that's in brltty-x11 actually. See the http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Accessibility page I've just created for other fixups. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian installer and braille
Samuel Thibault, le Sun 04 May 2008 18:38:33 +0100, a écrit : Frans Pop, le Sun 04 May 2008 19:29:08 +0200, a écrit : On Sunday 04 May 2008, Frans Pop wrote: I tried it (only quickly) and could not get it working, so some more precise instructions would be welcome (the first command at least needs sudo): baum_init: brlapi_openConnection: Unknown error Warning: could not add USB device braille The cause may be this (repeated loads of times): May 4 18:33:23 faramir brltty[18548]: cannot load braille driver: /lib/brltty/libbrlttybxw.so May 4 18:33:23 faramir brltty[18548]: braille driver not loadable: xw May 4 18:33:25 faramir brltty[18555]: /lib/brltty/libbrlttybxw.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Aaaah, that's in brltty-x11 actually. See the http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Accessibility page I've just created for other fixups. Also, it looks like there's a problem with the read() system call being interrupted by an alarm. It's odd I've never had it before, I'll check that. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#479394: encrypted partitioning: better document what user input may be needed
On Sunday 04 May 2008, Frans Pop wrote: No. Here is a table to clear up any misunderstandings: Method | Type | Key generation -- dm-crypt | passphrase| persistent key from /dev/urandom, wrapped || with passphrase dm-crypt | random| volatile key from /dev/random This uses /dev/urandom now (as of partman-crypto 31), so will no longer need additional entropy. loop-AES | keyfile | persistent key from /dev/random, wrapped with GnuPG loop-AES | random| volatile key from /dev/urandom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please consider adding an option to install dash as /bin/sh in expert mode for beta2
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi eveyrbody, Would it be possible to add an extra page to d-i in expert mode to install dash and configure it as the default /bin/sh? dash uses a debconf prompt to install itself as sh, so there's no big stuff that needs to be done. The reasoning is that the /bin/sh won't always be bash momentum must not be lost just because the dash as the default /bin/sh change won't make it for lenny. The number of goal-dash bugs will hopefully reduce before lenny is released, making it even safer to use dash as sh without breaking stuff. Please consider this proposal, and thank you in advance. Kind regards, - -- Raphael Geissert -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIHfxNYy49rUbZzloRAhS6AJ9UvpR5NB1j6YLOzdQEPtjXoTBiDACcC1Pt uYnzyriuAtftZseNe8Naqqw= =PxIx -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian installer and braille
Frans Pop, le Sun 04 May 2008 18:37:41 +0200, a écrit : I think the problem may be group memberships or something? Sort of. See the wiki for (hopefully) fixed commands. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#479391: Asks for PCMCIA, if refused, asks more about it
On Sunday 04 May 2008, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: I'm not knowledgable of D-I internals, but why couldn't you make the second question conditional of the first, like in this example (untested, just to show what I mean): Because we _want_ them on the same screen in the graphical installer, so they have to be part of the same db_go which means you don't have the reply to the first db_input yet. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian installer and braille
Cc-ing d-accessibility for the theme part. Frans Pop, le Sun 04 May 2008 18:37:41 +0200, a écrit : It would also be good if someone tested the alternative themes that were created. Are there several of them? The manual for 4.0 only talks about the dark them. About the dark theme, it would probably be useful to make the text lightwhite (CGA color 0x15), not only white/grey (CGA color 0x7)? Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
debconf themes [Was: Debian installer and braille]
Samuel Thibault, le Sun 04 May 2008 19:24:41 +0100, a écrit : Frans Pop, le Sun 04 May 2008 18:37:41 +0200, a écrit : It would also be good if someone tested the alternative themes that were created. Are there several of them? The manual for 4.0 only talks about the dark them. About the dark theme, it would probably be useful to make the text lightwhite (CGA color 0x15), not only white/grey (CGA color 0x7)? Also, the text frontend does not follow it, I guess it should be feasible to change the framebuffer's colors before running it? Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#479181: cdrom: Unable to mount CD-ROM drive
Hi, Frans Pop wrote: Please also try the troubleshooting procedure for CD issues documented at: http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/i386/ch05s03.html.en#unreliable-cd thank you so much for your advice. The troubleshooting-guide helped me to solve the problem: the DMA mode had been enabled - and I even blamed the setup-routine (because it worked fine with an older 8x CD-Drive). After deactivating it works fine! Sorry for having bothered you (and sorry for not providing all information). Thanks again best wishes, dusan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [RFC] Debian Installer Lenny Beta2 - Pending stuff and timeline
Hi Otavio, On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 06:06:23PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: [..snip..] . parted update is likely to happen before Lenny is release however we're still working at s390 fixing to get it done. That's great news. Does this include fixing #440675 which is needed for multipath support in d-i (with this fixed it'd be easy for people to start testing things)? Will this be based on parted 1.7 or parted 1.8? Cheers, -- Guido -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#479181: marked as done (cdrom: Unable to mount CD-ROM drive)
Your message dated Sun, 4 May 2008 21:03:13 +0200 with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line Re: Bug#479181: cdrom: Unable to mount CD-ROM drive has caused the Debian Bug report #479181, regarding cdrom: Unable to mount CD-ROM drive to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately.) -- 479181: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=479181 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] with problems ---BeginMessage--- Package: cdrom Severity: normal The netinstall routine fails on mounting the CD-Rom Samsung SCR 3232 VH102 and it's not possible to proceed the installation process. The CD-ROM drive seems to operate properly (otherwise I wouldn't get this far, I assume). Best wishes, dusan -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-k7 Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) ---End Message--- ---BeginMessage--- On Sunday 04 May 2008, Dusan Ladjevic wrote: thank you so much for your advice. The troubleshooting-guide helped me to solve the problem: the DMA mode had been enabled - and I even blamed the setup-routine (because it worked fine with an older 8x CD-Drive). After deactivating it works fine! Sorry for having bothered you (and sorry for not providing all information). No problem. As the issue is solved, I'm closing your report. ---End Message---
Bug#479430: [INTL:ku] Kurdish tasksel/debian templates translation
Package: tasksel/debian Version: N/A Severity: wishlist Tags: l10n patch Please find attached the Kurdish translation of the tasksel/debian package. (encoded ku.po file follows) # Copyright (C) YEAR THE PACKAGE'S COPYRIGHT HOLDER # This file is distributed under the same license as the PACKAGE package. # # Erdal Ronahi erdal dot ronahi at gmail dot com, 2008. msgid msgstr Project-Id-Version: tasksel_debian-ku\n Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] POT-Creation-Date: 2006-09-13 14:42-0400\n PO-Revision-Date: 2008-05-04 20:53+0200\n Last-Translator: Erdal Ronahi erdal dot ronahi at gmail dot com\n Language-Team: ku [EMAIL PROTECTED]\n MIME-Version: 1.0\n Content-Type: text/plain; charset=CHARSET\n Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n X-Generator: KAider 0.1\n Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=n != 1;\n #. Type: multiselect #. Description #. Type: multiselect #. Description #: ../templates:1001 ../templates:2001 msgid Choose software to install: msgstr Nivîsbariya were sazkirin hilbijêre: #. Type: multiselect #. Description #: ../templates:1001 msgid At the moment, only the core of the system is installed. To tune the system to your needs, you can choose to install one or more of the following predefined collections of software. msgstr Niha, tenê bingehê pergalê hatiye sazkirin. Niha dikarî pergalê li gorî pêwendiyên xwe mîheng biki. Ji bo wê yek an çend ji koleksiyonên nivîsbariyê hilbijêre. #. Type: multiselect #. Description #: ../templates:2001 msgid You can choose to install one or more of the following predefined collections of software. msgstr Dikarî yek an çend ji koleksiyonên nivîsbariyê hilbijêrî. #. Type: title #. Description #: ../templates:3001 msgid Software selection msgstr Hilbijartina nivîsbariyê
Bug#479432: [INTL:ku] Kurdish tasksel translation
Package: tasksel Version: N/A Severity: wishlist Tags: l10n patch Please find attached the Kurdish translation of the tasksel package. (encoded ku.po file follows) # Copyright (C) YEAR THE PACKAGE'S COPYRIGHT HOLDER # This file is distributed under the same license as the PACKAGE package. # # Erdal Ronahi erdal dot ronahi at gmail dot com, 2008. msgid msgstr Project-Id-Version: tasksel-ku\n Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: \n POT-Creation-Date: 2008-01-11 21:37-0500\n PO-Revision-Date: 2008-05-04 20:58+0200\n Last-Translator: Erdal Ronahi erdal dot ronahi at gmail dot com\n Language-Team: ku [EMAIL PROTECTED]\n MIME-Version: 1.0\n Content-Type: text/plain; charset=CHARSET\n Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n X-Generator: KAider 0.1\n Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=n != 1;\n #: ../tasksel.pl:357 msgid Usage:\n tasksel install task\n tasksel remove task\n tasksel [options]\n \t-t, --test test mode; don't really do anything\n \t--new-install automatically install some tasks\n \t--list-taskslist tasks that would be displayed and exit\n \t--task-packages list available packages in a task\n \t--task-desc returns the description of a task\n msgstr Bikaranîn:\n tasksel install task\n tasksel remove task\n tasksel [opsiyon]\n \t-t, --test moda test; tiÅtekî bi rastî neke\n \t--new-install çend peywiran jixweber saz bike\n \t--list-taskslîsteya peywirên dikarin werin nîÅandan binivîse û derkeve\n \t--task-packages lîsteya pakêtên di peywirekê de nîÅan bide\n \t--task-desc raveya peywirekê dide\n #: ../tasksel.pl:592 ../tasksel.pl:604 msgid aptitude failed msgstr aptitude biserneket
Processing of partman-crypto_31_i386.changes
partman-crypto_31_i386.changes uploaded successfully to localhost along with the files: partman-crypto_31.dsc partman-crypto_31.tar.gz partman-crypto-dm_31_all.udeb partman-crypto-loop_31_all.udeb partman-crypto_31_i386.udeb Greetings, Your Debian queue daemon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug report: installer messed up mdadm.conf
On Sunday 04 May 2008 17:06:12 Frans Pop wrote: On Sunday 04 May 2008, Frans Pop wrote: I can also not reproduce this, and cannot remember seeing anything similar. Additional note. There have been some very recent improvements in the handling of pre-existing RAID devices and the deletion of RAID devices, so even if there was an issue, there's a good chance it's fixed now. Good to know!!! One thing I can try is to grab some weekly build cdimage and start an install on the same system untill the partitioning step to see if i can reproduce it. Hope to find the spare time for that. Will send you a mail in case there is something interesting. Best regards and thanks for your response. Ciao, Tito -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [RFC] Debian Installer Lenny Beta2 - Pending stuff and timeline
Otavio Salvador wrote: After thinking a lot and talking to many people, I think we ought to go with 2.6.24 kernel for the release. So, disable the i386 boot floppy for this beta? -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Bug report: installer messed up mdadm.conf
On Sunday 04 May 2008, Tito wrote: Good to know!!! One thing I can try is to grab some weekly build cdimage and start an install on the same system untill the partitioning step to see if i can reproduce it. You'd need a *daily* built image to get the changes! But any serious testing with those would be much appreciated. Cheers, FJP signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
partman-crypto_31_i386.changes ACCEPTED
Accepted: partman-crypto-dm_31_all.udeb to pool/main/p/partman-crypto/partman-crypto-dm_31_all.udeb partman-crypto-loop_31_all.udeb to pool/main/p/partman-crypto/partman-crypto-loop_31_all.udeb partman-crypto_31.dsc to pool/main/p/partman-crypto/partman-crypto_31.dsc partman-crypto_31.tar.gz to pool/main/p/partman-crypto/partman-crypto_31.tar.gz partman-crypto_31_i386.udeb to pool/main/p/partman-crypto/partman-crypto_31_i386.udeb Override entries for your package: partman-crypto-dm_31_all.udeb - optional debian-installer partman-crypto-loop_31_all.udeb - optional debian-installer partman-crypto_31.dsc - source debian-installer partman-crypto_31_i386.udeb - optional debian-installer Announcing to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for your contribution to Debian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [RFC] Debian Installer Lenny Beta2 - Pending stuff and timeline
Guido Günther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Otavio, On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 06:06:23PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: [..snip..] . parted update is likely to happen before Lenny is release however we're still working at s390 fixing to get it done. That's great news. Does this include fixing #440675 which is needed for multipath support in d-i (with this fixed it'd be easy for people to start testing things)? Will this be based on parted 1.7 or parted 1.8? Beta2 won't change that. We'll try to update it as soon as possible but probably only after the release. I want to use parted 1.8 mostly because I'm working at parted upstream side too and it's double work to have to care about Debian specifics and upstream code in so diverted code. -- O T A V I OS A L V A D O R - E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN: 5906116 GNU/Linux User: 239058 GPG ID: 49A5F855 Home Page: http://otavio.ossystems.com.br - Microsoft sells you Windows ... Linux gives you the whole house. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#479473: debian-installer: DHCP client fails to assign address during install
Package: debian-installer Version: Debian GNU/Linux testing Lenny - Official Snapshot i386 BC Binary-1 20080316-10:44 Severity: normal Earlier, I tried setting up a new test system for some debugging of another package. As I run a apt-cache I (as always) downloaded the smallest install package I could find, the business card netinst image. However, I was unable to obtain an IP address via DHCP. My network uses DHCP and works (and this install used it fine once it had completed), so I do not believe that to be at fault. However, even after switching to manually entering my netowrk details I was unable to download the releases fie. I had to restart and enter my settings manually first time before I could proceed with the installation, which was otherwise uneventful. Here's the log of another attempt (it's 100% reproducable): May 4 23:22:15 net/hw-detect.hotplug: Detected hotpluggable network interface lo May 4 23:22:15 kernel: 8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.3 (Mar 22, 2004) May 4 23:22:15 kernel: 8139cp :00:0a.0: This (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible chip May 4 23:22:15 kernel: 8139cp :00:0a.0: Try the 8139too driver instead. May 4 23:22:15 kernel: 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.28 May 4 23:22:15 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 9 May 4 23:22:15 kernel: PCI: setting IRQ 9 as level-triggered May 4 23:22:15 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt :00:0a.0[A] - Link [LNKC] - GSI 9 (level, low) - IRQ 9 May 4 23:22:15 kernel: eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xd000, xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx, IRQ 9 May 4 23:22:15 kernel: eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D' May 4 23:22:15 net/hw-detect.hotplug: Detected hotpluggable network interface eth0 May 4 23:22:16 kernel: Intel ISA PCIC probe: not found. May 4 23:22:16 hw-detect: Loading PCMCIA bridge driver module: i82365 May 4 23:22:16 hw-detect: FATAL: Error inserting i82365 (/lib/modules/2.6.22-3-486/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/i82365.ko): No such device May 4 23:22:17 net/hw-detect.hotplug: Detected hotpluggable network interface eth0 May 4 23:22:17 net/hw-detect.hotplug: Detected hotpluggable network interface lo May 4 23:22:18 main-menu[948]: INFO: Menu item 'netcfg' selected May 4 23:22:18 dhclient: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.0 May 4 23:22:18 dhclient: Copyright 2004-2007 Internet Systems Consortium. May 4 23:22:18 dhclient: All rights reserved. May 4 23:22:18 dhclient: For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/ May 4 23:22:18 dhclient: May 4 23:22:18 kernel: eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0xC5E1 May 4 23:22:19 dhclient: Listening on LPF/eth0/xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx May 4 23:22:19 dhclient: Sending on LPF/eth0/xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx May 4 23:22:19 dhclient: Sending on Socket/fallback May 4 23:22:20 dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7 May 4 23:22:20 dhclient: DHCPOFFER from y.y.y.250 May 4 23:22:20 dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 May 4 23:22:21 dhclient: DHCPACK from y.y.y.250 May 4 23:22:21 dhclient: dhclient.c(2129): null pointer May 4 23:22:21 dhclient: DHCPDECLINE on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 May 4 23:22:21 dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 May 4 23:22:21 dhclient: DHCPOFFER from y.y.y.250 May 4 23:22:21 dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 May 4 23:22:22 dhclient: DHCPACK from y.y.y.250 May 4 23:22:22 dhclient: dhclient.c(2129): null pointer May 4 23:22:22 dhclient: DHCPDECLINE on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 May 4 23:22:22 dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8 May 4 23:22:22 main-menu[948]: (process:6264): Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.0 May 4 23:22:22 main-menu[948]: (process:6264): Copyright 2004-2007 Internet Systems Consortium. May 4 23:22:22 main-menu[948]: (process:6264): All rights reserved. May 4 23:22:22 main-menu[948]: (process:6264): For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/ May 4 23:22:22 main-menu[948]: (process:6264): May 4 23:22:22 main-menu[948]: (process:6264): Listening on LPF/eth0/xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx May 4 23:22:22 main-menu[948]: (process:6264): Sending on LPF/eth0/xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx May 4 23:22:22 main-menu[948]: (process:6264): Sending on Socket/fallback May 4 23:22:22 main-menu[948]: (process:6264): DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7 May 4 23:22:22 main-menu[948]: (process:6264): DHCPOFFER from y.y.y.250 May 4 23:22:22 main-menu[948]: (process:6264): DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 May 4 23:22:22 main-menu[948]: (process:6264): Sending on Socket/fallback May 4 23:22:22 main-menu[948]: (process:6264): DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7 May 4 23:22:22 main-menu[948]: (process:6264): DHCPOFFER from y.y.y.250 May 4 23:22:22 main-menu[948]: (process:6264): DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to
Re: [RFR] News entry about Beta2 work
Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Saturday 03 May 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: p Final preparations have begun for the beta 2 release of Debian Installerfor Lenny. The changes to the Debian archive are known to break most of the installation media from lenny beta 1. We hope to get beta 2 out as soon as possible to fix this. /p p The only images that should remain usable are the full installation CDs and DVDs. The other CD images are possibly still usable, but that is not guaranteed. /p I don't think this is correct in this case. I expect only installs that load udebs from a mirror will break (netboot, mini.iso and floppy installs that don't use a CD). All regular CD images should remain usable. Any proposal about how to explain it in the news? First proposal: All images that needs to download installer modules from Internet is likely to fail, that includes the netboot, network booting, mini.iso and floppy images. -- O T A V I OS A L V A D O R - E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN: 5906116 GNU/Linux User: 239058 GPG ID: 49A5F855 Home Page: http://otavio.ossystems.com.br - Microsoft sells you Windows ... Linux gives you the whole house. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [RFR] Errata update for Beta2
Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sunday 04 May 2008, Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Otavio Salvador ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Here goes the proposed errata update for Beta2 release. Please take a look and see if you have any suggestion/addition/change for it. IMO it's maybe a bit early for this. There may be more changes and I'd personally rather do one larger review than loads of small ones. I understand your POV however is rather difficult to do that at the end of the release cycle to me. I do prefer to do it during the process. dl class=gloss + dtNo i386 floppy installation method available/dt This should be: i386: No floppy installation method available And it should be listed as the first of the architecture-specific issues, not at the top of the list. + dd + The 2.6.24 kernel doesn't fit and we've disabled the floppy images for s/does not fit/is too big to fit on a floppy + beta 2 release. This will be enabled back for Release Candidate 1, that + will be based at 2.6.25 kernel. s/be based at/use the Better to just say: We expect to be able to enable floppy images again for the next release. Reasons: maybe we'll do a beta3 and maybe the next release will not be based on .25; you never know... Ack. I've made those changes locally (and also used Christian suggestions too) and will make it available in another mail for review. -- O T A V I OS A L V A D O R - E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN: 5906116 GNU/Linux User: 239058 GPG ID: 49A5F855 Home Page: http://otavio.ossystems.com.br - Microsoft sells you Windows ... Linux gives you the whole house. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [RFC] Debian Installer Lenny Beta2 - Pending stuff and timeline
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Otavio Salvador wrote: After thinking a lot and talking to many people, I think we ought to go with 2.6.24 kernel for the release. So, disable the i386 boot floppy for this beta? I've just done it. -- O T A V I OS A L V A D O R - E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN: 5906116 GNU/Linux User: 239058 GPG ID: 49A5F855 Home Page: http://otavio.ossystems.com.br - Microsoft sells you Windows ... Linux gives you the whole house. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[D-I Manual] Build log for en (04 May 2008)
A build of the Debian Installer Manual was triggered by an update to SVN.
There were no errors during the build process.
The new version of the manual has been uploaded successfully.
A log of the build is available at:
- http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/logs/en.log
===
It is possible to use RSS to track changes to the manual.
For more information, see:
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/translators.html
===
Note: PDF output is not yet supported for some languages; help
with this would be appreciated.
===
If you have any questions about the build or this message, feel
free to contact me at faw AT funlabs DOT org.
===
Updated files ('svn up')
Uen/appendix/graphical.xml
Uen/using-d-i/modules/partman-crypto.xml
Updated to revision 53065.
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
please allow ltsp 5.1.5-1 into testing
ltsp is again blocked from migrating into testing, likely due to the ltsp-client-builder udeb, though this udeb is not used by debian-installer by default. it has been in unstable for 8 days now, without introducing new problems. thanks for your consideration and work. live well, vagrant -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [RFC] Debian Installer Lenny Beta2 - Pending stuff and timeline
Otavio Salvador wrote: - current 2.6.25 status . currently too young to know about stability . still not ready for d-i usage (lacks l-m-e) 'still' not ready? ftr: linux-kbuild-2.6 left NEW just on saturday; modules can't be uploaded without this prior beeing in the archive.. and as always.. i'm uploading new conglomeration packages once that has happened, which is.. now. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~daniel-baumann/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
