Re: Upcoming Lenny Point Release
Hi, for Debian Edu it would be great if cdebconf would be updated to 0.141 in stable and new d-i initrds would be build, as we are using them directly and are being bitten by #508042, #507372 and #343119. Those bugs were fixed in 0.140, but due to #525209 0.141 is desirable. I'm not sure if it's realistic at all (though the changes are just bugfixes and translation updates), but it would be good to have an answer, so either Debian Edu can use unmodified d-i or we have to fix it ourselves, which would mean branching d-i and a whole lot of more work (for the years to come). regards, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [D-I] Please test Debian Installer with console-setup
Quoting Hideki Yamane (henr...@debian.or.jp): But they stop installation with debootstrap failure message Warning: Failure trying to run: chroot /target mount -t proc proc /proc in my environment. So I test keyboard layout with virtual console (good) but cannot test with X. I suspect this has of course nothing to do with console-setup. I'm just testing a rebuilt image right now, to see if I see this problem. You mention you wanted to test X and that things work in virtual consoles: did you actually choose the desktop install? That one failed, but an install without X didn't fail. Do I understand properly? signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [D-I] Please test Debian Installer with console-setup
Quoting Christian Perrier (bubu...@debian.org): Quoting Hideki Yamane (henr...@debian.or.jp): But they stop installation with debootstrap failure message Warning: Failure trying to run: chroot /target mount -t proc proc /proc in my environment. So I test keyboard layout with virtual console (good) but cannot test with X. I suspect this has of course nothing to do with console-setup. This is #532050. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#532043: Debootstrap segfault during installation : testing i386 netinstall
reassign 532043 debootstrap forcemerge 532050 532043 thanks Quoting Timothy Sweeney (maine...@gmail.com): Package: Installation-reports I've been trying to install debian-testing using both the larger netinstall ISO, and the small kernel/initrd, and in both cases, the process fails when debootstrap segfaults while trying to execute: chroot /target mount -t proc proc /proc. Two bugs have been reported nearly simultaneously for this. Merging them. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Processed: Re: Bug#532043: Debootstrap segfault during installation : testing i386 netinstall
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: reassign 532043 debootstrap Bug#532043: Debootstrap segfault during installation : testing i386 netinstall Bug reassigned from package `installation-reports' to `debootstrap'. forcemerge 532050 532043 Bug#532050: deboostrap segfault at mount Bug#532043: Debootstrap segfault during installation : testing i386 netinstall Forcibly Merged 532043 532050. thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs database) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#532043: Debootstrap segfault during installation : testing i386 netinstall
I've been trying to install debian-testing using both the larger netinstall ISO, and the small kernel/initrd, and in both cases, the process fails when debootstrap segfaults while trying to execute: chroot /target mount -t proc proc /proc. Two bugs have been reported nearly simultaneously for this. Merging them. The bug does not happen when installing unstable instead of testing (which is the default). You can do this either by preseeding (type install mirror/suite=unstable at the D-I boot prompt of choose expert install and pick unstable when prompted abou twhich suite to install). signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#532043: Debootstrap segfault during installation : testing i386 netinstall
* Christian Perrier bubu...@debian.org [2009-06-06 13:56]: The bug does not happen when installing unstable instead of testing (which is the default). FWIW, I got a report in private ealier today saying that an installation of unstable failed at chroot /target mount -t proc proc /proc. So I guess it applies to both testing and usntable but the bug just doesn't happen all the time. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#532043: Debootstrap segfault during installation : testing i386 netinstall
Quoting Martin Michlmayr (t...@cyrius.com): * Christian Perrier bubu...@debian.org [2009-06-06 13:56]: The bug does not happen when installing unstable instead of testing (which is the default). FWIW, I got a report in private ealier today saying that an installation of unstable failed at chroot /target mount -t proc proc /proc. So I guess it applies to both testing and usntable but the bug just doesn't happen all the time. With the same ISO image (netboot daily built on my own system), I get the failure when doing a default install and no failure when preseeding mirror/suite=unstable. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Little preseed question
Hi Please I only only a little question. In debian-installer, using preseed file, in grub-install step, How I can specify some kernel parameters in the grub menu.lst entry of the installed system? How I can change the default parameters? Can I specify any instruction like d-i grub-installer/kernel_parameters vga=0x317? Thanks a lot. Sorry for my bad english Oriol Matavacas
Console-setup questions reasked during the standard system installation
This was noticed on special images where console-setup-udeb replaces kbd-config. This happens only when installing unstable, not testing (by preseeing mirror/suite=unstable for instance) During the installation of packages on the target system, console-setup debconf questions are re-asked even though they were already asked while running console-setup-udeb I have not investigate why this happens but c-s should pick values set for console-setup-udeb or something similar... -- signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Little preseed question
On Saturday 06 June 2009, MaTa wrote: In debian-installer, using preseed file, in grub-install step, How I can specify some kernel parameters in the grub menu.lst entry of the installed system? How I can change the default parameters? Can I specify any instruction like d-i grub-installer/kernel_parameters vga=0x317? You can only do that by passing the same parameter to the installer itself. So basically, instead of just hitting enter when you start an installation, you should hit tab which will allow you to modify the boot parameters for the installer and add the vga parameter at the end. Cheers, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: [D-I] Please test Debian Installer with console-setup
On Sat, 6 Jun 2009 11:54:59 +0200 Christian Perrier bubu...@debian.org wrote: I suspect this has of course nothing to do with console-setup. This is #532050. Yes, this one, thanks. console-setup with virtual console is fine, so X also is okay, I guess. -- Regards, Hideki Yamane henrich @ debian.or.jp/iijmio-mail.jp http://wiki.debian.org/HidekiYamane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Little preseed question
Thanks a lot for response. Sorry If I hasn't explained so well. But I want modify the entry of the installed system, no the execution of the debian-installer. I want change the menu.lst of the /target system, no the debian-installer visual mode. Thanks again 2009/6/6 Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl On Saturday 06 June 2009, MaTa wrote: In debian-installer, using preseed file, in grub-install step, How I can specify some kernel parameters in the grub menu.lst entry of the installed system? How I can change the default parameters? Can I specify any instruction like d-i grub-installer/kernel_parameters vga=0x317? You can only do that by passing the same parameter to the installer itself. So basically, instead of just hitting enter when you start an installation, you should hit tab which will allow you to modify the boot parameters for the installer and add the vga parameter at the end. Cheers, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Little preseed question
No need to CC me on replies. I read the list. On Saturday 06 June 2009, MaTa wrote: Sorry If I hasn't explained so well. But I want modify the entry of the installed system, no the execution of the debian-installer. I want change the menu.lst of the /target system, no the debian-installer visual mode. You explained perfectly. And my answer basically says that's not supported. The only way the installer will add parameters for the installed system is if they were also passed to the installer itself. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/lenny_di_rc2/ no longer valid (was: Link error in URL http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/)
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 08:51:04AM +, Pirlet, Louis Richard wrote: I am trying to get the weekly snapshot of the testing distribution using jigdo... I need to follow the link in the URL http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/index.en.html. It seems that none of the links under Official jigdo files for the testing distribution are working... I guess that the directory does not exist. The problem seems to be the same in english and in french... Should be as they re pointing to the same place :-) Thanks for the notice. Indeed, Lenny RC2 URLs like http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/lenny_di_rc2/i386/jigdo-cd/ don't work anymore. To debian-boot people, is this kind of url below correct for getting testing jigdo files ? http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/testing/arch-latest/i386/jigdo-cd/ Regards. -- Simon Paillard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Install on ext4
Hello.I'm wondering if there is a way to install debian in an ext4 file-system.I downloaded debian daily installer unstable build (2009-06-06). Booted it.I see that installer does load ext4-modules-But the partition program does not recognize previously created ext4 file-system, and there is no option to use a partition as an ext4.So, is there any way to install debian on ext4 using the d-i images?
Re: Little preseed question
Hi Thanks. Yes, I'm thinking in a little script for a late_command, with sed. Like: d-i preseed/late_command string sed 's/kernel something/kernel something vga=0x17/g' /target/boot/grub/menu.lst I think can work... 2009/6/6 Terry D. Cudney terry.cud...@gmail.com Hi, Not sure if this is what you want, but you can edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst file after installation, so that subsequent bootups follow your preferences therein. HTH, --terry On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 05:57:20PM +0200, MaTa wrote: Thanks a lot for response. Sorry If I hasn't explained so well. But I want modify the entry of the installed system, no the execution of the debian-installer. I want change the menu.lst of the /target system, no the debian-installer visual mode. Thanks again 2009/6/6 Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl On Saturday 06 June 2009, MaTa wrote: In debian-installer, using preseed file, in grub-install step, How I can specify some kernel parameters in the grub menu.lst entry of the installed system? How I can change the default parameters? Can I specify any instruction like d-i grub-installer/kernel_parameters vga=0x317? You can only do that by passing the same parameter to the installer itself. So basically, instead of just hitting enter when you start an installation, you should hit tab which will allow you to modify the boot parameters for the installer and add the vga parameter at the end. Cheers, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org -- Name: Terry D. Cudney Phone: 705-812-4949 SIP: 8...@ekiga.net E-mail: te...@octothorp.org Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like... having a peeing sectionin a swimming pool. Tired of technology? Check this out: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm
Re: Install on ext4
Hello, On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 2:52 PM, skndr...@gmail.com wrote: Hello. I'm wondering if there is a way to install debian in an ext4 file-system. I downloaded debian daily installer unstable build (2009-06-06). Booted it. I see that installer does load ext4-modules- But the partition program does not recognize previously created ext4 file-system, and there is no option to use a partition as an ext4. So, is there any way to install debian on ext4 using the d-i images? This is still being worked. So currently it is not available. We hope to have it available for testing in few days. -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems E-mail: ota...@ossystems.com.br http://www.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 53 9981-7854 http://projetos.ossystems.com.br -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Console-setup questions reasked during the standard system installation
Hi Christian, On Saturday, June 6, 2009 at 15.59.21, Christian Perrier wrote: [cut] I was unable to repeat the configuration of console-setup during the install. Regars, Luca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Little preseed question
On Saturday 06 June 2009, MaTa wrote: Thanks. Yes, I'm thinking in a little script for a late_command, with sed. Like: d-i preseed/late_command string sed 's/kernel something/kernel something vga=0x17/g' /target/boot/grub/menu.lst I think can work... Yes that would work. Or you could drop a script into /usr/lib/finish-install.d/. To make your parameters permanent, you really need to add them in the configuration setting part of the file, i.e. either the line # kopt=[...] or # defoptions=[...] If you want to have them available after the first reboot, you should the either run update-grub in the /target chroot, or _also_ add them in the already generated sections for the installed kernel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
[RFC] Packages that looks ready for uploading
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello folks, I've been finally able to take a more careful look at our repository and make up a list of packages that I believe we ought to upload. Please, if you're one of responsable by the package and you agree with me please go ahead and upload it or comment why you believe it is not ready. Packages that looks OK for upload ~ apt-setup arcboot-installer auto-install cdebconf clock-setup colo-installer finish-install grub-installer installation-report iso-scan kickseed libdebian-installer lilo-installer linux-kernel-di-alpha-2.6 linux-kernel-di-mips-2.6 linux-kernel-di-mipsel-2.6 linux-kernel-di-s390-2.6 linux-kernel-di-sparc-2.6 linux-modules-di-alpha-2.6 linux-modules-di-armel-2.6 linux-modules-di-hppa-2.6 linux-modules-di-ia64-2.6 linux-modules-di-mips-2.6 linux-modules-di-mipsel-2.6 linux-modules-di-powerpc-2.6 linux-modules-di-s390-2.6 linux-modules-di-sparc-2.6 live-installer localechooser lowmem main-menu mdcfg mountmedia nobootloader partconf partitioner # someone need to upload it after we've parted in partman-auto partman-auto-lvm partman-base # i'll take it partman-basicfilesystems partman-crypto partman-ext3 partman-jfs partman-md partman-partitioning partman-reiserfs partman-xfs pkgsel prep-installer preseed quik-installer rescue rootskel-gtk sibyl-installer silo-installer yaboot-installer zipl-installer Packages that has translation-only or really trivial changes aboot-installer anna cdebconf-entropy cdebconf-terminal cdrom-checker cdrom-detect cdrom-retriever efi-reader elilo-installer kbd-chooser lvmcfg media-retriever net-retriever netcfg network-console partman-auto-crypto partman-basicmethods partman-efi partman-lvm partman-palo partman-prep rootskel s390-dasd s390-netdevice tzsetup udpkg user-setup vmelilo-installer I think we ought to do a full upload cycle. That will give us the required feedback of what the real state of the installer and also give to translators a good feeling of what is the real state of installer in their language. I believe we'll end up finding some bugs and will have few days of an unstable installer but I think this early in cycle it is not a really bad thing since it will allow us to really get those things deplyed and receive feedback from users. Even tough the minor changes and translation-only uploads aren't /required/ now, I'd like to do those after the first set of packages has been uploaded so we could do an installer upload and really start the Alpha1 release preparation. A very important thing is that porters need to upload their kernel packages so we really have full installer using latest kernel and discover problems on it as soon as possible. Any comments? Objections? Cheers, - -- O T A V I OS A L V A D O R - - E-mail: ota...@debian.org 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. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8+ http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAkoq4BUACgkQLqiZQEml+FUfXQCghYAJkFtDg5LldUFd/Zk6dQZu kmgAni5mThCRzvo1cF+XVKG6znx++rbV =+4w3 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#532144: Lenny Reboot after loading kernel during net install
Package: installation-reports Boot method: network Image version: http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/current/images/ Date: 2009-06-06 21:00 Machine: 82434 based Intel motherboard, answers to the name gort. Processor: Pentium 90 Memory: 64MB Partitions: Failed before then Output of lspci -knn (or lspci -nn): Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot: [E] Detect network card:[ ] Configure network: [ ] Detect CD: [ ] Load installer modules: [ ] Detect hard drives: [ ] Partition hard drives: [ ] Install base system:[ ] Clock/timezone setup: [ ] User/password setup:[ ] Install tasks: [ ] Install boot loader:[ ] Overall install:[ ] Comments/Problems: The machine is an old Pentium 90 machine I use as a firewall; it seems to be running Etch OK but Lenny is failing very early. I'm netbooting it , it loads the pxe image and then I get a corrupt greeting screen (very blue lines, repeated multiple times with gaps in - looks like the whole image is maybe what should be one line of pixels is say 8 deep with black between). Anyway, that turns out to be minor, hitting the F keys get me the help text and I can load the kernel. I see it load and decompress the kernel then I see: Parsing ELF done another line of text here that disappears too quickly and then it reboots to the BIOS. That's repeatable. I think the same behaviour happened when I tried to run the USB/hard drive boot image off a partition on the hard disc, but I can't repeat that test now. Hardware: Trident ISA VGA card 1024MB RAM ISA Serial/parallel IO card AMI Bios 1.00.03.AX1Z lspci captured on etch: 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82434LX/NX [Mercury/Neptune] Processor to PCI bridge [8086:04a3] (rev 11) 00:01.0 IDE interface [0101]: Micron PC Tech RZ1000 [1042:1000] (rev 01) 00:02.0 Non-VGA unclassified device []: Intel Corporation 82378ZB/IB, 82379AB (SIO, SIO.A) PCI to ISA Bridge [8086:0484] (rev 03) 00:06.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ [10ec:8139] (rev 10) 00:0c.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] [8086:1229] (rev 08) 00:0e.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] [10b7:9200] (rev 74) dmesg captured on etch: Linux version 2.6.18-6-486 (Debian 2.6.18.dfsg.1-24) (da...@debian.org) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)) #1 Sat Dec 27 08:57:46 UTC 2008 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-88: - 0009f000 (usable) BIOS-88: 0010 - 0400 (usable) 64MB LOWMEM available. On node 0 totalpages: 16384 DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:0 Normal zone: 12288 pages, LIFO batch:3 DMI not present or invalid. ACPI: Unable to locate RSDP Allocating PCI resources starting at 1000 (gap: 0400:fc00) Detected 90.204 MHz processor. Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 16384 Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda3 ro No local APIC present or hardware disabled mapped APIC to d000 (01081000) Initializing CPU#0 PID hash table entries: 512 (order: 9, 2048 bytes) Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) Memory: 57648k/65536k available (1501k kernel code, 7432k reserved, 601k data, 256k init, 0k highmem) Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 181.01 BogoMIPS (lpj=362028) Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized SELinux: Disabled at boot. Capability LSM initialized Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 CPU: After generic identify, caps: 01bf CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 01bf Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled. CPU: After all inits, caps: 01bf Compat vDSO mapped to e000. CPU: Intel Pentium 75 - 200 stepping 04 Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. checking if image is initramfs... it is Freeing initrd memory: 4245k freed NET: Registered protocol family 16 EISA bus registered PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.00 entry at 0xf3940, last bus=0 PCI: Using configuration type 2 Setting up standard PCI resources ACPI: Interpreter disabled. Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled PnPBIOS: Scanning system for PnP BIOS support... PnPBIOS: PnP BIOS support was not detected. PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) PCI: Ignoring BAR0-1 of IDE controller :00:01.0 PCI: Firmware left :00:0c.0 e100 interrupts enabled, disabling NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP route cache hash table entries: 512 (order: -1, 2048 bytes) TCP established hash table
Bug#532144: Acknowledgement (Lenny Reboot after loading kernel during net install)
OK, I've just installed etch and upgraded to lenny; the lenny 2.6.26-2.486 kernel exhibits the same problem, so it's not just the installer. Dave -- -Open up your eyes, open up your mind, open up your code --- / Dr. David Alan Gilbert| Running GNU/Linux on Alpha,68K| Happy \ \ gro.gilbert @ treblig.org | MIPS,x86,ARM,SPARC,PPC HPPA | In Hex / \ _|_ http://www.treblig.org |___/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
