Bug#580709: oldsys-preseed: add support for Buffalo Linkstation Pro/Live platform

[Ryan Tandy]

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Martin Michlmayr  wrote:
> Can you send a sample /etc/melco/info file so I can test the script?

I've attached info files from the default setup (DHCP) and after
configuring a static IP.

> Also, it would be great to add a test case to tests/arm

I'll do that and submit an updated patch soon.

Thanks,
Ryan


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Bug#580714: debian-installer: build installer image for Buffalo Linkstation Pro/Live

[Ryan Tandy]

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Martin Michlmayr  wrote:
> To me, this patch looks fine with one exception.  I wonder if this is
> the right thing to do:
>
> | $SETENV bootargs_root "root=/dev/sda2 rw initrd=0x00800040"
>
> I know we have to modify the initrd= parameter because the default one
> will not work.  However, afaict, Tim originally suggested to remove
> the whole initrd= parameter; see
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/2008/08/msg00036.html

I thought I'd read that entire thread, but as you can see the form I
used in the patch is from an older message that Tim quotes.  My
Linkstations work fine (on stock firmware as well) with the initrd=
parameter removed entirely, so let's go with that.

Reading that message again reminded me that I did not implement a test
for the bootloader version.  A note in the documentation recommending
the latest firmware revision might suffice, but I'll also have a look
at how the u-boot version might be detected from userspace.

> Also, from Tim's message above, it seems that you've removed panic=5
> from the command line.  Any reason why?

A typo on my part; thanks for catching it.

So indeed that line should read:
$SETENV bootargs_root "root=/dev/sda2 rw panic=5"
precisely as in Tim's email.

Thanks,
Ryan



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Bug#413794: please remove language-env from french / language-env status ?

[Kenshi Muto]

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Hi,

At Wed, 19 May 2010 23:00:52 +0200,
Simon Paillard wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:20:20AM -0500, Filipus Klutiero wrote:
> > language-env currently has important bugs when used for french which
> > make it more problematic than helpful for French and probably many other
> > languages. It would be best to remove it at least from the french
> > task. Japanese seems to be an exception but I still recommend to
> > remove it from the key so that language-env can be removed from Debian
> > if it's not fixed.
> 
> Is language-env still used/needed these days for some languages (for
> french?) ?
> http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/language-env.html
> http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=language-env
> 
> I remember it was needed years ago for woody and euro configuration for
> french, but don't remember anything newer, and the package doesn't show
> any real update since 2006:
> http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/language-env/news/20061127T004715Z.html.
> 
> 1/ Should language-env be dropped from some tasks ?
> 2/ Should language-env be kept in squeeze ?

As current maintainer, I strongly recommend to drop language-env from
all task files.
language-env is unuseful (even harmful) on UTF-8 environment for
normal users.

Although language-env gives good examples for i18n developers to know
other language environments, it wouldn't fit for Squeeze or even Sid
anymore, I think.

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Re: new udeb btrfs-tools-udeb

[Daniel Baumann]

On 05/19/2010 08:13 PM, Julien Cristau wrote:
> http://ftp-master.debian.org/new/btrfs-tools_0.19-9.html

(jftr:) ...which shows that i've uploaded the btrfs-tools version with
the udeb on the very same day when joeyh reported the bug, 2010-01-27.

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Bug#413794: please remove language-env from french / language-env status ?

[Simon Paillard]

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:20:20AM -0500, Filipus Klutiero wrote:
> Package: tasksel-data
> Version: 2.66
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> language-env currently has important bugs when used for french which
> make it more problematic than helpful for French and probably many other
> languages. It would be best to remove it at least from the french
> task. Japanese seems to be an exception but I still recommend to
> remove it from the key so that language-env can be removed from Debian
> if it's not fixed.

Is language-env still used/needed these days for some languages (for
french?) ?
http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/language-env.html
http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=language-env

I remember it was needed years ago for woody and euro configuration for
french, but don't remember anything newer, and the package doesn't show
any real update since 2006:
http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/language-env/news/20061127T004715Z.html.

1/ Should language-env be dropped from some tasks ?
2/ Should language-env be kept in squeeze ?

grep -e '\(language-env\|Task\)' /usr/share/tasksel/debian-tasks.desc |
grep -B1 language-env| grep Task
Task: amharic
Task: arabic
Task: belarusian
Task: bengali
Task: catalan
Task: danish
Task: french
Task: german
Task: greek
Task: hindi
Task: italian
Task: lithuanian
Task: macedonian
Task: norwegian
Task: persian
Task: polish
Task: punjabi
Task: romanian
Task: russian
Task: serbian
Task: spanish
Task: tamil
Task: telugu
Task: thai
Task: turkish
Task: ukrainian


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Bug#580709: oldsys-preseed: add support for Buffalo Linkstation Pro/Live platform

[Martin Michlmayr]

* Ryan Tandy  [2010-05-07 15:28]:
> The attached patch adds support in oldsys-preseed for the Linkstation
> Pro/Live platform, similar to Kurobox Pro which is already supported.
> This support is necessary for network-console to start without user
> interaction, which is important when a serial console is not available.
> Comments in the patch describe a caveat regarding preseeding from the
> factory default software with a static network configuration.

I guess this patch is also fine.

Can you send a sample /etc/melco/info file so I can test the script?

Also, it would be great to add a test case to tests/arm

Having said this, I've recently started to wonder whether
oldsys-preseed really is worth the effort on devices that default to
DHCP.  Maybe in those cases we should not parse the config, but simply
create a preseed file that does DHCP and falls back to some address.
This would simply things a lot.  And it might make sense for the LS,
which uses XFS by default, which we cannot read.

But on the other hand, given that you've already written the parsing
code, I don't see much harm in sticking it into oldsys-preseed.

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Bug#582257: probing DOS devices doesn't work

[Harald Dunkel]

Both command.com and kernel.sys are there:

# ls -al /mnt/
total 1183
drwxr-xr-x  6 root root   16384 Jan  1  1970 .
drwxr-xr-x 36 root root 896 May 13 15:50 ..
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   66945 Aug 29  2006 COMMAND.COM
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root2048 Mar 12 19:28 D510MO
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   45341 Aug 18  2006 KERNEL.SYS
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 1070626 Feb 14  2009 M1330A15.EXE
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root2048 May 18 14:10 S5000PSL
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root2048 Dec  4 17:20 acer
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root2048 Dec  4 17:38 acerwin

Is it possible that there is a problem about the mount options
wrt upper and lower case characters? AFAIR the default for
mounting vfat partitions has been changed a few months ago.

If I create a file "11freedos" using

--- 10freedos   2010-02-11 00:06:57.0 +0100
+++ 11freedos   2010-05-19 21:49:15.0 +0200
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
   *) debug "$1 is not a FAT partition: exiting"; exit 1 ;;
 esac

-if [ -e "$2/kernel.sys" -a -e "$2/command.com" ]; then
+if [ -e "$2/KERNEL.SYS" -a -e "$2/COMMAND.COM" ]; then
   label="$(count_next_label FreeDOS)"
   result "$1:FreeDOS:$label:chain"
   exit 0

then it works.


Regards

Harri



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Bug#580714: debian-installer: build installer image for Buffalo Linkstation Pro/Live

[Martin Michlmayr]

* Ryan Tandy  [2010-05-07 16:17]:
> The attached patch adds a target to debian-installer to build a kernel
> image and ramdisk for the Linkstation Pro/Live platform, similar to the
> Kurobox Pro which is already supported.

I've copied Tim Small and John with whom I've previously had
conversations about the LS Pro.  Since I don't know a lot about the LS
and don't have such a device, I hope they can help with the code
review.

To me, this patch looks fine with one exception.  I wonder if this is
the right thing to do:

| $SETENV bootargs_root "root=/dev/sda2 rw initrd=0x00800040"

I know we have to modify the initrd= parameter because the default one
will not work.  However, afaict, Tim originally suggested to remove
the whole initrd= parameter; see
http://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/2008/08/msg00036.html

In any case, I'm fine with leaving it there as long as it will work
both with Debian and the original LS firmware.

Also, from Tim's message above, it seems that you've removed panic=5
from the command line.  Any reason why?

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Re: new udeb btrfs-tools-udeb

[Daniel Baumann]

On 05/19/2010 07:26 PM, Joey Hess wrote:
> The btrfs-tools-udeb has still not been uploaded AFAICS. #567075 is
> still open. I'm puzzled that the git repository claims 0.19-11 was
> released, but the archive still has 0.19-8. Surely it's not been stuck
> in NEW for months?

i hope you didn't though bad of me, or that i wouldn't care about it. if
you did, i'm sorry, i should have pointed out that getting it through
NEW could take an infinit amount of time.

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Re: new udeb btrfs-tools-udeb

[Frans Pop]

On Wednesday 19 May 2010, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Please provide references as new udebs are only allowed with approval
> > of the debian-installer team.
>
> I'm not aware of any such policy; there's no mention of such a
> requirement in the developers reference or debian policy manual.

http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2007/07/msg00398.html


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Re: new udeb btrfs-tools-udeb

[Julien Cristau]

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 13:26:28 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:

> The btrfs-tools-udeb has still not been uploaded AFAICS. #567075 is
> still open. I'm puzzled that the git repository claims 0.19-11 was
> released, but the archive still has 0.19-8. Surely it's not been stuck
> in NEW for months?
> 
http://ftp-master.debian.org/new/btrfs-tools_0.19-9.html
http://ftp-master.debian.org/new/btrfs-tools_0.19-10.html
http://ftp-master.debian.org/new/btrfs-tools_0.19-11.html

Cheers,
Julien


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Bug#573891: kFreeBSD partitioning fails

[Miroslav Kure]

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 09:12:45PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> 
> From that log:
> parted_server: Read command: CHANGE_FILE_SYSTEM
> parted_server: Opening outfifo
> parted_server: 
> command_change_file_system(26740385280-30005821439,freebsd-ufs)
> parted_server: partition_with_id(26740385280-30005821439)
> parted_server: Filesystem freebsd-ufs not found, let's see if it is a flag
> parted_server: Bad file system or flag type: freebsd-ufs
> parted_server: Line 1723. CRITICAL ERROR!!!  EXITING.
> 
> Yep. That's the cause.
> 
> Looks like something the freebsd porters (CCed) will need to look into.
> But it's a bit strange as ufs has been the default file system for freebsd 
> since Aug 2009.

It seems the error has been fixed in the recently resumed builds, so
feel free to close the bug.

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Re: new udeb btrfs-tools-udeb

[Joey Hess]

Bastian Blank wrote:
> There was a udeb uploaded some months ago: btrfs-tools-udeb. I was not
> able to find any discussion about this matter.
> 
> Please provide references as new udebs are only allowed with approval of
> the debian-installer team.

I'm not aware of any such policy; there's no mention of such a requirement
in the developers reference or debian policy manual. 

The btrfs-tools-udeb has still not been uploaded AFAICS. #567075 is
still open. I'm puzzled that the git repository claims 0.19-11 was
released, but the archive still has 0.19-8. Surely it's not been stuck
in NEW for months?

I was distracted from adding btrfs to d-i due to the btrfs/dpkg data
loss issue (now fixed). Colin just did some work on grub that should fix
#540786. The other bug that needs to be fixed is #567176, basic parted
support to recognize the filesystem. There is already a patch for that.

On the d-i side, all that should need to be done for basic root on btrfs
support, once the above three bugs are fixed in testing is:

* Generate a btrfs-modules udeb. (trivial, I lost my patches though)
* Test partman-btrfs (I never tested it at all, but it should mostly
  work.)

btrfs apparently still has issues when disk space gets low, so I'd only
consider it as an experimental option. It is pretty cool though to think
about how d-i could define the right set of subvolumes and make it
really easy to write a script that rolled back dpkg upgrades.

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Bug#539443: ReactOS detection

[Joey Hess]

Besides the ".." typo in the file, which suggests it was never
tested, there is this:

result "${partition}:${long}:${label}:reactos"

What is the "reactos" in the bootloader type field at the end supposed
to do? As far as I know, the only valid values are "linux" and "chain",
and I suspect here it should be chain.

Obviously, this should not be added to os-prober until someone has
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Bug#409622: marked as done (os-prober unmounts partitions unnecessarily (linux-boot-prober))

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Package: os-prober
Version: 1.14
Severity: wishlist

linux-boot-prober unmounts mounted partitions unnecessarily when run
with the '-mounted' parameter. I'd already spoken to someone on the
d-i list(i can't find that thread now), and was asked to submit the
patch through the BTS. I've attached the patch to 50mounted-tests.
I've tested the patch and it works well on my system.

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--- 50mounted-tests.new	2007-02-04 21:06:31.0 +0800
+++ 50mounted-tests.orig	2006-12-19 21:35:56.0 +0800
@@ -19,73 +19,67 @@
 	done
 }
 
-rootmounted=""
+tmpmnt=/var/lib/os-prober/mount
+if [ ! -d $tmpmnt ]; then
+	mkdir $tmpmnt
+fi
 
-# If DO_MOUNTED is set, process already mounted partitions from their current mountpoint
-mnt=$(mount |grep "$partition "|cut -d' ' -f 3)
-if [ -n "$DO_MOUNTED" ] && [ -n "$mnt" ]; then
-	rootmounted=1
-elif [ ! -n  "$DO_MOUNTED" ]; then
-	mnt=/var/lib/os-prober/mount
-	if [ ! -d $mnt ]; then
-		mkdir $mnt
-	fi
+# If DO_MOUNTED is set, also process already mounted partitions by temporarily
+# unmounting them.
+oldmnt=$(mount |grep "$partition "|cut -d' ' -f 3)
+if [ -n "$DO_MOUNTED" ] && [ -n "$oldmnt" ]; then
+	oldopts=$(mount |grep "$partition "|sed 's/.*(\(.*\)).*/\1/')
+	umount $partition
 fi
 
 for type in $(grep -v nodev /proc/filesystems); do
-	if [ ! -n "$DO_MOUNTED" ]; then
-		if mount -o ro -t $type $partition $mnt 2>/dev/null; then
-			rootmounted=1
-		else
-			error "failed to mount $partition"
-		fi
-	fi
-	if [ "$rootmounted" ]; then
+	if mount -o ro -t $type $partition $tmpmnt 2>/dev/null; then
 		bootpart=""
-		if [ -e "$mnt/etc/fstab" ]; then
+		if [ -e "$tmpmnt/etc/fstab" ]; then
 			# Try to mount any /boot partition.
-			bootmnt=$(parsefstab < $mnt/etc/fstab | grep " /boot ") || true
+			bootmnt=$(parsefstab < $tmpmnt/etc/fstab | grep " /boot ") || true
 			if [ -n "$bootmnt" ]; then
 set -- $bootmnt
 boottomnt=""
-bootmounted=""
+mounted=""
 if [ -e "$1" ]; then
 	bootpart="$1"
 	boottomnt="$1"
-elif [ -e "$mnt/$1" ]; then
+elif [ -e "$tmpmnt/$1" ]; then
 	bootpart="$1"
-	boottomnt="$mnt/$1"
+	boottomnt="$tmpmnt/$1"
 elif [ -e "/target/$1" ]; then
 	bootpart="$1"
 	boottomnt="/target/$1"
 elif echo "$1" | grep -q "LABEL="; then
 	debug "mounting boot partition by label for linux system on $partition: $1"
 	label=$(echo "$1" | cut -d = -f 2)
-	if /target/bin/mount -L "$label" -o ro $mnt/boot -t "$3"; then
-		bootmounted=1
-		bootpart=$(mount | grep $mnt/boot | cut -d " " -f 1)
+	if /target/bin/mount -L "$label" -o ro $tmpmnt/boot -t "$3"; then
+		mounted=1
+		bootpart=$(mount | grep $tmpmnt/boot | cut -d " " -f 1)
 	else
 		error "failed to mount by label"
 	fi
 elif echo "$1" | grep -q "UUID="; then
 	debug "mounting boot partition by UUID for linux system on $partition: $1"
 	uuid=$(echo "$1" | cut -d = -f 2)
-	if /target/bin/mount -U "$uuid" -o ro $mnt/boot -t "$3"; then
-		bootmounted=1
-		bootpart=$(mount | grep $mnt/boot | cut -d " " -f 1)
+	if /target/bin/mount -U "$uuid" -o ro $tmpmnt/boot -t "$3"; then
+		mounted=1
+		bootpart=$(mount | grep $tmpmnt/boot | cut -d " " -f 1)
 	else
 		error "failed to mount by UUID"
 	fi
 else
 	bootpart=""
 fi
-if [ ! "$bootmounted" ]; then
+
+if [ ! "$mounted" ]; then
 	if [ -z "$bootpart" ]; then
 		debug "found boot partition $1 for linux system on $partition, but cannot map to existing device"
 	else
 		debug "found boot partition $bootpart for linux system on $partition"
-		if ! mount -o ro "$boottomnt" $mnt/boot -t "$3"; then
-			error "failed to mount $boottomnt on $mnt/boot"
+		if ! mount -o ro "$boottomnt" $tmpmnt/boot -t "$3"; then
+			error "failed to mount $boottomnt on $tmpmnt/boot"
 		fi
 	fi
 fi
@@ -94,31 +88,34 @@
 		if [ -z "$bootpart" ]; then
 			bootpart="$partition"
 		fi
+		
 		for test in /usr/lib/linux-boot-probes/mounted/*; do
 			if [ -f $test ] && [ -x $test ]; then
-debug "running $test $partition $bootpart $mnt $type"
-

Bug#582231: os-prober - Does not cleanup /var/lib/os-prober

[Joey Hess]

Bastian Blank wrote:
> os-prober does not cleanup /var/lib/os-prober on remove/purge.

The directory is in the dpkg file list. The contents should never
persist outside of os-prober runs, unless os-prober is unable to umount
temporarily mounted filesystems.

Bug #569235 used to make os-prober leave /var/lib/os-prober/mount
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Bug#582257: probing DOS devices doesn't work

[Joey Hess]

Harald Dunkel wrote:
> /dev/sdc1: SEC_TYPE="msdos" LABEL="usbdos" UUID="8518-0F77" TYPE="vfat"
> 
> sdc is a bootable memory stick with FreeDOS on sdc1 and Squeeze on sdc2.

os-prober has an explicit freedos check. It currently checks for:

* vfat or msdos formatted partition
* with a kernel.sys and command.com present on it

Is your partition missing one of those files? What does its complement
of freedos files look like?

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Re: new udeb btrfs-tools-udeb

[Daniel Baumann]

On 05/19/2010 11:19 AM, Bastian Blank wrote:
> There was a udeb uploaded some months ago: btrfs-tools-udeb. I was not
> able to find any discussion about this matter.

joeyh requested it.

> Please provide references as new udebs are only allowed with approval of
> the debian-installer team.

see btrfs-tools bts.

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Bug#582257: probing DOS devices doesn't work

[Harald Dunkel]

Package: os-prober
Version: 1.38

Seems that os-prober fails to recognize bootable DOS
partitions. Sample session:


# os-prober
  No volume groups found
/dev/sda2:openSUSE 11.0 (i586):SuSE:linux
/dev/sdb3:Debian GNU/Linux (squeeze/sid):Debian:linux
/dev/sdc2:Debian GNU/Linux (squeeze/sid):Debian1:linux

# blkid -c /dev/null | sort
/dev/sda1: TYPE="swap"
/dev/sda2: UUID="4bb5089b-8673-40b4-bbe2-78a5a867da7a" SEC_TYPE="ext2" 
TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda3: UUID="0857d6bb-9cb3-412e-a325-02fbd480399e" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="root" UUID="084ce514-69d8-467c-9864-0f86b5dbef3a" 
TYPE="reiserfs"
/dev/sdb2: TYPE="swap"
/dev/sdb3: LABEL="sid" UUID="850218ef-a38f-44a1-8988-8c012efee23d" 
TYPE="reiserfs"
/dev/sdb4: LABEL="tomcat" UUID="d3965cdd-4847-4855-8bbb-7f611b568488" 
TYPE="reiserfs"
/dev/sdc1: SEC_TYPE="msdos" LABEL="usbdos" UUID="8518-0F77" TYPE="vfat"
/dev/sdc2: LABEL="usbroot" UUID="feb06aa6-7adf-422d-918d-797b367d11f5" 
SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"


sdc is a bootable memory stick with FreeDOS on sdc1 and Squeeze on sdc2.
The DOS partition boots fine using Grub chainloader, of course, except
that I have to create the appropriate grub config entry manually.


It would be nice if this problem could be fixed. Please mail.


Regards

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Bug#581873: [languagechooser] unable to select language more than once

[Frans Pop]

> *Exactly* when did you do this? I suspect it was after the step of
> loading additional components? Before that point changing the language
> should work fine. After that point the language setting *is* changed,
> but you get English because other translations have been deleted to save
> memory.

I've committed a change in rootskel so that translations only get dropped 
if the system has less than 250MB RAM. If we could display the dialog 
saying that changing the language is no longer possible that would 
probably not be needed, but since that does not work I think it's better 
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Bug#582044: [hw-detect] Detecting hardware hangs in sony netbook

[Jon Ander Peñalba]

This is some of the info I get in the console (hope it's enough):

main-menu: INFO: Menu item 'iso-scan' selected
main-menu: INFO: Falling back to the package description for
loop-modules-2.6.32-3-486-di
main-menu: INFO: Falling back to the package description for
loop-modules-2.6.32-3-486-di
hw-detect: ISA bus detected; loading module 'idle-generic'
hw-detect: insmod /lib/modules/2.6.32-3-486/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-core.ko
kernel: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver

(then this message repeated a few times)
kernel: usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2

(then the error)
kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code
kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_ABORT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00
kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0
kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0

I downloaded the ISO image from here [1] and the boot.img.gz from here [2].

[1]
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/
[2] http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/hd-media/

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Bug#582231: os-prober - Does not cleanup /var/lib/os-prober

[Bastian Blank]

Package: os-prober
Version: 1.35
Severity: important

os-prober does not cleanup /var/lib/os-prober on remove/purge.

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Bug#582223: partman - Wants to overwrite swap partition/lv

[Frans Pop]

severity 582223 normal
tags 582223 wontfix
thanks

On Wednesday 19 May 2010, Bastian Blank wrote:
> partman wants to overwrite the swap partitions on a already setup
> machine. As swap partition can contain hibernation data, this is an
> data-destroying operation.

Doing any system install while the system is in hibernation is asking for 
trouble and IMO is simply user error. I don't think we need to support 
that case.

See also the warning at the top of:
http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/i386/ch05s01.html.en

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Bug#579519: grub-installer - Overwrites bootloaders on different device

[Bastian Blank]

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:16:29AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 11:55:51AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > grub-installer managed to overwrite the bootloader on the usb stick I
> > used to boot the installer instead of the root device.
> It calls grub-install instead of grub-setup.

If noone have a better solution, I'll start to switch over
grub-installer to grub2-only and use grub-setup.

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Bug#579519: grub-installer - Overwrites bootloaders on different device

[Bastian Blank]

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 11:55:51AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> grub-installer managed to overwrite the bootloader on the usb stick I
> used to boot the installer instead of the root device.

It calls grub-install instead of grub-setup.

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new udeb btrfs-tools-udeb

[Bastian Blank]

Hi

There was a udeb uploaded some months ago: btrfs-tools-udeb. I was not
able to find any discussion about this matter.

Please provide references as new udebs are only allowed with approval of
the debian-installer team.

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Bug#582223: partman - Wants to overwrite swap partition/lv

[Bastian Blank]

Package: partman-basicfilesystems
Version: 63
Severity: serious

partman wants to overwrite the swap partitions on a already setup
machine. As swap partition can contain hibernation data, this is an
data-destroying operation.

Bastian

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New release? (was: Re: Package-Type not included in udebs)

[Christian PERRIER]

Quoting Frans Pop (elen...@planet.nl):

> It may be better to delay until after the Squeeze release so that it can 
> all be done without pressure.

Agreed, if you feel this might have more consequences than what I was
originally imagining.

This, btw, brings again the topic of a new release of D-I which should
indeed be the release to use for squeeze. Otavio, are you listening?

That one, if it happens, would need a full l10n freeze round (given
the current status of development, we're already more or less in
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