Bug#815164: check-missing-firmware can't mount fat32

[Laurent COOPER]

HI

Thank you for enquiries

I made the i386 boot key with a 1G usb key, using the dd command

(dd if=debian-8.3.0i386 of=/dev/sdb bs=4M)

I next use fdisk to create sdb3 and made a fat32 filesystem. Copied on it

- the missing firmware with the deb file
- the missing firmware extrated from debfile in a /firmare subdirectory

check-missing-firmware could not load the ipw2200-bs.fw

I thought it was possibly because it was on sdb3 and not sdb1

I could mount manually the filesystem with mount and read sdb3 although

I copied the same file on a quite large usbstick (4G) with FAT32
filesystem. All was this time on sdc1

didn't work neither

Finally , after reading that fat was a first stage supported, but not
necessaraly fat32, i copied the files again, this time on a small 512M
usb key in FAT.

This third time it worked.

Hope this helps

Regards

Laurent

Le 21/02/2016 21:21, Steve McIntyre a écrit :
> Control: tag -1 +moreinfo
> 
> Hi Laurent,
> 
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 04:40:59PM +0100, Laurent COOPER wrote:
>> Package: debian-installer
>> Version: 20150422+deb8u3
>>
>> What I've done :
>>
>> for installing firmware (for wireless card), I put the on a USB stick
>> nowadays, the vast majority of USB stick is formatted FAT32, wich is
>> almost read by all OS
>>
>> What was expected :
>> check-missing-firmware should have loaded the missing firmware
>>
>> What happened :
>> Nothing
>>
>> I managed the problem by using an old small key and formatting this key
>> in FAT
>>
>> FAT32 support should be used by check-missing-firmware
> 
> I've just tested doing exactly this and things worked OK for me,
> booting from a netinst on a USB stick. Can you tell us more? How did
> you boot, etc.?
> 

Bug#815537: Typo for MIPS related section

[Mathieu Malaterre]

Package: installation-guide
Tags: patch

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Bug#815491: installation-report: successful on HP ProBook 6470v

[Olivier Poupel]

Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate
***

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-- Package-specific info:

Boot method: USB
Image version:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/stretch_di_alpha5/amd64/iso-dvd/debian-stretch-DI-alpha5-amd64-DVD-1.iso
Date: 2016/02/21

Machine: HP ProBook 6470b
Partitions: 
 df -Tl
Sys. de fichiers Type blocs de 1K Utilisé Disponible Uti% Monté sur
udev devtmpfs   10240   0  10240   0% /dev
tmpfstmpfs161138496841601700   1% /run
/dev/sda4ext416209324 4333572   11029316  29% /
tmpfstmpfs4028452 4484028004   1% /dev/shm
tmpfstmpfs   5120   4   5116   1% /run/lock
tmpfstmpfs4028452   04028452   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfstmpfs 805692   8 805684   1% /run/user/116
tmpfstmpfs 805692  60 805632   1% /run/user/1000
/dev/sdc1iso9660  3884160 3884160  0 100%
/media/olivier/Debian stretch-DI-a5 amd64 1


Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot:   [O]
Detect network card:[O]
Configure network:  [O]
Detect CD:  [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Clock/timezone setup:   [O]
User/password setup:[O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives:  [O]
Install base system:[O]
Install tasks:  [O]
Install boot loader:[E]
Overall install:[O]

Comments/Problems: I denied the installation of the bootloader on the disk
but the installer propose to choose a disk for the installation.




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installation logs that you think would be useful are attached to this
report. Please compress large files using gzip.

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==
Installer lsb-release:
==
DISTRIB_ID=Debian
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Debian GNU/Linux installer"
DISTRIB_RELEASE="9 (stretch) - installer build 20160106"
X_INSTALLATION_MEDIUM=cdrom

==
Installer hardware-summary:
==
uname -a: Linux sauron 4.3.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.3.3-5 (2016-01-04)
x86_64 GNU/Linux
lspci -knn: 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core
processor DRAM Controller [8086:0154] (rev 09)
lspci -knn: Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:179c]
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: ivb_uncore
lspci -knn: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 3rd
Gen Core processor Graphics Controller [8086:0166] (rev 09)
lspci -knn: DeviceName: 64
lspci -knn: Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:179c]
lspci -knn: 00:14.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210
Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller [8086:1e31] (rev 04)
lspci -knn: Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:179c]
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd
lspci -knn: 00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation 7
Series/C210 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 [8086:1e3a] (rev 04)
lspci -knn: Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:179c]
lspci -knn: 00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82579V
Gigabit Network Connection [8086:1503] (rev 04)
lspci -knn: Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:179c]
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: e1000e
lspci -knn: 00:1a.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210
Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 [8086:1e2d] (rev 04)
lspci -knn: Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:179c]
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: ehci-pci
lspci -knn: 00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210
Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller [8086:1e20] (rev 04)
lspci -knn: Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:179c]
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
lspci -knn: 00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210
Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 [8086:1e10] (rev c4)
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: pcieport
lspci -knn: 00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210
Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 2 [8086:1e12] (rev c4)
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: pcieport
lspci -knn: 00:1c.2 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210
Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 3 [8086:1e14] (rev c4)
lspci -knn: 

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zfsutils: mountpoints not set except for root
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Bug#815164: check-missing-firmware can't mount fat32

[Steve McIntyre]

Control: tag -1 +moreinfo

Hi Laurent,

On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 04:40:59PM +0100, Laurent COOPER wrote:
>Package: debian-installer
>Version: 20150422+deb8u3
>
>What I've done :
>
>for installing firmware (for wireless card), I put the on a USB stick
>nowadays, the vast majority of USB stick is formatted FAT32, wich is
>almost read by all OS
>
>What was expected :
>check-missing-firmware should have loaded the missing firmware
>
>What happened :
>Nothing
>
>I managed the problem by using an old small key and formatting this key
>in FAT
>
>FAT32 support should be used by check-missing-firmware

I've just tested doing exactly this and things worked OK for me,
booting from a netinst on a USB stick. Can you tell us more? How did
you boot, etc.?

-- 
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"When C++ is your hammer, everything looks like a thumb." -- Steven M. Haflich

Re: 8.4 and 7.10 planning

[Donald Norwood]

On 02/21/2016 08:13 AM, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 12:24:35 +, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We're due both Jessie and Wheezy point releases, and are proposing doing
>> both on the same weekend again, as we did for 8.2 and 7.9, as the CD
>> team seem happy to try it again.
>>
>> Some suggested dates:
>>
>> March 12th / 13th
>> March 19th / 20th
>> March 26th / 27th - Easter, holiday weekend in at least the UK
>> April 2nd / 3rd
March 12/13 is no good (Steve) and March 26/27 is Easter holiday as well
in the US.

Although the publicity team is flexible on the date ranges,  April 2/3
seem to be the better of the date ranges as the delay would give Ben
time to push the kernel updates.

Best regards,

Donald Norwood



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Bug#815437: keyboard-configuration: Keyboard and touchpad sometimes not working

[Krishna Kannur]

Package: keyboard-configuration
Version: 1.123
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***

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 ineffective)?
   * What was the outcome of this action?
   * What outcome did you expect instead?

*** End of the template - remove these template lines ***

Scenario 1:

When I start the laptop the keyboard  and touchpad does not work. I try a
acouple of restart it will start working. I am able to do this because my USB
mouse still works and I am able to select Shutdown or Restart. This stops me
from using laptop as I cannot login without password.Hence, consider this as a
serious defect. My laptop is Toshiba Satellite L755D-S7222 with AMD Quad core
Processor, 8 GB RAM, TSST Drive, Realtek Wirelss (At times this also has
problem)

Scenario 2:

When I close the laptop it is always observed that the keyboard and touchpad as
not working. The USB wireless mouse continue to work. I hit switch users,
select kde-plasma-desktop and get into a position to Shutdown or Restart to
start once again. I cannot use my laptop and have to discard all that I have
done. Hence, consider this as a serious defect. My laptop is Toshiba Satellite
L755D-S7222 with AMD Quad core Processor, 8 GB RAM, TSST Drive, Realtek Wirelss
(At times this also has problem)



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.3
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages keyboard-configuration depends on:
ii  debconf 1.5.56
ii  initscripts 2.88dsf-59
ii  liblocale-gettext-perl  1.05-8+b1

keyboard-configuration recommends no packages.

keyboard-configuration suggests no packages.

Versions of packages console-setup depends on:
ii  console-setup-linux  1.123
ii  debconf  1.5.56
ii  xkb-data 2.12-1

Versions of packages console-setup suggests:
ii  locales   2.19-18+deb8u2
ii  lsb-base  4.1+Debian13+nmu1

Versions of packages console-setup-linux depends on:
ii  kbd  1.15.5-2

Versions of packages console-setup-linux suggests:
ii  console-setup  1.123

Versions of packages keyboard-configuration is related to:
pn  console-common  
pn  console-data
pn  console-tools   
ii  kbd 1.15.5-2

-- debconf information:
* keyboard-configuration/layoutcode: us
  console-setup/charmap47: UTF-8
* keyboard-configuration/altgr: The default for the keyboard layout
  keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_options: true
  console-setup/codesetcode: Lat15
* keyboard-configuration/toggle: No toggling
  console-setup/fontsize-fb47: 8x16
* keyboard-configuration/optionscode:
* keyboard-configuration/compose: No compose key
* keyboard-configuration/layout:
  keyboard-configuration/ctrl_alt_bksp: false
  console-setup/use_system_font:
* keyboard-configuration/modelcode: pc105
  console-setup/framebuffer_only:
* keyboard-configuration/variantcode:
  console-setup/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true
  keyboard-configuration/unsupported_layout: true
  debian-installer/console-setup-udeb/title:
  console-setup/codeset47: # Latin1 and Latin5 - western Europe and Turkic 
languages
* keyboard-configuration/variant: English (US)
  keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_layout: true
* keyboard-configuration/model: Generic 105-key (Intl) PC
  console-setup/guess_font:
* keyboard-configuration/other:
  console-setup/fontface47: Fixed
  console-setup/fontsize: 8x16
* keyboard-configuration/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true
  console-setup/fontsize-text47: 8x16
  keyboard-configuration/unsupported_options: true
* keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap: us
* keyboard-configuration/switch: No temporary switch

Bug#808874: debian-installer: FTBFS on i386: 586 vs. 686

[Adam D. Barratt]

On Fri, 2015-12-25 at 18:55 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Ben Hutchings  (2015-12-24):
> > On Thu, 2015-12-24 at 03:30 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> > > Ben Hutchings  (2015-12-24):
> > > > I already updated base-installer for this, and I think the only other
> > > > change needed was in build/config/i386.cfg.  I've pushed a change to
> > > > that.
> > > 
> > > Checking my notes, it appears the following bits were involved last time:
> > > base-installer, debian-installer, debian-cd, installation guide.
> > > 
> > > The first two seem covered now, thanks.
> > > 
> > > Adding debian-cd@ for the third (sorry, didn't do any research for this
> > > one).
> > 
> > I opened bug #808958 with a patch.
> > 
> > > The last one seems to have been dealt with in r69410, r69411, r69412
> > > last time; something similar might do the trick this time.
> > 
> > Updated in r70113, r70114.
> 
> Perfect, thanks!

It looks like the 20160101 upload included relevant changes, and built
happily on i386. Is there anything remaining to fix?

Regards,

Adam

Re: 8.4 and 7.10 planning

[Julien Cristau]

On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 12:24:35 +, Adam D. Barratt wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> We're due both Jessie and Wheezy point releases, and are proposing doing
> both on the same weekend again, as we did for 8.2 and 7.9, as the CD
> team seem happy to try it again.
> 
> Some suggested dates:
> 
> March 12th / 13th
> March 19th / 20th
> March 26th / 27th - Easter, holiday weekend in at least the UK
> April 2nd / 3rd
> 
Should all work for me.

Cheers,
Julien


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Re: 8.4 and 7.10 planning

[Ben Hutchings]

On Sun, 2016-02-21 at 12:24 +, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We're due both Jessie and Wheezy point releases, and are proposing doing
> both on the same weekend again, as we did for 8.2 and 7.9, as the CD
> team seem happy to try it again.
> 
> Some suggested dates:
> 
> March 12th / 13th
> March 19th / 20th
> March 26th / 27th - Easter, holiday weekend in at least the UK
> April 2nd / 3rd

I was planning stable updates for the kernel but haven't uploaded to
either suite yet, so I would prefer one of the later dates.  But of
course this can slip to the next point release.

Ben.

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Re: [d-i] errata page for Stable

[Holger Wansing]

Hi,

Steve McIntyre  wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 12:36:18PM +0100, Holger Wansing wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I came to 
> >https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/debian-installer/#errata
> >which lists 3 problems, 2 of which should hopefully be fixed already.
> >
> >
> >Steve, could you comment on entry#2 ("Powerpc boot messages are out of 
> >date"),
> >please?
> >Can that be marked as "Fixed in 8.1" ?
> 
> Yup.
> 
> >Regarding entry#3 ("Problems installing more than one desktop task at once"):
> >I'm just running a test installation with GNOME and Xfce included as 
> >selected desktops in tasksel, and it is running fine. So this is fixed IMO
> >and the text should be changed from
> >"A fix is already proposed for this issue and it will hopefully be fixed in 
> >8.1"
> >into
> >"This has been fixed in 8.1"
> 
> And was fixed too, yes.
> 
> Apologies, should have picked these up earlier - point release
> weekends are often fraught and they got forgotten. :-/

No problem :-)

Updated in cvs.


Holger


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Re: 8.4 and 7.10 planning

[Steve McIntyre]

On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 12:24:35PM +, Adam Barratt wrote:
>Hi,
>
>We're due both Jessie and Wheezy point releases, and are proposing doing
>both on the same weekend again, as we did for 8.2 and 7.9, as the CD
>team seem happy to try it again.
>
>Some suggested dates:
>
>
>March 12th / 13th
not a chance for me, I'll be on a plane back from a conf in Thailand.

>March 19th / 20th
fine

>March 26th / 27th
(probably) fine

>April 2nd / 3rd
fine

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Re: [d-i] errata page for Stable

[Steve McIntyre]

On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 12:36:18PM +0100, Holger Wansing wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I came to 
>https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/debian-installer/#errata
>which lists 3 problems, 2 of which should hopefully be fixed already.
>
>
>Steve, could you comment on entry#2 ("Powerpc boot messages are out of date"),
>please?
>Can that be marked as "Fixed in 8.1" ?

Yup.

>Regarding entry#3 ("Problems installing more than one desktop task at once"):
>I'm just running a test installation with GNOME and Xfce included as 
>selected desktops in tasksel, and it is running fine. So this is fixed IMO
>and the text should be changed from
>"A fix is already proposed for this issue and it will hopefully be fixed in 
>8.1"
>into
>"This has been fixed in 8.1"

And was fixed too, yes.

Apologies, should have picked these up earlier - point release
weekends are often fraught and they got forgotten. :-/

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8.4 and 7.10 planning

[Adam D. Barratt]

Hi,

We're due both Jessie and Wheezy point releases, and are proposing doing
both on the same weekend again, as we did for 8.2 and 7.9, as the CD
team seem happy to try it again.

Some suggested dates:

March 12th / 13th
March 19th / 20th
March 26th / 27th - Easter, holiday weekend in at least the UK
April 2nd / 3rd

Regards,

Adam

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Package: flash-kernel
Version: 3.56
Tag: patch

Hi!

There's a small quoting mistake in the generic U-Boot script. It
probably hasn't been noticed so far because the default
LINUX_KERNEL_CMDLINE doesn't contain spaces. See the attached patch.

While, I am at it, I wonder if it would not make more sense to
reverse the order when setting that variable so it reads:

setenv bootargs "@@LINUX_KERNEL_CMDLINE@@ ${bootargs}"

That way, it's possible to override the default command line by doing
something like:

setenv bootargs console=ttyAMA0,115200
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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 16:14:28 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Properly quote LINUX_KERNEL_CMDLINE in U-Boot generic boot
 script

Otherwise we get an error as soon as LINUX_KERNEL_CMDLINE contains spaces.
---
 bootscript/all/bootscr.uboot-generic | 2 +-
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diff --git a/bootscript/all/bootscr.uboot-generic b/bootscript/all/bootscr.uboot-generic
index c318be5..1c3f129 100644
--- a/bootscript/all/bootscr.uboot-generic
+++ b/bootscript/all/bootscr.uboot-generic
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ if test -n "${console}"; then
   setenv bootargs "${bootargs} console=${console}"
 fi
 
-setenv bootargs ${bootargs} @@LINUX_KERNEL_CMDLINE@@
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On Sat, 2016-02-20 at 17:46 +, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sat, 2016-02-20 at 18:25 +0100, Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
> > Ian Campbell:
> > > So I'm afraid I'm still not clear exactly what issue you are
> seeing.
> > > 
> > > Please can you post:
> > > 
> > >  * the contents of your /boot/cmdline.txt
> > >  * the contents of the flash kernel db entry you have added for the
> > >RPi2
> > >  * the resulting generated boot.scr.
> > >  * a full serial console log booting with that boot.scr
> > 
> > Sorry Ian, but I don't remember the exact details. That box is now in
> > production and I'd rather not take the risk to break it before next
> > month.
> > 
> > Feel free to just ditch that bug report. It's moot for the RPi2 until we
> > have a compatible kernel in Debian anyway.
> 
> I think we do...

I think I'll still close this bug report for now.

Eventually I hope someone will file a bug with the correct stanza to
add to flash-kernel's db and if there are still quoting issues at that
time we can figure out what to do about that then.

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Bug#815344: marked as done (preseeding: empty tasksel not possible)

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Package: debian-installer
Version: 20150422+deb8u3
Severity: important
Tags: d-i

I used the current netboot.tar.gz for debian jessie from 
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/
 to create a pxe based preseeded installation.
Everything works fine except the tasksel configuration.
I don't want to execute any of the tasksel tasks.
Whatever I do, the installer starts to install about 1500 packages including 
Xorg.

I tried
tasksel tasksel/first   multiselect
then I added
tasksel tasksel/skip-tasks  string standard 
which I had in a working minimal configuration for wheezy.

Nothing helped.

I ran a normal manual install and dumped the configuration with 
debconf-get-selections --installer
The output contained the line
d-i tasksel/first   multiselect 
which is different from what is documented for the installer - but I tried 
that, too.

Then I added all the tasks from "tasksel --list" to the skip-tasks line 
mentioned above

Still a full desktop installation.


Is there any way to install a really minimal configuration via preseeding in 
jessie?
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On 21/02/16 11:34, Geert Stappers wrote:
> 
> I see  
> 
> .   \
> tasksel tasksel/first   multiselect standard
> 
> 
> So 'tasksel tasksel/first   multiselect standard' is merged to the 
> partman-auto/expert_recipe string.
> 
Thanks a million! That was the problem.
Sometimes things need a second eye when staring at it no longer helps... :-(
Sorry for polluting the bug tracker...

Best,
John--- End Message ---

[d-i] errata page for Stable

[Holger Wansing]

Hi,

I came to 
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/debian-installer/#errata
which lists 3 problems, 2 of which should hopefully be fixed already.


Steve, could you comment on entry#2 ("Powerpc boot messages are out of date"),
please?
Can that be marked as "Fixed in 8.1" ?


Regarding entry#3 ("Problems installing more than one desktop task at once"):
I'm just running a test installation with GNOME and Xfce included as 
selected desktops in tasksel, and it is running fine. So this is fixed IMO
and the text should be changed from
"A fix is already proposed for this issue and it will hopefully be fixed in 8.1"
into
"This has been fixed in 8.1"


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Bug#815344: preseeding: empty tasksel not possible

[Geert Stappers]

On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 11:07:15AM +0100, John Wyzer wrote:
> Thanks for the answers!

 :-)

As in "good to see common interrests"


> On 21/02/16 09:49, Philip Hands wrote:
> > I presume you're not doing anything complicated (like including other
> > preseed files that might set the setting back).
> No, just one preseed.cfg. I pasted it below.
  
> ./cdebconf/questions.dat:Value: boot-root :: 200 50 250 ext3 $primary{ } 
> $bootable{ } method{ format } format{ } use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext3 } 
> mountpoint{ /boot } . 64 512 1200 linux-swap method{ swap } format{ } . 500 
> 512 10 btrfs method{ format } format{ } use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ 
> btrfs } mountpoint{ / } . tasksel tasksel/first   multiselect standard

Note the tasksel in "partman stuff"

  
> ./syslog:Feb 21 09:04:36 debconf: --> SETTITLE tasksel/title
> ./syslog:Feb 21 09:05:07 frontend: --> GET tasksel/first
> ./syslog:Feb 21 09:05:07 frontend: <-- 10 tasksel/first doesn't exist

Note 'tasksel/first doesnot exist'

  

> This is my preseed.cfg with root password, ntp, proxy and 
> preseed/late_command removed.
> 
  
> d-i partman/choose_partition select finish
> d-i partman/confirm boolean true
> d-i partman/confirm_nooverwrite boolean true
> 
> d-i partman/early_command string [ -b /dev/sda ] && if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda 
> bs=1024 count=1024 || true

FWIW: I think it misses `dd` ...


> d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe string \
>   boot-root ::\
>   200 50 250 ext3  \
>   $primary{ } $bootable{ }\
>   method{ format } format{ }  \
>   use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext3 }\
>   mountpoint{ /boot } \
>   .   \
>   64 512 1200 linux-swap  \
>   method{ swap } format{ }\
>   .   \
>   500 512 10 btrfs\ 
>   method{ format } format{ }  \ 
>   use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ btrfs }\
>   mountpoint{ / } \
>   .   \
> 
> tasksel tasksel/first   multiselect standard

I see  

.   \
tasksel tasksel/first   multiselect standard


So 'tasksel tasksel/first   multiselect standard' is merged to the 
partman-auto/expert_recipe string.


Advice: add some seperator or remove a backslash to avoid "continue on next 
line"



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Bug#815344: preseeding: empty tasksel not possible

[John Wyzer]

Thanks for the answers!

On 21/02/16 09:49, Philip Hands wrote:
> I presume you're not doing anything complicated (like including other
> preseed files that might set the setting back).
No, just one preseed.cfg. I pasted it below.
 
> It might be worth checking that your setting really was applied by
> flipping to the console once the install is underway (Ctrl-Alt-F2) and
> running:
> 
>   debconf-get tasksel/first
> 
> to make sure it's empty.

With either
  tasksel tasksel/first   multiselect standard
or
  tasksel tasksel/first multiselect ""
or
  tasksel tasksel/first multiselect 
or
  d-i tasksel/first   multiselect standard
or
  d-i tasksel/first multiselect ""
or
  d-i tasksel/first multiselect 
the output of
  debconf-get tasksel/first
is completely empty during installation and I end up with those 1500 packages 
anyway.

In a run with
  tasksel tasksel/first   multiselect standard
I get this when grepping the logs for tasksel (excluding the matches in 
./cdebconf/templates):

./cdebconf/questions.dat:Value: boot-root :: 200 50 250 ext3 $primary{ } 
$bootable{ } method{ format } format{ } use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext3 } 
mountpoint{ /boot } . 64 512 1200 linux-swap method{ swap } format{ } . 500 512 
10 btrfs method{ format } format{ } use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ btrfs 
} mountpoint{ / } . tasksel tasksel/first   multiselect standard
./cdebconf/questions.dat:Name: pkgsel/progress/tasksel
./cdebconf/questions.dat:Template: pkgsel/progress/tasksel
./cdebconf/questions.dat:Name: tasksel/title
./cdebconf/questions.dat:Template: tasksel/title


 
./syslog:Feb 21 08:59:42 frontend: --> SET partman-auto/expert_recipe boot-root 
:: 200 50 250 ext3 $primary{ } $bootable{ } method{ format } format{ } 
use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext3 } mountpoint{ /boot } . 64 512 1200 
linux-swap method{ swap } format{ } . 500 512 10 btrfs method{ format } 
format{ } use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ btrfs } mountpoint{ / } . tasksel 
tasksel/first   multiselect standard
./syslog:Feb 21 08:59:42 frontend: --> SET partman-auto/expert_recipe boot-root 
:: 200 50 250 ext3 $primary{ } $bootable{ } method{ format } format{ } 
use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext3 } mountpoint{ /boot } . 64 512 1200 
linux-swap method{ swap } format{ } . 500 512 10 btrfs method{ format } 
format{ } use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ btrfs } mountpoint{ / } . tasksel 
tasksel/first   multiselect standard
./syslog:Feb 21 09:00:48 debconf: <-- 0 boot-root :: 200 50 250 ext3 $primary{ 
} $bootable{ } method{ format } format{ } use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext3 } 
mountpoint{ /boot } . 64 512 1200 linux-swap method{ swap } format{ } . 500 512 
10 btrfs method{ format } format{ } use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ btrfs 
} mountpoint{ / } . tasksel tasksel/first   multiselect standard
./syslog:Feb 21 09:01:00 debconf: --> SUBST 
base-installer/debootstrap/info/retrieving SUBST0 tasksel
./syslog:Feb 21 09:01:00 debconf: Adding [SUBST0] -> [tasksel]
./syslog:Feb 21 09:01:00 debconf: --> SUBST 
base-installer/debootstrap/info/validating SUBST0 tasksel
./syslog:Feb 21 09:01:00 debconf: Adding [SUBST0] -> [tasksel]  
./syslog:Feb 21 09:01:00 debconf: <-- 0 Retrieving tasksel...  
./syslog:Feb 21 09:01:00 debconf: --> SUBST 
base-installer/debootstrap/info/retrieving SUBST0 tasksel-data  
./syslog:Feb 21 09:01:00 debconf: Adding [SUBST0] -> [tasksel-data]
./syslog:Feb 21 09:01:00 debconf: <-- 0 Validating tasksel...  
./syslog:Feb 21 09:01:00 debconf: --> SUBST 
base-installer/debootstrap/info/validating SUBST0 tasksel-data  
./syslog:Feb 21 09:01:00 debconf: Adding [SUBST0] -> [tasksel-data]  
./syslog:Feb 21 09:01:00 debconf: <-- 0 Retrieving tasksel-data...
./syslog:Feb 21 09:01:00 debconf: <-- 0 Validating tasksel-data...  
./syslog:Feb 21 09:02:08 debootstrap: Preparing to unpack 
.../tasksel_3.31+deb8u1_all.deb ...  
./syslog:Feb 21 09:02:08 debconf: --> SUBST 
base-installer/debootstrap/info/unpacking SUBST0 tasksel  
./syslog:Feb 21 09:02:08 debconf: Adding [SUBST0] -> [tasksel]
./syslog:Feb 21 09:02:08 debootstrap: Unpacking tasksel (3.31+deb8u1) ...
./syslog:Feb 21 09:02:08 debootstrap: Preparing to unpack 
.../tasksel-data_3.31+deb8u1_all.deb ...
./syslog:Feb 21 09:02:08 debconf: <-- 0 Unpacking tasksel...
./syslog:Feb 21 09:02:08 debconf: --> SUBST 
base-installer/debootstrap/info/unpacking SUBST0 tasksel-data
./syslog:Feb 21 09:02:08 debconf: Adding [SUBST0] -> [tasksel-data]
./syslog:Feb 21 09:02:08 debootstrap: Unpacking tasksel-data (3.31+deb8u1) ...
./syslog:Feb 21 09:02:08 debconf: <-- 0 Unpacking tasksel-data...
./syslog:Feb 21 09:02:23 debootstrap: Setting up tasksel (3.31+deb8u1) ...
./syslog:Feb 21 09:02:23 debconf: --> SUBST 
base-installer/debootstrap/info/configuring SUBST0 tasksel
./syslog:Feb 21 09:02:23 debconf: Adding [SUBST0] -> [tasksel]
./syslog:Feb 21 09:02:24 debootstrap: Setting up tasksel-data (3.31+deb8u1) ...
./syslog:Feb 21 09:02:24 debconf: <-- 0 Configuring tasksel...
./syslog:Feb 21 09:02:24 

Re: Bad release in install documentation

[Holger Wansing]

Hi,

Cyril Brulebois  wrote:
> Samuel Thibault  (2016-02-06):
> > Hello,
> > 
> > a a, on Wed 03 Feb 2016 11:03:19 +, wrote:
> > > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/index.html.en. It says in
> > > abstract that the documentation is for debian strech and the url says
> > > about stable release.
> > 
> > It's worse than that: it seems it's really the current Stretch
> > installation guide which ended up on the website in stable/, I don't
> > know why. Www people, any idea?
> 
> Because 
> http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debwww/cron.git/tree/lessoften-parts/1installation-guide
> 
> It would be nice if it could put stuff targetting s(-p-u) under stable, and
> stuff targetting unstable under testing, but I didn't reach this point of my
> todo list yet.

For the time being:

Looking at 
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debwww/cron.git/commit/lessoften-parts/1installation-guide?id=c8148aba41b484964cb7a627c5c954a19f056d38
it seems, we have the same situation again now:

The latest upload of installation-guide was for Stretch (Changelog does
not mention that explicitly, but there are several changings effecting
Stretch), so that script has to be adapted around that:

all occurences of 'jessie' have to be changed into 'stretch' and
all 'wheezy' be changed into 'jessie'.


Am I correct?
If yes, could someone commit that, please !!!


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Bug#815344: preseeding: empty tasksel not possible

[Philip Hands]

John Wyzer  writes:

> Package: debian-installer
> Version: 20150422+deb8u3
> Severity: important
> Tags: d-i
>
> I used the current netboot.tar.gz for debian jessie from 
> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/
>  to create a pxe based preseeded installation.
> Everything works fine except the tasksel configuration.
> I don't want to execute any of the tasksel tasks.
> Whatever I do, the installer starts to install about 1500 packages including 
> Xorg.
>
> I tried
>   tasksel tasksel/first   multiselect

As far as I'm aware, that's all that should be needed.

I presume you're not doing anything complicated (like including other
preseed files that might set the setting back).

It might be worth checking that your setting really was applied by
flipping to the console once the install is underway (Ctrl-Alt-F2) and
running:

  debconf-get tasksel/first

to make sure it's empty.

You might also want to add DEBCONF_DEBUG=5 to your kernel command line,
to make the install much more verbose, which might let you work out
what's going on.

BTW The resulting syslog ends up as /var/log/installer/syslog on the
installed system.

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