Bug#884304: Debian 8.10 is not installable via PXE

[Jaikumar Sharma]

> On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 11:07 PM, Steve McIntyre  wrote:
>
>> Hi Jaikumar,
>>
>> AFAICS the problem you're facing is that the d-i kernel modules and
>> the kernel you're running don't match up. Here's the kernel version
>> you have:
>
> I used the netboot installer under
http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20171201T034339Z/dists/jessie/main/installer-i386/20150422+deb8u4+b4/images/netboot/netboot.tar.gz
and those 'undefined symbols' error is gone, but still It got stuck on the
same issue as earlier, look like netboot installer lacks core drivers for
disks?
It look like that netboot.tar.gz in the above link does belong to debian
8.9 and not 8.10? As there is no versioning scheme available in the image.

Thank you.

Bug#675328: marked as done (debootstrap: Debootsrap warning during Squeeze install : corrupt deb with XFS)

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Package: debootstrap
Version: 1.0.40
Severity: normal

I can not install a Debian Squeeze on a PC, from a businesscard CD, with XFS
filesystem.
When I format the whole disk with one XFS partition I have some warnings during
the base system install (debootstrap) :
"http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/pool/main/o//x_amd64.deb was corrupt"

However, when I format the whole disk with one EXT3 partition I have not these
warnings and the system installs without problem.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.5
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash


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Hi,

On Thu, 31 May 2012 11:07:39 +0200 =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Lo=EFc?=  
wrote:
> Package: debootstrap
> Version: 1.0.40
> Severity: normal
> 
> I can not install a Debian Squeeze on a PC, from a businesscard CD, with XFS
> filesystem.
> When I format the whole disk with one XFS partition I have some warnings 
> during
> the base system install (debootstrap) :
> "http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/pool/main/o//x_amd64.deb was corrupt"

 I cannot get such error with 6.0.10 business card ISO, with XFS filesystem.
 Got authentication error with expired GPG keyring but it's not issue for
 debootstrap.

 Cannot reproduce and it's archived release, so let's close it.


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Bug#707033: marked as done (debootstrap: fails to finish if a vfat partition is mounted at /mnt/home)

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Package: debootstrap
Version: 1.0.49
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,
I was trying to install a debian system using debootstrap to a USB key. I
formatted 2 partitions, a root (ext4) and a home (fat32) I then mounted the
root at /mnt and the home at /mnt/home but debootstrap failed halfway through.
If i unmount the home folder debootstrap works as expected.




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Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.9-0.towo-siduction-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages debootstrap depends on:
ii  wget  1.14-1

Versions of packages debootstrap recommends:
ii  debian-archive-keyring  2012.4
ii  gnupg   1.4.12-7

debootstrap suggests no packages.

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Bug#902321: task-desktop: please install fonts-symbola by default

[Adam Borowski]

Package: task-desktop
Version: 3.44
Severity: wishlist

Hi!
As much as many of us consider emojis to be a big mistake on part of the
Unicode consortium, it's undeniable that these characters see quite wide
use these days.  Thus, at least one font that convers this range should
be installed by default.

Of these, it seems there are only two general-purpose fonts:
* fonts-symbola (nice)
* ttf-unifont (ugly and pixellated)

There are also fonts that have colourful images instead of glyphs, but these
are unfit for most programs, and are not supported by our current libraries. 
It's an issue of so-called "text presentation" vs "emoji presentation" that,
according to the Unicode standard, programs should select based on
environment being "informal like texting and chats" vs "formal like word
processing" (TR51 §4 and §2).  Text presentation is also needed when the
character's color is to be set via metadata such as CSS or ANSI SGR.

Thus, even library support issues aside, we need at least one font that
provides text presentation.  Package firefox-esr includes
/usr/lib/firefox-esr/fonts/EmojiOneMozilla.ttf which provides emoji
presentation, but is not available to other programs via fontconfig
for the above reasons.

Thus, please add "Recommends: fonts-symbola" to task-desktop.


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Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), 
(150, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-rc1-debug-00028-ga124d3bef9d4 (SMP w/6 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 
(charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages task-desktop depends on:
ii  desktop-base9.0.7
pn  tasksel 
ii  xorg1:7.7+19
ii  xserver-xorg-input-all  1:7.7+19
ii  xserver-xorg-video-all  1:7.7+19

Versions of packages task-desktop recommends:
ii  alsa-utils  1.1.6-1
pn  anacron 
pn  avahi-daemon
pn  eject   
ii  firefox-esr 60.0.2esr-1
ii  iw  4.14-0.1
pn  libnss-mdns 
ii  libu2f-udev 1.1.5-1
pn  sudo
pn  task-gnome-desktop | task-xfce-desktop | task-kde-desktop | ta  
ii  xdg-utils   1.1.3-1

task-desktop suggests no packages.

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Bug#902226: debian-installer-netboot-images: FTBFS in stretch, even when allowing network access

[Cyril Brulebois]

Control: tag -1 patch

Cyril Brulebois  (2018-06-24):
> At first glance, it seems to me this bug could be addressed in two
> different ways, which don't seem to be too convoluted. The first way
> would be to try the s-p-u download and fall back to s download, for each
> and every download. But this could (probably only theoretically) lead to
> inconsistent downloads, mixing bits and pieces from s-p-u and from s.
> Plus plenty of errors when the default location isn't the right one.
> 
> I suppose a better way would be to figure out with an early test if the
> target version is available in s-p-u or in s, and then pick the right
> suite for all downloads. Patches for this second approach are welcome.
> (Currently travelling, not easy to test things needed network access.)

I've pushed a prospective branch (pu/fix-ftbfs-in-stretch) with two commits:
  
https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer-netboot-images/commit/86f910f8e1e60e308747a7f53045862705b0a132
  
https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer-netboot-images/commit/eb2e5b3fb437b288c4c83427fb1c0d213f7b5a5e

Only checked with the first few architectures (still on limited bandwidth),
but that seems to do the trick. Slightly not happy about having that check
and fallback done for each and every architecture (instead of once and for
all), which could again lead to bits and pieces from both sources mixed
together); but I guess that's a reasonable compromise (no big changes needed
in the code).

I'll let others comment on this bug report plus proposed solution; Didier
maybe?

(Of course testing needs to happen when there's a version in s-p-u again.)


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Re: Scheduling 9.5

[Joerg Jaspert]

On 15077 March 1977, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
>> - July 7th
>> - July 14th
>> Are people available for either or both of those dates?
> The 7th is looking like the favourite so far (although would mean
> freezing next weekend), but we still need an ftp-master (N)ACK on
> either / both date.

No way for me for both, sorry.

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Bug#902226: debian-installer-netboot-images: FTBFS in stretch, even when allowing network access

[Cyril Brulebois]

Hi Santiago,

Santiago Vila  (2018-06-23):
> Without using any special flag or environment variable, what I would
> expect is that it downloads things from stretch as well, as every
> point release of stretch should ideally be "self-contained" for
> building purposes.
> 
> I see this line in debian/rules:
> 
> export DISTRIBUTION?=stretch-proposed-updates
> 
> Maybe that's the problem.

Right, that allows us to build from s-p-u when catching up with d-i
changes staged into s-p-u, which happens for each and every point
release where d-i gets updated (I don't remember any where it was
skipped, but my memory is not to be trusted), starting right after r0.

> I'm putting all my build logs here for you to see:
> 
> https://people.debian.org/~sanvila/build-logs/debian-installer-netboot-images/
> 
> You will see that version 20170615 of this package used to build ok in
> the past.

Right, see commit 5a0d0847c8a12e2dd3f13ce86aff797f4472dbd6 for stretch;
previous releases should have something similar.

> [ Note: I fear that this could be another wontfix bug, like the one
>   complaining about network access, so I will not bother to set a
>   severity, but I still believe that for consistency, packages in
>   stretch should be buildable in stretch by default, even when they
>   need network access ].

Well, I've seen a fair share of “complaints”, but no solutions, so I
fear this isn't going to be fixed any time soon indeed. Needless to say,
I'm not a huge fan of this specific requirement / policy violation, but
I have yet to see actual, viable solutions. From my rather self-centered
point of view, d-i releases are a sufficient burden already that I don't
wish to make this worse by adding some extra layers of complexity or
indirections.

>   If, after all, you consider that the cure is worse than the disease,
>   then please consider this as a documentation bug and if possible
>   explain somewhere why we are not expected to build this package
>   without failures ].

At first glance, it seems to me this bug could be addressed in two
different ways, which don't seem to be too convoluted. The first way
would be to try the s-p-u download and fall back to s download, for each
and every download. But this could (probably only theoretically) lead to
inconsistent downloads, mixing bits and pieces from s-p-u and from s.
Plus plenty of errors when the default location isn't the right one.

I suppose a better way would be to figure out with an early test if the
target version is available in s-p-u or in s, and then pick the right
suite for all downloads. Patches for this second approach are welcome.
(Currently travelling, not easy to test things needed network access.)


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Re: [preseed] strings waiting to be made translatable

[Cyril Brulebois]

Hi,

Holger Wansing  (2018-06-24):
> I just found two strings in the templates.pot file for preseed, which
> seem to be added in a rush, but made non-translatable at that time:

Right, this matches my recollection of this feature's addition…

> We should make them translatable now, right?
> Now that Stretch is out since some days ... ;-)

That makes sense, yeah.

Thanks for noticing. This really should have been tracked in a more
serious manner than just a comment in the source files…


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[preseed] strings waiting to be made translatable

[Holger Wansing]

Hi,

I just found two strings in the templates.pot file for preseed, which seem
to be added in a rush, but made non-translatable at that time:


 snip --
#. Type: error
#. Description
#. XXX: should be made translatable after Stretch
#: ../preseed-common.templates:1001
msgid "Checksum error"
msgstr ""

#. Type: error
#. Description
#. XXX: should be made translatable after Stretch
#: ../preseed-common.templates:1001
msgid ""
"The ${ALGORITHM} checksum of the file retrieved from <${LOCATION}> fails to "
"match the expected value of \"${CHECKSUM}\".  The file may be corrupt, or "
"the provided checksums may be out of date."
msgstr ""
- snap -


The relevant commits from 2016 are here:

Add strings:
https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/preseed/commit/31a2b3bf53edad8cd2024e9684efd3dd913fda2f

Make strings not-translatable later the same day:
https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/preseed/commit/fb33761616096b1877d46acb32fb94c902e1ff00



We should make them translatable now, right?
Now that Stretch is out since some days ... ;-)


Holger


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Re: [installer l10n statistics] l10nstats re-activated

[Holger Wansing]

Hi,

Samuel Thibault  wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Holger Wansing, le dim. 24 juin 2018 10:36:21 +0200, a ecrit:
> > Holger Wansing  wrote:
> > > Yesterday I pushed my final changings.
> > > Last night the cron job broke, because I forgot two changes, which I added
> > > just now. 
> > > But now, l10nstat should be back online.
> > 
> > when performing a test install with an d-i_buster_alpha3 image and setting
> > language to German, I see an entry 
> > 
> > "Access software for a blind person using a braille display"
> > 
> > so that menu entry is not translated.
> > 
> > Which package is reponsible for this?
> 
> It's in the brltty package.

Hmm, apparently the string above is not translatable ...
at least not via a po file, which could be parsed automatically as in the other
packages.


Holger

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Re: [installer l10n statistics] l10nstats re-activated

[Holger Wansing]

Hi,

Samuel Thibault  wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Holger Wansing, le dim. 24 juin 2018 10:36:21 +0200, a ecrit:
> > Holger Wansing  wrote:
> > > Yesterday I pushed my final changings.
> > > Last night the cron job broke, because I forgot two changes, which I added
> > > just now. 
> > > But now, l10nstat should be back online.
> > 
> > when performing a test install with an d-i_buster_alpha3 image and setting
> > language to German, I see an entry 
> > 
> > "Access software for a blind person using a braille display"
> > 
> > so that menu entry is not translated.
> > 
> > Which package is reponsible for this?
> 
> It's in the brltty package.

Ok, thanks.

How can find out, if there are more such packages?
(brltty is missing in our l10n statistics, so more translators may be
not aware of such waiting translation work for d-i.)
I cannot search for "udeb" at packages.d.o
Is there a complete list of packages, on which d-i depends/which are used
by d-i?



Holger



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Re: [installer l10n statistics] l10nstats re-activated

[Samuel Thibault]

Hello,

Holger Wansing, le dim. 24 juin 2018 10:36:21 +0200, a ecrit:
> Holger Wansing  wrote:
> > Yesterday I pushed my final changings.
> > Last night the cron job broke, because I forgot two changes, which I added
> > just now. 
> > But now, l10nstat should be back online.
> 
> when performing a test install with an d-i_buster_alpha3 image and setting
> language to German, I see an entry 
> 
>   "Access software for a blind person using a braille display"
> 
> so that menu entry is not translated.
> 
> Which package is reponsible for this?

It's in the brltty package.

Samuel

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Re: [installer l10n statistics] l10nstats re-activated

[Holger Wansing]

Hi,

Holger Wansing  wrote:
> Yesterday I pushed my final changings.
> Last night the cron job broke, because I forgot two changes, which I added
> just now. 
> But now, l10nstat should be back online.

when performing a test install with an d-i_buster_alpha3 image and setting
language to German, I see an entry 

"Access software for a blind person using a braille display"

so that menu entry is not translated.

Which package is reponsible for this?
The l10nstats show 100% for level1, and I cannot find the above string in
the d-i repository (master po files for example).

CC'ing Samuel, which is likely to be the right person for this :-)


Holger

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Re: [installer l10n statistics] l10nstats re-activated

[Holger Wansing]

Hi,

Holger Wansing  wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> a small note FYI:
> I worked on re-activating l10nstats, to get translation statistics for the
> installer back.
> The changings implied the move from Alioth to Salsa, and also a dist upgrade
> vom Wheezy to Stretch.
> 
> Finally, there are still some bits not fixed (like spellchecking, which is a
> separate cron job; and documentation: I would like to update the docs/comments
> in the gen-stats script), but statistics functionality is back.
> 
> Yesterday I pushed my final changings.
> Last night the cron job broke, because I forgot two changes, which I added
> just now. 
> But now, l10nstat should be back online.

Some more notes:

- the grub package will need some adaptions in l10nstat (grub is tricky, since 
  the source package is named grub2, but in the tarball it is grub)

- currently there seems to be no upstream repository for eject.
  It still points to https://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/eject.git (which
  is Alioth).
  I have already filed a bug on this some days ago ...
  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=901714

- When things are running well for some time, I will change the references to 
  "cvs" into "vcs" ...


Holger



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Bug#884304: Debian 8.10 is not installable via PXE

[Jaikumar Sharma]

On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 11:07 PM, Steve McIntyre  wrote:

> Hi Jaikumar,
>
> AFAICS the problem you're facing is that the d-i kernel modules and
> the kernel you're running don't match up. Here's the kernel version
> you have:


Thank you Steve,
Our product used Debian 8.10 as netinstall base image to build on top and
we do not manipulate 'udeb' or other stuff in the product DVD
and netboot image i'm using also belongs to the same version I believe
(though it does not have any versioning scheme in the image
(netboot.tar.gz).
So, it is surprising to me how kernel modules incompatibility with respect
the netboot kernel (which is initiating the boot process) can occur.


>
> The most common cause of this kind of problem for people netbooting is
> them updating *some* of the installer (i.e. the modules in the Debian
> archive) without also updating the kernel that's being served by
> tftp. Please go and check that...
>

Though, i'm sure, but will cross check it again.

Thank you,
Regards.

[installer l10n statistics] l10nstats re-activated

[Holger Wansing]

Hi,

a small note FYI:
I worked on re-activating l10nstats, to get translation statistics for the
installer back.
The changings implied the move from Alioth to Salsa, and also a dist upgrade
vom Wheezy to Stretch.

Finally, there are still some bits not fixed (like spellchecking, which is a
separate cron job; and documentation: I would like to update the docs/comments
in the gen-stats script), but statistics functionality is back.

Yesterday I pushed my final changings.
Last night the cron job broke, because I forgot two changes, which I added
just now. 
But now, l10nstat should be back online.


Holger

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