Bug#403195: installation: Finnish timezone not selected by the etch installer
On 2/19/07, Gordon Farquharson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I tell the installer not add a preselected country to preseed.cfg ? Found it ! packages/oldsys-preseed/oldsys-preseed Gordon -- Gordon Farquharson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#403195: installation: Finnish timezone not selected by the etch installer
On 2/18/07, Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 16:20 fjp What about not including countrychooser in the initrd and not preseeding the country? 16:21 fjp s/countrychooser/localechooser/ 16:22 fjp It is what s/390 does with locale preseeded to C. Then the country gets asked for the timezone as tzconfig depends on localechooser. (IIRC) Gordon, do you think you could try that? It works ! I removed localechooser from the installer image by adding 'localechooser -' to pkg-lists/netboot/arm/ixp4xx.cfg, and I commented out the line add $FILE countrychooser/country-name select United States in packages/oldsys-preseed/oldsys-preseed. With these changes, the installer allows one to select a country after partitioning the drive, but before selecting time zone, as Frank suggested. Just for interest, I'm going to see what happens if one includes localechooser in the installer image, but no preselected country. Gordon -- Gordon Farquharson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#403195: installation: Finnish timezone not selected by the etch installer
On 2/19/07, Gordon Farquharson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just for interest, I'm going to see what happens if one includes localechooser in the installer image, but no preselected country. Badness ! That's what happens. If localechooser is included in the installer initrd and a country is not preseeded, localechooser will ask the user to select a country before the network is configured. Martin, do you want to remove localechooser from the installer for all ARM platforms or just ixp4xx ? Gordon -- Gordon Farquharson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#403195: installation: Finnish timezone not selected by the etch installer
* Gordon Farquharson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-02-19 02:49]: Badness ! That's what happens. If localechooser is included in the installer initrd and a country is not preseeded, localechooser will ask the user to select a country before the network is configured. Right, that's why oldsys-preseed sets this value. Martin, do you want to remove localechooser from the installer for all ARM platforms or just ixp4xx ? No, just on ixp4xx and iop32x, and on mipsel/cobalt. BTW, does this mean we can also remove add $FILE debian-installer/locale string C from oldsys-preseed? -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#403195: installation: Finnish timezone not selected by the etch installer
On Monday 19 February 2007 19:58, Martin Michlmayr wrote: BTW, does this mean we can also remove add $FILE debian-installer/locale string C from oldsys-preseed? I would advise against that. If you do, the language question will be asked too during timezone configuration and that really does not make any sense anymore at that point. pgpha3DsR2nkm.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#403195: installation: Finnish timezone not selected by the etch installer
On 2/19/07, Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would advise against that. If you do, the language question will be asked too during timezone configuration and that really does not make any sense anymore at that point. Thanks, Frans. Gordon -- Gordon Farquharson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#403195: installation: Finnish timezone not selected by the etch installer
16:20 fjp What about not including countrychooser in the initrd and not preseeding the country? 16:21 fjp s/countrychooser/localechooser/ 16:22 fjp It is what s/390 does with locale preseeded to C. Then the country gets asked for the timezone as tzconfig depends on localechooser. (IIRC) Gordon, do you think you could try that? -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#403195: installation: Finnish timezone not selected by the etch installer
Hi Martin On 2/18/07, Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 16:20 fjp What about not including countrychooser in the initrd and not preseeding the country? 16:21 fjp s/countrychooser/localechooser/ 16:22 fjp It is what s/390 does with locale preseeded to C. Then the country gets asked for the timezone as tzconfig depends on localechooser. (IIRC) Gordon, do you think you could try that? I removed localechooser from the installer image by adding 'localechooser -' to pkg-lists/netboot/arm/ixp4xx.cfg and confirmed that initrd/usr/bin/localechooser no longer existed in the installer initrd. However, the preseed.cfg file that exists/is created in the root directory of the installer, still contains a selected country, and therefore the time zone menu still only gives me US time zones from which to select. ~ # cat preseed.cfg # Preseed file to make d-i download udebs from unstable, useful for daily # builds and development builds. d-i mirror/udeb/suite string unstable d-i mirror/udeb/suite seen false d-i ethdetect/use_firewire_ethernet boolean false d-i debian-installer/locale string C d-i countrychooser/country-name select United States d-i lowmem/low note d-i netcfg/get_hostname string debian d-i netcfg/get_domain string example.org d-i network-console/password password install d-i network-console/password-again password install d-i partconf/already-mounted boolean false d-i netcfg/choose_interface select eth0 d-i netcfg/get_ipaddress string 192.168.1.67 d-i netcfg/get_netmask string 255.255.255.0 d-i netcfg/get_gateway string 192.168.1.1 d-i netcfg/get_nameservers string 205.171.3.65 205.171.2.65 d-i netcfg/confirm_static boolean true d-i netcfg/disable_dhcp boolean true d-i netcfg/get_hostname string LKG7102D7 How do I tell the installer not add a preselected country to preseed.cfg ? Gordon -- Gordon Farquharson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#403195: installation: Finnish timezone not selected by the etch installer
* Tony Hoyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-02-02 00:54]: Which image did you use? I used the unofficial one (with the network firmware in it) since not having ethernet seemed kinda a biggie for me with the official builds... (http://www.slug-firmware.net/d-dls.php) I was using a daily images. I'll let you know when RC2 is out and maybe you can try again with that (in 2-3 weeks). -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#403195: installation: Finnish timezone not selected by the etch installer
* Tony Hoyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-01-26 11:41]: No it's another one. About 2/3rds of the way through a dialog pops up saying 'You are in Europe/Andorra timezone'* with no option to override or anything, just a confirmation button. Hmm, that's pretty odd. I just did an installation and after the partitioning I got a menu listing all US timezones and I could choose one, see http://www.cyrius.com/tmp/timezone.png Note that it displays US timezones because we have to skip the country selection and therefore simply assume the country is USA (not a great choice but I had to pick one country; hey, I'm in Europe myself). So I don't see how you'd get Europe/Andorra at all. I'm fairly sure I saw this myself in the past but maybe something changed in the installer. (This menu where you can choose timezones after the partitioner definitely wasn't there in the past). So I'm a) a little bit lost about what you're seeing and b) have no idea whether we can handle this situation better. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#403195: installation: Finnish timezone not selected by the etch installer
owner 403195 ! thanks I'm setting myself as the owner of this bug so I won't forget about it, but I doubt I'm the right person to resolve this issue. I guess I'll investigate again at some point and then point the bug to someon else (bubulle?). Help is welcome. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#403195: installation: Finnish timezone not selected by the etch installer
Quoting Martin Michlmayr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): owner 403195 ! thanks I'm setting myself as the owner of this bug so I won't forget about it, but I doubt I'm the right person to resolve this issue. I guess I'll investigate again at some point and then point the bug to someon else (bubulle?). Help is welcome. Actually, unless someone reproduces it again, I see no way to investigate it. The only possibility could be some installer component silently crashing at some moment. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#403195: installation: Finnish timezone not selected by the etch installer
Martin Michlmayr wrote: So I don't see how you'd get Europe/Andorra at all. I'm fairly sure I saw this myself in the past but maybe something changed in the installer. (This menu where you can choose timezones after the partitioner definitely wasn't there in the past). It's possible it got 'fixed' at some point and the binary build hasn't been updated. Both me and the original reporter saw it though.. Which image did you use? I used the unofficial one (with the network firmware in it) since not having ethernet seemed kinda a biggie for me with the official builds... (http://www.slug-firmware.net/d-dls.php) If there's a later one and they haven't rebuilt it that would explain the difference. IMO the menu should show all timezones though - maybe the d-i guys can add a 'world' country or something so that can happen (I'm only guessing that it's that easy... if not then just ignore me :) ) Tony -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#403195: installation: Finnish timezone not selected by the etch installer
* Tony Hoyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-01-25 23:02]: How about skipping the dialog entirely if the timezone isn't set? It's just confusing having it there at the moment (confused both me and the original reporter). I cannot do a test install to check right now but I'm pretty sure the dialog you see only talks about the mirror (i.e. which country do you live in so we can select a proper mirror). Or at least having it say 'Defaulting to UTC, you need to set timezone manually' or similar. That's a good idea. I've to check whether this is possible. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#403195: installation: Finnish timezone not selected by the etch installer
Martin Michlmayr wrote: I cannot do a test install to check right now but I'm pretty sure the dialog you see only talks about the mirror (i.e. which country do you live in so we can select a proper mirror). No it's another one. About 2/3rds of the way through a dialog pops up saying 'You are in Europe/Andorra timezone'* with no option to override or anything, just a confirmation button. The mirrors screen is OK - it lists all of them and you select your local one. Tony * That may not be the exact wording. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#403195: installation: Finnish timezone not selected by the etch installer
* Tony Hoyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-01-26 11:41]: No it's another one. About 2/3rds of the way through a dialog pops up saying 'You are in Europe/Andorra timezone'* with no option to override or anything, just a confirmation button. This happens right after the partitioner or something like that, right? Yeah, I noticed that as well. No idea why this suddenly happens. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#403195: installation: Finnish timezone not selected by the etch installer
Hi Just encountered this with the UK timezone as well.. same distribution. Selected UK, got the correct mirror list etc. but the timzone was 'Europe/Andorra'. Is it selecting the first (alphabetically) in the list? Seems to be a bug in the NSLU2 distribution - probably needs pushing to whoever maintains that one. Tony -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#403195: installation: Finnish timezone not selected by the etch installer
* Tony Hoyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-01-25 13:46]: Just encountered this with the UK timezone as well.. same distribution. Selected UK, got the correct mirror list etc. but the timzone was 'Europe/Andorra'. Is it selecting the first (alphabetically) in the list? Seems to be a bug in the NSLU2 distribution - probably needs pushing to whoever maintains that one. Yes, the reason for this is simple. Installations on the NSLU2 happen via SSH so all steps are skipped that happen before the network is brought up - and this includes the country/timezone. The long term solution is to somehow make the country/timezone selection available after the net is brought up. Anyway, this is documented on http://cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/install.html After the installation, you need to configure your timezone because a default value was chosen for this during the installation. You can do this with the tzconfig command. Apart from this, your new Debian system is fully configured. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#403195: installation: Finnish timezone not selected by the etch installer
Quoting Tony Hoyle ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi Just encountered this with the UK timezone as well.. same distribution. Selected UK, got the correct mirror list etc. but the timzone was 'Europe/Andorra'. Is it selecting the first (alphabetically) in the list? Could you give details about the successive actions you had in the language choosing step: -chosen language -chosen country Which priority did you use for the install? Was it the default priority (ie booting by just hitting Enter at the installer boot prompt), or something else like epxert? signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#403195: installation: Finnish timezone not selected by the etch installer
Christian Perrier wrote: Could you give details about the successive actions you had in the language choosing step: Hmm.. difficult to remember as I eventually decided to use a different image to boot the slug. -chosen language -chosen country Would have been UK English. Which priority did you use for the install? Was it the default priority (ie booting by just hitting Enter at the installer boot prompt), or something else like epxert? This device doesn't have an installer boot prompt. Basically the slug has no console or serial port. What happens is you boot it with the bootstrap image and eventually it beeps and you can ssh in. At that point it's in the debian installer in 'Low memory mode' and you have to select a short list of installer components to load. See http://www.cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/install.html for the installation instructions (as far as I know the same ones everyone uses). One possibility is the instructions are missing something important (eg. a missing installer component) and it's confusing the timezones somehow. Tony -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#403195: installation: Finnish timezone not selected by the etch installer
Martin Michlmayr wrote: The long term solution is to somehow make the country/timezone selection available after the net is brought up. Anyway, this is documented on http://cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/install.html After the installation, you need to configure your timezone because a default value was chosen for this during the installation. You can do this with the tzconfig command. Apart from this, your new Debian system is fully configured. How about skipping the dialog entirely if the timezone isn't set? It's just confusing having it there at the moment (confused both me and the original reporter). Or at least having it say 'Defaulting to UTC, you need to set timezone manually' or similar. Andorra seems just like an odd default to me... Tony -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#403195: installation: Finnish timezone not selected by the etch installer
reassign 403195 tags 403195 + unreproducible thanks On Friday 15 December 2006 10:41, Timo Saarinen wrote: I installed Debian Etch RC1 into the Linksys NSLU2 (Slug) device. The installer asked my Location and I selected Finland. However, after installation I noted that the timezone was set to Europe/Andorra instead of Europe/Helsinki. It was easy to correct this with the tzselect tool. I have tried to reproduce this, but cannot. I selected English as language and Finland as country and the timezone selection correctly selected Europe/Helsinki. It may be that this works a bit differently on arm/NSLU2 though. If we want to fix this we need some debugging info from you. Could you rerun the installation? You should be able to do so without deleting your current installation by following the following procedure: - boot the installer - proceed with installation until you get to partitioning - use go back to back out to the menu on the first partitioning screen - select the option change debconf priority and select low - select the option save debug logs and choose the webserver (note the IP address) - start a shell and add a line 'set -x' in /usr/sbin/tzsetup - run the option configure time zone If you can reproduce the error, return to the menu and use a webbrowser from a different machine to retrieve the syslog file. Please send that to this bug report (gzipped!). Cheers, FJP pgpwaZEaO8usr.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#403195: installation: Finnish timezone not selected by the etch installer
Package: installation Severity: normal Tags: l10n I installed Debian Etch RC1 into the Linksys NSLU2 (Slug) device. The installer asked my Location and I selected Finland. However, after installation I noted that the timezone was set to Europe/Andorra instead of Europe/Helsinki. It was easy to correct this with the tzselect tool. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: arm (armv5tel) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-ixp4xx Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
