Bug#218560: debian-installer-demo: stops just after the language selection screen

2003-10-31 Thread Andrea Tasso
Package: debian-installer-demo Version: 20031029 Severity: normal hi, I tried debian-installer-demo, but it does not work, it stops just after the language selection screen, I mean the next one opens, but when you ask to load modules, that is the only way to go on, it does not. I started it

Re: [powermac] installation report gluck image from october 31

2003-10-31 Thread Matt Kraai
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 02:18:45AM +0100, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > Now the problems I faced: > > - debootstrap stopped with error code 127. I read the > /target/var/log/debootstrap.log: > ln: /target/usr/bin/awk: File exists This usually means that you ran debootstrap twice without reformattin

[powermac] installation report gluck image from october 31

2003-10-31 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
Hi all! Many progress! Many thanks for the good job. Now the problems I faced: - debootstrap stopped with error code 127. I read the /target/var/log/debootstrap.log: ln: /target/usr/bin/awk: File exists So I deleted the symlink in a shell (I cannot go to another console :(), then exit and

2.6.0 kernel

2003-10-31 Thread Daniel Burton
Hi, has anyone considered making a version of the installer that uses the new 2.6.0 kernel? I have a laptop that refuses to do a net install of anything without that kernel version (at least without a lot of difficult patching of the 2.4 kernel before I can do anything), and because of that, I

Processed: reassign 218514 to boot-floppies

2003-10-31 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 218514 boot-floppies Bug#218514: base-config: should not allow sub mount points before parent mount points Bug reassigned from package `base-config' to `boot-floppies'. > End of message, stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need

Failed PowerPC install

2003-10-31 Thread Joe Drew
I recently tried installing Sarge via the netinst image (file date 2003-10-08) on my 900 MHz G3 iBook. Some comments: 1) When I wasn't connected to the network, dhcp took a long time to time out. In the meantime, nothing was displayed on the screen. This should be changed: at least a message

Bug#218514: base-config: should not allow sub mount points before parent mount points

2003-10-31 Thread Elizabeth Barham
Matt writes: > Elizabeth Barham wrote: > > When creating the partitions and subsequent mount points, I specified > > /usr/local prior to /usr. This caused /usr/local to be placed in fstab > > prior to /usr which then clobbered /usr/local when /usr was mounted. > > > > I'm suggesting that base-con

Bug#218514: base-config: should not allow sub mount points before parent mount points

2003-10-31 Thread Joey Hess
Elizabeth Barham wrote: > Package: base-config > Version: 1.33.18 > Severity: normal > > When creating the partitions and subsequent mount points, I specified > /usr/local prior to /usr. This caused /usr/local to be placed in fstab > prior to /usr which then clobbered /usr/local when /usr was moun

Bug#218518: hangs after running partconf

2003-10-31 Thread kraai
Package: main-menu Version: 0.047 Severity: grave After running partconf, main-menu hangs. Here is a the tail of /var/log/syslog: Oct 31 19:04:12 (none) user.debug frontend: --> GET partconf/confirm Oct 31 19:04:12 (none) user.debug frontend: <-- 0 true Oct 31 19:04:12 (none) syslog.info klog

Bug#218514: base-config: should not allow sub mount points before parent mount points

2003-10-31 Thread kraai
Elizabeth Barham wrote: > When creating the partitions and subsequent mount points, I specified > /usr/local prior to /usr. This caused /usr/local to be placed in fstab > prior to /usr which then clobbered /usr/local when /usr was mounted. > > I'm suggesting that base-config notice that a sub-moun

Bug#218514: base-config: should not allow sub mount points before parent mount points

2003-10-31 Thread Elizabeth Barham
Package: base-config Version: 1.33.18 Severity: normal When creating the partitions and subsequent mount points, I specified /usr/local prior to /usr. This caused /usr/local to be placed in fstab prior to /usr which then clobbered /usr/local when /usr was mounted. I'm suggesting that base-config

Re: Debconf Templates Style Guide

2003-10-31 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 07:43:09PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Of course it would, and I would never recommend doing so. > > So instead you're recommending an approach that forces the user to > choose *before* reconfiguring between > a) not

Re: FWD: Accepted debian-installer 20031029 (i386 source)

2003-10-31 Thread Joey Hess
Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > I'm not sure why you think the cd builds have more than 2 days lag. > > They're built every day. > > >From the CVS or from the released packages ? > > Currently, I mostly focus on debconf stuff and really want to see how > t

Bug#217164: marked as done (cdebconf: Danish po-debconf translation)

2003-10-31 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#215583: marked as done (crashes on missing default for boolean question)

2003-10-31 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#215582: marked as done (move short descriptions to the bottom in the dialog frontend)

2003-10-31 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#213314: partconf: invokes mkreiserfs interactively

2003-10-31 Thread Joey Hess
Martin suggested: > > The way partconf mkreiserfs will cause mkreiserfs to ask questions, > > which will freeze partconf. > > Yes, I've been thinking about this. I think I will introduce templates > partconf/mkfs/ for this. Something like: > > Template: partconf/mkfs/reiserfs > Type: string > Def

Re: Problem in debian-installer-demo

2003-10-31 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Selected Portuguese (Brazil). One problem (well, a small problem) is > > that the languages are not sorted alphabetically. > > Yeah, this is bug #215210. You were running it in an xterm; if you run > it instead on the linux console you'll get a differen

Re: FWD: Accepted debian-installer 20031029 (i386 source)

2003-10-31 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I'm not sure why you think the cd builds have more than 2 days lag. > They're built every day. >From the CVS or from the released packages ? Currently, I mostly focus on debconf stuff and really want to see how templates look with the 0.48 version of cdeb

Processed: Fixed in NMU of cdebconf 0.48

2003-10-31 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > tag 215582 + fixed Bug#215582: move short descriptions to the bottom in the dialog frontend Tags were: pending Tags added: fixed > tag 215583 + fixed Bug#215583: crashes on missing default for boolean question Tags were: pending Tags added: fixed > ta

Fixed in NMU of cdebconf 0.48

2003-10-31 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
tag 215582 + fixed tag 215583 + fixed tag 217164 + fixed quit This message was generated automatically in response to a non-maintainer upload. The .changes file follows. -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 19:00:23 +0100 Source: cdebconf Binary: cde

cdebconf_0.48_i386.changes ACCEPTED

2003-10-31 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: cdebconf-gtk-udeb_0.48_i386.udeb to pool/main/c/cdebconf/cdebconf-gtk-udeb_0.48_i386.udeb cdebconf-newt-udeb_0.48_i386.udeb to pool/main/c/cdebconf/cdebconf-newt-udeb_0.48_i386.udeb cdebconf-priority_0.48_i386.udeb to pool/main/c/cdebconf/cdebconf-priority_0.48_i386.udeb cdebconf-s

Re: Debconf Templates Style Guide

2003-10-31 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Of course it would, and I would never recommend doing so. So instead you're recommending an approach that forces the user to choose *before* reconfiguring between a) not being told what the maintainer thought was a sensible default b) not being told

Re: Debconf Templates Style Guide

2003-10-31 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > There used to be, somewhere, a guideline that told maintainers to let > > themselves be inspired by the descriptions in the kernel source's > > "make fooconfig", especially with regard to telling the user what the > > conservative default choice i

Re: Ultimate bug: bringing sanity to linux

2003-10-31 Thread Dominic-Luc Webb
> 3) Hit enter > 4) You'll see our website with an area to the left called "menu" > 5) Point your mouse to the menu entry "Network install"[1]. It is right > under a big link "Getting Debian" > 6) Warning: The link pointing you to the floppy disks is very very near > now, I'll leave that last exer

Re: Ultimate bug: bringing sanity to linux

2003-10-31 Thread Dominic-Luc Webb
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Sebastian Ley wrote: > 5) Point your mouse to the menu entry "Network install"[1]. It is right > under a big link "Getting Debian" As stated, these people are not installing from a network, so there is no logic in telling people to get diskettes from a network install link. P

Re: Ultimate bug: bringing sanity to linux

2003-10-31 Thread Sebastian Ley
* Dominic-Luc Webb wrote: > [bla] Stop whining, start reading. It seems you need a little hand in orientating on our website, so here we go: 1) Start you favorite Browser 2) Enter "http://www.debian.org"; in the addressfield 3) Hit enter 4) You'll see our website with an area to the left called

Processed: merge 213314 218416

2003-10-31 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > severity 218416 important Bug#218416: Latest sarge installer cannot format reiserfs properly... Severity set to `important'. > merge 213314 218416 Bug#213314: partconf: invokes mkreiserfs interactively Bug#218416: Latest sarge installer cannot format r

Re: Ultimate bug: bringing sanity to linux

2003-10-31 Thread Falk Hueffner
Dominic-Luc Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Those CD images are useless to a newby without the bootup/install > diskettes for people who cannot go the network install route. Could you elaborate on that point? Most newbies will probably have PCs bought after 1995, which can boot from CDs. --

Ultimate bug: bringing sanity to linux

2003-10-31 Thread Dominic-Luc Webb
You should win an award for the ultimate bug Telling new users they can use installation diskettes and giving no hint where one would obtain such a thing, yet on your home page you clearly indicate where people can download CD images! Those CD images are useless to a newby without the bootup/

Bug#218485: hangs eating memory in pt_BR locale in xterm

2003-10-31 Thread Joey Hess
Package: cdebconf Version: 0.47 Severity: normal This is easily reproducible: Install the debian-installer-demo package (version 20031029), and run d-i-demo in an xterm. Pick the pt_BR language, and it hangs with a blue screen, with cdebconf's frontend slowly (here anyway) eating memory and doing

Re: FWD: Accepted debian-installer 20031029 (i386 source)

2003-10-31 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Watson wrote: > What degree of workingness is involved in those right now? A complete > end-to-end install? Barring lots of bugs that may make it not work on various hardware, yes. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: FWD: Accepted debian-installer 20031029 (i386 source)

2003-10-31 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 11:34:39AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > joeyh wrote: > > > This does not supplant the daily builds. I see it like this: > > > > > > last known working cd build: > > > For those who need it to just work. > > > > Does this exist yet? If so, where

Processed: merge 213314 218416

2003-10-31 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 218416 partconf Bug#218416: Latest sarge installer cannot format reiserfs properly... Bug reassigned from package `installation' to `partconf'. > merge 213314 218416 Bug#213314: partconf: invokes mkreiserfs interactively Bug#218416: Latest sar

Re: Problem in debian-installer-demo

2003-10-31 Thread Joey Hess
Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: > I've downloaded debian-installer-demo via apt-get, installed and tried > to run. > First try, with a normal user: "It needs root..." > OK. root now. > Trying again, in a rxvt terminal on WindowMaker: > > # d-i-demo > > > Selected Portuguese (Brazil). One problem (

Bug#218416: merge 213314 218416

2003-10-31 Thread kraai
reassign 218416 partconf merge 213314 218416 thanks - This message was sent using the LA Free-Net - LA's best kept secret. http://www.lafn.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

Re: FWD: Accepted debian-installer 20031029 (i386 source)

2003-10-31 Thread Joey Hess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > joeyh wrote: > > This does not supplant the daily builds. I see it like this: > > > > last known working cd build: > > For those who need it to just work. > > Does this exist yet? If so, where? AFAIK it's the top-level image at http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/test

Re: FWD: Accepted debian-installer 20031029 (i386 source)

2003-10-31 Thread kraai
joeyh wrote: > This does not supplant the daily builds. I see it like this: > > last known working cd build: > For those who need it to just work. Does this exist yet? If so, where? -- Matt - This message was sent using the LA Free-Net - LA's

Bug#218472: cdebconf: conflict with its own dependencies

2003-10-31 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: cdebconf Version: 0.47 Severity: serious The current cdebconf is impossible to install in unstable. This stop the package from entering testing. The problem is that one of the dependencies for cdebconf depend in turn on debconf, and cdebconf again conflict on debconf. This make it i

Problem in debian-installer-demo

2003-10-31 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi people I've downloaded debian-installer-demo via apt-get, installed and tried to run. First try, with a normal user: "It needs root..." OK. root now. Trying again, in a rxvt terminal on WindowMaker: # d-i-demo Selected Portuguese (Brazil). One problem (well, a small problem) is that the la

iso-scan_0.03_i386.changes ACCEPTED

2003-10-31 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: iso-scan_0.03.dsc to pool/main/i/iso-scan/iso-scan_0.03.dsc iso-scan_0.03.tar.gz to pool/main/i/iso-scan/iso-scan_0.03.tar.gz iso-scan_0.03_all.udeb to pool/main/i/iso-scan/iso-scan_0.03_all.udeb Announcing to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for your contribution to Debian. -- To

Re: FWD: Accepted debian-installer 20031029 (i386 source)

2003-10-31 Thread Joey Hess
Christian Perrier wrote: > So, for morons like myself, what should be used for testing the d-i ? > I want to test the very most recent stuff, that is a CVS image. I > basically need a CD image which can be booted from a VMWare virtual > machine. > > Would "apt-get install debian-installer" be enou

Re: FWD: Accepted debian-installer 20031029 (i386 source)

2003-10-31 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Sjögren wrote: > fre 2003-10-31 klockan 02.10 skrev Joey Hess: > > Good news: It autobuilds! > > Does this mean I can disable my daily build now, then? Nope.. I'm not revving these images every day. It takes manual action from the ftp master to get every single build in. -- see shy jo

Processed: tags

2003-10-31 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > tag 204533 moreinfo Bug#204533: kbd-chooser needs hardware detected before it can find the "usb" keyboard in vmware There were no tags set. Tags added: moreinfo > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug

Bug#204533: please confirm

2003-10-31 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Hi, I do not have vmware, so I cannot confirm or check this bug. At one point, usb-discover was removed from images to make space; could you please confirm that this problem still occurs? Regards, Alastair McKinstry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: FWD: Accepted debian-installer 20031029 (i386 source)

2003-10-31 Thread Geert Stappers
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 10:31:22AM +0100, Martin Sj?gren wrote: > fre 2003-10-31 klockan 02.10 skrev Joey Hess: > > Good news: It autobuilds! > > Does this mean I can disable my daily build now, then? Oops, I was to enthusiastic. > > > /Martin Geert Stappers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: daily (sjogren) images WAS: FWD: Accepted debian-installer 20031029 (i386 source)

2003-10-31 Thread Geert Stappers
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 03:05:11PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Well we have install images in the archive now: > > [EMAIL > PROTECTED]:/org/ftp.debian.org/ftp/dists/unstable/main/installer-i386/current/images>ls > -l > total 16976 > -rw-rw-r--1 troupdebadmin 1474560 Oct 29 14:43 bootflopp

Re: Sarge netinst: CD-RW Sony CRX175A1

2003-10-31 Thread Dani
Hi. On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 19:10:26 -0800, "Bob Nielsen nielsen-at-oz.net |debian-testing|" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 07:58:18PM +0100, Dani wrote: > > I'm netinstalling Debian Sarge from a minimal CD. I boot the CD > > and it fails to autodetect the CD drive, maybe becaus

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2003-10-31 Thread interscan
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Bug#144452: The 30 Hour Wonder! 1907784052

2003-10-31 Thread 240235
Cyalus comes in smaller doses and produces fewer side effects. Cyalus also works much faster than Sildenafil-based medications. In clinical trials, the majority of men who took the drug were able to engage in sexual intercourse within 30 minutes or less. The studies also indicated that Cyalus s

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Bug#192232: Modifications to get modconf working w/ 2.5/2.6 kernel

2003-10-31 Thread Daniel Burton
Package: modconf Version: 0.2.44 Severity: normal Followup-For: Bug #192232 Here are some modifications I made locally to get modconf to work with a 2.6 kernel: Begin diff: -- diff -r orig/modconf/mkdescr.pl modconf/mkdescr.pl 26

Re: Accepted debian-installer 20031029 (i386 source)

2003-10-31 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 07:50:14 +0100 Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Well we have install images in the archive now: > > OK. Fine. > > So, for morons like myself, what should be used for testing the d-i ? I don't know what is a moron but I

Re: FWD: Accepted debian-installer 20031029 (i386 source)

2003-10-31 Thread Martin Sjögren
fre 2003-10-31 klockan 02.10 skrev Joey Hess: > Good news: It autobuilds! Does this mean I can disable my daily build now, then? /Martin -- Martin Sjögren [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key: http://www.mdstud.chalmers.se/~md9ms/gpg.html let hello = "hello" : hello in putStr (u

Boost Your Car's Gas Mileage 27%+.....keyanna

2003-10-31 Thread Queen Brandt
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netinstall failed with error 127

2003-10-31 Thread Vincent . Badier
Hello, I d/l last day the sarge-i386-businesscard.iso. Install work fine, especially via authenticated proxy (this didn't work with special char in login/passw), great!! However, installation goes wrong with a "base installation error. Bebootstrap exited with error 127". In the last 7 lines of

Re: [ppc] netinstall image from gluck report

2003-10-31 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 13:38:59 -0500 Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > > Then, impossible to mount a partition. I did not try the > > auto-partitionner (I read the list! ;)). So I did execute a shell and > > mount /, /home and 'swapon', then exit. >

Bug#213481: The 30 Hour Wonder! 1923597554

2003-10-31 Thread 240235
Cyalus comes in smaller doses and produces fewer side effects. Cyalus also works much faster than Sildenafil-based medications. In clinical trials, the majority of men who took the drug were able to engage in sexual intercourse within 30 minutes or less. The studies also indicated that Cyalus s

Bug#218416: Latest sarge installer cannot format reiserfs properly...

2003-10-31 Thread Clint Byrum
Package: installation Version: sarge-netinst-Oct-8-2003 The latest sarge installer (downloaded sarge netinst image on Oct 29, 2003, timestamp was Oct 8, 2003) hangs when trying to format any partitions as reiserfs. This is because mkfs.reiserfs is waiting for input. I was able to make it continue