Bug#366653: marked as done (INSTALL REPORT)

2006-05-10 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Wed, 10 May 2006 12:01:58 +0200 with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line Bug#366653: INSTALL REPORT has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your

Re: Issues regarding powerpc and Sven

2006-05-10 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 04:38:31PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: Hey all, As I suspect you're all already aware, on 27th April, Sven Luther asked me to review the situation with d-i and powerpc as a result of finding his commit access to the d-i repository had been removed. Having spent some

Re: Issues regarding powerpc and Sven

2006-05-10 Thread Xavier Oswald
On 16:38 Wed 10 May , Anthony Towns wrote: Frans has already indicated he and Colin should be able to commit any patches Sven sends along in a reasonably timely fashion; and I'm hopeful that the structured cooperation via NMUs and the BTS should provide some practice so that you guys can

Issues regarding powerpc and Sven

2006-05-10 Thread Anthony Towns
Hey all, As I suspect you're all already aware, on 27th April, Sven Luther asked me to review the situation with d-i and powerpc as a result of finding his commit access to the d-i repository had been removed. Having spent some time since then seeing what's been going on, I've concluded that

Bug#366542: more information

2006-05-10 Thread Garvan McFeeley
I get the same error on Ubuntu 5.10 as well. I have tried with a different type of compact flash card and get the same error. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Issues regarding powerpc and Sven

2006-05-10 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 12:25:32PM +0200, Xavier Oswald wrote: In any case working with less tension should be done. But do you think, it's interesting for Sven to work in this way. What's interesting for Sven isn't really a consideration, what's reasonable and efficient is. Once this has been

Re: Issues regarding powerpc and Sven

2006-05-10 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 09:42:04PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 12:25:32PM +0200, Xavier Oswald wrote: In any case working with less tension should be done. But do you think, it's interesting for Sven to work in this way. What's interesting for Sven isn't really a

Re: Re: Etch/Sid not installable

2006-05-10 Thread wjaouad1
There's likely to be more information in /var/log/syslogafter this error pops up. Yes, it says grub could not be found (was hard to find)! I used netinst CD image, then the first testing CD image (grud**.deb is actually in both) but I have the exact same problem..

Re: Re: Etch/Sid not installable on amd64

2006-05-10 Thread wjaouad1
Mmmm, another amd64 ... Oh, I forgot to say that I'm using only i386 images to install (on an AMD64 plateform yes !).

Re: Re: Etch/Sid not installable on amd64

2006-05-10 Thread Geert Stappers
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 04:09:07PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mmmm, another amd64 ... Oh, I forgot to say that I'm using only i386 images to install (on an AMD64 plateform yes !). And how works an AMD64 installer on a AMD64? Your feedback is appreciated. Cheers Geert Stappers --

Bug#366715: installation-report: Installer gets stuck if it can't access security.debian.org

2006-05-10 Thread John Winters
Package: installation-report Severity: important I'm trying to use the Debian Installer etch beta 2 to install systems within a fairly tightly firewalled network. Although the installer prompts to ask what repository it should use for the main packages it then tries to use a hard-coded source

Re: Re: Re: Etch/Sid not installable on amd64

2006-05-10 Thread wjaouad1
And how works an AMD64 installer on a AMD64 ? I'll try and tell you (USB booting with hd-media/boot.img.gz only, I'm against the CD's theory..) Tonight if I have enough time : my playing with i386 installer broke some part of my system hard disk partition table. No files lost, I'm just

Re: Etch/Sid not installable on amd64

2006-05-10 Thread Geert Stappers
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 06:58:35PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And how works an AMD64 installer on a AMD64 ? I'll try and tell you Nice! I'll be happy with just one copy to the mailinglist (no need to CC me ;-) (USB booting with hd-media/boot.img.gz only, I'm against the CD's

Bug#366441: Mklibs: should not remove symbol iconv_open

2006-05-10 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 366441 debian-installer tag 366441 pending thanks This is not a problem in mklibs but in d-i. The d-i (the Makefile) fails to tell mklibs to check libs with a name *.so.* for symbols that are needed. The patch below in the Makefile fixes this. --- build/Makefile (revision 37141)

Re: installing Debian Etch on IBM blade

2006-05-10 Thread Pere Rodríguez
2006/5/9, Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a consistent mapping of device names for disk drives problem. The disk drive is mapped as sdb during the installation step but sda when the real system boots up. I suggest you switch to VT2 at the very end of the

Processed: Re: Bug#366441: Mklibs: should not remove symbol iconv_open

2006-05-10 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign 366441 debian-installer Bug#366441: Mklibs: should not remove symbol iconv_open Bug reassigned from package `mklibs' to `debian-installer'. tag 366441 pending Bug#366441: Mklibs: should not remove symbol iconv_open Tags were: d-i Tags added:

Re: Issues regarding powerpc and Sven

2006-05-10 Thread Joey Hess
Anthony Towns wrote: I expect we'll shortly need to look seriously into getting a few more people actively working on maintaining the powerpc port as well; at the moment we seem to be relying on Sven to do everything, and that's not really ideal. Well, Colin has been doing work on powerpc

Re: Re: Etch/Sid not installable

2006-05-10 Thread Joey Hess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's likely to be more information in /var/log/syslogafter this error pops up. Yes, it says grub could not be found (was hard to find)! I used netinst CD image, then the first testing CD image (grud**.deb is actually in both) but I have the exact same problem..

Re: Issues regarding powerpc and Sven

2006-05-10 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-05-10 16:18]: There's also an offer from Daniel Dickinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] to help in an assisting role, mostly on oldworld. Noone has replied to that mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] yet though. To be fair, Sven responded to it. -- Martin Michlmayr

Bug#366715: installation-report: Installer gets stuck if it can't access security.debian.org

2006-05-10 Thread Joey Hess
John Winters wrote: I'm trying to use the Debian Installer etch beta 2 to install systems within a fairly tightly firewalled network. Although the installer prompts to ask what repository it should use for the main packages it then tries to use a hard-coded source (presumably

Processed: reassign 366715 to apt-setup

2006-05-10 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.9.19 reassign 366715 apt-setup Bug#366715: installation-report: Installer gets stuck if it can't access security.debian.org Bug reassigned from package `installation-report' to

[g-i] problems using dejavu as default font

2006-05-10 Thread Davide Viti
After spending some time trying to switch g-i as to use ttf-dejavu as default font, I'm writing down the infos I collected so far hoping someone will help getting it to work. The current set of fonts uses ttf-freefont as default and a very old version of dejavu font (IIRC something lik 2.2); for

installation-guide 20060427 MIGRATED to testing

2006-05-10 Thread Debian testing watch
FYI: The status of the installation-guide source package in Debian's testing distribution has changed. Previous version: 20060102 Current version: 20060427 -- This email is automatically generated; [EMAIL PROTECTED] is responsible. See http://people.debian.org/~henning/trille/ for more

Bug#366715: installation-report: Installer gets stuck if it can't access security.debian.org

2006-05-10 Thread John Winters
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 16:38 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: John Winters wrote: I'm trying to use the Debian Installer etch beta 2 to install systems within a fairly tightly firewalled network. Although the installer prompts to ask what repository it should use for the main packages it then

Bug#366754: Successfull install of debian testing

2006-05-10 Thread Edwin Carter
Package: installation-reports Boot method: Network, netinst CD image Image version: etch beta 2 Date: 7th May 2006 17:25 Machine: Custom built by woc.co.uk Processor: Intel P4 630 Memory: 1G Partitions: df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred FilesystemType 1K-blocks

Bug#364650: re optional apt-src lines

2006-05-10 Thread Joey Hess
The benefits I can think of from commenting out apt-src lines are: - Faster installation time, doesn't have to download Sources.gz. - Marginally faster apt-get update time. Now that apt in unstable uses diffs, this is unlikely to be worth commenting them out even for dialup users. - Slightly

Bug#364650: re the pause

2006-05-10 Thread Joey Hess
I'm thinking it might be good to run apt with a shorter timeout for http connections the first time apt-setup runs. The default timeout is 120 seconds. A 60 second timeout would probably work here, I'm not sure how low it could go before giving bad results. -- see shy jo signature.asc

Re: Re: Etch/Sid not installable

2006-05-10 Thread David Härdeman
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 04:19:49PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's likely to be more information in /var/log/syslogafter this error pops up. Yes, it says grub could not be found (was hard to find)! I used netinst CD image, then the first testing CD image (grud**.deb

Re: [g-i] problems using dejavu as default font

2006-05-10 Thread Davide Viti
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 11:00:39PM +0200, Davide Viti wrote: Using the current version of ttf-dejavu (2.4.1-1) the frontend crashes when dejavu is set as default font but if freefont is set as default font, all languages displayed via dejavu 2.4.1-1 just work fine. if it can be of any help I

Re: Re: Etch/Sid not installable

2006-05-10 Thread Joey Hess
David Härdeman wrote: Not my bug report, but I'm seeing similar error messages... I have no idea if you're seeing the same problem as the thread head, but I've reproduced your problem and filed a bug report on nfs-common to get it fixed. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital

Bug#365747: Add crypto nodes as well

2006-05-10 Thread David Härdeman
Something like the attached patch should suffice. Is it acceptable? Index: debian/postinst === --- debian/postinst (revision 37157) +++ debian/postinst (working copy) @@ -330,6 +330,8 @@ major=$(grep

Bug#366715: installation-report: Installer gets stuck if it can't access security.debian.org

2006-05-10 Thread Joey Hess
John Winters wrote: 1) Ask before attempting to get security updates. (Obviously default to yes). There's no good reason to ask. Well, no - clearly there is a good reason to ask. If the machine is network connected it should make every possible effort to use security

Processed: tagging 366715

2006-05-10 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.9.19 tags 366715 wontfix Bug#366715: installation-report: Installer gets stuck if it can't access security.debian.org There were no tags set. Tags added: wontfix End of message, stopping

Please hint the following d-i related packages

2006-05-10 Thread Frans Pop
Hi, A new version of parted is about ready to enter testing and should do so to clear the way for a next parted upload that has a bit more impact, including an ABI change. Otavio (as parted maintainer) is OK with the migration. The current version of parted in unstable adds RAID support for

Re: Processed: tagging 366715

2006-05-10 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Debian Bug Tracking System ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.9.19 tags 366715 wontfix Bug#366715: installation-report: Installer gets stuck if it can't access security.debian.org There

Re: Sarge install on Intel 945 chipset

2006-05-10 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Shane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hello list, Has anyone had luck installing Sarge on an Intel i945 chipset. The linux26 target isn't picking up the ethernet controller, I tried e1000 but that doesn't seem to be it and it also doesn't detect the connected SATA disks. I believe it's an