Re: Refactoring commit_changes in partman

2007-12-03 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 03 December 2007, Max Vozeler wrote: I've carefully gone through them and noted the differences, hoping to replace them all with a common commit_changes in partman-base/definition.sh I agree that factoring this out makes sense. I've looked over your patch and the thorough analysis

Bug#409042: dmsetup executed even if not available

2007-12-03 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 02 December 2007, Frans Pop wrote: The patch for partman-lvm may have fixed the symptom for normal installs, but it is not a structural fix. Similar errors still occurs when a user selects Guided LVM partitioning: /bin/autopartition: 35: dmsetup: not found /bin/autopartition-lvm:

[RFC] Erase LVM/crypto issues and proposed partman reorg

2007-12-03 Thread Frans Pop
I've spent about 6 hours yesterday looking at #396023 and #425829, the issues introduced after implementation of support for erasing encrypted volumes. I've looked at both the original patch and the changes proposed by Jérémy. The main issues are that the original patch: - relies on dmsetup to

Re: How to force d-i to ask for domain name?

2007-12-03 Thread Geert Stappers
Op 02-12-2007 om 14:26 schreef Josef Wolf: On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 12:44:30PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: snip/ An option might be a modified netcfg. Build the udeb after your hack and place it in the local udeb directory before rebuilding d-i. Sorry, I don't really understand

Bug#454159: installation report: successful, through pain and tears however

2007-12-03 Thread bertrand_bertholon-debianinstall
Package: installation-reports Boot method: netinst CD Image version: daily build 2007-11-25-#2 for amd64, using installer build from sid http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd Date: 2007-11-29 Machine: Dell Precision 490 workstation Processor:

Re: [RFC] Erase LVM/crypto issues and proposed partman reorg

2007-12-03 Thread David Härdeman
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 11:26:22AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: I've spent about 6 hours yesterday looking at #396023 and #425829, the issues introduced after implementation of support for erasing encrypted volumes. I've looked at both the original patch and the changes proposed by Jérémy. Your

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: Bug#428329: Bug in debian-Installer/initramfs when I use GUID Partition Table (GPT) with a crypted root filesystem]

2007-12-03 Thread David Härdeman
Andreas Gerlich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the following screens I setup the same like in the first situation: /boot SWAP / ,, ,, ,, | BOOT | | SWAP | | ROOT | `---*´ `---*´ `*---´ | | | | |

Re: Refactoring commit_changes in partman

2007-12-03 Thread Max Vozeler
Hi Frans, On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 10:37:32AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 03 December 2007, Max Vozeler wrote: I've carefully gone through them and noted the differences, hoping to replace them all with a common commit_changes in partman-base/definition.sh I agree that factoring

Re: [RFC] Erase LVM/crypto issues and proposed partman reorg

2007-12-03 Thread Max Vozeler
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 11:26:22AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: I therefore suggest reverting David's changes (which luckily is quite straightforward) and then first do some refactoring of existing code as preparation for a reimplementation of support for erasing encrypted volumes. I tend to

Bug#453749: Fix serial console detection on ia64

2007-12-03 Thread dann frazier
Thanks for your responses. As I was writing this report, I began to wonder why exactly the proc trick doesn't work on some ia64 configs - I'm investigating this now. If I can find a workable solution there, we may be able to forego these changes - if not, I'll regenerate new patches based on your

Processed: reassign 453749 to rootskel, found 453749 in 1.57

2007-12-03 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.11 reassign 453749 rootskel Bug#453749: Fix serial console detection on ia64 Bug reassigned from package `finish-install' to `rootskel'. found 453749 1.57 Bug#453749: Fix serial

Bug#453749: simpler solution

2007-12-03 Thread dann frazier
I couldn't find any difference in how the kernel was setting up the console that would affect the /proc/$dipid/fd/0 link, so I started looking into userspace. Busybox's console_init() tries to find and use the real console device. It starts by checking to see if its a serial device in much the

Re: Installation on NSLU2 does not complete (initramfs nslu2 hook requires user interaction)

2007-12-03 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Gordon Farquharson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-03 00:12]: nslu2-utils is version 0.10+r71-13, but I don't see any changes to the initramfs hook that should cause this problem. I am using a DFSG image that does not contain the NPE-B firmware. I guess the best way this should be handled is to