Bug#485790: generate separate /boot as workaround for buggy LBA48 ?

2008-06-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 04:52:32PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: The disadvantage of that (assuming you want to avoid LVM) is that for a really small / you'll need at least separate /var, /usr, /tmp, /srv and /home partitions and then you have the question what the best relative sizes are for

Bug#484121: tasksel: let's sync on the GNOME task

2008-06-16 Thread Eric Dorland
* Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Eric Dorland wrote: So the user agent thing is fairly well documented at http://bugs.debian.org/399633, but basically it's our stand against user-agent insanity. We could of course make it say Firefox easily, but this certainly seems a bit defeatist.

Bug#485790: generate separate /boot as workaround for buggy LBA48 ?

2008-06-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Friday 13 June 2008, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Earlier instances of the same problem. The 8 GiB barrier was because of the BIOS only issuing one 24-bit ATA command. I'm not sure how common will the new limit be in comparison. As well as 518MB,

Bug#484121: tasksel: let's sync on the GNOME task

2008-06-16 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 04:29:43AM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: * Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Eric Dorland wrote: So the user agent thing is fairly well documented at http://bugs.debian.org/399633, but basically it's our stand against user-agent insanity. We could of course make

Re: Considerations for lilo removal

2008-06-16 Thread peter green
I am wondering if it is a good idea to remove lilo entirely. At the moment, lilo has been pulled from testing, and the code is in a shape Can either version of grub handle all the cases that lilo can? for example can either of them handle the situation where root is on lvm and there is

Re: Considerations for lilo removal

2008-06-16 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 10:57:32AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: We still very regularly get installation reports where people use lilo rather than grub, so it must still have a fairly significant user base. I would say that the activity on the bug report shows the same. OTOH, aren't most of these

Re: Considerations for lilo removal

2008-06-16 Thread Frans Pop
(Dropping d-release for this part of the discussion.) On Monday 16 June 2008, Mike Hommey wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 10:57:32AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: We still very regularly get installation reports where people use lilo rather than grub, so it must still have a fairly significant

Re: Considerations for lilo removal

2008-06-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/16/08 04:19, Mike Hommey wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 10:57:32AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: We still very regularly get installation reports where people use lilo rather than grub, so it must still have a fairly significant user base. I

Re: Considerations for lilo removal

2008-06-16 Thread Frans Pop
(Dropping d-release again.) On Monday 16 June 2008, peter green wrote: I am wondering if it is a good idea to remove lilo entirely. At the moment, lilo has been pulled from testing, and the code is in a shape Can either version of grub handle all the cases that lilo can? D-I currently

Re: Testing transition for console-setup 1.24

2008-06-16 Thread Otavio Salvador
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christian Perrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: console-setup is currently frozen because it provides a udeb. As the D-I beta2 is out and, anyway, console-setup's udeb is not used in D-I as of now, I think it's OK for it to enter testing. No

Re: klibc 1.5.10

2008-06-16 Thread Otavio Salvador
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 maximilian attems [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hello, please unblock klibc 1.5.10-1 was 10 days in unstable without trouble and fixes some utils. no lib changes itself. hpa just pushed out 1.5.11, i'd like to upload that tomorrow as several

Re: Bug#485655: debian-installer: The KDE images should use sudo too and configure KDE accordingly.

2008-06-16 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 485655 tasksel 2.74 thanks On Monday 16 June 2008, Joey Hess wrote: It seems easier at the moment to add your code, and include it in the task than it does to change the default or remove the debconf use, and come up with a way to detect which tasks were installed[1]. Sounds good to

Processed: Re: Bug#485655: debian-installer: The KDE images should use sudo too and configure KDE accordingly.

2008-06-16 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign 485655 tasksel 2.74 Bug#485655: debian-installer: The KDE images should use sudo too and configure KDE accordingly. Bug reassigned from package `debian-installer' to `tasksel'. thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need

Bug#479781: Debootstrap

2008-06-16 Thread Anders Winnberg
I managed to install base system with ext2 file system instead of ext3. However, during installation of GUI I got parity errors. Looks like disk hardware problem. Please close the bug report. /Anders -- Anders Winnberg tel: +46 31 772 5533 Onsala Space Observatory fax: +46 31 772

Bug#479781: marked as done (Debootstrap)

2008-06-16 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:27:58 +0200 with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line Re: Bug#479781: Debootstrap has caused the Debian Bug report #479781, regarding Debootstrap to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not

Bug#486541: grub problem with debian-installer

2008-06-16 Thread sigmaxc
Package: installation-reports Boot method: Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/ debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso (16-Jun-2008 11:14) Date: 16-Jun-2008 18:00 Machine: Desktop PC (Mainboard Elitegroup K7S5A) Processor: Athlon XP-1700+

Processed: Re: Bug#486541: grub problem with debian-installer

2008-06-16 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign 486541 grub-installer 1.32 Bug#486541: grub problem with debian-installer Bug reassigned from package `installation-reports' to `grub-installer'. severity 486541 wishlist Bug#486541: grub problem with debian-installer Severity set to

Bug#486541: grub problem with debian-installer

2008-06-16 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 486541 grub-installer 1.32 severity 486541 wishlist tags 486541 wontfix retitle 486541 Grub fails after changing boot disk order in BIOS thanks On Monday 16 June 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Comments/Problems: * PROBLEM on first reboot: chosen in BIOS to boot from IDE1 (=hdb) IMO

Bug#486549: The single partition present on a CMS minidisk is not supported (s390/s390x only)

2008-06-16 Thread Stephen Powell
Package: partman-base Version: 105 This bug applies only to the s390 and s390x architectures. The single partition implicitly created on a z/VM minidisk by the CMS FORMAT command (and optionally, the CMS RESERVE command) is not recognized by partman. mke2fs, mkswap, etc. recognize such a

Re: klibc 1.5.10

2008-06-16 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 12:42:36AM +, maximilian attems wrote: hello, please unblock klibc 1.5.10-1 done -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O[EMAIL PROTECTED] OOOhttp://www.madism.org

Re: Testing transition for console-setup 1.24

2008-06-16 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 06:02:16PM +, Christian Perrier wrote: console-setup is currently frozen because it provides a udeb. Done -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O[EMAIL PROTECTED] OOO

Processed: Re: Bug#486549: The single partition present on a CMS minidisk is not supported (s390/s390x only)

2008-06-16 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: tag 486549 help Bug#486549: The single partition present on a CMS minidisk is not supported (s390/s390x only) There were no tags set. Tags added: help severity 486549 wishlist Bug#486549: The single partition present on a CMS minidisk is not

Bug#486549: The single partition present on a CMS minidisk is not supported (s390/s390x only)

2008-06-16 Thread Frans Pop
tag 486549 help severity 486549 wishlist thanks On Monday 16 June 2008, Stephen Powell wrote: The single partition implicitly created on a z/VM minidisk by the CMS FORMAT command (and optionally, the CMS RESERVE command) is not recognized by partman. Your request is no doubt completely valid,

Bug#486558: installation-reports: strange (null) in URL for tasksel for automatic install

2008-06-16 Thread Anders Andersson
Package: installation-reports Boot method: Netinstall CD (ISO) Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/lenny_di_beta2/i386/iso-cd/debian-LennyBeta2-i386-netinst.iso Date: 2008-06-16 Machine: VirtualBox 1.6.2 Processor: Intel Core2 Quad Q9300 @ 2.5 GHz Memory: 256MB Partitions: root on

Re: Bug#486549: The single partition present on a CMS minidisk is not supported (s390/s390x only)

2008-06-16 Thread Stephen Powell
Thanks for your reply, Frans. As for the enhancement requests for e2fsprogs and s390-tools to respect and support the RECOMP option of CMS minidisks, those are not distribution specific. I would hope that they could be bumped upstream. In theory, partman is not distribution-specific either,

Processed: Re: Bug#480935: new syslinux floppy images

2008-06-16 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign 480935 rootskel-bootfloppy Bug#480935: installationreport: floppy install 20080227 not working Bug reassigned from package `syslinux' to `rootskel-bootfloppy'. retitle 480935 Explicit sanity checking needed for build-time problems?

Re: Bug#480935: new syslinux floppy images

2008-06-16 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 480935 rootskel-bootfloppy retitle 480935 Explicit sanity checking needed for build-time problems? tags 480935 - d-i thanks On Monday 16 June 2008, Holger Wansing wrote: Holger: at least this means you can now test if the new syslinux solves your boot problem; please try both the

Bug#486558: installation-reports: strange (null) in URL for tasksel for automatic install

2008-06-16 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 486558 choose-mirror 2.24 severity 486558 important tags 486558 confirmed thanks Thanks for the report. On Monday 16 June 2008, Anders Andersson wrote: Comments/Problems: I tried the automatic install, and everything was fine until I got the following error: Bad archive mirror.

Processed: Re: Bug#486558: installation-reports: strange (null) in URL for tasksel for automatic install

2008-06-16 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign 486558 choose-mirror 2.24 Bug#486558: installation-reports: strange (null) in URL for tasksel for automatic install Bug reassigned from package `installation-reports' to `choose-mirror'. severity 486558 important Bug#486558:

Bug#484121: tasksel: let's sync on the GNOME task

2008-06-16 Thread Joey Hess
Eric Dorland wrote: Well I think Google generally does treat the Iceweasel user agent properly. Not in the case of maps.google.com, where the sidebar cannot be hidden in iceweasel, can in firefox. I'm afraid that documenting it in README.Debian won't help desktop users who just find that

Re: Considerations for lilo removal

2008-06-16 Thread Brian May
Frans Pop wrote: AFAIK grub (at least the default legacy version) also still has problems with / on XFS. That's the one other case where D-I automatically falls back to lilo. I think you mean /boot on XFS. Having / as XFS seems to work fine for me... Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to