Bug#509775: Debian installer amd64 cannot complete installation due to a lack of the system codename

2008-12-26 Thread andrew kanode
Package: amd64 Severity: important When installing Debian amd64, the installer cannot Install the base system because of the error base-installer: error: exiting on error base-installer/no_codename. I have typed up the full error and saved it in a pastebin which can be found here:

make-ing the installer for another architecture

2008-12-26 Thread LÉVAI Dániel
Hi! I'm a beginner in debian-installer, but would like to create a customized one. Not so customized, rather a more automatic one. I've read thru these: http://www.dit.gov.bt/admin/index.php/D-i http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/doc/internals/ http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/apb.html I

Re: Opening trunk for post-lenny changes?

2008-12-26 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 24 December 2008, Colin Watson wrote: There appear to be rather few discrepancies between /branches/d-i/lenny and the archive, in any case. They are: auto-install Archive has 1.2, /branches/d-i/lenny has 1.3. This is partly because 1.3 had unstable in trunk for some time

Re: make-ing the installer for another architecture

2008-12-26 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 25 December 2008, LÉVAI Dániel wrote: The first in my series of questions is that can I make an installer for another architecture besides where I'm building the d-i? No. I'm using amd64, but I wish the 'make build_cdrom_gtk' command to create an installer for i386 and thus

lpia architecture

2008-12-26 Thread Colin Watson
I committed a couple of changes to add support for the 'lpia' architecture, and Frans asked what this was. This stands for low-power Intel architecture, and is used in the Ubuntu Mobile project; it's i386-compatible but intended to be built with mutually unsuitable optimisations, for CPUs with a

Bug#509662: graphical splash screen not iLO compatible

2008-12-26 Thread Frans Pop
severity 509662 minor tags 509662 wontfix thanks On Wednesday 24 December 2008, Daniel Pocock wrote: When the Debian installer is booted (either from CD or netboot), it displays a graphical splash screen (splash.rle) Hmm. Are you only talking about the splash screen (Etch installer) or (also)

Processed: Re: Bug#509662: graphical splash screen not iLO compatible

2008-12-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: severity 509662 minor Bug#509662: graphical splash screen not iLO compatible Severity set to `minor' from `normal' tags 509662 wontfix Bug#509662: graphical splash screen not iLO compatible There were no tags set. Tags added: wontfix thanks

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2008-12-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#322922: install: The partitioner thinks that a 511705088 B is too large for a drive with 5.7 GB unpartitioned space

2008-12-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 05:13:42PM +0200, Miernik wrote: During installing sarge with images from http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/debian-installer/i386/2.6/ (booting installation from GRUB), during the question: [!!] Partition disks it

Processed: tagging 505477

2008-12-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Processed: whoops, mistaken

2008-12-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: reassign 505477 partman-base Bug#505477: partman hangs if you press Go Back after warning message Bug reassigned from package `partman-lvm' to `partman-base'. -- Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug

Bug#416208: Installation report HP-715/64 (HIL)

2008-12-26 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 416208 rootskel tags 416208 pending thanks On Thursday 25 December 2008, Helge Deller wrote: Questions that come to mind are: - why doesn't the kernel/udev autoload this module? Probably yes, but as we discussed last time, this needs to be implemented. I already looked into

Processed: merging 268495 423437

2008-12-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.9.26etch1 merge 268495 423437 Bug#268495: renaming a partition on ia64 to no name makes partman hang Bug#423437: parted-server: hangs on command_set_name if name is empty Merged

Bug#509775: Debian installer amd64 cannot complete installation due to a lack of the system codename

2008-12-26 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting andrew kanode (script_exp...@operamail.com): Package: amd64 Severity: important When installing Debian amd64, the installer cannot Install the base system because of the error base-installer: error: exiting on error base-installer/no_codename. I have typed up the full error and

Processed: Re: Bug#509798: Debian on the HP mv2120

2008-12-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: clone 509798 -1 Bug#509798: Debian on the HP mv2120 Bug 509798 cloned as bug 509799. reassign -1 partman-ext3 Bug#509799: Debian on the HP mv2120 Bug reassigned from package `installation-reports' to `partman-ext3'. retitle -1 needs check to

Processed: set submitter

2008-12-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: submitter 509798 Bryan Stillwell bryan.stillw...@hp.com Bug#509798: Debian on the HP mv2120 Changed Bug submitter from Martin Michlmayr t...@cyrius.com to Bryan Stillwell bryan.stillw...@hp.com. -- Stopping processing here. Please contact me

Bug#509798: Debian on the HP mv2120

2008-12-26 Thread Martin Michlmayr
clone 509798 -1 reassign -1 partman-ext3 retitle -1 needs check to make sure /boot is bootable on HP mv2120 and Kurobox severity -1 wishlist thanks The first one was pretty silly, I forgot to mark /dev/sda1 (/boot) as bootable. It would have been nice if the partitioner warned me about this

Processed: reassign 505477 to partman-lvm

2008-12-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: reassign 505477 partman-lvm Bug#505477: partman hangs if you press Go Back after warning message Bug reassigned from package `partman-base' to `partman-lvm'. End of message, stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance.

Bug#509798: Debian on the HP mv2120

2008-12-26 Thread Martin Michlmayr
Package: installation-reports - Forwarded message from Stillwell, Bryan bryan.stillw...@hp.com - From: Stillwell, Bryan bryan.stillw...@hp.com Subject: Re: Debian on the HP mv2120 Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:17:40 -0700 To: Martin Michlmayr t...@cyrius.com X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.2

Bug#509775: Debian installer amd64 cannot complete installation due to a lack of the system codename

2008-12-26 Thread Frans Pop
severity 509775 normal tags 509775 unreprodicible thanks On Friday 26 December 2008, andrew kanode wrote: When installing Debian amd64, the installer cannot Install the base system because of the error base-installer: error: exiting on error base-installer/no_codename. This typically happens

Processed: Re: Bug#509775: Debian installer amd64 cannot complete installation due to a lack of the system codename

2008-12-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: reassign 509775 installation-reports Bug#509775: Debian installer amd64 cannot complete installation due to a lack of the system codename Warning: Unknown package 'amd64' Bug reassigned from package `amd64' to `installation-reports'. --

Bug#509378: should use labels for all partitions in fstab

2008-12-26 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Colin Watson (cjwat...@debian.org): Since I've already done most of the work for this in Ubuntu, I'm happy to volunteer for this. (For the avoidance of doubt, I'm not committed to an implementation identical to that currently in Ubuntu, although I was planning to use that as a base;

Bug#509765: installation-reports: NTFS is corrupted after resizing on ASUS Eee PC 1000H

2008-12-26 Thread Luca Capello
Package: installation-reports Severity: important Hello! X-Debbugs-Cc:ing the debian-eeepc-devel mailing list for obvious reasons. Please Cc: me in replies, I am not subscribed to the list. The installation went really smooth (kudos to the Debian Eee PC Team), the major problem being that now

Bug#509378: should use labels for all partitions in fstab

2008-12-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 10:51:34PM +, Daniel Pocock wrote: Colin Watson wrote: On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 08:15:55PM +, Daniel Pocock wrote: I believe it would be much safer to use labels for partitions rather than using the device nodes. Automatically assigning labels is a really,

Bug#509378: should use labels for all partitions in fstab

2008-12-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 06:49:53AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Colin Watson (cjwat...@debian.org): I absolutely think that we should be using UUIDs by default for devices where there isn't some other stable naming, as Ubuntu does. I agree. As I said earlier, we now just need

Bug#509723: Support TFTP preseed fetch method

2008-12-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 10:54:47PM +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote: I would find it useful if the preseed file could be fetched via TFTP. I think this is a great idea; we'd need a TFTP client udeb first, though. The installation guide recommends tftpd-hpa as the server, so would I be right to assume

Bug#509791: debootstrap: Debootstrapping on non-Debian is not documented

2008-12-26 Thread Noel David Torres Taño
Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.10 Severity: wishlist Example in the man page does not explain how to create a Debian chroot on another system. It starts supossing that debootstrap is installed, but IMHO it should start explaining how to download and install it in a non-Debian system, since

Bug#509723: Support TFTP preseed fetch method

2008-12-26 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 03:33:47PM +, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 10:54:47PM +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote: I would find it useful if the preseed file could be fetched via TFTP. I think this is a great idea; we'd need a TFTP client udeb first, though. The installation guide

Bug#509755: installation-reports: problem with install to motherboard asus m3n-h

2008-12-26 Thread almatea_sub
Package: installation-reports Severity: critical Justification: not detect sata hdd and integrated network card i try to install debian etch (40r6 amd64 image from http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r6/amd64/iso-dvd/ 19-Dec-2008) on computer with motherboard asustek n3m-h hdmi and

Bug#509791: marked as done (debootstrap: Debootstrapping on non-Debian is not documented)

2008-12-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Fri, 26 Dec 2008 20:09:11 +0100 with message-id 200812262009.12167.elen...@planet.nl and subject line Re: Bug#509791: debootstrap: Debootstrapping on non-Debian is not documented has caused the Debian Bug report #509791, regarding debootstrap: Debootstrapping on non-Debian is

Bug#416208: Installation report HP-715/64 (HIL)

2008-12-26 Thread Helge Deller
Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 25 December 2008, Helge Deller wrote: - why doesn't the kernel/udev autoload this module? Probably yes, but as we discussed last time, this needs to be implemented. I already looked into implementing it, but sadly it isn't that easy to understand all the flow

Bug#509791: (no subject)

2008-12-26 Thread Noel David Torres Taño
Wouldn't it be better if explained somewhere in the package itself? BTW, I humbly think that downloading the .deb as stated in http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/i386/apds03.html.en is worse than downloading the .tar.gz from the same place and where to download it is not stated, just

Bug#509662: graphical splash screen not iLO compatible

2008-12-26 Thread Daniel Pocock
When the Debian installer is booted (either from CD or netboot), it displays a graphical splash screen (splash.rle) Hmm. Are you only talking about the splash screen (Etch installer) or (also) about the graphical boot menu used introduced in the Lenny installer? In this case,

Bug#416208: Installation report HP-715/64 (HIL)

2008-12-26 Thread Helge Deller
- why doesn't the kernel/udev autoload this module? For the record, those four patches are needed to fix the parisc kernel module autoloader fully functional: [PATCH] parisc: add uevent helper for parisc bus: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.parisc/1035 [PATCH]

Bug#509844: --variant=minbase broken

2008-12-26 Thread Robert Millan
Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.10 Severity: normal Tags: patch --variant=minbase broke when apt started depending on debian-archive-keyring, which in turn depends on gnupg, etc. Attached patch fixes the problem. Note, however, that #509838 is breaking it as well. -- System Information:

Bug#509723: Support TFTP preseed fetch method

2008-12-26 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Colin Watson cjwat...@debian.org writes: On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 10:54:47PM +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote: I would find it useful if the preseed file could be fetched via TFTP. I think this is a great idea; we'd need a TFTP client udeb first, though. The installation guide recommends tftpd-hpa

Bug#509723: Support TFTP preseed fetch method

2008-12-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 11:48:40PM +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote: Colin Watson cjwat...@debian.org writes: On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 10:54:47PM +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote: I would find it useful if the preseed file could be fetched via TFTP. I think this is a great idea; we'd need a TFTP

Bug#509844: marked as done (--variant=minbase broken)

2008-12-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sat, 27 Dec 2008 00:59:17 +0100 with message-id 20081226235917.ga2...@thorin and subject line oops has caused the Debian Bug report #509844, regarding --variant=minbase broken to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not

Processed: severity of 509755 is important

2008-12-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: severity 509755 important Bug#509755: installation-reports: problem with install to motherboard asus m3n-h Severity set to `important' from `critical' End of message, stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian

Bug#509855: flat mirror type

2008-12-26 Thread Robert Millan
Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.10 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch This patch implements the flat mirror type, a trivial archive made by running dpkg-scanpackages on a single directory. This is very useful when bootstrapping new ports, at the stage in which a proper archive is not setup and one

Bug#509857: installation-report for d-i rc1 on silicon graphics O2

2008-12-26 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
Package: installation-reports Boot method: network via tftp Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/lenny_di_rc1/mips/jigdo-dvd/debian-testing-mips-DVD-1.jigdo Date: 27 December 2008 Machine: Silicon Graphics O2 Processor: r5...@200mhz Memory: 384Mb Partitions: Output of lspci -knn

Bug#509857: marked as done (installation-report for d-i rc1 on silicon graphics O2)

2008-12-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Processing of rootskel_1.73_amd64.changes

2008-12-26 Thread Archive Administrator
rootskel_1.73_amd64.changes uploaded successfully to localhost along with the files: rootskel_1.73.dsc rootskel_1.73.tar.gz rootskel_1.73_amd64.udeb rootskel-bootfloppy_1.73_amd64.udeb Greetings, Your Debian queue daemon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#416208: Installation report HP-715/64 (HIL)

2008-12-26 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 26 December 2008, Helge Deller wrote: It works like a charm :-) OK. I'll upload. P.S. hilkbd is a rather nasty module: when I tried to rmmod it after a test install, it froze both the SSH session and the serial console connection I had open to the box... I see the same here.

rootskel_1.73_amd64.changes ACCEPTED

2008-12-26 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: rootskel-bootfloppy_1.73_amd64.udeb to pool/main/r/rootskel/rootskel-bootfloppy_1.73_amd64.udeb rootskel_1.73.dsc to pool/main/r/rootskel/rootskel_1.73.dsc rootskel_1.73.tar.gz to pool/main/r/rootskel/rootskel_1.73.tar.gz rootskel_1.73_amd64.udeb to

Processed: Tag pending for mklibs

2008-12-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: tag 499744 pending Bug#499744: mklibs patch for MIPS Tags were: patch Tags added: pending tag 505025 pending Bug#505025: FTBFS with GCC 4.4: missing #include Tags were: patch Tags added: pending End of message, stopping processing here.

Bug#416208: marked as done (Installation report HP-715/64 (HIL))

2008-12-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sat, 27 Dec 2008 05:02:03 + with message-id e1lgrjl-000756...@ries.debian.org and subject line Bug#416208: fixed in rootskel 1.73 has caused the Debian Bug report #416208, regarding Installation report HP-715/64 (HIL) to be marked as done. This means that you claim that

Bug#509662: graphical splash screen not iLO compatible

2008-12-26 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 26 December 2008, Daniel Pocock wrote: When someone is accessing a server remotely using a HP iLO, they may not have the iLO licensed for graphical modes (extra license fees have to be paid to HP) Alternatively, someone may be using a serial port for remote access (e.g.

Bug#508929: mklibs selects symbols from the wrong library

2008-12-26 Thread Frans Pop
Hello Andrew, Thank you for this proposed patch. Although I'm far from an expert on this, your approach looks logical. BTW, sorry for the late response. Main reason is that development was somewhat frozen due to the preparations for Lenny. This patch modifies mklibs-readelf to extract the

Bug#509378: should use labels for all partitions in fstab

2008-12-26 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Colin Watson (cjwat...@debian.org): For automatic assignment, I honestly think UUIDs are the best answer, After reading all bugs related to this, I confirm that I also think UUIDs are the best answer. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Processed: Re: Bug#509755: installation-reports: problem with install to motherboard asus m3n-h

2008-12-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: severity 509755 normal Bug#509755: installation-reports: problem with install to motherboard asus m3n-h Severity set to `normal' from `important' thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking

Bug#509755: installation-reports: problem with install to motherboard asus m3n-h

2008-12-26 Thread Christian Perrier
severity 509755 normal thanks Quoting almatea_sub (almatea_...@mail.ru): Package: installation-reports Severity: critical Justification: not detect sata hdd and integrated network card i try to install debian etch (40r6 amd64 image from