Bug#570338: console-setup: setupcon switches to tty6 under Linux 2.6.33

2010-02-18 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: console-setup Version: 1.53 Severity: normal Running setupcon on tty1 or tty2 under a 2.6.33-rc8 kernel causes an annoying and surprising switch to tty6. This does not happen under a 2.6.32 kernel. FWIW, there is no problem when setupcon is run from the init script, only when it is run

Bug#570341: console-setup: will not configure the console when installed with apt

2010-02-18 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: console-setup Version: 1.53 Severity: normal When installing console-setup with apt, it will never configure the console, even if you do it on tty1: , | Richte console-setup ein (1.53) .. | We are not on the Linux console, the console is leaved unconfigured. ` (You want to

Bug#570338: console-setup: setupcon switches to tty6 under Linux 2.6.33

2010-02-18 Thread Sven Joachim
reassign 570338 console-tools found 570338 1:0.2.3dbs-68 retitle 570338 console-tools: setupcon switches to tty6 under Linux 2.6.33 thanks On 2010-02-18 09:05 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: Package: console-setup Version: 1.53 Severity: normal Running setupcon on tty1 or tty2 under a 2.6.33-rc8

Processed: Re: Bug#570338: console-setup: setupcon switches to tty6 under Linux 2.6.33

2010-02-18 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: reassign 570338 console-tools Bug #570338 [console-setup] console-setup: setupcon switches to tty6 under Linux 2.6.33 Bug reassigned from package 'console-setup' to 'console-tools'. Bug No longer marked as found in versions console-setup/1.53.

Re: Has anybody recently done a Debian install on a playstation-3?

2010-02-18 Thread Xavier Grave
Hello Fabiano, On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Fabiano Manoel de Andrade fabian...@gmail.com wrote:        The installation was sucesfull without any modification. The ps3 net card was recognized and configured. The only thing is the message of the installer that no suitable kernel

Re: Has anybody recently done a Debian install on a playstation-3?

2010-02-18 Thread Julian Hernandez Gomez
Hello Otavio, The squeeze_di_alpha1 uses this installer; so it will give you same result. squeeze_di_alpha1 installation failed because it couldn't find the BD/DVD/CD-ROM unit. I got the same results as Fabiano using netboot. We need people to investigate the kernel issue for next release;

Re: Has anybody recently done a Debian install on a playstation-3?

2010-02-18 Thread Julian Hernandez Gomez
Hello Frans, What is the contents of /proc/cpuinfo for a PS3? cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 cpu : Cell Broadband Engine, altivec supported clock : 3192.00MHz revision: 16.0 (pvr 0070 1000) processor : 1 cpu : Cell Broadband Engine,

Re: Has anybody recently done a Debian install on a playstation-3?

2010-02-18 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello, On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Julian Hernandez Gomez julianhernan...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Otavio, The squeeze_di_alpha1 uses this installer; so it will give you same result. squeeze_di_alpha1 installation failed because it couldn't find the BD/DVD/CD-ROM unit. This was

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha1 images, last tests and announce on friday

2010-02-18 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello, On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl wrote: On Wednesday 17 February 2010, Otavio Salvador wrote: I've contacted Debian CD Team to look at it. What exactly do you think is wrong here Otavio? In fact it was a misunderstand between me and Steve. I was talking

Re: Has anybody recently done a Debian install on a playstation-3?

2010-02-18 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello, On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven geert.uytterhoe...@sonycom.com wrote: Can you get an lspci of a running system, and a dmesg, for us to check if it is a missing module? There's no (user-visible) PCI bus. All needed drivers are for the PS3 system bus type,

Re: Has anybody recently done a Debian install on a playstation-3?

2010-02-18 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Otavio Salvador wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Julian Hernandez Gomez julianhernan...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Otavio, The squeeze_di_alpha1 uses this installer; so it will give you same result. squeeze_di_alpha1 installation

Re: Has anybody recently done a Debian install on a playstation-3?

2010-02-18 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Otavio Salvador wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven geert.uytterhoe...@sonycom.com wrote: Can you get an lspci of a running system, and a dmesg, for us to check if it is a missing module? There's no (user-visible) PCI bus.

Re: Switching g-i from DirectFB to X11

2010-02-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Anton Zinoviev, le Tue 16 Feb 2010 23:58:06 +0200, a écrit : On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 07:03:45AM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: There are general considerations about the user interface that were collected by Frans and reported to the archive. The concerns were also about size issues

Re: Has anybody recently done a Debian install on a playstation-3?

2010-02-18 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello, On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven geert.uytterhoe...@sonycom.com wrote: On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Otavio Salvador wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven geert.uytterhoe...@sonycom.com wrote: Can you get an lspci of a running system, and

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha1 images, last tests and announce on friday

2010-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 18 February 2010, Otavio Salvador wrote: We can't use the daily images for testing in many arches (mips, mipsel, powerpc, ...). Nonsense. You're failing to distinguish between daily *D-I* builds and daily *CD* builds. Sure, the daily *D-I* builds for mips are failing, but that has

Re: Has anybody recently done a Debian install on a playstation-3?

2010-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 18 February 2010, Julian Hernandez Gomez wrote: What is the contents of /proc/cpuinfo for a PS3? [cpuinfo] Also, what is the output of 'archdetect' when run in a debug shell of the installer? powerpc/ps3 Thanks. I've added support for kernel selection for ps3 in SVN for the

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha1 images, last tests and announce on friday

2010-02-18 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello, On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl wrote: On Thursday 18 February 2010, Otavio Salvador wrote: We can't use the daily images for testing in many arches (mips, mipsel, powerpc, ...). Nonsense. You're failing to distinguish between daily *D-I* builds and

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha1 images, last tests and announce on friday

2010-02-18 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 13:59 -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: The squeeze_d-i daily CD builds are based on the version of D-I you uploaded, not on the failing daily D-I builds! The daily D-I builds only affect the sid_d-i daily CD builds.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha1 images, last tests and announce on friday

2010-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 18 February 2010, Ian Campbell wrote: Please can somebody confirm which multi-arch netinst images I should be testing to ensure I am testing this alpha1 release? http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/squeeze_d-i/current/multi-arch/iso-cd/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Switching g-i from DirectFB to X11

2010-02-18 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 02:26:59PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: Anton Zinoviev, le Tue 16 Feb 2010 23:58:06 +0200, a écrit : The only remaining problem that has to be fixed is in xkb-data - for many layouts an US variant must be added so the users get it as option in the first

Re: Switching g-i from DirectFB to X11

2010-02-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Anton Zinoviev, le Thu 18 Feb 2010 18:13:47 +0200, a écrit : On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 02:26:59PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: Anton Zinoviev, le Tue 16 Feb 2010 23:58:06 +0200, a écrit : The only remaining problem that has to be fixed is in xkb-data - for many layouts an US variant

Bug#570410: partman-base: Please default to GB

2010-02-18 Thread maximilian attems
Package: partman-base Version: 137 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch if one partitions and neglects to add a suffix partman falls back to use megabytes. noticed on a goofed installed where debootstrap failed due to full disk. better default to gigabytes these days. said root had 34 MB instead of 34

Re: Switching g-i from DirectFB to X11

2010-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 18 February 2010, Anton Zinoviev wrote: This is how I would fix the nl keyboard: [...] I chose a variant without deadkeys in levels 1 and 2 (I suppose this is what the people want).  AltGr combinations can be used to produce deadkeys. Yes, that looks correct although I'd need to

RE: Has anybody recently done a Debian install on a playstation-3?

2010-02-18 Thread Norberto Feliberty
-Original Message- From: Otavio Salvador ota...@ossystems.com.br Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 8:29 AM To: geert.uytterhoe...@sonycom.com Cc: julianhernan...@gmail.com; fabian...@gmail.com; geoffrey.lev...@am.sony.com; debian-powe...@lists.debian.org; debian-boot@lists.debian.org;

Re: Has anybody recently done a Debian install on a playstation-3?

2010-02-18 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello, On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Norberto Feliberty thegame4121...@msn.comwrote: Thanks Otavio. After this issue all that is needed is getting the installer to install the kernel and have it create yaboot.conf This has been fixed already. Probably will be fixed soon after Alpha1 is

Re: Switching g-i from DirectFB to X11

2010-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 18 February 2010, Samuel Thibault wrote: Could you discuss directly on the bugzilla, maybe? Also, in my understanding it would be better to use the us layout by default as it seems to be the majority in NL? Yes, the US layout definitely needs to be the default. That's why for

Bug#570410: partman-base: Please default to GB

2010-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 18 February 2010, maximilian attems wrote: if one partitions and neglects to add a suffix partman falls back to use megabytes. noticed on a goofed installed where debootstrap failed due to full disk. better default to gigabytes these days. One reason to stay with MB could be that

Bug#570273: debian-installer: netboot stops after loading pxelinux.cfg/default

2010-02-18 Thread Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 01:18:01AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: Problem is: it works perfectly here for me using the daily image you linked to on two systems: in VirtualBox and my (oldish) Toshiba laptop. All right, I think I got it... syslinux/pxelinux.txt states, that: PXELINUX currently

Bug#570273: debian-installer: netboot stops after loading pxelinux.cfg/default

2010-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 570273 installation-reports thanks On Thursday 18 February 2010, Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote: All right, I think I got it... syslinux/pxelinux.txt states, that: Cool. I'd half forgotten about that, but it is documented. I would suggest to put some notes regarding this issue in the

Processed: Re: Bug#570273: debian-installer: netboot stops after loading pxelinux.cfg/default

2010-02-18 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: reassign 570273 installation-reports Bug #570273 [debian-installer] debian-installer: netboot stops after loading pxelinux.cfg/default Bug reassigned from package 'debian-installer' to 'installation-reports'. Bug No longer marked as found in

Bug#570430: debian installer network config fails on PS3

2010-02-18 Thread Geoff Levand
Package: netcfg Version: 1.51 X-Debbugs-CC: rbtho...@pobox.com, debian-powe...@lists.debian.org, cbe-oss-...@lists.ozlabs.org Original Message Subject: Re: Has anybody recently done a Debian install on a playstation-3? Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:27:27 -0800 From: Levand,

Bug#554493: Bug#551646: installation-reports: [i386] installation failed using netboot

2010-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
Wanted to install a stable Debian version on a Vaio (PCG-GRT816S) with XPE and a netboot, I've been faced to a similar bug as #497212! The screen turn black! We've had another report of possibly the same issue where the cause was identified. It's a known limitation of syslinux, which is

Bug#570273: debian-installer: netboot stops after loading pxelinux.cfg/default

2010-02-18 Thread Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 08:43:34PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: a) add a huge warning note about using Debian's tftpd package in conjunction with Network boot, and Something like the Note here you mean? http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/i386/ch04s06.html.en Uh, I was carefully reading

Re: Switching g-i from DirectFB to X11

2010-02-18 Thread Mike Emmel
Hi Frans its been a long time ! First I can understand the problems with using Gtk/DirectFB. It seems that the DirectFB community has not rallied to support it. Which is sad. One of the biggest reasons I don't do a lot of work any more is the single maintainer problem. If the DirectFB community

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha1 images, last tests and announce on friday

2010-02-18 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 18, 2010, at 12:00 PM, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 18 February 2010, Ian Campbell wrote: Please can somebody confirm which multi-arch netinst images I should be testing to ensure I am testing this alpha1 release?

RE: Has anybody recently done a Debian install on a playstation-3?

2010-02-18 Thread Norberto Feliberty
-Original Message- From: Otavio Salvador ota...@ossystems.com.br Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 12:54 PM To: thegame4121...@msn.com Cc: geert.uytterhoe...@sonycom.com; julianhernan...@gmail.com; fabian...@gmail.com; geoffrey.lev...@am.sony.com; debian-powe...@lists.debian.org;

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha1 images, last tests and announce on friday

2010-02-18 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 17, 2010, at 8:14 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote: Hello, The images with the blocking bugs has been built and are waiting for last tests before announce. Please look at: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/squeeze_di_alpha1/ If all goes fine I want to announce it on friday. So please, give

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha1 images, last tests and announce on friday

2010-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 18 February 2010, Rick Thomas wrote: When I try to download the multiarch (i386/amd64) DVD-1 using bittorrent, I get Requested download is not authorized for use with this tracker Am I doing something wrong? Or is the problem on the other end? They won't be seeded until the

Re: [D-I] Info needed for partman restructuring

2010-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 06 February 2010, Frans Pop wrote: I'm working on some changes in Debian Installer affecting the display of descriptions for block devices. For that I need to know which devices can occur on kfreebsd. Thanks to Kenyon for his reply, but I had hoped for somewhat more comprehensive

Re: Switching g-i from DirectFB to X11 -- general reflections

2010-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 08 February 2010, Cyril Brulebois wrote: this is a summary of the needed steps to switch from DirectFB to X11. After some time hacking in the wild, I then looked into providing (possibly) clean patches for each package, which I've just finished. Sorry for the delay in replying.

Re: Switching g-i from DirectFB to X11 -- image size; library reduction

2010-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 08 February 2010, Cyril Brulebois wrote: If you were to build a netboot-gtk image using DirectFB, and to compare with one using X11, one gets:   DirectFB:  9191 extents written (17 MB)   X11     : 11239 extents written (21 MB) Let's first look at image size in a bit more detail.

Re: Switching g-i from DirectFB to X11 -- specific issues/comments

2010-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
In this mail some more specific issues I noticed while testing/reviewing. I'm saving the switch to console-setup for a last separate reply. On Monday 08 February 2010, Cyril Brulebois wrote: libx11 Is /usr/share/X11/locale needed? If it is, could some of its contents be excluded because