Cannot enter dm-crypt passphrases

2011-10-23 Thread Erich Beyer
Hey, During system boot, my keyboard doesn't work, and I cannot enter the password for my encrypted disks. I am able to use my keyboard in the installer, bios, and bootloader. I have tried two USB keyboards. Any solution ideas? I have read that the password prompt will timeout. This would work

Bug#646284: How to fix a broken system

2011-10-23 Thread Jörgen tegner
Hi, can you write down the steps required to get back to a bootable system? Thanks, Jörgen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Bug#646284: How to fix a broken system

2011-10-23 Thread Michael Tokarev
Um. I almost missed this mail since it is dated 2 months ago... On 12.08.2011 10:31, Jörgen tegner wrote: Hi, can you write down the steps required to get back to a bootable system? You'll have to boot from a cd-rom or using other alternative way, eg, using an installation CD-rom, or some

Dropping wpasupplicant from sparc netboot image

2011-10-23 Thread Jurij Smakov
Hello, As we discovered recently, the daily sparc netboot image exceeds 10MB limit imposed by OpenBoot, so it fails to boot. I've poked at it a bit, and it seems that one of the most straightforward ways to make room is to drop wpasupplicant and all its dependencies (libcrypto, crypto kernel

Re: Dropping wpasupplicant from sparc netboot image

2011-10-23 Thread Jurij Smakov
[correct the debian-sparc address] On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 01:37:06PM +0100, Jurij Smakov wrote: Hello, As we discovered recently, the daily sparc netboot image exceeds 10MB limit imposed by OpenBoot, so it fails to boot. I've poked at it a bit, and it seems that one of the most

Proposal: convert all udebs to xz compression

2011-10-23 Thread Philipp Kern
Hi there, last week I played around with xz compression and evaluated how d-i could benefit from it. It turns out that we could go from a total udeb size (on amd64) of 50 MB to 40 MB just by applying xz -0e compression instead of the default gzip. To achieve that you need UNXZ support in

Bug#645997: no space on device when installing kernel (lvm+btrfs)

2011-10-23 Thread Miguel Figueiredo
Hi, i have installed a virtual machine using a daily businesscard image where i selected lvm (no encription) with btrfs and when it got to the part where kernel was about to installed it failed with the same error, no space left on device although the mounted filesystems are not full. --

Bug#646306: installation-reports: Corrupted display in wheezy with Asus 1215b

2011-10-23 Thread Touko Korpela
I suspect this may be missing video firmware releated. Screen becomes corrupted soon after encryption password is given when screen mode should switch. I think non-free firmware is required for non-vga modes. I have firmware packages installed in old system and it works fine. Installer didn't warn

Debian installer build: failed or old builds

2011-10-23 Thread Daily build aggregator
Debian installer build overview --- Failed or old builds: * FAILED BUILD: armel Oct 23 06:17 buildd@ancina build_iop32x_network-console_ss4000e http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/armel/daily/build_iop32x_network-console_ss4000e.log * FAILED BUILD: