Re: Towards d-i wheezy beta 3

2012-09-10 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Daniel Hartwig (mand...@gmail.com): Is there potential to see pkgsel use apt-get instead of aptitude (following the same change in tasksel)? There is already a patch committed. I'll give this more of a test this week with some induced errors during the installation. I hesitated

#650113 : grub-pc core.img has grown too much : Workaround

2012-09-10 Thread Alexandre Rossi
Hi, This error popped up while upgrading from squeeze to wheezy. /usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: Your embedding area is unusually small. core.img won't fit in it.. /usr/sbin/grub-setup: error: embedding is not possible, but this is required when the root device is on a RAID array or LVM volume.

Re: Towards d-i wheezy beta 3

2012-09-10 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 10, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org wrote: I'd like to see it recommend the instalation of (or just install by default) system processor microcode update packages when non-free is enabled on a x86 arch (i386 or amd64) and the running processor is either Intel or AMD (easily

Processed: cleaning lvm metadata during partitioning

2012-09-10 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: # I believe that this bug is reproducible in both partman-lvm # and partman-auto-lvm (manual guided partitioning) clone 542441 -1 Bug #542441 [partman-lvm] old LVM data is not erased Bug 542441 cloned as bug 687160 reassign -1 partman-auto-lvm

Bug#687160: old LVM data is not erased

2012-09-10 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
This problem is known and documented in the partman-lvm TODO file. This is easily reproducible with partman-auto-lvm: 1) Install guided LVM 2) Clear partition table, e.g. [1] 3) Install guided LVM again I have a patch for partman-auto-lvm but I am not sure if this is reproducible with manual

Processed: user ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com, usertagging 687160, tagging 687160

2012-09-10 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: user ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com Setting user to ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com (was dmitrij.led...@ubuntu.com). usertags 687160 + origin-ubuntu quantal ubuntu-patch There were no usertags set. Usertags are now: ubuntu-patch quantal

Bug#677931: installation-report: testing image does not boot on QNAP TS-212 (armel) / stable works

2012-09-10 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Eugeniy Meshcheryakov eu...@debian.org [2012-09-08 22:36]: So I stopped the laptop's DHCP server and connected my modem to network. After I rebooted QNAP ssh worked fine, and it took around a minute to boot. Can it be that D-I requires full network configuration, with gateway, DNS, and so on

Bug#542441: marked as done (old LVM data is not erased)

2012-09-10 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:22:56 +0100 with message-id 504de9b0.5070...@canonical.com and subject line old LVM data is not erased has caused the Debian Bug report #542441, regarding old LVM data is not erased to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been

Re: Towards d-i wheezy beta 3

2012-09-10 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:07:46AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Hello, tiny wrap-up for beta 2: the release happened one week after the prospective date. Some tiny delays on various fronts added up and explain that, but the overall results don't seem too bad to me. That's why I'm going to

Re: CD1 without a network mirror isn't sufficient to install a full desktop environment

2012-09-10 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 9 September 2012 23:21, Ztatik Light ztatik.li...@gmail.com wrote: According to popcon, Xfce is more common on Debian than GNOME... And How do you figure that? http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=meta-gnome3 http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=xfce4 Just looking at popcon, GNOME is

Bug#677931: installation-report: testing image does not boot on QNAP TS-212 (armel) / stable works

2012-09-10 Thread Eugeniy Meshcheryakov
10 вересня 2012 о 14:08 +0100 Martin Michlmayr написав(-ла): Yes, it requires a complete installation. This is because a) we have to bring SSH up and b) network configuration is currently in one step, so we cannot configure a basic config and later ask for more details, such as DNS. How

Re: Towards d-i wheezy beta 3

2012-09-10 Thread Philipp Kern
On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 08:38:38PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: I'd like to see it recommend the instalation of (or just install by default) system processor microcode update packages when non-free is enabled on a x86 arch (i386 or amd64) and the running processor is either Intel

Bug#677931: installation-report: testing image does not boot on QNAP TS-212 (armel) / stable works

2012-09-10 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Eugeniy Meshcheryakov eu...@debian.org [2012-09-10 21:07]: I don't know about that, but in my case I had a DHCP server that could not be configured to supply next-server option (modem). So I had to disconnect that and configure isc-dhcp-server. Minimal required configuration does not supply

Re: Towards d-i wheezy beta 3

2012-09-10 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 10 Sep 2012, Philipp Kern wrote: On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 08:38:38PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: I'd like to see it recommend the instalation of (or just install by default) system processor microcode update packages when non-free is enabled on a x86 arch (i386 or

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta2 release bug #684265

2012-09-10 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 9, 2012, at 6:35 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Feedback for this release = We need your help to find bugs and further improve the installer, so please try it. Installer CDs, other media and everything else you will need are available at our web site[3]. I

Bug#677931: installation-report: testing image does not boot on QNAP TS-212 (armel) / stable works

2012-09-10 Thread Eugeniy Meshcheryakov
clone 677931 -1 reassing -1 localechooser found -1 2.44 retitle -1 localechooser: should use higher languagelevel with network-console tag -1 + patch thanks Hi, Currently localechooser detects network-console as a terminal without framebuffer and uses languagelevel 1 for such installs. It should

Re: CD1 without a network mirror isn't sufficient to install a full desktop environment

2012-09-10 Thread Ztatik Light
Oops, yeah -- I guess I was mistaken. I was using `gnome-common' as the basis, but I guess that's even less appropriate than something, like, say ... `gnome-panel' ... But, even *more* reason to not entirely push GNOME aside for Xfce. ;) On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Jeremy Bicha

Processed (with 1 errors): Re: Bug#677931: installation-report: testing image does not boot on QNAP TS-212 (armel) / stable works

2012-09-10 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: clone 677931 -1 Bug #677931 [installation-reports] installation-report: testing image does not boot on QNAP TS-212 (armel) / stable works Bug 677931 cloned as bug 687212 reassing -1 localechooser found -1 2.44 Bug #687212 [installation-reports]

Bug#677931: installation-report: testing image does not boot on QNAP TS-212 (armel) / stable works

2012-09-10 Thread Eugeniy Meshcheryakov
10 вересня 2012 о 20:17 +0100 Martin Michlmayr написав(-ла): * Eugeniy Meshcheryakov eu...@debian.org [2012-09-10 21:07]: I don't know about that, but in my case I had a DHCP server that could not be configured to supply next-server option (modem). So I had to disconnect that and configure

A modest proposal [Re: CD1 without a network mirror isn't sufficient to install a full desktop environment]

2012-09-10 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 10, 2012, at 11:08 AM, Karsten Merker wrote: I do not think that making the default desktop environment dependent on the type of the installation medium would be a good idea; that would cause much confusion IMHO. This was discussed years ago, but (with some trepidation) I'd like to

Processed: reassign 687212 to localechooser, found 687212 in 2.44

2012-09-10 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: reassign 687212 localechooser Bug #687212 [installation-reports] localechooser: should use higher languagelevel with network-console Bug reassigned from package 'installation-reports' to 'localechooser'. No longer marked as found in versions 2.44

Bug#687216: installation-reports: Firmware detection beyond an extended partition with Beta-2

2012-09-10 Thread Brian Potkin
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Tags: d-i A Beta-2 netinst image was put on a USB stick with cat. A second vfat partition held needed firmware. The installer does not hang as it did with Beta-1 but it displayed a message that firmware was missing. This should not have happened as

Microcode and the installer (Re: Towards d-i wheezy beta 3)

2012-09-10 Thread Jonathan Nieder
(replying to -devel and -boot only) Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2012, Philipp Kern wrote: If we do that the same should also happen for firmware-linux-nonfree. Loading the radeon KMS module without firmware available results in an unusable (text) console. (Yes, it might

Bug#677931: installation-report: testing image does not boot on QNAP TS-212 (armel) / stable works

2012-09-10 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Eugeniy Meshcheryakov eu...@debian.org [2012-09-10 23:48]: The fix was as easy as adding this preseed file and rebuilding the recovery image: d-i netcfg/no_default_route boolean true Thanks. I'm away for a week now but will look into this when I return. -- Martin Michlmayr

Re: CD1 without a network mirror isn't sufficient to install a full desktop environment

2012-09-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 5:28 AM, Ztatik Light wrote: But, even *more* reason to not entirely push GNOME aside for Xfce. ;) That hasn't happened at all, the tech media you have been reading and believing neglected to check their facts: pabs@chianamo ~/tasksel-3.13 $ grep -A3 tasksel/desktop

Re: Processed: reassign 687212 to localechooser, found 687212 in 2.44

2012-09-10 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Debian Bug Tracking System (ow...@bugs.debian.org): Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: reassign 687212 localechooser Bug #687212 [installation-reports] localechooser: should use higher languagelevel with network-console Bug reassigned from package

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta2 release bug #684265

2012-09-10 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Rick Thomas (rbtho...@pobox.com): I'll be happy to provide installation log files to anyone who wants them. I'd also be happy to look at the relevant code and see if I can figure out what's wrong, but I don't know where to look. I don't have any experience with the insides of the

Re: Towards d-i wheezy beta 3

2012-09-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 21:10 +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 08:38:38PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: I'd like to see it recommend the instalation of (or just install by default) system processor microcode update packages when non-free is enabled on a x86 arch