Thanks. I'll be around, just no longer as a DD.
Ben
On August 1, 2016 6:55:28 PM "Michael ." <keltoi...@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for all your hard work Ben, good luck in your future endeavours
Cheers.
Michael..
On 1 August 2016 at 23:21, Ben Armstrong <sy...@sanctuary
On 01/08/16 12:15 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Ben Armstrong <sy...@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca> (2016-08-01):
>> I've just done this for live-manual. However, debian-installer-launcher
>> is maintained by debian-boot, and apparently I don't have permission to
>&
On 01/08/16 09:20 AM, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Many of you may have already heard, but I retired last month. For
> details, see:
>
> http://syn.theti.ca/2016/08/01/retiring-as-a-debian-developer/
>
> In particular, please note that live-manual and
> debian-installe
On 23/01/16 05:02 AM, Fekete Zoltán László wrote:
> Sziasztok!
>
> Windows 7 x64 SP1 HUN alatt használom a Debiant az 5.0.12-es Virtualboxban. A
> debian-8.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso-t telepíteném fel, de a csatolt képernyőképen
> látszódik, hogy 22%-on windows-os vírust jelez a Nod32 x64 4.2-es
On 23/09/14 02:36 PM, Joey Hess wrote:
One way might be to decide if a given DE is fundamentally different
than the others in some way, and if not, only include one of a set
that share common characteristics. So, maybe only gnome and not
cinnamon since it's a rather near cousin (AFIACS).
Package: tasksel
Version: 3.26
Severity: normal
Please turn on display of the Cinnamon desktop task. I have tested
building Jessie live images with Cinnamon included and it seems to
already provide a usable desktop. It would be useful for testers to
be able to see Cinnamon so they can try it and
Package: tasksel
Version: 3.26
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
There is a typo in the tasks/mate-desktop file. I have attached a patch
to fix it.
diff -Nru tasksel-3.26/tasks/mate-desktop tasksel-3.26+nmu1/tasks/mate-desktop
--- tasksel-3.26/tasks/mate-desktop 2014-09-20 10:57:09.0 -0300
+++
No, you need to put the virtual package second, otherwise an arbitrary package
providing it will be selected, which makes it unpredictable.
Ben
On 06/09/14 08:56 AM, Margarita Manterola wrote:
Cinnamon includes a meta package (cinnamon-desktop-environment) that contains
everything the task should contain.
I'm attaching a diff that creates the task package with that dependency. I
hope
this can get applied before the freeze.
I made
On 10/08/13 02:12 PM, Tuxicoman wrote:
I booted on the usb key, the debian installer launch and propose to me to
install or 64 bit install. As I was pretty sure it was a 64 bit machine I
used the last option and then nothing happened except black dots drawn on top
of the screen.
It is not.
On 04/04/13 02:28 PM, ian_br...@fastmail.net wrote:
On Thu, 04 Apr 2013 12:45:55 -0300
Ben Armstrong sy...@debian.org wrote:
Just take care in future that the style of communications you used
triggered someone's wetware spam filter with a false positive.
I initially wrote up a detailed
Package: debian-installer-launcher
Version: 15
Severity: grave
If umount is prevented for any reason, such as the user opening a shell in
/lib/live/installer/target and then leaving it open, while exiting the
installer, then the cleanup of /lib/live/installer after the install will
remove the
I'm in Uploaders now, so technically I could just upload my (fully
tested) fix. I'd appreciate, however, a review pull before I do.
See:
git clone http://syn.theti.ca/git/debian-installer-launcher.git
gitweb: http://syn.theti.ca/gitweb/?p=debian-installer-launcher.git
Thanks,
Ben
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To
the
+filesystem using the old criteria. (Closes: #702335).
+ * Adding myself to Uploaders.
+
+ -- Ben Armstrong sy...@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca Sun, 24 Mar 2013 16:28:46 -0300
+
debian-installer-launcher (14) unstable; urgency=low
[ Updated translations ]
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian
Package: debian-installer-launcher
Version: 14
Followup-For: Bug #702335
I have made some small progress in narrowing down where the failure
occurs. It appears that in plugins/live, fuser is identifying a much
larger list of PIDs than it looks like was intended:
live_cleanup () {
# Stopping
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On 03/25/2013 10:02 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
Use a cgroup.
Is there a compelling reason for me to switch my approach right now,
since I have already solved it another way? If not, I will throw this
on the TODO and investigate post-release. I'm
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On 03/25/2013 10:25 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
The reason is, the kernel can make this much easier for you!
I agree I want things to be easier. :)
(That said, I don't know how you're supposed to create a simple
cgroup in a shell script. cgexec
Package: debian-installer-launcher
Version: 14
Severity: normal
Steps to reproduce:
Boot
http://live.debian.net/cdimage/release/next/i386/iso-hybrid/debian-wheezy-live-rc1-i386-lxde-desktop.iso
Download and install debian-installer-launcher 14, as this image only
contains 13 which does not
On 04/03/13 06:20 AM, Praveen A wrote:
package: live-installer
version: 40
severity: critical
I downloaded debian-wheezy-live-rc1-amd64-gnome-desktop.iso and live
installer just hangs when selecting Install Debian Sid from System
Tools menu as seen in the screenshot. It was working in
Praveen,
What this comes down to is the b4 version of the image was inadvertently
built with extra material from sid due to an error in configuration (it
was intended that only the live-* packages be included from sid). This
problem was fixed in rc1, but that meant that it used all wheezy
On 02/11/12 04:47 AM, Holger Wansing wrote:
Hi,
Luka Rahne luka.ra...@gmail.com wrote:
Package: installation-reports
Severity: important
-- Package-specific info:
Boot method: usb made with unetbootin from iso
This is suspect. There's no need to do this, as d-i images are isohybrid
and
On 02/11/12 10:26 AM, Brian Potkin wrote:
The message is out there for people writing an isohybrid to a USB device
under Linux. My impression is that more and more of them are using
cp/dd/cat. There is no message given to those who want to use the same
technique under other OSs, such as
On 03/09/12 05:41 PM, Gyuro Lehel wrote:
* What led up to the situation?
Latest update introduces direct dependency to gdm3, and loads of
gnome-related libs.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
N/A
* What was the outcome of this action?
On 25/08/12 07:29 AM, os.n...@gmx.de wrote:
please have a look at bug 655505. I reported the same or similar
bug at 11. January 2012 with the installer. Now I wanted to try out
if the bug is solved.
Sure, no problem with that. But in that case, since you did an actual
install, an
On 24/08/12 01:22 PM, os.n...@gmx.de wrote:
Package: installation-reports
I built the following live iso-hybrid from http://live-build.debian.net:
distribution: wheezy
package-lists: kde
architectures: i386
bootstrap-flavour: standard
linux-flavours: 486
bootappend: locales=de_DE.UTF-8
On 07/31/2012 05:51 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote:
Committed. Last word, right? :-)
Damn, I sure hope so. :)
Ben
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On 07/30/2012 08:19 PM, Bob Bib wrote:
please don't force the gdm3 dependency;
I have had some discussion this morning with the Debian lxde maintainers and we
agree the gdm3
dependency explosion (a fairly recent thing, looking at gdm3's Debian
changelog) renders it much
less desirable to use
On 07/31/2012 11:42 AM, Ben Armstrong wrote:
While my brief testing of lightdm indicates it is a possible candidate, but
there is also slim to
consider. We're considering the merits of each before requesting a change to
task-lxde-desktop.
We have concluded our testing and discussion
On 07/07/12 02:18 PM, Antoine Beaupré wrote:
I have tried the install method described here with the Debian Wheezy alpha1
d-i:
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/apas02.html#howto-getting-images-usb
First, this is not the official doc, but is an internal site used to
track
On 05/16/2012 06:10 AM, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
Bjørn Mork bj...@mork.no writes:
No, you don't. On a default Debian system you need to be a member of
the floppy group. From /lib/udev/rules.d/91-permissions.rules :
Yeah but you are not a member of that group by default surely?
$
On 05/15/2012 02:18 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
I am a bit scared by the catastrophic potential of
cat debian.iso /dev/sdX
for X = valuable hard disk.
I've wondered about that, too, when working on the relevant section of
the Debian Live Manual.
Maybe one should advise people to first read
Flávio,
On 02/04/12 10:46 AM, Nilton Seixas wrote:
I'm Flávio, a student at Federal University of Bahia. I found an error
when trying to make a live cd. The settings were defaults. Only typed
commands lb lb config and build. The error was as follows:
W: Failed to fetch
On 04/27/2011 10:42 AM, Pedro Larroy wrote:
I'm trying to follow:
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03.html.en
But I suspect the manual is outdated since the installer gets stuck on
the Detect and mount CD-ROM which is not detected.
This should be working or the manual
On 06/03/11 11:20 AM, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
- anything I missed?
netcfg. #614884 blocks #606268 against network-manager. We have a
working solution with the two fixes I mentioned in 614884 and my
supplied patch for NM's ifblacklist_migrate.sh filed against 606268.
The NM bug is RC but had no
On 06/03/11 12:08 PM, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
Well, having it fixed in unstable would be a good start. The problem
doesn't just affect stable so having the first time the patch is in the
archive be a stable point release isn't generally appropriate.
Where would one find the patch for #614884?
On 06/03/11 12:08 PM, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
Well, having it fixed in unstable would be a good start. The problem
doesn't just affect stable so having the first time the patch is in the
archive be a stable point release isn't generally appropriate.
The biggest barrier to this is that Matt said
On 23/02/11 10:39 PM, Matthew Palmer wrote:
I've built an i386 testing mini.iso containing a proposed fix for this bug,
and uploaded it to:
http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/614884_mini.iso
If someone can test it out with an NM package that has the appropriate
script (Ben Armstrong
On 24/02/11 04:29 PM, Ben Armstrong wrote:
+++ ./55netcfg-network-manager 2011-02-24 16:25:10.0 -0400
Argh. This file should have been mode 755 and was 644 instead, so it
could not be executed. Rebuilding my test image again with permission
fixed and hoping for the best.
Ben
On 24/02/11 05:40 PM, Ben Armstrong wrote:
On 24/02/11 04:29 PM, Ben Armstrong wrote:
+++ ./55netcfg-network-manager 2011-02-24 16:25:10.0 -0400
Argh. This file should have been mode 755 and was 644 instead, so it
could not be executed. Rebuilding my test image again with permission
Package: netcfg
Severity: important
Tags: squeeze
As discussed with Matt Palmer and Michael Biebl on irc on #debian-boot
and #debian-gnome respectively, we've agreed that netcfg should execute
a finish-install fragment when NetworkManager is present, and that we
want to target this at 6.0.1. See
Package: live-installer
Severity: wishlist
To address the use case where small media might not be able to contain all
desired packages for a live install, please support installing the contents
of the live media first, followed by a (most likely preseeded) list of
additional materials from
Package: installation-guide
Severity: normal
The Debian Eee PC team has often been asked this question by our users.
We've never found an entirely satisfactory answer until I was asked
again today, and went again to look at what my colleagues were using. I
found this guide at Ubuntu:
On 01/24/2011 06:42 AM, Matthew Palmer wrote:
What I need is people with and i386 or amd64 wireless-enabled machine and a
WPA network, who are willing to do a test install with the mini.iso I've
built. Images can be downloaded at http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/wpa/
Thanks! The Eee PC
On 01/24/2011 08:16 AM, Ben Armstrong wrote:
My initial attempt using amd64 image failed at Attempting to exchange
keys with the access point, probably because the access point has a
hidden essid
I did manage to get a net admin here to unhide the essid for me and
retest. Still no success
On 01/21/2011 11:35 AM, Christophe Schockaert wrote:
So, I followed what's here for a network install:
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch04s03.html
Following 4.3.1. Copying the files — the easy way, I assume? Please
indicate the URLs used for download of boot.img.gz and the iso. If
Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
I looked into this and determined that the attached patch solves the
issue when a WM is in use. If, for some reason, the fullscreen fails
(e.g. no WM is in use) then the window size will still be set to the
screen size.
I did a test
Package: debian-installer-launcher
Version: 5
Severity: normal
I want to do a live install from the media without disrupting my
existing network connection in the live system, so I am using preseeding
from the boot prompt to attempt to accomplish this. When performed from
the launcher, it fails.
Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal
There is a workaround for this (GNOME-specific, but may have counterparts for
other flavours). Bring up the GNOME keyboard shortcuts configuration:
System - Preferences - Keyboard Shortcuts
Scroll down and under Window Management, select Toggle
On 01/11/2011 05:58 PM, Miguel Rentes wrote:
Thank you Len, I'll grab the latest snapshot and try it :) I'll then
tell you if I succeded.
Huh. I thought I had reports from our (Debian Eee PC's) users that this
worked with beta2, so I'm not sure using the latest snapshot would make
anything
The Debian Eee PC project is interested in seeing you succeed. We have
some hints to offer with this bug ...
On 01/11/2011 05:51 AM, Miguel Rentes wrote:
I got for Christmas a new Asus 1215N and I'm trying to install Debian
testing (I'm using debian-squeeze-di-beta2-amd64-netinst.iso on a USB
On 01/11/2011 12:37 PM, Bernhard wrote:
No idea about the broadcom. My experience with broadcom has always
been awful.
Hello,
For the wireless Broadcom chipset, please have a look at
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43
You see, there is at least kernel 2.6.33 necessary for
I just built a live image with the daily installer included and noticed
it still has the bug. When I checked the cdrom-detect.postinst, it is
missing this additional line from my second patch:
-mount | grep -q 'on /cdrom' exit 0
+mount | grep -q 'on /cdrom' set_suite_and_codename exit 0
On 19/09/10 11:05 AM, Christian PERRIER wrote:
I think this is more because cdrom-detect hasn't been uploaded since
the fix was committed.
Ah, good, if that's all it is ...
Strange, though, since I examined the initrd and it definitely had the
older version of the patch in it. I'm going to
===
--- debian/changelog (revision 64584)
+++ debian/changelog (working copy)
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+cdrom-detect (1.35+nmu1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+
+ * Non-maintainer upload.
+ * Set cdrom/suite and cdrom/codename when premounted /cdrom found.
+
+ -- Ben Armstrong sy...@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca Thu
/changelog (working copy)
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+cdrom-detect (1.35+nmu1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+
+ * Non-maintainer upload.
+ * Set cdrom/suite and cdrom/codename when premounted /cdrom found.
+
+ -- Ben Armstrong sy...@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:43:10 -0300
+
cdrom-detect (1.35) UNRELEASED
I had the same problem as Mark using the daily installer with the gui
interface. I don't think the cdebconf errors are fatal, as the install
seems to proceed after that point, but then it subsequently fails at the
same point as it did for him with a similar dialog box. The error near
the end
Package: tasksel
Version: 2.81
Severity: normal
Calling tasksel from the command-line (as live-helper does in chroot_tasks)
instead of via d-i, if you try to install lxde-desktop, it will include gnome.
While not a serious problem for most users, it is very serious for debian-live,
since lxde is
Will the Squeeze installer support WPA?
For some time, Glenn Saberton's patches have been available to support
WPA, but discussing this with Otavio on irc, he reminded me that we need
changes not only to netcfg, but also wpasupplicant. Here's the last
message I could find dealing with the
On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 13:08 +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
game-foo.udeb maybe ?
Or we could use a special XC-Game-Udeb header for this exact purpose ?
Pardon me if this question is totally naive, but why do we keep
reinventing new ways to classify things when we already have debtags?
Ben
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On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 14:39 +0200, Eddy Petrişor wrote:
On 2/17/06, Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Pardon me if this question is totally naive, but why do we keep
reinventing new ways to classify things when we already have debtags?
Because we don't have debtags in D-I ;-) (i.e
On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 14:48 +0200, Eddy Petrişor wrote:
udeb definition, and there is no need for D-I to have such a huge
sledge hammer in order to break the tiny (vaporware) issue of game
loading
Indulge me another moment, and then I'll shut up. Aren't we just
talking about one package
On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 15:36 +0200, Eddy Petrişor wrote:
The sledgehammer is debtags itself, not the actual tag; no user will
need without D-I an udeb (at least not one thatknows what he's doing
;-), only the installer will use udebs
I have come around to seeing that. So the rest of my musing
On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 16:44 +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
Ben, ...
I am unfamiliar with debtags, can you give us a quick example of how such a
tag looks like, and how it could be used to denote a game ?
Something like :
X-DebTag: d-i-game ?
Something like:
Tag: game::arcade,
Please CC me on replies, as I am not on this list.
To what extent is it a goal to make the installation steps
rerunnable?
I have noted while testing the woody boot floppies that some
steps that intuitively one would not think need repeating
actually do. Namely, the install OS drivers step.
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