Bug#545018: fails to setup squeeze system

reassign 545018 libsepol1 2.0.37-1 retitle 545018 libsepol1: causes debootstrap to fail severity 545018 serious thanks This is unlikely to be a bug in debootstrap itself, but more likely to be temporary breakage in the testing distribution. I can reproduce the error and the installation fails at:

Bug#544493: Should be fixed in new kernel

On Wednesday 02 September 2009, Karl Schmidt wrote: > I'm wondering if there is an update for the installer with the fixed > kernel 2.6.26-18? The update is currently in proposed-updates and will be officially available with the next stable point release, which I expect before the end of the nex

Re: [D-I Manual] New version uploaded / String freeze ended

On Sunday 16 August 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > This seems as good a time as any to get a first version of the > Installation Guide for Squeeze into the archive (the last upload was > still targeted at Lenny). The new version has been uploaded with 9 languages fully translated and 7 no

Bug#541436: Bug541436: clock-setup: should not change hardware clock if the system time is not updated

On Tuesday 01 September 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > And as the default value was UTC in that file, that immediately > explains the reported behavior (with Lenny images). Except that it does not as we _did_ change the configuration to LOCAL before running hwclock... Only scenario in which it

Bug#541436: Bug541436: clock-setup: should not change hardware clock if the system time is not updated

On Tuesday 01 September 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > I hope that my changes will have made setting the clock more reliable > now. I cannot be 100% sure as I only tested it in an emulator, not on > real hardware. Right, the reason for the confusion is that /etc/adjtime _was_ present a

Bug#541436: Bug541436: clock-setup: should not change hardware clock if the system time is not updated

tags 541436 pending thanks My analysis was not entirely correct (or actually quite wrong in some respects). The timezone in the D-I environment was not the issue as the correct timezone _is_ known in the chroot where we run hwclock. So as long as the system time in the D-I environment is set to

Bug#543149: console-setup: perl errors during installation

On Monday 31 August 2009, Yann Dirson wrote: > This seems to be similar to #480533, which was apparently fixed by > moving more stuff to perl-base. I very much doubt it is related as the version of perl that fixed #480533 is ancient (included in stable). So if that change had fixed it, then I wo

Re: Bug#542113: RM: atari-bootstrap -- RoRA; m68k only

tags 542113 - moreinfo + confirmed thanks On Monday 31 August 2009, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > * Adam D. Barratt [090817 23:39]: > > Please remove atari-bootstrap from unstable. It only produces binary > > packages for m68k so is redundant now that the architecture is no > > longer in un

[D-I Manual] String freeze / Last call to update translations

On Sunday 16 August 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > For this release, translators are requested to update their > translations. The deadline is in two weeks: *** Sunday August 30 ***. Which leaves *only this weekend* for those who'd like their translation to be up-to-date for this rele

Re: diff is now diffutils

Hi Santiago, On Friday 28 August 2009, Santiago Vila wrote: > The "diff" binary package has been renamed "diffutils". The diff > package is now dummy and depends on diffutils, so nothing should break > because of this change. However, you might want to adjust debootstrap > and similar tools so tha

Bug#511287: debian-installer: Should have a task for installing KDE or XFCE instead of Gnome

On Thursday 27 August 2009, Rick Thomas wrote: > Why not a step in the installer menu (perhaps immediately prior to > tasksel) -- only displayed at "expert" priority -- that gives you a > selection list of available desktops -- pick one or more? That's not exactly a new thought. But if you're goin

Bug#543256: tasksel maintainer's perspective

On Wednesday 26 August 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > I also worry what the change will mean for the total size of the > various desktop installs. Is the 3GB check still enough? Somehow I > doubt it. Installing GNOME desktop currently requires 3.2GB. That's including the package cache. A

Bug#543256: Make installing recommends optional

tags 543256 pending thanks On Sunday 23 August 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > Attached patches (untested, but straightforward) for three components: > - base-installer, where the question will be asked and which will > configure apt accordingly; this means the base system installation >

Re: Our stable release

On Wednesday 29 July 2009, J.A. Bezemer wrote: > We haven't had a properly installable stable release for a full month > now, #536312. Applies to both CD/DVD and network installs. I don't see > much activity to resolve this. Are we so busy with squeeze and sid, > that we don't care about lenny any

Re: problem retrieving packages with debootstrap.

On Thursday 27 August 2009, Guillaume Yziquel wrote: > I'm not sure where to ask, so please redirect me to the appropriate > mailing list if necessary. > > I'm currently trying to use pbuilder to package an OCaml binding to the > R interpreter API. > > However, I've repreatedly been unable to use d

Bug#511287: debian-installer: Should have a task for installing KDE or XFCE instead of Gnome

On Thursday 27 August 2009, Joey Hess wrote: > I'm very suprised to see syslinux menus being used to offer a choice > amoung desktop environments. It was discussed extensively when the functionality was implemented. Most people were happy to at last have the option in *some* form, even though fa

Manual is in string freeze!

> Rev 60476 - cjwatson (2 file(s) modified) > Note that partman-auto/init_automatically_partition is only honoured if > partman-auto/method is not set. I'm reverting this commit as we're currently in a string freeze, as announced on the list. Will reapply after release. Cheers, FJP -- To UN

Bug#543819: please include security updates in stable installations

tags 543819 wontfix thanks On Thursday 27 August 2009, Hannes von Haugwitz wrote: > when selecting the current stable release as SUITE the resulting system > should contain the security updates for the basic system and the > sources.list should contain the sources for the security repository. I'm

Bug#543256: tasksel maintainer's perspective

On Thursday 27 August 2009, Joey Hess wrote: > So, that change was made in tasksel three months ago, near to the start > what was, AFAIK at the time, a 1.5 year release cycle. This was done in > full knowledge that enabling recommends would take some time to sort So why did you not inform the d-cd

Bug#543256: Make installing recommends optional

On Wednesday 26 August 2009, Don Wright wrote: > If there are few enough packages needing an "Almost-Always-Depends:" > field, could this be handled by a dummy package in the Depends: list? > Something like "Depends: busybox-dummy | busybox" where busybox-dummy > would not normally be available (an

Bug#543256: tasksel maintainer's perspective

(debian-cd added in CC with full quote of original mail) On Tuesday 25 August 2009, Joey Hess wrote: > A problem with providing some global way of turning off recommends by > default in d-i is that tasks are now being maintained with the implicit > and explicit assumption that recommends are insta

Bug#543256: Make installing recommends optional

On Wednesday 26 August 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > On Wednesday 26 August 2009, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > Shouldn't they actually be Depends if they are really required for a > > working system? I don't see why you want to special case some > > packages. > >

Bug#543256: Make installing recommends optional

On Wednesday 26 August 2009, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > Shouldn't they actually be Depends if they are really required for a > working system? I don't see why you want to special case some packages. You'd have to take that up with the maintainers of the packages. But for the two cases I mentioned

Bug#541831: installation-reports: Sunfire T2000 success (one minor issue)

On Monday 17 August 2009, Stephen Gran wrote: > > It sounds like the "rsc console" is something different, which could > > explain what you saw. Maybe we need special handling for this case. > > The rsc is much like an iLo or alom. It's just another management > interface that offers a 'console' i

Re: planning directfb 1.4 transition

On Saturday 22 August 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > I've verified that both issues are not present in a daily built image > using current libraries from unstable. I'll file a bug against the > experimental version of directfb later. Filed as: http://bugs.debian.org/543590 -- To

Re: Spellchecking priorities [Was: Re: Override changes standard -> optional]

On Tuesday 25 August 2009, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Frans Pop (elen...@planet.nl): > > On Tuesday 25 August 2009, Agustin Martin wrote: > > > I am about to ask dictionaries-common priority be changed to > > > optional in the override file. Also, ispell maintai

Re: Spellchecking priorities [Was: Re: Override changes standard -> optional]

On Tuesday 25 August 2009, Agustin Martin wrote: > I am about to ask dictionaries-common priority be changed to optional > in the override file. Also, ispell maintainer has also uploaded ispell, > iamerican and ibritish with optional priority (not yet changed in the > override file). > > Are those

Bug#498143: Please detect non-ISO block devices masquerading as Debian CDs

tags 498143 pending thanks On Tuesday 25 August 2009, Chris Lamb wrote: > To frame my thoughts here, this is to support d-i when invoked from > Debian Live USB sticks - as Debian Live knows the target media when > building the USB image, "try-usb=true" is appended to all generated > "usb with d-i"

Bug#543256: Make installing recommends optional

On Sunday 23 August 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > I think that supporting this option is well within the normal scope of > D-I, which is very much about flexibility where possible. Ah, I wondered what had happened to this mail. I was in the middle of adding attachments and suddenly it was gone

Bug#543256: Make installing recommends optional

nstead of some components behaving one way and some the other. Cheers, FJP commit f5f7b6c5313984bc5b7b700a302aa4f48f6f4b22 Author: Frans Pop Date: Sun Aug 23 23:20:01 2009 +0200 Ask whether to install recommended packages Question is asked at medium priority and defaults to insta

Bug#543256: Make installing recommends optional

. [2] This needs to be documented. commit f5f7b6c5313984bc5b7b700a302aa4f48f6f4b22 Author: Frans Pop Date: Sun Aug 23 23:20:01 2009 +0200 Ask whether to install recommended packages Question is asked at medium priority and defaults to installing them. APT in the target system is configured

Re: Keymap problems in D-I (was: Re: Bugs in the latest Debian Sid installer)

On Sunday 23 August 2009, Christian Perrier wrote: > We really need to find a better way to interact BTW, what happened to "be liberal in what you accept"? Do you know what I do when somebody hints that my work may not have been 100% perfect? I first consider whether they have a point or not

Re: Keymap problems in D-I (was: Re: Bugs in the latest Debian Sid installer)

On Sunday 23 August 2009, I wrote: > No. I do. I just don't - at least in my free time; on a paid job I'm > slightly more - care to allow too much for people with paper-thin > skins. s/more/more restrained/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsu

Re: Keymap problems in D-I (was: Re: Bugs in the latest Debian Sid installer)

On Sunday 23 August 2009, Christian Perrier wrote: > - at the time I wrote this, I knew I couldn't investigate things > further, even obvious ones How much work is: boot installer from netinst; proceed until CD has been scanned alt+F2 + enter find /cdrom -name console-setup* ? 5 minutes, top. >

Re: Keymap problems in D-I (was: Re: Bugs in the latest Debian Sid installer)

On Sunday 23 August 2009, Christian Perrier wrote: > In this very specific example, I don't really see the value added by > the somewhat sarcastic remark *even* if I could have deserved it. Basically, if you don't want such remarks from me, then don't presume I will solve your problems for you (w

Bug#543256: Make installing recommends optional

On Sunday 23 August 2009, you wrote: > > Please note that D-I does *not* install Recommends when it installs > > tasks. However, of course, the installed system has the default > > setting of Recommends being installed. > > Eh, yes it does. Joey changed that some time ago. > > tasksel (2.79) unstab

Bug#543256: Make installing recommends optional

On Sunday 23 August 2009, Christian Perrier wrote: > There is *already* such an option. Eh, no. > Actually, this is a preseedable parameter that's documented in > http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/apbs04.html#preseed-pkgsel That parameter has absolutely NO effect on tasksel. Read the d

Re: Keymap problems in D-I (was: Re: Bugs in the latest Debian Sid installer)

On Sunday 23 August 2009, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Frans Pop (elen...@planet.nl): > > > I guess this is because the "apt-install console-setup" is in > > > kbd-chooser's post-base-installer, at a moment where APT sources > > > are not availab

Re: Keymap problems in D-I (was: Re: Bugs in the latest Debian Sid installer)

On Sunday 23 August 2009, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Frans Pop (elen...@planet.nl): > > On Sunday 23 August 2009, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > Actually, when using a netinst image, console-setup is *not* > > > installed on the target system, which explains

Re: Keymap problems in D-I (was: Re: Bugs in the latest Debian Sid installer)

On Sunday 23 August 2009, Christian Perrier wrote: > Actually, when using a netinst image, console-setup is *not* installed > on the target system, which explains why the keymap is not > configured. I think that Frans will verey quickly suggest the right > explanation Isn't that obvious? Fixed in

Re: udev 146 in experimental

On Saturday 22 August 2009, Marco d'Itri wrote: > I uploaded to experimental[1] udev 146, considering the major changes I > recommend extended testing by anybody who can, especially d-i > developers. I've done a quick basic installation test on i386 (in VirtualBox). Nothing fancy. I've not seen a

Bug#543149: console-setup: perl errors during installation

Package: console-setup Version:1.44 During an installation from D-I I noticed the following in the syslog: in-target: Setting up console-setup (1.44) ... debconf: Obsolete command TITLE Configuring console-setup called in-target: Use of uninitialized value $list in pattern match (m//) at /usr/sh

Re: planning directfb 1.4 transition

On Saturday 22 August 2009, Fathi Boudra wrote: > This is an informative mail. I have uploaded DirectFB 1.4 to > experimental. At some point, the transition could be started (after > coordination with the related maintainers). > > I didn't tried myself to rebuild affected packages yet. I've built

Bug#511287: debian-installer: Should have a task for installing KDE or XFCE instead of Gnome

On Saturday 22 August 2009, Fathi Boudra wrote: > We should revisit Joey's argument. Personally, I agree with you. But I do feel the choice should only be offered if it is done correctly. And that means someone will need to invest a significant amount of time to implement it. Here are my though

Re: [D-I Manual] String freeze / Call to update translations

On Sunday 16 August 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > This seems as good a time as any to get a first version of the > Installation Guide for Squeeze into the archive (the last upload was > still targeted at Lenny). > > For this release, translators are requested to update their >

Re: Bug#541193: marked as done (amd64 / testing daily build installer/kernel hangs after "exec busybox init")

> busybox (1:1.14.2-2) unstable; urgency=low > . >* Fix handling of missing devices in init. (closes: #541115) Thanks Bastian, daily s390 images work correctly again (and I assume the other arches as well). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject o

Bug#511287: debian-installer: Should have a task for installing KDE or XFCE instead of Gnome

We may not have a task ATM, but the user *can* choose which desktop to install from the installer's boot menu (for i386/amd64). See: http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/i386/ch06s03.html.en#di-install-software Some CD images (businesscard, netinst and DVD) also allow selection of the desi

Re: debootstrap .tar.gz

On Thursday 20 August 2009, Ryan Hughes wrote: > Hi. I just downloaded the debootstrap .tar.gz file from this url: > > http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/debootstrap/debootstrap_1.0 >.10lenny1.tar.gz > > Apparently, it is out of sync with what the .deb has. Fortunately, I > had access to

Bug#498143: Please detect non-ISO block devices masquerading as Debian CDs

On Thursday 20 August 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > How are users supposed to know about this option? > > I don't know how often this trick is needed, but I doubt users who need > it will be able to find it. It would be much nicer if we could somehow > display a dialog offerin

Bug#498143: Please detect non-ISO block devices masquerading as Debian CDs

On Wednesday 19 August 2009, Chris Lamb wrote: > Updated patch series attached. The previous one did not apply anymore. I have one fairly big reservation against this patch: > +Template: cdrom-detect/try-usb > +Type: boolean > +Description: for internal use only > + Preseed this to true to try to

Bug#539586: [s390] partman-base: fails ugly when ext4 is selected

On Monday 03 August 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > I think this is probably because libparted still hasn't been built for > s390, which means D-I is using a libparted that does not have support > for ext4. s390 now works correctly with ext4. I'm leaving this BR open as it wou

Bug#476184: os-prober: Mounted partitions after running update-grub

On Tuesday 18 August 2009, Felix Zielcke wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 18.08.2009, 06:27 -0300 schrieb Otavio Salvador: > > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Felix Zielcke wrote: > > > Any chance that the Ubuntu patch gets included in Debian's > > > os-prober? On Launchpad there aren't any reports open

Re: [D-I Manual] String freeze / Call to update translations

Oops. The subject was of course incorrect: this is _not_ a stable update. On Sunday 16 August 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > This seems as good a time as any to get a first version of the > Installation Guide for Squeeze into the archive (the last upload was > still targeted at Lenny). >

[D-I Manual] Stable update - String freeze / Call to update translations

This seems as good a time as any to get a first version of the Installation Guide for Squeeze into the archive (the last upload was still targeted at Lenny). For this release, translators are requested to update their translations. The deadline is in two weeks: *** Sunday August 30 ***. As ther

Bug#541831: installation-reports: Sunfire T2000 success (one minor issue)

reassign 541831 finish-install 2.22 thanks On Sunday 16 August 2009, Stephen Gran wrote: > Comments/Problems: > The only complaint from the install is that after the install was > completed and the machine rebooted, there was no getty listening on > ttyS0. Was the installation itself done over tt

Re: d-i git repo: sample conversion

On Thursday 13 August 2009, Joey Hess wrote: > We discussed switching to git at DebConf, and came up with a compromise > plan that seemed reasonable to all in attendance[1]: Split each d-i > package into its own git repository[2], but leave the manual[3] and > packages/po[4] in svn. Investigate usi

Bug#541725: eglibc: libc6-udeb is empty causing Debian installs to fail

Package: eglibc Version: 2.9-24 Severity: serious Tags: d-i Justification: Breaks Debian Installer In the latest upload the udebs for all architectures are empty. This breaks installations at the partitioning stage and later as symbols cannot be found: md-devices: mdadm: relocation error: mdadm: s

Re: [s390] libc.so.6 reloction errors

On Saturday 15 August 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > Does this mean libc6-udeb is broken on s390? It's broken on all arches as the udebs are completely empty. Have filed a BR. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

[s390] libc.so.6 reloction errors

When running a custom built image (with old version of busybox), I get the following errors during partman: md-devices: mdadm: relocation error: mdadm: symbol nftw64, version GLIBC_2.3.3 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference md-devices: mdadm: relocation error: mdadm: symbol nf

Re: Bug#509178: installation-reports: sparc fails to boot 2.6.26: Memory Address not Aligned

First of all, you are replying to a thread concerning an ancient and already closed bug report. This is very confusing (as nobody will have the old mails anymore, so we're missing the context) and does not help in getting responses. Please file a _new_ installation report yourself, including co

Bug#399840: Do we want an ssh-server task?

On Thursday 13 August 2009, Philip Hands wrote: > Any suggestions for ways to protect the clueless from themselves? Password strength checking probably. There are open wishlist BRs against user-setup for that, but AFAIK so far nobody has made the effort to implement all the required changes.

Re: cdebconf-gtk-udeb: G-I no longer working with serial mice

On Thursday 13 August 2009, Uwe Bugla wrote: > a. as default installation I always use expert install > b. the NTP question I always answer with "Yes". The installer tells me > that my local time zone is "Europe / Berlin" > c. The UTC question I always answer with no, without having some crap > lik

Re: cdebconf-gtk-udeb: G-I no longer working with serial mice

On Thursday 13 August 2009, Christian Perrier wrote: > That question is asked, in default installs, only when a Windows > system is detected on the machine. Otherwise, it is not asked, except > in expert installs (because setting the BIOS clock to UTC makes sense > for any system but Windows). No,

Re: Problem with recent netinst images on amd64

On Thursday 13 August 2009, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > I'm having trouble with booting today's amd64 netinst image: it hangs > already after partition detection, when booting the kernel, before the > Debian installer starts. You can find a photograph on >

Bug#541193: amd64 / testing daily build installer/kernel hangs after "exec busybox init"

reassign 541193 busybox forcemerge 541115 541193 thanks On Wednesday 12 August 2009, Joaquín Martínez wrote: > Comments/Problems: > After the "exec busybox init" step (with BOOT_DEBUG=3) > the machine hangs. > > Manually executing command from /sbin/init in last busybox debug > point before exec b

Re: cdebconf-gtk-udeb: G-I no longer working with serial mice

On Tuesday 11 August 2009, Christian Perrier wrote: > Preferrably, yes. I still, however, wonder if anyone in the D-I team > ever tested G-I with a serial mice. Yes, it has been tested. But using a serial mouse may require specific boot parameters. See the installation guide. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Bug#541112: kde cd does not install kde, nor a working graphical environment.

On Tuesday 11 August 2009, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 09:33:15PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > Known issue. See http://bugs.debian.org/536312. > I couldn't find this on the errata list, or any other obvious > place I should look at. Oh, that's just bec

Bug#541115: busybox: No longer creates tty[1-4] devices on s390

It looks like busybox also causes a failure on i386. If I boot a daily mini.iso, the boot hangs when executing the last line from /sbin/init: exec /usr/sbin/chroot . /bin/busybox init /dev/console 2>&1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Bug#541112: kde cd does not install kde, nor a working graphical environment.

reassign 541112 ftp.debian.org forcemerge 536312 541112 thanks On Tuesday 11 August 2009, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > I've used the 5.0.2 KDE i386 install image > (debian-cd/5.0.2/i386/iso-cd/debian-502-i386-kde-CD-1.iso) > > After a reboot, kdm started and asked for a login/pass. I could > log in, but

Bug#541115: busybox: No longer creates tty[1-4] devices on s390

Package: busybox Severity: serious Version: 1:1.14.2-1 Tags: d-i On s390 the installer fails to boot with: can't open /dev/tty2: No such file or directory can't open /dev/tty3: No such file or directory can't open /dev/tty4: No such file or directory I'm not sure how busybox can be responsible fo

Re: broken d-i doc links

On Monday 10 August 2009, Simon Paillard wrote: > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 05:27:00PM +0200, helix84 wrote: > > At http://d-i.debian.org/l10n-stats/ > > under Resources > > "Debian Installer i18n documentation (HTML version, PDF version, TXT > > version)" link to d-i.debian.org but the docs are stil

Re: Install from ISO for Xen guest

On Friday 07 August 2009, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 07:39 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > I will follow up shortly with[...]a patch to the nightly cron jobs > > which enables this variant for the i386+amd64+powerpc multiarch > > netinst image. > > Here it is. Committed. > Is this

Re: Install from ISO for Xen guest

On Friday 07 August 2009, Ian Campbell wrote: > I will follow up shortly with a short series of patches which > introduces image "variants" to debian-cd and adds the Xen variant as an > option for i386 and amd64 and a patch to the nightly cron jobs which > enables this variant for the i386+amd64+po

Bug#399840: Do we want an ssh-server task?

On Sunday 09 August 2009, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 01:14:52PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > On Wednesday 29 July 2009, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > An interesting proposal that Colin made was to converge towards a > > > task named "Login se

Re: Install from ISO for Xen guest

On Friday 07 August 2009, Ian Campbell wrote: > diff --git a/installer/build/boot/x86/xen/xm-debian.cfg > b/installer/build/boot/x86/xen/xm-debian.cfg index d1d78e7..7c3ff51 > 100644 > --- a/installer/build/boot/x86/xen/xm-debian.cfg > +++ b/installer/build/boot/x86/xen/xm-debian.cfg The patch for

Re: Install from ISO for Xen guest

On Friday 07 August 2009, Ian Campbell wrote: > Below is a patch for debian-installer to build cdrom-xen variants for > i386 and amd64. If nobody objects I would like to commit this to the > d-i repository. I'd like to test it first. The fan of my notebook needs replacing, so that may take a few

Re: UUID in fstab for device mapper devices?

On Friday 07 August 2009, Max Vozeler wrote: > Since then, we concluded that it is preferable to go back to plain > /dev/mapper/ paths for LVM LVs because those already provide stable > device naming (and are more descriptive). I'd very much prefer that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-

Re: [PATCH 2/4] easy-build.sh: use getopts instead of rolling our own option parsing.

On Friday 07 August 2009, Ian Campbell wrote: >  # Set configuration file to be used for the build and source it > -export CF=CONF.sh > +export CF=./CONF.sh I've already committed that (for all scripts that set/source it). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Re: [PATCH 3/4] Add support for producing disks with (optional) extra variants.

On Friday 07 August 2009, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 16:13 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > On Friday 07 August 2009, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > This patch just adds the generic support code: > > >* CONF.sh: Add $(VARIANTS) configuration variabl

Re: [PATCH 3/4] Add support for producing disks with (optional) extra variants.

On Friday 07 August 2009, Ian Campbell wrote: > This patch just adds the generic support code: >    * CONF.sh:   Add $(VARIANTS) configuration variable. >    * eash-build.sh: Add command line parameter to enable variants. >    * Makefile:  Define VARIANT_xxx when preprocessing p

Re: [PATCH 3/4] Add support for producing disks with (optional) extra variants.

(No need to CC me on replies.) On Friday 07 August 2009, Ian Campbell wrote: >  show_usage() { > -   echo "Usage: $(basename $0) [-d gnome|kde|lxde|xfce|light|all] > BC|NETINST|CD|DVD [ ...]" > +   echo "Usage: $(basename $0) [-d gnome|kde|lxde|xfce|light|all] [-v > VARIANTS] BC|NETINST|

Re: [PATCH 2/4] easy-build.sh: use getopts instead of rolling our own option parsing.

On Friday 07 August 2009, Ian Campbell wrote: > +while getopts d:h OPT ; do Is getopts also supported in dash? > +   case $OPT in > +       d) > +   case $OPTARG in > +   # Note: "gnome" is the special gnome task, not the generic > task > +       gnome

Re: [PATCH 1/4] boot-x86: move creation of install.bat out of extra_image

On Friday 07 August 2009, Ian Campbell wrote: > There is currently only a single caller but soon I will be adding > another which does not want install.bat created. > --- > tools/boot/squeeze/boot-x86 |5 ++--- > 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/tools/boot/sque

Re: Spam cleaning for August 2004

On Thursday 06 August 2009, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Don Wright (wdi...@wricomp.net): > > Today I see this storm is still present. Does it need additional > > follow up with listmasters or should it be marked manually like the > > rest? > > I'd say "mark it manually". Apparently, that wil

Bug#540031:

On Wednesday 05 August 2009, Drew Kropp wrote: > Comments/Problems: Twice the install froze on "retrieving file 753 of > 753 25% Please send the /var/log/syslog from the installation after the freeze (assuming you can still switch to a debug console on VT2 or VT3). Make sure you gzip the syslog b

Bug#539933: win32-loader.ini filled with -en

# Not CCing Robert as he still does not want to receive mail from me found 539933 20070308etch5 20090123lenny1 20090123lenny3 tags 539933 pending thanks On Tuesday 04 August 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > On Tuesday 04 August 2009, Robert Millan wrote: > > The file is filled with literal &quo

Bug#539933: win32-loader.ini filled with -en

On Tuesday 04 August 2009, Robert Millan wrote: > The file is filled with literal "-en" strings. I suppose this is part > of the jihad against shell features that has been going on lately, > though I wasn't aware those are considered bashisms. > > Anyway. Attaching a patch that fixes the problem

Bug#539908: partman: libparted says "File system alias linux-swap(new) is deprecated"

Package: partman-base Version: 132 During an installation I get a number of lines like: main-menu[756]: (process:5108): [0] ../../libparted/filesys.c:147 (ped_file_system_type_get): File system alias linux-swap(new) is deprecated Looks like this will require updates in a number of partman comp

Bug#539744: chroot to lenny /target in debootstrap segfaults

On Tuesday 04 August 2009, you wrote: > Frans Pop wrote: > > This oneliner change would fix the issue as well: > > +++ b/packages/base-installer/debian/bootstrap-base.postinst > > @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ install_base_system () { > > # so make a

Bug#539744: chroot to lenny /target in debootstrap segfaults

reassign 539744 base-installer tags 539744 pending thanks On Tuesday 04 August 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > One, IMO fairly logical, solution to this could be to not let partman > create /etc/fstab *in* /target, but instead create it somewhere in the > the D-I environment and then l

Bug#539744: chroot to lenny /target in debootstrap segfaults

On Tuesday 04 August 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > And yes, replacing the UUIDs in the fstab by regular devices gets rid > of the segfault. Still weird that an empty mtab avoids it though. > > Colin, any thoughts (given that you implemented the switch to UUID)? The problem is essentially

Bug#539744: chroot to lenny /target in debootstrap segfaults

On Tuesday 04 August 2009, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > The two traces are very similar indeed. What I could spot: > * /target vs. /target/ on the command line. That's just from auto-completion. Not relevant. > * The new chroot binary reads 4 bytes from urandom and does an extra >mprotect before

Bug#539744: chroot to lenny /target in debootstrap segfaults

On Monday 03 August 2009, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > I can't see anything strange in it now, but it would be interesting to > know whether it depends on the contents of /target/etc/mtab (what if > you delete it before the mount?). Having an strace of a second > (successful) run might also provide a cl

Bug#539744: chroot to lenny /target in debootstrap segfaults

retitle 539744 chroot to lenny /target in debootstrap segfaults severity 539744 important thanks On Monday 03 August 2009, Winfried Muench wrote: > for the first installation i used the stable staging from the debian > miror. When I use the testing stage then the "mount /proc error" will > not ap

Bug#539744: installation-reports

reassign 539744 debootstrap reassign 532785 debootstrap forcemerge 539744 532785 thanks On Monday 03 August 2009, Winfried Muench wrote: > here is the syslog please: Thanks. I can't tell much more from that than that there was a segmentation fault during debootstrap. But why mount fails and whe

Bug#539586: [s390] partman-base: fails ugly when ext4 is selected

BTW, here's the "error dialog" you get in such a situation. <>

Bug#539586: [s390] partman-base: fails ugly when ext4 is selected

On Monday 03 August 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > The failure mode is rather ugly though with libparted apparently > returning something that partman isn't able to handle correctly and the > pipe to parted-server dying as a result. The last entry in /var/log/partman is: parted_ser

Bug#539586: [s390] partman-base: fails ugly when ext4 is selected

severity 539586 normal retitle 539586 [s390] partman-base: fails ugly when ext4 is selected thanks On Sunday 02 August 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > I just tried an install on s390 and after I chose ext4 as partition I > got a dialog containing only "? / ?" (or something clos

Bug#539744: installation-reports

user debian-boot@lists.debian.org usertags 539744 s390 thanks Thank you for your report. On Monday 03 August 2009, Winfried Muench wrote: > Install base system:[E] Error: "chroot /target mount -t proc proc > /proc" would not work, the Command on the Shell works fine, retry the > step after se

Bug#539616: debootstrap failed if we include php5

On Sunday 02 August 2009, hina wrote: > Can you help me ? Im searching for 10 days, to find one way to have a > virtual with debian, and SSH ... Many thanks for your help You should really ask such questions on the debian-user mailing list. This has nothing to do with debootstrap and is probably

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