Bug#686502: pxz produces archives broken for busybox's unxz

2012-12-27 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Abou Al Montacir wrote: Hover, I assume we can save this extra code as soon as we don't loose data. That's fine with me. All you'd need to do is error out if there is anything after the first stream. That would make it a conformant decoder and prevent silent data loss, though it would mean

Bug#686502: pxz produces archives broken for busybox's unxz

2012-12-24 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Abou Al Montacir wrote: On Sat, 2012-12-22 at 10:21 -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote: What happens if a stream ends at a buffer boundary, followed by padding? Or if padding doesn't fit in the buffer, for that matter? [...] Please find attached new debdiff with fix of above mentioned issues

Bug#686502: pxz produces archives broken for busybox's unxz

2012-12-22 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Abou Al Montacir wrote: +--- busybox-1.20.0~/archival/libarchive/decompress_unxz.c2012-12-20 21:51:04.0 +0100 busybox-1.20.0/archival/libarchive/decompress_unxz.c 2012-12-20 21:49:11.0 +0100 +@@ -87,7 +87,17 @@ unpack_xz_stream(transformer_aux_data_t *aux, int

Re: disable l2 cache on kirkwood devices (workaround #658904)

2012-09-11 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Ian, On Aug 30, 2012, Ian Campbell wrote: I've just tried injecting the following onto the head of the zImage (in a similar manner to flash-kernel's set_machine_id function): [...] This works around the issue on my dreamplug (this is effectively the same code sequence as what the u-boot

Re: disable l2 cache on kirkwood devices (workaround #658904)

2012-09-11 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Ian Campbell wrote: My main concern with doing this on the kernel side is that it will eventually fall foul of the attempts to reduce everything to a single kernel image, since the code will necessarily be quite kirkwood specific and run very early on. Is it possible to do something

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

Re: pxz produces archives broken for busybox's unxz

2012-09-05 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Holger Levsen wrote: the typo3 orig.tar.gz as it is in squeeze or sid is sufficient: gunzip it and compress it with pxz and voila... *builds pxz, tests* Luckily the cause seems to be simple. pxz works by concatenating whole XZ files, but for simplicity busybox unxz ignores everything

Re: pxz produces archives broken for busybox's unxz

2012-09-02 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Holger, Holger Levsen wrote: pxz (somtimes) produces archives broken for busybox's unxz, while they decompress fine with unxz from xz-utils packges. I noticed when trying to uncompress pxz compressed initramfs files, while this is an universal way to reproduce it: Thanks! Could you

Priority field of xz-utils package

2012-08-17 Thread Jonathan Nieder
(please direct replies to debian-devel only) Ever since dpkg started using liblzma directly (dpkg 1.16.4), the xz command is no longer needed in a minimal Debian system. Based on its list of reverse-dependencies, it would presumably even be safe to lower its priority to optional. I think

Bug#661069: d-i: radeon: Please make sure firmware is installed or the user warned about its lack

2012-08-05 Thread Jonathan Nieder
reassign 661069 base-installer 1.125 quit Julien Cristau wrote: On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 15:29:57 -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: d-i team: can you reproduce this? Does installing on a machine with a radeon not warn about missing firmware? Is that fixable, for example by using vesafb instead

Bug#652353: installation-reports: Bottom 1/3 of screen turns black, then system locks-up

2012-08-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
# hardware support severity 652353 important reassign 652353 src:linux linux-2.6/2.6.32-39 quit Hi Chris, asdf wrote: I have this in my /var/log/syslog, repeated for probably about 100 lines or so... nSource: METHOD_CNT, nStatus: INVALID_STATE PROTECTION_FAULT Ch: 1/3 Class 0x004a Mthd

Bug#661069: radeon (evergreen): random-looking pattern of pixels when firmware not installed

2012-08-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
retitle 661069 d-i: radeon: Please make sure firmware is installed or the user warned about its lack. tags 661069 + wheezy # basic support for common hardware severity 661069 important quit Hi, Thomas Kippenberg wrote: Concerning the installer: There was no warning about the missing firmware

Bug#664142: installation-reports: Boot selection screen freezes with testing amd64 on hd-media

2012-08-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
# important (installer failed), probably system-specific severity 664142 important quit Hi Max, Max Sievers wrote: the initial boot only shows the selection screen and then freezes. This was also the case with older Debian Wheezy versions on this machine. That's why I use CDs for

Bug#673910: d-i: mounting/dev/sda1 on /target/ failed: Invalid argument

2012-08-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 673910 + moreinfo # failed installation, probably system-specific severity 673910 important quit Hi, Miguel Figueiredo wrote: On 22-05-2012 01:52, Andrew Spiers wrote: I then receive the error The attempt to mount a file system with the type ext4 in SCSI3 (0,0,0), partition #1 (sda) at

Bug#658272: cdrom: testing image 64bit from 30.1.2012 crashed with first login and corrupted grup2

2012-08-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
# system-specific severity 658272 important tags 658272 = moreinfo wheezy # bug in the installed system, untriaged reassign 658272 base quit Hi, melchiaros wrote: I have installed the latest testing image from 30.1.2012. The installation works fine, but on first login in GNOME3 the system

Bug#675294: [squeeze] missing support for Marvell 6Gbps SATA controller (device 1b4b:91a3)

2012-08-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tagliapietra.alessan...@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik jgar...@pobox.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com --- drivers/ata/ahci.c |2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/ata/ahci.c b/drivers/ata/ahci.c index 6787aab..2aa7af1 100644 --- a/drivers/ata/ahci.c +++ b

Bug#682946: latest weekly PowerPC CD#1 stalls because it cant find aptitude

2012-08-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
reassign 682946 cdimage.debian.org tags 682946 + wheezy moreinfo quit Hi Rick, Rick Thomas wrote: Boot method: CD Image version: /cdimage/weekly-builds/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-testing-powerpc-xfce+lxde-CD-1.iso (23-Jul-2012 07:59 635M) [...] Jul 26 10:01:22 pkgsel: checking for (security)

Bug#601721: installation-reports: Build w/ /boot partition succeeds, but re-boot fails in fsck 445148

2012-08-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Miguel, Miguel Figueiredo wrote: i would like to see this tested in with daily images, expert mode using sid to see if the updated grub makes any difference. Can you test it and give feedback? What change was made in grub? If it is one that directly addressed the problem described here

Re: installation-reports: grub-install tries to install to a nonsense string

2012-08-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
reassign 681227 grub-installer quit Hi, Matthew Vernon wrote: grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '/dev/sdb w33sxs34rfvbg789iokm·']' grub-installer: info: grub-install supports --no-floppy grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target grub-install --no-floppy --force /dev/sdb

Re: Failed to Install Debian 6.0 on Dell PERC H710P

2012-06-09 Thread Jonathan Nieder
gator_...@dell.com wrote: thank you. where can i download the updated kernel? Here it is: http://alioth.debian.org/~jrnieder-guest/temp/driver-test/ Completely untested, since I don't have a 64-bit machine handy at the moment. I would be interested in hearing how it behaves on a variety of

Re: Failed to Install Debian 6.0 on Dell PERC H710P

2012-06-08 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, gator_...@dell.com wrote[1]: My customer just bought a PowerEdge R620 with H710, and their OS is Debian 6.0. they failed to install Debian 6.0 on R620. I searched Debian bugs, and found this bug was fixed. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=666108 I have poor linux skill,

Re: Failed to Install Debian 6.0 on Dell PERC H710P

2012-06-08 Thread Jonathan Nieder
gator_...@dell.com wrote: thank you. where can i download the updated kernel? I'll build one. Is the customer using the 32-bit (i386) or 64-bit (amd64) version of the OS? Here are instructions for building a patched kernel on the same kind of Debian system, from a directory containing the

Bug#613564: [Debian 6] Installation hangs during network hardware probing

2012-05-23 Thread Jonathan Nieder
reassign 613564 src:linux-2.6 2.6.32-43 tags 613564 + d-i quit Hi, Dmitry Zvorikin wrote: Yes, the problem persists. It can be reproduced at 2 different computers (S775 C2d E5400 G31 and that S478 old pc). Both have latest-updated debians (apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade reboot). I

Re: linux-image-2.6.32-5-kirkwood: Can't load module ipv6

2012-05-18 Thread Jonathan Nieder
reassign 673418 flash-kernel 2.37 forcemerge 656877 673418 retitle 656877 flash-kernel is not being run for kernel upgrades with unchanged ABI version quit Hi Franz, Franz Ratzinger wrote: Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-44 [...] [ 31.554510] ipv6: Unknown symbol sock_queue_err_skb

Bug#670993: busybox: Please use dpkg-buildflags for hardening support

2012-05-14 Thread Jonathan Nieder
introducing a separate bb_error_msgf function for callers that want to pass a format and letting bb_error_msg take a simple string, or turning bb_msg_memory_exhausted et al into string literals as you suggested. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com --- archival/bzip2.c

Bug#670993: busybox: Please use dpkg-buildflags for hardening support

2012-05-14 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Michael Tokarev wrote: If I were upstream I'd reject this approach. Oh, sorry for the lack of clarity. I'm personally fine with leaving these warnings unaddressed. (Debian doesn't use busybox's selinux support as far as I can tell.) My only goal was to convey that there are at least three

Bug#605076: [zac.3.14...@gmail.com: Re: debian squeeze testing install fails with undefined video mode number 314]

2012-02-21 Thread Jonathan Nieder
correctly to allow me to select the video mode. but it's all scrambled. I had to decipher the glitched up tiny text to figure it out. On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 12:03 AM, Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.comwrote: Miguel Figueiredo wrote: vga=788 is 800x600 16bit color. In the BIOS setup in the menu

Bug#577840: No network on Toshiba Satellite L300

2012-02-19 Thread Jonathan Nieder
retitle 577840 Missing support for Agere softmodems (e.g., HDA modem chips 11c11040 and 11c13026) reassign 577840 src:linux-2.6 3.2.6-1 # hardware support severity 577840 important tags 577840 = upstream quit Hi Diana, Diana Allen wrote: 4. On install, (Graphical or Graphical Expert or

Bug#600329: Manual submission: reportbug installation-reports

2012-02-19 Thread Jonathan Nieder
retitle 600329 PowerEdge R210: d-i: firmware on USB stick not detected and other problems quit Hi Miguel, Miguel Figueiredo wrote: what a very problematic installation you report! Let's divide the problems, if appropriate they can be divided in several BRs. Thanks for this. It would have

Bug#607480: installation-reports: Ethernet Card Atheros AR8152

2012-02-19 Thread Jonathan Nieder
retitle 607480 installation-reports: Toshiba Satellite Pro C650: Grub installation fails tags 607480 - moreinfo quit Hi, Jean-Michel OLTRA wrote: During installation, the kernel recognized the wireless card atheros AR8152, but it's atl1c driver is not loaded. Loading the driver by hand did

Bug#600329: Fwd: RE: Manual submission: reportbug installation-reports

2012-02-19 Thread Jonathan Nieder
home maybe next year. Regards, Chris Bartels President/CEO Superior Sound Systems, LLC -Original Message- From: Jonathan Nieder [mailto:jrnie...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 12:42 PM To: Chris Bartels Cc: 600...@bugs.debian.org; Miguel Figueiredo Subject: Re: Manual

Bug#605477: [squeeze] hyperv: d-i failed to detect synthetic network card

2012-02-19 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 605477 - moreinfo severity 605477 wishlist unarchive 652014 tags 652014 - pending # test was presumably with an older version, but hyperv drivers # haven't been backported, so reassign 605477 src:linux-2.6 2.6.32-41 merge 652014 605477 quit Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Giovanni Proscia

Bug#613564: [Debian 6] Installation hangs during network hardware probing

2012-02-19 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Dmitry, Miguel Figueiredo wrote: A Terça 15 Fevereiro 2011 17:59:41 Dmitry Zvorikin você escreveu: Installation of newest stable debian 6 hangs. Is it a kernel crash? The installer is stopped? Can you take a look on what is happeding on the virtual console 4 and give more details? I

flash-kernel not run during ordinary squeeze-squeeze upgrade

2012-01-22 Thread Jonathan Nieder
reassign 656877 flash-kernel 2.37 quit Guillard wrote: Le 22/01/2012 18:01, Jonathan Nieder a écrit : Did you flash the kernel correctly? Indeed I did not and flash-kernel did not run by itself (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=550584 ?). # ls -ltr /boot/ total 8480

Re: linux-image-2.6.32-5-kirkwood: 2.6.32-38 does not recognise USB harddisks any longer

2011-10-09 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Joerg Morbitzer wrote: Mmmh, I am quite sure that I didn't see any error message when running the upgrade to 6.0.3, and I can find those messages in /var/log/dpkg.log ... 2011-10-09 17:27:03 configure linux-image-2.6.32-5-kirkwood 2.6.32-38 2.6.32-38 2011-10-09 17:27:03 status unpacked

Re: Can't install wheezy on a 2011 iMac

2011-08-14 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Mike Hore wrote: Booting into the new system now doesn't display flashing lights any more, however the boot process stops with a message ID co respawning too fast - disabled for 5 minutes That means /sbin/getty is failing to start. d-i team, any ideas what could be causing this? --

Re: linux-image-2.6.39-2-ixp4xx: Unable to upgrade with package as released

2011-08-07 Thread Jonathan Nieder
reassign 637024 flash-kernel forcemerge 550584 637024 quit Hi Marc, Marc Singer wrote: [...] The package will fail to install because the postinst hook attempts to flash the kernel and initramfs before the initramfs has been created. [...] I can work around the issue by unpacking the

Re: libc6: broken LANGUAGE design

2011-07-07 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi again, One more quick comment. Vincent Lefevre wrote: My settings come from the installation. /etc/default/locale was: # File generated by update-locale #LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en_US:en (I only added a LC_TIME=en_DK since, hoping it would be taken into account for the time

Bug#608471: www.debian.org: Installation Guide and d-i errata pages should be release-specific

2010-12-31 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: www.debian.org Version: 20101231 Severity: wishlist The intro to section 3 Installation system of the release notes contains cross references to the installation guide[1] and errata[2]: [1] http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/debian-installer/ [2]

Re: Bug#605009: serious performance regression with ext4

2010-11-26 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Ted, Ted Ts'o wrote: 1) Suppose package contains files a, b, and c. Which are you doing? a) extract a.dpkg-new ; fsync(a.dpkg-new); rename(a.dpkg-new, a); extract b.dpkg-new ; fsync(b.dpkg-new); rename(b.dpkg-new, b); extract c.dpkg-new ; fsync(c.dpkg-new); rename(c.dpkg-new,

Bug#597498: keyboard-configuration: HAL is still mentioned in comments of `/etc/default/keyboard`.

2010-10-16 Thread Jonathan Nieder
reopen 597498 1.57 quit Hi Anton, Anton Zinoviev wrote: On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:10:25AM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: in contrary to what is said for 1.56 in `changelog.Debian.gz` [1] * Do not mention HAL in the comment of /etc/default/keyboard. Suggest a reboot

Bug#597498: keyboard-configuration: HAL is still mentioned in comments of `/etc/default/keyboard`.

2010-10-16 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Julien Cristau wrote: On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 15:30:53 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Perhaps at least #2 is fixable? Reopening just in case. The lack of documentation in /usr/share/doc/keyboard-configuration/ is a different bug, please don't abuse this one, which was actually fixed. I'd

Bug#575682: installation-reports: successful installation on hercules-emulated s390x

2010-03-29 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Frans Pop wrote: Thanks for the report Jonathan. Thanks for the insightful response. If I end up finding time to look into speed-ups (using data from a more common platform), now I will know where to start. 17. Something strange happened when I suspended reportbug: it seems to have

Bug#575682: installation-reports: successful installation on hercules-emulated s390x

2010-03-28 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: installation-reports Severity: wishlist Boot method: card reader Image version: http://people.debian.org/~fjp/d-i/s390/images/daily/generic/ dd1843ff2ea2732c1c148827dc004827 initrd.debian cb4f3536b61cc24f447c4df6f83612c6 kernel.debian ca2e8b612360637f881547617ee76b43

Bug#565391: console-setup: typo in FAQ

2010-01-16 Thread Jonathan Nieder
that helps, Jonathan From: Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 04:19:25 -0600 Subject: fix a few spelling errors in FAQ Reported-by: Vincent Lefevre vinc...@vinc17.net Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com --- diff -u console-setup-r62018/FAQ modified/FAQ --- console

Bug#565391: console-setup: typo in FAQ

2010-01-16 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Anton Zinoviev wrote: On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 04:49:40AM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: What do you think? I would be tempted to fix some of these and then abuse the services of debian-l10n-en to clean up the result. :-) Please fix them - I appreciate your work. :) Okay, I'll work

xz support in dpkg (was Re: dpkg plans for the squeeze cycle)

2009-09-22 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi! d-i maintainers: If you’re impatient, please skip to a. below. Guillem Jover wrote re dpkg plans for squeeze: * XZ compression support (to deprecate lzma). The lzma format will still be supported, though, always for extraction (as xz tools support it in a backward manner),