Re: Sarge netinst: wrong sequence of SCSI drives

2004-01-01 Thread Phil Blundell
On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 19:09, Harald Dunkel wrote: The problem is that the d-i bootdisk contains an USB driver, which seems to be always loaded as soon as you've got any mass storage attached to USB. Later (in the running system) the USB stuff is loaded when running hotplug, i.e. its one of

Bug#138849: boot-floppies: syslinux screen on boot-floppies created boot-floppy has messed chars

2002-03-18 Thread Phil Blundell
On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 08:04, Eduard Bloch wrote: Same for german. The message is hardcoded in dbootstrap translation and is converted to utf8 as other strings. I do not see a nifty workaround, but I could replace the non-ASCII characters with their ASCII transcriptions ( - ae). This is even

Bug#138849: boot-floppies: syslinux screen on boot-floppies created boot-floppy has messed chars

2002-03-18 Thread Phil Blundell
On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 10:24, Santiago Vila wrote: Are you using CP437 (which was for US english) for i18n boot floppies? I don't believe we include any fonts on the boot disk, so you will get whatever the default codepage is for your hardware. No doubt it would be possible to change this for

Re: 3.0.20 powerpc build

2002-03-15 Thread Phil Blundell
On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 04:27, Chris Tillman wrote: First, mac-fdisk doesn't run. From the menu, there's just a flash. From vc 2, it complains about an extra (. I think we saw this problem before, (the last time aph built? - sorry, but I think it's true) and it had to do with library reduction.

Re: Please don't make update-po in a cron tab. Re: cvs commit toboot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/po by claush

2002-03-15 Thread Phil Blundell
On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 10:28, Martin Quinson wrote: I'm currently editing the french version, and now, i have to revert your changes before I can go further. Can you not just make update-po locally to get back in step? p. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: more kernel-image.bin breakage

2002-03-12 Thread Phil Blundell
On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 13:34, Richard Hirst wrote: From utilities/dbootstrap/choose_medium.c: const char *fs_type_tab[] = { auto, msdos, vfat, fat, minix, ext2, NULL }; so the code first tries to mount rescue.bin as type 'auto'. That's fine on a normal system, where mount chooses vfat.

Re: losetup on boot-floppies

2002-03-12 Thread Phil Blundell
On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 14:35, Eduard Bloch wrote: In last days, I tried to find the reason for the ugly behaviour of the loop driver, see #135504. I tried to reuser the code from losetup.c, nothing did work. A loop device created by losetup can be attached and detached as usual, but if done

Bug#137992: base installation fails because of missing package

2002-03-12 Thread Phil Blundell
On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 12:41, Martin Pitt wrote: Couldn't download pppoeconf This package is indeed not on the first CDROM. I already tried the following alternatives: * downloading an image from a different mirror * checking md5sums (all were okay) * building a jigdo image today

Re: cvs commit to boot-floppies by sgybas

2002-03-11 Thread Phil Blundell
On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 15:13, Debian Boot CVS Master wrote: disable canonicalising terminfo directories on s390, s390 already includes some terminal definitions in /etc/terminfo That shouldn't be a problem. If the pre-existing definitions in /etc/terminfo weren't being found, that's just a

Re: cvs commit to boot-floppies by sgybas

2002-03-11 Thread Phil Blundell
On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 16:13, Stefan Gybas wrote: On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 03:37:32PM +, Phil Blundell wrote: That shouldn't be a problem. If the pre-existing definitions in /etc/terminfo weren't being found, that's just a bug. It is a problem because the build fails otherwise

Re: Changing the file linux to linux.bin

2002-03-08 Thread Phil Blundell
On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 03:45, Chris Tillman wrote: I've spent several hours constructing and proofing, and I'm confident this will do exactly what we want, without affecting other instances of linux in the code/docs/messages. But please sample it in the next day or two to see if you agree.

Re: non-i18n'd arches

2002-03-08 Thread Phil Blundell
On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 15:00, Christian T. Steigies wrote: The boot-floppies on amiga usually boot in 640x480, but I just tried 1024x768, some thing. Maybe is related to the Penguin in the top left corner which is not deleted? The non-UTF boot-floppies always cleared the screen so that the

Bug#136312: boot-floppies: Support list of languages to use like glibc LANGUAGE varialbe

2002-03-07 Thread Phil Blundell
On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 12:32, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Philip Blundell] No, I thought the sense of the test was backwards, but maybe I was mistaken. What is LOAD_TRMFILE's return value? In the present code, 0 reports an error. Yes, it is strange, but I did not write that code. :-)

Re: localising base-config - end game

2002-03-07 Thread Phil Blundell
On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 13:33, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Could someone add this patch: Seems safe enough. I've checked it in. p. Index: util.c === RCS file: /cvs/debian-boot/boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/util.c,v

Re: localising base-config - end game

2002-03-07 Thread Phil Blundell
On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 13:35, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Philip Blundell] Given a locale string in german.src of de_DE.ISO-8859-15@euro, you ideally want to be writing de_DE@euro ISO-8859-15 into /etc/locale.gen and setting LANG to de_DE@euro. There is no need to rewrite the LANG

Re: localising base-config - end game

2002-03-07 Thread Phil Blundell
On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 14:17, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: - use the current language and locale as the system default for all users after the second stage installer is finished. I don't think setting a system-wide default locale is within the boot-floppies remit at this time. We should

Re: non-i18n'd arches

2002-03-07 Thread Phil Blundell
On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 14:54, Guido Guenther wrote: On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 09:21:14PM +, Philip Blundell wrote: [..snip..] The only requirements I can think of are: - framebuffer support in your kernel (should be no problem for m68k) There's no fb support on mips ip22 and and it

Re: non-i18n'd arches

2002-03-07 Thread Phil Blundell
On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 15:21, Guido Guenther wrote: IP22 is currently the only supported subarch on big endian mips machines, since none of the mips porters has access to something else. I see. In that case, you're right, there is no point in turning on i18n for mips at the moment. p. --

Re: non-i18n'd arches

2002-03-06 Thread Phil Blundell
On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 04:58, Christian T. Steigies wrote: I tried it on my amiga, it does not seem to work. All the output (blue background with window, text et all) seems to be scrolled through the first line of the display, all the other lines remain empty. Until I switch to the second

Re: Demographic analysis of debian user's language (was Re: b-fone-liner needs translating

2002-03-06 Thread Phil Blundell
On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 13:19, Chris Tillman wrote: Does this code check to be sure it's not exceeding the ramdisk's capacity? That's pretty easy to do (exceed it, I mean). And it would create a hard-to- track-down problem. My ramdisks (on i386) always seem to have about 3.5MB free, so I

Re: Why is Korean support disabled?

2002-03-06 Thread Phil Blundell
On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 16:30, Claus Hindsgaul wrote: Is there a reason why support for Korean (ko.po) is disabled for dbootstrap in the config file? Dunno. Maybe the catalog was really outdated at the time it was removed. Chinese (zh_CN) is also disabled. p. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#136312: boot-floppies: Support list of languages to use like glibc LANGUAGE varialbe

2002-03-06 Thread Phil Blundell
On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 13:40, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: - Avoid code duplication in main.c, and standardize how the messages catalog file is loaded. Allow the language code string to be a colon separated list. - Modify boxChooseLanguageVariant() accept a list of language codes -

Bug#135504: Bug reproduced

2002-03-04 Thread Phil Blundell
On Sun, 2002-03-03 at 23:17, Eduard Bloch wrote: I was able to reproduce this bug while hacking at the new cdrom auto-detection functions. It is simple: use bf2.4 flavor and try to install kernelmodules twice. Then you can see a [loop0] _Zombie_ process, which apparently locks the file which

Bug#136712: boot-floppies locale existence check is not perfect

2002-03-04 Thread Phil Blundell
On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 03:09, Junichi Uekawa wrote: The above check in make/check does succeed when: a. locale-gen was not executed b. /etc/locale.gen has no final newline and locale-gen fails to parse I think it might be better to check for existence of /usr/lib/locale/en_IN/

Re: language chooser clarity report

2002-03-04 Thread Phil Blundell
On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 12:10, Mikhail Sobolev wrote: Originally, this message was shown at the bottom (in status line), so choosing over here means you choose appropriate item in the menu. Out of interest, why did this get changed? Displaying just the language name in the menu, with the more

Re: b-f one-liner needs translating

2002-03-04 Thread Phil Blundell
On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 14:33, Jordi Mallach wrote: Of this list, I think pl is one of the most outdated languages. [...] And dbootstrap isn't in a good shape either: 65679:jordi@nubol:...s/utilities/dbootstrap/po$ msgfmt --statistics pl 732 translated messages, 33 fuzzy translations, 75

Re: language chooser clarity report

2002-03-01 Thread Phil Blundell
Agreed, your patch looks good to me. Reading the original poster's message again, though, I think he might actually be complaining about the debconf screen you get when configuring the locales package, rather than the LC itself. p. On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 07:19, David Kimdon wrote: Maybe this

Bug#136241: binfmt_aout Install Failure

2002-03-01 Thread Phil Blundell
reassign 136241 kernel-image-2.2.19 thanks On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 22:08, Keith Parkansky wrote: After this basic installation finishes, every time I boot the system the following error appears: Calculating module dependencies... depmod: ***Unresolved symbols exist in

Re: some special casings which should no longer be necessary

2002-03-01 Thread Phil Blundell
On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 01:03, Junichi Uekawa wrote: I am seeing in rootdisk.sh: # i386 can't reduce libnewt if we're in LANG_CHOOSER mode if [ $arch != i386 -o $USE_LANG_CHOOSER != true ]; then rm -f $R/usr/lib/libnewt* fi Could this have been fixed with the recent

Re: Having CD in drive should not disable network install

2002-03-01 Thread Phil Blundell
On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 11:35, Richard Hirst wrote: I can file bugs if people think these things are worth fixing. No need. :-) We already have two serious bugs open for this. Everybody agrees that the current behaviour is wrong, it's just a case of fixing it. See, for example, David's note

Bug#136241: Processed: Re: Bug#136241: binfmt_aout Install Failure

2002-03-01 Thread Phil Blundell
I don't expect there will be any more boot-floppies releases for potato. The submitter probably just needs to install the updated kernel-image package. Do you happen to know which version includes the fix? p. On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 10:22, Herbert Xu wrote: reassign 136241 boot-floppies quit

Bug#123948: can someone test the patch?

2002-03-01 Thread Phil Blundell
On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 11:56, Eduard Bloch wrote: Maybe I got the wrong impression, but why do we do all this detection and _force_ the user to use that Cd? The idea was to reduce the number of questions that the user gets asked. Debian's installer has long been notorious for forcing you to

Bug#135504: CD isn't unmounted after Kernel/Drivers install

2002-02-28 Thread Phil Blundell
On Sun, 2002-02-24 at 17:19, Eduard Bloch wrote: #include hallo.h Dale Scheetz wrote on Sun Feb 24, 2002 um 11:16:10AM: If I install the Kernel and Drivers from floppies, I can mount the CD for the base install. I suspect that the Kernel/Drivers install is unable to unmount when done

Re: Droping 1200kB boot floppies - who minds?

2002-02-27 Thread Phil Blundell
On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 07:37, Junichi Uekawa wrote: On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 08:20:52 +0100 Eduard Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can symlink usr/lib/locale/ja_JP-C@utf-8 and setting locale to LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 LC_ALL=ja_JP.UTF-8 seems to allow whiptail-utf8 to do its thing.

Re: Droping 1200kB boot floppies - who minds?

2002-02-26 Thread Phil Blundell
On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 00:31, Junichi Uekawa wrote: Note: I have not gotten evil enough to rename the utf8 version of newt library soname. Oh. Wasn't the fact that the utf8 and non-utf8 libnewts shared the same soname the cause of all our original problems with flashing screens? p. -- To

Re: Droping 1200kB boot floppies - who minds?

2002-02-26 Thread Phil Blundell
On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 11:31, Eduard Bloch wrote: It seems that it has problems on detecting that it is in UTF-8 mode. I tried setting: LANG=C@utf-8 (valid, existing) LC_CTYPE=C@utf-8 (valid, existing, for whiptail-utf8) LC_MESAGES=de_DE.UTF-8 (just a string, parsed and used by modconf)

Re: Droping 1200kB boot floppies - who minds?

2002-02-26 Thread Phil Blundell
On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 11:31, Eduard Bloch wrote: It is only needed as LC_MESSAGES to enable usage of utf8-converted string files. If whiptail-utf8 also needs the value (though it should NOT depend on it), this may cause our trouble. By the way, another fix would be for someone to actually

Re: Droping 1200kB boot floppies - who minds?

2002-02-26 Thread Phil Blundell
On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 15:06, Junichi Uekawa wrote: I really don't understand what C@utf-8 is, really. It's like the C locale in all respects except that it uses the UTF-8 character set rather than ASCII. p. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Notes about boot-floppies, slang, and newt

2002-02-25 Thread Phil Blundell
On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 12:55, Junichi Uekawa wrote: Well, use utf-8, is probably the most simple answer In fact, I have an impression that -utf8 libs will work with any locale, but I might be wrong. It uses the locale-charset conversion routines... They will work with any locale so long as

Re: Droping 1200kB boot floppies - who minds?

2002-02-25 Thread Phil Blundell
On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 16:41, Eduard Bloch wrote: Is wrong, copied too much. I have also found the other problem. But here is now another problem: the i18n build does no longer fit on the 1200 disk. I tried to hack the build system to use less languages on the 1200 disks, but it is nothing but

Re: 3.0.19-bf2.4 install report

2002-02-19 Thread Phil Blundell
On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 03:06, Junichi Uekawa wrote: I think it would be nice to have an entry associating language to a URL. Or make the entry _(ftp.us.debian.org) a translatable string to give a somewhat sane-ish result. Translating the string will probably just give you the same result

Bug#123948: b-f cdrom detection

2002-02-19 Thread Phil Blundell
On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 15:14, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [David Kimdon] We don't want to net only install CDs to be detected as an official cdrom since the packages aren't on the cd. I thought the point was to avoid asking questions if the base packages where present on the CD. Why not

Re: network install hang

2002-02-15 Thread Phil Blundell
On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 03:24, Chris Tillman wrote: On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 02:06:38AM -0600, Bob McElrath wrote: I have tried to install debian woody from both floppy (2.4bf), and CD-ROM (netinst images: http://people.debian.org/~ieure/netinst/) and for two different machines the install

Bug#133882: boot-floppies: dbootstrap hangs after installing base system

2002-02-15 Thread Phil Blundell
reassign 133822 debootstrap thanks On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 10:24, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 02:36:43PM +, Phil Blundell wrote: On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 14:28, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: Attached are the aforementioned files what is causing

Re: Language and locale setting in /root/dbootstrap_setting

2002-02-15 Thread Phil Blundell
On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 10:35, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Should the string to put in /etc/locale.gen be passed in as well? It is required to generate the valid locale. I'm not sure if it easy to guess is string based on the locale, or if it is easy to guess locale based on this string. It's

Re: Why does dbootstrap not make a core file?

2002-02-14 Thread Phil Blundell
On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 04:06, Mark Zimmerman wrote: One of my tests of dbootstrap (in trying to get past the white screen of death) resulted in a register dump to the screen. I was wondering why it didn't dump core instead? Is this something related to how dbootstrap is built or is it caused

Bug#133882: boot-floppies: dbootstrap hangs after installing base system

2002-02-14 Thread Phil Blundell
On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 12:02, Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena wrote: Looking into the process table shows up to eximp processes, one with '-Mc' options and one with '-oem -oi -f ' options. Killing this processes makes the base installation finish properly and continue with the next step

Bug#133794: Bug Report Installing Alpha with Aspen Alpine Board

2002-02-14 Thread Phil Blundell
On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 16:48, Guenther, Daniel wrote: I got ISO-Images of debian 2.2r5 stable for our noname alpha. As you can see, I boot from CD. I tried it with floppy, too, and got the same problem. Description: after loading Milo and entering: MILO boot scd0:/boot/linux root=/dev/scd0

Bug#132671: sparc disks outdated

2002-02-14 Thread Phil Blundell
The latest sparc boot-floppies in woody are 3.0.16 from back in October. Bug 132671 looks like it might be fixed by just building against a new kernel image. Is anyone on the list in a position to build a new set of disks? p. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Bug#133882: boot-floppies: dbootstrap hangs after installing base system

2002-02-14 Thread Phil Blundell
On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 14:28, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: Attached are the aforementioned files what is causing this? why does debconf send mails upon base installation? (if it does) Here's the text of the message. I don't know exactly what the cause of the hang was, but it looks

Re: Language and locale setting in /root/dbootstrap_setting

2002-02-13 Thread Phil Blundell
On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 12:54, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Philip Blundell] I checked these in. But, in fact, I suspect this should probably be de_DE.ISO-8859-15@euro, and similarly for the other EMU countries. I guess you mean [EMAIL PROTECTED]? Oh, I thought the character set came

Re: Language and locale setting in /root/dbootstrap_setting

2002-02-13 Thread Phil Blundell
On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 13:01, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: I have to use the name listed in the LANG variable to get the German translation. I can't use any other variation: % LANG=de_DE.ISO-8859-15@euro date Mit Feb 13 13:59:08 CET 2002 % LANG=de_DE.ISO-8859-15 date Wed Feb 13

Re: Language and locale setting in /root/dbootstrap_setting

2002-02-12 Thread Phil Blundell
On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 10:32, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Philip Blundell] Mistakenly. Feel free to change it back. I don't have write access to the CVS. I'm not a Debian developer. Oh, right, sorry. Okay, I'll do this. If you make a patch to add some appropriate --include options to

Re: Language and locale setting in /root/dbootstrap_setting

2002-02-12 Thread Phil Blundell
On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 10:32, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: I should suggest using the locale member in 'struct language_item' in LANG, and making sure this is a proper locale, and then use the msgcat member in LANGUAGE. Yes, that looks like it could work. We could also consider re-enabling

Re: Language and locale setting in /root/dbootstrap_setting (patch)

2002-02-12 Thread Phil Blundell
On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 10:52, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: I combined and corrected your patch. Here is a better suggestion. I'm not sure if the question should be presented at all. If it is needed to get the translations working, it should be installed. Agreed. We should try to avoid asking

Re: Language and locale setting in /root/dbootstrap_setting

2002-02-12 Thread Phil Blundell
On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 11:08, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Phil Blundell] If you are putting en_US.ISO-8859-1 in $LANG, you need to put en_US.ISO-8859-1 ISO-8859-1 in /etc/locale.gen. But yes, . is always the separator for the character set part. Are you sure? I believe this is wrong

Re: cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap by blade

2002-02-11 Thread Phil Blundell
On Sun, 2002-02-10 at 23:45, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Why not ask for country and language in boot-floopies, and pass the information on to base-config for use by tzconfig, keyboard config and in the LANG variable? I guess patches are welcome? Absolutely, bring 'em on. I think there's

Bug#131553: missing keyboard selection?

2002-02-05 Thread Phil Blundell
Where did the adb (mac-ext) keyboards go? Selecting _any_ keyboard from the list prevents further input. I'm not familiar with the ppc keyboard stuff, but from looking at the code I guess you should have been offered these four choices: { qwerty/mac-usb-us, U.S. English (Apple USB),

Re: Trying to fix slang

2002-01-30 Thread Phil Blundell
On Wed, 2002-01-30 at 11:56, Glenn Maynard wrote: I don't think this affects anything not already building for slang1-utf8; to them, the only change is that the drop-in utf8 diversion is no longer available. The drop-in diversion was always a fiction in any case, because SLsmg_Char_Type

Re: an important patch (at least for non-english users ;))

2002-01-21 Thread Phil Blundell
On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 13:39, Mikhail Sobolev wrote: On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 11:38:37AM -0200, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: [CC me on replies, I'm not on the list] Hello team, thanks for the good work! here's an important patch for us translators/users of a non-english language:

Bug#122750: Bug #122750: serial console problems

2002-01-18 Thread Phil Blundell
unmerge 122750 tags 122141 - unreproducible thanks Despite initial appearances, it now seems that 122750 and 122141 are unrelated problems. Submitter, can you still reproduce the problem described in 122750 on your machine? A quick poll of the debian-powerpc list didn't turn up anybody else

Bug#124143: boot-floppies #124143 testing

2002-01-18 Thread Phil Blundell
On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 09:55, Gregg Cercy wrote: Using the latest disk images from testing, I'm having the same black background problem on a i386 (dell dimension xpg RIVA128). Also, it looks like the initial popup window containing the release notes looks misaligned. Can you be more

Re: Problem

2002-01-17 Thread Phil Blundell
On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 16:53, Iván Filpo wrote: The problem is i have a ps/2 keyboard instead of an at one. You mean you have a PS/2 style connector? That doesn't make any difference: in electrical terms the keyboards are just the same. When i boot the installation from the cd it loads the

Bug#122142: Happens here too

2002-01-15 Thread Phil Blundell
yay, my install is broken. Please take a look at the log for bug #122750 and see if you can shed any more light on what's going on. In particular, the stuff about inspecting /etc/inittab at different stages of the install to see whether it has the right contents. Did you notice anything unusal

Re: URGENT! Install Base System via network: settings wrong

2002-01-14 Thread Phil Blundell
On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 07:37, Ariel Tankus wrote: I think it is weird to leave some files on older archives like potato's, forcing any mirror site to mirror also potato! You'd have to take that up with ftpmaster. I don't really know anything about the details of how the archive is supposed to

Re: smc-ultra module: woody has the same problem as potato? An odd work around?

2002-01-07 Thread Phil Blundell
I tried to reproduce it and failed. Now it works as expected, apart from a few messages about not being able to create /target/usr/sbin/modules (probably wrong about the exact path) which goes away. From memory the error message said the device or resource are busy and suggested that it could

Re: problem with console-data 1999.08.29-23 ?

2002-01-07 Thread Phil Blundell
Yes, we can disable gr and make sure none of the below are used: [1] Those are: mac-usb-pt-latin1.kmap, mac-de-latin1-nodeadkeys and mac-us-dvorak.kmap. ... Anyone on the debian-boot list wanna take it or must I do it tonight? I've removed gr (from keymaps.sh anyway; I haven't dealt with

Bug#127525: boot-floppies: modconf complains about not being able to create a directory

2002-01-03 Thread Phil Blundell
Package: boot-floppies Version: 3.0.18-2001-12-21 Severity: minor When installing a module from the install menu I see in the buglog (tty3): /target/usr/sbin/modconf: cannot create directory nonexistant There is already a bug open against modconf for this. In fact I think it has already been

Bug#127518: boot-floppies: install procedure switched to black background?!?

2002-01-03 Thread Phil Blundell
reopen 124143 merge 127518 124143 thanks Package: boot-floppies Version: 3.0.18-2001-12-21 Severity: normal At some point during the install, the installation screen decided it would switch to a black background. This certainly doesn't hurt but it's really awkward. This is #124143, which got

Bug#127583: boot-floppies: Intro screen cut off at bottom

2002-01-03 Thread Phil Blundell
Installing cvs local build on powerpc with LC, the intro screen doesn't display the last line or two. It ends with ... is maintained by. That really is how the release-notes file ends. Adam said he was going to fix it but I don't know if he's had a chance yet. p. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#127522: mv bug

2002-01-03 Thread Phil Blundell
reassign 127522 busybox thanks I guess this would be a busybox problem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#127413: base-config: 101 instances of Setting locale failed message during install

2002-01-03 Thread Phil Blundell
I can't be sure, but I suspect that the language chooser is responsible for this bogosity of LANGUAGE in /root/debootstrap_settings, and it is being propigated into base-config's environment. This is borne out by: ./utilities/dbootstrap/langs/english.src:nameEnglish (QWERTY/US) /name

Re: 3.0.18 testing needed

2002-01-03 Thread Phil Blundell
So how do the ramdisks get built these days? Just copy the binaries over? Well, they get stripped first, see scripts/rootdisk/strip-executables.sh. The kind of ELF damage that we're seeing here is usually a symptom of using a strip that expected to target another architecture, or had some

Re: modconf i18n Re: preliminary results for b-f

2001-12-22 Thread Phil Blundell
if we have only problemes with UTF-8 stuff, can't we build the BFs with LANG_CHOOSER only for lantin* languages? like German, French, Dutch, ... Technically yes, we could do this. But I don't think we should go down that road; instead we should invest the effort in making modconf work with

Re: Bug#126035: boot-floppies: 'make check_depends' demands utf8 libs

2001-12-21 Thread Phil Blundell
A new observation on my own bug report. It just occured to me that the LC is *technically* enabled in my config. But during the build, the following text appears. Oh, right. In that case, you lose. If you have changed LINGUA in order to build single-locale disks, you must also turn off

Re: Bug#126035: boot-floppies: 'make check_depends' demands utf8 libs

2001-12-21 Thread Phil Blundell
Oh, right. In that case, you lose. If you have changed LINGUA in order to build single-locale disks, you must also turn off USE_LANGUAGE_CHOOSER in your config. Well, in my case that happened automatically by chance. But you are right. No, it didn't. What happened in your case was that

Bug#122750: serial console trouble

2001-12-21 Thread Phil Blundell
tags 122750 unreproducible thanks Chris Tillman wrote: On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 03:39:37PM +, Phil Blundell wrote: Chris Tillman wrote: I did a serial install on ppc with 3.0.18. I checked /target/etc/securetty right after the installation of base, before even rebooting, and verified

Re: Bug#122750: serial console trouble

2001-12-20 Thread Phil Blundell
Chris Tillman wrote: I did a serial install on ppc with 3.0.18. I checked /target/etc/securetty right after the installation of base, before even rebooting, and verified that ttyS0 is included there. Thanks for checking this out. Are you saying that the bug didn't happen for you, or that the

Re: lilo and i18n (was Re: 3.0.18 success (at last))

2001-12-20 Thread Phil Blundell
Do we have the technology to put more languages on the 2880 disks compared to the 1440 ones? Hmm, I don't believe so, since it just uses the same root.bin and gets split. That's what I suspected. Oh well. Actually the problem with stuffing in languages, I just realized, is that we'd have to

Bug#125780: boot-floppies failure

2001-12-19 Thread Phil Blundell
Package: boot-floppies Version: 12/18/01 testing Severity: grave When trying to install the base during installation, I get: Malformed release file http://http.us.debian.org:80/debian/dists/woody/Release This can be caused by any number of transient downloading problems. Did you try another

dbootstrap's es translation is busted

2001-12-19 Thread Phil Blundell
Folks, please try to remember to run make check-LANG before checking in changes to the .po files. es.po: es.po:3363: end-of-line within string p. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug: chopped stings in dbootstrap

2001-12-19 Thread Phil Blundell
I tried compiling Danish-only b-f for i386. It seems that the problem with chopped strings persist. (Strings are choped whenever a foreign letter is reached, so e.g. Installr moduler til PCMCIA becomes just Install). I assume this is true for other languages too (as it was a month ago). What

Re: Bug: chopped stings in dbootstrap

2001-12-19 Thread Phil Blundell
I tried compiling Danish-only b-f for i386. It seems that the problem with chopped strings persist. (Strings are choped whenever a foreign letter is reached, so e.g. Installr moduler til PCMCIA becomes just Install). I assume this is true for other languages too (as it was a month ago). I

Bug#125780: boot-floppies failure

2001-12-19 Thread Phil Blundell
I saw this during an install using an early 3.0.18, I noted it in my install report. At the time, I tried many mirrors, always got that error, and more importantly, using wget manually to get Release retrieved the file correctly, and it's contents were ok. Yeah, you were suffering from a bug in

Re: 3.0.18 update

2001-12-18 Thread Phil Blundell
I just mailed an update to 124117, what is hopefully the last terrible bug facing 3.0.18. You should be able to reproduce it in the comfort of your own home directory. I included a hackish fix as well. Maybe someone wiill figure out what is really going on but I need some sleep. I think the

Re: 3.0.18 update

2001-12-18 Thread Phil Blundell
reassign 124117 libnewt0 thanks ... in fact, looking at the code, the change that was made here has got to be wrong. The for loop is just freeing the same string, over and over again. I guess it was supposed to be free(tb-lines[i]) or some such, followed by a single free(tb-lines). p. ---

Re: [patch] Updated brazilian portuguese (pt_BR) dbootstrap's pt.po

2001-12-18 Thread Phil Blundell
1) I'll copy the original pt.po from CVS (without any modification) to pt.po.cvs and use make update-pt to let the original pt.po is up-to-date. I don't think this is really the right way to go. All you need to do is: 1. check out the tree 2. make update-po 3. hack on the files 4. cvs update,

Re: Installation report on i386 using udma100-ext3 boot-floppies

2001-12-18 Thread Phil Blundell
i18n seems to be working fine :-) The welcome screen is lacking accents on all words which might be using it. I didn't translated it myself so I'll give a try later. What do you mean by the welcome screen? The release notes, or the language chooser, or something else? The modules were

Re: Bug in docs: Foreign letters from dbootstrap menus

2001-12-18 Thread Phil Blundell
``V230;lg tastaturudl230;gning'' in the compiled docs (all formats). Does this help? p. Index: po2sgml === RCS file: /org/cvs.debian.org/cvs/debian-boot/boot-floppies/documentation/po2sgml,v retrieving revision 1.20 diff -u

3.0.18 success (at last)

2001-12-18 Thread Phil Blundell
With the -9 newt packages installed, I was able to install base successfully for the first time in, ooh, ages. Great stuff! p. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installation report on i386 using udma100-ext3 boot-floppies

2001-12-18 Thread Phil Blundell
I hope we can fix this one before 3.0.18 release. Is it being released already ? This one isn't blocker but one will need to skip some steps to proceed with installation with this bug remains. Try again with newt 0.50.17-9 and see if you still have the problem. (I didn't, but that might have

Re: 3.0.18 success (at last)

2001-12-18 Thread Phil Blundell
Any changes here on in are for 3.0.19. First order of business is the 'serious' bugs. As far as I can tell, all the serious bugs are port specific in some way. The serial console problems apparently don't happen on hppa, ia64 or presumably i386. Someone on SPARC or PowerPC needs to confirm or

Re: 3.0.18 success (at last)

2001-12-18 Thread Phil Blundell
The following patch installs the MBR to the first existing IDE drive, rather than /dev/hda. For systems which have /dev/hda, behavior is unchanged. Is this reasonable? Sounds good to me. p. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Malformed Release file [patch]

2001-12-17 Thread Phil Blundell
An additional suggestion: maybe add a check for the exit status of wget (in /usr/lib/debootstrap/functions somewhere) so that the destination file is automatically deleted if downloading fails. Wget has the bad habit of creating its output file as zero-length even if there was a gross failure

Bug#124143: dbootstrap: screen not cleared

2001-12-17 Thread Phil Blundell
Feh, it doesn't work very well. See the latest images on at http://www.d.o/~aph/ . The screen gets a black bg after it's cleared. Hmm, right. Well, it's the worst hack, but you could try adding SLsmg_set_color(2) as well; it probably wants to go before SLsmg_cls(). I won't have a chance to

Re: 3.0.18 status confirmation

2001-12-14 Thread Phil Blundell
Bug#123387 -- busybox wget won't work with debootstrap anymore Well, busybox wc actually, but yeah. This is a critical issue, installing the base system will be impossible until it's fixed. unfiled -- newt/slang damage, flashing dbootstrap screen on start We have a workaround for this

Bug#123661: boot-floppies: 3.0.18(cvs) serial console unusable on i18n enabled flavours (i386)

2001-12-14 Thread Phil Blundell
So we need some way to bypass bterm when booting with a serial console right? Is there a way to do it in shell script ? Any clues? John already checked in a fix that looks like it will work, ie testing the kernel command line string. p. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/po by dancer

2001-12-12 Thread Phil Blundell
Japanese translation updates and fixes. It is up-to-date, again. Last time I looked, the Japanese string for the language chooser itself (the one that says You have chosen Japanese - press Enter to continue) didn't seem to be translated. Care to investigate? It's in

Re: [PATCH]? Re: forget LANG_CHOOSER for 3.0.18 (was Re: 3.0.18 testing)

2001-12-11 Thread Phil Blundell
David Kimdon wrote: Appears to work. The flashing screen went away, and I had a choice of languages. I'll drop down and do a full install now and see if anything else turns up. If all is cool and no one squeals I'll commit the above patch. Okay, cool. We can always change it to use a more

Bug#123388: #123388, boot-floppies: dialog boxes for i18n need to be fixed

2001-12-11 Thread Phil Blundell
l[0] = newtLabel(1, height + 2, _(Download URL)); e[0] = newtEntry(14, height + 2, txtbuf, 58, s[0], NEWT_FLAG_SCROLL); l[1] = newtLabel(1, height + 4, _(Proxy)); e[1] = newtEntry(14, height + 4, nf_state.proxy.hostname, 34, s[1], Maybe some strlen's are in order? Actually, you

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