Bug#687488: #687488 debian-installer: LIFEBOOK P7120: association fails with WPA-PSK but works after installation

2012-09-27 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Brian Potkin claremont...@gmail.com writes: the list would presumably be the ESSID you want to connect to. Here at Yeah I tried both entering the ESSID manually and selecting it from the list. I've snipped the rest of your log because I'm not quite sure what you did next. Aborted the

Bug#687488: debian-installer: LIFEBOOK P7120: association fails with WPA-PSK but works after installation

2012-09-13 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Yesterday I tried to install Debian wheezy using my wireless network (WPA-PSK). The installer was able to show me the list of networks so I guess the firmware was loaded correctly from the USB stick that I provided. I entered my password but after a long

Bug#519356: [PATCH] increase the maximum supported log line length from 256 to 512 bytes. (Closes: #519356)

2012-07-07 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
at the time (it @@ -14,6 +15,10 @@ busybox (1:1.20.0-5) UNRELEASED; urgency=low the only remaining change to upstream 1.20.2 stable release. * enable ping applet for udeb build, +613 bytes on i386. (Closes: #406114) + [ Timo Juhani Lindfors ] + * increase the maximum supported log line

Re: CD sizes again (and BoF reminder!)

2012-07-06 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com writes: Back in May I warned about CD sizes[1] for the Wheezy release, pointing out that CD#1 isn't big enough any more to provide usable Gnome or KDE installations. Indeed. CD1 was really problematic in squeeze too:

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-16 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
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? You mean that they allow you to burn a CD but not write to a

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-16 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Bjørn Mork bj...@mork.no writes: I fail to see how burning to a local user's CD is any better, but yes, if that is a consideration then they need some system to tie the rights to console access. I believe ConsoleKit and the replacement systemd-loginctl attempts to solve such problems. Yes, I

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-15 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Wookey woo...@wookware.org writes: And the USB-stick process is not as simple as it might be because you have to find the HD-media files and then _also_ find an iso image to put on. It's no wonder newbs are still downloading CD/DVD images. You also need to have root access to some machine to

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-15 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Ben Armstrong sy...@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca writes: accomplish as the superuser.) What I wonder, though, is if it is universally true that ordinary users will always have write access to a USB key they've just inserted. Under what circumstances will they not? At least in default debian and

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-12 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com writes: At this point, I'm skeptical that either of the first two are going to work acceptably with Wheezy. If that's the case, then we should warn people that they will need to use at least one of: I agree. I tried installing debian gnome desktop from CD1

Bug#640677: installation-reports: Default user not in the sudoerfs file after standard install

2011-09-07 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
dryphi dry...@gmail.com writes: Yes that package is installed. Is that good or bad? If it is installed it will try to use kexec to reboot the system. This does not work on all computers. Remove the package and try again? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Bug#640677: installation-reports: Default user not in the sudoerfs file after standard install

2011-09-06 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) writes: 2. Within the live terminal or within the system following install, doing a Restart results in an endless loop. It does not shut down the system, it simply logs out, then appears to restart the kernel, then presents the login screen

Re: warn users if they try to install desktop with CD1 and no network?

2011-08-15 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Hi, Joey Hess jo...@debian.org writes: and chose the desktop and laptop tasks during installation. During the Could we make desktop users need their local Debian geeks less? BoF I wondered if it was normal that my new installation did not offer Shutdown as an option in GNOME's System-Shut

Re: warn users if they try to install desktop with CD1 and no network?

2011-08-15 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Hi, Joey Hess jo...@debian.org writes: AFAIKS, in unstable, gnome-core depends gnome-power-manager depends upower depends pm-utils. Probably this was fixed since squeeze. That is possible yes. I've changed apt-setup to show the message when no network is configured. However, since the full

Re: warn users if they try to install desktop with CD1 and no network?

2011-08-15 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Joey Hess jo...@debian.org writes: wondered if it was normal that my new installation did not offer Shutdown as an option in GNOME's System-Shut Down dialog. Just reread my original mail. I meant Suspend here of course, not Shutdown. -Timo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

warn users if they try to install desktop with CD1 and no network?

2011-08-08 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Hi, just before debconf I bought a new laptop. Crypto-LVM initialization took so long that I ended up having to finish the installation in my hotel room with only WPA2 network. I used Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.2.1 Squeeze - Official amd64 CD Binary-1 20110626-16:33 and chose the desktop and laptop

Bug#620506: FTBFS: HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found

2011-04-02 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Package: debian-installer-6.0-netboot-amd64 Version: 20110106.squeeze1 Severity: serious Steps to reproduce: 1) fakeroot apt-get --build source debian-installer-6.0-netboot-amd64 Expected results: 1) package builds from source Actual results: 1) build fails with Reading package lists... Done

Bug#600229: debian-installer: improve support for English-speaking people in Finland

2010-10-18 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org writes: Ah, that was kFreeBSD, I didn't notice. I'm not sure that kFreeBSD has a udeb with alternate keyboard layouts, which might explain why you have no prompt for keymap. I see the same problem on amd64 too. You can reproduce this with $ wget

Bug#600229: debian-installer: improve support for English-speaking people in Finland

2010-10-18 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org writes: I chose English, then other/Europe/Finland, then the Nigerian locale (why not), and then I got prompted for the keymap layout. Ah yes, I didn't proceed after that. Sorry for the noise, this seems to be a gnu/kfreebsd specific issue. Is there some tag

Bug#600229: debian-installer: improve support for English-speaking people in Finland

2010-10-15 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org writes: How about continuing to choose English, then Finland? You will then have the opportunity to choose whatever keymap you want (LC_CTYPE has nothing to do with the used keymap anyway), you will get the timezone for Finland, etc. Hmm, when do I have

Bug#600229: debian-installer: improve support for English-speaking people in Finland

2010-10-15 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org writes: Uh, something is going wrong, here. You should be prompted for the keymap after the question about locales. Yes I think so too. Can you reproduce the issue if you do wget

Bug#600229: debian-installer: improve support for English-speaking people in Finland

2010-10-14 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Package: debian-installer Severity: wishlist While testing http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/kfreebsd-amd64/20101014-00:10/netboot/mini.iso I noticed that if I enter English as the language and then other/Europe/Finland as the location I get There is no locale defined for the combination

Bug#591630: user-setup: Template parse error near `description...@latin.utf-8

2010-08-04 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Package: user-setup Version: 1.32 Severity: important The package fails on upgrade: Setting up user-setup (1.32) ... Template parse error near `description...@latin.utf-8: Dozvoliti logovanje na sistem kao ârootâ korisnik?', in stanza #5 of /var/lib/dpkg/info/user-setup.templates dpkg: error

Bug#532437: debian-installer: documentation 4.3.2.2: s/vmlinuz/linux/?

2009-06-09 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Package: debian-installer Version: 20090123lenny1 Severity: minor http://debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s03.html.en says under 4.3.2.2. Adding the installer image that the name of the kernel file is vmlinuz. However,

Bug#532440: documentation: 4.3.3.: mention that bootable flag should be set?

2009-06-09 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Package: debian-installer Version: 20090123lenny1 Severity: wishlist I tried to follow the instruction at http://debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s03.html.en as closely as possible: $ sudo syslinux /dev/sda1 $ sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt $ (cd /mnt; sudo wget

Bug#519356: busybox: please document that syslogd silently truncates lines longer than 255 bytes

2009-03-11 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Package: busybox Version: 1:1.10.2-2 Severity: wishlist Steps to reproduce: 1) sudo busybox syslogd -C4096 2) logger logger test `seq 1 100` 3) busybox logread | grep logger test Expected results: 3) numbers from 1 to 100 are shown Actual results: 3) only numbers from 1 to 75 are shown: Mar 12

Bug#474651: still reproducible in sid

2009-03-01 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Hi, I just tried fakeroot -s fakechroot.save fakechroot /usr/sbin/debootstrap --variant=fakechroot sid /tmp/sid http://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian/ and noticed that it fails with ... I: Extracting zlib1g... I: Installing core packages... W: Failure trying to run: chroot /tmp/sid dpkg

Bug#503582: regression: busybox nc -v www.google.com 80 segfaults

2008-10-26 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Package: busybox Version: 1:1.10.2-2 Severity: normal Steps to reproduce: 1) busybox nc -v www.google.com 80 Expected results: 1) busybox tells the user that option -v is not known. Actual results: 1) busybox segfaults. More info: 1) gdb is not too useful since the package does not support

Bug#503581: busybox: strips binary even with DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS='nostrip debug noopt'

2008-10-26 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Package: busybox Version: 1:1.10.2-2 Severity: normal Steps to reproduce: 1) export PACKAGE=busybox 2) script -c DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS='nostrip debug noopt' fakeroot apt-get --build source $PACKAGE build.log 3) sudo dpkg -i busybox_*deb Expected results: 3) /bin/busybox contains debugging symbols

Bug#463634: debian-installer: please mention how to report bugs in the installer

2008-02-01 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Package: debian-installer Version: 20070308etch1 Severity: wishlist It would be nice if the installer would tell the user how he/she can report bugs about the installer. It is not very obvious for a newbie to look for a package named debian-installer (even thought it has an intuitive name). Also,

Bug#463635: debian-installer: opening subtree with [ is counter-intuitive and should be at least documented

2008-02-01 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Package: debian-installer Version: 20070308etch1 Severity: wishlist If I choose English as the installer language and then specify that my location is Other I get a menu that has subtrees. It seems that I can expand substrees by hitting [ -- this is relatively counter-intuitive and should be at