Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-02-20 Thread Josh Triplett
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 11:28:58AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Josh Triplett wrote: If the goal here is to hide the boot messages by default, note that the default kernel command line includes quiet, which hides most kernel messages and systemd messages. Note that the hiding of systemd

Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-22 Thread Josh Triplett
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 04:28:27AM +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: On 22.01.2014 03:05, Josh Triplett wrote: On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 02:53:51AM +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: And yes, the latter option would be easier for the user, but probably more difficult for the package maintainer.

Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-22 Thread Josh Triplett
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 08:20:18AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Josh Triplett j...@joshtriplett.org (2014-01-21): In that case, to clarify further: I don't have any objection to installing plymouth as long as the splash option is *not* included by default. It's a minor waste of disk space

Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Josh Triplett j...@joshtriplett.org (2014-01-22): On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 08:20:18AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Josh Triplett j...@joshtriplett.org (2014-01-21): In that case, to clarify further: I don't have any objection to installing plymouth as long as the splash option is *not*

Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-22 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi Josh, On 22.01.2014 17:50, Josh Triplett wrote: Odd. Please report a bug in the fd.o bugzilla on the i915 driver. This seems to be already reported [1], as i915.disable_power_well=0 stops the errors (but there is still mode change). I tried: sudo journalctl -F BOOTCHART This gave no

Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-22 Thread Josh Triplett
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 01:59:21AM +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: On 22.01.2014 17:50, Josh Triplett wrote: I don't know what isn't working there; you might try the systemd IRC channel or mailing list, to see if they know what's going on. I just tried running it in a terminal and got: $

Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-21 Thread Joey Hess
Josh Triplett wrote: I wasn't suggesting a requirement; I was suggesting that if systemd becomes the default, there will likely be advantages to switching d-i to use the same init that installed Debian systems do. It's possible I suppose, but since d-i doesn't currently use Debian's init

Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-21 Thread Josh Triplett
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 10:43:02AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Josh Triplett wrote: Quietness on success has some significant advantages to justify not disabling it Is quietness of success actually intended to be a default property of systemd? If a lot of distributions default to adding the

Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-21 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi Josh, On 21.01.2014 03:35, Josh Triplett wrote: If splash were a non-default boot option, and plymouth did nothing unless the kernel command line had that option, that seems entirely reasonable. Very easily done; just add this to the plymouth service, for instance:

Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-21 Thread Josh Triplett
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 07:43:41PM +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: On 21.01.2014 03:35, Josh Triplett wrote: If splash were a non-default boot option, and plymouth did nothing unless the kernel command line had that option, that seems entirely reasonable. Very easily done; just add this to

Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-21 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi Josh, On 21.01.2014 23:14, Josh Triplett wrote: In that case, to clarify further: I don't have any objection to installing plymouth as long as the splash option is *not* included by default. It's a minor waste of disk space if unused, but it might be worth the convenience of being able to

Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-21 Thread josh
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 12:53:05AM +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: On 21.01.2014 23:14, Josh Triplett wrote: In that case, to clarify further: I don't have any objection to installing plymouth as long as the splash option is *not* included by default. It's a minor waste of disk space if

Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-21 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi Joey, On 20.01.2014 16:28, Joey Hess wrote: Josh Triplett wrote: If the goal here is to hide the boot messages by default, note that the default kernel command line includes quiet, which hides most kernel messages and systemd messages. Note that the hiding of systemd messages is

Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-21 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi Josh, On 22.01.2014 01:30, j...@joshtriplett.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 12:53:05AM +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: So you agree that it is easy enough to manually remove the 'splash' boot option if you don't like it (assuming it was enabled by default)? I don't see where you got

Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-21 Thread Josh Triplett
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 01:34:18AM +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: Hi Joey, On 20.01.2014 16:28, Joey Hess wrote: Josh Triplett wrote: If the goal here is to hide the boot messages by default, note that the default kernel command line includes quiet, which hides most kernel messages and

Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-21 Thread Josh Triplett
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 02:53:51AM +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: On 22.01.2014 01:30, j...@joshtriplett.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 12:53:05AM +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: So you agree that it is easy enough to manually remove the 'splash' boot option if you don't like it (assuming

Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-21 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
On 22.01.2014 03:05, Josh Triplett wrote: On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 02:53:51AM +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: Why do you think it would be bad to enable 'splash' by default? Because then the splash screen would show up. :) See my previous mails in this thread; I would like to avoid having a

Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-21 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Josh Triplett j...@joshtriplett.org (2014-01-21): In that case, to clarify further: I don't have any objection to installing plymouth as long as the splash option is *not* included by default. It's a minor waste of disk space if unused, but it might be worth the convenience of being able to

Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-20 Thread Joey Hess
Josh Triplett wrote: If the goal here is to hide the boot messages by default, note that the default kernel command line includes quiet, which hides most kernel messages and systemd messages. Note that the hiding of systemd messages is unintentional, and can make debugging a system that fails

Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-20 Thread Josh Triplett
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 11:28:58AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Josh Triplett wrote: If the goal here is to hide the boot messages by default, note that the default kernel command line includes quiet, which hides most kernel messages and systemd messages. Note that the hiding of systemd

Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-20 Thread Joey Hess
Josh Triplett wrote: Do you mean the options used within d-i itself, or on the installed system? The latter; d-i does not run with systemd. If you mean the latter, that configuration is owned by the grub-common package, not by d-i. grub-installer configures the grub menu file to include

Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-20 Thread Josh Triplett
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 01:19:25PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Josh Triplett wrote: Do you mean the options used within d-i itself, or on the installed system? The latter; d-i does not run with systemd. If Debian ends up adopting systemd as the default, that seems likely to change. If you

Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-20 Thread Joey Hess
Josh Triplett wrote: The latter; d-i does not run with systemd. If Debian ends up adopting systemd as the default, that seems likely to change. Seems unlikely; I doubt that the Linux kernel will ever require systemd to boot an embedded system such as d-i. Given that the resulting

Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-20 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi Josh, On 20.01.2014 02:07, Josh Triplett wrote: If the goal here is to hide the boot messages by default, note that the default kernel command line includes quiet, which hides most kernel messages and systemd messages. In my opinion the boot options 'quiet' (hide unnecessary kernel

Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-20 Thread Josh Triplett
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 06:05:23PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Josh Triplett wrote: The latter; d-i does not run with systemd. If Debian ends up adopting systemd as the default, that seems likely to change. Seems unlikely; I doubt that the Linux kernel will ever require systemd to boot

Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-20 Thread Josh Triplett
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 11:12:21PM +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: Hi Josh, On 20.01.2014 02:07, Josh Triplett wrote: If the goal here is to hide the boot messages by default, note that the default kernel command line includes quiet, which hides most kernel messages and systemd messages.

Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-19 Thread Josh Triplett
If the goal here is to hide the boot messages by default, note that the default kernel command line includes quiet, which hides most kernel messages and systemd messages. Apart from that, I'd echo a frequent description I've seen of splash screens: a splash screen exists so that while you're

Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-05 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 08:29:24 +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: reassign 734093 tasksel retitle 734093 Please include plymouth in task-desktop thanks (proposal to install plymouth, that provides an attractive boot animation in place of the text messages that normally get shown. Text

Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-05 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi, On 05.01.2014 11:51, Julien Cristau wrote: On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 08:29:24 +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: OK, then. Reassigning to tasksel (as we should have done for quite a while, indeed It is probably best to include plymouth in tasksel, but still the installer would have to

Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-04 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 01/03/2014 09:23 PM, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: It would be good to know, if plymouth handles such situations gracefully. there is no problem with plymouth on systems that do not have a display attached. on systems that only support text modes, the text plugin is used (package plymouth with

Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-04 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
On 04.01.2014 00:19, Steve McIntyre wrote: No, please! Let's not add more fluff to the base system. Maybe it is better to install plymouth only, if task-desktop is installed? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-04 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
On 04.01.2014 11:06, Daniel Baumann wrote: there is no problem with plymouth on systems that do not have a display attached. Thanks for providing this information. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-04 Thread Holger Levsen
On Samstag, 4. Januar 2014, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: Maybe it is better to install plymouth only, if task-desktop is installed? this seems like a very reasonable approach to me. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Processed: Re: Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-04 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
previously set Ignoring request to alter fixed versions of bug #734093 to the same values previously set retitle 734093 Please include plymouth in task-desktop Bug #734093 [tasksel] debian-installer: install plymouth by default Changed Bug title to 'Please include plymouth in task-desktop' from 'debian

Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-04 Thread Christian PERRIER
reassign 734093 tasksel retitle 734093 Please include plymouth in task-desktop thanks (proposal to install plymouth, that provides an attractive boot animation in place of the text messages that normally get shown. Text messages are instead redirected to a logfile for viewing after boot. ...by

Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-03 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Package: debian-installer Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: Antoine Beaupré anar...@debian.org Dear Maintainer, in his installation report [1] Antoine Beaupré requested to have plymouth installed by default. While some want to have it and some don't, I think it really might be a good idea to

Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Andreas Cadhalpun andreas.cadhal...@googlemail.com (2014-01-03): Package: debian-installer Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: Antoine Beaupré anar...@debian.org Dear Maintainer, in his installation report [1] Antoine Beaupré requested to have plymouth installed by default. While some

Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-03 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi KiBi, On 03.01.2014 20:05, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Last I remember from squeeze (didn't check wheezy too much), plymouth was quite buggy/broken, and has been RC buggy for a long while (hello libdrm-nouveau); I'm not sure it's a good idea to install it by default, but I'm happy to take

Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Andreas Cadhalpun andreas.cadhal...@googlemail.com (2014-01-03): I know that plymouth had a problem with '--retain-splash' and gdm 3.4 but that has been fixed by introducing gdm 3.8. Ah, that might be what I saw a few months ago. Currently plymouth has only one bug and that is tagged

Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-03 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
On 03.01.2014 20:50, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Yes, I checked the BTS before replying. I'm just not sure end users having troubles to boot are actually able to work around those issues and to report bugs. (I've at least seen people switch distro instead of figuring out what went wrong.) That's of

Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-03 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 07:03:26PM +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: Package: debian-installer Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: Antoine Beaupré anar...@debian.org Dear Maintainer, in his installation report [1] Antoine Beaupré requested to have plymouth installed by default. Not all

Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-03 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi, On 03.01.2014 20:59, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 07:03:26PM +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: Package: debian-installer Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: Antoine Beaupré anar...@debian.org Dear Maintainer, in his installation report [1] Antoine Beaupré requested to

Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-03 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 09:23:58PM +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: Thanks for this hint, I hadn't thought about it. It would be good to know, if plymouth handles such situations gracefully. I CC'ed Daniel Baumann, the maintainer of plymouth, so that he can answer this question. I'd call it

Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-03 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
On 03.01.2014 21:37, Lennart Sorensen wrote: I like the fact a debian base system by default is a working base system, with no useless junk for me to have to remove later. Perhaps if I slected 'graphical desktop' in the task selector, then it could be considered, but as part of the default base

Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-03 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 08:05:42PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Andreas Cadhalpun andreas.cadhal...@googlemail.com (2014-01-03): Package: debian-installer Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: Antoine Beaupré anar...@debian.org Dear Maintainer, in his installation report [1] Antoine Beaupré

Bug#734093: debian-installer: install plymouth by default

2014-01-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2014-01-03 at 14:59 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 07:03:26PM +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: Package: debian-installer Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: Antoine Beaupré anar...@debian.org Dear Maintainer, in his installation report [1] Antoine