Bug#684128: false advertising

2012-08-08 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mardi, 7 août 2012 22.46:03, Roger Lynn a écrit : This has caught me out in the past. When it says gigabyte I expect 2^30 bytes. Hopefully this time when I do an installation I will remember to get a calculator out. The people who don't care are mostly those who don't know what a gigabyte

Bug#684128: false advertising

2012-08-08 Thread Roger Lynn
On 08/08/12 07:20, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: Le mardi, 7 août 2012 22.46:03, Roger Lynn a écrit : This has caught me out in the past. When it says gigabyte I expect 2^30 bytes. Hopefully this time when I do an installation I will remember to get a calculator out. The people who don't care

Bug#684216: Package: installation-reports

2012-08-08 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Heinz-Werner Drechsel (hwdrech...@t-online.de): 1. This error exists since debian wheezy DI A1...: when installer tries to detect network hardware, it hangs without asking after a short time for an extern driver or firmware. I have an onboard RTL 8168e-2. Without an functionning

Bug#684128: false advertising

2012-08-08 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 07:40:11 +0100 Roger Lynn ro...@rilynn.me.uk wrote: Absolutely agreed. I wouldn't hope to see this fixed for Wheezy - even just changing the wording of the text requires an enormous amount of work at this stage - it's just frustrating to see it apparently being dismissed

Bug#684128: false advertising

2012-08-08 Thread Roger Lynn
On 08/08/2012 09:19, Herbert Kaminski wrote: Please have a look at IEC 60027-2 (or Wikipedia) to make clear that the wording is absolutely correct. So if anybody wants to change the units of measurement, a change to the wording _and_ the code is required. I don't think anyone has

Bug#684216: Package: installation-reports

2012-08-08 Thread Christian PERRIER
tags 684216 moreinfo thanks Quoting Christian PERRIER (bubu...@debian.org): 2. With an (new) Nvidia graphics card GTX 560 SE the grapical desktop after installation doesn't start (with built-in nouveau driver), it hangs! Before, while booting, syslog shows an error like unknown I2C-Ports

Processed: Re: Bug#684216: Package: installation-reports

2012-08-08 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: tags 684216 moreinfo Bug #684216 [installation-reports] Package: installation-reports Added tag(s) moreinfo. thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. -- 684216:

Bug#684283: the Hyper-V kernel modules ( as minimum, hv_vmbus hv_utils hv_storvsc hv_netvsc ) are missing in the current installer image of Debian Wheezy

2012-08-08 Thread Victor Miasnikov
Package: installation-reports Boot method: CD Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/wheezy_d-i/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso Date: 2012-08-08 Machine: virtual computer ( guest ) on Hyper-V Processor: Memory: Partitions: Base System

Bug#684293: installation-reports: Installer hangs at iso-scan step while mounting an extended partition

2012-08-08 Thread M H
Package: installation-reports Severity: important The Wheezy hd-media installer (daily from 08-08) hangs at the step Searching drives for an installer ISO image, while mounting the extended partition /dev/sda4. This partition should never be mounted. The ouptut of ps w is given below: 1291

Processed: reassign 684293 to iso-scan

2012-08-08 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: reassign 684293 iso-scan 1.40 Bug #684293 [installation-reports] installation-reports: Installer hangs at iso-scan step while mounting an extended partition Bug reassigned from package 'installation-reports' to 'iso-scan'. Ignoring request to

Bug#684283: adding the boot parameter ata_piix.prefer_ms_hyperv=0 solve problem with IDE HDD

2012-08-08 Thread Victor Miasnikov
Hi! After this http://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com/msg3482442.html == Tim Miller Dyck Wed, 14 Mar 2012 07:15:52 -0700 . . . The boot flags can be viewed by pressing F5? F6? (one of those) on the setup boot screen and then navigating to the boot line with cursor keys and

Bug#684309: installation-reports: Wheezy installer hangs at partition hard drives

2012-08-08 Thread M H
Package: installation-reports Severity: important The Wheezy installation  hangs while loading the partitioner (hd-media daily from 08-08).   The ps w output: 6865 root  6304 S    udpkg --configure --force-configure partman-base  6866 root  4420 S    {partman-base.po} /bin/sh

Request for test of d-i beta1 announcement, please review and translate [was: Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta1 release]

2012-08-08 Thread Francesca Ciceri
[cc-ing debian-boot: I totally forgot to do it in my first mail, sorry!] On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 10:02:41AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: Hi, See attached a very intrusive patch. Thank you very much for the patch: I've just applied it. I've also slightly reworded the final part (and the

Bug#684293: root cause of mount hang in installer [kernel bug]

2012-08-08 Thread M H
After some googling I found out that the root cause of the recent mount problems with extended partitions (maybe also mounting disks like sda) are related to the infinite loop kernel bug in __getblk_slow. (see the explanation: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1189121/) The affected debian

Bug#684293: root cause of mount hang in installer [kernel bug]

2012-08-08 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting M H (mh000...@yahoo.com): After some googling I found out that the root cause of the recent mount problems with extended partitions (maybe also mounting disks like sda) are related to the infinite loop kernel bug in __getblk_slow. (see the explanation:

Processed: Re: Bug#413649: debian-installer-manual: Appendix D.3 should mention how to set password and ssh

2012-08-08 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: tags 413649 + pending Bug #413649 [installation-guide] debian-installer-manual: Appendix D.3 should mention how to set password and ssh Added tag(s) pending. -- 413649: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=413649 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact

Bug#413649: debian-installer-manual: Appendix D.3 should mention how to set password and ssh

2012-08-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Control: tags 413649 + pending Michael Stapelberg, le Sun 29 Jul 2012 21:48:07 +0200, a écrit : On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:39:20 +0100 Vincent Bernat ber...@luffy.cx wrote: And don't forget to set root password: passwd root Thanks, I created a patch to fix this in the installation-guide

Bug#680650: USB install method fails on wheezy alpha1

2012-08-08 Thread Antoine Beaupré
Hi! On 2012-07-07, Ben Armstrong wrote: On 07/07/12 02:18 PM, Antoine Beaupré wrote: I have tried the install method described here with the Debian Wheezy alpha1 d-i: http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/apas02.html#howto-getting-images-usb First, this is not the official doc, but

d-i manual: string freeze?

2012-08-08 Thread Holger Wansing
Hello, Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org wrote: Control: tags 413649 + pending Michael Stapelberg, le Sun 29 Jul 2012 21:48:07 +0200, a écrit : On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:39:20 +0100 Vincent Bernat ber...@luffy.cx wrote: And don't forget to set root password: passwd root