grouping countrychooser list by region
I have committed some code to group the countries in the chountrychooser into regions. It adds a regionmap, which maps between country codes and regions, and a countrylist, which orders the list. There is some very gross trickery to make the countries under a region be indented prettily, while working around some infelicites of debconf, po-debconf, and probably cdebconf. It involves unicode non-breaking spaces. And then there is the hacking to add the actual indents to the translated strings from iso-codes. Nasty, and needs a better way. Anyway, what needs to be done to complete this is: 1. Finish adding all the country codes to the regionmap. Uncategorised countries will be under other for now. 2. Add the strings from the regionmap to the po files. Until this is done, they are not translated, and so po-debconf does not translate the choices lists at all. I can do 1. (eventually), but don't know how to deal with 2. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature
D-I translations: tasksel (Denis Barbier mail to -i18n)
Translators, this is for you. Tasksel is used during 2nd stage and therefore should be properly translated also. Denis , any chance to add tasksel statistics to your d-i l10n status scripts ? Joey, could you consider moving tasksel to alioth and thus give translators CVS write access? - Forwarded message from Denis Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 22:02:38 +0100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: String change in tasksel From: Denis Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailing-List: [EMAIL PROTECTED] archive/latest/2301 On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 12:13:11AM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: Hi, an old string change in tasksel had never been merged into PO files, this is done now and fi.po and fr.po are the only fully translated PO files under tasksel/po. Files are available at http://cvs.debian.org/tasksel/po/ I forgot to say that tasks can (and therefore should) be translated. http://cvs.debian.org/tasksel/tasks/po/ The .pot file is not there, but you might get any .po file and change translations. Here is the current status: ca.po 78 translated messages. cs.po 78 translated messages. da.po 78 translated messages. de.po 64 translated messages, 14 fuzzy translations. es.po 78 translated messages. fi.po 76 translated messages, 2 fuzzy translations. fr.po 78 translated messages. ja.po 78 translated messages. no.po 9 translated messages, 1 fuzzy translation, 68 untranslated messages. pt_BR.po 76 translated messages, 2 fuzzy translations. Denis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] - End forwarded message - -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New Discover Upload Possible?
Am Die, den 20.01.2004 schrieb Steinar H. Gunderson um 02:30: On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 08:18:15PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: Detecting hardware: ns83820 cmpci emu10k1 usb-uhci usb-uhci usb-uhci usb-uhci I'd guess this was the reason for the sort -u in the first place -- please consider replacing it by at least an uniq, or find some other good workaround (uniq without demanding sorted input should be solvable in a few lines of shell, by keeping a list and doing grepping against it for each new entry). It's not crippling for d-i, though. The problem is, the modules have to be loaded in the same order as in d-i. To load a module twice is a bug in this case. I think it is better to detect this by looking in /proc/modules and this worked, when I tested the sort -u replacement on 2.4. If it no longer works or does not work on 2.6 we have to fix that. Will look into this soon. Gaudenz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: discover2 udebs
Am Mon, den 19.01.2004 schrieb Goswin von Brederlow um 19:56: Hi, I installed kernel-headers on m68k manually and build discover2. The UDeb is at rsync://mrvn.homeip.net/m68k-sid/new/discover2/ If someone could sponsor an upload it would help. The current version of discover2 does no longer build-depend on kernel-headers. They are included in the package now. So you probably built an old version. Does m68k have one of these buses: ata, pci, pcmcia or usb? If none of the are present on m68k then we could exclude this arch because discover would be useless. Gaudenz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bosnian translation of Debian installer - updated...
* base-config: 103t3f9u [Safir eæeroviæ] Missing file: debian-installer/tools/countrychooser/debian/po/bs.po Missing file: base-config/po/bs.po ??? All debian-installer PO files merged together: bs.po 787t5f1u Global statistics: 930t3f25u (97%) Missing file: base-config/po/bs.po, have I not translated this file already? Why is it missing??? I think I have. If not, please send templates.pot file to me, because I cannot download it using cvsweb interface (lock error). I don't have Debian installed (nor Linux) on a machine that I use to access internet, so I cannot use anoncvs or cvs :) Only cvsweb. Regards, Safir On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 05:30:37PM +0100, Safir Secerovic Linux Zagor wrote: Hello everyone, I found some time and updated bosnian language, attached are zipped *.po files. Committed, except for anna because there was a CVS lock. Could someone please commit this file when lock has gone? Denis -- NeoMail - Webmail that doesn't suck... as much. http://neomail.sourceforge.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#228694: VirtualPC installation report
Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: people.d.o/cdimages/... 01/19/2004 uname -a: Linux debian2 2.4.23-1-386 #1 Sun Nov 30 16:49:14 EST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux Date: Tue Jan 20 10:09:48 CET 2004 Method: netinstall iso-image Machine: Connectix VirtualPC for Windows 5.2 (Build 418) Processor: Pentium III Coppermine Memory: 64MB Root Device: /dev/hda1 Root Size/partition table: Disk /dev/hda: 17.1 GB, 17179803648 bytes /dev/hda1 * 11984 04+ 83 Linux /dev/hda219852480 249984 82 Linux swap Output of lspci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (AGP disabled) (rev 03) 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 01) 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) 00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI 00:08.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86c764/765 [Trio32/64/64V+] 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21140 [FasterNet] (rev 20) 00:00.0 Class 0600: 8086:7192 (rev 03) 00:07.0 Class 0601: 8086:7110 (rev 01) 00:07.1 Class 0101: 8086:7111 (rev 01) 00:07.3 Class 0680: 8086:7113 00:08.0 Class 0300: 5333:8811 00:0a.0 Class 0200: 1011:0009 (rev 20) Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked:[O] Configure network HW: [E] see lspci and below Config network: [O] Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [O] Create file systems:[O] Mount partitions: [O] Install base system:[O] Install boot loader:[O] Reboot: [O] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: The emulated network is not detected during the installation process. I must select the module manually in the network card modules list. The required module is tulip.o -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#228695: VirtualPC 2004 installation report
Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: people.d.o/cdimages/... 01/19/2004 uname -a: Linux debian2 2.4.23-1-386 #1 Sun Nov 30 16:49:14 EST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux Date: Tue Jan 20 11:24:22 CET 2004 Method: netinstall iso-image Machine: Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 (Build 582) Processor: Pentium III (Coppermine) Memory: 64MB Root Device: /dev/hda1 Root Size/partition table: Disk /dev/hda: 17.1 GB, 17179803648 bytes /dev/hda1 * 11984 04+ 83 Linux /dev/hda219852480 249984 82 Linux swap Output of lspci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (AGP disabled) (rev 03) 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 01) 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) 00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02) 00:08.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86c764/765 [Trio32/64/64V+] 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21140 [FasterNet] (rev 20) 00:00.0 Class 0600: 8086:7192 (rev 03) 00:07.0 Class 0601: 8086:7110 (rev 01) 00:07.1 Class 0101: 8086:7111 (rev 01) 00:07.3 Class 0680: 8086:7113 (rev 02) 00:08.0 Class 0300: 5333:8811 00:0a.0 Class 0200: 1011:0009 (rev 20) Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked:[O] Configure network HW: [E]-- see below Config network: [O] Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [O] Create file systems:[O] Mount partitions: [O] Install base system:[O] Install boot loader:[O] Reboot: [O] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: The emulated tulip network card is not autodetected by d-i. But I can choose is from the list of available network modules. But, after this, I get an error, that no network card is detected. The network itself works after selecting the tulip.o module. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ntfs resize and gtk frontends
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 05:52:53PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 10:02:14PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: But is not in any way related to the libntfs library ? Package: ntfstools Source: linux-ntfs Version: 1.8.0-2 Depends: libc6 (= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libntfs5 (= 1.8.0) I haven't looked at the source to know which pieces are exposed through the library or not. I say this, because on the parted mailing list, less than a week ago, it was claimed that libntfs didn't support resizing. That's entirely possible, but there is code in the same source distribution to support it, regardless of whether it's currently part of the library. Still, i wonder what the use of many outside library would mean to libparted and its use in debian-installer, where size matters. Depending on the robustness of the ntfsresize commandline interface, perhaps this can be included as a lower-priority udeb that libparted (partman?) can interface with iff it's available? Yeah, but it would be better if it was available directly trough libparted, i think. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#228654: installation-reports: ide-detect lockup on Alpha PWS500a
Thanks for the report. We have 2.4.24 kernel images in the archive for d-i, but I hadn't yet switched to using them for the daily builds. This is done now, and tomorrow's ISOs should be 2.4.24-based. Would you be willing to give them a try? I'd be happy to. Is there any way of skipping the IDE detection or telling it not to try different chipsets? Have you filed a bug on the kernel-image packages about the tulip/de4x5 issue, by chance? No, I'm 99% certain that the problem isn't really in the ethernet drivers. It's the machine's buggy PCI/IDE chipset causing the drivers to fail. If I put another network card in one of the PCI slots it will also fail. From my understanding, the problems with these particular machines have been known for a while. http://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2003/debian-alpha-200308/msg00082.html The odd thing is that the 2.4.2x Debian kernels do boot and appear to function properly (outside of bringing up a network interface.) I would expect it to work in the installer if you can still skip the network configuration. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: discover2 udebs
Gaudenz Steinlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Am Mon, den 19.01.2004 schrieb Goswin von Brederlow um 19:56: Hi, I installed kernel-headers on m68k manually and build discover2. The UDeb is at rsync://mrvn.homeip.net/m68k-sid/new/discover2/ If someone could sponsor an upload it would help. The current version of discover2 does no longer build-depend on kernel-headers. They are included in the package now. So you probably built an old version. Ok, the autobuilders should handle them then. Did you put a Closes into the changelog? Does m68k have one of these buses: ata, pci, pcmcia or usb? If none of the are present on m68k then we could exclude this arch because discover would be useless. Gaudenz Many m68k have ata, some pcmcia and a very few pci. Don't think any usb devices exist but you could have one for pci. But the module names differ. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: discover2 and archictures that don't hardware with IDs
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:28:41AM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: Does m68k have one of these buses: ata, pci, pcmcia or usb? If none of the are present on m68k then we could exclude this arch because discover would be useless. From what I could pick up from lurking this mailinglist, d-i depends heavily on discover. What impact has dropping discover on d-i for the m68k architecture? Gaudenz Geert Stappers pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: discover2 udebs
Am Die, den 20.01.2004 schrieb Goswin von Brederlow um 11:39: Gaudenz Steinlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, the autobuilders should handle them then. Did you put a Closes into the changelog? Yes, of course. They are listed as resolved on b.d.o Does m68k have one of these buses: ata, pci, pcmcia or usb? If none of the are present on m68k then we could exclude this arch because discover would be useless. Gaudenz Many m68k have ata, some pcmcia and a very few pci. Don't think any usb devices exist but you could have one for pci. But the module names differ. The module names for the buses differ or the module names for the same (same id) on these buses differ? Only the latter is a problem. Discover does not take care of the former by itself. Gaudenz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bterm font reloading patch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, At 19 Jan 04 00:23:15 GMT, Matt Kraai wrote: The attached patch should make bterm reload the font when it receives a SIGHUP. Would someone please test it? Thank you Matt!! It works perfectly on my test environment. I strongly wish this patch will be merged into bogl-bterm udeb. And I noticed - - bterm-unifont uses awk for HUP signal, but awk doesn't exist on 1st stage. Does this need to rewrite by sed or another tool? - - busybox-cvs-floppy-udeb includes /bin/sleep, but busybox-cvs-udeb doesn't. Why? [2 patch text/plain; us-ascii (7bit)] diff -ru bogl-0.1.14-old/bterm.c bogl-0.1.14/bterm.c --- bogl-0.1.14-old/bterm.c 2004-01-18 15:53:53.0 -0800 +++ bogl-0.1.14/bterm.c 2004-01-18 16:15:41.0 -0800 @@ -153,6 +153,20 @@ ioctl(ttyfd, TIOCSWINSZ, win); } +static char *font_name; +static struct bogl_term *term; + +void reload_font(int sig) +{ + free(term-font); + + if ((term-font = bogl_mmap_font(font_name)) == NULL) +fprintf(stderr, Bad font\n); + + term-xstep = bogl_font_glyph(term-font, ' ', 0); + term-ystep = bogl_font_height(term-font); +} + /* * The usage is very simple: *bterm -f font.bgf [ -l locale ] [ program ] @@ -165,9 +179,8 @@ char buf[8192]; struct timeval tv; int ptyfd, ttyfd; - struct bogl_term *term; struct bogl_font *font; - char *locale = , *font_name = NULL, *command = NULL; + char *locale = , *command = NULL; int i; char o = ' '; int pending = 0; @@ -234,6 +247,8 @@ spawn_shell(ptyfd, ttyfd, command == NULL ? /bin/sh : command); + signal(SIGHUP, reload_font); + ntio = ttysave; ntio.c_lflag = ~(ECHO|ISIG|ICANON|XCASE); ntio.c_iflag = 0; diff -ru bogl-0.1.14-old/debian/changelog bogl-0.1.14/debian/changelog --- bogl-0.1.14-old/debian/changelog 2004-01-18 15:53:53.0 -0800 +++ bogl-0.1.14/debian/changelog 2004-01-18 16:12:26.0 -0800 @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +bogl (0.1.14-1.2) unstable; urgency=low + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * Reload the font when SIGHUP is received (closes: #219333). + + -- Matt Kraai [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun, 18 Jan 2004 16:12:25 -0800 + bogl (0.1.14-1.1) unstable; urgency=high * Non maintainer upload. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAkANFxcACgkQQKW+7XLQPLEhKgCgzuEDSAQ/KoiYe0xE05oL2AlK d7QAoJj89J0FpujUmMPQ26OXF58vaauU =DOxP -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: discover2 udebs
Gaudenz Steinlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Am Die, den 20.01.2004 schrieb Goswin von Brederlow um 11:39: Gaudenz Steinlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, the autobuilders should handle them then. Did you put a Closes into the changelog? Yes, of course. They are listed as resolved on b.d.o Does m68k have one of these buses: ata, pci, pcmcia or usb? If none of the are present on m68k then we could exclude this arch because discover would be useless. Gaudenz Many m68k have ata, some pcmcia and a very few pci. Don't think any usb devices exist but you could have one for pci. But the module names differ. The module names for the buses differ or the module names for the same (same id) on these buses differ? Only the latter is a problem. Discover does not take care of the former by itself. Gaudenz It would be good if you could add zorro support to discover, since thats the main bus on amigas. Not sure what atari/mac has though. % cat /proc/bus/zorro/devices 00 0849010000e90001c1 01 214043004000100084 02 2140640000f00d440001d2 % lszorro 00: Hydra Systems Amiganet [Ethernet Card] 01: Phase 5 CyberVision64-3D [Graphics Card] 02: Phase 5 CyberStorm Mk III [Accelerator and SCSI Host Adapter] You can look at lszorro for device names and types. Shouldn't be to hard to add support. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
miBoot problems
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 05:08:05PM +0100, Jeremie Koenig wrote: - miBoot's freeness is unclear to me ATM. I guess providing a boot floppy in the contrib/non-free section would be much work for a few OldWorld users that would probably be able to create it themselves if we provide them with detailed instructions, so it's the way I'll take if no miracle happens. I've finally managed to get a friend unsit the bootx distribution for me. It contains the source code and a GPL, which is good news. However, I guess it'll be hard to build miBoot with a free toolchain. Would a contrib package be an acceptable build-dependency for d-i images ? -- Jeremie Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#228638: installer not working properly on oldworld powerpc
Am Die, den 20.01.2004 schrieb Rolando Abarca um 00:16: Package: debian-installer Version: (unknown, from sarge netinstall cd) After booting into linux, right after starting the installer the screen goes to black. If I switch to other console it works, I can see the process running and kill the installer, it will start automatically again in that console, but with serious graphical glitches (not highlighting the current choice, not responding to keyboard, and things like that). My machine is a PowerMac 7200/120, booting with BootX, using kernel 2.4.22-powerpc-small (the one that comes in the netinstall cd doesn't work), the ramdisk (root.bin) is the one that comes in the cd. Checking no video driver in BootX does not help. You can not simply change the kernel with d-i. The d-i image is built for a specific kernel because it contains kernel modules. I'm not sure if this is related to your problem, though. Gaudenz salud! (cheers!) funkaster = (person *)malloc(sizeof(person)*curr_age+2); -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
installer ('detecting hardware') hangs on DELL Inspiron 8000
Hi, I'm new to debian (redhat user for years) and would like to install sarge for testing on my notebook. I got the Debian-Installer beta 2 released as CD iso image. Burned the CD and rebooted my machine: Unfortunately, the 'Detecting hardware' process hangs with the following error message (at 95%). Skipping unavailable module 'ide-floppy' for 'Linux IDE floppy' System: DELL Inspiron 8000 Any Idea? Thanks Johannes -- Johannes Behr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Graphics Center -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: grouping countrychooser list by region
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I have committed some code to group the countries in the chountrychooser into regions. It adds a regionmap, which maps between country codes and regions, and a countrylist, which orders the list. You forgot to mention the very good cleaning you made to my jerky code..:-) I had a look at it and I think the changelog is a very good example of the differences between a real programmer (joeyh) and a bad hacker (me)..:-) Thanks for this work. About regionmap, I tried to have a look at iso-codes, but there is no such map countries to regions list. So, we definitely have to deal with this. 1. Finish adding all the country codes to the regionmap. Uncategorised countries will be under other for now. 2. Add the strings from the regionmap to the po files. Until this is done, they are not translated, and so po-debconf does not translate the choices lists at all. I can do 1. (eventually), but don't know how to deal with 2. Neither do I:-( Denis is the Perfect Victim for this...:-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: grouping countrychooser list by region
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): 1. Finish adding all the country codes to the regionmap. Uncategorised countries will be under other for now. Let me handle this. I'm a bad programmer but quite good in world geography..:-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bterm font reloading patch
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 08:55:06PM +0900, Kenshi Muto wrote: At 19 Jan 04 00:23:15 GMT, Matt Kraai wrote: The attached patch should make bterm reload the font when it receives a SIGHUP. Would someone please test it? Thank you Matt!! It works perfectly on my test environment. Great. Thanks for trying it out. I strongly wish this patch will be merged into bogl-bterm udeb. Dan, would you mind if I made an NMU? And I noticed - - bterm-unifont uses awk for HUP signal, but awk doesn't exist on 1st stage. Does this need to rewrite by sed or another tool? I've changed it to use pidof instead in CVS. I'll upload it once the freeze is over. -- Matt Kraaihttp://ftbfs.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bterm font reloading patch
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 06:49:36AM -0800, Matt Kraai wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 08:55:06PM +0900, Kenshi Muto wrote: At 19 Jan 04 00:23:15 GMT, Matt Kraai wrote: The attached patch should make bterm reload the font when it receives a SIGHUP. Would someone please test it? Thank you Matt!! It works perfectly on my test environment. Great. Thanks for trying it out. I strongly wish this patch will be merged into bogl-bterm udeb. Dan, would you mind if I made an NMU? And I noticed - - bterm-unifont uses awk for HUP signal, but awk doesn't exist on 1st stage. Does this need to rewrite by sed or another tool? I've changed it to use pidof instead in CVS. I'll upload it once the freeze is over. Let me try to take care of it tonight. Importing NMUs into my CVS is a nuisance. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I can't see the chinese translation in real installaion?
Quoting Christian Perrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm currently trying to build a bleeding edge ISO with all d-i modules recompiled from CVS, and other packages taken from yesterdays build of sarge-businesscard. This for i386 only, but it should allow translators some deep test of translations. Thanks. I'm waiting for this ISO. ^_^ -- Best Regards, Carlos -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: Installation report: FAILED on i386
* Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-01-20 12:03]: So it turns out, having installed Linux to the one drive which is visible to Linux, that the BIOS won't boot from that drive. And I can't Boot from floppy or CD and use root=/dev/... or boot from the net via PXE. Or can you add a normal (parallel) IDE hard drive as a boot device? -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: Installation report: FAILED on i386
* Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-01-18 18:44]: Perhaps you didn't notice that I'm completely stuck on another matter (the wget failure). Happy to try once I can work around that. Put the drive in another PC and use debootstrap to create a base system. Or install another distro, make a base with debootstrap another PC, copy it over and untar it, etc. So it turns out, having installed Linux to the one drive which is visible to Linux, that the BIOS won't boot from that drive. And I can't use lilo to install a boot block on the bootable SATA drive, because Linux can't see that drive And I can't put the SATA drives in another machine, because this is the only machine with a SATA connection. Got a suggestion for a workaround? Or perhaps a installer kernel which will recognize the drives? :-/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ntfs resize and gtk frontends
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 10:02:14PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: Still, i wonder what the use of many outside library would mean to libparted and its use in debian-installer, where size matters. It is not necessary for libparted to depend strongly on libntfs but the same way as on libreiserfs. When the libreiserfs is present then parted uses it and provides support to resize the reiser file system. However parted doesn't depend on libreiserfs. This means that libntfs can be packaged in udeb that will be unpacked only when the memory is enough (or rather only when the user requests full support for ntfs). On 19.I.2004 at 17:52 Steve Langasek wrote: Depending on the robustness of the ntfsresize commandline interface, perhaps this can be included as a lower-priority udeb that libparted (partman?) can interface with iff it's available? This is also possible. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: bterm font reloading patch
Kenshi Muto wrote: - - busybox-cvs-floppy-udeb includes /bin/sleep, but busybox-cvs-udeb doesn't. Why? The boot floppy occasionally needs to sleep (well, only in extreme failure modes). The d-i system does not. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature
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Re: grouping countrychooser list by region
Christian Perrier wrote: I can do 1. (eventually), but don't know how to deal with 2. Neither do I:-( Denis is the Perfect Victim for this...:-) Yeah. The best I can come up with is adding a dummy template that has the list of region names in a __Choices field. I'm sure there is a better way. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Re: Installation report: FAILED on i386
Martin Michlmayr wrote: Boot from floppy or CD and use root=/dev/... I don't think that works, you get the d-i initrd, which is not very good at booting a regular debian system. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature
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partman_5_i386.changes is NEW
(new) partman_5.dsc standard debian-installer (new) partman_5.tar.gz standard debian-installer (new) partman_5_i386.udeb standard debian-installer Partition the storage devices (partman) Partman lets the user to partition disks, create filesystems, assign mount points and others. Almost all functionality of partman is provided by other packages. Changes: partman (5) unstable; urgency=low . * Bartosz Fenski - Add Polish (pl) translation. * Add Japanese translation (ja.po) * Christian Perrier - First debconf templates polishing - run debconf-updatepo (and fuzzy translations, sorry) * Kenshi Muto - Add Japanese translation (ja.po) - Update Japanese translation. * Christian Perrier - First debconf templates polishing - run debconf-updatepo (and fuzzy translations, sorry) * André Luís Lopes - Added Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR) translation. * Dennis Stampfer - Initial German translation (de.po). * Christian Perrier - Initial French translation (fr.po). * Nikolai Prokocshenko - Added russian translation (ru.po) * Peter Mann - Initian Slovak translation * Anton Zinoviev - the install target in debian/rules removes all files CVS from the generated package. - added local variable for Emacs `coding: utf-8' at the end of the changelog. * Anmar Oueja - created and translated to Arabic (ar.po) * Claus Hindsgaul - Initial Danish translation (da.po) * Miroslav Kure - Initial Czech translation (cs.po) * Ming Hua - Initial Simplified Chinese translation (zh_CN.po) * Bart Cornelis - Initial Dutch (nl.po) translation * Kęstutis Biliūnas - Initial Lithuanian (lt.po) translation. * Anton Zinoviev - Doesn't provide partitioned-harddrives, mounted-partitions and made-filesystems. Doesn't depend on partman-partitioninf and partman-target. Announcing to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your package contains new components which requires manual editing of the override file. It is ok otherwise, so please be patient. New packages are usually added to the override file about once a week. You may have gotten the distribution wrong. You'll get warnings above if files already exist in other distributions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: Re: Installation report: FAILED on i386
* Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-01-20 12:43]: Boot from floppy or CD and use root=/dev/... I don't think that works, you get the d-i initrd, which is not very good at booting a regular debian system. Yeah, you'll need a special CD. However, this used to work with woody - I really hope we can make a rescue option which allows this. It has been useful many times. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: Installation report: FAILED on i386
Martin Michlmayr wrote: Yeah, you'll need a special CD. However, this used to work with woody - I really hope we can make a rescue option which allows this. It has been useful many times. If we had a good and reasonably small rescue initrd, we could include it on the CD easily. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: grouping countrychooser list by region
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I have committed some code to group the countries in the chountrychooser into regions. It adds a regionmap, which maps between country codes and regions, and a countrylist, which orders the list. I will soon commit my updates to the regionmap list. Very few countries remains unlocated, most of them because I have a doubt on their location. I have some objections to the way you sorted countries. The most important is the The Middle East region. I highly prefer sorting countries in continents by using some natural borders, or highly historical ones. The Middle East leads us in some strong difficulties : where does it start and end.Should Afghanistan be there or in a Central Asia with vague borders. This is why I only kept the following, which are still not exempt of difficulties: North America Central America (includes Antilles) South America Asia Africa Europe (former USSR republics of Caucase put in there) Oceania (rather than Australia) Antarctica Indian Ocean Of course, one may argue that the number of countries is quite high in some regionsbut trying to go deeper will clearly lead us in some very sensitive political problems. I already had problems with Indonesia, Timor and Papua-New Guinea, between Asia (Indonesia is traditionnally put in there) and Oceania. I have used borders used by most sport federations for limiting continents. This is the only widely accepted criterion, as far as I know (though it has some exceptions like Israel being part of Europe...this for avoiding strongly dangerous confrontations) Let's see if we find this usable. PS : regionmap is not sorted anymoreI have to do this. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: grouping countrychooser list by region
Christian Perrier wrote: I have some objections to the way you sorted countries. The most important is the The Middle East region. I highly prefer sorting countries in continents by using some natural borders, or highly historical ones. I did consider that. The problem to my way of thinking is that even natural borders are a fairly abstract concept. If you go down this path, you may end up with Central America in North America. Or with Europe and Asia in Eurasia. Depending on who you ask. I think the best thing to do is to put countries in the region which one would naturally expect to find them without being pedantic about it. Note that the code allows listing a country as part of two or more regions as well. Oceania (rather than Australia) I have to wonder if the Aussies will think to look there, or will be perplexed to not find Australia New Zealand in their own category as they traditionally are. I think it would help to look at how KDE handles some of these edge cases. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#228755: installation-reports: Installation report: Debconf abuse by several packages
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal This is a standard Debian Installer report. However, it is not really interesting as is : everything work quite well and all d-i problems are indeed known problems. The problem is elsewhere: ALL DD, please go to the end of the report and look at the number of screens users are shown. Twenty-Seven screens, several of these belonging to obscure packages Joe User is even not aware of. This report will lead to subsequent bug reports against the given packages asking them to *lower* the debconf priority they use. I will make another installation with ALL tasks selected in tasksel. I'm already prepared to a nightmare. PLEASE fellow DD's, STOP ABUSING DEBCONF. Avoid notes about software upgrades when no upgrade is done. Avoid using high priority questions for anything that has a reasonable default. Stop thinking that your package is the most important in the distro and thus needs prompting for each and every setting it has. Or at least, do this at low priority. INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: beta2 businesscard ISO i386 uname -a: Date: 2004/01/20 Method: Network, proxied Machine: VmWare 4 Processor: Memory: Root Device: SCSI Root Size/partition table: Empty disk Output of lspci: Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked:[O] Configure network HW: [O] Config network: [O] Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [O] Create file systems:[O] Mount partitions: [O] Install base system:[O] Install boot loader:[O] Reboot: [O] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: (French as installation language) Problems fixed in CVS: - Keyboard chooser in english - Detecting hardware incorrectly translated to dtecter le matriel rseau - Create xxx file system not translated - Final keyboard is US layout (nasty bug in console-data, fixed) Selected tasks: Desktop environment Linux Standard Base X window system Broadband Internet connection Mail server Conventional Unix Server (not sure) Web server C and C++ French environment Custom kernel compilation Config screens: Format: Xs, Yq, Zd, Tu s=number of screens shown (aka how many times to press Enter!) d=number of questions with reasonable defaults which IMHO shouldn't have been asked (guess what d is for...) u=number of untranslated questions n=number of useless notes - pcmcia-cs : 3s 1d 2u 0n - dictionaries-common : 1s 1d 0u 0n - nfs-common: 1s 0d 0u 1n - ssh : 1s 0d 0u 1n - dictionaries-common : 1s 1d 0u 0n - apache-common : 1s 0d 0u 1n - libpaper1 : 1s 0d 1u 1n #226254 - efax : 2s 0d 2u 2n - fetchmail : 2s 0d 0u 2n - gdm : 1s 0d 0u 0n - libc-client2002debian : 1s 1d 1u 0n - xserver-xfree86 : 7s 0d 1u 0n (no autodetect by default) (mouse autodetected) - dictionaries-common : 1s 1d 0u 0n (bug?) - libc-client2002debian : 1s 1d 1u 0n - dictionaries-common : 1s 1d 0u 0n - exi4-config : 2s 0d 0u 0n _ TOTAL27s 7d 8u 8n General problem : when screens are too long, debconf dialog interface shows a right cursor and a OK button. No novice user will then type Down for seeing the rest of the screen...and thus will miss the last part of the shown information. The OK button should be something like a More button and should by default allow scrolling though the text. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux mykerinos 2.6.0 #4 Sat Jan 17 10:16:28 CET 2004 i686 Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (ignored: LC_ALL set to fr_FR.UTF-8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: Installation report: FAILED on i386
* Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-01-20 13:12]: If we had a good and reasonably small rescue initrd, we could include it on the CD easily. Yeah, but even booting without an initrd (from an existing installation) should be possible. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: Installation report: FAILED on i386
Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-01-20 13:12]: If we had a good and reasonably small rescue initrd, we could include it on the CD easily. Yeah, but even booting without an initrd (from an existing installation) should be possible. The standard debian install will not boot w/o an initrd, and I know of no way to make syslinux/isolinux load the initrd from the hard drive and the kernel from cdrom. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#228763: Debian installer installation-report
Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: 2004-01-09 people.debian.org/~manty/testing/... uname -a: Linux swordfish 2.4.23-1-386 #1 Sun Nov 30 16:49:14 EST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux Date: 2004-01-10, 20:00 - 0:20 hours CET Method: How did you install? What did you boot off? If network install, from where? Proxied? Burnt the debian-installer image (the bigger, around 100M in size) on a CDRW, and booted from that. cdrom-detect: Detected CD 'Debian GNU/Linux testing Sarge - Official NetInst Snapshot i386 Binary-1 (20040109)' I did not specify anything at the boot prompt first. Later I rebooted since I could not see the bottom of the installation messages, and I wrote: Linux vga=ask at the boot prompt. I have chosen 80x30, and that way everything worked. I did not have access to the Internet, so I did not download anything else. Machine: Compaq Evo N610c Processor: Pentium4 Mobile 1800 Memory: 256M Root Device: IDE /dev/hda Root Size/partition table: at installation time I have just created a 256M partition for / After the installation, and base system installation I have installed LVM, and now I am using logical volumes. Output of lspci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset Host Bridge (rev 04) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 04) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BAM/CAM PCI Bridge (rev 42) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801CAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801CAM IDE U100 (rev 02) 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500] 02:04.0 Communication controller: Lucent Microelectronics LT WinModem (rev 02) 02:06.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420 02:06.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420 02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82801CAM (ICH3) PRO/100 VM (KM) Ethernet Controller (rev 42) 02:0e.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 41) 02:0e.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 41) 02:0e.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 02) Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked:[O] Configure network HW: [O] Config network: [ ] Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [O] Create file systems:[O] Mount partitions: [O] Install base system:[O] Install boot loader:[O] Reboot: [O] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: For some reason the installer thought that I had a 80x30 display, and it tried to use that area. I was in 80x25, so the last 5 lines were not visible. I managed to get through until the partitioning step, where I did not see what cfdisk has printed, and I got lost. I tried to solve the problem on another VT, but setting LINES did not help, and I did not know what to do. I rebooted, with vga=ask I have specified 80x30, and everything worked. Thoughts: Even if I don't want an expert install, I would like to be asked if I have network, or if I want to install network at all. I would also like to be able to set the debconf question level before configuring all the packages. After installation the PCMCIA subsystem did not work. During installation everything was loaded, but it seems that the installer forgot to include yenta_socket into the list of modules to be loaded before trying the other PCMCIA modules. Anyway, good impression, good work. Regards, Gee -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: Installation report: FAILED on i386
Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-01-20 12:03]: So it turns out, having installed Linux to the one drive which is visible to Linux, that the BIOS won't boot from that drive. And I can't Boot from floppy or CD and use root=/dev/... or boot from the net via PXE. Or can you add a normal (parallel) IDE hard drive as a boot device? Nope. I have one but the BIOS won't boot from it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ntfsresize cvs source code
This is the ntfsrezie tool GPL source code/cvs used by Yats(SUSE) and Diskdrake(MANDRAKE) to make a linux partition over Winxp/Win200x ntfs partition: http://linux-ntfs.bkbits.net:8080/ntfsprogs/anno/ntfsprogs/[EMAIL PROTECTED]|src/|src/ntfsprogs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#228772: Install Report - discover locked, boot hung
Package: installation-reports Version: Beta2; Downloaded: 18-Jan-2004 Severity: important INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: Beta2; 18-Jan-2004; http://people.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/i386/beta2/sarge-i386-netinst.iso uname -a: N/A, didn't get that far Date: 19-Jan-2004 Method: Booted off the netinst ISO and installed from it. Machine: Sony Vaio PCG-FRV28 Processor: Intel Pentium 4 - 2.8Ghz Memory: 512MB Root Device: IDE, single disk on primary controller (/dev/hda) Root Size/partition table: (From memory): /dev/hda1 - 5G 'recovery' /dev/hda2 - 10G NTFS (WinXP) /dev/hda3 - 128MB root /dev/hda4 - Extended /dev/hda5 - 10G NTFS (WinXP) /dev/hda6 - 3G /usr /dev/hda7 - 1G /var /dev/hda8 - 5G /home Output of lspci: Unfortunately I havn't got it, the install didn't make it far enough to where I could get it off using the network. If I can run it from the install CD I could hand copy it, if necessary. Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked:[O] Configure network HW: [O] Config network: [O] - only eth0 :( Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [O] Create file systems:[O] Mount partitions: [O] Install base system:[E] Install boot loader:[O] Reboot: [E] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: Alright, first a few bitches: - Waiting for DHCP to time out sucked, I know it won't work, eth0 isn't even connected to anything - Couldn't configure my wireless card (eth1), though it did appear to be detected and looked operational - bash on con2, for whatever reason, stops responding if you hit 'alt-1' by accident (like when going for alt-f1 to get back to the installation), this is *very* annoying since you have to restart the install to get a shell to work in, it'd be nice to have a way to forcibly reset the shell or bring up another one or something - Every other step it appears to 'detect hardware' or whatever, what's with that? I don't have a floppy on the machine but every time it takes a few seconds to try and load it. Now, the big problems: - discover just hung for a *long* time (30 minutes), it was called with 'modules-detect all', iirc. This was in the postinst of discover after the 'base system' had been installed and it was installing 'extra components', iirc. I didn't see any kernel oops or anything abnormal, and I was able to kill discover off (though it just restarted and got stuck at the same place). Eventually I just hacked up the postinst to act like it didn't find anything (MODULES=). This got me through the rest of the install and to reboot. - On boot, everything looked alright except after saying something like 'lp0: detected blah blah' nothing else showed up. It looked to have just hung at that point. Maybe it was trying to load up some framebuffer or maybe X is supposted to start at that point? I dunno, but I couldn't do anything, none of the other consoles appeared to be up or anything. I recall being warned that there might be a problem with the current X in Debian and the graphics card in my laptop (ATI Radeon IGP 345M 64MB (shared)), though 4.3 (released *how* long ago?) supports it. Don't know if that's a problem here or not. Hope this helps, I'm thinking about trying a daily-build or something. If anyone has any comments/suggestions on things I could try, I'm all ears. I'd really like to get Debian on the box, and heard d-i was starting to get pretty decent... Thanks, Stephen signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: grouping countrychooser list by region
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I think it would help to look at how KDE handles some of these edge cases. After this we had an interesting discussion on IRC No real conclusion : though some regions are nearly obvious, we end up on some difficult cases we sorting out countries. (The short list for regions was America, North and Central, America, South, Europe, Caribbean, Asia, Africaand maybe Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, Australia/New-Zealand and Other.Americas was a problem with different perception from different people.) Finally, Steve Langasek brought up an intersting suggestion : instead of sorting countries by regions, why not first show the user with the countries his/her language is used, then show the whole list (either after, or as a separate choice). For instance, users choosing French in languagechooser are presented with: Belgium France Switzerland Canada ...lots of African countries... ... Other where Other shows up the full list (or all other countries listed alphabetically) This would require translators to maintain a list of preferred countries for their own languages, however. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: miBoot problems
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 02:33:46PM +0100, Jeremie Koenig wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 05:08:05PM +0100, Jeremie Koenig wrote: - miBoot's freeness is unclear to me ATM. I guess providing a boot floppy in the contrib/non-free section would be much work for a few OldWorld users that would probably be able to create it themselves if we provide them with detailed instructions, so it's the way I'll take if no miracle happens. I've finally managed to get a friend unsit the bootx distribution for me. It contains the source code and a GPL, which is good news. However, I guess it'll be hard to build miBoot with a free toolchain. Would a contrib package be an acceptable build-dependency for d-i images ? Does any part of miboot actually have to be included in the d-i build? I thought miboot was simply the bootloader, that would need to be pointed at the d-i images to be booted? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: grouping countrychooser list by region
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 02:14:51AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: [...] 2. Add the strings from the regionmap to the po files. Until this is done, they are not translated, and so po-debconf does not translate the choices lists at all. I can do 1. (eventually), but don't know how to deal with 2. To add strings to the PO files, you can mark these strings as if regionmap was a C file, ie ML gettext(Africa) AO gettext(Africa) ... Then add ../regionmap to debian/po/POTFILES.in and run debconf-updatepo, these strings are now written into PO files. Here is a patch and an updated regionmap file. Denis Index: countrylist === RCS file: /cvsroot/d-i/debian-installer/tools/countrychooser/countrylist,v retrieving revision 1.1 diff -u -r1.1 countrylist --- countrylist 20 Jan 2004 07:07:07 - 1.1 +++ countrylist 20 Jan 2004 22:01:12 - @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ while (R) { chomp; my ($code, $region) = split(' ', $_, 2); + $region =~ s/gettext\((.*)\)/$1/; if (exists $code2country{$code}) { push @{$regions{$region}}, $code2country{$code}; $codes_listed{$code}++; @@ -35,7 +36,7 @@ # Add any unlisted countries to other. foreach my $code (keys %codes_listed) { if ($codes_listed{$code} == 0) { - push @{$regions{unknown}}, $code2country{$code}; + push @{$regions{other}}, $code2country{$code}; print STDERR unknown region for country $code, not in $regionmap\n; } } Index: mktemplates === RCS file: /cvsroot/d-i/debian-installer/tools/countrychooser/mktemplates,v retrieving revision 1.6 diff -u -r1.6 mktemplates --- mktemplates 20 Jan 2004 07:07:07 - 1.6 +++ mktemplates 20 Jan 2004 22:01:12 - @@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ # Create the appropriate POTFILES.in file there cat debian/pobuild/POTFILES.in EOF [type: gettext/rfc822deb] templates.tmp +../regionmap EOF # Create the appropriate output file also Index: debian/po/POTFILES.in === RCS file: /cvsroot/d-i/debian-installer/tools/countrychooser/debian/po/POTFILES.in,v retrieving revision 1.1 diff -u -r1.1 POTFILES.in --- debian/po/POTFILES.in 15 Jan 2004 15:44:55 - 1.1 +++ debian/po/POTFILES.in 20 Jan 2004 22:01:12 - @@ -1 +1,2 @@ [type: gettext/rfc822deb] templates-in +../regionmap ML gettext(Africa) AO gettext(Africa) BF gettext(Africa) BI gettext(Africa) BJ gettext(Africa) BW gettext(Africa) CD gettext(Africa) CF gettext(Africa) CG gettext(Africa) CI gettext(Africa) CM gettext(Africa) CV gettext(Africa) DJ gettext(Africa) DZ gettext(Africa) EG gettext(Africa) EG gettext(Africa) EH gettext(Africa) ER gettext(Africa) ET gettext(Africa) GA gettext(Africa) GH gettext(Africa) GM gettext(Africa) GN gettext(Africa) GQ gettext(Africa) GW gettext(Africa) KE gettext(Africa) LR gettext(Africa) LS gettext(Africa) LY gettext(Africa) MA gettext(Africa) MU gettext(Africa) MW gettext(Africa) MZ gettext(Africa) NA gettext(Africa) NE gettext(Africa) NG gettext(Africa) RW gettext(Africa) SD gettext(Africa) SH gettext(Africa) SL gettext(Africa) SN gettext(Africa) SO gettext(Africa) ST gettext(Africa) SZ gettext(Africa) TD gettext(Africa) TG gettext(Africa) TN gettext(Africa) TZ gettext(Africa) UG gettext(Africa) ZA gettext(Africa) ZM gettext(Africa) ZW gettext(Africa) AQ gettext(Antarctica) GS gettext(Antarctica) TF gettext(Antarctica) AE gettext(Asia) AF gettext(Asia) BD gettext(Asia) BH gettext(Asia) BN gettext(Asia) BT gettext(Asia) CN gettext(Asia) HK gettext(Asia) ID gettext(Asia) IL gettext(Asia) IN gettext(Asia) IQ gettext(Asia) IR gettext(Asia) JO gettext(Asia) JP gettext(Asia) KG gettext(Asia) KH gettext(Asia) KP gettext(Asia) KR gettext(Asia) KW gettext(Asia) KZ gettext(Asia) LA gettext(Asia) LB gettext(Asia) LK gettext(Asia) MM gettext(Asia) MN gettext(Asia) MO gettext(Asia) MY gettext(Asia) NP gettext(Asia) OM gettext(Asia) PH gettext(Asia) PK gettext(Asia) PS gettext(Asia) QA gettext(Asia) SA gettext(Asia) SG gettext(Asia) SY gettext(Asia) TH gettext(Asia) TJ gettext(Asia) TM gettext(Asia) TR gettext(Asia) TW gettext(Asia) UZ gettext(Asia) VN gettext(Asia) YE gettext(Asia) AG gettext(Central America) AI gettext(Central America) AN gettext(Central America) BB gettext(Central America) BM
Debian installer beta2 - After the first boot after the install, usb keyboard not working any more
Hello, I've not well understood how to report bugs for the installer so I try writing here... I find this a grave bug: I can make all the firs part of the install (booting from the cd), but after having installed lilo and rebooting, I can proceed no more in base-setup since it does not recognise my USB keyboard any more. I had to plug in a PS/2 keyboard to continue. Thanks, Alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: grouping countrychooser list by region
Christian Perrier wrote: Finally, Steve Langasek brought up an intersting suggestion : instead of sorting countries by regions, why not first show the user with the countries his/her language is used, then show the whole list (either after, or as a separate choice). For instance, users choosing French in languagechooser are presented with: Belgium France Switzerland Canada ...lots of African countries... ... Other where Other shows up the full list (or all other countries listed alphabetically) This would require translators to maintain a list of preferred countries for their own languages, however. This has the potential to be pretty good but I'm unsure how to approach it. I'd like to avoid having a large number of templates (one per language) listing the countries for each language, but building a translated list of countries on the fly could be tricky. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: D-I translations: tasksel (Denis Barbier mail to -i18n)
Christian Perrier wrote: Translators, this is for you. Tasksel is used during 2nd stage and therefore should be properly translated also. Denis , any chance to add tasksel statistics to your d-i l10n status scripts ? Joey, could you consider moving tasksel to alioth and thus give translators CVS write access? I've game for it if Randolph Chung is. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: D-I translations: tasksel (Denis Barbier mail to -i18n)
Joey, could you consider moving tasksel to alioth and thus give translators CVS write access? I've game for it if Randolph Chung is. sure. randolph pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#228638: installer not working properly on oldworld powerpc
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Matt Kraai wrote: Does adding debian-installer/framebuffer=false to the boot parameters help? yes, that helped. Thanks a lot, now I'm going for the netinstall. -- Matt Kraaihttp://ftbfs.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED] regards, rabarca.- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#228654: installation-reports: ide-detect lockup on Alpha PWS500a
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 04:33:44AM -0600, John Lightsey wrote: Thanks for the report. We have 2.4.24 kernel images in the archive for d-i, but I hadn't yet switched to using them for the daily builds. This is done now, and tomorrow's ISOs should be 2.4.24-based. Would you be willing to give them a try? I'd be happy to. Is there any way of skipping the IDE detection or telling it not to try different chipsets? cough The best method I've found so far is to switch to console #2 as soon as the language question comes up, and remove the troublesome modules from /lib/modules/version/kernel/. You can also boot the installer with DEBCONF_PRIORITY=low, in which case it will still try to probe all the modules in order, but at least it will let you specify options to insmod that will break the attempt to load it (pain...). Our real goal, of course, is to get the autodetection right so it doesn't *try* IDE chipset modules that will cause problems. Have you filed a bug on the kernel-image packages about the tulip/de4x5 issue, by chance? No, I'm 99% certain that the problem isn't really in the ethernet drivers. It's the machine's buggy PCI/IDE chipset causing the drivers to fail. If I put another network card in one of the PCI slots it will also fail. From my understanding, the problems with these particular machines have been known for a while. http://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2003/debian-alpha-200308/msg00082.html The odd thing is that the 2.4.2x Debian kernels do boot and appear to function properly (outside of bringing up a network interface.) I would expect it to work in the installer if you can still skip the network configuration. Hrm, very strange. And on your system, which module does d-i try for your ethernet card -- the one that hangs, or the one that just doesn't work? Anyway, the images should be posted by this point -- feel free to give them a try. Thanks again, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Debian installer beta2 - After the first boot after the install, usb keyboard not working any more
Alessandro Polverini wrote: I've not well understood how to report bugs for the installer so I try writing here... I find this a grave bug: I can make all the firs part of the install (booting from the cd), but after having installed lilo and rebooting, I can proceed no more in base-setup since it does not recognise my USB keyboard any more. I had to plug in a PS/2 keyboard to continue. This is a known bug in beta2 of the debian installer. You'll find it listed in the errata here: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/errata We expect to have all of beta2's errata fixed in time for the next release. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: miBoot problems
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 03:58:19PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: I guess it'll be hard to build miBoot with a free toolchain. Would a contrib package be an acceptable build-dependency for d-i images ? Does any part of miboot actually have to be included in the d-i build? It's just like syslinux: we need miBoot on the boot floppy. So far the GPL hasn't been fulfilled since Debian does distribute miBoot in binary form, but neither its source code nor an offer to do so. Now, miBoot depends on a non-free toolchain to build. That mean it can't go into Debian GNU/Linux. FreeDOS is in contrib for the same reason. My plans so far are to create a miBoot package for the contrib section, make d-i build-depend on it, fill an RC-bug about this, then request a sarge-ignore tag. Hopefully me or someone else will find a solution for the next release. Does it sound reasonable ? I thought miboot was simply the bootloader, that would need to be pointed at the d-i images to be booted? It's _inside_ the image. So far the binary is distributed by Debian inside boot-floppy-hfs.img and inside the boot-floppies source code and cvs repository (ouch!). -- Jeremie Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#228808: installation: gtk frontend
Package: installation Severity: wishlist *** Please type your report below this line *** Gtk frontend in the new debian-installer -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux atlantide 2.6.0-1-k7 #2 Sun Jan 11 17:06:46 EST 2004 i686 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#228807: installation: NTFS partion resize
Package: installation Severity: wishlist *** Please type your report below this line *** Gtk frontend in the new debian-installer -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux atlantide 2.6.0-1-k7 #2 Sun Jan 11 17:06:46 EST 2004 i686 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#228806: installation: NTFS partion resize
Package: installation Severity: wishlist *** Please type your report below this line *** Support ntfs partition resize in the installation with the tools or library on http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/ -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux atlantide 2.6.0-1-k7 #2 Sun Jan 11 17:06:46 EST 2004 i686 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#228816: Install report
Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: Got it sometime in mid January, 2004 http://people.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/powerpc/beta2/sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso uname -a: Linux g3bw 2.4.22-powerpc #1 jeu dACc 18 10:17:34 CET 2003 ppc GNU/Linux Date: Tue Jan 20 20:44:12 CST 2004 Method: Boot from CD. Installed from mirror.kernel.org Machine: BlueWhite G3 Processor: 400MHz G3 Memory: 512MB Root Device: /dev/hda10 Root Size/partition table: #type name length base ( size ) system /dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple63 @ 1( 31.5k) Partition map /dev/hda2 Apple_Driver43 Macintosh56 @ 64 ( 28.0k) Driver 4.3 /dev/hda3 Apple_Driver43 Macintosh56 @ 120 ( 28.0k) Driver 4.3 /dev/hda4Apple_Driver_ATA Macintosh56 @ 176 ( 28.0k) Unknown /dev/hda5Apple_Driver_ATA Macintosh56 @ 232 ( 28.0k) Unknown /dev/hda6 Apple_FWDriver Macintosh 512 @ 288 (256.0k) Unknown /dev/hda7 Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh 512 @ 800 (256.0k) Unknown /dev/hda8 Apple_Patches Patch Partition 512 @ 1312 (256.0k) Unknown /dev/hda9 Apple_Bootstrap bootstrap 1600 @ 1824 (800.0k) NewWorld bootblock /dev/hda10Apple_UNIX_SVR2 Sarge 4194304 @ 3424 ( 2.0G) Linux native /dev/hda11Apple_UNIX_SVR2 Woody 2204208 @ 4197728 ( 1.1G) Linux native /dev/hda12 Apple_HFS 10.15528160 @ 6401936 ( 2.6G) HFS /dev/hda13 Apple_HFS 10.26391920 @ 11930096 ( 3.0G) HFS /dev/hda14 Apple_HFS 10.37946720 @ 18322016 ( 3.8G) HFS /dev/hda15 Apple_HFS qt 13810344 @ 26268736 ( 6.6G) HFS /dev/hda16 Apple_Free 8 @ 40079080 ( 4.0k) Free space Block size=512, Number of Blocks=40079088 DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0 Drivers- 1: @ 64 for 23, type=0x1 2: @ 120 for 36, type=0x 3: @ 176 for 21, type=0x701 4: @ 232 for 34, type=0xf8ff root is /dev/hda10 boot/dev/hda9 Output of lspci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Motorola MPC106 [Grackle] (rev 40) 00:0d.0 PCI bridge: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21154 (rev 02) 00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 RE/SG 01:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCILynx/PCILynx2 IEEE 1394 Link Layer Controller (rev 02) 01:01.0 IDE interface: CMD Technology Inc PCI0646 (rev 07) 01:05.0 Class ff00: Apple Computer Inc. Paddington Mac I/O 01:06.0 USB Controller: OPTi Inc. 82C861 (rev 10) Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked:[O] Configure network HW: [O] Config network: [O] Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [O] Create file systems:[O] Mount partitions: [O] Install base system:[O] Install boot loader:[O] Reboot: [O] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: Initialy I set my mirror as mirror.direct.ca (which is broken). Then I specified mirror.kernel.org but the installer got stuck. It downloaded the package files, but then some error flashed at the top of the screen (something like cannot read files) and then it went back to configuring apt. Specifying a new configuration for apt did not overwrite previous configuration, just appended to it. After fixing the apt.source manually (by deleting first from broken sources), the installation continued correctly. It would make much more sense for the apt configuration step in the installer to overwrite apt files ALWAYS. Otherwise if a mirror is broken, the installation is stuck unless the apt.source is edited manually. It would also be nice to have HID module installed and /dev/input created (for mice, etc.) New Intel and especially Macs use USB. - Adam Install logs and other status info is available in /var/log/debian-installer/. Once you have filled out this report, mail it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#182446: marked as done (does not create /etc/mailname)
Your message dated Tue, 20 Jan 2004 21:12:21 -0500 with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line fixed in beta 2 has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what I am talking about this indicates a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact me immediately.) Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs database) -- Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 25 Feb 2003 12:39:32 + From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Feb 25 06:39:31 2003 Return-path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from port5.ds1-sby.adsl.cybercity.dk (trider-g7.fabbione.net) [212.242.169.198] by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian)) id 18neMr-0004OW-00; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 06:39:29 -0600 Received: by trider-g7.fabbione.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4FF4A1BF5; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 13:39:26 +0100 (CET) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Fabio Massimo Di Nitto [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian Bug Tracking System [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: some small problems with debian-installer X-Mailer: reportbug 2.10 Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 13:39:26 +0100 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.5 required=4.0 tests=HAS_PACKAGE,SPAM_PHRASE_01_02 version=2.44 X-Spam-Level: Package: installation Version: CVS 25/02/2003 (not installed) Severity: normal Hi all, probably some of these small problems are known and sorry in case of duplicated information. I did built d-i from today CVS and noticed this: - hostname at reboot is localhost (Im sure this is an old problem) even if specified differently during the installation. /etc/hosts is indeed correct. - for kernel 2.4.19 are missing modules/userland utils. An example is evms. It is possible to install the userland but not load any module. That makes the userland useless. - on the console (busybox) a number of commands do not work. ex: ifconfig, modprobe. keep printing the enabled functions in busybox. - at d-i modules selection time number 18) is missing a description i hope to remember correctly that was 18 but anyway it just claim: 18) for debian-installer - lilo config should be regenarated after the first reboot with a more commented one. - mkswap is enabled in busybox but it is still not possible (if not by hand) to create a swap partition automatically. Then i made some experiments using kernel-2.4.20 to install changing of course the version in the Makefile and in order to make it fitting on the disk i dropped the isapnp card support (no need for my laptop). Well of course the first problem is the size. 1 floppy is not enough. It arises the same problem of kernel modules/userland utilities (this time for lvm as well). The installer anyway cannot go further the partition harddisk. It looks like it cannot find the partitions even if they are there. I was not able to force it to proceed even mounting the partitions by hand. Thanks to everyone. except from this small things I had a really good feeling using it. Congratulations for your great job guys! Fabio -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux trider-g7 2.4.19 #3 Tue Oct 8 19:33:41 CEST 2002 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C --- Received: (at 182446-done) by bugs.debian.org; 21 Jan 2004 02:04:51 + From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jan 20 18:04:51 2004 Return-path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from kitenet.net [64.62.161.42] (postfix) by spohr.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 1 (Debian)) id 1Aj7jf-JY-00; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 18:04:51 -0800 Received: from dragon.kitenet.net (dial223.pm3bloun2.bloun.naxs.com [216.98.69.223]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN Joey Hess, Issuer Joey Hess (verified OK)) by kitenet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 720E218580 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 02:04:49 + (GMT) Received: by dragon.kitenet.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B3F0D6E2EF; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 21:12:21 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 21:12:21 -0500 From: Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: fixed in beta 2 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol=application/pgp-signature; boundary=n8g4imXOkfNTN/H1 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60-bugs.debian.org_2004_01_20 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on spohr.debian.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=4.0 tests=none
Bug#225861: status
I have fixed the backing up from the dhcp retry y/n prompt. The backup issue from the first page of static config is more challenging. It actually works ok, but it backs up to the question where the type of networking (dhcp/static) is chosen. Problem is, that is not displayed at high priority, and if it is not displayed then the user is dumped into the dhcp retry again. Granted, they can hit back again to get back to the main menu given my fix above, but this is still a touch annoying. It may be that this is really cdebconf's fault. If this were debconf, it would keep track that the user is backing up at the static config question. When the networking type question is not displayed, debconf would make the next GO return 30 anyway, as if they had backed up more. I'll bet cdebconf does not do that. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Keyboard deathinstalling on Dimension XPS 8250
I have been trying the Sarge net installers as they have been coming out, and still keep having the same problem. I insert the CD, reboot, choose linux or net install, and as soon as I get to the first screen that offers the language selection, my keyboard dies (no lights, nothing). Googling around, I've come across the same report in various Debian lists for relatively new Dell desktops (Optiplexes and Dimensions). This is the 100mb sarge-i386-netisnt.iso offered at http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ If I use the same iso in various other machines (older Dell desktops, various laptops that I have lying around), this doesn't happen. I presently have Debian installed on this desktop with Mepis, but wouldn't mind having a pure Debian OS, once this issue finds resolution. Chuck --- Charles Muller Toyo Gakuen University [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Keyboard deathinstalling on Dimension XPS 8250
Charles Muller wrote: I have been trying the Sarge net installers as they have been coming out, and still keep having the same problem. I insert the CD, reboot, choose linux or net install, and as soon as I get to the first screen that offers the language selection, my keyboard dies (no lights, nothing). Googling around, I've come across the same report in various Debian lists for relatively new Dell desktops (Optiplexes and Dimensions). Yes, I remember a few reports of this, as well as similar reports with red hat on the same machine failing similarly. I think knoppix may have been reported to work. But I have no idea what's wrong with these machines or what the workaround could be, unfortunatly. :-( -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#228832: BETA2: Install Report
Package: installation-reports Version: beta2 INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: beta 2 uname -a: Linux rmsbase 2.4.22-1-386 #9 Sat Oct 4 14:30:39 EST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux Date: --(Wed Jan 21 12:01:11 WIT 2004) Method: CDROM from http://kambing.vlsm.org/debian-cd/3.1_netinst/ sarge-i386-netinst.iso Machine: ASUS P4/533 Processor: P4/2GHz Memory: 256 Root Device: IDE --- /dev/hda5 Root Size/partition table: proc /proc proc defaults0 0 /dev/hdc2 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/hda3 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/hdb1 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hda4 /de2 ext3 defaults0 2 /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/hda6 /sid auto defaults0 0 /dev/hda7 /knoppix ext3 defaults0 3 /dev/hda8 /morphix ext3 defaults0 3 /dev/hda1 /win98 vfat defaults0 3 /dev/hdb2 /var/work1 reiserfs defaults0 2 /dev/hdc3 /var/www ext3 defaults0 2 /dev/fd0 /floppyauto rw,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/hdd /cdrom auto ro,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/sda /usb auto rw,user,noauto 1 3 /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb1 auto rw,user,noauto 1 3 Output of lspci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82850 850 (Tehama) Chipset Host Bridge (MCH) (rev 04) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82850 850 (Tehama) Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 04) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB/EB PCI Bridge (rev 04) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 04) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801BA IDE U100 (rev 04) 00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 04) 00:1f.4 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 04) 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio (rev 04) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] (rev 15) 02:04.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 41) 02:04.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 41) 02:04.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 02) 02:0a.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905 100BaseTX [Boomerang] Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked:[O] Configure network HW: [O] Config network: [O] Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [ ] Create file systems:[O] Mount partitions: [O] Install base system:[O] Install boot loader:[ ] Reboot: [O] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: * First of all, it is not easy to figure out; to where to send this report template. Please add an URL and or email contact address to that template. * I have tested on two systems: one is using an ASUS P4/533 MB; the other one is using an old ASUS P5A-B board (Pentium 166/MMX). *** BOTH works OK! Note: the Pentium 166/MMX failed to boot the beta1 version http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2003/debian-boot-2003012/msg00041.html * Suggestions: There should be a mode between default and expert that asks if using: - DHCP or Static IP addresses - LILO, GRUB, or NEITHER -- Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim -- vLSM.org -- http://rms46.vLSM.org/ -- Fetch my GNUPG public key at http://rms46.vlsm.org/pgp/pub.txt --- signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Bug#228835: Installation report for beta 2 of d-i (failure)
Package: installation-reports Version: beta2 Severity: normal INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: beta 2 uname -a: Linux blackhole 2.4.23-1-k7 #1 Mon Dec 1 00:05:09 EST 2003 i686 GNU/ Linux Date: 21/1/04 Method: CDROM and network install using sarge-i386-businesscard.iso Initial boot was from CDROM, packages not in that iso image were downloaded from ftp.au.debian.org, using a squid proxy on the local network. No files were cached by the proxy since the proxy was recently installed. Local network contains a DHCP server which was used to configure the network. Network interface is a generic ne2k-pci. Machine: Custom AMD box Processor: AMD Athlon 800Mhz Memory: 256Mb PC133 SDRAM Root Device: 40Gb IDE disk, reported by linux as /dev/hda Root Size/partition table: /dev/hda1 160Mb ext3 / /dev/hda2 256Mbswap /dev/hda3 extended /dev/hda5 4.2Gb ext3 /usr /dev/hda6 4.6Gb ext3 /var /dev/hda7 30Gb ext3 /home Output of lspci:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev 02) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP] 00:04.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 22 ) 00:04.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/ A/ C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 10) 00:04.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 10) 00:04.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 10) 00:04.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 30 ) 00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1370 [AudioPCI] 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS) 00:11.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20265 (rev 02) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV10DDR [GeForce 256 DDR] (rev 10) Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked:[ O ] Configure network HW: [ O ] Config network: [ O ] Detect CD: [ O ] Load installer modules: [ O ] Detect hard drives: [ O ] Partition hard drives: [ O ] Create file systems:[ O ] Mount partitions: [ O ] Install base system:[ O ] Install boot loader:[ O ] Reboot: [ O ] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Worked fine. A few more status messages would be reassuring - especially during the mke2fs stage of the installation (the installer seems to sit hung on a blank screen, which isn't ideal). =) Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BETA2: Install Report
* First of all, it is not easy to figure out; to where to send this report template. Please add an URL and or email contact address to that template. * I have tested on two systems: one is using an ASUS P4/533 MB; the other one is using an old ASUS P5A-B board (Pentium 166/MMX). *** BOTH works OK! Note: the Pentium 166/MMX failed to boot the beta1 version http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2003/debian-boot-2003012/msg00041.html * Suggestions: There should be a mode between default and expert that asks if using: - DHCP or Static IP addresses - LILO, GRUB, or NEITHER -- Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim -- vLSM.org -- http://rms46.vLSM.org/ -- Fetch my GNUPG public key at http://rms46.vlsm.org/pgp/pub.txt --- signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Bug#228839: Should re-ask the debconf-priority question at the end of base-config
Package: base-config Version: 2.08 Severity: normal When debian-installer, for some reason, went into a problem, the debconf priority is automatically lowered from high to medium. This setting remains after base-config runs and thus the user is presented with a big bunch of questions during the packages installation process which follows. I suggest adding a debconf priority setting item to the base-config menu, designed for being run at the end of the process, with the default value reset to high. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux mykerinos 2.6.0 #4 Sat Jan 17 10:16:28 CET 2004 i686 Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (ignored: LC_ALL set to fr_FR.UTF-8) Versions of packages base-config depends on: ii adduser 3.51 Add and remove users and groups ii apt 0.5.21 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii aptitude0.2.13-2 curses-based apt frontend ii bsdutils1:2.12-6 Basic utilities from 4.4BSD-Lite ii console-data2002.12.04dbs-28 Keymaps, fonts, charset maps, fall ii console-tools 1:0.2.3dbs-46Linux console and font utilities ii debconf 1.4.7Debian configuration management sy ii passwd 1:4.0.3-17 Change and administer password and -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Install Report
INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: http://people.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/i386/beta2/sarge-i386-netinst.iso (2004.01.21) uname -a: Linux xps8250 2.4.22 #1 Wed Nov 19 13:13:23 EST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux Date: 2004.01.21 Method: Booted off iso copied to CD-R. Never got past the second screen, so Network info is presently not applicable Machine: Dell Dimension XPS 8250 Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.53GHz Memory: 512MB RDRAM Root Device: I don't know what root device means. Root Size/partition table: How do I get this information? Output of lspci: [EMAIL PROTECTED] lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82850 850 (Tehama) Chipset Host Bridge (MCH) (rev 04) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82850 850 (Tehama) Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 04) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB/EB PCI Bridge (rev 04) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 04) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801BA IDE U100 (rev 04) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM SMBus (rev 04) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX 420] (rev a3) 02:01.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 50) 02:01.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 50) 02:01.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 51) 02:02.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 50) 02:02.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 50) 02:02.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 51) 02:08.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-2940/2940W / AIC-7871 02:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 04) 02:09.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port (rev 04) 02:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 10) Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked:[O] keyboard goes dead when the first non-text screen appears for selecting language, so I can't choose a language and proceed. --- that's it, below questions are n/a -- Configure network HW: [n/a] Config network: [n/a] Detect CD: [n/a] Load installer modules: [n/a] Detect hard drives: [n/a] Partition hard drives: [n/a] Create file systems:[n/a] Mount partitions: [n/a] Install base system:[n/a] Install boot loader:[n/a] Reboot: [n/a] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: I have googled around on this, and this problem has been reported before on this list by others who are using relatively new Dells, including Optiplexes and Dimensions. This has been happening with all of the the Sarge install ISOs (not only netinst) since I have been trying them for about six weeks. It also happens with Woody BF24--even on the single rescue.bin floppy. The same boot CD and floppies do work successfully on other machines. As far as installation reports go, it would be nice if there was a mail address right on the install page to which we could sent without having to figure out that we need to get subscribed to this mail list. System Summary System Host Name: DIMENSION-8250 User: Charles Muller Domain:DIMENSION-8250 Processor Model: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.53GHz Speed: 2.52GHz Performance Rating:PR2772 (estimated) Type: Standard L2 On-board Cache: 512kB ECC Synchronous ATC (8-way sectored, 64 byte line size) Mainboard Bus(es): X-Bus AGP PCI IMB USB FireWire/1394 i2c/SMBus MP Support:1 CPU(s) MP APIC: Yes System BIOS: Dell Computer Corporation A02 Mainboard: Dell Computer Corp. 00W912 Total Memory: 511MB RDRAM Chipset 1 Model: Dell Computer Corp 82850/E Host-Hub Interface Bridge Device (A3-step) Front Side Bus Speed: 4x 133MHz (532MHz data rate) Total Memory: 512MB RDRAM Memory Bus Speed: 2x 532MHz (1064MHz data rate) Video System Monitor/Panel: (AM Adapter: 64MB DDR NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420 with TV Out (Dell) Physical Storage Devices Removable Drive: tbs[ fBl Hard Disk: WDC WD1200JB-75CRA0 Hard Disk: I-O DATA HDVS-UM20G SCSI Disk Device Hard Disk: HITACHI_ DK23BA-20 USB Device CD-ROM/DVD:SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-332B Logical Storage Devices 1.44MB 3.5 (A:): N/A