Bug#593811: debian-installer: DHCP requests reset Livebox modem/router

2010-08-21 Thread alain rpnpif
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 10:47:40AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Could you please try with a netinst CD-ROM from July? That would help to find when the regression has been introduced. Sorry, but I do know where to find netinst iso from July. I used the last weekly of 19 August. -- To

Bug#593812: debian-installer: Impossible to answer to questions on normal install

2010-08-21 Thread Alain rpnpif
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 11:19:24AM -0400, Christian PERRIER wrote: I have trouble understanding what you mean by to upgrade initramfstools in mod edebootstrap. Could you give us the messages that appear on the fourth console? As Aurélien was explaining, if something is on-interactive when

Bug#593812: debian-installer: Impossible to answer to questions on normal install

2010-08-23 Thread Alain rpnpif
I'm afraid no. It is even surprising that g-i works where the text installer doesn't as I don't see any functionnality difference in that matter: re-using existing partitions with a Linux system already installed on them is not supported at all. I do not understand also but it is the reality.

Bug#593811: debian-installer: DHCP requests restart Livebox modem/router

2010-08-23 Thread Alain rpnpif
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 11:24:18AM -0400, Christian PERRIER wrote: You may want to use a daily built net*boot* image. These are linked from http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/. More specifically: i386: http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/netboot/mini.iso amd64:

Bug#593811: debian-installer: DHCP requests restart Livebox modem/router

2010-08-23 Thread Alain rpnpif
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 07:07:41PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Of your Livebox, yes, of debian-installer no. The only thing we can try to do is workaround the issue. But first of all we have to determine if the bug has been introduced by a new firmware of your Livebox or a new version of

Bug#593811: debian-installer: DHCP requests restart Livebox modem/router

2010-08-23 Thread Alain rpnpif
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 02:24:26PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: For this, please do (as root): #: busybox udhcpc See if it reboots your router or not. Hello Otavio, busybox udhcpc works fine. Regards. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Bug#593812: debian-installer: Impossible to answer to questions on normal install

2010-08-23 Thread Alain rpnpif
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 07:10:08PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: debian-installer, as its name says, is for installing Debian, not to upgrade it. If you want to upgrade it, the proper way is to use apt, aptitude or one of their graphical front-end. This is therefore the proper way to fix this

Bug#593811: debian-installer: DHCP requests restart Livebox modem/router

2010-08-24 Thread Alain rpnpif
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 05:47:23PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: See if it reboots your router or not. busybox udhcpc works fine. Please inform the version of busybox you've used for testing. #: dpkg -s busybox Here : 1:1.17.1-2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#593811: debian-installer: DHCP requests restart Livebox modem/router

2010-08-24 Thread Alain rpnpif
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:15:40AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: Good; I think you could use a mini.iso to test which parameter is making it fail so we can restrict the code to look at. The installer itself calls udhcpc with many parameters and I think one of those are making your router to

Bug#593811: debian-installer: DHCP requests restart Livebox modem/router

2010-08-24 Thread Alain rpnpif
Other tries : I rebooted again the last mini.iso. On normal mode, udhcpc get normally an IP from the Livebox. Under busybox, the logs : I run : udhcpc several times sequentially udhcpc Sending discover Sensend select for 192.168.1.12 (the obtained IP) Sending select for 192.168.1.12 (the obtained