Bug#721841: installation-report: Installation report on Apple PowerMac G5 Model A1047

2013-09-04 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Package: installation-reports Followup-For: Bug #721841 Update: Upgrading to unstable fixed the graphics issue completely and the compositing GNOME3 desktop works fine. However, there were some nouveau-related crashes of X.org: [ 68.453388] nouveau E[ PGRAPH][:f0:10.0] ERROR nsource:

Bug#748327: installation-reports: Installing Debian Jessie net install on an Apple Mac Mini G4

2014-05-16 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Installation went well without a single glitch or problem. Was able to dist-upgrade the machine to Debian unstable with no problems after the installation. Debian runs very smooth with the latest kernel 3.14.4-1 despite the machine just being a PPC

Bug#748327: installation-reports: Installing Debian Jessie net install on an Apple Mac Mini G4

2014-05-16 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
report for that [1]. Adrian [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=748398 -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913

Bug#748327: installation-reports: Installing Debian Jessie net install on an Apple Mac Mini G4

2014-05-17 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 05/17/2014 01:03 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 05/17/2014 12:47 AM, Charles Plessy wrote: Thanks for the report. I am closing it since there is no action to take. Actually, it turned out that the Mac is having issues with X.Org which is probably a result from KMS being

Bug#778296: installation-report: JVC MP-XV941 Intel Pentium M 1 GHz Centrino subnotebook

2015-02-13 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Installation finishes without any issues. After rebooting the machine into the installed system, the kernel panics unless the machine is booted with nomodeset. Will file a separate bug report later, probably directly to kernel upstream. Wireless

Bug#776215: installations-reports: Apple iMac Core2Duo E7600, Late 2009 (A1311)

2015-01-25 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Installation works as expected. EFI boot is set up properly, all hardware is properly configured and set up. However, the on-board Radeon graphics does not work properly with the free radeon driver. The screen shows garbage once the radeon kernel

Bug#775337: installation-report: Apple PowerBook G4 A1046

2015-01-14 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Networking works out-of-the box, wireless chipset requires additional firmware (Broadcom BCM4306) available in Debian. Audio doesn't work at all. Graphics won't work unless machine is booted with video=radeonfb:off [1]. Cheers, Adrian [1]

Bug#775339: installation-report: Apple iBook G3 M6497

2015-01-14 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Installation works out-of-the-box, no additional tweaking required to boot the machine. Sound is a bit distorted and faint, but sound card is recognized and sound controls on the keyboard work, mostly. Graphics works, brightness controls work

Bug#745082: Bug#763391: chfn and fakechroot

2015-02-20 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
as adduser is written in Perl and the postinst script of systemd which actually runs adduser properly quotes the option argument for the gecos field. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu

Bug#745082: chfn and fakechroot

2015-02-20 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
=fakechroot on my main amd64 machine and that worked without any issues. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913

Bug#774332: chfn and fakechroot

2015-02-20 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
to describe the exact same bug. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ

Bug#778195: debian-installer: x32 port

2015-11-12 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
there is a realistic chance to have Adam's patch merged? If it needs additional work or testing/review, please let me know but as Adam has pointed out, since this patch doesn't affect anything outside x32, it may be safe to apply it. Cheers, Adrian - -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer

Bug#731806: debian-installer: FTBFS on sparc: genisoimage errors

2015-11-12 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
good progress with almost 9000 packages being up-to-date. Currently, there are no installer images available though. Thus, you have to use debootstrap to install a base sparc64 system which you can boot later. Cheers, Adrian > [1] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16885 --

Bug#731806: debian-installer: FTBFS on sparc: genisoimage errors

2015-11-12 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
printf("%d\n", strcmp(a,b)); } (unstable-sparc64-sbuild)root@andi:/tmp# This has been tested with gcc_5.2.1-23 and glibc_2.19-22 on sparc64. Cheers, Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin -

[PATCH 0/3] Add sparc64 support to base-installer

2016-01-02 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi! Here's a small set of changes which adds support for the sparc64 architecture. It basically clones the scripts and tests from the sparc architecture which was using the same 64-bit kernel that sparc64 is using. Cheers, Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer

[PATCH 1/3] kernel: Clone script for sparc64 from sparc, add it to Makefile.

2016-01-02 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Signed-off-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> --- kernel/Makefile | 2 +- kernel/sparc64.sh | 20 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 kernel/sparc64.sh diff --git a/kernel/Makefile b/kernel/Makefile index e

[PATCH 3/3] Add changelog entries for sparc64 updates.

2016-01-02 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Signed-off-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> --- debian/changelog | 7 +++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 00ffc1e..f70eb23 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +base-ins

[PATCH 2/3] kernel: Clone tests for sparc64 from sparc.

2016-01-02 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Signed-off-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> --- kernel/tests/sparc64/niagara-t1-smp.cpuinfo | 58 + kernel/tests/sparc64/niagara-t1-smp.test| 12 ++ kernel/tests/sparc64/niagara-t1-up.cpuinfo | 28 ++ kernel

Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add sparc64 support to base-installer

2016-01-05 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 01/02/2016 09:10 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Here's a small set of changes which adds support for the > sparc64 architecture. It basically clones the scripts > and tests from the sparc architecture which was using the > same 64-bit kernel that sparc64 is

[PATCH 0/4] More sparc64 updates for d-i

2015-12-30 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi! Here are some more improvements for d-i on sparc64. This time I also updated debian/changelog right away ;-). Thanks, Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG

[PATCH 2/4] Fix typo (problimatic -> problematic) in debian/control.

2015-12-30 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Signed-off-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> --- debian/control | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index 54c61c1..1c80c99 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ Build-D

[PATCH 1/4] Add silo to Build-Depends on sparc64.

2015-12-30 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Signed-off-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> --- debian/control | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index d826da1..54c61c1 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ Build-D

[PATCH 3/4] Clone boot configuration files from sparc for sparc64.

2015-12-30 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Signed-off-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> --- build/boot/sparc64/debian.txt | 17 + build/boot/sparc64/notsupported.txt | 5 + build/boot/sparc64/silo.conf| 33 + 3 files changed, 55 inse

[PATCH 4/4] Update changelog entries for sparc64 changes.

2015-12-30 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Signed-off-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> --- debian/changelog | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index dc4c40d..e3c0f95 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -69,6 +69,9 @@ debian-ins

Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add sparc64 support to base-installer

2016-01-09 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
working sparc64 support in d-i rather soon because Wheezy is going to be EOL soon and many people would like to reinstall their sparc64 machines with a Debian release that is still receving updates. If there is anything I can do to help with the process, please let me know. Thanks, Adrian - -- .

Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add sparc64 support to base-installer

2016-01-09 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 01/10/2016 01:11 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> > (2016-01-09): >> No problem. It would just be nice to have working sparc64 support >> in d-i rather soon because W

[PATCH 2/2] Set KEYRING to debian-ports on sparc64.

2015-12-25 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Signed-off-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> --- build/config/sparc64.cfg | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/build/config/sparc64.cfg b/build/config/sparc64.cfg index ef62cda..4689da0 100644 --- a/build/config/sparc64.cfg +++ b/build/config/s

[PATCH 1/2] Set KERNELVERSION for sparc64 to $(LINUX_KERNEL_ABI)-sparc64.

2015-12-25 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Signed-off-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> --- build/config/sparc64.cfg | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/build/config/sparc64.cfg b/build/config/sparc64.cfg index 0720651..ef62cda 100644 --- a/build/config/sparc64.cfg +++ b

Re: [PATCH 2/2] Set KEYRING to debian-ports on sparc64.

2015-12-25 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 12/25/2015 07:05 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Both applied, thanks. Thanks a lot! > But please include changelog entries next time. Sure, will do. Were my first commits to d-i so I didn't know better. Thanks! Adrian - -- .''`. Joh

Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add sparc64 support to base-installer

2016-01-10 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
will keep your suggestion regarding the changelog in mind. Thanks, Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913

Bug#767682: Reassigning package

2016-02-08 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Control: reassign -1 partman-ext3 This is actually a bug in partman-ext3. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913

Bug#767682: D-I: installer hangs on re-formatting ext4 partition (having grub in the partition boot record).

2016-02-10 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
if it helps resolving problems people are seeing on certain architectures and partition setups. Cheers, Adrian > [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/partman-ext3/+bug/498133 > [2] http://sources.debian.net/src/partman-btrfs/20/commit.d/format_btrfs/#L62 -- .''`. John Paul Adri

Bug#813232: debootstrap: Two-staged bootstrapping with --second-stage broken

2016-01-30 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
any case. Cheers, Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913

Bug#767682: D-I: installer hangs on re-formatting ext4 partition (having grub in the partition boot record).

2016-01-23 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
v/null; then sync status=OK else Adrian > [1] http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/partman-ext3.git/tree/commit.d/format_ext3#n59 -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-

Bug#767682: D-I: installer hangs on re-formatting ext4 partition (having grub in the partition boot record).

2016-01-22 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
gest to add -F to mkfs.ext3 in partman-ext3. Thanks, Adrian > [1] http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/partman-btrfs.git/tree/commit.d/format_btrfs#n62 -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-b

Bug#817174: D-I: installer hangs on re-formatting ext2 partition

2016-03-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
ng a separate /boot partition formatted with ext2 but I just used one ext4 root filesystem which worked just fine with SILO. Cheers, Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-

Bug#817174: D-I: installer hangs on re-formatting ext2 partition

2016-03-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913

Bug#852215: [Debian-ports-devel] Bug#852215: FTBFS on non-release architectures

2017-01-22 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
log for other issues). Thanks, Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913

Bug#817232: postinst trying to disable /etc/init.d/keyboard-setup

2017-01-14 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
-rc as init. Could you check whether the problem persists with systemd or sysvinit? Thanks, Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7

Re: [PATCH 2/7] Add ppc64 support based on powerpc configuration.

2017-03-30 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi Ben! On 03/20/2017 10:33 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2017-03-20 at 22:29 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> On 03/20/2017 10:19 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: >>> Could you please not copy this nonsense? &g

Re: [PATCH 2/7] Add ppc64 support based on powerpc configuration.

2017-03-30 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
to change. > > Delete all the checks for Linux "2.6" and the related assignments. Ok. Btw, is there a reason why build/config/*.cfg still sets KERNELMAJOR = 2.6 for all architectures? Is that still being used somewhere? Adrian - -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Devel

Bug#854588: debian-installer: recognize arrow keys as esc in serial console

2017-03-19 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi! On 03/15/2017 10:45 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> For most keys, it seems works well, while when press >> arrow keys "up"/"down"/"left"/"right", >> they are recognized as 'ESC' key. > > We are seeing

Bug#857808: debian-installer: Garbage on terminal with default TERM setting over serial console

2017-03-19 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
nd see if they can maybe try reproduce this issue. Maybe they can issue a firmware update to fix the problem. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546

Bug#857808: debian-installer: Garbage on terminal with default TERM setting over serial console

2017-03-19 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 03/19/2017 09:37 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi Samuel! > > On 03/19/2017 09:30 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: >> http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50588 >> >> I'm wondering whether we want to include the fix in Stretch? > > I can test the patch and see

Bug#857808: debian-installer: Garbage on terminal with default TERM setting over serial console

2017-03-19 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
er people don't run into this problem when using debian-installer over serial console. It might affected machines other than SPARC servers. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de

Bug#857808: debian-installer: Garbage on terminal with default TERM setting over serial console

2017-03-19 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
dded board with a serial console and a Tabor A1222 embedded PowerPC e500v2 board, in both cases the problem was not reproducible. So it seems to be a bug in the firmware of the affected SPARC boxes. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' F

Bug#854588: debian-installer: recognize arrow keys as esc in serial console

2017-03-19 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 03/19/2017 11:11 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > As possible cause for the issue might be a bug in the FIFO implementation > of the serial connection. Michael will hopefully correct me if I am wrong. I forgot to mention that the issue can be avoided by pressing the key quickly

Bug#857808: debian-installer: Garbage on terminal with default TERM setting over serial console

2017-03-19 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
normal again. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913

Bug#854588: debian-installer: recognize arrow keys as esc in serial console

2017-03-15 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
debian-installer. We have a sparc64 porterbox available which Roger - or anyone who would like to work on this - can use for test installations (a different one than notker.debian.net which is just for general porter work). Thanks, Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Develop

Bug#857808: debian-installer: Garbage on terminal with default TERM setting over serial console

2017-03-15 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
, Adrian > [1] https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/debian-cd/2017-03-14/ > [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=854588 > [3] https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/d-i-term/ > [4] https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/debian-cd/2016-05-04/ -- .''`. John Paul Adr

Re: debian-installer: virtio support for powerpc cdrom/netboot installs

2017-03-15 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
actually build fine on most of these architectures, including ppc64. I suggest sending your patch to the debian-boot mailing list. From my experience, trivial patches like this one usually get merged quickly. I assume it was just overlooked. Thanks, Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubi

Re: [PATCH 2/7] Add ppc64 support based on powerpc configuration.

2017-03-20 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
mmit, for all architectures? Thanks, Adrian - -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQIzB

[PATCH 1/7] Clone boot configuration files from powerpc for ppc64.

2017-03-20 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Signed-off-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> --- build/boot/ppc64/boot.msg | 19 +++ build/boot/ppc64/bootinfo.txt | 266 ++ build/boot/ppc64/hfs.map | 12 ++ build/boot/ppc64/ofboot.b

[PATCH 7/7] Add mkvmlinuz to Build-Depends for ppc64.

2017-03-20 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Signed-off-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> --- debian/changelog | 1 + debian/control | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 1cf61ee70..4db7aa7b4 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/

[PATCH 4/7] Clone netboot pkg-lists from powerpc for ppc64.

2017-03-20 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Signed-off-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> --- build/pkg-lists/netboot/ppc64.cfg | 30 ++ debian/changelog | 1 + 2 files changed, 31 insertions(+) create mode 100644 build/pkg-lists/netboot/ppc64.cfg diff --git a

Add initial support for ppc64

2017-03-20 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi! Here's a small series of patches which adds ppc64 support to debian-installer. With the patches applied, I can build debian-installer inside a ppc64 chroot. The generated d-i images should work on 64-Bit PowerPC Macs. Cheers, Adrian .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian

[PATCH 3/7] Clone cdrom pkg-lists from powerpc for ppc64.

2017-03-20 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Signed-off-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> --- build/pkg-lists/cdrom/ppc64.cfg | 31 +++ debian/changelog| 1 + 2 files changed, 32 insertions(+) create mode 100644 build/pkg-lists/cdrom/ppc64.cfg diff --git a/bui

[PATCH 5/7] Clone netboot-gtk pkg-lists from powerpc for ppc64.

2017-03-20 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Signed-off-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> --- build/pkg-lists/netboot/gtk/ppc64.cfg | 5 + debian/changelog | 1 + 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+) create mode 100644 build/pkg-lists/netboot/gtk/ppc64.cfg diff --git a/build/pkg

[PATCH 2/7] Add ppc64 support based on powerpc configuration.

2017-03-20 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Signed-off-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> --- build/config/ppc64.cfg | 97 build/config/ppc64/powerpc64.cfg | 18 ++ build/config/ppc64/powerpc64/cdrom.cfg | 9 +++ build/config/ppc64/pow

[PATCH 6/7] Add yaboot to Build-Depends for ppc64.

2017-03-20 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Signed-off-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> --- debian/changelog | 1 + debian/control | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 3b2e7dad8..1cf61ee70 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/

Bug#857808: debian-installer: Garbage on terminal with default TERM setting over serial console

2017-03-16 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> - How to start d-i in porterbox? You can perform a test installation in a sparc64 LDOM (hardware VM). Adrian - -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9

[PATCH] sparc64: Run elftoaout and piggyback when creating netboot image.

2017-04-01 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Signed-off-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> --- build/util/tftpboot.sh | 2 +- debian/changelog | 1 + 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/build/util/tftpboot.sh b/build/util/tftpboot.sh index 1d5dcd740..ef869c5f1 100755 --- a/buil

sparc64: Minor netboot fixes

2017-04-01 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! Users have reported that the generated netboot images for sparc64 won't boot on their sparc64 boxes. Turns out we forgot to convert the kernel image to a.out and piggy-back the initrd to the netboot image. The attached patch addresses that. Thanks, Adrian

Re: [PATCH 2/7] Add ppc64 support based on powerpc configuration.

2017-03-31 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 03/31/2017 04:34 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> So, for the time being would the attached patch for ppc64 and powerpc be >> sufficient? > > Looks good to me. Great, thank you ;). - -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' :

Re: [PATCH 2/7] Add ppc64 support based on powerpc configuration.

2017-03-31 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
anks. So, for the time being would the attached patch for ppc64 and powerpc be sufficient? Cheers, Adrian - -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006

Bug#869895: installations-reports: Install on Apple iBook G4 A1133 sid netinst 20170614

2017-07-27 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Hi! Performed an installation on an Apple iBook G4 A1133 which I was recently donated for doing hardware tests for Debian's powerpc port. I used a sid debian-installer image generated by the Jenkins job Steve Chamberlain has set up [1]. I simply

Bug#869895: installations-reports: Install on Apple iBook G4 A1133 sid netinst 20170614

2017-07-27 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
he colors seemed normal to me, however. Another issue I observed is that suspend doesn't seem to work reliably, suspending works when the lid is closed. However, the machine doesn't wake up again upon opening the lid again. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Develope

Bug#877735: busybox: m68k build broken due to "-Os" in CFLAGS

2017-10-04 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
the change from [1] reverted for m68k until we have fixed the potential bug in gcc which most likely mis-compiled busybox. Thanks, Adrian > [1] > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/busybox.git/commit/?id=8a115a910fb3cd7a525972e150a32f8aeb1da492 -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' :

Bug#877735: busybox: m68k build broken due to "-Os" in CFLAGS

2017-10-05 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi! On 10/05/2017 01:16 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Since busybox is very important to boot the system and get debian-installer working, I would like to ask to have the change from [1] reverted for m68k until we have fixed the potential bug in gcc which most likely mis-compiled busybox

Bug#877735: busybox: m68k build broken due to "-Os" in CFLAGS

2017-10-05 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
am architectures like m68k. I will mark busybox as "Not-For-Us" for the time being now because I don't want to be chasing this package over this and keep building it manually so that debian-installer doesn't break for us. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian

Bug#877735: busybox: m68k build broken due to "-Os" in CFLAGS

2017-10-05 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
thing like # On m68k, building with -Os leads to miscompiled code ifeq (m68k,$(DEB_HOST_ARCH)) CFLAGS := $(filter-out -Werror=format-security, ${CFLAGS}) else CFLAGS := $(filter-out -Werror=format-security -O2, ${CFLAGS}) endif Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :'

Bug#874353: base-installer: Please add ppc64 support

2017-09-07 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
very much! Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913

Bug#874014: base-installer: Please use common kernel for all subarchitectures on m68k

2017-09-07 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
point. I have re-added those. Thanks, Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913

Bug#874353: base-installer: Please add ppc64 support

2017-09-07 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
-- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913

Fixing the missing serial console after installation issue

2017-09-30 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
e happy to push it :). CC'ing debian-boot@l.d.o as this affects all d-i targets. Adrian > [1] > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/finish-install.git/tree/finish-install.d/90console#n63 -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Univ

Re: Fixing the missing serial console after installation issue

2017-09-30 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 09/30/2017 08:17 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Please be aware that I am not talking about just fixing the serial console > issue > on SPARC machines but on all architectures supported by Debian. Hence, I want > to use a generic and robust solution, not a quick hack. I

Re: Fixing the missing serial console after installation issue

2017-09-30 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
gt;> setting from the kernel command line and uses that to spawn a getty on this >> particular console. > > Yes, sure, but I didn't know if what I proposed and what worked in the past > also > worked for the mentioned users, i.e. these users: > > On 09/30/2017 10:54 AM, John

Re: Fixing the missing serial console after installation issue

2017-09-30 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
d uses that to spawn a getty on this particular console. Adrian > [1] > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/finish-install.git/tree/finish-install.d/90console#n79 -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub.

Re: Fixing the missing serial console after installation issue

2017-10-01 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
tries in the BTS are more than welcome. A backport isn't necessary in this case, I think, as we currently only provide unstable installation images for sparc64. Thanks, Adrian - -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin -

Re: Fixing the missing serial console after installation issue

2017-10-01 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
appens, because a virtual serial console device is the standard console provided to any LDOM virtual machine [1]. We have also observed the issue with QEMU when using the "-nographic" option and enabling a serial console. Adrian > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LDOM -- .''`

Re: Fixing the missing serial console after installation issue

2017-10-01 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
the kernel for the installed system? Well, I have just adopted this particular script for systemd and effectively used the same mechanism as for sysvinit and upstart. Would you have preferred a completely different mechanism? There is nothing special about sparc64 in this regard. Adrian -- .'

Re: Fixing the missing serial console after installation issue

2017-10-01 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
lled system behaves just like d-i behaved, > which is normally what the user expects. Do you mean that d-i is always booting with "console=ttyS0"? >> There is nothing special about sparc64 in this regard. > > Perhaps that "enabled by default" thing. The diffe

Bug#874014: base-installer: Please use common kernel for all subarchitectures on m68k

2017-09-01 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
. Please consider applying the patch for the next upload. Thanks, Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 >F

Bug#874353: base-installer: Please add ppc64 support

2017-09-05 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
correctly on ppc64, it needs to be added to base-installer which is what the attached patch does. Please consider applying it for the next upload. Thanks, Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub

Bug#877735: busybox: m68k build broken due to "-Os" in CFLAGS

2017-10-05 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
some potential of things breaking. Of course, these issues should be fixed and I will file a bug report on the problem. I just meant that varying the optimization levels is not something that you can expect to work in 100% of the cases. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debia

Re: Archiving the attic folders from d-i for ports

2018-05-07 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
. I have already cloned all of them, so no worries. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913

Re: Archiving the attic folders from d-i for ports

2018-05-05 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
ep the VME stuff as well. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913

Re: Archiving the attic folders from d-i for ports

2018-05-05 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
(Please CC me, I'm not subscribed to debian-boot@ at the moment). On 04/27/2018 08:14 AM, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 05:37:25AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> Since there are still some repositories that we need for debian-ports >> in the attic,

Re: Archiving the attic folders from d-i for ports

2018-05-07 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
on that will follow. [...] 31.05.18: All remaining repositories (cvs, svn and git) will be archived similar to the ones above. So I think there's no reason for the d-i team to also archive them, or move them to salsa. Are the archived repositories publicly available? Thanks, Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian

Permissions to push to installer project

2018-05-07 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
-installer? https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer/merge_requests/1 Thanks! Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37

Re: Permissions to push to installer project

2018-05-07 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
or Debian >> Ports? > > I've just added you now. Thanks! >> In the meantime, could someone review this change for debian-installer? >> >>> https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer/merge_requests/1 > > Done, accepted. Great, thank you! Cheers, Adr

Archiving the attic folders from d-i for ports

2018-04-26 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
. Adrian > [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2018/04/msg00253.html -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913

Archiving the attic folders from d-i for ports

2018-04-26 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
-installer won't be needed anymore in the future. Still, I think we should archive everything. Adrian > [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2018/04/msg00253.html -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - gl

Bug#879145: net-retriever doesn't pull udebs from the 'unreleased' distribution

2017-10-20 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
, but ISTR net-retriever was only able to perform installations from a single source, and I had to implement merging Packages files from stable and stable-backports, which I don't see in your proposed patch. I agree, that would be a sensible thing to do first. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian

Bug#877735: busybox: m68k build broken due to "-Os" in CFLAGS

2018-02-05 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
am bug report and add the URL with the "forwarded" keyword to this bug report. It would then be highly appreciated if you could add the workaround with the gcc bug report referenced to the debian/rules file for the time being until the gcc bug has been fixed. Thanks, Adrian -- .

Bug#401889: [installation-guide] memory requirements for powerpc

2018-07-28 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> On Jul 28, 2018, at 8:45 PM, Holger Wansing wrote: > > > Holger Levsen : >> the following memory requirements for powerpc should be documented in the >> manual, because booting with too little memory results in strange effects / >> error messages, which especially people new to powerpc

Bug#858159: [installation-guide] Memory requirements for installing Stretch have increased since Jessie

2018-07-28 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
an GNU/Linux" ID=debian HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/; SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support; BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/; root@elgar:~> Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Ber

Bug#858159: [installation-guide] Memory requirements for installing Stretch have increased since Jessie

2018-08-04 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> On Aug 4, 2018, at 12:23 PM, David Margerison > wrote: > >> On 4 August 2018 at 05:26, Holger Wansing wrote: >> >> Ok, so we could leave the "No desktop" section as is. >> >> Since desktop environments like Gnome and KDE still move forward and add >> new features, it seems likely to me,

Bug#858159: [installation-guide] Memory requirements for installing Stretch have increased since Jessie

2018-08-04 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> On Aug 3, 2018, at 9:26 PM, Holger Wansing wrote: > > Hi, > > John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >>> On 07/28/2018 08:02 PM, Holger Wansing wrote: >>> Currently we have in the guide for buster: >>> >>> Install Type| RAM (minimum) | RAM

Re: Bug#905793: Why does the Installer formats given swap

2018-08-10 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
n one installation on the > same machine presumably know well how to avoid the potential problems of > shared swap. That's fine. But software has to adjust for the needs of 99.99% of its users and not to 5 people who have an exotic usecase. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' :

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