Re: What to do with d-i on armel?

2024-01-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
bcm2835, versatilepb, at91, kirkwood and > all the others that one might use. If someone wants to make this work in Debian that would be great, but without a specific maintainer it's not going to happen. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid all together. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Bug#1040901: Upcoming changes to Debian Linux kernel packages

2023-09-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
ctly sure. It should be verified that this detection will work the way you expect, so that the error message doesn't change and create a support burden for the installer team. Currently kernel-wedge generates the udeb package names and would need to add an option to leave out the version pa

Bug#1037261: Bookworm - OOM-killer called before partition hard drives

2023-06-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
13 MiB of other stuff --- 536 MiB which is well under 1 GiB. It seems like there must be a lot of kernel memory allocations that aren't being accounted here, and might have been leaked. But you will probably succeed in installing if you correct the memory allocation for this VM to the i

Bug#1036446: Please enable udhcpc6

2023-05-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: udhcpc Version: 1:1.35.0-4+b2 Severity: wishlist Tags: ipv6 Busybox has a DHCPv6 client (udhcpc6) but this is not included in the Debian packages. Please enable CONFIG_UDHCPC6 and the dependent features. Ben. -- System Information: Debian Release: 12.0 APT prefers unstable-debug

Bug#1036019: debian-installer: Broken X display with QEMU under UEFI with cirrus and std graphics

2023-05-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2023-05-14 at 19:40 +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: [...] > This works for me with all the QEMU graphics devices. But I haven't > tested on real hardware. Now tested successfully on 2 custom desktops: - Asus P8Z68-V LX motherboard, Intel Core i5 2500 CPU, integrated GPU - ASRock B45

Bug#1036019: debian-installer: Broken X display with QEMU under UEFI with cirrus and std graphics

2023-05-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: tag -1 patch On Sun, 2023-05-14 at 00:21 +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: [...] > So I suppose there's a regression in either efifb or fbdev_drv. I'm not spotting any functional changes in fbdev or the submodules it depends on between bullseye and bookworm. So this implicates either ef

Bug#1036019: debian-installer: Broken X display with QEMU under UEFI with cirrus and std graphics

2023-05-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
things around from linux-image > wouldn't change anything there, would it? > > Of course in the long run, if having those modules is desired, it will > be better to have them merged in linux and to drop the nasty code, e.g. > in a point release. [...] Definitely. I will spend some time investigating this, but I doubt I'll come up with a better fix in time. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Life would be so much easier if we could look at the source code. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Ensuring initramfs is compressed with zstd

2023-03-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
before we # change its configuration -- Ben Hutchings Q. Which is the greater problem in the world today, ignorance or apathy? A. I don't know and I couldn't care less. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#1014925: hw-detect: Fails to install open-vm-tools if fuse is already installed

2022-07-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2022-07-29 at 01:17 +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > * Ben Hutchings : > [..] > > Right. So this seems like a botched transition - fuse3 should have > > taken over the fuse binary package but instead each reverse-dependency > > has to be updated. I a

Bug#1014925: hw-detect: Fails to install open-vm-tools if fuse is already installed

2022-07-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2022-07-27 at 14:25 +0200, Arnaud Rebillout wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jul 2022 20:14:15 +0200 Ben Hutchings > wrote: > > > > You should find out why that is, before proposing to override it. What > > if something in KDE really does need FUSE 2? > > I

Bug#1014925: hw-detect: Fails to install open-vm-tools if fuse is already installed

2022-07-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
at removing fuse doesn't remove anything else, this implies that the relationship is only a Recommends and not a Depends. But that doesn't mean that removal won't break anything.) If we find that it's not really needed, then a better fix may be to remove the recommendation(s) or change them

Re: Bug#1012707: /etc/network/interfaces: only source configuration files using with '*.conf' / use 'source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*.conf' instead of 'source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*'

2022-07-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
eates "/etc/network/interfaces.d/static": https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/netboot-assistant/-/blob/master/README.installbox#L62 - netcfg creates /etc/network/interfaces itself, with the wildcard that's being reported as a bug: https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/netcfg/-/

Re: ifupdown/dhcp

2022-05-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
ound to integrating it with ifupdown. For that reason I only uploaded it to experimental. I would be happy to hand over to a more active maintainer, or to co-maintain it. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I say we take off; nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#995833: busybox: uudecode doesn't recognise the special decode_pathname /dev/stdout

2021-11-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
> But within the initramfs, this symlink doesn't sem to exist, so any output > that should go to stdout would actually go to that file (or cause error > if that's not writable). [...] This is bug #981302 (which I thought we'd actually fixed already). I don't think busybox needs to change. B

Re: Bug#988776: Bug#983357: Netinst crashes xen domU when loading kernel

2021-08-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
e are at <https://kernel-team.pages.debian.net/kernel-handbook/ch-common-tasks.html#s-common-official>. I agree that you should check whether this fixes the coldplug error before we try rebuilding the installer. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Design a system any fool can use, and only a fool will w

Re: Bug#988776: Bug#983357: Netinst crashes xen domU when loading kernel

2021-08-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2021-08-24 at 15:19 -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > On 8/24/2021 1:12 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: [...] > > I think a proper fix would be one of: > > > > a. If the Xen virtual keyboard driver is advertising capabilities it > > doesn't have, stop i

Re: Bug#988776: Bug#983357: Netinst crashes xen domU when loading kernel

2021-08-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 03:27:19PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote: > > Ben Hutchings writes: > > > I think a proper fix would be one of: > > > > a. If the Xen virtual keyboard driver is advertising capabilities it > >doesn't have, stop it doing that. > > b

Re: Bug#988776: Bug#983357: Netinst crashes xen domU when loading kernel

2021-08-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
top it doing that. b. Change the implementation of modalias attributes to allow longer values. It's not clear to me whether the Xen driver is advertising correctly or not. If it is, then the solution should be b, but that may be too disruptive a change to the kernel. So a reasonable workaround might be: c. Change the input subsystem to limit the length of the capabilities part of the modalias. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings 73.46% of all statistics are made up. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Should /boot be ext2, instead of ext4?

2021-08-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
; > I will have to go through the list of bootloaders currently in use > and I’ll let you know. [...] This is bug #985463. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Absolutum obsoletum. (If it works, it's out of date.) - Stafford Beer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#989863: debian-installer: Firmware problems in bullseye

2021-07-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
..] Yes - nothing requiring a EULA should be accepted into the upstream repository, and if it happens anyway we would put those files in a separate binary package. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Reality is just a crutch for people who can't handle science fiction. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#991500: Missing modalias metadata needed for automatic installation

2021-07-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
Source: firmware-nonfree Version: 20210315-2 Severity: serious Tags: pending X-Debbugs-Cc: k...@debian.org, debian-boot@lists.debian.org The binary firmware packages built from firmware-nonfree currently include metanfo.xml files with a list of filenames of the firmware in them. These files are

Re: Linux freeze 5.10.0.7

2021-06-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
> > Linux teal 5.10.0-6-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.28-1 (2021-04-09) x86_64 > > GNU/Linux > > > > Laptop: Lenovo Ideapad 5 14ARE05 > > You've reached the team responsible for the installer. Please file a > bug report against the Linux kernel, I suppose by running the

Re: Use isenkram to get around the firmware problem?

2021-04-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2021-04-30 at 08:42 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Ben Hutchings] > > Here's what I came up with: > > https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/firmware-nonfree/-/merge_requests/19 > > > > The generated files can be seen in: > > https://people.d

Re: [AMD/ATI graphics] Missing firmware not declared / kernel modules not included in initrd

2021-04-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
and that... unless firmware-amd-graphics is missing some firmware needed by the latest kernel version. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I'm not a reverse psychological virus. Please don't copy me into your signature. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Use isenkram to get around the firmware problem?

2021-04-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2021-04-23 at 23:14 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi Ben, > > And sorry for the long delay before replying to your offer. > > Ben Hutchings (2021-03-12): > > firmware-amd-graphics, like most (not all) firmware-* packages in non- > > free, is generated from

Bug#985956: Merge request submittted to initramfs-tools

2021-04-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
t. This should be fixed in both initramfs-tools (for normal system boot) and linux (for installation). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: serial console install issues

2021-04-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
s not aware that a serial terminal is beign used. The code for SeaBIOS's serial console support is here: <https://github.com/pcengines/seabios/blob/apu_support/src/sercon.c>. It presents an 80x25 (or 40x25) text display as there is no VGA BIOS mode number for 80x24. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The world is coming to an end. Please log off. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#985463: debian-installer: kernel complains about /boot partition in LVM install (ext2 filesystem being mounted at /boot supports timestamps until 2038)

2021-03-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2021-03-18 at 20:20 +0100, Laurent Bonnaud wrote: > On 3/18/21 7:51 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > I think that the installer uses ext2 for /boot because some boot > > loaders only support(ed) ext2 and not its successor filesystem > > formats. > > But I thin

Bug#985463: debian-installer: kernel complains about /boot partition in LVM install (ext2 filesystem being mounted at /boot supports timestamps until 2038)

2021-03-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
en buster systems are upgraded to a 5.10 kernel. Since we don't have a specific upgrade program, I think the best we can do about this is to document it in the release notes. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings 73.46% of all statistics are made up. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Use isenkram to get around the firmware problem?

2021-03-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
(e.g. older Intel GPUs) Is that kind of inaccuracy acceptable? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Color choices for the installer

2021-02-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
a Red background. > > Please tell us which ISO you are using. > > I am using debian-10.0.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso at > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2021-02-02/. I remember there being cases in the past where red and blue components were swapped on some

Re: Naming convention for udebs: -udeb/-installer suffix

2021-01-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
kernel module udebs are generated by kernel-wedge which doesn't allow defining dependencies on other packages. Perhaps you could have a look at kernel-wedge and think of a good way to support declaring such dependencies? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Design a system any fool can use, and only a fool wil

Bug#979104: installation-reports: Intel Wireless 8265 / 8275 has no firmware in nonfree iso

2021-01-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
make it a dependency of nic-wireless-modules, but that was going to require changing kernel-wedge. But I don't have time to do that now, so I'm happy with your change. The size increase will be negligible. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Design a system any fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#979104: installation-reports: Intel Wireless 8265 / 8275 has no firmware in nonfree iso

2021-01-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
d in most installer builds since 20201202. So I don't know why it's not being found. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular. - Adlai Stevenson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [AMD/ATI graphics] Missing firmware not declared / kernel modules not included in initrd

2020-12-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
it wouldn't log the usual "missing firmware" message.) Could this not be done in "discover"?  If it can match PCI devices with a specific class and vendor, that should be enough to decide that firmware-amd-graphics (AMD, ATI) or firmware-misc-nonfree (Intel, Nvidia) might

Re: [AMD/ATI graphics] Missing firmware not declared / kernel modules not included in initrd

2020-12-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
devices with a specific class and vendor, that should be enough to decide that firmware-amd-graphics (AMD, ATI) or firmware-misc-nonfree (Intel, Nvidia) might be wanted. Ben. > Sorry, if I got something completely wrong here ... -- Ben Hutchings Lowery's Law: If it jams, force i

Bug#974206: closed by Ben Hutchings (Re: Bug#974206: debian-installer: When entering an IPv6 address, fe80::1 should be a valid gateway)

2020-11-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
> #974206: debian-installer: When entering an IPv6 address, fe80::1 should be > > a valid gateway > > > > It has been closed by Ben Hutchings . > > > No, this is a link-local address so you have to also specify the > > interface name, e.g. "fe80::1%eth0&qu

Bug#973733: RTW88_8821ce module fails to find firmware during install and must be reloaded

2020-11-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2020-11-04 at 15:34 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: [...] > I don't know this part of the installer. But I think it would be a > mistake to use a mapping table; instead the installer should look at > metadata provided by the kernel. All drivers in a loaded module should > be

Re: Setting up /tmp on /tmpfs during installation

2020-10-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
this is documented somewhere, I didn't find anything (or > rather: there is TMI out there. The solution to /tmp varied over time, > and distros). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings All the simple programs have been written, and all the good names taken signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Maintainer access to install repo

2020-10-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
the installer for setting root password in > expert mode > (had to work-around via the rescue cd). Working on identifying that. [...] I think that's in user-setup, so you can use a similar process starting from <https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/user-setup>. Ben. --

Bug#972366: debian-installer: It may be illegal not to set wireless regulatory domain

2020-10-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
only ever configures wifi interfaces for infrastructure mode. Am I missing something? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Anthony's Law of Force: Don't force it, get a larger hammer. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#971943: task-laptop: Add tlp and thermald

2020-10-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
important for some newer laptops. Does it quietly do nothing on other models? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Never attribute to conspiracy what can adequately be explained by stupidity. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#971871: installation-reports: bullseye wkly 20201005 - nouveau firmware

2020-10-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
th the radeon and amdgpu drivers, which we patch to guard against this failure mode. We might need to apply a similar patch for nouveau. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings [W]e found...that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to

Bug#970678: udev: missing /dev/stdin etc.

2020-09-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
). systemd still includes the dev_setup() function which creates these symlinks, so I don't see why it can't be called by udevd. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Anthony's Law of Force: Don't force it, get a larger hammer. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#970678: Network preseeding using http is broken

2020-09-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2020-09-21 at 20:42 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2020-09-21 at 17:43 +0200, Martin Samuelsson wrote: > > Philip Hands @ 2020-09-21 (Monday), 15:30 (+0200) > > > Martin Samuelsson writes: > > > > > > Just to be clear on this point, are

Re: base-installer upload?

2020-09-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2020-09-21 at 22:14 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: > Hi Ben, > > any objections against me uploading base-installer with this pending > changings? > There are some pending translation updates, which is why I want to do another > upload ... No objections; please go ahe

Re: udeb for wireless-regdb?

2020-09-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2020-02-03 at 17:34 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2020-02-03 at 01:23 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Hi Ben, > > > > Ben Hutchings (2020-02-02): > > > Starting with Linux 5.5, we'll enable the kernel to directly load > > > wireless regu

Bug#970678: Network preseeding using http is broken

2020-09-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
debian-installer > images and hasn't been since at least 20200818 (which was the oldest one I > could try with current kernel modules). [...] Then we should investigate and fix that instead of removing code that uses it. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The Peter principle: In a hierarchy, every empl

Re:

2020-09-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
Raspbian is not Debian, and the Debian installer team is responsible only for the software that does initial installation of a Debian system. It looks like Raspbian has removed their release based on Debian wheezy. In that case you will need to upgrade to a newer release. Ben. -- Ben Hutchi

Re: Firmware testing images broken

2020-09-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
ks for the report! Thanks Steve. We probably should have thought to update that after changing the dependencies (which was needed because the module dependencies changed). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings One of the nice things about standards is that there are so many of them. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#969450: partman-auto: on a machine with 384 Gb Ram and 512 Gb SSD, creates 400 Gb swap partition

2020-09-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
of memory carefully install > enough memory to not swap excessively. [...] This is an extremely unusual configuration for a desktop. You always have the opportunity to review and modify the partitioning before going ahead. So reducing the severity. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Time is nature's way

Bug#769107: debian-installer: grub-installer fails if more than 26 SCSI devices are present

2020-08-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2020-08-23 at 13:38 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: > > Ben Hutchings wrote (24 Nov 2014 04:09:01): > > device_to_disk already knows how to do the mapping. We have this > > complicated wildcard here which doesn't match the regexp in > > device_to_disk, only

Re: Bug#968803: debian-cd : please include base packages from 'unreleased' on debian-ports architectures

2020-08-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
Those would then be usable by both X and Wayland servers and should be able to handle suspend and resume gracefully. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The Peter principle: In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to their level of incompetence. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed m

Bug#968441: partman-auto: Default /boot partition size is too small

2020-08-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
ioning manually during installs so I did not > know until then that too small /boot partition was still a thing. > > The default should probably be like 1GB or even 2GB to be safe :). [...] This is fixed in the current version of partman-auto, though not (yet) in stable. Ben. -- Be

Bug#746966: HiDPI support

2020-08-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
rtual_size"` > > if [ "$width" -ge "$MIN_WIDTH_HIDPI" ]; then > FONTSIZE="16x32" > fi [...] You have consistently written "width" here where you mean "height". Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Reality is just a

Re: debian6

2020-07-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
, here are the ISO images: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/6.0.10/ Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Anthony's Law of Force: Don't force it, get a larger hammer. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#886642: fixed? (please default to a larger /boot for guided partitioning)

2020-05-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
bullseye. > > I was not aware of this bug, so did not close it... > > Should this be considered for backporting to stable? I think it should, though there is a small risk of regression if people install on very small storage devices. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Nothing is ever a complete fai

Bug#954856: Please add option to install signed grub bootloader

2020-03-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
at combination doesn't make any sense. Ben. > Leaving this open for other members of the installer team to comment, > but as far as I can tell, this bug report could likely be closed right > away. > > > Cheers, -- Ben Hutchings This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#955210: kernel-wedge: regression causes kfreebsd-10 FTBFS

2020-03-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
Steven Chamberlain wrote: > tags -1 + patch > thanks Sorry about that. I knew this was a relatively risky change, but thought I had test cases covering everything. Would you mind adding a regression test for this case? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings This sentence contradicts itself - no actuall

Re: Install the GRUB boot loader on a hard disk

2020-03-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2020-03-18 at 16:03 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 3/18/20 3:36 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > According to that logic you would have to replace the save icon in every > > > desktop application because we're no longer using floppy disks. > > [...

Bug#954200: DI encrypted LVM, discard option crypttab file

2020-03-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
> 1) https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/crypttab.html > > -- > John Doe > -- Ben Hutchings Unix is many things to many people, but it's never been everything to anybody. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Install the GRUB boot loader on a hard disk

2020-03-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
> According to that logic you would have to replace the save icon in every > desktop application because we're no longer using floppy disks. [...] That has already happened to many (most?) applications. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Unix is many things to many people, but it's never been everything to anybody. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Dropping haveged from the installer

2020-03-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
tropy generator might not be reliable (yet). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Humour is the best antidote to reality. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: boot-time accessibility issues

2020-03-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
iver should be able to set up these display controllers without firmware, but won't be able to configure high resolutions, hotplug reporting, or other advanced features. GNOME and other desktop environments using Wayland won't work with the generic VGA driver. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I haven't los

Bug#951709: /boot should get a bigger share of disk in default installation

2020-02-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
oot is now too small. I think we should normally allocate at least 500 MB to it. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Unix is many things to many people, but it's never been everything to anybody. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: udeb for wireless-regdb?

2020-02-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2020-02-03 at 01:23 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi Ben, > > Ben Hutchings (2020-02-02): > > Starting with Linux 5.5, we'll enable the kernel to directly load > > wireless regulatory information. I don't think it's that important in > > the installer -

udeb for wireless-regdb?

2020-02-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
of adding it to the installer previously. However, now it would just be a case of adding two files for the kernel to pick up. So perhaps a udeb would be worthwhile? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tape somewhere. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: [installer] One more template change?

2020-01-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
nged" > - 'low': even show trivial items that have defaults which will work in > the vast majority of cases. [...] "all questions, even if the default only rarely needs to be changed" Ben. > -- Ben Hutchings 73.46% of all statistics are made up. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#950086: base-installer: please support configuring initramfs compression

2020-01-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2020-01-30 at 20:10 +0300, Alper Nebi Yasak wrote: > On 30/01/2020 16:43, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Oh, right, then I misunderstood what you were doing. I don't > > understand how the two templates work together, so it may well be that > > the first version was OK.

Bug#950086: base-installer: please support configuring initramfs compression

2020-01-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2020-01-30 at 16:35 +0300, Alper Nebi Yasak wrote: > On 29/01/2020 21:31, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > This is definitely a rather niche option, so "wishlist" is appropriate. > > Thanks! (My reasoning was that it's a new feature.) > > > So it's po

Bug#950086: base-installer: please support configuring initramfs compression

2020-01-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
t base-installer apt-install "$RET" > + fi So it's possible to set any arbitrary string, but if you set it to anything other than "gzip", "xz", or "lzma" then the required compressor might not be installed. (And it's possible to s

Re: netcfg: proposal for template change

2020-01-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
configuration will already know what an IP address looks like. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Anthony's Law of Force: Don't force it, get a larger hammer. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#946682: debian-installer: Discard transmission by LVM

2019-12-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
added to the pool depending on actual need. It does not seem to be appropriate for the OS installation and therefore should not be offered in the installer. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Anthony's Law of Force: Don't force it, get a larger hammer. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [cdrom-detect] Change template proposal

2019-12-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
int in bothering with them. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance. - Robert Coveyou signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#946118: synaptics touchpad does not work in debian installer graphical mode

2019-12-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
report is unlikely to be actionable unless you specify *exactly* which model of computer you are using. There are literally hundreds of different touchpad devices out there. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. signature.asc Description: T

Re: Dropping haveged from the installer

2019-11-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2019-11-07 at 22:36 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi Ben, > > Ben Hutchings (2019-11-07): > > Linux 5.4 introduces an in-kernel jitter-entropy implementation for > > systems without a usable hardware RNG, which should remove the need for > > haveged. > &

Re: Request add hibmc_drm into buster aarch64 netboot image

2019-11-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
drivers to included in is mostly done through the kernel package, not the installer packages. Please open a bug against "src:linux" requesting that this driver is built and included in the installer. We'll fix it unstable first, and can then possibly fix it in an update to buster. Ben. -- B

Dropping haveged from the installer

2019-11-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
Linux 5.4 introduces an in-kernel jitter-entropy implementation for systems without a usable hardware RNG, which should remove the need for haveged. We could possibly cherry-pick that change on to 5.3, to avoid the need for further changes to haveged packaging. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Logic

Bug#367515: Bug#749991: debian-installer: Wrong kernel in debian-installer package

2019-11-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
allation method? > (means: skipping the "check if you are using an up-to-date netboot image" > part) That seems reasonable. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If God had intended Man to program, we'd have been born with serial I/O ports. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: finish-install warning

2019-11-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
during installation. So I don't think there's an actual bug to fix here. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Reality is just a crutch for people who can't handle science fiction. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#749991: debian-installer: Wrong kernel in debian-installer package

2019-11-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2019-11-01 at 00:09 +0100, Holger Wansing wrote: > Hi, > > Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Sun, 2019-10-27 at 20:18 +0100, Holger Wansing wrote: > > > Bugreport against kernel version mismatch, when using outdated or broken > > > netboot images: > &

Bug#367515: Bug#749991: debian-installer: Wrong kernel in debian-installer package

2019-10-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2019-10-28 at 15:56 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Philipp Wollschlegel (2019-10-28): > > On 28.10.19 15:11, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > On Sun, 2019-10-27 at 20:18 +0100, Holger Wansing wrote: > > > > Bugreport against kernel version mismatch, when usi

Bug#367515: Bug#749991: debian-installer: Wrong kernel in debian-installer package

2019-10-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
etboot image, and can be caused by either (a) old netboot image or (b) broken mirror. If that's right, we should recommend (a) make sure your netboot image is current (b) if it is, then try another mirror, recommending deb.debian.org. Also, this should be an error message, not a q

Bug#941300: finish-install: write random seed to correct location for chosen init system

2019-09-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
fixed before changing that.) So this does not help with the problem of slow boots due to the kernel not accounting enough entropy. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Sturgeon's Law: Ninety percent of everything is crap. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Debootstrap and package versions

2019-09-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
means completely removing packages which are very buggy, not just removing old versions. Old versions may still be available in a different suite that you have as an APT source, or might not have been decrufted yet. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Reality is just a crutch for people who can't handle science fiction. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#940801: missing virtio block Kernel Objects

2019-09-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
get it ? It's in scsi-modules--di now. (I know it's not a SCSI driver, but that's where we currently put miscellaneous storage drivers.) The netboot installer should install that package and then trigger loading of the module. Have you updated the netboot installer since the point rele

Re: Change templates: CD -> installation medium - proposal #2

2019-09-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
e, or mapped as a virtual device, to create an "installation disk". Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Unix is many things to many people, but it's never been everything to anybody. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Change templates: CD -> installation medium - proposal #2

2019-09-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
ase you could use more specific terms here, e.g. "The optical disc drive contains a disc which cannot be used for installation." Otherwise a suitable new text could be something like "The detected drive does not contain a usable installation disk"

Bug#451535: debian-installer: allow to 'reuse' encrypted volumes

2019-09-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
ation. What makes you think the installer is intended to be used for upgrades? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. - Anne Morrow Lindberg signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Bug#935069: installation-guide: remove mentions of floppies

2019-08-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
orts-tftp;supports-bootp;supports-nfsroot" > # For Lenny i386 does not have floppy images > -#boot="supports-floppy-boot;bootable-disk;bootable-usb" > boot="bootable-disk;bootable-usb;isohybrid-unsupported" > frontend="newt;not-gtk" > other="supports-wireless;supports-pcmcia;supports-serial-console" the comments above the deleted lines should also be deleted. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Knowledge is power. France is bacon. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Installer image for HP mv2120 fails to build with Linux 5.2

2019-08-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
og: * [armel/marvell] Increase maximum image size (fixes FTBFS): - This removes support for QNAP TS-109, TS-119, TS-209, TS-219, TS-409, and HP Media Vault mv2120 - This may be reverted if we can disable or modularise some features Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If you seem to know what you ar

Re: Change templates: CD -> installation medium

2019-08-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
nts could be loaded over the network, but wouldn't we use "downloading" in that case? In other instances, like when we ask whether to install packages from another "CD", would a phrase like "disc or drive" work? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If you seem to know what you are doing, you'll be given more to do. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#934383: [Fwd: Re: Bug#934383: debian-install: Package fails attempting to access USB WiFi]

2019-08-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
Forwarded Message From: William Melgaard Reply-To: William Melgaard To: Ben Hutchings Subject: Re: Bug#934383: debian-install: Package fails attempting to access USB WiFi Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2019 12:13:49 -0400 (GMT-04:00) Message-Id: <1485212848.2002.1565453629821@wa

Bug#934383: debian-install: Package fails attempting to access USB WiFi

2019-08-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
> Identify the presence of a Panda PAU06 Wifi dongle, RT5372, > > requiring Debian package rt2800us This requires the *kernel module* rt2800usb, which in turn requires non-free firmware. My guess is that you used an installation image that doesn't include the firmware. However the ins

Bug#930228: partman-crypto: cryptsetup's initramfs integration was moved to a separate package

2019-07-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
path, cf. #932625.) I'm therefore only raising > the severity to ‘normal’. APT::Install-Recommends is only enabled after the base-installer phase. of installation. I don't know what stage cryptsetup is installed at, but I suggest it's worth checking that this assumption is correct. Ben. --

Bug#931852: [armel/marvell] cmdline mtd partition map without effect

2019-07-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2019-07-16 at 09:02 +0200, Chris Laif wrote: > On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 1:22 AM Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Mon, 2019-07-15 at 09:31 +0200, Chris Laif wrote: > > > On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 11:37 PM Ben Hutchings > > > wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2019

Bug#931852: [armel/marvell] cmdline mtd partition map without effect

2019-07-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2019-07-15 at 09:31 +0200, Chris Laif wrote: > On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 11:37 PM Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Thu, 2019-07-11 at 15:11 +0200, Chris Laif wrote: > > > Package: debian-installer > > > Version: 20190702 > > > > > > I'm using t

Bug#931852: [armel/marvell] cmdline mtd partition map without effect

2019-07-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
e) has no effect > (even with 'cmdline' module loaded): [...] What if you replace "mtdparts=" with "cmdlineparts.mtdparts="? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings One of the nice things about standards is that there are so many of them. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#931507: kernel-wedge: HDA sound board detection takes 60s in d-i

2019-07-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
which is packaged in firmware-intel-sound and firmware-misc-nonfree respectively. Please check that this is included in the non-free installation images. Ben. > It'd definitely be so much useful to have this change uploaded in time > for 10.1. -- Ben Hutchings Time is nature's way

Bug#931317: debian-installer: A feature to "secure erase" SSDs would be nice

2019-07-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
y. > Doing that inside d-i reliably seems likely to be quite a challenge, and > then if someone gets bored and turns off the power, their first and last > experience of Debian might well be us converting their SSD into a brick. > > A suggestion for them to think about doing it before insta

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