Bug#927986: /var/cache/fontconfig growing

2019-04-25 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: fontconfig Version: 2.13.1-2 Severity: wishlist Today I discovered six years of files, hundreds, several megabytes, in /var/cache/fontconfig . Nothing is cleaning them up. Also no owner of /var/cache/fontconfig has been declared, in contrast to $ dlocate /var/cache$ xfstt: /var/cache

Bug#927977: Split dc_other_hostnames when presenting them to the user in dpkg-reconfigure

2019-04-25 Thread Dan Jacobson
Or just add "any of" in >> │ system. If this option is chosen, 'jidanni.org', 'localhost' and **ANY OF** >> │ >> 'jidanni2.jidanni.org;jidanni5.jidanni.org;jidanni7.jidanni.org;jidanni8.jidanni.org' >> in From, if semicolon is detected.

Bug#927922: SSL error: error:1425F102:SSL routines:ssl_choose_client_version:unsupported protocol

2019-04-25 Thread Dan Jacobson
retitle 927922 Ask user if really he wants to proceed to a dangerous site. Don't just quit thanks All I know is in such cases $ w3m some_site.com should say some_site.com is using dangerous software. (ERR: SSL v... v... ) Please ask the site owner to fix it. [QUIT] [Proceed anyway

Bug#927395: Do not touch(1) update-exim4.conf.conf for no good reason

2019-04-25 Thread Dan Jacobson
retitle 927395 Add a update-exim4.conf.conf.local to avoid edit conflicts thanks Well all I know is /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.localmacros is the safe place for macros, so there also should be a safe place for things that would go in /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf too. By safe I mean guaranteed

Bug#927977: Split dc_other_hostnames when presenting them to the user in dpkg-reconfigure

2019-04-25 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: exim4-config Version: 4.92-6 Severity: minor dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config says Mail Server configuration ├──┐ │ │ │ The headers of outgoing

Bug#927922: SSL error: error:1425F102:SSL routines:ssl_choose_client_version:unsupported protocol

2019-04-24 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: w3m Version: 0.5.3-37 Lynx, chromium work fine. $ w3m https://branch.taipower.com.tw/content/Messagess/Contents.aspx?SiteID=564732602442427467=564732602561157543=564734220745242356 SSL error: error:1425F102:SSL routines:ssl_choose_client_version:unsupported protocol -- System

Bug#927913: Second chromium kills the first one, and we see "Restore pages?"

2019-04-24 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: chromium Version: 74.0.3729.108-1 Severity: important $ chromium & $ sleep 22 $ chromium & The second one kills the first one, and we see "Restore pages?"

Bug#927395: Do not touch(1) update-exim4.conf.conf for no good reason

2019-04-23 Thread Dan Jacobson
retitle 927395 #include update-exim4.conf.conf-user.pre thanks Anyway having a robot edit what the user edits what the robot edits... often leads to disaster. A much cleaner design for update-exim4.conf.conf would be something like #include user.pre #if exists ...guts go here... #include

Bug#927818: Warning not also updated in update-exim4.conf.conf

2019-04-23 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: exim4-config Version: 4.92-6 Severity: wishlist File: /var/lib/dpkg/info/exim4-config.postinst The 17 line warning at write_header() is only written once and not updated. Thus user A sees a 2 line warning, user B sees a 12 line warning, user C sees a 17 line warning, all depending on

Bug#927815: ascii2uni accepts more than just ASCII

2019-04-23 Thread Dan Jacobson
X-debbugs-Cc: billpo...@alum.mit.edu Package: uni2ascii Version: 4.18-3 Severity: wishlist We read NAME ascii2uni - convert 7-bit ASCII representations to UTF-8 Unicode and DESCRIPTION ascii2uni converts various 7-bit ASCII representations to

Bug#927812: Mention line numbers in error messages

2019-04-23 Thread Dan Jacobson
X-debbugs-Cc: billpo...@alum.mit.edu Package: uni2ascii Version: 4.18-3 Severity: wishlist $ uni2ascii myfile.txt > /dev/null Invalid UTF-8 code encountered at byte 4074, character 4074. OK, but please also mention what line number too. (Workaround; $ uni2ascii myfile.txt | nl -b a | tail -n 1

Bug#927813: Don't use raw Latin1 in exim4-config.config

2019-04-23 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: exim4-config Version: 4.92-6 Severity: wishlist File: /var/lib/dpkg/info/exim4-config.config $ set /var/lib/dpkg/info/exim4-config.config $ iconv -f latin1 -t utf8 $@ | diff $@ - | wc 14 2421770 Emacs says your file is Devangari. chromium gets it wrong too. file(1) says it

Bug#927814: Black upon blue text very hard to read

2019-04-23 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.11-7 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/aptitude-curses Black upon blue text very hard to read:

Bug#927731: epiphany-browser/i386: private libdazzle not loaded

2019-04-22 Thread Dan Jacobson
SM> Does this perhaps depend on settings or something? If you create a new SM> temporary user account, log in as the new user and run epiphany-browser, SM> do you get the same warnings? Same on AMD64: $ su - some_vanilla_acct $ DISPLAY=:0 epiphany (epiphany:8477): dbind-WARNING **:

Bug#927395: Do not touch(1) update-exim4.conf.conf for no good reason

2019-04-22 Thread Dan Jacobson
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ap-pkg-conffiles.html : "Note that a package should not **modify** a dpkg-handled conffile in its maintainer scripts. Doing this will lead to dpkg giving the user confusing and possibly dangerous options for conffile update when the package is upgraded."

Bug#927752: Mention --clear-selections actually also grows selections

2019-04-22 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: dpkg Version: 1.19.6 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/share/man/man1/dpkg.1.gz Man page says --clear-selections Set the requested state of every non-essential package to deinstall (since dpkg 1.13.18). This is intended to be used immediately

Bug#927750: Doubled slash

2019-04-22 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.11-7 Severity: minor One sees a (harmless) // in: E: Cannot remove aptitude within aptitude E: Problem parsing '/var/lib/aptitude//pkgstates', is it corrupt or malformed? You can try to recover from '/var/lib/aptitude//pkgstates.old'. Reproduce by doing dpkg

Bug#927731: Missing Dependency on libdazzle

2019-04-21 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: epiphany-browser Version: 3.32.1.2-1 Users will get the message Error loading module '/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/epiphany-browser/web-extensions/libephywebextension.so': libdazzle-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Because you removed the

Bug#927473: dpkg: warning: while removing fonts-noto-core, directory '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/noto' not empty so not removed

2019-04-20 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: fonts-noto-core Version: 20181227-1 Purging configuration files for fonts-noto-core (20181227-1) ... dpkg: warning: while removing fonts-noto-core, directory '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/noto' not empty so not removed -rw-r--r-- 1 root root36 2018-04-12 .uuid

Bug#927472: The units of duration are not explained. Microseconds?

2019-04-20 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: grub2-common Version: 2.02+dfsg1-16 Severity: wishlist File: grub2-common (info "(grub) play") -- Command: play file | tempo [pitch1 duration1] [pitch2 duration2] ... The units of duration are not explained. Microseconds?

Bug#927395: Do not touch(1) update-exim4.conf.conf for no good reason

2019-04-18 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: exim4-config Version: 4.92-6 During this upgrade, $ cat /var/log/apt/history.log Start-Date: 2019-04-18 01:32:49 Upgrade: exim4-base:amd64 (4.92-5, 4.92-6), openssl:amd64 (1.1.1b-1, 1.1.1b-2), unicode-data:amd64 (12.0.0-1, 12.1.0~pre1-1), exim4-daemon-light:amd64 (4.92-5, 4.92-6),

Bug#927349: dpkg-reconfigure: show question count

2019-04-18 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: debconf Version: 1.5.71 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure User does # dpkg-reconfigure some_package and starts answering some questions, and some more, and some more... Therefore, somewhere on the screen, please add a running tally of which question we are on, (e.g.,

Bug#927325: Growing gap in the middle of search results

2019-04-17 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.11-7 Severity: wishlist The richer I get, the wider the monitor I buy. Alas, this just makes the gap, # aptitude search tile p crawl-tiles - Dungeon Crawl, a roguelike game,

Bug#927323: Remove "This package is a ..." from Description

2019-04-17 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: python3-qtile Severity: wishlist $ aptitude search ... p node-tilelive-vector - Tilelive store for rendering mapnik vector tiles - Node.js module p projectile-doc - project interaction library for Emacs - documentation p python-mapbox-vector-tile - Mapbox Vector Tile library for Python

Bug#927322: Don't mention OSM current max zoom levels

2019-04-17 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: libgeo-osm-tiles-perl Version: 0.04-5 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/share/man/man3/Geo::OSM::Tiles.3pm.gz "tile2path($tilex, $tiley, $zoom)" Composes the path to the tile at $tilex, $tiley, and $zoom at the OSM server. $tilex and $tiley must be integers in the range

Bug#927321: .pl needs to be removed from man page

2019-04-17 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: libgeo-osm-tiles-perl Version: 0.04-5 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/share/man/man1/downloadosmtiles.1p.gz These ".pl"'s don't belong here: NAME downloadosmtiles.pl - Download map tiles from OpenStreetMap SYNOPSIS downloadosmtiles.pl --lat=49.5611:49.6282

Bug#927309: Mention how to clear addresses etc.

2019-04-17 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: net-tools Version: 1.60+git20180626.aebd88e-1 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/share/man/man8/ifconfig.8.gz The man page should mention: # ifconfig -a inet 192.168.0.8 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255 How to zap ^^^ #Yes, use 0.0.0.0, but say so more

Bug#922315: "set " pulls in -o/+o names too

2019-04-16 Thread Dan Jacobson
GFTG> while this is broken, you could use Alt+/ to complete with filenames. Ah, (or ESC /). Good to know.

Bug#927232: find -path does not complete

2019-04-16 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: bash-completion Version: 1:2.8-6 File: /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/find $ find /tmp -path /tmp/ssh-dEu does not complete.

Bug#927195: -t not on man page

2019-04-16 Thread Dan Jacobson
X-Debbugs-Cc: dia...@skoll.ca Package: pppoe Version: 3.12-1.2 File: /usr/share/man/man8/pppoe.8.gz # pppoe --help 2>&1 | grep -- -t -t timeout -- Initial timeout for discovery packets in seconds # man pppoe | col -b | grep -c -- ' -t' 0 # man pppoe | col -b | grep -c -- ' -T' 2 -t

Bug#927193: Broken pppoe documentation link

2019-04-16 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: ppp Version: 2.4.7-2+4.1 Severity: minor File: /usr/share/doc/ppp/README.pppoe Change http://www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe to https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/rp-pppoe/

Bug#927186: Error message should mention try again as root

2019-04-15 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: usbview Version: 2.0-21-g6fe2f4f-2 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/usbview $ usbview Shows an error message, that can be copied with the mouse. Bug 1. The message mentions many possible problems. But forgets to say "try again as root". Bug 2.

Bug#927187: Can't quit with just keyboard

2019-04-15 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: usbview Version: 2.0-21-g6fe2f4f-2 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/usbview There is no way (e.g., quit with CTRL+Q) to hit any of the buttons with just keyboard shortcuts. This makes the program less accessible to certain disabled users.

Bug#927190: lsusb: add --show-empty-nodes

2019-04-15 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: usbutils Version: 1:010-3 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/lsusb I have an idea. Real (arboretum) trees also have branches with no leaves. Looking at # lsusb -t /: Bus 04.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=xhci_hcd/8p, 1M /: Bus 03.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub,

Bug#927188: lsusb: Buses are listed backwards

2019-04-15 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: usbutils Version: 1:010-3 Severity: minor File: /usr/bin/lsusb Here we observe the buses are listed backwards, # lsusb -t /: Bus 04.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=xhci_hcd/8p, 1M /: Bus 03.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=xhci_hcd/14p, 480M |__ Port 10: Dev 2, If

Bug#926366: OK, I put my changes in /etc/default/grub.d/*.cfg

2019-04-14 Thread Dan Jacobson
OK, I put my changes in /etc/default/grub.d/jidanni.cfg . You might, in a README, mention that is the ideal way of "getting the last word", and also not having ones changes get "polluted back" into a /etc/default/grub file...

Bug#927046: Say that a package is being unmarked for installation

2019-04-13 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.11-7 Severity: minor No matter if a package was marked for installation or not, # aptitude purge firmware-ipw2x00 Package firmware-ipw2x00 is not installed, so it will not be purged gives the same message. It should say in addition "no longer marked for

Bug#927045: ^C doesn't work when booting into recovery mode

2019-04-13 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: installation-reports Severity: minor Just want to let you know after a fresh install, when booting into "(recovery mode)" from the grub menu, and typing the root passwd, # cat ^C doesn't interrupt cat, etc. One needs ^Z, then "kill %" to stop it. Yes, these just reported the same as on

Bug#927044: Homepage update

2019-04-13 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: pppoe Version: 3.12-1.2 Severity: minor File: /usr/share/man/man8/pppoe.8.gz The pppoe home page is now https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/rp-pppoe/ Not the 404 link listed on the man page. P.S., 3.13 is available.

Bug#927043: Mention --daemon along with server-start

2019-04-13 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: emacs-common Version: 1:26.1+1-3.2 Severity: minor File: /usr/share/man/man1/emacsclient.emacs.1.gz At For emacsclient to work, you need an already running Emacs with a server. Within Emacs, call the functions "server-start" or "server-mode". (Your ".emacs" file can do

Bug#927041: cfdisk: after a [write] the cursor should move to [quit]

2019-04-13 Thread Dan Jacobson
X-debbugs-Cc: util-li...@vger.kernel.org, k...@redhat.com Package: fdisk Version: 2.33.1-0.1 Severity: minor File: /sbin/cfdisk cfdisk: after a [write], the cursor should move to [quit]. Don't leave it on [write]. (And then the words at the bottom when the cursor is on [quit] should not be still

Bug#927040: ~b~i works for search, but not for show

2019-04-13 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.11-7 Severity: minor Search ~b~i finds something, # aptitude search ~b~i iBA libjack-jackd2-0 - JACK Audio Connection Kit (libraries) But # aptitude show ~b~i shows nothing, and # aptitude purge ~b~i purges nothing. $ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10jidanni

Bug#927038: Document proper way to import jobs

2019-04-13 Thread Dan Jacobson
X-Debbugs-Cc: j...@calhariz.com Package: at Version: 3.1.23-1 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/share/doc/at As we know computers are usually replaced every few years and we want to move the at jobs from the old system to the new system. Please document the proper way to do this. Yes certainly it

Bug#927037: Message didn't fully fit inside its window

2019-04-13 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: debian-installer Severity: minor I recall when the graphical installer got to this message, Name: partman-crypto/progress/plain_erase_text Type: text Description: The installer is now overwriting ${DEVICE} with zeroes to delete its previous contents. This step may be skipped by

Bug#927039: Say more clearly "transitional dummy package"

2019-04-13 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: xutils Version: 1:7.7+19 Severity: minor Apparently this is a "transitional dummy package that can safely be removed". Well then add that statement and some tags to help various scanners looking for such packages find them. No I don't know what the standard tags are. At least you

Bug#926793: chown xyz. doesn't complete.

2019-04-10 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: bash-completion Version: 1:2.8-6 Severity: minor File: /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/chown # chown jidanni. doesn't complete. It should complete the possible groups.

Bug#925891: AMD/ATI Carrizo driver incorrectly detected

2019-04-06 Thread Dan Jacobson
unmerge 925891 retitle 925891 AMD/ATI Carrizo driver incorrectly detected? thanks Now making the incorrect driver detection a separate issue. All I know is with that minimal install, it somehow assumes the correct driver is present, or it is, but it uses it wrong. See also

Bug#926149: AMD: Add nomodeset kernel parameter to avoid black screen

2019-04-06 Thread Dan Jacobson
clone 926149 -1 retitle -1 [AMD/ATI] Carrizo driver incorrectly detected retitle 926149 Add nomodeset kernel parameter for recovery boot grub entry thanks > "BH" == Ben Hutchings writes: BH> However it might be reasonable to add "nomodeset" to the command line BH> in GRUB's "recovery" boot

Bug#926559: On man page AUTHOR is blank

2019-04-06 Thread Dan Jacobson
X-Debbugs-Cc: adri...@gnu.org Package: units Version: 2.18-1 Severity: minor File: /usr/share/man/man1/units.1.gz We see AUTHOR and then it is blank, on man page.

Bug#926149: AMD: Add nomodeset kernel parameter to avoid black screen

2019-04-05 Thread Dan Jacobson
> However it might be reasonable to add "nomodeset" to the command line > in GRUB's "recovery" boot menu items. OK, great. Now all that is left is for me to help you figure out why the installer incorrectly detects that the drivers are available, etc. I am able to workaround all this, I just

Bug#926366: Allow /etc/default/grub.local.pre and .post

2019-04-03 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: grub-pc Version: 2.02+dfsg1-16 Severity: wishlist I am trying to get the "final word" in how these grub variables are appended. Can you please specify a files, e.g., /etc/default/grub.local.pre /etc/default/grub.local.post that are initially absent, and guaranteed never to be written by

Bug#926365: Network location provider at 'https://www.googleapis.com/' : Returned error code 403.

2019-04-03 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: chromium Version: 73.0.3683.75-1 Please see https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=753242#c31

Bug#926149: AMD: Add nomodeset kernel parameter to avoid black screen

2019-04-03 Thread Dan Jacobson
And lo and behold, in /etc/grub.d/10_linux : if [ "$ubuntu_recovery" = 1 ]; then GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_RECOVERY="$GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_RECOVERY nomodeset" fi

Bug#926149: AMD: Add nomodeset kernel parameter to avoid black screen

2019-04-03 Thread Dan Jacobson
> "BH" == Ben Hutchings writes: BH> The installer normally uses a dumb framebuffer driver (probably efifb BH> on this system) that is built into the kernel. This is too low- BH> performance for a proper desktop. OK, the installer could first double check that the framebuffer driver it

Bug#926361: Mention --width in paragraph

2019-04-03 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: procps Version: 2:3.3.15-2 File: /usr/share/man/man1/ps.1.gz Severity: minor --cols option may be used to exactly determine the width in this case. The w or -w option may be also be used to adjust width. Also mention --width in that sentence. And mention if --width is the same

Bug#926360: Add word "positive"

2019-04-03 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: procps Version: 2:3.3.15-2 Severity: minor $ ps -e --columns 33 -o pid,start_time,cputimes:0,comm error: column widths must be unsigned decimal numbers ^positive

Bug#926362: No stime entry on man page

2019-04-03 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: procps Version: 2:3.3.15-2 File: /usr/share/man/man1/ps.1.gz Severity: minor On the man page it says lstart STARTED time the command started. See also bsdstart, start, start_time, and stime. but there is no stime entry.

Bug#926149: AMD: Add nomodeset kernel parameter to avoid black screen

2019-04-02 Thread Dan Jacobson
So the question becomes why does that installer ISO know how to properly deal with the BH> 00:01.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Carrizo [1002:9874] (rev e6) BH> Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:8719] giving nice splash screens, a

Bug#926245: Clarify that netinst can indeed still install without net

2019-04-02 Thread Dan Jacobson
X-Debbugs-Cc: b...@decadent.org.uk Package: cdimage.debian.org Severity: minor On e.g., http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/current/amd64/iso-cd/ At What is a netinst image? The netinst CD here is a small CD image that contains just the core

Bug#926149: AMD: Add nomodeset kernel parameter to avoid black screen

2019-04-02 Thread Dan Jacobson
BH> Please send the output of "lspci -vnn" for the system that shows this BH> problem. Would lspci -knn be good enough for now?: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?att=0;bug=925556;filename=logs.gz;msg=50

Bug#849509: Logs show popularity-contest installation indeed occurs after user says no

2019-04-02 Thread Dan Jacobson
OK. The package is actually installed. It is just the message about that being buffered until the next interaction probably.

Bug#926149: AMD: Add nomodeset kernel parameter to avoid black screen

2019-04-02 Thread Dan Jacobson
All I know is I researched what ISO I could put on a USB stick and take to my mountain for a minimal install with no network. It worked fine, after I added that nomodeset line. It is a shame if officially debian no longer can be installed without a network.

Bug#849509: Logs show popularity-contest installation indeed occurs after user says no

2019-04-02 Thread Dan Jacobson
Actually try this: When you get to the popularity-contest question, wait a few moments, then answer "no". Later examine the logs. You will see actual installation (and then removal) indeed occurs *after* the user has answered "no". So the user's eyes didn't fool him after all.

Bug#926149: AMD: Add nomodeset kernel parameter to avoid black screen

2019-04-02 Thread Dan Jacobson
I'll be very happy to help you test this week. Next week I wish to proceed with final installation though. BH> Was the firmware (firmware-amd-graphics package) installed on your test BH> system? https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=925556#25 mentions what ISO I used, and all logs

Bug#925556: use UUIDs 100% in grub, not /dev/sdX

2019-04-01 Thread Dan Jacobson
retitle 925556 Use UUID, not sdX on grub linux lines thanks The problem simply turns out to be: grub lines like linux /boot/vmlinuz-4.9.0-8-amd64 root=/dev/sdb2 ro quiet are simply bound to fail: When the computer boots, no matter when for the installer, or later, the

Bug#926149: AMD: Add nomodeset kernel parameter to avoid black screen

2019-04-01 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: installation-reports With the latest AMD CPUs the kernel will attempt to use the AMDGPU kernel driver. Alas this will result in a black screen on the minimal system installed by the installer. Therefore on all three of these lines in /boot/grub/grub.cfg linux /boot/vmlinuz-...

Bug#849509: Can't blame the user for trying to read the messages

2019-03-31 Thread Dan Jacobson
I suppose in the logs, of Mar 27 23:38:24 in-target: Preparing to unpack .../popularity-contest_1.64_all.deb ... Mar 27 23:38:24 in-target: Unpacking popularity-contest (1.64) ... Mar 27 23:38:24 in-target: Setting up popularity-contest (1.64) ... Mar 27 23:38:24 in-target: Removing

Bug#925556: UEFI or not, can't mount /dev

2019-03-29 Thread Dan Jacobson
Trying again with expert install and some different choices, and putting nomodeset in the grub finally booted it. I'll send new logs soon.

Bug#925991: Show version on splash screen

2019-03-29 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: debian-installer Severity: minor The Installer splash screen should show the version number.

Bug#925887: Users fooled by Busybox boilerplate

2019-03-28 Thread Dan Jacobson
Maybe just have a message: "press TAB to see all available commands." That would show both built-ins and non builtins. (Hope TAB works.)

Bug#925897: Always also offer UTC when asking timezone

2019-03-27 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: debian-installer Severity: minor Let's say you are asking the user what time zone he is in for some country: Eastern Time Zone Plains Time Zone Mountain Time Zone Other Well I recall in expert mode installation, UTC is also always present: Eastern Time Zone Plains Time Zone Mountain

Bug#925896: tasksel_first: Give examples of "Standard system utilities" when asking

2019-03-27 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: debian-installer Severity: minor In tasksel_first_0.png the user is totally helpless trying to figure out what you mean by "Standard system utilities" So give some examples. Say "Standard system utilities (cat, ls...)" or "Standard system utilities (gnome, kde...)" or something,

Bug#925895: partman_choose_partition: mention that there will be one more screen with a list of proposed changes

2019-03-27 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: debian-installer Severity: wishlist Here on partman_choose_partition_0.png we see both things that are about to be changed, and things that will stay the same, but we can't tell which are which. So right after the words "write changes to disk" you need to add "(You will be first shown a

Bug#925893: Also ask "Do not configure the network at this time" *before* trying to configure the network

2019-03-27 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: debian-installer Severity: minor Please also ask "Do not configure the network at this time" *before* trying to configure the network. Not only after, and failing. That way users installing offline wouldn't need to answer several futile questions and have futile DHCP packets sent to

Bug#925892: Add version name next to number

2019-03-27 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: debian-installer Users often hear "Stretch", "Buster", but on the installer, they see just "Debian 9". Therefore please make it say "Debian 9 (Stretch)" or "Debian 9 Stretch". In fact much wiser would be to do what iOS does, and keep them a top secret.

Bug#925891: Debian Black Screen of Death worse than Microsoft's Blue Screen of Death

2019-03-27 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: debian-installer Severity: wishlist In bug #925556, I showed you what a failed install looks like to a user who has booted via grub's "(recovery mode)" entries. If the user hadn't touched the keyboard, a normal boot would instead proceed, whereupon the user would just end up on a black

Bug#925889: Add "exit" or "Reboot" to the menus

2019-03-27 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: debian-installer Severity: wishlist The menus are great, But you forgot one item. "Reboot". You see, no matter how the user scours the menus, he cannot find the proper way to exit (reboot). "Well he is supposed to know how to do that himself!" Yes, but he wants the "proper" way to

Bug#925888: Add Quick rescue mode

2019-03-27 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: debian-installer Today let's discuss Rescue Mode. I think you should offer a second rescue mode choice. Call it "Quick Rescue Mode". List it right after Rescue Mode. Quick Rescue Mode would drop the user into a shell right away. No questions about languages. Yup, unfair. Sorry. No

Bug#925886: Rescue mode: When asking device to use as root file system, give more detailed choices

2019-03-27 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: debian-installer Severity: minor Here there is a high chance the user will chose the wrong item, because he does not recall which of his disks are which. Therefore you need to present more details, which yes, can fit on the same line. Add sizes and partition types and disk label stuff

Bug#925556: UEFI or not, can't mount /dev

2019-03-27 Thread Dan Jacobson
logs.gz Description: application/gzip

Bug#925556: UEFI or not, can't mount /dev

2019-03-27 Thread Dan Jacobson
I tried installing again. (This time with no network.) The normal graphical install. All goes fine, but in the logs there is one "Failed to get": $ grep -A 2 'Failed to get' syslog |cut -c 17- base-installer: warning: Failed to get debconf answer 'base-installer/kernel/linux/initrd'.

Bug#925556: UEFI or not, can't mount /dev

2019-03-27 Thread Dan Jacobson
> "SM" == Steve McIntyre writes: SM> Please attach the installer syslog so we have a chance to see what SM> happened. On the installed system, that's in /var/log/installer/syslog What should I give at that initramfs prompt you see that would put it on the screen? Then I could take a

Bug#925582: Allow telling installer about local deb and Package list locations

2019-03-26 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: debian-installer User has a USB drive, loaded with $ mount /dev/sdg2 on /var/cache/apt/archives type ext4 /dev/sdg1 on /var/lib/apt/lists type ext4 He takes this drive, along with another drive, containing a Debian installation ISO, to a remote mountain (offline) computer, intending to

Bug#925556: UEFI or not, can't mount /dev

2019-03-26 Thread Dan Jacobson
LS> Clearly the initramfs was able to mount /dev and run fsck, but mounting LS> it to /root/dev to transfer to the real rootfs failed due to a missing LS> directory. So it booted, meaning it is not a https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/amd64/ch03s06.html.en#UEFI problem...

Bug#925580: Never leave the user staring at an empty screen, even for a second

2019-03-26 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: debian-installer Here the user is left staring at an empty screen. (Many look that way for a while at the beginning. Even with the latest fastest hardware.) Not for long you might say. But long enough for the user to scratch his head, and then casually get out his cellphone and take a

Bug#925579: User could have just as easily clicked the UEFI or non-UEFI...

2019-03-26 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: debian-installer In https://wiki.debian.org/UEFI We read "debian-installer's support for UEFI is mostly contained in two modules. First comes the partman-efi module, and this will be loaded automatically if d-i recognises it has been booted in UEFI mode." The problem here is that on

Bug#925439: Add option to limit parallel download

2019-03-24 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: apt Version: 1.8.0 Severity: minor Here we observe parallel download: # aptitude full-upgrade ... 35% [5 firefox 33.9 MB/44.5 MB 76%] [1 google-earth-pro-stable 2,215 kB/56.5 MB 4%] What if we don't want parallel download? I.e., just download one server at a time? Well the closest

Bug#925438: Normal default output mistakenly documented as having an "e"

2019-03-24 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: procps Version: 2:3.3.15-2 Severity: minor File: /usr/share/man/man1/ps.1.gz Man page says the normal default output can be produced with this: ps -eo "%p %y %x %c" # ps|wc 5 20 140 # ps -eo "%p %y %x %c"|wc 134 5364783 # ps -o "%p %y %x %c"|wc 5

Bug#925437: Add --show-format

2019-03-24 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: procps Version: 2:3.3.15-2 Severity: minor File: /usr/share/man/man1/ps.1.gz All of these, OUTPUT FORMAT CONTROL -c Show different scheduler information for the -l option. --context Display security context format (for SELinux). -f Do

Bug#924566: Invalid author address

2019-03-14 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: lshw Version: 02.18.85-0.1 File: /usr/share/doc/lshw/copyright Author address listed is no longer valid. : host mail1.ec-lyon.fr[156.18.19.129] said: 550 5.1.1 : Recipient address rejected: ec-lyon.fr (in reply to RCPT TO command)

Bug#923936: cannot contact lshw project

2019-03-14 Thread Dan Jacobson
Alas, as https://ezix.org/src/issues account activation mail never comes, there is no way, just looking at http://ezix.org/project/wiki/HardwareLiSter to contact the author.

Bug#923936: Disk model: INTEL SSDPEKKW128G7

2019-03-14 Thread Dan Jacobson
As you can see on https://sourceforge.net/p/hdparm/bugs/82/ # fdisk -l Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 119.2 GiB, ... Disk model: INTEL SSDPEKKW128G7 I attempted to report this at https://ezix.org/src/issues alas, account activation mail never comes.

Bug#924541: Can't complete journalctl > file

2019-03-14 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: systemd Version: 241-1 Severity: minor File: /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/journalctl It's not happy about me wanting to do # journalctl > file See: # journalctl > AVAILABLE= AVAILABLE_PRETTY= CODE_FILE= ... # journalctl > / /bin/su /dev/ /lib/systemd/systemd

Bug#924528: /usr/share/doc/ffmpeg/manual/index.html missing

2019-03-13 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: ffmpeg-doc Version: 7:4.1.1-1 Severity: minor $ cat /usr/share/doc-base/ffmpeg-doc Document: ffmpeg-doc Title: FFmpeg API Documentation Author: FFmpeg Developers Abstract: This is the API documentation for FFmpeg. Section: Programming Format: HTML Index:

Bug#924527: Mention -all/non -all versions on those versions

2019-03-13 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: ffmpeg-doc Version: 7:4.1.1-1 Kindly at the top of each of ffmpeg: /usr/share/man/man1/ffmpeg-all.1.gz ffmpeg: /usr/share/man/man1/ffplay-all.1.gz ffmpeg: /usr/share/man/man1/ffprobe-all.1.gz ffmpeg-doc: /usr/share/doc/ffmpeg/manual/ffmpeg-all.html ffmpeg-doc:

Bug#922277: su: write errors to STDERR not STDOUT

2019-03-13 Thread Dan Jacobson
Well it might as well write it to both STDOUT and STDERR then.

Bug#919833: 90% of shell scripts probably don't have a .sh extension

2019-03-13 Thread Dan Jacobson
> "GFTG" == Gabriel F T Gomes writes: GFTG> You could be right (specially since bash completes any filename), GFTG> however, where did you get this statistic from? OK, maybe even less, $ file /usr/bin/*|grep -c shell\ script 194 $ ls /usr/bin/*.sh /usr/bin/gettext.sh But that's just my

Bug#639937: Don't tell people to use jigdo

2019-03-09 Thread Dan Jacobson
OK I let it run, and indeed now it is getting packages from snapshot.debian.org/archive/ ... at rate 24.3KB/s... So nevermind, instead of $ jigdo-lite http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/jigdo-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.jigdo and selecting a local Taiwan mirror, I'll just

Bug#639937: Don't tell people to use jigdo

2019-03-09 Thread Dan Jacobson
Also when jigdo-lite is asking us questions, it can first mention "don't worry about 404s"

Bug#639937: Don't tell people to use jigdo

2019-03-09 Thread Dan Jacobson
SM> You don't show to the end of the log. Jigdo will switch to grabbing SM> missing files from snapshot.d.o once it has finished with all the SM> files it can find on the mirrors you've told it about. GREAT: BUT: The user will start seeing these 404s interspersed with the 200s and think: "Yup,

<    2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   11   >