Bug#509866: dpkg: Output sometimes suddenly switches to CAPS

2008-12-30 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 509866 apt-get 0.7.19+b1 severity 509866 normal thanks On Tuesday 30 December 2008, Guillem Jover wrote: > You could append ',clone,fork,vfork,execve' to 'trace=ioctl'. Thanks. > > On Monday 29 December 2008, Guillem Jover wrote: > My initial gut feeling was that this could be one of ke

Bug#510167: gcc-4.2-base should not be prio required anymore

2008-12-29 Thread Frans Pop
Package: ftp.debian.org While reviewing packages that get included on CD images I noticed that gcc-4.2-base is still Priority: required. As gcc-4.3 is now default I don't think there's any reason for that. Please consider changing its priority to optional. Cheers, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Bug#510015: Problem is missing ext2 module

2008-12-29 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 510015 debian-installer 20081029 tag 510015 pending thanks On Monday 29 December 2008, ael wrote: > I had noticed that only the ext3 module was in the hd-media/initrd, but > had assumed that could load ext2 filesystems as well as ext3. It looks > as if I was wrong. I've added ext2 to hd-

Bug#510123: installation-reports: default font size is too big on ASUS Eee PC 904HD

2008-12-29 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 510123 xserver-xorg-core thanks On Monday 29 December 2008, Luca Capello wrote: > Comments/Problems: > 1) default font size problem >The font size is too big: I wanted to include a screenshot (44kb) , >but it seems the first report I sent two days ago was not accepted >by the

Bug#509723: Support TFTP preseed fetch method

2008-12-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 29 December 2008, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > The tftp client is not currently enabled in busybox-udeb. I just > opened #510058 about this. Are we sure we do want that size overhead for ALL installs, even if it is only 4k (plus maybe added size of libs if additional symbols are needed)? IM

Bug#509866: dpkg: Output sometimes suddenly switches to CAPS

2008-12-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 29 December 2008, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Yet, it does look like some terminal capability to force caps is > switched on and AFAIK dpkg doesn't have any code related to terminal > configuration. That was why I was not immediately worried when it happened for pbuilder. But Debian Instal

Bug#510060: installation report for lenny d-i rc1 on silicon graphics O2

2008-12-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 29 December 2008, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > Comments/Problems: > 0) only the internal ethernet board is recognized. The network pci > board is not found by the first kernel. It is found after reboot with a > final kernel; Please try to find out why by comparing the output of lsmod and dmes

Bug#509866: dpkg: Output sometimes suddenly switches to CAPS

2008-12-27 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 27 December 2008, Sven Joachim wrote: > Not really an idea, but I see a pattern. The switch to CAPS always > seems to happen after a call to set the title in debconf: > > So maybe debconf is the culprit? I very much doubt it's related to that TITLE message as 1) that's been there sinc

Bug#509857: installation-report for d-i rc1 on silicon graphics O2

2008-12-27 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 27 December 2008, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > do you mean that I have to preseed the installation using option: > d-i debian-installer/allow_unauthenticated Yes. Or set that at the boot prompt. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "uns

Bug#509866: dpkg: Output sometimes suddenly switches to CAPS

2008-12-27 Thread Frans Pop
Package: dpkg Version: 1.14.23 Severity: important I've thought about filing this as release critical as it is really weird behavior and seems like a fairly recent regression from somewhere. I had already seen this a few weeks ago while using pbuilder and dismissed it as random weirdness, but I no

Bug#508929: mklibs selects symbols from the wrong library

2008-12-26 Thread Frans Pop
Hello Andrew, Thank you for this proposed patch. Although I'm far from an expert on this, your approach looks logical. BTW, sorry for the late response. Main reason is that development was somewhat frozen due to the preparations for Lenny. > This patch modifies mklibs-readelf to extract the li

Bug#509662: graphical splash screen not iLO compatible

2008-12-26 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 26 December 2008, Daniel Pocock wrote: > >> When someone is accessing a server remotely using a HP iLO, they may > >> not have the iLO licensed for graphical modes (extra license fees > >> have to be paid to HP) > >> > >> Alternatively, someone may be using a serial port for remote access

Bug#416208: Installation report HP-715/64 (HIL)

2008-12-26 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 26 December 2008, Helge Deller wrote: > It works like a charm :-) OK. I'll upload. > > P.S. hilkbd is a rather nasty module: when I tried to rmmod it after > > a test install, it froze both the SSH session and the serial console > > connection I had open to the box... > > I see the same

Bug#509775: Debian installer amd64 cannot complete installation due to a lack of the system codename

2008-12-26 Thread Frans Pop
severity 509775 normal tags 509775 unreprodicible thanks On Friday 26 December 2008, andrew kanode wrote: > When installing Debian amd64, the installer cannot "Install the base > system" because of the error "base-installer: error: exiting on error > base-installer/no_codename". This typically ha

Bug#416208: Installation report HP-715/64 (HIL)

2008-12-26 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 416208 rootskel tags 416208 pending thanks On Thursday 25 December 2008, Helge Deller wrote: > > Questions that come to mind are: > > - why doesn't the kernel/udev autoload this module? > > Probably yes, but as we discussed last time, this needs to be > implemented. I already looked into

Bug#509662: graphical splash screen not iLO compatible

2008-12-26 Thread Frans Pop
severity 509662 minor tags 509662 wontfix thanks On Wednesday 24 December 2008, Daniel Pocock wrote: > When the Debian installer is booted (either from CD or netboot), it > displays a graphical splash screen (splash.rle) Hmm. Are you only talking about the splash screen (Etch installer) or (also

Bug#416208: Installation report HP-715/64 (HIL)

2008-12-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 24 December 2008, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > > Is it possible that someone from the debian-installer teams add this > > "modprobe hilkbd" somewhere to the bootup process? This modprobe > > should also be carried over to the installed system afterwards. > > > > I'm willing to test any

Bug#509522: gettext: Adding ~5.5MB worth of deps for --color option seems excessive

2008-12-22 Thread Frans Pop
Package: gettext Version: 0.17-6 Severity: minor Hello Santiago, While upgrading my little ARM box I noticed that gettext suddenly pulled in libglib and libcroco. I've checked the changelog and I do understand your reasons for making that change (although I don't quite see how CSS manipulation fi

Bug#509012: Upgrading from Sarge (stable) to Etch fails

2008-12-17 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 509012 upgrade-reports severity 509012 normal thanks On Wednesday 17 December 2008, Pavel Fedin wrote: > When i upgraded my Sarge installation using apt-get dist-upgrade i > went into unresolvable circular dependency problem (some packages > failed to configure and upgrade was aborted). I

Bug#504702: Status update on blocking bug

2008-12-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 15 December 2008, Mike Grice wrote: > SVN update of kernel will resolve the blocking bug 501651. No, it won't. Only an actual upload of the kernel with that fix included will do that. > >From the kernel changelog: > > linux-2.6 (2.6.26-12) UNRELEASED; urgency=low > [ Bastian Blank ]

Bug#508457: installation-report: Do not eject CD before asking from user (damaged CD tray)

2008-12-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 11 December 2008, Jari Aalto wrote: > reopen 508457 > thanks Eh, the bug wasn't closed... > There is simple fix, see below. > A message is already displayed at the end to notify about reboot. > > There is no need to "eject" prior that message. It can be done *after* > and have the mes

Bug#508457: installation-report: Do not eject CD before asking from user (damaged CD tray)

2008-12-11 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 508457 cdrom-detect tags 508457 wontfix thanks On Thursday 11 December 2008, jaalto wrote: > Please add confimation dialog: > >"Eject the CD" [OK] > > At the final phase of the installation before the reboot. Not all CD's > can be ejected, because the CD may be inside a front DOOR

Bug#498863: More info on firewire issues

2008-12-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 07 December 2008, Harry Mofo wrote: > It looks like my problems with the Dec 5 & 6 installer builds is due to > the CD burner. The Dec 6 build (debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso > 0faa173fe594afdb374944cfc6610743) doesn't exhibit the freezing behavior > if I burn the CD from another machin

Bug#508002: D-I related p-a-s and wannabuild issues

2008-12-06 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 07 December 2008, you wrote: > I would like it to stay until someone can say that it doesn't make > sense to have that package on that arch. We've had this broken current situation for over two years! If someone was going to work on this, they should have done so by now. I have wasted

Bug#508002: D-I related p-a-s and wannabuild issues

2008-12-06 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 06 December 2008, you wrote: > If it would work, then there is no reason at all to change P-a-s. It is > not meant for short term solutions, that's what not-for-us is for. P-a-s WAS changed to allow amd64 even though the package has NEVER been supported for amd64. And that change was

Bug#508002: D-I related p-a-s and wannabuild issues

2008-12-06 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 06 December 2008, you wrote: > On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 09:22:58PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > > * efi-reader should be ia64 only in p-a-s, not amd64 > > It is also ia64 only in debian/control. > > Afaik, i386 and amd64 supports EFI. Is there a reason why this &g

Bug#508002: D-I related p-a-s and wannabuild issues

2008-12-06 Thread Frans Pop
Package: buildd.debian.org Below a few (minor) issues with p-a-s and the wannabuild database that I've tried to get fixed before, but failed. * efi-reader should be ia64 only in p-a-s, not amd64 It is also ia64 only in debian/control. After that is updated, please clear the "failed" status fo

Bug#498863: More info on firewire issues

2008-12-06 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 06 December 2008, Harry Mofo wrote: > On Friday 05 December 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > > What is the MD5SUM of that image (of the .iso file)? > > It is 98a3624d0b2a23a3832b603a1a89ff3e > (debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso - Dec 5 daily build) > > I thought abo

Bug#498863: More info on firewire issues

2008-12-05 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 05 December 2008, Harry Mofo wrote: > Interesting. I tried the Dec 5 daily build today and the machine > freezes as soon as the installer boot menu appears (or at least the > keyboard becomes inoperable - ctrl-alt-del doesn't even work). The > drive still works okay with an Etch install

Bug#507919: Etch-and-a-half stuck at installing standard task

2008-12-05 Thread Frans Pop
tags 507919 + unreproducible thanks On Friday 05 December 2008, Peter McGill wrote: > Comments/Problems: > After selecting install standard system (no other tasks), the install > gets stuck on Select and install software 8% Please wait... > > Nothing further happens, and I do not see a prompt for

Bug#504721: Console broken on debian-installer on Sparc LDOM

2008-12-05 Thread Frans Pop
I've just tested the committed changes for i386 and s390. For i386 'console-type' correctly returns "virtual" when booted in VirtualBox. I've not tested serial, but am confident that will work as well. On s390 'console-type' returns nothing, which also seems correct as that is neither a virtua

Bug#504721: Possible reason for serial console misdetection

2008-12-03 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 03 December 2008, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > Don't you risk overflowing the buffer by not using a union of the two > structs? Or are both guarranteed to never grow above 256 bytes? The original code looks to have included a "paranoia" field in struct u of 3 times the size of serial_stru

Bug#504721: Possible reason for serial console misdetection

2008-12-02 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 02 December 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > Someone who can actually write in C please check the code and let me > know if anything can be removed or is missing. I may well have added > unneeded includes for example and I have no idea what the original > sprintf statements were su

Bug#504721: Possible reason for serial console misdetection

2008-12-02 Thread Frans Pop
. ___ Added: svn:ignore + console-type steal-ctty Index: console-type.c === --- console-type.c (revision 0) +++ console-type.c (revision 0) @@ -0,0 +1,72 @@ +/* vi:

Bug#507544: debian-installer: errors in example-preseed.txt

2008-12-02 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 507544 installation-guide 20081113 tags 507544 pending thanks On Tuesday 02 December 2008, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > contains at least 2 errors: > > -d-i clock-setup/ntp-server ntp.example.com > +d-i clock-setup/ntp-server string ntp.example.com > > -d-i parman-md/device_remove_md boolean

Bug#507535: localechooser: Wrong initialization of debconf/language when on serial console

2008-12-01 Thread Frans Pop
Package: localechooser Version: 2.08 Severity: important Localechooser currently contains the code: if echo $LANG $LC_CTYPE | grep -q UTF-8; then INITIAL_LANGUAGE=en else INITIAL_LANGUAGE="" fi There's a comment above it giving some background, but it looks like setting debconf/l

Bug#507372: cdebconf-newt-udeb: does not show enough choices for long descriptions

2008-11-30 Thread Frans Pop
tags 507372 - patch thanks On Sunday 30 November 2008, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 05:26:31PM +0100, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > > The attached patch fix this issue. I have run an installation > > through the end without any problem with the patch applied. > > It lacks a necessary f

Bug#507420: Packages with incorrect priorities for standard system install

2008-11-30 Thread Frans Pop
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: important During CD creation using debian-cd we get the following list of warnings: The following packages have unmet dependencies: aptitude: Depends: libept0 (>= 0.5.22) but it is not installed Depends: libxapian15 but it is not installed bind9-h

Bug#507300: debian-cd: [hppa] command line parameter passed with incorrect quoting

2008-11-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 29 November 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > During interaction with the HPPA bootloader this results in the > following being displayed: > '0/vmlinux root=/dev/ram initrd=0/ramdisk ramdisk_size=13890' > console=ttyS0 TERM=vt102 0: '0/vmlinux > 1: root=/dev/r

Bug#502244: cdebconf: fall-back languages not working; mechanism to drop translations broken?

2008-11-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 29 November 2008, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Please try the following patch. Thanks a lot for the patch Ben. This is actually a patch for #502240, which already had a patch by Jérémy Bobbio. I have tested both patches, and it turns out that this BR is also solved when #502240 is solved,

Bug#507300: debian-cd: [hppa] command line parameter passed with incorrect quoting

2008-11-29 Thread Frans Pop
Package: debian-cd Version: 3.0.2 Severity: minor The boot-hppa script currently has: add_mkisofs_opt $CDROOT/../$1.mkisofs_opts "-hppa-cmdline '0/vmlinux,root=/dev/ram,initrd=0/ramdisk,ramdisk_size=$RSIZE"' During interaction with the HPPA bootloader this results in the following being displaye

Bug#425648: Still Seeing This in Lenny

2008-11-26 Thread Frans Pop
tags 425648 + wontfix tags 425648 - d-i thanks On Monday 24 November 2008, Allen Cook wrote: > I'm still seeing this in QEMU 0.9.1 and Debian 40r5 AMD64 netinst CD > from the website > > grub-installer just hangs with QEMU taking up almost 100% CPU. This is not a bug in grub-installer, but in gru

Bug#506711: kernel-package: [sparc] no longer produces compressed kernels for linux-2.6

2008-11-23 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 24 November 2008, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Could you provide more detail, please? This is not enough to > indicate where the fault lies. At a minimum, the kernel package > invocation line, and the full logs of the build where failure was > noticed should be provided to the bug

Bug#506711: kernel-package: [sparc] no longer produces compressed kernels for linux-2.6

2008-11-23 Thread Frans Pop
Package: kernel-package Version: 11.0011 Severity: serious Tags: d-i Justification: kernels built using this break sparc D-I builds Daily builds of D-I for sparc have been failing with: gzip: ./tmp/netboot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-sparc64: not in gzip format This has been traced to the fact that the kern

Bug#504721: Possible reason for serial console misdetection

2008-11-23 Thread Frans Pop
severity 504721 serious thanks On Sunday 23 November 2008, Jurij Smakov wrote: > So, the problem is that reopen-console gives preference to the value > in 'console handover' line, which is incorrect on sparc (refers to a > real terminal console even if one is connecting through serial). As serial

Bug#506616: update-tasks: Improve maintenance and handling of language tasks

2008-11-23 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 23 November 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > It should be simple enough to generate the language tasks from a single > languages list plus the desktop tasks included in a tasks.list. Inclusion of languages only makes sense if they are supported both by D-I and in tasksel. The l

Bug#506668: update-tasks: Don't hardcode which tasks should be included in essential

2008-11-23 Thread Frans Pop
Package: debian-cd Version: 3.0.5 Severity: wishlist It would be more flexible if that info could be included in the task.list files themselves, for example by adding a '-' after non-essential tasks. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Bug#506616: update-tasks: Improve maintenance and handling of language tasks

2008-11-23 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 23 November 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > At the same time update-tasks should be made to treat desktop-specific > language tasks the same as the desktop task itself: i.e. only include a > desktop language task's key packages in the essential list if the > desktop task its

Bug#506616: update-tasks: Improve maintenance and handling of language tasks

2008-11-22 Thread Frans Pop
Package: debian-cd Version: 3.0.5 Severity: wishlist Currently all tasks/lenny/task.list* tasks contain huge lists of language (desktop) tasks. And all need to be kept in sync with the languages actually offered by D-I. This will only become more of a pain with the multi-desktop support current

Bug#224640: Bug#221598: installation-reports: HW Detect Failed, no CDROM drive found repeatitive error loop

2008-11-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 21 November 2008, Simon Paillard wrote: > Though I don't know d-i internals, I noticed during my own lenny fresh > install that the -686 kernel image has been installed out of > the ones available in lenny: The installer has always had a "smart" kernel selection mechanism and will insta

Bug#506263: Installation report - grub failed when installing from hd-media

2008-11-19 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 19 November 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Comments/Problems: > It appears that the presence of an USB stick during GRUB install > confuses GRUB about its whereabouts. I believe the contents of > /boot/grub/device.map was something like this: > /dev/sda (hd0) > /dev/cciss

Bug#506061: closed by Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) (Re: Bug#506061: installation-report: Problems with post-install for xfce & gdm when starting with a standard install

2008-11-19 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 19 November 2008, Daniel Dickinson wrote: > Interactive aptitude is where I first experienced the issue with the > pulling in of gnome. I have to manually deselect those items after > selecting the xfce-desktop(sp?) task in order to not get them. Ok. The advantage of interactive is t

Bug#505243: Multiarch CD directly boots in the amd64 installer

2008-11-19 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 18 November 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > If it works I have an idea for an alternative solution based on a > different analysis of what the problem in syslinux may be. So, I'll > have one more image to test then. The idea was to include the default and default64 options only

Bug#505243: Multiarch CD directly boots in the amd64 installer

2008-11-18 Thread Frans Pop
(Switching to #505243 as that is the BR about the direct boot issue.) Hi Philip, On Tuesday 18 November 2008, Philip Hands wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 01:51:37PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > > If others want to give it a try: > > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/fjp/

Bug#505750: d-i: Add help text.

2008-11-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 17 November 2008, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > Strangely enough VirtualBox now suddenly no longer tries to boot the > > amd64 image (as I mentioned in #505243), but correctly selects i386 > > when I hit enter from the help screen boot prompt. This may be > > related to the fact that I now ru

Bug#505750: d-i: Add help text.

2008-11-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 17 November 2008, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > The attached patch enables syslinux "help text" menu features to > display the following help text when the "help" menu entry is selected: > "Display help screens; type 'menu' at boot prompt to return to this > menu" > > This patch also fix anothe

Bug#505773: debian-installer: Bootable netboot image for USB stick patch

2008-11-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 17 November 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: > I'm not in the position to decide about the inclusion of that into the > Installation Guide but I believe it would be a problem due the > translation. I think we should keep two patches in a queue to be > commited as soon as we open svn to squeez

Bug#491205: xserver-xorg-video-intel causes X to crash irrecoverably and without warning (fatal server error: lockup)

2008-11-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 17 November 2008, Tino Keitel wrote: > you might try if the lockups go away if you put this line into the > device section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf: > > Option "FramebufferCompression" "off" > > If it solves the problem, then you are hit by a bug that is solved in > version 2.4 of the intel

Bug#502446: debian-installer: grub-installer is not updated for grub-pc introduction

2008-11-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 16 November 2008, Osamu Aoki wrote: > I thought so too and tried it. But as I tried update-grub command in > chroot at /target while having os-prober installed in chroot from > installer, it did not find other partitions. /chroot/dev directory did > not have /chroot/dev/sda etc. /dev/

Bug#505819: vim-runtime: File conflict during upgrade from (older) version

2008-11-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 16 November 2008, James Vega wrote: > This is already reported in #503757. Ok, sorry. I did look, but missed this because of the description (install != upgrade for me) and the low (non-RC) severity. > I have a way to reproduce the problem but I'm currently trying to > determine whethe

Bug#505829: installation-report: Installation on sparc U10 - success with some issues

2008-11-15 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 505829 hw-detect 1.70 retitle 505829 [sparc] Tries to install obsolete package libc6-sparcv9 severity 505829 minor thanks On Saturday 15 November 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > Install boot loader:[?] This was because the system did not reboot into the new system, but that could

Bug#505829: installation-report: Installation on sparc U10 - success with some issues

2008-11-15 Thread Frans Pop
Package: installation-reports Version: 2.38 Severity: normal -- Package-specific info: Boot method: network Image version: lenny RC1 Date: Machine: Sun Sparc Ultra 10 Partitions: Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initia

Bug#505819: vim-runtime: File conflict during upgrade from (older) version

2008-11-15 Thread Frans Pop
Package: vim-runtime Version: 2:7.2.025-2 Severity: serious During an upgrade of an unstable sparc system that I don't boot very often, I ran into the following error. Preparing to replace vim-runtime 1:7.1.314-3 (using .../vim-runtime_2%3a7.2.025-2_all.deb) ... Adding `diversion of /usr/share/v

Bug#395257: Bug still here: cannot change keymap back in g-i

2008-11-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 15 November 2008, Christian Perrier wrote: > This bug is still present in Lenny RC1 images I don't believe that is correct. Please provide details of how you tested and exactly what you observed. Cheers, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Bug#505750: d-i: allow user to return to syslinux VESA menu from help screens

2008-11-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 14 November 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > The attached patch makes it possible to return to the graphical > syslinux boot menu after viewing the help screens by typing 'menu'. A small additional change is needed to make this work with netboot (using pxe). Problem was that

Bug#505243: Multiarch CD directly boots in the amd64 installer

2008-11-14 Thread Frans Pop
block 505243 with 505496 tags 505243 - patch severity 505243 minor thanks On Wednesday 12 November 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > On Tuesday 11 November 2008, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > Here's a proper patch against SVN repository: > > > > I'll try to build a CD, and tes

Bug#505750: d-i: allow user to return to syslinux VESA menu from help screens

2008-11-14 Thread Frans Pop
Package: debian-installer Version: 20081029 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch The attached patch makes it possible to return to the graphical syslinux boot menu after viewing the help screens by typing 'menu'. Patch is based on research done by Franklin Piat as discussed on #d-boot a few days ago.

Bug#505722: tasksel: Still uses deprecated cupsys* packages

2008-11-14 Thread Frans Pop
FJP From: Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Replace deprecated cupsys* packages with new cups* packages diff --git a/tasks/desktop b/tasks/desktop index af69c89..4a1e44f 100644 --- a/tasks/desktop +++ b/tasks/desktop @@ -40,11 +40,11 @@ Packages-list: anacron # The following packages are

Bug#505564: Please document the braille support

2008-11-13 Thread Frans Pop
tags 505564 + help thanks On Thursday 13 November 2008, Simon Bienlein wrote: > You can use the Debian Installer very good with a braille display. > Please document how to install Lenny with a braille display. > > Thank you very much in advance for the further documentation. Please find people fa

Bug#505564: Please document the braille support

2008-11-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 13 November 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > Please find people familiar enough with the support, the hardware and > required setup to provide patches, or at least a proposed text. > Such things have to come from the community, not the D-I developers. Patches should preferably c

Bug#498789: Pleas include dmraid=true in Special boot parameters help

2008-11-12 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 12 November 2008, Giuseppe Iuculano wrote: > Christian Perrier ha scritto: > > I think we can now safely assume that this is delayed for squeeze and > > to be moved in the "wished features" list (and probably the release > > goals list). > > My first request was to add a simple line in

Bug#505243: Multiarch CD directly boots in the amd64 installer

2008-11-12 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 11 November 2008, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > Here's a proper patch against SVN repository: > > I'll try to build a CD, and test it tomorrow on some computers at work. I'm afraid that IMO this patch is not a very good idea. First of all, as it is, it is incomplete and breaks other installa

Bug#505243: [TEST RC1] Resize NTFS ; windows detection ; Nec VL360

2008-11-11 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 505243 debian-installer 20081029 thanks > I assume this belongs to debian-cd even though I'm not completely sure > of this. Not correct. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#504659: tasksel: Gnome pushes File and DNS server and language tasks off CD1

2008-11-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 07 November 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > There's another risk with having such a large key requirement for the > task: that the gnome-desktop task will eat up all space on CD1 but will > still not be installable because the dependencies of the key packages > overflow to CD2

Bug#504659: tasksel: Gnome pushes File and DNS server and language tasks off CD1

2008-11-07 Thread Frans Pop
should fix the issues for CD1 only installs while still giving the exact same result for all other installs. Please commit and upload ASAP. commit 61ef4922a8556dca84d23b02857e31e325119f4a Author: Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri Nov 7 11:44:37 2008 +0100 gnome-desktop: revert to

Bug#504760: s390 installer doesn't work on 3215 console running as a VM guest

2008-11-06 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 504760 rootskel 1.66 severity 504760 serious thanks On Thursday 06 November 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The latest version of the installation program for the s390 > architecture (for lenny/sid) > doesn't work when running on a 3215 virtual console as a guest of z/VM. > In this insta

Bug#504590: (forw) Bug#504590: clock-setup: OpenSolaris uses local time by default

2008-11-06 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 06 November 2008, Laurent Blume wrote: > The executive summary is, yes, by default, on *x86* systems, both > Solaris and OpenSolaris considers the system clock to be the local > time. Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation. It means that IMO the current patch proposed by Colin is n

Bug#504655: debian-installer: Kernel panic when velocity driver started

2008-11-05 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 504655 linux-2.6 2.6.26-8 thanks On Wednesday 05 November 2008, Axel Beckert wrote: > Tried to install Debian Lenny on a VIA EPIA SN (VIA C7, i386 arch) > board today. This one has a VIA Rhine II (VT6102) and a VIA Velocity > (VT6120/VT6121/VT6122) NIC. > > When detecting the network card

Bug#504659: tasksel: Gnome pushes File and DNS server and language tasks off CD1

2008-11-05 Thread Frans Pop
Package: tasksel Version: 2.76 Severity: serious Justification: Unsuitable for release While testing a Lenny RC2 preview CD in a "CD1 only, no mirror" installation, I noticed that the File server and DNS server tasks were missing from the list of available tasks during pkgsel. This also means that

Bug#504016: Lenny Beta II + daily build, kernel dies after initrd.gz....ready.

2008-11-05 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 504016 linux-2.6 thanks On Saturday 01 November 2008, Hans-Joachim Zierke wrote: > But I found it by completely disabling almost everything in the BIOS, > getting a success, then systematically reenabling stuff. > > It's the Promise ATA-100 BIOS. If I reset that BIOS from "Auto" to > "Dis

Bug#504226: OS install problem X not started

2008-11-05 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 504226 xserver-xorg-core thanks On Saturday 01 November 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Comments/Problems: > I have done this before with Intel i386 many times. This is my first > try with an AMD64 CPU/MoBo and AMD64 Linux. > > Install, options selection and download, and Boot up sequenc

Bug#504590: clock-setup: OpenSolaris uses local time by default

2008-11-05 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 05 November 2008, Colin Watson wrote: > Apparently OpenSolaris uses local time by default rather than UTC. This > was reported as > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/clock-setup/+bug/279065, and, > while I found this surprising (as noted in the comments on that bug), > the conf

Bug#504381: rootskel: noshell boot option for unattended installations

2008-11-03 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 03 November 2008, Colin Watson wrote: > * init: Add support for disabling the shells on tty2 and tty3 by > specifying a 'noshell' option on the kernel cmdline. Useful for > unattended installations in a public place. We'll also need a patch for di-utils' user-params script to a

Bug#504381: rootskel: noshell boot option for unattended installations

2008-11-03 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 03 November 2008, Colin Watson wrote: > Timo Aaltonen, an Ubuntu developer, uploaded the attached patch to > Ubuntu's rootskel package. I think it's reasonable and worthwhile. Any > objections (post-lenny of course)? Seems fine, but why + sed -i '/^tty2\|^tty3/s/^tt

Bug#504016: Lenny Beta II + daily build, kernel dies after initrd.gz....ready.

2008-11-01 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 30 October 2008, Hans-Joachim Zierke wrote: > In expert mode, the result is exactly the same: > > Loading /install.386/vmlinuz . > Loading /install.386/initrd.gz .. > ..ready. OK. This is very clearly a ker

Bug#474737: (no subject)

2008-11-01 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 01 November 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What I have done is booting with a netboot kernel and initrd (having no > disk modules) and then accessing my local server where the debian dvd > is mounted. The dvd obviously misses ide module udeb packages. Maybe > because it has the ide mo

Bug#504016: Lenny Beta II + daily build, kernel dies after initrd.gz....ready.

2008-10-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 30 October 2008, Hans-Joachim Zierke wrote: > Comments/Problems: > BIOS boot uneventful, Hostadapter BIOS reports "No Emulation" mode, > Installation CD screen comes up fine with all the help options. After > , I get > Loading /something-386/vmlinuz . > Loading /some

Bug#474737: Still not working: Etch netboot installer does not detect ide harddisk

2008-10-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 30 October 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > This really is total nonsense. > > It's in /lib/modules//kernel/drivers/ide/pci/ and is present > > for both the Etch and Lenny installer. > > Sorry, no :-( Eh, YES! > More precisely: Within debian-LennyBeta2-i386-netinst.iso there is a

Bug#474737: Still not working: Etch netboot installer does not detect ide harddisk

2008-10-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 29 October 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have tried a recent version of netinst and it still is missing the > piix module. This really is total nonsense. It's in /lib/modules//kernel/drivers/ide/pci/ and is present for both the Etch and Lenny installer. > iso image: > http://cd

Bug#502346: virtualbox-ose-modules package older than virtualbox-ose

2008-10-29 Thread Frans Pop
reopen 502346 thanks This RC BR was closed silently (using 'close' to control), without giving any explanation and without the issue being fixed. IMO that's not an acceptable way to deal with RC bugs. I'm reopening the BR as the virtualbox-ose kernel modules in testing are still not usable wit

Bug#502244: LANGUAGE=se:nb:no:nn:da:sv ?

2008-10-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 28 October 2008, Neil Williams wrote: > I don't do much with D-I so I can only think that something is wrong > with the environment: Problem is that the environment cannot be changed in D-I as the language is selected using a subshell within the environment where D-I runs. This means t

Bug#488066: installation-reports

2008-10-26 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 26 October 2008, Werquin Lucas wrote: > Since the last update of dmraid, i have rebooted my server and still > have a problem with the GRUB update. This has nothing to do with dmraid. > I still have to edit the first entry of the GRUB list to replace > (nvidia) with (hd0,1) before b

Bug#502850: debian-installer: D-I fails to process some correct (!) preseed files

2008-10-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 21 October 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > What we're now going to need is a simplified, reproducible testcase; > probably just a simple script that sets a variable to a "bad" value > and then executes the test above. I've given this a try, and was able

Bug#503189: tzsetup: Preseeding timezone doesn't work as described

2008-10-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 23 October 2008, Durk Strooisma wrote: > I mean, if you specify "en_NL" as locale, an uninformed user would > probably be surprised to see LANG set to "en_US.UTF-8". Well, you could trust the installer to not set an invalid locale :-) > Just to check if I understand correctly; so "en_

Bug#502773: installation-guide: tasksel uses aptitude

2008-10-24 Thread Frans Pop
tags 502773 pending thanks On Sunday 19 October 2008, Paul Menzel wrote: > [1] 6.3.5.2. Selecting and Installing Software says > > > Each package you selected with tasksel is downloaded, unpacked and > > then installed in turn by the apt-get and dpkg programs. > > But I think it is using aptitude.

Bug#503189: tzsetup: Preseeding timezone doesn't work as described

2008-10-23 Thread Frans Pop
is set. This is needed to +undo a change in behavior introduced with cdebconf (0.132) which results +in invalid defaults for current choices list being rejected. + Closes: #503189. + * Check that (preseeded) time zone is valid before setting it for the target +system. + + -- Frans Pop <[

Bug#502618: partman: /dev/mapper/vg0-home is apparently in use by the system

2008-10-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 21 October 2008, Colin Watson wrote: > Maybe something like this? Thanks for the patch. I'll give it a try tomorrow. If that is correct, we can probably remove a few tests for loop devices in partman: - partman-base/choose_partition/partition_tree/do_option: 55 - partman-base/parted_s

Bug#502850: debian-installer: D-I fails to process some correct (!) preseed files

2008-10-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 21 October 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > I've taken a look at the two manual runs and it looks like there is > some weird issue in busybox. [...] > In the "bad" case $package is correctly determined as "d-i", but after > that the following compa

Bug#502618: partman: /dev/mapper/vg0-home is apparently in use by the system

2008-10-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 21 October 2008, Colin Watson wrote: > That may be the proximate cause, but at most it's just exposing > breakage elsewhere. The actual incorrect code is in libparted itself, > not parted_server. It should not be generating "p1"-type device names > for LVM logical volumes. Problem is th

Bug#502618: partman: /dev/mapper/vg0-home is apparently in use by the system

2008-10-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 18 October 2008, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > I currently have the same problem. The reason the logical volume is in > use seems to be that when you finish partitioning and partman goes to > the stage of creating the filesystems, the system has suddenly created > partitions on top of the vol

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