Bug#750796: libldb1: aptitude upgrade on sid runs into trouble with libldb1 versioning

2014-06-06 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: libldb1 Version: 1:1.1.16-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Doing aptitude update on sid gives the followin error messages... The following packages have unmet dependencies: samba-libs : Depends: libldb1 ( 1:1.1.17~) but 1:1.1.17-1 is to be installed. Holing back libldb1 from being

Bug#750639: installing adjtimex gives syntax error message

2014-06-05 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: adjtimex Version: 1.29-2.2 Severity: minor Installing adjtimex gives the following syntax error Setting up adjtimex (1.29-2.2) ... egrep: character class syntax is [[:space:]], not [:space:] -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.9 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500,

Bug#713943: Not fixed for me

2014-04-22 Thread Rick Thomas
random kernel panics, but i think it is unrelated to this bug : something about radeon-kms (and I only have a software rasterizer for opengl, even if I boot with the video=offb:off video=radeonfb:off kernel argument.). Thank you again. Le 22/04/2014 05:18, Rick Thomas a écrit : On Apr 21

Bug#713943: Not fixed for me

2014-04-21 Thread Rick Thomas
On Apr 21, 2014, at 1:49 PM, Bertrand Dekoninck bdekoni...@free.fr wrote: I've installed jessie with linux-3.13.7-1 last night on my powermac7,3 (2x2.0 ghz). The fans are still crazy, even if i2c-powermac is build-in (and not a module anymore). Hi Bertrand, Have you tried echo

Bug#713943: Lack of i2c_powermac module may be the cause

2014-02-22 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 22, 2014, at 12:23 AM, Erik de Castro Lopo er...@mega-nerd.com wrote: Hi, I run debian testing on a dual G5 powermac. Just upgraded from linux-image-3.4-trunk-powerpc64 to linux-image-3.12-1-powerpc64 and found the same issue. The windfarm modules are loading but the about 30

Bug#713943: Lack of i2c_powermac module may be the cause

2014-02-22 Thread Rick Thomas
I have a single processor MacPro G5 PowerMac7,3 running Jessie. model : PowerMac7,3 machine : PowerMac7,3 motherboard : PowerMac7,3 MacRISC4 Power Macintosh detected as : 336 (PowerMac G5) I also have a dual core G5 PowerMac11,2 but it's running MacOS-X. The 7,3

Bug#713943: linux-image-3.9-1-powerpc64: windfarm module is not working any more

2014-02-22 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 30, 2013, at 8:01 AM, Vladimir Berezenko qmaster2...@gmail.com wrote: Seems that there's another one problem. From time to time cursor in X become garbage and after some time kernel goes panicking. Last update seems not causing panick, but cursor garbage stayed. The 3.2 kernel works

Bug#736130: Mac64 - wrong colors and other problems

2014-01-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 24, 2014, at 11:10 AM, Vladimir Berezenko qmaster2...@gmail.com wrote: В письме от 24 января 2014 11:07:51 пользователь Michel Dänzer написал: The mach64 DRM driver never made it into the mainline kernel, so I'm afraid getting DRI working is hopeless (unless you want to revive the

Bug#736130: linux-image-3.12-1-powerpc64 crashes during shutdown of PowerPC G5 Mac. But PowerPC g4 Mac (23-bit) works OK.

2014-01-19 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: src:linux Version: 3.12.6-2 Severity: important -- Package-specific info: ** Version: Linux version 3.12-1-powerpc64 (debian-ker...@lists.debian.org) (gcc version 4.8.2 (Debian 4.8.2-10) ) #1 SMP Debian 3.12.6-2 (2013-12-29) ** Command line:

Bug#736130: linux-image-3.12-1-powerpc64 crashes during shutdown of PowerPC G5 Mac. But PowerPC g4 Mac (23-bit) works OK.

2014-01-19 Thread Rick Thomas
Thanks, Ben, for the very quick response! I'd love to do that. But I don't have a serial console for this machine (no serial port -- it's a PowerMac MacPro G5, 64-bit CPU) and the messages logged at crash time scroll off the screen too fast for me to copy them down (or even photograph). I'll

Bug#736130: linux-image-3.12-1-powerpc64 crashes during shutdown of PowerPC G5 Mac. But PowerPC g4 Mac (23-bit) works OK.

2014-01-19 Thread Rick Thomas
One additional bit of information that may help -- Wheezey ( the 3.2 ppc64 kernel ) doesn't have this problem on this machine. Rick On Jan 19, 2014, at 7:23 PM, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: Thanks, Ben, for the very quick response! I'd love to do that. But I don't have a serial

Bug#736130: linux-image-3.12-1-powerpc64 crashes during shutdown of PowerPC G5 Mac. But PowerPC g4 Mac (23-bit) works OK.

2014-01-19 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 19, 2014, at 7:41 PM, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: On Sun, 2014-01-19 at 19:23 -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: Thanks, Ben, for the very quick response! I'd love to do that. But I don't have a serial console for this machine (no serial port -- it's a PowerMac MacPro G5, 64

Bug#735260: installation-reports: Jessie Netinst for PowerPC-64 creates will not boot after installation -- but works for PowerPC-32

2014-01-14 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: installation-reports Severity: important Tags: d-i -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: Debian GNU/Linux testing Jessie - Official Snapshot powerpc NETINST Binary-1 20140108-22:14 Date: Jan 13, 2014 Machine: PowerPC MacPro G5 Partitions: sudo mac-fdisk -l

Bug#728936: Seems to be fixed in PowerPC Netinst from Jan 8th

2014-01-13 Thread Rick Thomas
This bug seems to be fixed in Debian GNU/Linux testing Jessie - Official Snapshot powerpc NETINST Binary-1 20140108-22:14 However, that netinst image installs a system that refuses to boot on PowerPC64 -- works fine on powerpc (32-bit) though! I'll be submitting a

Bug#728936: Seems to be fixed in powerpc netinst from Jan 8

2014-01-13 Thread Rick Thomas
This bug seems to be fixed in Debian GNU/Linux testing Jessie - Official Snapshot powerpc NETINST Binary-1 20140108-22:14 However, that netinst image installs a system that refuses to boot on PowerPC64 -- works fine on powerpc (32-bit) though! I'll be submitting a

Bug#728936: Is there a way to ssh into the debian installation process?

2014-01-05 Thread Rick Thomas
. Do you have any experience making a pre seeded bootable CD for powerpc? If so, could you share it with us? Rick On Jan 5, 2014, at 9:48 AM, Gary Driggs gdri...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 5, 2014, at 1:22 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: So I think I could do the same thing on a PowerPC Mac if I knew

Bug#728936: Bug#731939: debian-installer: USB input not functioning during install

2013-12-12 Thread Rick Thomas
Manfred and Jason, It would help a lot if each of you please reply-all to this with the output of (as root -- and with the USB keyboard and mouse plugged in to the machine) lsusb -v and lsmod That may help tell what USB/HCI driver is needed for your devices. Thanks! Rick

Bug#715408: Bug#731939: debian-installer: USB input not functioning during install

2013-12-11 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 11, 2013, at 5:06 AM, Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org wrote: Jason Young doom...@gmail.com (2013-12-11): Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I booted the amd64 netinstall disc for debian jessie, and at first I thought that it was frozen because neither the

Bug#728936: Fwd: Bug#728936 - Has anyone succeeded in installing Jessie on PowerPC?

2013-12-09 Thread Rick Thomas
! On Sat, 12/7/13, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: Subject: Bug#728936 - Has anyone succeeded in installing Jessie on PowerPC? To: Installer List Debian debian-b...@lists.debian.org Cc: PowerPC List Debian debian-powe...@lists.debian.org Date: Saturday, December 7, 2013, 10:30 PM

Bug#728936: Fwd: Bug#728936 - Has anyone succeeded in installing Jessie on PowerPC?

2013-12-09 Thread Rick Thomas
I'm guessing the keyboard that worked is not USB??? Rick On Dec 8, 2013, at 11:09 PM, Dan DeVoto dand1...@yahoo.com wrote: I can confirm this bug. The keyboard is functional on the first boot screen, but when it gets to the Choose a language screen, the keyboard no longer works. I

Bug#728936: Fwd: Bug#728936 - Has anyone succeeded in installing Jessie on PowerPC?

2013-12-09 Thread Rick Thomas
Begin forwarded message: I can confirm that the Dec 8 version of netinst for debian testing (Jesie) loads with a request for 'select a language' but does not respond to my usb Dynex keyboard on a ydl powerstation. Best wishes, Robert

Bug#728936: - Has anyone succeeded in installing Jessie on PowerPC?

2013-12-09 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 9, 2013, at 7:55 AM, Gabriel Paubert paub...@iram.es wrote: On Sun, Dec 08, 2013 at 11:16:29PM -0800, Dan DeVoto wrote: Confirmed on my Powerbook5,6 and PowerMac3,1. The Dec. 8th nightly still has this bug. Though the keyboard on my G3 iBook (Powerbook4,3) works fine, so Team G3!

Bug#728936: Bug#715408: possibly duplicate: Bug#728936: Debian testing installer does not dectect USB keyboard

2013-12-09 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 9, 2013, at 9:05 AM, Andreas Cadhalpun andreas.cadhal...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Manfred, I tried to reproduce the problem on my Laptop (i3-2330M) with a Logitech USB keyboard, that Windows 7 reports as: HID\VID_046DPID_C312\726B80A520 For me the external keyboard worked

Bug#715408: possibly duplicate: Bug#728936: Debian testing installer does not dectect USB keyboard

2013-12-09 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 9, 2013, at 1:36 PM, Andreas Cadhalpun andreas.cadhal...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Rick, On 09.12.2013 22:19, Rick Thomas wrote: As noted in bugreport 728936, I tried this with a recent amd64 netinst daily. It works fine. The problem only appears on PowerPC hardware. I also have

Bug#715408: possibly duplicate: Bug#728936: Debian testing installer does not dectect USB keyboard

2013-12-09 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi Manfred, It's the Jessie (testing) daily build installer we're having trouble with. What you got was the Wheezy release (v7.2). An understandable mistake. Please download from here:

Bug#728936: tried amd64 netinst sid daily-build. Problem not found on amd

2013-12-08 Thread Rick Thomas
I just tried the amd64 daily-builds netinst CD. I did not have this problem. The USB keyboard was recognized and functioned as expected. So what's it about PowerPC ??? Rick /cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/ debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso 2013-12-08 04:49 213M --

Bug#728936: Fwd: Bug#728936 - Has anyone succeeded in installing Jessie on PowerPC?

2013-12-08 Thread Rick Thomas
Begin forwarded message: From: Robert Hagan robertha...@gmail.com Date: December 7, 2013 11:52:39 PM PST To: Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com Subject: Re: Bug#728936 - Has anyone succeeded in installing Jessie on PowerPC? I have had success but I am using an old 'YDL Power Station

Bug#728936: Problem also present in Weekly build CD

2013-11-25 Thread Rick Thomas
Same problem in CD downloaded from: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/powerpc/iso-cd/ debian-testing-powerpc-netinst.iso 2013-11-18 07:54 254M Hope this helps… Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#728936: installation-reports: still present on PowerPC netinst as of 2013/11/24 Followup-For: Bug #728936 Package: installation-reports

2013-11-25 Thread Rick Thomas
Dear Maintainer, when it got to the chose language screen, there was no response to the keyboard or the mouse. See below for details... -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: /cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd Date: 2013/11/25 approximately 01:00 UTC

Bug#713943: Fwd: Sound and BCM4318 wireless no longer working in Wheezy on late 2005 G5

2013-08-05 Thread Rick Thomas
This may have some relevance to bug#713943 Begin forwarded message from Debian PowerPC list: Resent-From: debian-powe...@lists.debian.org From: Chris Wareham ch...@chriswareham.net Date: August 5, 2013 12:27:06 PM PDT To: debian-powe...@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Sound and BCM4318 wireless

Bug#704496: lynx-cur: lynx prepends html stuff when downloading a pure text file

2013-04-01 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: lynx-cur Version: 2.8.8dev.5-1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Hi there! The following discussion occurred on the debian-users email list. Enjoy! Rick == Rick wrote: On an apple macintosh G4, running debian squeeze, I use lynx to

Bug#704496: lynx-cur: lynx prepends html stuff when downloading a pure text file

2013-04-01 Thread Rick Thomas
On Apr 1, 2013, at 5:01 PM, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: On an apple macintosh G4, running debian squeeze, I use lynx to download cd-images from cdimage.debian.org. I have no problem getting CD .iso images. But when I try downloading the MD5SUMS file from the same directory, I get a few

Bug#684265: Bug#690515: Still with us -- still in Beta3

2012-11-04 Thread Rick Thomas
On Oct 14, 2012, at 11:55 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: On Sep 24, 2012, at 6:26 AM, Milan Kupcevic wrote: Please file a separate debian-installer bug report for problems related to finding other OS's on LVM partitions. Milan OK, here it is: Bug#690515 I hope it's an easy fix. It would

Bug#684265: Still with us

2012-10-15 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 24, 2012, at 6:26 AM, Milan Kupcevic wrote: Please file a separate debian-installer bug report for problems related to finding other OS's on LVM partitions. Milan OK, here it is: Bug#690515 I hope it's an easy fix. It would be a shame to see it get into beta3... Rick -- To

Bug#684265: Still with us

2012-09-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 24, 2012, at 6:26 AM, Milan Kupcevic wrote: Please file a separate debian-installer bug report for problems related to finding other OS's on LVM partitions. Milan Well... I tried it on a machine that was not using LVM, and got the same results. So the bug isn't fixed yet.

Bug#684265: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta2 release bug #684265

2012-09-16 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 15, 2012, at 8:36 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 14:58 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: [...] 1) It seems likely that adding a udeb for fuse-modules will allow os- prober to identify other Linux OS root partitions and get them added to the boot-loader config file... But only

Bug#684265: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta2 release bug #684265 -- partial success

2012-09-13 Thread Rick Thomas
On 09/13/12 01:15, Rick Thomas wrote: On 09/12/12 23:22, Rick Thomas wrote: On Sep 12, 2012, at 10:41 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Rick Thomas (rbtho...@pobox.com): On Sep 12, 2012, at 4:21 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: I have not tried running os-prober from the alt-F2 console

Bug#684265: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta2 release bug #684265

2012-09-13 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 13, 2012, at 5:49 AM, Milan Kupcevic wrote: When I load the fuse module manually os-prober works fine. Therefore solution for bug reports 684265, 686314, 686631, 687286 is to create fuse-modules udeb package. Patch is available here:

Bug#684265: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta2 release bug #684265

2012-09-13 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 12, 2012, at 10:41 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Rick Thomas (rbtho...@pobox.com): On Sep 12, 2012, at 4:21 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: I have not tried running os-prober from the alt-F2 console during the install, to see if it gives different results. I'll do that and report back

Bug#684265: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta2 release bug #684265

2012-09-13 Thread Rick Thomas
On 09/12/12 23:22, Rick Thomas wrote: On Sep 12, 2012, at 10:41 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Rick Thomas (rbtho...@pobox.com): On Sep 12, 2012, at 4:21 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: I have not tried running os-prober from the alt-F2 console during the install, to see if it gives

Bug#684265: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta2 release bug #684265

2012-09-13 Thread Rick Thomas
On 09/13/12 01:15, Rick Thomas wrote: The umount: can't umount... error message went away, but the three 'no such disk' messages remained. And grub install still objected because there was only one OS... I've attached the relevant section of /var/log/installer/syslog It may be worth noting

Bug#684265: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta2 release bug #684265

2012-09-12 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 10, 2012, at 10:16 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Rick Thomas (rbtho...@pobox.com): I'll be happy to provide installation log files to anyone who wants them. I'd also be happy to look at the relevant code and see if I can figure out what's wrong, but I don't know where to look

Bug#684265: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta2 release bug #684265

2012-09-12 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 12, 2012, at 4:21 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: I have not tried running os-prober from the alt-F2 console during the install, to see if it gives different results. I'll do that and report back. Any hints of things I should be looking out for? Here's the stderr/stdout output when os

Bug#686927: installation does not detect existing Lubuntu

2012-09-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 7, 2012, at 11:33 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Rick Thomas (rbtho...@pobox.com): PS: Is anybody working on this bug? It would be a shame if it got into beta2... I'd be happy to take a look and see if I could find anything, but I don't know where to look. Can somebody point

Bug#686471: testing report [Re: Bug#686471: cdimage.debian.org: Please made DVD-1 image small enough to fit on a 4GB USB stick]

2012-09-07 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 2, 2012, at 4:11 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: On Sep 2, 2012, at 3:39 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: tags 686471 pending thanks On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 02:37:08PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: On Sep 2, 2012, at 1:31 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: I've not done anything like isohybrid for ppc at all

Bug#686927: installation does not detect existing Lubuntu

2012-09-07 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 7, 2012, at 1:51 AM, Herbert Kaminski wrote: Comments/Problems: 2. The installation did not detect the existing Lubuntu 10.04 and wanted to install grub into the master boot record (I did not allow that). 3. the grub installer was unable to install grub into any partition of the

Bug#686471: cdimage.debian.org: Please made DVD-1 image small enough to fit on a 4GB USB stick

2012-09-02 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 1, 2012, at 6:02 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: Ummm. We've been doing this for ages for amd64 and i386 so that they'll work in isohybrid mode from USB. Have you tried to use one of the current images? Ahhh Sorry, I didn't catch your meaning the first time. I'll try the Beta1 DVD-1

Bug#686471: cdimage.debian.org: Please made DVD-1 image small enough to fit on a 4GB USB stick

2012-09-02 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 2, 2012, at 1:31 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: I've not done anything like isohybrid for ppc at all; I've no idea if it's even possible... It may not be strictly necessary. See my recent email with subject Detailed notes: How to boot and install Debian from a USB stick on a PowerPC

Bug#686471: cdimage.debian.org: Please made DVD-1 image small enough to fit on a 4GB USB stick

2012-09-02 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 2, 2012, at 3:39 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: tags 686471 pending thanks On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 02:37:08PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: On Sep 2, 2012, at 1:31 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: I've not done anything like isohybrid for ppc at all; I've no idea if it's even possible

Bug#686471: cdimage.debian.org: Please made DVD-1 image small enough to fit on a 4GB USB stick

2012-09-01 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: cdimage.debian.org Severity: wishlist Tags: d-i It would be nice if the DVD-1 iso image were just a bit smaller, so it would fit onto a 4 GB USB flash drive. I'm presonally interested in seeing this happen for PowerPC architecture, but I'd even be happy if it only happened for the

Bug#678066: Proposal to simplify PowerPC CD/DVD boot options

2012-09-01 Thread Rick Thomas
On 08/30/12 06:57, Milan Kupcevic wrote: On 08/30/2012 03:00 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: Regardless, I'm trying to write a comprehensive set of notes on booting Apple PowerMacs from USB drives, and it would be nice to have this part fully documented. Is there something I can tell people to do

Bug#686471: cdimage.debian.org: Please made DVD-1 image small enough to fit on a 4GB USB stick

2012-09-01 Thread Rick Thomas
On 09/01/12 18:02, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 05:55:54PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: Package: cdimage.debian.org Severity: wishlist Tags: d-i It would be nice if the DVD-1 iso image were just a bit smaller, so it would fit onto a 4 GB USB flash drive. I'm presonally

Bug#678066: Proposal to simplify PowerPC CD/DVD boot options

2012-08-30 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 29, 2012, at 11:04 PM, Milan Kupcevic wrote: On 08/29/2012 07:58 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: On Aug 29, 2012, at 4:25 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: I just tried booting a PowerMac G4 with the Wheezy installer image built on 20120826-03:23 (details of where I downloaded it from, etc

Bug#686218: cdimage.debian.org: booting powerpc netinst installer from USB-stick complains about type (Apple_HFS) of bootstrap partition (wants Apple_bootstrap)

2012-08-30 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 29, 2012, at 11:30 PM, Milan Kupcevic wrote: On 08/29/2012 08:48 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: When booting the Debian netinst powerpc installer from a USB flash disk you may see a mesage WARNING: Bootstrap partition type is wrong: Apple_HFS type should be: Apple_Bootstrap

Bug#678066: Proposal to simplify PowerPC CD/DVD boot options

2012-08-29 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 4, 2012, at 10:22 AM, Milan Kupcevic wrote: On 08/04/2012 12:41 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 05:56:54PM -0400, Milan Kupcevic wrote: This is a Debian installation ${MEDIA_TYPE}, built on ${BUILD_DATE}. + Enter one of the following options to begin: -install

Bug#678066: Proposal to simplify PowerPC CD/DVD boot options

2012-08-29 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 29, 2012, at 4:25 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: I just tried booting a PowerMac G4 with the Wheezy installer image built on 20120826-03:23 (details of where I downloaded it from, etc available on request). The G4 is a 32-bit machine, but it seems to be offering me the choices for a 64

Bug#684265: Still with us -- Re: Bug#684265: (installation-reports: yaboot.conf missing existing root partitions -- sources.list still has deb cdrom from installation)

2012-08-29 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 18, 2012, at 2:02 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: I just downloaded and burned the PowerPC Netinst CD and did an install with it. Specifically, http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-testing-powerpc-netinst.iso Daily build #3 for powerpc

Bug#686218: cdimage.debian.org: booting powerpc netinst installer from USB-stick complains about type (Apple_HFS) of bootstrap partition (wants Apple_bootstrap)

2012-08-29 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: cdimage.debian.org Severity: wishlist Tags: d-i When booting the Debian netinst powerpc installer from a USB flash disk you may see a mesage WARNING: Bootstrap partition type is wrong: Apple_HFS type should be: Apple_Bootstrap This does not occur when booting the

Bug#685414: installation-reports: Hangs while searching drives on a Mac Mini G4 (PowerPC)

2012-08-20 Thread Rick Thomas
See my suggestions at the bottom of this report... On Aug 20, 2012, at 9:40 AM, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Package: installation-reports Severity: important Tags: d-i In case it matters: The computer's CD drive is broken and it cannot AFAIK boot from USB media, so I downloaded the files and

Bug#684265: Still with us -- Re: Bug#684265: (installation-reports: yaboot.conf missing existing root partitions -- sources.list still has deb cdrom from installation)

2012-08-18 Thread Rick Thomas
I just downloaded and burned the PowerPC Netinst CD and did an install with it. Specifically, http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-testing-powerpc-netinst.iso Daily build #3 for powerpc, using installer build from sid This build

Bug#682946: latest weekly PowerPC CD#1 stalls because it cant find aptitude

2012-08-06 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 5, 2012, at 12:31 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Hi Rick, Rick Thomas wrote: I just downloaded the beta1 netinst images for powerpc, i386 and amd64. I'll be testing them this weekend if I can get time. Thanks! Is the problem likely to be specific to the CD1 images and not show up

Bug#682946: latest weekly PowerPC CD#1 stalls because it cant find aptitude

2012-08-05 Thread Rick Thomas
, at 4:07 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: reassign 682946 cdimage.debian.org tags 682946 + wheezy moreinfo quit Hi Rick, Rick Thomas wrote: Boot method: CD Image version: /cdimage/weekly-builds/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-testing- powerpc-xfce+lxde-CD-1.iso (23-Jul-2012 07:59 635M) [...] Jul 26 10:01:22

Bug#682946: installation-report: latest weekly PowerPC CD#1 stalls because it cant find aptitude

2012-07-27 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: installation-reports Version: 2.47 Severity: grave Tags: d-i Justification: renders installer CD unusable -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: /cdimage/weekly-builds/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-testing-powerpc-xfce+lxde-CD-1.iso (23-Jul-2012 07:59 635M) Date: Date and

Bug#678008: debian-installer: Space fun theme considered harmful

2012-06-19 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 19, 2012, at 12:07 PM, Miguel Figueiredo wrote: For Wheezy, and for quite a time, the Call For Proposals [1] it's open and the process will follow. 1 - http://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes Well, as I said, I've decided that, unfortunately, I can't win that argument. So I'm

Bug#678008: debian-installer: Space fun theme considered harmful

2012-06-18 Thread Rick Thomas
Holger, Thanks for your helpful replies. Can we keep this bug report open, as a way of tracking this issue in the period before Wheezy release? While I understand that the debate has passed and it's probably too late to get the radical changes the OP requested, perhaps there's still

Bug#641886: mdadm: Possible fix

2011-11-30 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: mdadm Followup-For: Bug #641886 Version: 3.2.2-1 Please consider adding the --no-sharing option to the mdadm call in /etc/cron.daily/mdadm Thanks! -- Package-specific info: --- mdadm.conf CREATE owner=root group=disk mode=0660 auto=yes HOMEHOST system MAILADDR root ARRAY

Bug#647682: gadmin-dhcpd: ISC DHCPD is not installed or not in your path even though ISC dhcpd is installed

2011-11-04 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: gadmin-dhcpd Severity: normal Right after starting, the GUI displays the following error message: ISC DHCPD is not installed or not in your path The problem seems to be that it is looking for the dhcpd3 binary, but it's actually called dhcpd (/usr/sbin/dhcpd to be exact) in Debian

Bug#630812: adjtimex: still with us

2011-10-28 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: adjtimex Version: 1.29-2.2 Followup-For: Bug #630812 Dear Maintainer, This bug is still with us. Very recent Sid install. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64

Bug#637452: Lower priority of first user's fullname question

2011-08-11 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 11, 2011, at 11:49 AM, Miguel Figueiredo wrote: Package: user-setup Version: 1.40 Tags: patch currently it is asked the fullname of the first user being created during the standard installation. Lowering the priority, the question will be skipped and the standard installation will

Bug#636269: Bug #636269 -- Problem is still with us...

2011-08-09 Thread Rick Thomas
I tried again today. I installed Sid from the Sid_d-i PowerPC daily businesscard. Same problem. Here's what I installed: Daily build #1 for powerpc, using installer build from sid ... This build finished at Wed Aug 10 03:24:48 UTC 2011. ... debian-testing-powerpc-businesscard.iso

Bug#636269: Acknowledgement (PowerPC Mac G4 can't boot after installing Sid)

2011-08-04 Thread Rick Thomas
Does this patch (from the yaboot-devel mailinglist) help with this bug? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=636269 Is there some way I can help test it? [PATCH 1/2] Support sysfs in ofpath http://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/yaboot-devel/2011-August/000382.html

Bug#636265: reboot after install fails

2011-08-02 Thread Rick Thomas
Yeah, Sorry! See Bug#636269. Rick On Aug 2, 2011, at 1:26 AM, Jeroen Diederen wrote: You did not add the log file. On Mon, 2011-08-01 at 16:38 -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: Package: installation-reports Boot method: How did you boot the installer? CD? floppy? network? CD expert mode

Bug#636265: reboot after install fails

2011-08-01 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: installation-reports Boot method: How did you boot the installer? CD? floppy? network? CD expert mode. Installed unstable Image version: Full URL to image you downloaded is best | Daily build #7 for powerpc, using installer build from sid | These images will install the

Bug#631659: uboot-envtools: fw_printenv config file not included or documented in debian package

2011-06-25 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: uboot-envtools Version: 20081215-2 Severity: important The uboot-envtools package does not provide a config file. As such, the package is not usable. rbthomas@plug:~$ /usr/sbin/fw_printenv Cannot parse config file: No such file or directory rbthomas@plug:~$ ls -ld /etc/fw_env.config

Bug#631659: Acknowledgement (uboot-envtools: fw_printenv config file not included or documented in debian package)

2011-06-25 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 25, 2011, at 4:33 PM, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: Thank you for filing a new Bug report with Debian. I have since discovered the examples in /usr/share/doc/ Unfortunately, there is no example config file for SheevaPlug or any of its relatives. So I guess this bug should be

Bug#403112: Workaround for OldWorld beige G3 Macintosh bmac network interface

2011-04-08 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi Michael, Believe it or not, I still have the machine in question. It's been faithfully working as a mail server for our family without pause for anything but power failures for over eight years. Those old Macs were built to last! I'll see if I can coerce Squeeze to boot on it.

Bug#617204: Things that make you go hmmmm....

2011-03-11 Thread Rick Thomas
Joey Hess said: Rick Thomas wrote: Well, in the mean-time, there's no way to test new d-i businesscard or netinst CDs beyond the disk partition step. Or, to put it more bluntly: Testing grinds to a halt until this is fixed. Use http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/current

Bug#617469: Things that make you go hmmmm....

2011-03-09 Thread Rick Thomas
Anybody notice that the current PowerPC sid_d-i businesscard installed CD refuses to finish the booting process on a PowerMac? See bug report #617469 for details. I verified the md5 checksum. That's OK. I verified the CD against the ISO when I burned it. That's OK. I've tried this CD (and

Bug#617469: installation-report: Debian sid_d-i wheezy PowerPC businesscard does not boot

2011-03-08 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: installation-reports Version: 2.44 Severity: grave Tags: d-i Justification: renders package unusable -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: Businesscard iso from http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/current/powerpc/iso-cd/ Daily build #7 for

Bug#617469: Bug#617204: Things that make you go hmmmm....

2011-03-08 Thread Rick Thomas
Joey Hess wrote: Rick Thomas wrote: Well, in the mean-time, there's no way to test new d-i businesscard or netinst CDs beyond the disk partition step. Or, to put it more bluntly: Testing grinds to a halt until this is fixed. Use http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i

Bug#617204: installation-report: /usr/sbin/debootstrap reports sha1sum: not found

2011-03-07 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 7, 2011, at 3:08 PM, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 19:17 +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Rick Thomas (rbtho...@pobox.com): Package: installation-reports Version: 2.44 Severity: grave Tags: d-i Justification: renders package unusable That should be fixed once

Bug#487906: Lenny Beta2 on PowerPC - strange video mode after reboot

2011-01-30 Thread Rick Thomas
The machine in question is at my workplace. I'll try a full-up squeeze/kde install into a spare partition when I get a chance. Hopefully sometime this week if the (NorthEast USA) weather co-operates. Rick On Jan 29, 2011, at 1:16 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Hi Rick, Rick Thomas rbthoma

Bug#589701: ofpath is not compatible with non-builtin disk controllers

2010-09-28 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 29, 2010, at 12:12 AM, Milan Kupcevic wrote: On 09/28/2010 07:26 PM, Benjamin Cama wrote: Well, even if you didn't mention it explicitly, it was listed in the lspci dump since the beginning and nobody saw it until now. And one may also find it disturbing that a piece of software

Bug#589701: ofpath is not compatible with non-builtin disk controllers

2010-09-24 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi Benjamin, First, let me apologize for the confusing non-specificity of my bug reports to you and everyone else who is following this (and related) bug(s). The only excuse I can offer is that at the time I was submitting them, I wasn't sure what was causing the symptoms I was seeing.

Bug#587290: Info received ([Debootloaders-yaboot] Bug#587290: Bug#587290: How does linux-base modify /etc/yaboot.conf ?)

2010-09-20 Thread Rick Thomas
I apologize for mangling the attachment. here it is again -- hopefully in a more useful form! Rick ybin.new2 Description: Binary data

Bug#589701: #589701 not reproducible

2010-09-19 Thread Rick Thomas
Synopsis: I tried an install. It failed. But the /target/etc/yaboot.conf is correct in that it does not contain spaces in the wrong places or use /dev/disk/by-uuid to identify partitions. The problem that caused the failure is that ofpath can't handle the lack of /proc/scsi/scsi and

Bug#580455: #580455 yabootconfig does the correct thing, your yaboot.conf must be modified by something else

2010-09-19 Thread Rick Thomas
Benjamin Cama wrote: Hi, I just found by looking around that yabootconfig, the script used by the yaboot package (very important distinction) to generate /etc/yaboot.conf actually _knows_ how to handle LABEL and UUID; see http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debootloaders/trunk/yaboot/ybin/yabootconfig .

Bug#587290: [Debootloaders-yaboot] Bug#587290: How does linux-base modify /etc/yaboot.conf ?

2010-09-18 Thread Rick Thomas
Comments in-line below... On Sep 18, 2010, at 1:34 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 15:44 +0200, Benjamin Cama wrote: Le jeudi 16 septembre 2010 à 15:12 +0200, Benjamin Cama a écrit : You mentioned that linux-base may modify /etc/yaboot.conf. I think it might be the culprit

Bug#553463: About No kernel modules were found at Load Installer components from CD PowerPC businesscard

2010-09-08 Thread Rick Thomas
I'll be happy to. Do you specifically want the mini.iso? Or would buisnesscard do just as well? If I don't hear back I'll try both. Enjoy! Rick On Sep 8, 2010, at 4:42 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote: severity 553463 important tags 553463 moreinfo thanks Sorry, Rick, for not coming back

Bug#572869: yaboot: This bug is still present. Found on BlueWhite G3 PowerPC Mac

2010-07-30 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: yaboot Version: 1.3.13a-1 Severity: normal Still broken. It's not G5 specific any more, if it ever was. debian:~# ofpath --debug /dev/sda1 ofpath: /proc/scsi/scsi does not exist ofpath: Make sure you compiled your kernel with CONFIG_SCSI_PROC_FS=y

Bug#562575: These bugs are no longer present

2010-07-20 Thread Rick Thomas
These bugs have become extinct in the normal course of evolution. They can be closed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#515511: this bug has been fixed. It can be closed

2010-07-20 Thread Rick Thomas
bug 515511 has been fixed. It can be closed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#589701: Fwd: please take a look at Debian Bug#589701: installation-reports: Install yaboot on a hard disk - Failed to install boot loader

2010-07-20 Thread Rick Thomas
Begin forwarded message: From: nello martuscielli ppc.ad...@gmail.com Date: July 20, 2010 9:34:08 PM EDT To: Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com Cc: PowerPC List Debian debian-powe...@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: please take a look at Debian Bug#589701: installation- reports: Install yaboot

Bug#572605: Debian PowerPc installer initramfs-tools generates malformed yaboot.conf created when alternate partitions use UUID= in fstab

2010-06-30 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 30, 2010, at 5:39 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 19:00 +0200, Benjamin Cama wrote: Le lundi 28 juin 2010 à 12:13 +0200, Michel Dänzer a écrit : On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 01:21 +0200, Benjamin Cama wrote: I wanted to help for a problem with the buildd but Frans Pop told

Bug#587290: initramfs-tools: malformed yaboot.conf created when alternate partitions use UUID= in fstab

2010-06-27 Thread Rick Thomas
On 06/27/10 08:19, Ben Hutchings wrote: Please send the files /etc/fstab, /etc/yaboot.conf.old and /etc/yaboot.conf from your system. Ben. OK. Here they are: /etc/yaboot.conf from the hda6 partition (see note [1]) ## yaboot.conf generated by debian-installer ## ## run: man yaboot.conf

Bug#587290: initramfs-tools: malformed yaboot.conf created when alternate partitions use UUID= in fstab

2010-06-26 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.97 Severity: important The generated /etc/yaboot.conf contains lines append=root=UUID ro for partitions that have their /etc/fstab root line using UUID=... . This makes it impossible to boot into those partitions: the boot progresses to the point

Bug#586428: Please clear the apt cache

2010-06-20 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 20, 2010, at 6:06 AM, Frans Pop wrote: On Sunday 20 June 2010, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Otavio Salvador ota...@ossystems.com.br [2010-06-19 12:35]: The following patch, which clears the cache after debootstrap and then again at the end (after kernel/extra packages), works for me. OK

Bug#582608: installation-reports: buisnesscard sid_d-i in expert mode asks different questions on amd64 vs powerpc

2010-05-22 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Tags: d-i squeeze sid -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: businesscard http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/ Daily build #7 for powerpc, using

Bug#581255: gpm should be rebuilt with new debhelper to get trigger support

2010-05-11 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: gpm Version: 1.20.4-3.3 Severity: normal When installing gpm on my G3 PowerMac, I encountered the follogin error messages. Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously deselected package gpm. (Reading database ... 129723 files and directories currently installed.)

Bug#581256: debian Sid powerpc mouseemu and gdm combine to make apple ADB keyboard nonfunctional

2010-05-11 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: mouseemu Version: 0.15-8.1 Severity: important After installing mouseemu, the Apple ADB keyboard on my G3 PowerMac went nonresponsive. nothing happened when I hit any key. The ADB mouse worked fine. When I stopped gdm I was able to type at that keyboard into the text console.

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