Bug#855799: install_packages: installing i386 packages on multiarch failed: unknown packages

2017-02-21 Thread Thomas Lange
I can confirm this bug. I also had this problem once, and I'm sure it's in the new code. I'm pretty sure I can still fix this for the stretch release. -- regards Thomas

Bug#854659: tcsh: fails to configure

2017-02-09 Thread Thomas Lange
> There was a problem when upgrading from 6.20.00-5 (sorry for the German): This is a problem in the postrm of 6.20.00-4 which is fixed in 6.20.00-5. Since I cannot fix 6.20.00-4, you should just ignore this. -- regards Thomas

Bug#854834: Please package new upstream version

2017-02-10 Thread Thomas Lange
Package: am-utils Severity: wishlist There's the new upstream version 6.2 from October 30, 2014 which now supports NFS v4. BTW, the current version in unstable is 1065 days old, and has not yet entered testing. Is this package orphaned? -- regards Thomas

Bug#855370: dracut-core: Check installation path of aufs-dkms in module-setup.sh

2017-02-17 Thread Thomas Lange
> I forgot to note that the aufs-module can be found in the package > aufs-dkms (source: aufs) in Debian stretch+. I thought aufs was replaced by overlayfs. But you are right, there's still aufs in the dkms package. -- regards Thomas

Bug#853856: patch does not apply cleanly

2017-02-26 Thread Thomas Lange
Hi Edgar, thanks for your patch, but it does not apply cleanly to the master branch of FAI. Could you please adjust your patch? Here's the output when applying the patch using the patch util: patching file fcopy Hunk #2 succeeded at 309 with fuzz 2 (offset 10 lines). Hunk #3 FAILED at 324. 1

Bug#835372: aptitude: behavior change with 0.7.6 with packages that can't be installed breaking automated installations

2016-08-24 Thread Thomas Lange
This new behaviour will break some FAI installations. It would be very good, if such an APT::Get:: option will be added. I'm hoping to have such an option also for apt-get since a long time. This option should also ignore package names which are unknown, for example due to a typo. Using the new

Bug#835372: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#835372: Bug#835372: aptitude: behavior change with 0.7.6 with packages that can't be installed breaking automated installations

2016-08-24 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Thu, 25 Aug 2016 01:59:47 +0200, Axel Beckert said: > So let's try to define the exact behaviour needed for automated setups > where package lists might be not 100% fit what's available. > * Installation requests for packages which don't exist in the

Bug#834406: (no subject)

2016-08-24 Thread Thomas Lange
Just some addition info. This raid is created with metadata=imsm. This is Intel Matrix Storage Manager metadata format, which creates a container. Containers are not yet supported by setup-storage. Do you really want to use this fake-hw-raid, or would it be OK to force software raid (means

Bug#834406: Do you really want to use this fake-hw-raid

2016-08-25 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Thu, 25 Aug 2016 10:41:57 +, LAUTERWASSER Stefan > said: > I don't want, I have to. :-/ OK. Before adding your patch, I will test it in my environment. > Please let me know which kind and way you prefer for communication - do you

Bug#835060: dracut: Cannot boot on ext4

2016-09-05 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Fri, 26 Aug 2016 11:45:16 +0200, deb...@jack.fr.eu.org said: > There it is > [1.926556] dracut: > //lib/dracut/hooks/mount/99-mount-root.sh@29(mount_root): mount -t ext4 > -o rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered,ro,ro > /dev/mapper/data-rootfs /sysroot >

Bug#834406: nfsroot patch

2016-09-06 Thread Thomas Lange
Hi Stefan, I've tested your patch with a raid10 configuration. No problems so far. I had to adjust your patch because it did not apply cleanly to the master branch. Here's the commit https://github.com/faiproject/fai/commit/31a7904235c69455b7c7603b521d23f8703e3b0b I have one question. Is it

Bug#833987: 'fai -vNu diskless dirinstall $DIR' does not use the hostname/class 'diskless'

2016-09-07 Thread Thomas Lange
This fix will close the bug. It will be available in FAI 5.2. https://github.com/faiproject/fai/commit/92e0dae8cc09088fa06522c217104cb1f2c53d5a -- regards Thomas

Bug#829752: please lower the severity

2016-09-14 Thread Thomas Lange
IMO the justification on the severity is strange. A package should not need to handle every case of corrupted parts on disk or otherwise strange broken things. In this case your whole system is broken, and you should fix this anyhow, but not blame netfilter-persistent for not handling this

Bug#809090: no the fault of setup-storage

2016-09-10 Thread Thomas Lange
The problem is, that when using a qcow2 image, the OS reports the disk size to be like 192k, not 10G. This also happens on Debian jessie and using different partitioning tools like parted, cfdisk or looking at /proc/partitions. Therefore it's not the fault of setup-storage or parted. It can be

Bug#812712: parted can do align-check

2016-09-10 Thread Thomas Lange
You can use parted to see if setup-storage has created the partitions with optimal alignment. It works like this: (parted) align-check optimal 1 1 aligned -- regards Thomas

Bug#833965: Uploaded fix to FTBFS to delayed/3

2016-09-30 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Fri, 30 Sep 2016 14:19:49 +0100, Alastair McKinstry > said: > I have patched 2 RC bugs that are threatening to get tcsh (and hence my > packages) kicked out of testing. > Please review the patch: Sorry, I cannot review the patch, since I'm

Bug#835372: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#835372: Bug#835372: aptitude: behavior change with 0.7.6 with packages that can't be installed breaking automated installations

2016-09-17 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Sat, 17 Sep 2016 17:13:28 +0200, "Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" > said: > The common case when things don't fail should be fast and more "correct" > when informing about problems. Yes, but this would still be only a workaround and no clean fix.

Bug#835060: dracut: Cannot boot on ext4

2016-08-26 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Thu, 25 Aug 2016 23:28:18 +0200, deb...@jack.fr.eu.org said: > My rootfs lives on a logical volume, uncrypted Strange. Doe you have any error messages? You can debug the boot process by adding rd.debug to the kernel command line. Then you will get a lot of output. The log is written

Bug#835060: dracut: Cannot boot on ext4

2016-08-25 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Sun, 21 Aug 2016 23:18:17 +0200, Jack said: > Without dracut-config-generic (so, with hostonly=yes), it fails to boot on my ext4 rootfs, as the kernel module crc32c was missing I cannot confirm this bug. On Debian testing this works for me without any

Bug#833750: fai-server: fai-make-nfsroot fails with E: Unable to locate package dracut-config-generic

2016-08-25 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Mon, 08 Aug 2016 14:33:52 +0200, Frederik Himpe > said: > I installed fai from backports on my Debian Jessie system. When running fai-make-nfsroot, now it fails with: > E: Unable to locate package dracut-config-generic I've just uploaded a new dracut

Bug#837026: {t,}csh FTBFS

2016-09-29 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Sun, 25 Sep 2016 01:24:59 +0200, Nicolas Braud-Santoni > said: > I was working on this today at the Salzburg BSP and should finish > tomorrow. Any progress so far? -- regards Thomas

Bug#694034: (no subject)

2016-10-02 Thread Thomas Lange
The host www.aeolusproject.org does not have an entry in DNS any more. It seems that the source is now hosted at https://github.com/redhat-imaging/imagefactory -- regards Thomas

Bug#842083: fai-client: fails to upgrade from 'jessie' - trying to overwrite /usr/lib/fai/mount2dir

2016-10-25 Thread Thomas Lange
I've only moved the mount2dir executable from the fai-nfsroot package to the fai-client package. The fai-client does not replace fai-nfsroot. To fix this bug is it only possible by defining a breaks or replaces? Which breaks do I have to define then? BTW, fai-nfsroot is never installed on a

Bug#843597: More robust capability handling

2016-11-07 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Mon, 07 Nov 2016 17:36:41 -0500, Sam Hartman > said: > Currently, the sample configuration namespace has a shell script to > restore the common capabilities found in base files; see > scripts/DEBIAN/20-capabilities. In this script, I'm doing the

Bug#516386: hint

2016-11-07 Thread Thomas Lange
Another way wouldbe to copy /etc/fai/NFSROOT into the CS. This should also add the packages defined in this config file to the partitial mirror. -- regards Thomas

Bug#843722: wants to write to /usr/local

2016-11-08 Thread Thomas Lange
Package: ca-certificates Version: 20161102 My /usr/local file system is mounted read-only via NFS. This results in an error: stretch[~]# dpkg --configure ca-certificates Setting up ca-certificates (20161102) ... chmod: changing permissions of '/usr/local/share/ca-certificates': Read-only file

Bug#843593: Please add support for ESP partitions

2016-11-08 Thread Thomas Lange
I found the thread on the linux-fai mailing list and also the code that added efi support into setup-storage. In the end we remove the code from FAI, since it was not needed any more. It's much easier to get a partition of type ESP. Just create a disk gpt disk label, a partition of type vfat that

Bug#843209: Please permit class directory-like feature for fai-diskimage

2016-11-09 Thread Thomas Lange
>>>>> On Tue, 08 Nov 2016 07:47:22 -0500, Sam Hartman <hartm...@debian.org> >>>>> said: >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Lange <la...@informatik.uni-koeln.de> writes: Thomas> Just as a short note. There's the commands fai-deps(

Bug#843209: Please permit class directory-like feature for fai-diskimage

2016-11-04 Thread Thomas Lange
Just as a short note. There's the commands fai-deps(8) which can be used to define dependencies inside classes. It's available in FAI but not used (means called) by default. -- regards Thomas

Bug#845428: fai-diskimage does not run if host uses LVM

2016-11-23 Thread Thomas Lange
. - Fully Automatic Installation - FAI 5.2 (c) 1999-2016 Thomas Lange <la...@informatik.uni-koeln.de> - Starting FAI execution - 20161103_

Bug#845428: fai-diskimage does not run if host uses LVM

2016-11-23 Thread Thomas Lange
In FAI 5.3 I've add a test, to prevent fai-diskimage to run if a LVM partition is detected on the host system. https://github.com/faiproject/fai/commit/dce458cfc7c6b3bf20b5f235f08f8c68fd875644 -- regards Thomas

Bug#835060: I can now confirm this bug

2016-10-11 Thread Thomas Lange
This bug seems to be related to #819725. It seems that I used an older version of mkfs when creating the root fs, so this error did not appear in my enviroment. I will dig deeper into it to see how to fix this. -- regards Thomas

Bug#846583: cloud.debian.org: AWS Image should enable DHCPv6 client

2016-12-13 Thread Thomas Lange
I wonder why you need to source /usr/lib/fai/subroutines for importing the ifclass subroutine. If your scripts are bash scripts, this function should be already available. -- regards Thomas

Bug#797314: dracut: Behaves strangely when safe-rm is installed

2017-01-13 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Sun, 08 Jan 2017 09:03:54 +0100, intrigeri said: > I can reproduce neither the original issue, nor the LUKS passphrase > one anymore. Hi, does the same apply to #797315, the molly-guard case? -- regards Thomas

Bug#846876: fai-diskimage uses nic name from host

2016-12-03 Thread Thomas Lange
Package: fai-server Version: 5.3 Severity: minor When calling fai-diskimage, FAI sets NIC1 to the nic name of the host system, which maybe wlan0 or eth4 or some other value. NIC1 is used for creating /etc/network/interfaces. This can easily be fixed by setting NIC1=eth0 in a class/*.var file. --

Bug#702313: rinse is using wget

2016-12-01 Thread Thomas Lange
I wonder why rinse does not use ipv6. rinse uses wget for getting the files. Can you try to add --prefer-family=IPv6 to the system call inside rinse. Or maybe you have a ~/.wgetrc which is not used when called by rinse. -- regards Thomas

Bug#843722: (no subject)

2017-01-01 Thread Thomas Lange
There's still no fix. Do you need help for a fix? -- regards Thomas

Bug#850356: fai: Move from asciidoc to asciidoc-base as build dependency

2017-01-06 Thread Thomas Lange
Since we need to build pdf, I will use asciidoc-dblatex as build dependency. -- regards Thomas

Bug#720081: Install file trigger for /usr/share/initramfs-tools

2016-12-19 Thread Thomas Lange
Hi Michael, the status is unchanged. Since I never did anything using triggers, I do not feel competent writing it for dracut. So, this is a request for help. And I'm happy to include a patch. Maybe Ben has an idea how to do this properly. -- regards Thomas

Bug#858771: thunderbird: Migration fails if .icedove is a symlink

2017-03-26 Thread Thomas Lange
Package: thunderbird Version: 1:45.8.0-2 Severity: important Tags: patch * What led up to the situation? I upgraded stretch and got thunderbird instead of icedove. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? I launched thunderbird. * What was the

Bug#859009: unblock: dracut/044+241-3

2017-03-29 Thread Thomas Lange
+ + * control: fix Recommends, Closes: #852083 + + -- Thomas Lange <la...@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2017 18:52:25 + + dracut (044+241-2) unstable; urgency=low * add patch for dkms aufs modules, Closes: #855370 diff -Nru dracut-044+241/debian/control dracut-044+241/debian/control ---

Bug#778580: not strictly needed

2017-03-22 Thread Thomas Lange
Today, rpc.idmapd is not strictly needed for nfsv4. -- regards Thomas

Bug#860103: unblock: fai/5.3.5

2017-04-11 Thread Thomas Lange
ile: make sure root directory has mode 755, Closes: #854654 [ Thomas Lange ] * install_packages: add handling of packagename:arch, Closes: #855799 * control: fcopy needs libfile-lchown-perl * Makefile: fix build error because of missing lchown.pm diff -Nru fai-5.3.4/bin/fai-make-nfsroot

Bug#860783: fai-client: wrong subroutine name in install_packages

2017-04-19 Thread Thomas Lange
Package: fai-client Version: 5.3.5 Severity: important Tags: patch Softupdates do not work in fai 5.3.5. You get an error message during task_instsoft, "Undefined subroutine ::insert called at /usr/sbin/install_packages line 547.". If you edit that file and change the subroutine call from insert

Bug#860959: unblock: fai/5.3.6

2017-04-22 Thread Thomas Lange
00 +0100 +++ fai-5.3.6/debian/changelog 2017-04-20 12:40:03.0 +0200 @@ -1,3 +1,17 @@ +fai (5.3.6) unstable; urgency=low + + [ Thomas Lange ] + * install_packages: fix subroutine name, Closes: #860783 +thanks to John Heim for the bug report and fix + + [ Ian Kelling ] + * fai

Bug#843722: I've tested the fix

2017-04-17 Thread Thomas Lange
The fix works for me. Please try to fix it soon, so the fixed version will be going into the stretch release. -- regards Thomas

Bug#743791: upstream patch

2017-08-11 Thread Thomas Lange
This was fixed in upstream and I want to point to the commit and bug report upstream: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1190098 ba665de454e7d6ef1da4ba95308fb9f65c7a9497 -- regards Thomas

Bug#871835: speed up for debootstrap

2017-08-11 Thread Thomas Lange
Package: debootstrap Severity: normal Tags: patch I've wrote some patches, which speed up deboostrap a lot. Changes are only made to /usr/share/debootstrap/functions, mostly in the perl part, but also the number of lines that are proceeded by perl are reduced via egrep. Here are some time

Bug#816892: why is sync needed?

2017-08-12 Thread Thomas Lange
I wonder why the sync was needed. I cannot find any info in the git logs. It seems to be there for a long time. IMO this should be removed, if noone can argue why it is needed. -- regards Thomas

Bug#294044: set the mtu in /etc/network/interfaces

2017-07-14 Thread Thomas Lange
I'm not sure if he really wants to set the mtu for the DHCP or in general for the interface. I do this in /etc/network/interface using this line pre-up /sbin/ifconfig eth0 mtu 9000 IMO you can close this bug. -- regards Thomas

Bug#867568: dracut: new upstream version

2017-07-07 Thread Thomas Lange
I will be working on this new version during DebCamp in Montreal before DebConf. This will be in the beginning of august. -- regards Thomas

Bug#868267: fai-client: fetch-basefile breaks for hostnames with hyphens

2017-07-27 Thread Thomas Lange
I have patched fetch-basefile so this should now work as expected. Instead of an eval and indirect shell variables, I just use an array and loop over this. No performce penalty unless you have some thousands of classes defined for a client and a million of base files ;-) Here are the diffs:

Bug#712080: cannot confirm this bug in wheezy, jessie, stretch

2017-07-27 Thread Thomas Lange
Package: bash Version: 4.2+dfsg-0.1+deb7u4 Testing this on Debian wheezy with GNU bash, version 4.2.37(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) host[~]$ BAR=foo host[~]$ BAZ=${BAR:1:1} host[~]$ echo $BAZ o This seems to work without any problems. I;ve tested the same on Debian jessie and stretch.

Bug#868267: fai-client: fetch-basefile breaks for hostnames with hyphens

2017-07-26 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 17:41:56 -0400, Arcady Genkin > said: > guessing that the hyphen in the host name is causing the problem (the hostname > is "eddie-vm.teach.cs.toronto.edu" which defines a FAI class of the same name). Hi Arcady, the problem is, that

Bug#868267: fai-client: fetch-basefile breaks for hostnames with hyphens

2017-07-26 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Wed, 26 Jul 2017 11:45:20 -0400, Arcady Genkin > said: > I think that the > approach to replace hyphens and any other illegal characters with underscores > is a very good one. And we have dots in FQDN, which are currently also not allowed in class

Bug#816399: works for me

2017-07-06 Thread Thomas Lange
Doing gpg --import ~/.gnupg/secring.gpg works for me perfectly. Maybe we can close this bug now. -- regards Thomas

Bug#868267: [faiproject/fai] re-add code to strip basefile name extension (#61)

2017-08-08 Thread Thomas Lange
Ok, I've applied it, but it's not yet pushed. Thanks for the explanation and quick feedback. -- regards Thomas

Bug#860141: some progress

2017-08-18 Thread Thomas Lange
I've managed to create an image (using the FAI 5.4~beta2 version) with following change: --- Volumes.pm 2017-01-04 21:18:01.351924832 +0100 +++ /usr/share/fai/setup-storage/Volumes.pm 2017-08-18 22:51:39.620984379 +0200 @@ -401,6 +401,7 @@ use Linux::LVM; use Cwd qw(abs_path);

Bug#862845: /usr/bin/dracut: line 1624: warning: command substitution: ignored null byte in input

2017-05-17 Thread Thomas Lange
This problem is described in https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/issues/118 and is fixed upstream in commit f0bfada399c2c3269de353be5af37224349839a0 IIRC this can be ignored without causing any problems. -- regards Thomas

Bug#843722: please upload the fix

2017-06-26 Thread Thomas Lange
It would be very nice if you could upload a new version fixing this issue in the next two weeks. -- regards Thomas

Bug#845666: (no subject)

2017-05-08 Thread Thomas Lange
Is there any reason why emacs25 is not yet an alternative in the dependency list? If not, I would raise the severity of this bug to important. -- regards Thomas

Bug#845666: (no subject)

2017-05-08 Thread Thomas Lange
The description says: This is a metapackage that will always depend on the latest recommended Emacs release. This is not true any more. -- regards Thomas

Bug#862822: setup-storage: Reinstallation using preserve_reinstall might fail with "Previous partitions overflow"

2017-09-14 Thread Thomas Lange
JFTR, this was added in commit 72b59db126ebf39. Here's the comment in this commit: Align partition sizes to sectors or user-requested alignment on all disk labels, unless on DOS and preserving some partitions (stay with cylinder-alignment in those cases). Currently I fear to change

Bug#871835: auto detect grep options

2017-09-22 Thread Thomas Lange
Here's the patch that automatically detects if grep supports the Perl regex. 0008-automatic-detect-if-grep-support-perl-regex.patch Description: Binary data -- regards Thomas

Bug#871835: new patch

2017-09-23 Thread Thomas Lange
My last patch was broken. Here's a new working version. 0008-automatic-detect-if-grep-support-perl-regex.patch Description: Binary data -- regards Thomas

Bug#871835: more speedup

2017-09-19 Thread Thomas Lange
I could also add a test, to check if grep supports -P. If not, don't use it. Does a non-GNU grep use -P for other things? -- regards Thomas

Bug#877988: dracut-install: ERROR: installing '/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt'

2017-10-08 Thread Thomas Lange
Thanks for reporting. I will change the severity to normal, because it's not an important issue. -- regards Thomas

Bug#860141: still not finished

2017-10-02 Thread Thomas Lange
I found another bug in the code. So this still needs more tests. -- regards Thomas

Bug#860141: fix

2017-10-02 Thread Thomas Lange
fai 5.4~beta23 has now a fix. Instead of vgremove I do a vgchange -a n $vg, which leaves the disk image bootable. Changes: https://github.com/faiproject/fai/commit/f577e19d90210cf1165c58870804c80f47d8212f -- regards Thomas

Bug#878405: fai-diskimage: call_verbose: command not found

2017-10-13 Thread Thomas Lange
Package: fai-client Version: 5.4 Severity: normal Tags: patch when calling fai-diskimage and not using a base file debootstrap is called with wrong parameters. From the logs: Calling debootstrap sid http://deb.debian.org/debian/ /usr/lib/fai/subroutines: line 957: call_verbose: command not

Bug#878681: /bin/nano: Multiple files at once are opened very slowly (when user doesn't have write permissions)

2017-10-15 Thread Thomas Lange
Hello Benno, thanks for your information and for the tip with the package manager and the "nopause" option for nano-2.8.0. But the problem is not so bad for me, so I can wait for the next Debian stable release, which contains a newer version of nano. Sorry for the confusion: I am the author of

Bug#875297: dracut: Support early loading microcode on Debian

2017-09-11 Thread Thomas Lange
I've pointed upstream to this patch and asked if upstream likes to include it or to make micorcode loading more generic. -- regards Thomas

Bug#860141: patch available

2017-09-06 Thread Thomas Lange
I've implemented a fix for that. Now fai-diskimage detects which volume group your host is using and sets the variable SS_IGNORE_VG with a list of vg's to ignore. This is then used by setup-storage. It's fixed in FAI 5.4~beta9. You can try the new beta version by adding this line to your

Bug#871835: speed up for debootstrap

2017-09-07 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Thu, 7 Sep 2017 18:28:33 +0200, Tiago Ilieve > said: > Do you mind to share how you identified those slower parts of the > code? Have you used a profiler or a similar tool? I didn't used a profiler. I just look at the code and saw that the

Bug#355801: (no subject)

2017-09-06 Thread Thomas Lange
IMO we can close this bug, because this is nowadays implemented (pretty similar) by qemu-debootstrap. -- regards Thomas

Bug#871835: speed up for debootstrap

2017-09-08 Thread Thomas Lange
I forget something. During the run of debootstrap, I observed via repeated ps -efl calls that often perl is running for a longer time. Then I tried to use strace to see which exec(ve) calls takes a long time. But I didn't managed to find out, instead I saw read calls taking long. So I decided to

Bug#871835: more speedup

2017-09-10 Thread Thomas Lange
Here's another patch, that improves speed. It needs grep -P which is not available in busybox. But I do not know if debootstrap is used in a busybox enviroment. The execution time is now real0m39.141s user0m38.924s sys 0m2.980s So the user time drops from 50 to under 40 seconds on

Bug#873794: syntax error in debconf preseeding

2017-08-31 Thread Thomas Lange
Package: debian-cloud Tags: patch In fai-cloud-image, there's a synatx error in a debconf preseeding file. This may cause grub to hang during boot. Attached is the fix 0001-double-space-single-space.patch Description: Binary data -- regards Thomas

Bug#874188: fai-client: Integrate some form of file templating system

2017-09-04 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Sun, 03 Sep 2017 14:15:00 -0700, Noah Meyerhans > said: > it would be > really helpful to have some kind of file templating system integrated into > FAI, possibly in the fcopy program directly. Any suggestions, which template system to use? Or which

Bug#871835: another improvement

2017-10-09 Thread Thomas Lange
Here's another patch which makes debootstrap a little bit faster. 0009-in-this-part-we-only-need-the-package-name-and-prior.patch Description: Binary data -- regards Thomas

Bug#877988: dracut-install: ERROR: installing '/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt'

2017-10-18 Thread Thomas Lange
Package: fai-server Control: reassign 877988 dracut Moving this bus to dracut, since it does not affect FAI. I'm not sure if this causes problems in dracut at all. -- regards Thomas

Bug#882766: Proposal: reinstate automated device selection, blacklisting d-i?

2017-11-27 Thread Thomas Lange
>>>>> On Mon, 27 Nov 2017 00:15:23 +0100, Thomas Lange >>>>> <la...@informatik.uni-koeln.de> said: > ls -l /dev/disk/by-label gives > Debian\x209.2.1\x20amd64\x20n -> ../../sr0 > This is a kvm virtual machine booting from CD. Boo

Bug#882485: fcopy -S disables executing of preinst

2017-11-27 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Mon, 27 Nov 2017 15:10:25 +, Chris Nix said: > 1. I had a preinst in sources.list that used 'envsubst' to replace strings like "${some_variable}" from the environment > 2. After upgrade, source.list are copied with fcopy -S, which will replace strings

Bug#882766: Proposal: reinstate automated device selection, blacklisting d-i?

2017-11-26 Thread Thomas Lange
The ISO images contain a directory .disk with some files. # cat .disk/info Debian GNU/Linux 9.2.1 "Stretch" - Official amd64 NETINST 20171013-13:07 Inside the d-i calling blkid /dev/sr0 outputs something like this: /dev/sr0: UUID="2017-10-13-13-09-57-00" LABEL="Debian 9.2 amd n" TYPE="iso9660"

Bug#882766: Proposal: reinstate automated device selection, blacklisting d-i?

2017-11-26 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Sun, 26 Nov 2017 23:02:23 +0100, Cyril Brulebois > said: > I'm pretty sure I did mention I would like to avoid having to mount > anything, so this is definitely a no-go. I missed that, sorry. ls -l /dev/disk/by-label gives Debian\x209.2.1\x20amd64\x20n

Bug#882766: Proposal: reinstate automated device selection, blacklisting d-i?

2017-11-26 Thread Thomas Lange
After loading addition components, the CD is mounted and we can see which device it is. I would guess that the additional components will be loaded from the same device as we booted the installer. Still have to check it when booting from USB. -- regards Thomas

Bug#882485: fcopy -S disables executing of preinst

2017-11-23 Thread Thomas Lange
Here's a small improvement of the man page. https://github.com/faiproject/fai/commit/0280a115519e28b10087d695671be4749ab202b5 -- regards Thomas

Bug#882485: fcopy -S disables executing of preinst

2017-11-23 Thread Thomas Lange
Package: fai-client Version: 5.5 When calling fcopy with -S the preinst script is not executed any more. In subroutines in task_repository() we now use fcopy -S for sources.list. When people are using a preinst for sources.list, it does not get executed. You should update your config space when

Bug#881829: fai - Use tar --xattrs

2017-11-16 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Wed, 15 Nov 2017 17:05:20 +0100, Bastian Blank said: > Please always use --xattrs for base tar operations. This allows the > ping e.g. capability setting to remain. IIRC I didn't activated them always, because older versions of tar did not support this option.

Bug#873226: (no subject)

2017-12-11 Thread Thomas Lange
I can confirm this bug. I would like to see some comment from the package maintainer. Running cups client and cups server on Debian stretch ii cups-client 2.2.1-8 amd64 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - client programs (Sy ii cups-common 2.2.1-8

Bug#899262: dracut: after upgrade the system do not boot and enter in emergency shell

2018-05-21 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Mon, 21 May 2018 22:34:22 +0200, Vincenzo Demasi > said: > The emergency recovery shell report 'failed to mount /sysroot'. > I suspect the issue is caused by the missing crc32c module. Indeed Can you please check with lsinitrd if the crc32c module is

Bug#899262: dracut: after upgrade the system do not boot and enter in emergency shell

2018-05-22 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 22 May 2018 09:22:10 +0200, Vincenzo Demasi > said: > well, in attachment you can find the output of lsinitrd for the broken image and  > the good one too, maybe you are interested to check differences between the two. I could not find

Bug#899262: possible fix

2018-05-22 Thread Thomas Lange
The problem could be that you are using ext3, not ext4. The file /usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/99fs-lib/module-setup.sh includes a line xfs|btrfs|ext4) where you could add ext3 and give it a try. -- regards Thomas

Bug#899262: dracut: after upgrade the system do not boot and enter in emergency shell

2018-05-22 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 22 May 2018 08:34:18 +0200, Vincenzo Demasi > said: >    > Can you please check with lsinitrd if the crc32c module is missing and > I've checked with lsinitrd and the module is not in the image, then I checked > the good one generated by

Bug#900363: more info

2018-05-30 Thread Thomas Lange
It seems that /dev/loop is and indicator if fai is called by fai-diskimage. This is some debug output when running fai-diskimage = shell: GRUB_PC/10-setup = ainsl: appending to /tmp/fai-diskimage.BARhAu/etc/default/grub: GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=true ++ chroot

Bug#900363: detection of local disk does not work always

2018-05-29 Thread Thomas Lange
Package: fai-doc Version: 5.2 In GRUB_PC/10-setup and GRUB_EFI/10-setup we match $GROOT against the string "hostdisk" which should detect if we are using FAI when creating a disk image using fai-diskimage. This does not work correctly, since grub-probe also outputs hostdisk. if no

Bug#894561: commit for this fix

2018-04-26 Thread Thomas Lange
JFTR https://github.com/faiproject/fai/commit/67fa14fdeb5d0453bd9fac433d031d55a66b5107 -- regards Thomas

Bug#894561: variable added

2018-04-26 Thread Thomas Lange
Oh, we already had the option -N to disable the checking and removing of unknown packages in install_packages. I've now added the variable FAI_DISABLE_PACKAGE_NAME_CHECK which does the same as -N. You can set this variable in class/*.var. -- regards Thomas

Bug#844377: apt-get and apt also affected?

2017-12-22 Thread Thomas Lange
Are apt-get and apt are also affected by the different behaviour when using -t release or package/release? You may want to ask the apt maintainers if they have a solution for using a release name without using -t. Or to force a better dependency resolution when a packages uses /release. --

Bug#888479: tcsh 6.20.00-7 crashes when entering non-ascii characters

2018-01-26 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Fri, 26 Jan 2018 08:01:22 + (UTC), Jens Sadowski > said: > Description: tcsh crashes with a core dump when entering non-ascii characters on the command line, like, e.g., "§". This happens with the tcsh from the most up-to-date ubuntu package as

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