Bug#866629: debian-installer: Installer showes Debootstrap Error debian stretch live installation

2017-07-03 Thread Steve McIntyre
t 4:29 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 08:43:28PM +0530, user01 wrote: > >Package: debian-installer Version: 20170615 Severity: important Dear >Maintainer, > >* What led up to the situation? > >Debian stretch i

Bug#866629: It seems to an issue with regular bootable non-free iso as well.

2017-07-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
nonfree/amd64/iso-cd/firmware-9.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso and I see no such issue. Are you *sure* you weren't using a live image? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I...

Bug#866629: debian-installer: Installer showes Debootstrap Error debian stretch live installation

2017-07-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
;error, >"failed to determine the codename for the release." and fails. You don't say explicitly, but from the symptoms you're describing you're trying to use the live installer? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control.

Bug#865015: There was a problem reading data from the CD-ROM - Issues with 9.0.1

2017-07-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
;firmware MATE versions. About to try it with Gnome (standard). All instances >use the full DVD image ~ 2.2Gb. Then you're most likely seeing a very different error, I'm afraid. If you switch to VT4 (Ctrl-Alt-F4), what error(s) do you see in the syslog? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambrid

Bug#866391: all live images should include ibus-m17n for Indian Language support

2017-06-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
t;Malayalam, I expect to be able to type in Malayalam. But Malayalam and >all Indian Language layouts are available only in ibus-m17n (ibus is >already installed). > >This should also be included in installer DVD1 and xfce cd1. ACK, reassigning to the correct place.

Bug#865648: Does not include security sources for all releases

2017-06-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: openstack-debian-images Version: 1.19 Severity: serious Tags: patch The code is currently *only* adding security sources into apt/sources.list when building for wheezy or jessie. This is clearly wrong. I've just had to rebuild our stretch images again (9.0.1 to 9.0.2) to get expected upda

Bug#865015: debian-installer: Live installers are unable to start, "There was a problem reading data from the CD-ROM"

2017-06-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
md64/iso-hybrid/debian-live-9.0.1-amd64-mate+nonfree.iso I've just done a test installation using that exact image with no problems. Are you *sure* you're using 9.0.1? This is one of the things that was fixed in the 9.0.1 rebuild... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Bug#865417: efibootmgr: grub-install dummy failed in Stretch installation

2017-06-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
0341d0,0)PCI(1f,6)MAC(MAC(4ccc6a07d477,0)..BO >Boot0003 UEFI: IP6 Intel(R) Ethernet Connection (H) I219-V >ACPI(a0341d0,0)PCI(1f,6)MAC(MAC(4ccc6a07d477,0)030d3c40..BO > > -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "... th

Bug#865015: debian-installer: Live installers are unable to start, "There was a problem reading data from the CD-ROM"

2017-06-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
y Steve (“the Packages >files in the image point to .debs using full path, not relative to the >stuff in the image”). Reassigning to live-installer, which might not be >the correct package, but is probably better than just debian-installer. That's fair enough. I think I've fou

Bug#860440: UEFI build will break UEFI boot on the build host

2017-04-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
5.0-6+deb8u2 ii mbr 1.1.11-5+b1 ii parted 3.2-7 ii qemu-utils 1:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u6 openstack-debian-images recommends no packages. openstack-debian-images suggests no packages. -- no debconf information >From 12c5e3a7de103e6cb73235cff6d11180a225c98c Mon Sep 17 00

Bug#858832: calls efibootmgr with invalid options

2017-03-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
>efibootmgr: option requires an argument -- 'd' >efibootmgr version 14 OK, that's odd. Can you run "grub-install -v --target=arm64-efi" and grab the output please? Curious to see exactly what the full command line for efibootmgr is here... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge

Bug#853793: dpkg: ABI mismatch detector is too strict on armel/armhf

2017-02-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 02:42:26PM +0100, Jens Reyer wrote: >On 02/02/2017 02:30 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Dropping the -nostdlib argument to the gcc call inside sonames2elf >> makes a difference - it'll add libc6 to the mix and force the output >> to match the syste

Bug#853793: dpkg: ABI mismatch detector is too strict on armel/armhf

2017-02-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi, On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 05:10:14AM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: >On Wed, 2017-02-01 at 15:34:04 +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> Please don't go down that route, the ABI flags are intended to save >> people from that. I'm curious what's going wrong with

Bug#853793: dpkg: ABI mismatch detector is too strict on armel/armhf

2017-02-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 05:03:13PM +0100, Jens Reyer wrote: >On 02/01/2017 04:34 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> Please don't go down that route, the ABI flags are intended to save >> people from that. I'm curious what's going wrong with libgsm1 here >>

Bug#853793: dpkg: ABI mismatch detector is too strict on armel/armhf

2017-02-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
ng consistent ABI flags. If you're worried about EABIv4, does the logic of the dpkg checker not match the checks we added in glibc itself? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Mature Sporty Personal More Innovation More Adult A Man in Dandism Powered Midship Specialty

Bug#853234: grub-install ignores errors from efibootmgr

2017-01-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 06:32:00PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >Package: grub2-common >Version: 2.02~beta2-22+deb8u1 >Severity: serious >Tags: upstream > >Hi, > >As can be seen in #852513 (for example), grub-install will happily >ignore errors from efibootmgr and claim

Bug#756253: Upgrade from 2.02~beta2-10 to 2.02~beta2-11 left grub unbootable

2017-01-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
ignores errors from efibootmgr I have a simple fix for this which I'm about to post upstream. * #853237 (efibootmgr): ENOSPC errors should be more helpful Data from you would be helpful here! Thanks! -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Welco

Bug#853234: grub-install ignores errors from efibootmgr

2017-01-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: grub2-common Version: 2.02~beta2-22+deb8u1 Severity: serious Tags: upstream Hi, As can be seen in #852513 (for example), grub-install will happily ignore errors from efibootmgr and claim "Installation finished. No error reported". This is clearly bogus, and can lead to users with unboota

Bug#852513: grub-efi-amd64: during configuration: "No space left on device"

2017-01-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
which would help. While that's not implemented, at the very least I'm thinking about error checking in grub-install. Simply suggesting the user looks in /sys/fs/pstore and maybe delete things would be better than the current "can't boot" issue. -- Steve McI

Bug#777439: Dropping severity for now

2017-01-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
Control: severity -1 important Agreed that this is important, but we don't have lots of similar reports since jessie d-i RC1 ~two years ago. Heiko - could you possibly try a newer version of the installer and see if the problem still exists please? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridg

Bug#846679: NMU diff

2017-01-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
Simple fix for build failure is to add --no-dynamic-linker to the linker command lines. Here's the NMU diff; this is in incoming now... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "You can't barbecue lettuce!" -- Ellie Crane diff -Nr

Bug#848927: mount: bad option.

2017-01-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
ied gparted locally and it seemed to work OK for me. Could you give us more information about exactly what you did to trigger this please? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management could ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs." -- Mike Andrews

Bug#795690: NMU diff for libcdio

2017-01-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
I'm uploading this to unstable now rather than to DELAYED; there's not been any obvious maintainer activity here for ages... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Since phone messaging became popular, the young generation has lost the

Bug#811311: grub2-common: after grub-install grub reads wrong grub.cfg

2017-01-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
came up. I tried >several combinations of --target --boot-directory --recheck >--efi-directory but with no luck. > > * What outcome did you expect instead? > >I expected grub to use 'main's grub.cfg instead of 'rescue's. How exactly are you booting each of the systems? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com You raise the blade, you make the change... You re-arrange me 'til I'm sane...

Bug#852037: debian-installer: Download after mirror selection not possible: problems to resolve DNS

2017-01-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
64 (x86_64) > >Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) >Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) >Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash >Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > > -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...

Bug#851790: installation-reports: DNS not working

2017-01-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
we could do to fail the build if versions are out of sync, rather than let a broken build through? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com < Aardvark> I dislike C++ to start with. C++11 just seems to be handing rope-creating factories for users to hang multiple instances of themselves.

Bug#851790: installation-reports: DNS not working

2017-01-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
VM install it is clear that the >local DNS server returns the correct response, but this is being ignored >or lost by the D-I initrd. For the sake of completeness, I can confirm that the same problem shows up when running on a different network too. I also see this using the oldest amd64 dai

Bug#849651: efibootmgr: FTBFS on armhf: collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status; 2-byte wchar_t

2017-01-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
Control: tag -1 +pending On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 07:04:59PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 03:22:02PM +, Chris West (Faux) wrote: >> >>The package fails to build on armhf: ... >Confirmed - just seen the same build failure on a porter box. Looks &g

Bug#849651: efibootmgr: FTBFS on armhf: collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status; 2-byte wchar_t

2017-01-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
cross objects may fail >collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status >/build/1st/efibootmgr-14/Make.rules:21: recipe for target 'efibootmgr' failed Confirmed - just seen the same build failure on a porter box. Looks like YA issue found with newer gcc. I'll look for a fix. --

Bug#845023: efibootmgr: Could not prepare Boot variable: No space left on device

2016-11-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
Control: severity -1 important [ Please CC the bug report address 845...@bug.debian.org so other people can follow this conversation too... ] On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 08:08:58PM +0300, Vladimir Stavrinov wrote: >On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 03:55:43PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >>

Bug#845023: efibootmgr: Could not prepare Boot variable: No space left on device

2016-11-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
the command line you're using. I'd expect to see something more like: efibootmgr -c -L debian -l \EFI\debian\grubx64.efi (maybe along with some other options). grub-install -v will show you exactly what commands grub is trying to use. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Bug#806068: linaro-image-tools: diff for NMU version 2014.11-1.1

2016-09-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
urgency=medium + + * NMU + * Fix build for dpkg-buildpackage -A. Thanks to Santiago Vila for the +patch. Closes: #806068 + + -- Steve McIntyre <93...@debian.org> Mon, 26 Sep 2016 12:08:40 -0700 + linaro-image-tools (2014.11-1) unstable; urgency=medium * New upstream release. diff -N

Bug#815258: Bug fixed

2016-06-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
Control: close -1 4.12-3 Gah, not awake yet today. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com You raise the blade, you make the change... You re-arrange me 'til I'm sane...

Bug#815258: Bug fixed

2016-06-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
Control: notfound -1 4.12-3 I didn't close this automatically with 4.12-3, was waiting to see it worked. Closing now. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com You lock the door And throw away the key There's someone in my head but it's not me

Bug#822725: Bug#822724: efitools: FTBFS on i386: efibind.h: No such file or directory

2016-04-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 07:31:11PM +0200, pollux wrote: >On 04/29/2016 06:58 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 06:20:55PM +0200, pollux wrote: >>> Indeed, on PC architectures, EFI executables are 64-bits EXE files. >> >> Ummm, what? 32-bit i386 (

Bug#822725: Bug#822724: efitools: FTBFS on i386: efibind.h: No such file or directory

2016-04-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
h: foreign, however that would cover only the >embedded EFI files, not the tools to access UEFI variables. >That said, these tools use the efivars pseudo-filesystem and will only >work on Linux. > >So, I think the next upload will restrict the package to linux-amd64 only. Please don

Bug#822489: armhf ABI detection crashing ldconfig on arm64

2016-04-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 12:33:38AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 09:57:00AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > >>Could you please ensure that all the binaries in the archive that still >>needs these patches are rebuilt? > >I'll look again for brok

Bug#822489: armhf ABI detection crashing ldconfig on arm64

2016-04-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 09:57:00AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: >On 2016-04-25 00:30, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Package: libc6-bin >> Severity: serious >> Version: 2.22-7 >> Tags: patch >> >> Hi folks, >> >> Steev has reported some crashing using

Bug#822489: armhf ABI detection crashing ldconfig on arm64

2016-04-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
is the obvious fix - enforce using ELF32 types for all arches. It seems that we still have some older packages without the ABI flags attached - libshout3 is one such. :-( -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "I can't ever sleep on planes

Bug#810478: konsole: can't start konsole

2016-02-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
ch system at all. Could you tell us a little more about your setup please? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "C++ ate my sanity" -- Jon Rabone

Bug#813131: Daily builds broken due to debootstrap breakage - DO NOT USE

2016-01-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: cdimage.debian.org Severity: grave Tags: d-i Version: daily-image-20160129 There's a major bug in debootstrap today (#813124) which will cause all installations to fail. A fix has been uploaded, but DO NOT USE the daily images until that has hit the archive - wait until 30th January at l

Bug#813124: debootstrap calling mknod with --mode option, not supported in busybox

2016-01-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.77 Severity: grave Tags: d-i patch The fix for #812811 is broken and shows a lack of adequate testing. Using the --mode=$mode argument for mknod is fine on a normal system, but in d-i we're using busybox mknod and it doesn't support the long option --mode at all.

Bug#497471: sarge images have syslinux binaries without source

2015-11-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
Sarge images in the archive >rather than having to rebuild the Sarge images themselves. ACK, thanks for the suggestion. I could also check the files that were in use and compare to the stuff on snapshot.d.o for the dates in question. It would be very hard to rebuild the sarge images now after

Bug#802025: /etc/mtab is not a symlink or not pointing to /proc/self/mounts

2015-10-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
;I wouldn't release stretch with that behaviour, but having it in >stretch/sid for a while is probably ok. Right now, it's going to stop people from being able to install stretch at all. Please take out this retarded mis-feature. By all means, complain and warn about the problem,

Bug#795844: tagging 795844

2015-09-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 04:30:21AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >Steve McIntyre (2015-08-27): >> tags 795844 + pending >> thanks > >Is it OK for me to assume this is fixed for Stretch Alpha 3? That >doesn't seem obvious while looking at /home/debian-cd/build.stretc

Bug#797135: gnome-software downloads updates automatically by default

2015-08-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
ore enabling such a broken mis-feature in the first place? We already have a packaging system that works for upgrades in place without needing reboots like this. I strongly object to this kind of crap being added to Debian for the sake of certain broken upstream soft

Bug#795844: armel and armhf images missing kernel and initramfs

2015-08-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: cdimage.debian.org Severity: serious Tags: d-i As mentioned by bwh: existing armel and armhf installer CDs are currently missing vmlinuz and the initramfs... -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign

Bug#787708: Build ignores crashes in the test suite

2015-06-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: src:acpica-unix Version: 20150515-2 Severity: serious Tags: upstream Hi, Prompted by kernel log messages on the buildd (arm-linaro-03), I can see that aapits is crashing a lot during the package build on arm64. The test suite crashing is worrying; the package build continuing on is worse

Bug#784761: Missing arm64 DTBs

2015-05-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: linux-image-4.0.0-trunk-arm64 Version: 4.0-1~exp1 Severity: serious As mentioned on IRC, this package is missing all the DTBs for arm64 machines. Looks like it's a change to the DTB layout in the upstream tree causing it. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.8 APT prefers oldoldsta

Bug#784344: Buggy DTB causes imx53 SATA failure

2015-05-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: src:linux Version: 3.16.7-ckt9-3~deb8u1 Severity: serious Hi guys, Just debugged on harris.debian.org (imx53, Debian porter box) - there's a missing patch that's needed for the imx53 sata controller to work. At some point, it looks like the code in drivers/ata/ahci_imx.c has changed and

Bug#761815: installation adds entries for USB media to /etc/fstab which confuse udisks

2015-04-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 08:08:50PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >Steve McIntyre (2015-04-01): >> As it stands, this is only for removable media which people have not >> already set up as part of their systems. The whole issue here is that >> this is not useful any more. If

Bug#761815: installation adds entries for USB media to /etc/fstab which confuse udisks

2015-04-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 07:20:02PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >Hi Steve, > >Steve McIntyre (2015-03-30): >> Right, it seems that was too conservative and still left hd-media >> devices listed. We probably don't want those either. Let's try this: >> don&

Bug#761815: installation adds entries for USB media to /etc/fstab which confuse udisks

2015-03-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 11:21:08PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 11:45:40PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >>Steve McIntyre (2015-01-17): >>> I'm thinking the best way to go with this is to simply drop this misc >>> USB device support alt

Bug#780858: Massive I/O data corruption on Marvell Armada XP machines

2015-03-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
Control: tag -1 +pending On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 04:13:20PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >Package: src:linux >Version: 3.16.7-ckt7-1 >Severity: grave >Tags: upstream > >Hi folks, > >We've upgraded a couple of our Marvell Armada XP based (armel/armhf) >buildd machin

Bug#780858: Massive I/O data corruption on Marvell Armada XP machines

2015-03-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: src:linux Version: 3.16.7-ckt7-1 Severity: grave Tags: upstream Hi folks, We've upgraded a couple of our Marvell Armada XP based (armel/armhf) buildd machines to Jessie, and they've almost immediately fallen over with symptoms of really bad data corruption. On further investigation and d

Bug#761815: fixed in partman-target 94

2015-03-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 01:23:26PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >(Adding Ansgar to the loop since he already commented on this bug >report.) > >Steve McIntyre (2015-03-19): >> Maybe we've got a misunderstanding here. The change is only expected >> to stop *other* U

Bug#761815: fixed in partman-target 94

2015-03-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 11:03:26PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >Hi, > >Christian Perrier (2015-01-26): >> partman-target (94) unstable; urgency=medium >> . >>[ Steve McIntyre ] >>* Don't add entries for random USB media to /etc/fstab, they're

Bug#778810: grub-efi-amd64-bin: boot/bootx86.efi problems

2015-02-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
s invoking might be of interest, as >would then rerunning that same command manually under strace. In fact, for EFI just grub-install -v should tell you a lot more. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "I've only once written '

Bug#777712: i386 kernel list out of date

2015-02-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
lar changes are already in git for the regular builds, just not in the archive yet for v3.1.17. Expecting an upload shortly. Again, curious why you're looking at 3.1.13... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Is there anybody out there? -- T

Bug#776957: Panic at boot on arm64 systems

2015-02-03 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: src:linux Version: 3.16.7-ckt4-2 Severity: grave Tags: patch upstream The latest upstream stable kernel pull is broken on arm64. The system panics during early boot in arch_timer setup. The cause is simple. Commit 0b46b8a718c6e90910a1b1b0fe797be3c167e186 was pulled into stable, but a lat

Bug#771971: dpkg hangs installing "init" during upgrade from wheezy to jessie

2015-01-31 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 02:47:20AM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: >Hi! > >On Sun, 2015-01-25 at 20:34:48 +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> I still have my backup of the VM image at the time, so it should be >> possible to try upgrading it using snapshot.d.o from that tim

Bug#768897: MBR disklabels also yield destructive pvcreate

2015-01-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
Control: severity -1 important Control: clone -1 -2 Control: retitle -2 Installation manual should warn about the use of LVM partition types Control: reassign -2 installation-guide On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 04:24:43PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 03:36:19PM -0600, Dr

Bug#761815: installation adds entries for USB media to /etc/fstab which confuse udisks

2015-01-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 11:45:40PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >Steve McIntyre (2015-01-17): >> I'm thinking the best way to go with this is to simply drop this misc >> USB device support altogether from partman-target. Any objections? > >Not from me. OK

Bug#771971: dpkg hangs installing "init" during upgrade from wheezy to jessie

2015-01-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
rading it using snapshot.d.o from that time too, if it's likely to be useful. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#771971: dpkg hangs installing "init" during upgrade from wheezy to jessie

2015-01-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
Control: tags -1 -moreinfo On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 12:30:51PM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: >Control: tags -1 moreinfo > >On Thu, 4 Dec 2014 00:56:48 +0000 Steve McIntyre wrote: >> This is reproducible on demand \o/ >> >> I realised that the VM image had a few

Bug#756253: Upgrade from 2.02~beta2-10 to 2.02~beta2-11 left grub unbootable

2015-01-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 06:55:05AM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote: >On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 01:44:37PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> The automatic setup of grub-install calling efibootmgr won't be >> touching the "grub" entry at all - it's set up to on

Bug#756253: Upgrade from 2.02~beta2-10 to 2.02~beta2-11 left grub unbootable

2015-01-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 07:42:37AM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote: >On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 11:37:28AM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> The ENOSPC handling has been bad in the past, but it's not clear that >> was the cause of your original bug. :-/ *Now* it's a very bad state t

Bug#775689: Do NOT use unetbootin for Debian CD images

2015-01-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
7;t warn other >users using UNetbootin. I know that, but a warning for Debian users would help too. I'm also tempted to look into how to detect unetbootin media within d-i so that we can potentially flash up a warning to the user. I *know* it may be a useful tool for some folks (and it use

Bug#775689: Do NOT use unetbootin for Debian CD images

2015-01-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
Source: unetbootin Severity: serious Tags: d-i Justification: wasting massive amounts of developer and user time I've already added one wishlist bug for d-i to add code to detect unetbootin usage and complain about it, but I've not got there yet. unetbootin used to be a helpful tool for many peopl

Bug#768897: MBR disklabels also yield destructive pvcreate

2015-01-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
filesystem/blkid contents; OR (b) Warn about such partitions and ask the user what to do. 2(a) looks much easier, I'll be honest, so that's my plan for now. As a point of information, you weren't sure what the "K" tag means in the d-i partitioner. Ironical

Bug#725417: This would not be a simple fix

2015-01-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
no longer works of course. Well, as another person with a chiark account I can see that Neil is still using his login there and has been active in the last week. Whether or not he's reading email there, I don't know... I'll prod too. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Bug#756253: Upgrade from 2.02~beta2-10 to 2.02~beta2-11 left grub unbootable

2015-01-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
67 write(2, ": ", 2) = 2 >9167 write(2, "No such file or directory\n", 26) = 26 >9167 write(2, "efibootmgr: ", 12) = 12 >9167 write(2, "Could not prepare boot variable", 31) = 31 >9167 write(2, ": ", 2)

Bug#756253: Upgrade from 2.02~beta2-10 to 2.02~beta2-11 left grub unbootable

2015-01-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 08:16:51AM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote: >On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 05:22:52PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 04:16:56PM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote: >> >On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 10:28:51PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >>

Bug#774366: also on wheezy

2015-01-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
to you as the maintainer, but I'd be very tempted to file for removal at this point. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "...In the UNIX world, people tend to interpret `non-technical user' as meaning someone who's only ever written o

Bug#756253: Upgrade from 2.02~beta2-10 to 2.02~beta2-11 left grub unbootable

2015-01-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 04:16:56PM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote: >On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 10:28:51PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Hi Mike, >> >> Have you seen this again recently? Is it still happening for you? > >As a matter of fact, it hasn't happened rec

Bug#764798: grub2: Grub rescue shell with RAID 6 mdadm over 8 disks

2015-01-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
UB. What would be nice is a warning at grub-install(?) time if lots of devices are needed for /boot: "your system may not boot like this". Mike: I'm afraid the only way you're going to get your system back properly is to re-arrange your filesystems. Maybe re-shuffle th

Bug#761815: installation adds entries for USB media to /etc/fstab which confuse udisks

2015-01-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
d. I've personally at least encountered 3 people having problems >with using USB media under desktop environments (KDE or GNOME) due to >these entries in /etc/fstab. I'm thinking the best way to go with this is to simply drop this misc USB device support altogether from partm

Bug#765540: missing symbol

2015-01-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
* have it. Downgrading and retitling appropriately. I'll see what I can do to add support for something like that soon. In a related(ish) sense, we could do with some similar extra work to make EFI systems and RAID play nicely too... :-/ -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Bug#756253: Upgrade from 2.02~beta2-10 to 2.02~beta2-11 left grub unbootable

2015-01-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
1, >Boot* Windows Boot Manager >Boot0001* Windows Boot Manager >Boot0002* grub >Boot0003* debian ... > > 4534 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 1月 8 2014 > /boot/efi/EFI/Boot > 455 1580 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1617240 4月 27

Bug#756253: Upgrade from 2.02~beta2-10 to 2.02~beta2-11 left grub unbootable

2015-01-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
\\0001\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 2084) = >-1 ENOSPC (No space left on device) >umask(0)= 022 ... That ENOSPC error is the cause of your problem - your firmware has filled up the EFI variable space, so the system cannot add new EFI variables. I suggest you look

Bug#775235: Repeatable failure to start on i386 running under kvm

2015-01-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: gnome-shell Version: 3.14.2-3+b1 Severity: serious Hi, During testing of the Jessie d-i RC1 CD build, I installed lots and lots of different variations of virtual systems using KVM. All the others worked OK given sufficient packages (access to a mirror, etc.), but installing Gnome on i38

Bug#772778: abcde: diff for NMU version 2.6-1.1

2015-01-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
to it, which is no bad thing. :-) I was more tempted to do some version-detection code for eyeD3, but this is safer right now I guess. Thanks! -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com The two hard things in computing: * naming things * cache invalidati

Bug#767037: Grub EFI fallback - patches for review

2014-12-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
nd I'm not >confident that dpkg will work fully/safely without all the POSIX-ish >semantics (hardlinks, atomic updates and the like), might want to handle >that by installing via the postinst instead of shipping in /boot/EFI. Definitely, yes. dpkg directly on VFAT is a no-go. -- St

Bug#767037: Grub EFI fallback - patches for review

2014-12-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
d get a shim upload for Jessie that still hasn't happened. :-( I now think it's now way too late to add a new package like that for Jessie, hence I've been continuing down this route. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "I used to

Bug#773007: Doesn't work on i386, crashes also

2014-12-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 02:45:47PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 01:38:34PM -0600, D. Jared Dominguez wrote: >> >>Once you test against unstable's efibootmgr, Peter Jones (upstream) >>can help us try to triage this bug more. > >Same behav

Bug#773007: Doesn't work on i386, crashes also

2014-12-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
are, I guess, and how important they look. There are serious issues here, but not all of the changes are just serious bugfixes AFAICS? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Into the distance, a ribbon of black Stretched to the point of no turning back

Bug#767037: Grub EFI fallback - patches for review

2014-12-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 07:29:56PM +, Ian Campbell wrote: >On Mon, 2014-12-08 at 01:36 +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >The current package in sid (-17) is unblocked and I think ought to >> >transition tomorrow (or perhaps Tuesday depending on TZ). I propose to >> &

Bug#767037: Grub EFI fallback - patches for review

2014-12-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Dec 07, 2014 at 04:38:37PM +, Ian Campbell wrote: >Control: tag -1 +pending >On Wed, 2014-12-03 at 15:27 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> Cool. I don't (think I) have push access to the git repo, so if you >> could do the honours and apply, that would be

Bug#772110: jigdo-lite creates corrupted isos

2014-12-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
at somebody picked up jigdo-file and maintained it I guess. I'll add it to my list. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "This dress doesn't reverse." -- Alden Spiess -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#771971: dpkg hangs installing "init" during upgrade from wheezy to jessie

2014-12-03 Thread Steve McIntyre
-front and the upgrade did *not* block in the same way. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "I've only once written 'SQL is my bitch' in a comment. But that code is in use on a military site..." -- Simon Booth -- To UNSUBSCR

Bug#771971: dpkg hangs installing "init" during upgrade from wheezy to jessie

2014-12-03 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: upgrade-reports Severity: serious Hi, Doing and upgrade in a VM. Started from a fairly minimal wheezy system, then ran apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade to do the upgrade. Things appeared to be running smoothly, until dpkg hung at this point: ... Unpacking libsepol1:amd64 (2.3-2)

Bug#767037: Grub EFI fallback - patches for review

2014-12-03 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 04:18:23PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >A more generic fix would be to add to a list of filesystems that need >unmounting, and trap to a new shell function that unmounts that >list. Not too hard, I think - I'll see if I can do that and get it >test

Bug#767037: Grub EFI fallback - patches for review

2014-12-03 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 09:44:08AM +, Ian Campbell wrote: >On Wed, 2014-12-03 at 02:10 +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> > >> >> +mountvirtfs () { >> >> + fstype="$1" >> >> + path="$2" >> >> + if

Bug#767037: Grub EFI fallback - patches for review

2014-12-03 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 09:42:20AM +, Ian Campbell wrote: >On Wed, 2014-12-03 at 01:55 +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 08:36:31AM +, Ian Campbell wrote: >> >On Mon, 2014-12-01 at 13:57 +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> > >> >Start

Bug#767037: Grub EFI fallback - patches for review

2014-12-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 08:51:24AM +, Ian Campbell wrote: >On Mon, 2014-12-01 at 13:57 +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >grub-installer-rescue-UEFI-removable.patch: > >> diff --git a/debian/grub-installer.templates >> b/debian/grub-installer.templates >> index e4

Bug#767037: Grub EFI fallback - patches for review

2014-12-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 08:36:31AM +, Ian Campbell wrote: >On Mon, 2014-12-01 at 13:57 +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >Starting with grub-install-fallback.patch: > >> >From e384e597914b6e1b1dcbf96ef6782cf9bcc2313b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 >> debian/patches/grub-in

Bug#767037: Grub EFI fallback - patches for review

2014-12-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 03:52:51PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >Steve McIntyre (2014-12-01): >> Control: severity 767037 serious >> Control: tag 767037 +patch >> >> [ Raising severity to serious as I've heard more and more reports of >> the problems here

Bug#768788: Acknowledgement (Recent installer versions using the wrong GPT partition type GUID for EFI System Partition)

2014-11-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
Control: reassign -1 partman-efi Gah, typos in package names... :-( -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "C++ ate my sanity" -- Jon Rabone -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs

Bug#768788: Recent installer versions using the wrong GPT partition type GUID for EFI System Partition

2014-11-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: partmen-efi Severity: serious Tags: d-i Not sure if partman-efi is the right place for this bug to be filed, but it's where things are showing up. Maybe parted is a better place? Older versions of the installer (up to and including at least jessie d-i alpha 1, 2014-03-18) use the correct

Bug#759309: [debian-mysql] Bug#759309: Bug#759309: Must not Provide: libmysqlclient-dev

2014-08-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
>it? Definitely, *unless* you're actually providing a cleanly compatible implementation in all respects - headers, libraries, API and ABI. If you're not, then don't pretend to be in the packaging system. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@ein

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