Re: Graphical installer - invitation to get involved

2005-12-03 Thread Colin Watson
, then it was the x86/vesa only thingy ? usplash works fine on x86/vga16fb, x86/vesafb, and powerpc/offb at least. It just uses bogl (like d-i) so it should be straightforward to port nearly anywhere. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Graphical installer - invitation to get involved

2005-12-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 06:35:33PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Saturday 03 December 2005 18:18, Colin Watson wrote: usplash works fine on x86/vga16fb, x86/vesafb, and powerpc/offb at least. It just uses bogl (like d-i) so it should be straightforward to port nearly anywhere. What happens

Re: Bug#359164: [powerpc64] d-i fails, base-installer/initramfs/no-generator

2006-03-28 Thread Colin Watson
to get my Pegasos going again and move it there, rather than trying to do it on my laptop), but I'll try to get that sorted out sometime this week. If you'd like me to take this job over permanently, I'm prepared to do so. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL

Re: sarge upgrade - linux, grub conflict

2006-04-17 Thread Colin Watson
to stdout, which is coupled to debconf and makes it fail. Surely sarge kernel updates should be using the kernel-package in sarge, namely 8.135. If there are changes needed from later versions of kernel-package, they should be backported. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL

Re: Bug#364996: linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6: please add apus subarch, apus is currently kind-of using the non-working 2.4.27 stuff still

2006-04-27 Thread Colin Watson
the state of 2.4.27 in etch/sid. I'd be happy to, but there's no linux-image-2.6.* package for apus yet. Looking at the kernel trunk in svn, perhaps apus needs to be added to flavours: in arch/powerpc/defines? Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Bug#364996: linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6: please add apus subarch, apus is currently kind-of using the non-working 2.4.27 stuff still

2006-04-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 03:04:31PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 02:58:56PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 01:49:56PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: I'd be happy to, but there's no linux-image-2.6.* package for apus yet. Looking at the kernel trunk

Bug#365128: linux-image-2.6.16-1-powerpc: oops while running two X servers

2006-04-28 Thread Colin Watson
:3890 (rev 01) 0002:24:0b.0 0600: 106b:0036 0002:24:0d.0 ff00: 106b:003b 0002:24:0e.0 0c00: 106b:0031 (rev 81) 0002:24:0f.0 : 106b:0032 (rev ff) Let me know if there's anything else you need. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#365978: mkvmlinuz: doesn't clean up temporary directory

2006-05-04 Thread Colin Watson
by an option or an environment variable rather than being the default behaviour? (I noticed this when my 512MB /tmp filled up after a few d-i daily builds.) Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Bug#365978: Uploader wanted ...

2006-05-09 Thread Colin Watson
are obvious choices. Sure, I can do this (although I can't tag it in svn). Is svn://svn.debian.org/svn/kernel/dists/trunk/utils/mkvmlinuz/mkvmlinuz the correct URL? Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Bug#365978: Uploader wanted ...

2006-05-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 09:03:37PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 09:48:17AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: Sure, I can do this (although I can't tag it in svn). Is svn://svn.debian.org/svn/kernel/dists/trunk/utils/mkvmlinuz/mkvmlinuz the correct URL? Yes it seems correct

Bug#401384: fixed in mkvmlinuz 28

2006-12-19 Thread Colin Watson
at mkvmlinuz_29.tar.gz); did you maybe forget to 'svn add' it? Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#447153: /usr/bin/scp: Fails to notice write errors

2007-11-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 08:13:42PM +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote: On 12/11/2007, Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To openssh-unix-dev: does anyone think this is worth a workaround? The ftruncate seems rather unnecessary if we've already written out the required number of bytes anyway

Bug#447153: /usr/bin/scp: Fails to notice write errors

2007-11-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 12:02:25AM +0100, Peter Stuge wrote: On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 06:33:54PM +, Colin Watson wrote: To openssh-unix-dev: does anyone think this is worth a workaround? Gut feeling is that it should be fixed wherever the problem is. Yeah, that's why I sent my mail

Re: Beta1 missing decisions and possible timeline

2008-02-02 Thread Colin Watson
of 2.6.24; enabling CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS_POWER again will restore compatibility. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian kernel maintainter takeover

2004-05-22 Thread Colin Watson
in the Debian diff for convenience and cooperation, though. See doc-linux. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Prism54-devel] BE in stock kernel

2004-05-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 11:34:46AM -0400, Clint Adams wrote: I suggest changing the Maintainer of the kernel pseudo-package to [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's fine by me, but the file of pseudo-package maintainers is maintained by ftpmaster. Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Re: 2.4 2.6 kernels, should sarge be 2.6 only at least for powerpc ?

2004-06-30 Thread Colin Watson
support for apus from the kernels (and thus debian-installer). Amen! -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#249205: [getty-info@mail.nwmagic.net: Re: [syntaxis@gmx.co.uk: Bug#249205: gettyps: no right to modify]]

2004-07-08 Thread Colin Watson
, You haven't responded; is this sufficient to downgrade the bug? Presumably adding the note to debian/copyright would be nice, but not legally required (nor required by policy, since this isn't in main). I'm also tagging the bug to note that gettyps isn't in testing or unstable. Cheers, -- Colin

Re: Instead of the amd64 GR: rudimentary amd64 support for sarge, need sponsor.

2004-08-04 Thread Colin Watson
and thus not frozen). Matthias, how do you feel about that? libgcc1 is produced from the gcc-3.4 source package on many architectures, so it is frozen. It'll have to go through t-p-u. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: status of d-i 2.4.27/2.6.8 kernel transition

2004-09-11 Thread Colin Watson
needs special work of mine to sync with kernel updates, I'd better be taught about it. It does. There are plenty of examples in the d-i repository. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#272139: /sys/block names are mangled with '!' in current 2.6 kernels, not '.'

2004-09-17 Thread Colin Watson
0.1.70 rather than 0.1.74, but should still apply) works for me: http://www.no-name-yet.com/patches/initrd-tools.sys-block.diff Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#272139: /sys/block names are mangled with '!' in current 2.6 kernels, not '.'

2004-09-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 10:25:32AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: + for separator in . !; do You should try the new separator first, i.e., `!' and then `.'. Otherwise this'll break once people start putting dots in the names. Good call. -- Colin

Bug#271899: Bug#272139: /sys/block names are mangled with '!' in current 2.6 kernels, not '.'

2004-09-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 08:07:15PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: severity 271899 important merge 271899 272139 tags 272139 + pending thanks * Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-09-17 19:12]: It's probably best for us to try both. The following patch (actually Thanks, this is much

Re: Problem with kernel on SATA hosts - RC?

2004-12-01 Thread Colin Watson
on a floppy). Do these messages this apply to the /dev inside the initrd?? FWIW, the machine does not use udev or devfs. Those messages indicate that the init in the initrd can't figure out how to mount your real root partition. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL

Bug#297794: kernel-image-2.4.27-powerpc: postinst almost completely missing, breaks installer

2005-03-02 Thread Colin Watson
, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#306355: linux-image-2.6.10-5-k7-smp: fails to boot on udev system

2005-05-02 Thread Colin Watson
into reporting this bug to Debian? If so, perhaps we could fix it. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#290329: testing on PowerMac

2005-05-13 Thread Colin Watson
FWIW, MODULES=dep works fine for me on my PowerBook. I think this change is probably worth it - we've had a number of issues in the past with large initrds on powerpc. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#374185: mkvmlinuz: syntax errors in script

2006-07-12 Thread Colin Watson
apply this part of Wouter's patch. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#378089: initramfs-tools: create /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d in preinst before writing to it

2006-07-13 Thread Colin Watson
may have produced /etc/initramfs-tools as a regular file, due to this incautious code: cp /etc/mkinitrd/modules /etc/initramfs-tools You should append a trailing slash when copying to directories to defend against this; my patch also does this. Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Bug#374185: mkvmlinuz: syntax errors in script

2006-07-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 10:42:38PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: reopen 374185 unreproducible severity 374185 important thanks On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 09:50:53AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: This part of the report is still valid no matter whether you're using dash or bash. In bash, I get

Bug#365128: Seen here also..

2008-12-22 Thread Colin Watson
a chance to figure out what's wrong with it. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#319878: kernel-image-2.6-686: the entire range of 2.6 debian kernels do not install on m/cs with = 48mb RAM

2005-07-26 Thread Colin Watson
. Use the mem=32M (etc.) kernel parameter. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2.6.12 upload

2005-07-28 Thread Colin Watson
the udebs be controlled by the d-i team made sense. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#315654: devfs is being removed NOW

2005-08-02 Thread Colin Watson
release with 'readlink -f' support. It can be enabled whenever d-i switches to 2.6.13. Please do not reassign this bug, as initrd-tools really *does* need fixing. (There's no fix for this bug in Ubuntu yet either.) Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: 2.6.13, experimental and 2.6.14-rc ...

2005-10-06 Thread Colin Watson
. I've made that mistake before ... -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: what happened to vesafb support in 2.6.13-1?

2005-10-12 Thread Colin Watson
that to be a good time to drop it. Unless the hardware support of one or other framebuffer driver has been radically improved, or unless there's something else I'm misunderstanding, I think we still need modular vesafb? Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL

Re: [D-I] Supporting 2.6.14 kernels in base-installer

2005-11-15 Thread Colin Watson
in append=. initramfs-tools does handle lilo's current syntax for the moment, though. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#585897: initramfs-tools: allow multiple break points

2010-06-14 Thread Colin Watson
100644 --- a/scripts/functions +++ b/scripts/functions @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ panic() maybe_break() { - if [ ${break:-} = $1 ]; then + if echo ${break:-} | egrep -q (,|^)$1(,|$); then panic Spawning shell within the initramfs fi } Thanks, -- Colin Watson

Re: Processed: reassign 586148 to src:grub2

2010-06-16 Thread Colin Watson
'update-grub': Invalid parameter, 2.6.34-1-amd64 Bug reassigned from package 'linux-2.6' to 'src:grub2'. Bug No longer marked as found in versions 2.6.34-1~experimental.2. This is #586056, fixed in grub2 1.98+20100614-2. Sorry for the inconvenience. -- Colin Watson

Re: [DRAFT] Policy for Linux kernel, initramfs, boot loader update process

2010-06-28 Thread Colin Watson
'?] Sensible, I think. There's no point running update-grub three times. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Bug#594189: initramfs-tools: environment variable to disable run_bootloader

2010-08-24 Thread Colin Watson
://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/623375.) Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Bug#594189: initramfs-tools: environment variable to disable run_bootloader

2010-08-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 02:45:44PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 14:25 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: In the case where one is building an image and part of the image build involves running update-initramfs, it would be useful to have a single guaranteed way to disable

Bug#594189: initramfs-tools: environment variable to disable run_bootloader

2010-08-24 Thread Colin Watson
media. What I specifically do not want is for top-level client programs to have to keep track of the different ways to ensure that each individual bootloader is disabled. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ

Bug#594189: initramfs-tools: environment variable to disable run_bootloader

2010-08-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 05:44:32AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 16:55 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: Actually, what I want is a consistent way to disable bootloader invocation for all bootloaders, without necessarily requiring the bootloader package not to be installed

Bug#594189: initramfs-tools: environment variable to disable run_bootloader

2010-08-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 02:47:56PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sat, 2010-08-28 at 09:35 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: This is a good start, but it doesn't specify *how* boot loader packages are to be disabled. I think that this needs to be consistent across boot loaders. That would

Bug#619670: initramfs-tools: make robust against libraries only runtime-linkable due to /etc/ld.so.conf*

2011-03-25 Thread Colin Watson
+ ;; + esac + fi + # FIXME inst_lib mkdir -p ${DESTDIR}/${dirname} if [ ! -e ${DESTDIR}/${dirname}/${libname} ]; then Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Dropping unversioned kernel links/copies; adding linux-version command

2011-04-24 Thread Colin Watson
, as mentioned above, and while they may not be used right now I'm pretty sure that we added them because they were used in the past. Is there any reason not to add those extra names for pre-releases to DebianLinux? Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org

Bug#605090: linux-2.6: [RFC] Add a grsec featureset to Debian kernels

2010-12-04 Thread Colin Watson
as requested. http://bzr.debian.org/scm/loggerhead/users/cjwatson/base-passwd/trunk/revision/155 -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Bug#592519: Bug#627677: alternative initramfs compressor

2011-05-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 05:41:44PM +0200, intrigeri wrote: Colin Watson wrote (23 May 2011 14:47:18 GMT) : + # We probably ought to use COMPRESS= in a temporary file in + # /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/ instead, but it's hard to + # pass options that way

Re: Renaming linux-2.6 source package, keeping bugs

2011-08-31 Thread Colin Watson
weekend's work to me. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110831131316.gb5

Bug#649399: initramfs-tools: please mark Multi-Arch: foreign

2011-11-20 Thread Colin Watson
: foreign Recommends: busybox (= 1:1.01-3) | busybox-initramfs Depends: klibc-utils (= 1.5.23-2~), cpio, module-init-tools, udev, findutils (= 4.2.24), ${misc:Depends} Suggests: bash-completion Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Plan of action for Secure Boot support

2014-01-08 Thread Colin Watson
too cumbersome for anything but a loader that we try not to change very often. Their guidelines permit chaining to GPLv3 code via shim, so this part of it should not be a problem. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Bug#849923: openssh-server: no login possible after upgrade on x32

2017-01-03 Thread Colin Watson
e cloned a kernel bug for this with this message. > > On 2017-01-02 17:49, Colin Watson wrote: > > > > sshd's seccomp sandbox is denying a clock_gettime call. But it's more > > Probably a stupid idea, but a short-term stopgap: can we disable seccomp > on x32 for now?

Bug#882380: initramfs-tools: Update-initramfs can take an unnecessarily long time if other disk activity is ongoing

2018-06-21 Thread Colin Watson
ggest adding a dependency on coreutils (>= 8.24), which introduced the feature of sync(1) being used here. I've put all this in a merge request: https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/initramfs-tools/merge_requests/6 -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]

Re: last preparations for switching to production Secure Boot key

2019-02-26 Thread Colin Watson
o the production > key? And prepare an upload with the changes described above and ready > to use the production key? I don't know of any blockers from the grub2 side. Once the archive has the "packages" key changes, I can prepare an upload - I was planning to m

Re: Bug#977245: openssh-server: Kernel error after big rsync or scp

2020-12-13 Thread Colin Watson
> > The hardware of the remote machine was a RockPro64. > The client operating systems tested were Gentoo and Arch linux. In general kernel oopses are kernel bugs, not userspace bugs, so reassigning to linux. I expect that the full contents of the oops message fro