Re: Bug#1061595: Debian Live 12.4.0 AMD64 Xfce Fails to Start Its Graphical Environment

2024-01-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
d. On release day we tested that and it worked fine. As Jonathan says, I'd check again on the USB stick: make sure you've run sync or similar after writing, and maybe also read back and check the checksum: https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#verify -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Bug#1057853: KDE live images: no desktop icon to start calamares

2023-12-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: debian-live Severity: normal We don't have a KDE desktop icon to launch calamares on the Bookworm live images. No idea what's responsible for this...

Re: When will the Debian 12 32-bit Live ISO arrive?

2023-09-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
xie. It's time to move on. -- 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...

Re: Enabling arm64 live image builds

2023-09-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
drive file=/tmp/AAVMF_VARS.fd,format=raw,if=pflash \ > -netdev user,id=net0 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=net0 > >Click on View -> serial0 to follow the boot process, and switch back to >ramfb after gdm has started. OK. However, do we expect the image to be usable o

Re: Bug#1032071: ARM firmware packages included in amd64 installation images

2023-07-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
35382 open on the live side, let's bump the severity on that. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com “Why do people find DNS so difficult? It’s just cache invalidation and naming things.” -– Jeff Waugh (https://twitter.com/jdub)

Re: Link broken

2023-07-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
l be online within the next few hours. Thanks! >However, https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ still mentions i386 live >image on the web page. Whom should I contact to update such information? >The debian-cd list? Ah, I missed that. Fixed in git now. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: Link broken

2023-07-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
eded). Please do, we no longer make i386 live images. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion,

Re: .disk/info should contain flavour/version of live image

2023-06-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
ot; - Official Snapshot amd64 LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20230610-08:51 In the older bullseye live images, we used to have: Official Debian GNU/Linux Live 11.7.0 gnome 2023-04-29T16:30 It would be nice to be able to tweak this in live-build, to contain more information: * Full version number

Re: Starting the weekly live images for Bookworm building again

2023-03-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey again, On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 03:36:53PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >>As you can see, this affects many teams: >>* live-setup: a MR to generate all live images for Bookworm [A2] So, after some delay from me and some further delays from various Debian machines com

Re: Starting the weekly live images for Bookworm building again

2023-01-31 Thread Steve McIntyre
minor fix [A3] No idea about that, leaving for somebody else. >* live-installer: A better user experience after the installer is finished >[A4] Merred just now. >* live-build: Various installer improvements, including off-line installation >[A5] Not sure who might review that, let's

Re: live-setup | Reintroduce regular building of live-build images (!2)

2022-12-03 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey Roland! On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 08:40:05AM +0100, Roland Clobus wrote: >On 28/11/2022 00:49, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >If I did it right, every single build will run in its own directory, so they >will not collide. (See the line with 'export BUILDDIR') >For utmost

Re: live-setup | Reintroduce regular building of live-build images (!2)

2022-11-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Nov 27, 2022 at 06:15:08PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: ... >Now I can see what you're do in your script, I'm working on merging to >something more current. > >I've just remembered one thing that used to cause major issues with >live-build: multiple image builds in

Re: live-setup | Reintroduce regular building of live-build images (!2)

2022-11-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
I'm hoping to get something working in the weekly image builds soon. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Armed with "Valor": "Centurion" represents quality of Discipline, Honor, Integrity and Loyalty. Now you don't have to be a

Re: Issue installing Debian Live on hardware that supports many other distros

2022-08-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
sudo efibootmgr -v" from a terminal and grab the output 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#863180: live-wrapper: Add keyboard shortcuts and revamp menus

2022-06-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey Samuel, On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 11:47:31PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: >Steve McIntyre, le mar. 25 juil. 2017 00:10:24 +0100, a ecrit: >> >As discussed on >> >https://lists.debian.org/debian-accessibility/2017/04/msg00130.html >> >it would be useful to have

Re: Live CD for Debian Jr.

2022-03-31 Thread Steve McIntyre
testing. We don't currently have anybody looking after live image releases for unstable/testing, but you might get some help on the debian-live list (in CC). -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control.

Re: Questions from a new Debian Live Build user

2022-02-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
John wrote: >On 12/02/2022 11:02, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Roland Clobus wrote: >>> The Debian installer installs from scratch, you can select any desktop >>> environment and other settings, even though they are not present on the >>> live image. >&

Re: Questions from a new Debian Live Build user

2022-02-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
e system and running tasksel it simply unpacks the squashfs onto the new system - see the live-installer package if you're not sure. If the d-i on the live image tried to install packages nowrmally, we'd end up having to include a lot of extra .debs into the build to support that. -- Steve McIntyre,

Re: Installing shim-signed:amd64 is met with a "cat: /sys/firmware/efi/fw_platform_size: No such file or directory" error

2021-05-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
n that it "cat: /sys/firmware/efi/fw_platform_size: No such >file or directory". Apologies, you've hit bug #988059 in shim-signed. I've just uploaded a fixed version to sid which should now work for you. I've been updating the packaging a lot recently to fix other bugs, and ad

Re: Some Debian Live testing

2021-04-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
default KDE wallpaper >instead of the Debian one. Other than that the KDE live session is in >great shape. Hmmm. We had a problem with sddm quite a while back, and we fixed it. #865382. Is this a regression here, or has something else broken? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: Replacing live-wrapper for live images by live-build?

2021-04-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
t;already clear that live-wrapper needs a replacement. > >Steve McIntyre wrote at that time: "The current live-wrapper code, and >vmdebootstrap, are both basically dead IMHO. I've suggested moving to >something else supported like FAI instead, like the Debian cloud images. &

10.5.0 images published

2020-08-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
that means it will not work on these Gnome images (both amd64 and i386). It works fine for the other live images. [1] https://www.debian.org/security/2020-GRUB-UEFI-SecureBoot/ -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com < Aardvark> I dislike C++ to s

Re: Documenting the generation of the live images in Debian

2020-03-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi Roland! On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 05:27:55PM +0100, Roland Clobus wrote: >Hello Steve McIntyre, Eduard Bloch and lists, > >On 11/07/2019 12:21, Steve McIntyre wrote on debian-live: >> On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 03:13:48PM +0700, Azure Zanculmarktum wrote: >>> Where can I

Re: Problem with EFI install custom Debian ISO

2020-01-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
nstaller with live-build. This doesn't sounds anything like a "crash" to me. Instead, from what you're saying it sounds like a problem with live-build. You'll need to ask the debian-live folks for support with that, I'm afraid. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: Missing Firmware

2019-09-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 04:37:17PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >[ Please respond on the mailing lists - that way other people might > see things and help too. ] > >On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 12:43:19PM -0400, slow_sp...@att.net wrote: >>In lieu of any other response, I w

Re: Dropping older, less-secure checksums files

2019-07-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 03:58:13PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >Hey folks, > >We currently make 4 different checksums files for installer, live and >openstack images published from cdimage.d.o (aka get.d.o, cloud.d.o): >MD5SUMS, SHA1SUMS, SHA256SUMS and SHA512SUMS. > >Pro

Dropping older, less-secure checksums files

2019-07-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
a problem with that... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Google-bait: http://www.debian.org/CD/free-linux-cd Debian does NOT ship free CDs. Please do NOT contact the mailing lists asking us to send them to you.

Re: Scheduling 10.1 and maybe 9.10

2019-07-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
! > - Auguest 31st > - September 7th Either of these would work for me. >We also have a point release of 9.10 to fit in some time - would the same >day or adjacent weekends be preferable? Happy to do a double-header again. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: Debian Live source?

2019-07-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
-setup/blob/master/available/run-30live-wrapper as the core script. -- 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 one device driver." -- Daniel Pead

Re: Testing release images - Call for help

2019-07-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
ter_release/debian-cd > > > Just two links are okay > https://get.debian.org/images/weekly-builds > https://get.debian.org/images/weekly-live-builds "As we build images during release day, they will appear ready for download." -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: Testing release images - Call for help

2019-06-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
n Saturday. Those images should be *very* close to what's in the current weekly live build: https://get.debian.org/images/weekly-live-builds/ -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "When C++ is your hammer, everything looks like a thumb." -- Steven M. Haflich

Re: Fwd: debian buster (weekly build of 2019-04-22) ISO-Hybrid LXQt no gui on dell optiplex

2019-05-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
in/bugreport.cgi?bug=916105) > >The [first] working system was used primarily as example; it's very >similar hardware (same model as one of the failed though it has >different external IO ports so yes it's different and with different >video card). I haven't had issues with any lapto

Re: Scheduling 9.9

2019-02-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 06:28:05PM +, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: >Hi, > >Please indicate your availablility out of: > > - April 13 > - April 20 (Easter weekend) I'm away on holiday for both of these, I'm afraid, and so is chief CD tester Andy. > - April 27 But this works

Bug#922251: live-build: support syslinux-efi as (additional) bootloader

2019-02-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
ort key verification on kernels, I guess there is no secure way to >get syslinux booting under secure boot without compromising secure boot, >but I might be missing an important point about SB here...). No, you're correct. syslinux is not in a state to do SB at all, and I can't see it happeni

Bug#922251: live-build: support syslinux-efi as (additional) bootloader

2019-02-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ Gah, missed this bit... ] On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 05:35:48PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: ... >Maybe Steve McIntyre can contribute an anecdote how he came to the >decision in debian-cd to use GRUB2 for EFI and thus to create the need >for two independent boot menu configurations. W

Bug#922251: live-build: support syslinux-efi as (additional) bootloader

2019-02-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
option, >Matthew J. Garrett equipped his Fedora ISOs by EFI software from GRUB2 >together with BIOS software from SYSLINUX. (Plus some HFS+ filesystem >image pointed to by an Apple Partition Map.) >Maybe Steve McIntyre can contribute an anecdote how he came to the >decision in debia

Re: Scheduling 9.7

2019-01-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
currently look free for me. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Further comment on how I feel about IBM will appear once I've worked out whether they're being malicious or incompetent. Capital letters are forecast." Matthew Garrett, h

Re: Proposed changes to live-tasks

2018-12-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
ktop images? >Any objection if that's added? Go for it... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Armed with "Valor": "Centurion" represents quality of Discipline, Honor, Integrity and Loyalty. Now you don't have to be a Caesar to concord the digital world while feeling safe and proud.

Re: Are Debian i386 ISOs produced on 32 bit systems ?

2018-12-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
x.info/issue/33639 > >I now checked that debian-9.6.0-i386-DVD-1.iso and >debian-live-9.6.0-i386-xfce.iso are not truncated. (Whew.) > >So i wonder: >Are Debian's i386 ISOs produced on 32 bit systems ? >(Or is the job done on amd64 ?) Hi Thomas, All our images have been made on a

Bug#913001: live-wrapper: Handle firmware list more robustly by using proper whitespace split

2018-12-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
nd newlines. > >This makes human provided arguments be handled more robustly. >" Apologies for the delay. I've just pushed this change into git now. It'll also get picked up by our builds from ths point. (Glad I checked - they were still trying to pull from alioth

Re: building scripts source

2018-12-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
tory for the live-customise script (for example). -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com < liw> everything I know about UK hotels I learned from "Fawlty Towers"

Re: Question regarding current debian-live downloads

2018-11-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
elp last summer, and although there's been some discussion, I've not seen much work yet. While I've continued to run our setup using live-wrapper and do tests when we do releases, I just don't have the time available to commit to any further development. I'm just too busy elsewhere in Debian to d

Bug#909718: debian-live: it is a UEFI 32 only system.

2018-10-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
ere yet. We already support 32-bit UEFI systems in general, but if something else is stopping you from disabling Secure Boot then that is a blocker *for now*. >or is Debian Linux Live friendly only for big customers with big hardware? I don't understand why you're making that unhelpful

Re: Scheduling 9.6

2018-10-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Oct 06, 2018 at 05:24:47PM +0100, Adam Barratt wrote: >On Sun, 2018-07-29 at 08:40 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 09:29:22PM +0800, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: >> > On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 09:20:57PM +0800, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: >> > &

Bug#909718: debian-live: bootia32.efi + UEFI32 + SecureBoot => certificate error

2018-10-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
it's ignoring the lack of signature. Maybe it's booting in BIOS mode? -- 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.

Re: Scheduling 9.6

2018-07-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
try for 28th September, and meanwhile we >> have schemed to fix the CD SPOF :) > >Um, that's Saturday 29th Sept of course. Debconf beer gd As mentioned to Jonathan IRL at DC18, that works better for me. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com There's no sensation to compare with this Suspended animation, A state of bliss

Re: Scheduling 9.6

2018-07-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
; - Sept 22nd Apologies, none of those work for me. I'm off to Vancouver for a VAC then conference trip, away all 3 weekends. :-/ -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "I suspect most samba developers are already technically insane... O

Re: Missing the rescue CD image, what can I do?

2018-07-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 04:28:37PM +0100, Jose M Calhariz wrote: >On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 03:27:24PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> That's exactly it, yes. And be prepared to maintain the list >> as/when/if other people want changes. > >OK, I will. > >But let me firs

Re: Missing the rescue CD image, what can I do?

2018-07-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
ue CD >+ This metapackage installs packages and documentation to support the Debian >+ live Rescue CD. That's exactly it, yes. And be prepared to maintain the list as/when/if other people want changes. -- 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

Re: Scheduling 9.5

2018-06-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
uation for a >short while, or do 9.5 before 8.11. In practical terms, that would >likely mean both 9.5 and 8.11 on June 23rd, freezing both next weekend. >How do people feel about that? That works ok for me. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "This dress doesn't reverse." -- Alden Spiess

Bug#900576: live-task-recommended: dependency on calamares brings in qt dependencies in every image

2018-06-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
the named Uploader for this package. There was no bug >filed for this discussion either. Jonathan did ask about this on irc and I suggested he go ahead and experiment. Apologies - I should have told him to talk to you/Ana specifically as well. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: Scheduling 9.5

2018-05-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
nd (which may require an unusual SRM) Works for me. > - Jun 9th (getting quite a way out of cadence, but maybe that can't be > helped) Nope, away on VAC. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Arguing that you don't care about the right to p

Re: Scheduling final Jessie point release, 8.11

2018-05-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
Looks possible. > - (30th Jun I already know is impossible, for the sake of completeness) ACK :-) > - 7th July Looks possible. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "I can't ever sleep on planes ... call it irrational if you like, but I'm afraid I'll miss my stop" -- Vivek Das Mohapatra

Re: Current Live Systems Manual still applies to Debian Stretch ?

2018-04-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
hat script, does it still >applies to 9.4 ? The scripts we're using are in https://salsa.debian.org/images-team/live-setup/tree/master/available In particular, look at run-30live-wrapper and live-customise.sh. It's slightly obfuscated by the way things are built inside a VM, but should hopefully

Re: Reproducing unofficial weekly images?

2018-03-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
instead. The scripts we use are in the live-setup git repo: https://salsa.debian.org/images-team/live-setup/ There's complication in there due to the way we build inside a VM, but look at available/run-30livewrapper and available/live-customise.sh for the core of h

Re: oficial project files

2018-03-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
es-team/live-setup -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Armed with "Valor": "Centurion" represents quality of Discipline, Honor, Integrity and Loyalty. Now you don't have to be a Caesar to concord the digital world while feeling safe and proud.

Re: New team on salsa, which repositories shall we migrate?

2018-02-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 08:28:55PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >On Fri, 09 Feb 2018, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> 10 repos moved now: > >I just noticed that you did not setup the email integration with the >package tracker and the hook tagpending. I just did this for all the &g

Re: New team on salsa, which repositories shall we migrate?

2018-02-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 08:12:49AM +0100, intrigeri wrote: >Hi, > >Steve McIntyre: >> 10 repos moved now: > >Thanks! > >> debian-live/debian-live live-team/debian-live > >This seems to be an old copy of the live-build repo. >Do we need it?

Re: Weekly livecd builds broken?

2018-02-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
ort the problem there. It needs attention. Hi Clemens, There was a problem on the build system and the regular build last Monday failed. We've reconfigured and I'm just doing a manual rebuild right now. Expect new images in a few hours. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com There's no sensation to compare with this Suspended animation, A state of bliss

Re: Scheduling 9.4

2018-02-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
4 I'm away at a conference 15-25, so no for me. >- March 31 Likely to be awkward, with a big family celebration that weekend. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control.

Re: New team on salsa, which repositories shall we migrate?

2018-02-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Feb 09, 2018 at 05:14:29PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >Hi, > >On Thu, 08 Feb 2018, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Happy to do that for all the other debian-live --> live-team repos too >> if people would like me to - just say so. I've done a couple of other > >Pl

Re: New team on salsa, which repositories shall we migrate?

2018-02-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 06:34:40PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 06:22:14PM +, Iain Learmonth wrote: >> >>This is the spiritual predecessor to the live-tasks package that >>contained the live-build configurations used to build the live images &g

Re: debian live (9.2.0) user? + no3d ...

2017-12-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
such combinations) to no avail. >All DL does is clearing the screen every 15 seconds and asking me >again. Apologies, you've been bitten by a bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=865382 This should be fixed with the new 9.3.0 release due this weeken

Bug#882769: Cannot upgrade from Stretch: cp: target '/lib/live/mount/medium/live/vmlinuz.new' is not a directory

2017-12-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
corner case and this bug does not affect the usability of >live-boot in the vast majority of cases. Besides, I would feel wrong >to see live-boot automatically removed from testing merely because of >this bug. So perhaps this could be demoted to severity:important? At best,

Re: Scheduling 9.3

2017-11-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
avoiding the >> festive >> season). >> >> Accordingly I'm looking at one of: >[...] >> 2nd December >> 9th December (but preferably earlier, or we start gradually extending >> the cycle) > >Those both look ok to me. Did we make a d

Re: Multiarch live CDs

2017-11-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
tween packages (the -all .debs included). For a multiarch live image, and you'd end up having two complete, separate squashfs filesystems on the media. It's not something worth spending time on, IMHO. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com You lock the door

Re: Can we get a simple fix for #864927 into unstable/testing please?

2017-11-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
e live build problem. Doesn't like the best of ways, maybe? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Further comment on how I feel about IBM will appear once I've worked out whether they're being malicious or incompetent. Capital letters are forecast.&

Re: Padding and filesystem size in debian-live-9.2.0-amd64-cinnamon.iso

2017-11-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
save 300 KiB of image file size: > > -padding 0 > >The command may be given at any position in the xorriso command list. ACK, thanks! I'll get this fixed up in live-wrapper. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Yes, of course duct tape

Re: Can we get a simple fix for #864927 into unstable/testing please?

2017-11-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 06:15:08PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >It's blocking KDE live builds at the moment... *tumbleweed* Two months later, we still have no fix for this "closed" bug anywhere except experimental. Any chance of this being properly fixed soon? -- Steve McIntyre,

Re: Can I install from Stretch or Buster Mate Live System?

2017-10-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
gt;assistive technologies and orca screen readers set to run at start, will the >installed system have accessibility at start? There are options to install directly from the boot menu on those live images. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com < liw&

Re: Scheduling 9.3

2017-09-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
> >25th November >2nd December >9th December (but preferably earlier, or we start gradually extending > the cycle) > >Please advise your availability. The 25th is really difficult with the Cambridge mini-debconf that weekend, but the other two should b

Re: Scheduling 9.2

2017-09-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 03:20:05PM +0100, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: >On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 09:31:22PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 04:48:14PM +0100, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: >> >Hi, >> > >> >I'm working on dates for 9.2; by a two

Bug#866364: Partial implementation of live boot localisation

2017-09-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
what live image you did use for your test. > >Where did you get it from? If its a custom image, what tool did you use >to build it? It's something that live-wrapper generates, so it's in the official Stretch images. Unfortunately, as we can see, it's not co

Re: Please consider to let live-build add file /.disk/mkisofs to the ISO

2017-08-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
n live-build. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com You raise the blade, you make the change... You re-arrange me 'til I'm sane...

Bug#865382: Possible solution of #865382

2017-07-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
starts the system with "nottyautologin" boot option, the > issue vanishes, and it becomes possible to > successfully log in after typing the default live user password. > >I've attached a patch for live-config which adds SDDM configuration script. It >*shou

Re: zsync support for jessie but not for stretch

2017-07-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
nc2017-07-23 15:04 1.4M > >It saves bandwidth! Does it work well? We tried zsync for the installer images some time ago, and it didn't work too well at the time and I disabled it again. IIRC there were issues with the redirects and the setup we use on cdimage.d.o (aka get.d.o)..

Bug#865382: [st...@einval.com: Please help with #865382]

2017-07-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 03:30:24PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 11:17:54AM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer >wrote: >>On viernes, 21 de julio de 2017 15:00:46 -03 Steve McIntyre wrote: >>[snip] >>> >I have taken a look at #86538

Bug#869379: Images created without pulling in from 'updates' and 'security' repos

2017-07-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
es, it's the obvious workaround. As discussed with Phil in IRC, on a system installed from the live images updates and security are enabled appropriately so they're fine. I'm not sure of the best approach for *live* live images - will people be massively annoyed by the system stopping and

Re: Topic of this list (was: live-build: how to include .deb files not in any repository?)

2017-07-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
very old now... -- 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#865382: [st...@einval.com: Please help with #865382]

2017-07-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 11:17:54AM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: >On viernes, 21 de julio de 2017 15:00:46 -03 Steve McIntyre wrote: >[snip] >> >I have taken a look at #865382 (CCing) but I see no further info. Is there >> >a backtrace available? >&g

Bug#865382: [st...@einval.com: Please help with #865382]

2017-07-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 11:23:29PM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: >On miércoles, 19 de julio de 2017 22:51:22 -03 Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Stuart suggested I was asking on the wrong list, so forwarding here... > >Right :-) > >> From: Steve McIntyre &l

Re: Topic of this list (was: live-build: how to include .deb files not in any repository?)

2017-07-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
do you think? I don't think we necessarily need to split the list, but at least making it very clear in the subject line sounds like a good plan. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "I suspect most samba developers are already technically insane...

Re: RFS: live-wrapper/0.6+nmu2

2017-07-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
g/debian/package_uploads/ > >Signing key: > >https://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?op=vindex=philwyett%40k >athenas.org=on In incoming now, and imported on my master branch ready for pushing as soon as I've got git access sorted. Thanks! -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com < liw> everything I know about UK hotels I learned from "Fawlty Towers"

Bug#864955: live-boot: Non ASCII chars aren't displayed correctly

2017-07-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
an appropriate keyboard layout, either under X or on the console To get all this *right* will be a major undertaking, I think. We *could* simply add a default keyboard layout to the setup for each language as well, but that's quite likely to be wrong for a lot of users... --

Re: Latest master code tree for live-wrapper

2017-07-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
liberate oversight, I've just not taken it yet. I was working directly on the code changes in live-wrapper rather than the packaging thus far. I'll make sure that all is merged... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Getting a SCSI chain working i

Re: Please help with #865382

2017-07-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ CC to the right list this time, gah ] Phil wrote: >-=-=-=-=-=- > >On Mon, 2017-07-10 at 00:04 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Hey folks, >> >> We have a big problem with our Stretch KDE live images, and the >> problem seems to be KDE-specific. None of th

Re: Latest master code tree for live-wrapper

2017-07-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
se out shortly... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Because heaters aren't purple!" -- Catherine Pitt

Please help with #865382

2017-07-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ Let's see if this works better without a typo in the To: line... :-( ] Hey folks, We have a big problem with our Stretch KDE live images, and the problem seems to be KDE-specific. None of the other desktops show the same problem. Can you help please? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK

Please help with #865382

2017-07-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey folks, We have a big problem with our Stretch KDE live images, and the problem seems to be KDE-specific. None of the other desktops show the same problem. Can you help please? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from

Re: Scheduling 9.1, maybe 8.9

2017-07-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
e should work for me. Working out which is currently blocking >on other people. :| Can we get a decision please? Summer weekends are busy... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you

Re: Use of '--sudo' in vmdebootstrap; live-wrapper package

2017-07-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 01:10:33AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >Phil wrote: >> >>In a previous mail I mentioned removal of '--lock-root-password'. >> >>On the same line (36) of 'vm.py' is the argument passed to >>'vmdebootstrap' of '--sudo'. Ok, according to t

Re: IMPORTANT: Do live Debian images have a future?

2017-07-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
w years has basically been: * does the image boot to a sensible-looking desktop? * can I start a browser? * will it load and display http://news.bbc.co.uk/? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Because heaters aren't purple!" -- Catherine Pitt

Re: IMPORTANT: Do live Debian images have a future?

2017-07-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Jul 04, 2017 at 04:25:48AM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > >On Jul 3, 2017, at 8:53 AM, Steve McIntyre <st...@einval.com> wrote: > >> arm64 >> live images are on my todo list already for the buster cycle. > >Great! Will they work with RaspberryPi-3? I hone

Re: IMPORTANT: Do live Debian images have a future?

2017-07-03 Thread Steve McIntyre
stallation, but not for live yet. The hard bit there is reliably *booting* an image on many of the platforms. As more and more of them start supporting UEFI (if nothing else, via the minimal U-Boot UEFI boot hacks) that will help. arm64 live images are on my todo list already for the buster cyc

Re: IMPORTANT: Do live Debian images have a future?

2017-07-03 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 03:47:13PM +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote: >On 26/06/2017, Steve McIntyre <st...@einval.com> wrote: ... >> If our live images are going to be good enough to meet the standards >> that Debian users deserve and expect, we need *consistent*, >> *sustai

Re: Scheduling 9.1, maybe 8.9

2017-06-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
uly >22/23 July Both look fine for me. I'm happy to do 8.9 on the same weekend, but media will take a short while to come out after 9.1. The first point release always throws up surprises IME... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Argu

New live images released (9.0.1)

2017-06-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
f the live images has very restrictive permissions = Status: Fixed in 9.0.1 The root directory is mode 0700 (i.e. drwx--) See #865386. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "

Bug#865386: Overly tight permissions on the root of images made with live-wrapper

2017-06-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
Source: live-wrapper Version: 0.6+nmu1 Severity: minor The root directory of the ISO image is mode 0700 (i.e. drwx--). This is clearly coming through from the temporary directory it's derived from, created using tempnam. This is rather silly and pointless, but hardly critical. Patch coming

Bug#865384: Volume ID not set

2017-06-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
Source: live-wrapper Version: 0.6+nmu1 Severity: important live-wrapper doesn't specify a Volume ID when calling xorriso, so all its output images will end up with the xorriso-default Volume ID "ISOIMAGE". Patch shortly... -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers testing APT

Bug#865382: Stretch KDE live image is not stable

2017-06-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: debian-live Severity: important When tested on (some) real hardware, the 9.0.0 and 9.0.1 live images containing the KDE desktop are unstable, exhibiting crashes. There is a segmentation fault in kmanage - the first obvious symptom will be a failure to automatically log in. A workaround

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