On Sun, Nov 26, 2023 at 1:13 PM Roland Clobus - rclobus at rclobus.nl < rclobus_at_rclobus_nl_ajmfut...@simplelogin.co> wrote:
> Hello Attilla, > > On 26/11/2023 07:54, dub...@grey-panther.net wrote: > > I was directed to this list after my post on debian-users [1]. I would > > like to report two issues with the Debian LiveCD (specifically the > > debian-live-12.2.0-amd64-gnome.iso one): > > [ snip question 1, answered in another thread ] > > > 2) reporting a bug from inside the live environment using the > > reportbugscript with the cdimage.debian.org <http://cdimage.debian.org> > > meta-package, as described at https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting > > <https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting> doesn't seem to work. The > > script said something about the email being sent from "localhost" > > (since this is a LiveCD, email accounts are not properly set up). I > > suspect that the email never went anywhere (even though there were no > > reported errors), because now it has been over a week and the bug still > > doesn't show up in the bugtracker. > > I tried to reproduce you case. I'm using > debian-live-12.2.0-amd64-gnome.iso and in that image there is no > reportbug installed. > > Where did the reportbug package come from? > > I've installed reportbug (apt-get install reportbug) and tried to send a > bug (see transcript.txt). There were some red flags at the beginning, > which indicate that the bug might not be sent properly (silly e-mail > address of the user) > At the end, reportbug did not show errors from sendmail, but in > /var/mail/user it can be seen that the issue is not sent. > > Reportbug specifically requested a configuration and additional sendmail > does not per default send mails outside its (on live CDs) unconfigured > domain. > > So the short answer is: no, you cannot report a bug from inside the live > CD without additional configuration work. > Thank you for the detailed follow-up, as well as filing the bug and proposing a fix. Yes, I forgot to mention that I installed reportbug with apt-get. All the best and happy holidays! > > With kind regards, > Roland Clobus > > > [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2023/11/msg00733.html > > <https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2023/11/msg00733.html> > >
