Bug#586687: debian-installer: build scripts can use outdated packages
Quoting Jeremie Koenig (j...@jk.fr.eu.org): > Package: debian-installer > Severity: normal > Tags: patch > Usertags: gsoc2010 > > Hello, > > (my earlier email to debian-boot did not attract any comment, I'm > resubmitting this as a bug so as to document and keep track of it) > > The get-packages script from installer/build/util/ uses "sort | tail -1" > to get the most recent version of a given udeb from apt.udeb/cache. > This may cause images to be built with outdated udebs. > > The attached patch makes it use 'dpkg --compare-versions' instead. > I noticed your mail and was, at first glance, in agreement with your proposal. Are there any objections to a commit of Jérémie's patch? signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#586738: can't install because 'write changes to disk' fails
On 22 June 2010 16:49, Michael Tsang wrote: > What is the output of VT 4? that would be in /var/log/syslog? i've found an earlier netinstall cd and that worked correctly. so i'll check it out after the install. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktilh4xyu3yoiscnrbqtgzpxsw4qezahxdofax...@mail.gmail.com
Bug#586738: can't install because 'write changes to disk' fails
nano /var/log/syslog partman:mkfs.ext4: /lib/libblkid.so.1: version 'BLKID_2.17' not found (required by mkfs.ext4) that seems to be the error. it looks like it creates swap no problems though. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktimxjkbmi5qysssic9uaxherpjqmlxxdbv96s...@mail.gmail.com
d-i slowness on QNAP TS-209
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I recently installed Debian on a QNAP TS-209 (armel). There were very long delays, up to a few minutes, between some d-i screens, especially in partman (see the original thread on debian-arm [1]). I believe this was with the squeeze alpha1 version of d-i [2], or possibly a snapshot. In any case it was suffering from #585733 and couldn't create any ext4 partitions, so I restarted with the lenny installer instead. This did not suffer from the long delays. The setup was two 2 TB SATA drives, with LVM on top of md RAID1. The long pauses occurred for example when: *entering the RAID manager, *after configuring a partition (mount point, file system etc) and returning to the main partman screen, *after confirming the partitioning setup, before the progress bar when it creates the file systems. Is this anything I should investigate more? Since I have now succeeded in installing the machine, I am reluctant to reflash it with d-i again unless it is really worthwhile. Cheers, Marcus [1] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.ports.arm/8585 [2] http://ftp.acc.umu.se/debian/dists/testing/main/installer- armel/current/images/orion5x/netboot/qnap/ts-209/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkwgfRIACgkQXjXn6TzcAQmvUwCeNQegD2nuMhN+aXiNVDxi11gW mRkAoIz9mnlNwhSfq3sRDdM4ZYfDq9e7 =c8LD -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/hvpues$8i...@dough.gmane.org
Bug#586738: can't install because 'write changes to disk' fails
[Lachlan] > nano /var/log/syslog > > partman:mkfs.ext4: /lib/libblkid.so.1: version 'BLKID_2.17' not found > (required by mkfs.ext4) This is bug #583551 hopefully fixed in e2fsprogs in unstable, and failing to enter testing for 16 days because of depending packages (currently blocked by util-linux). Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2fly6e7v43s@login1.uio.no
Re: d-i slowness on QNAP TS-209
[Marcus Better] > I recently installed Debian on a QNAP TS-209 (armel). There were > very long delays, up to a few minutes, between some d-i screens, > especially in partman (see the original thread on debian-arm [1]). I see it too, and reported it as bug #586404 against udev-udeb. No idea what the cause is. > Is this anything I should investigate more? Since I have now > succeeded in installing the machine, I am reluctant to reflash it > with d-i again unless it is really worthwhile. If you know more about udev than me, you can try to figure out why 'udevadm settle' time out after 180 seconds. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2flr5jzv1in@login1.uio.no
Bug#586738: can't install because 'write changes to disk' fails
thanks for helping me out. i'll be okay from here. Close this bug On 22 June 2010 18:55, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Lachlan] >> nano /var/log/syslog >> >> partman:mkfs.ext4: /lib/libblkid.so.1: version 'BLKID_2.17' not found >> (required by mkfs.ext4) > > This is bug #583551 hopefully fixed in e2fsprogs in unstable, and > failing to enter testing for 16 days because of depending packages > (currently blocked by util-linux). > > Happy hacking, > -- > Petter Reinholdtsen > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktinhhvuhblj28fanoi9--ds44e8i6amglt5hn...@mail.gmail.com
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Bug#586738: can't install because 'write changes to disk' fails
On Tuesday 22 June 2010 12:52:04 Lachlan wrote: > Package: debian-installer > Version: testing > > attempting to install debian testing from weekly images (tried cd1 and > netinstall images) > > create partitions for root home and swap > > when it goes to write these changes to disk i get the error: > "failed to create a file system" > this happens no matter which file system i attempt to use. > > I have downloaded the most recent testing images and i am attempting > to install to a brand new Alienware MX-11 laptop. > > I've never run into this error before so i'm not sure where to look. > because this laptop is pretty recent should i try and use a different > version of the installer? > are there ways to create my own squeeze image with the latest > installer for this purpose? What is the output of VT 4? -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Bug#586777: debian-installer: Only 1 DNS-Server asked in installer
Package: debian-installer Severity: important Dear Installer Maintainers, Just came about it (as preparing a reboot of our primary NS) and wondering again. Why Debian is not asking for a second DNS server during install (unlike RHEL)? This results in only one inserted in /etc/resolv.conf on a lot of boxes at customer side, as people tend to forget it later on. Best regards, Jan -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100622135756.21840.2453.report...@localhost
Bug#586777: marked as done (debian-installer: Only 1 DNS-Server asked in installer)
Your message dated Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:02:50 +0200 with message-id <201006221702.52445.elen...@planet.nl> and subject line Re: Bug#586777: debian-installer: Only 1 DNS-Server asked in installer has caused the Debian Bug report #586777, regarding debian-installer: Only 1 DNS-Server asked in installer to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact ow...@bugs.debian.org immediately.) -- 586777: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=586777 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems --- Begin Message --- Package: debian-installer Severity: important Dear Installer Maintainers, Just came about it (as preparing a reboot of our primary NS) and wondering again. Why Debian is not asking for a second DNS server during install (unlike RHEL)? This results in only one inserted in /etc/resolv.conf on a lot of boxes at customer side, as people tend to forget it later on. Best regards, Jan -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash --- End Message --- --- Begin Message --- On Tuesday 22 June 2010, xcomm wrote: > Just came about it (as preparing a reboot of our primary NS) and > wondering again. Why Debian is not asking for a second DNS server during > install (unlike RHEL)? This results in only one inserted in > /etc/resolv.conf on a lot of boxes at customer side, as people tend to > forget it later on. Please *read* the dialog. You can enter multiple DNS servers. --- End Message ---
Bug#586738: marked as done (can't install because 'write changes to disk' fails)
Your message dated Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:16:41 +0200 with message-id <20100622161641.gl26...@mykerinos.kheops.frmug.org> and subject line Re: Bug#586738: can't install because 'write changes to disk' fails has caused the Debian Bug report #586738, regarding can't install because 'write changes to disk' fails to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact ow...@bugs.debian.org immediately.) -- 586738: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=586738 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems --- Begin Message --- Package: debian-installer Version: testing attempting to install debian testing from weekly images (tried cd1 and netinstall images) create partitions for root home and swap when it goes to write these changes to disk i get the error: "failed to create a file system" this happens no matter which file system i attempt to use. I have downloaded the most recent testing images and i am attempting to install to a brand new Alienware MX-11 laptop. I've never run into this error before so i'm not sure where to look. because this laptop is pretty recent should i try and use a different version of the installer? are there ways to create my own squeeze image with the latest installer for this purpose? --- End Message --- --- Begin Message --- > > This is bug #583551 hopefully fixed in e2fsprogs in unstable, and > > failing to enter testing for 16 days because of depending packages > > (currently blocked by util-linux). As said above signature.asc Description: Digital signature --- End Message ---
Bug#586803: debian-installer: partitioner should create a "BIOS boot" partition when GPT is requested
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal When you use the new "GPT" partition table format, there is no gap between the master boot record and the first partition for the boot loader (e.g. GRUB) to install itself into. Therefore, when GPT format is requested, the partitioner should create a "BIOS boot partition" by default, so that the boot loader has somewhere to go. In directed mode, it should just go ahead and do it; in expert mode it should perhaps just notify the user that this partition will be needed on the boot disk. If you don't have this partition on your boot disk, bootloader package updates can render the system unbootable. See http://grub.enbug.org/BIOS_Boot_Partition for further explanation. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100622180758.2300.55872.report...@trurl
Bug#586687: debian-installer: build scripts can use outdated packages
Hellp, On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 2:27 AM, Christian PERRIER wrote: > I noticed your mail and was, at first glance, in agreement with your > proposal. > > Are there any objections to a commit of Jérémie's patch? There's not; please commit if you can. -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems E-mail: ota...@ossystems.com.br http://www.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 53 9981-7854 http://projetos.ossystems.com.br -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktikxvrkhlrv1vhm0rr_n_ltuct_xdvlzpmdgo...@mail.gmail.com
Processed: limit source to tasksel, tagging 586863, tagging 586614
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > #tasksel (2.82) UNRELEASED; urgency=low > # > # * Indonesian updated. Closes: #586614 > # * Ukrainian updated. Closes: #586863 > # * Indonesian updated. Closes: #586614 > # * Indonesian updated. Closes: #586614 > # > limit source tasksel Limiting to bugs with field 'source' containing at least one of 'tasksel' Limit currently set to 'source':'tasksel' > tags 586863 + pending Bug #586863 [tasksel] tasksel: [INTL:uk] Ukrainian translation update Added tag(s) pending. > tags 586614 + pending Bug #586614 [tasksel] [INTL:id] Tasksel Indonesian updated translations Added tag(s) pending. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. -- 586614: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=586614 586863: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=586863 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/handler.s.c.12772655617700.transcr...@bugs.debian.org
Bug#586870: partman-base: use a system-specific default filesystem
Package: partman-base Version: 141 Severity: normal Usertags: gsoc2010 Tags: patch Hello, Currently the default filesystem is ext3 on all systems. However, Hurd only supports ext2 and kFreeBSD requires ufs as its root filesystem. The attached patch sets a system-specific default, provided none has been preseeded. An alternative approach would be to load a system-specific "pre-preseed" file at the beginning of the installation, though I'm not sure what other configuration items would need system-specific defaults. My suggestion would be to use my patch as a first step and review the situation when/if more system-specific defaults prove to be necessary. Any thoughts? (or irrepressible urges to commit my patch? :-) Thanks, -- Jeremie Koenig http://jk.fr.eu.org Index: partman-base/debian/changelog === --- partman-base/debian/changelog (revision 63538) +++ partman-base/debian/changelog (working copy) @@ -1,9 +1,14 @@ partman-base (142) UNRELEASED; urgency=low + [ Colin Watson ] * Add ALIGNMENT_OFFSET to partman-command. - -- Colin Watson Sat, 08 May 2010 15:20:19 +0200 + [ Jeremie Koenig ] + * Set a system-specific value for partman/default_filesystem if none has been +preseeded. + -- Jeremie Koenig Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:08:50 +0200 + partman-base (141) unstable; urgency=low * parted 2.1 changed the semantics of ped_disk_clobber: it now zeroes out Index: partman-base/init.d/default_filesystem === --- partman-base/init.d/default_filesystem (revision 0) +++ partman-base/init.d/default_filesystem (revision 0) @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +#!/bin/sh + +. /usr/share/debconf/confmodule + +db_fget partman/default_filesystem seen +if [ "$RET" != "false" ]; then + exit 0 +fi + +case "$(udpkg --print-os)" in +"kfreebsd") + db_set partman/default_filesystem ufs + ;; +"hurd") + db_set partman/default_filesystem ext2 + ;; +esac + +db_fset partman/default_filesystem seen true + Property changes on: partman-base/init.d/default_filesystem ___ Added: svn:executable + * Index: partman-base/init.d/_numbers === --- partman-base/init.d/_numbers (revision 63538) +++ partman-base/init.d/_numbers (working copy) @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ 01 early_command 10 umount_target +20 default_filesystem 30 parted 35 dump 70 update_partitions
Bug#586871: partman-basicfilesystems: please include Hurd support
Package: partman-basicfilesystems
Version: 63
Severity: normal
Usertags: gsoc2010
Tags: patch
Hello,
partman-basicfilesystems needs a few special cases to work properly
on Hurd, namely:
- no kernel modules are needed for ext2 and vfat;
- only 4k blocks, 128 bytes inodes are supported by ext2fs;
- the "errors=remount-ro" option is not supported.
See the attached patch.
Thanks,
--
Jeremie Koenig
http://jk.fr.eu.org
Index: partman-basicfilesystems/debian/changelog
===
--- partman-basicfilesystems/debian/changelog (revision 63538)
+++ partman-basicfilesystems/debian/changelog (working copy)
@@ -7,8 +7,14 @@
* Remove no longer needed Lintian override for missing Standards-
Version field.
- -- Colin Watson Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:58:41 +0100
+ [ Jeremie Koenig ]
+ * Hurd support (closes: ):
+- disable errors=remount-ro, which is not supported;
+- force 4k blocks and 128 bytes inodes on mkfs.ext2;
+- mark ext2 and vfat as available and skip tests for kernel modules.
+ -- Jeremie Koenig Wed, 23 Jun 2010 07:00:23 +0200
+
partman-basicfilesystems (63) unstable; urgency=low
[ Christian Perrier ]
Index: partman-basicfilesystems/commit.d/format_basicfilesystems
===
--- partman-basicfilesystems/commit.d/format_basicfilesystems (revision 63538)
+++ partman-basicfilesystems/commit.d/format_basicfilesystems (working copy)
@@ -48,7 +48,14 @@
db_subst $template DEVICE $(humandev $(cat device))
case $filesystem in
ext2)
-if [ ! -f $id/usage ]; then
+options=''
+if [ -f $id/usage ]; then
+ options="$options -T $(cat $id/usage)"
+fi
+if [ "$(udpkg --print-os)" = hurd ]; then
+ options="$options -b 4096 -I 128 -o hurd"
+fi
+if [ -z "$options" ]; then
name_progress_bar $template
open_dialog CREATE_FILE_SYSTEM $id $filesystem
read_line status
@@ -61,12 +68,8 @@
db_progress START 0 3 partman/text/formatting
db_progress INFO $template
db_progress SET 1
- usage=''
- if [ -f $id/usage ]; then
- usage="-T $(cat $id/usage)"
- fi
if log-output -t partman --pass-stdout \
- mkfs.ext2 $device $usage >/dev/null; then
+ mkfs.ext2 $device $options >/dev/null; then
sync
status=OK
else
Index: partman-basicfilesystems/fstab.d/basic
===
--- partman-basicfilesystems/fstab.d/basic (revision 63538)
+++ partman-basicfilesystems/fstab.d/basic (working copy)
@@ -39,7 +39,9 @@
fi
options=$(get_mountoptions $dev $id)
if [ "$mountpoint" = / ]; then
-if [ "$options" = defaults ]; then
+if [ "$(udpkg --print-os)" = hurd ]; then
+ : # remount-ro not supported
+elif [ "$options" = defaults ]; then
options="errors=remount-ro"
else
options="${options},errors=remount-ro"
Index: partman-basicfilesystems/init.d/kernelmodules_basicfilesystems
===
--- partman-basicfilesystems/init.d/kernelmodules_basicfilesystems (revision 63538)
+++ partman-basicfilesystems/init.d/kernelmodules_basicfilesystems (working copy)
@@ -2,6 +2,13 @@
mkdir -p /var/lib/partman
+# On Hurd they are always available
+if [ "$(udpkg --print-os)" = hurd ]; then
+ >/var/lib/partman/ext2
+ >/var/lib/partman/vfat
+ exit 0
+fi
+
cat /proc/modules |
while read module_name x; do
if [ "$module_name" = ext2 ]; then
Please don't send translations for partman-btrfs
Translators who monitor packages that recently introduced debconf templates may have noticed the appearance of partman-btrfs. Please *don't* send translations for this package. It is developed in the D-I SVN and will be included in D-I translation master files.when it's ready. -- signature.asc Description: Digital signature
