Bug#287408: #287408 intorductory partman-auto screen does not explain what "partitoning" is, and should for new users
As a really easy solution to fix this bug, I have added the help screen from partman-target also to partman-auto screens. That way, the help is already accessible at the first partitioning-related dialog the user sees, not on the last one. Since it's a copy from an already existing dialog, there is no translation work involved here. I have created a merge request for this: https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/partman-auto/-/merge_requests/25 -- Holger Wansing PGP-Fingerprint: 496A C6E8 1442 4B34 8508 3529 59F1 87CA 156E B076
Processed: reassign 1065432 to src:libqt6pas, fixed 1065432 in 2, affects 1065432, reassign 1081837 to src:linux ...
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> reassign 1065432 src:libqt6pas
Bug #1065432 {Done: Peter Blackman } [src:lazarus]
lazarus: cannot build with qt6
Bug reassigned from package 'src:lazarus' to 'src:libqt6pas'.
No longer marked as found in versions lazarus/3.0+dfsg1-8.
No longer marked as fixed in versions libqt6pas/2.
> fixed 1065432 2
Bug #1065432 {Done: Peter Blackman } [src:libqt6pas]
lazarus: cannot build with qt6
Marked as fixed in versions libqt6pas/2.
> affects 1065432 + src:lazarus
Bug #1065432 {Done: Peter Blackman } [src:libqt6pas]
lazarus: cannot build with qt6
Added indication that 1065432 affects src:lazarus
> reassign 1081837 src:linux
Bug #1081837 {Done: Ben Hutchings } [flash-kernel]
flash-kernel: Please add support for AM64 based HummingBoard-T
Bug reassigned from package 'flash-kernel' to 'src:linux'.
No longer marked as found in versions flash-kernel/3.108.
No longer marked as fixed in versions linux/6.11.2-1.
> fixed 1081837 6.11.2-1
Bug #1081837 {Done: Ben Hutchings } [src:linux] flash-kernel:
Please add support for AM64 based HummingBoard-T
Marked as fixed in versions linux/6.11.2-1.
> affects 1081837 + src:flash-kernel
Bug #1081837 {Done: Ben Hutchings } [src:linux] flash-kernel:
Please add support for AM64 based HummingBoard-T
Added indication that 1081837 affects src:flash-kernel
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Bug#1088087: debootstrap --exclude=systemd-sysv doesn't work
On Sat, 23 Nov 2024 10:08:02 +0100 Bastian Blank wrote: > Could you please describe your goal? If you want to exclude the init > system, using "--variant=minbase" should help. I was using the Debian net install CD. I was trying to install a system that would use sysvinit-core. I believe I passed "base-installer/excludes=systemd-sysv" on the grub command line, which forwarded that "excludes" parameter to debootstrap. I also ran the command manually a few times to verify the behavior.
Bug#1030850: #1030850Please stop creating /etc/timezone
Hi, Am 23. November 2024 21:13:45 MEZ schrieb Michael Biebl : >Am 23.11.24 um 16:38 schrieb Holger Wansing: >> Hi all, >> >> from the originally 20 bugreports there are 12 still open more than 16 >> months later. >> >> Do we want to wait any longer? >> And if so, should severity be raised? >> > >Please also usertag those bug reports. Sorry, I have not that much experience with such things. Which user + usertag? Holger -- Sent from /e/ OS on Fairphone3
Bug#859509: #859509 partman-auto fails with "selected disk or free space is to small" on LSI HW Raid Array
Version: 167 Lately a new partitioning scheme has been added to be choosen for guided partitioning. It's dedicated for server and limits the swap size to 1G. This should fit your needs. I'm closing this bug now. -- Holger Wansing PGP-Fingerprint: 496A C6E8 1442 4B34 8508 3529 59F1 87CA 156E B076
Bug#615016: marked as done (debian-installer: wipes partition table and creates new partitions even when told to use unpartitioned space)
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: debian-installer
Version: Lenny and Squeeze
Severity: important
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (990, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.35.11 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Hello,
This bug appears when I'm trying to install Debian to the largest available
free space while leaving existing partitions undisturbed. In the partitioning
section of my Preseed.cfg file, I have the following line:
d-i partman-auto/init_automatically_partition select biggest_free
However, the installer wipes all my existing partitions and tries to create new
paritions to replace the old ones. I must manually select "Undo changes to
partitions," "Guided Partitioning," and then "Use biggest available free
space." This bug was not in the installer when Lenny was first released, but
it is present in the 503 Lenny images, as well as in Squeeze. Below I've
included the whole partitioning section of my preseeding file.
### Partitioning
# If the system has free space you can choose to only partition that space.
d-i partman-auto/init_automatically_partition select biggest_free
# Alternatively, you can specify a disk to partition. The device name must
# be given in traditional non-devfs format.
# Note: A disk must be specified, unless the system has only one disk.
# For example, to use the first SCSI/SATA hard disk:
#d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/sda
# In addition, you'll need to specify the method to use.
# The presently available methods are: "regular", "lvm" and "crypto"
d-i partman-auto/method string regular
# If one of the disks that are going to be automatically partitioned
# contains an old LVM configuration, the user will normally receive a
# warning. This can be preseeded away...
d-i partman-lvm/device_remove_lvm boolean true
# The same applies to pre-existing software RAID array:
d-i partman-md/device_remove_md boolean true
# And the same goes for the confirmation to write the lvm partitions.
#d-i partman-lvm/confirm boolean true
# You can choose one of the three predefined partitioning recipes:
# - atomic: all files in one partition
# - home: separate /home partition
# - multi: separate /home, /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions
d-i partman-auto/choose_recipe select atomic
# Or provide a recipe of your own...
# The recipe format is documented in the file devel/partman-auto-recipe.txt.
# If you have a way to get a recipe file into the d-i environment, you can
# just point at it.
#d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe_file string /hd-media/recipe
# If not, you can put an entire recipe into the preconfiguration file in one
# (logical) line. This example creates a small /boot partition, suitable
# swap, and uses the rest of the space for the root partition:
#d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe string \
# boot-root ::\
# 40 50 100 ext3 \
# $primary{ } $bootable{ }\
# method{ format } format{ } \
# use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext3 }\
# mountpoint{ /boot } \
# . \
# 500 1 10 ext3 \
# method{ format } format{ } \
# use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext3 }\
# mountpoint{ / } \
# . \
# 64 512 300% linux-swap \
# method{ swap } format{ }\
# .
# This makes partman automatically partition without confirmation, provided
# that you told it what to do using one of the methods above.
#d-i partma
Bug#251415: marked as done (Please add a "storage sever" recipe with big /var and small /home)
Your message dated Mon, 25 Nov 2024 00:19:45 +0100 with message-id <5255c356-ef34-4b51-8b86-7ffb70b1d...@mailbox.org> and subject line Re: #251415Please add a "storage sever" recipe with big /var and small /home has caused the Debian Bug report #251415, regarding Please add a "storage sever" recipe with big /var and small /home 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.) -- 251415: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=251415 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems --- Begin Message --- Package: installation-reports I'm at the debconf, I've been testing the latest build against the hardware provided for us. This is a Pentium IV of 2.00 GHz. with 2 network cards, 40 Gb Hard Drive, and some other nice stuff (sorry for not pasting cpuinfo and lspci, but the machines had no network). So, here come my comments: Network === If no network is detected with the DHCP thing, the next thing that appears is a "Input your IP" dialog. I think this is quite bad, since the user might not know what to input there and be stuck. I think the good thing to do would be to ask: Do you want to set up the network manually? And if not, well, no network is setup... When there's no network, no network should be used. This is to say that if no network was detected or configured, it makes no sense to inform the user that "security" could not be reached, and that kind of stuff. Partition Manager = About the partitioning system, well, it's pretty awful, but anyway, I think the "multi-user" setup is not properly named... Maybe "Safe Partitions", or "Advanced Partition Separation", or something. Or, if you really mean to call it "multi-user" because of the size of the /home, it would be nice to have a "Storage server" flavor, with a big /var and a small /home. Also, about this multi-user flavor, I was using a 40GB drive, and my / was assigned 148Mb. This is not very wise, since we are having /etc, /boot, /root, /bin, /sbin and /lib in this partition... I would say maybe 256Mb would be wiser. Of course, you already know that the design of this debconf dialogs is difficult to read. I have a couple of suggestions to make it a little bit better: * Please add GO buttons in all (or almost all) the screens. Instead of an option "Finish and proceed" that's mixed up with the other options. * Please don't make the user have to type the name of the unit (like GB or MB), it's error prone and confusing. A sign saying "enter the value in MB" or something would be better. * The Tamagotchi is confusing and scaring. It took me a long time to find out that there was HELP about the meaning of those. I think the HELP button should be just in the middle of the Back button and the OK button I'm asking for in the first point. * "Guided partitioning" should be "Restart with guided partitioning". Countries, Localization and Stuff = The second question of the installer is the keyboard selection. This is a good improvement over the previous installation that just assumed the keyboard. But I've noticed that in the English installation, keyboards DO have names, while in the Spanish installation, keyboards are identified by the layout name (la, es, br, etc). In non of the cases is there an alphabetical order. I think they SHOULD be in alph. order. When selecting the timezone, I selected "America", and then I had a long list of cities... It would be nice to have "America" divided by countries... I know this means adding a new debconf screen and new names to translate, but it's really not nice to be looking for the city I'm in the middle of a mess of cities of the whole continent. Tasksel and Aptitude There's no going "back" from Tasksel... I selected tasksel only to see which tasks I had available, but thinking of using aptitude to do the proper install, and then I had no back button. Just finish or cancel. == That's about it for now. I hope someone will read and do something about this things... :) -- Love, Margarita Manterola. --- End Message --- --- Begin Message --- This is a really old bug report, and many things have changed since then. And since some weeks, we have indeed a "server" partitioning scheme. So I'm closing this bug now. Holger -- Sent from /e/ OS on Fairphone3--- End Message ---
Bug#356521: marked as done ("free space is too small" error should say roughly what the minimum size has to be)
Your message dated Mon, 25 Nov 2024 00:35:42 +0100 with message-id <583922ce-69ba-4593-a727-61368a7dc...@mailbox.org> and subject line Re: #356521"free space is too small" error should say roughly what the minimum size has to be has caused the Debian Bug report #356521, regarding "free space is too small" error should say roughly what the minimum size has to be 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.) -- 356521: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=356521 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems --- Begin Message --- Package: installation-reports Boot method: Network, RedBoot Image version: debian-etch-beta2-20060216 (incl. IXP firmware) Date: Sun Mar 12 10:41:04 CET 2006 Machine: Linksys NSLU2, overclocked Processor: XScale-IXP42x Family rev 1 (v51) Memory: 32Mb Partitions: Disk Drive: /dev/sda Sector 0: 0x000: FC 31 C0 8E D0 31 E4 8E D8 8E C0 BE 00 7C BF 00 0x010: 06 B9 00 01 F3 A5 BE EE 07 B0 08 EA 20 06 00 00 0x020: 80 3E B4 07 FF 75 04 88 16 B4 07 80 3C 00 74 04 0x030: 08 06 B0 07 83 EE 10 D0 E8 73 F0 CD 1A 89 16 00 0x040: 08 E8 31 01 81 3E B2 07 FF FF 74 46 F6 06 B1 07 0x050: 80 74 06 B4 01 CD 16 75 39 F6 06 B1 07 40 74 07 0x060: F6 06 17 04 0F 75 2B 31 C0 CD 1A 2B 16 00 08 2B 0x070: 16 B2 07 72 D7 A0 B1 07 24 07 3C 07 75 0B BE BE 0x080: 07 B0 00 B9 04 00 80 3C 00 75 66 FE C0 83 C6 10 0x090: E2 F4 E8 E0 00 B4 0E BE 9E 07 8A 0E B0 07 AC D0 0x0A0: E9 73 02 CD 10 08 C9 75 F5 B0 3A CD 10 31 C0 CD 0x0B0: 16 3C 00 74 F8 3C 0D 74 BC 3C 61 72 06 3C 7A 77 0x0C0: 02 2C 20 88 C3 BE 9E 07 8A 0E B0 07 AC D0 E9 73 0x0D0: 04 38 C3 74 06 08 C9 75 F3 EB D2 B8 0D 0E 31 DB 0x0E0: CD 10 8D 84 61 00 3C 07 75 07 B0 1F A2 B0 07 EB 0x0F0: A1 E8 81 00 31 D2 B9 01 00 3C 04 74 47 73 F0 30 0x100: E4 B1 04 D2 E0 BE BE 07 01 C6 8A 16 B4 07 F6 C2 0x110: 80 74 2B B4 41 BB AA 55 56 52 CD 13 5A 5E 72 1E 0x120: 81 FB 55 AA 75 18 F6 C1 01 74 13 8B 44 08 8B 5C 0x130: 0A BE 8E 07 89 44 08 89 5C 0A B4 42 EB 0C 8A 74 0x140: 01 8B 4C 02 B8 01 02 BB 00 7C BF 05 00 50 C6 06 0x150: 90 07 01 CD 13 58 73 05 4F 75 F2 EB 92 81 3E FE 0x160: 7D 55 AA 75 F6 31 DB B8 0D 0E CD 10 B0 0A CD 10 0x170: EA 00 7C 00 00 50 B8 0D 0E 31 DB CD 10 BE 8A 07 0x180: B9 04 00 AC CD 10 E2 FB 58 C3 4D 42 52 20 10 00 0x190: 01 00 00 7C 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 31 32 0x1A0: 33 34 46 00 00 41 4E 44 54 6D 62 72 00 02 00 02 0x1B0: 90 C7 12 00 80 00 00 00 92 96 82 0D A6 01 00 01 0x1C0: 01 00 83 FE 3F 1B 3F 00 00 00 DD DC 06 00 00 00 0x1D0: 01 1C 05 FE 3F 1E 1C DD 06 00 43 BC 00 00 00 00 0x1E0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x1F0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 55 AA Sector 449820: 0x000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x030: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x040: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x050: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x060: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x070: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x080: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x090: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x0A0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x0B0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x0C0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x0D0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x0E0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x0F0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x100: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x110: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x120: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x130: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x140: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x150: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x160: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x170: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x180: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x190: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x1A0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x1B0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 0x1C0: 01 1C 82 FE 3F 1E 3F 00 00 00 04 BC 00 00 00 00 0x1D0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x1E0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x1F0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 55 AA Output of lspci and lspci -n: :00:01.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43) :00:01.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43) :00:01.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 04)
