Bug#1063858: False disk set size in README.(html|txt), and a few minor corrections
Package: debian-cd
X-Debbugs-Cc: J.A. Bezemer , Steve
McIntyre
Version: 3.2.1
Severity: minor
Dear maintainers, dear Steve[1]:
In the official current stable (12.5) images, the /README.(html|txt)
files (see att.) seem to miscount the total number of disks in each set.
For instance, in debian-12.5.0-amd64-DLBD-2.iso, section "About This
Disc" says: "[...]this disc is number 2 of a set of 1 discs"
1. This is obviously false, not only in the DLBD images.
While we're at it, could we tidy up the generating script in a few more
minor details, without separate bug reports maybe?
2. Aforementioned sentence's full stop is awkwardly misplaced in the
html (line-break in-between), and it's missing in the txt.
3. I was not quite certain about the version number to file this bug
against, so I took a look at the XHTML header for sth. like 'meta
name="generator"'. Wouldn't that be helpful to include?
4. The html claims to be "XHTML 1.0 Strict", but fails to validate
against https://validator.w3.org/ . AFAICT, that's only due to errors in
the section "Last-Minute Notes":
4.a. The "" beginning with "This is an official release" lacks a
closing "".
4.b. Where it says "https://bugs.debian.org/";>bugs.debian.org" it should
respectively say "a", "href", and "/a" instead.
5. The html header defines the language to be "English". Maybe "en"
would be more preferable?
Please let me know how I could be of any further assistance in resolving
these issues.
[1] FWIW, See also
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2024/01/msg00796.html , and please
accept my apology for being slow to file this bug.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.5
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500,
'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-18-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE,
TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE
not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages debian-cd depends on:
ii apt2.6.1
ii bc 1.07.1-3+b1
ii bzip2 1.0.8-5+b1
ii cpp4:12.2.0-3
ii curl 7.88.1-10+deb12u5
ii dctrl-tools [grep-dctrl] 2.24-3+b1
ii dpkg-dev 1.21.22
ii genisoimage9:1.1.11-3.4
pn libcompress-zlib-perl
pn libdigest-md5-perl
ii libdpkg-perl 1.21.22
ii libfile-slurp-perl .32-2
ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.86+ds-1
ii lynx 2.9.0dev.12-1
ii make 4.3-4.1
ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.36.0-7+deb12u1
ii pigz 2.6-1
ii tofrodos 1.7.13+ds-6
ii uuid-runtime 2.38.1-5+b1
ii wget 1.21.3-1+b2
ii xorriso1.5.4-4
Versions of packages debian-cd recommends:
ii dosfstools 4.2-1
ii hfsutils 3.2.6-15
ii isolinux 3:6.04~git20190206.bf6db5b4+dfsg1-3
ii mtools 4.0.33-1+really4.0.32-1
ii syslinux-common 3:6.04~git20190206.bf6db5b4+dfsg1-3
debian-cd suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
HTH, cheers
--
Kevin Price Debian GNU/Linux 12.5.0 "Bookworm" - Official amd64 DLBD Binary-2 with
firmware 20240210-11:28
(HTML version in README.html)
Welcome to the exciting world of
Debian GNU/Linux
This is one disc in a set containing the Debian GNU/Linux distribution.
Debian is a very extensive collection of software. But it is more. It
is a complete Operating System (OS) for your computer. And it is free
(as in "freedom").
CONTENTS:
* Introduction
* About This Disc
* Installing
* Last-Minute Notes
* Installing software using Apt
* CD/DVD Manufacturers
* More Information
* Browse This Disc
Introduction
An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that
make your computer run. At the core of an operating system is the
kernel. The kernel is the most fundamental program on the computer,
which does all the basic housekeeping and lets you start other
programs. Debian is kernel independent. It currently uses either the
Linux or FreeBSD kernel. Most of the basic operating system tools come
from the GNU project; hence the name GNU/Linux.
Debian is available for various kinds of computers ("architectures").
Check the ports page for more information.
Re: Bug#1063858: Acknowledgement (False disk set size in README.(html|txt), and a few minor corrections)
found 1063858 3.2.1 severity 1063858 minor thanks
Bug#781289: swap on encrypted volume not mounted
Package: debian-installer Version: 20150324 When using a current jessie installer cd-image to set up a LUKS (random key) encrypted partition for swap, it will not mount. It does show up in /etc/fstab correctly, but the DM device is not automatically created at boot time. -- Kevin Price http://www.kevin-price.de/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Bug#781290: LUKS encrypted partitions set to wrong type
Package: debian-installer Version: 20150324 When using a current jessie installer cd-image to set up a LUKS encrypted partition, the partition type ends up to be 0x83. The correct partition type would be 0xe8, at least according to Wikipedia. [1] This might not prevent anything within debian from working correctly, but it seems wrong and easily correctable to me. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_type -- Kevin Price http://www.kevin-price.de/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Bug#781289: swap on encrypted volume not mounted
Hi Karsten: Am 27.03.2015 um 15:57 schrieb Karsten Merker: > Could you provide further information that would enable us to > reproduce the problem? Yes. Sry for having submitted this in a hurry without having taken a closer look. Meanwhile I figured out what went wrong: I installed from a cdrom iamge on a KVM/QEMU virtual machine with cdrom as well as target storage connected via a virtio-scsi controller. (Snippets from the libvirt vm definition xml: [...] [...] [...]) The early installer stage does not find the CD it's installing from nor the target storage, until I connect a virtual USB drive containing virtio-modules-3.16.0-4-amd64-di_3.16.7-ckt2-1_amd64.udeb. The USB drive then becomes sda, then the virtio-scsi ctrl is found, including the cdrom and making the target storage become sdb. The installer generates (fs|crypt)tab referencing sdb, but on next reboot w/o the USB drive, target storage becomes sda. Not sure if it would work O.K. with LVM, b/c I partitioned like this: /dev/sda1 ext4 /boot /dev/sda2 (encrypted with /dev/urandom) swap /dev/sda3 (luks encrypted) ext4 / I fixed my vm by rewriting (crypt|fs)tab, referencing partitions in the /dev/disk/by-id/... style, and running update-initramfs -u using a rescue system (called grml, fwiw). Probably I could've worked around this installer bug using a floppy drive for the udeb instead of a usb drive, at the cost of having to add a virtual floppy drive. Does anyone voluntarily use floppies (even virtual ones) in 2015? Not sure if win. ;) I suspect that every machine is affected whose storage controller is not included in the installer if it's installed with encrypted partitions when the user chooses to use a /dev/sdx drive that is detected before the fixed storage. (Or just when some sdX drive happens to be present prior to the /dev/sdX target storage for any reason, probably even if installing from USB) A good fix would be to make the installer generate (crypt|fs)tab referencing all drives in a better suitable way; I'd recommend by-id. > In particular the install-time logfiles > (available under /var/log/installer) and the contents of > /etc/fstab and /etc/crypttab as well as the output of "ls -l > /dev/mapper" and "fdisk -l" on the installed system would be > helpful. Do you still need any of that? I'd reproduce IOT help troubleshoot. > Could you also provide the exact URL of the installer image that > you have used? Sry I can't recall that, but I'm now trying rc2 from http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/jessie_di_rc2/amd64/iso-cd/debian-jessie-DI-rc2-amd64-netinst.iso (md5sum 82d3ff6d2422af72f5e1a82de88c21ea) cheers -- Kevin Price http://www.kevin-price.de/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Bug#781289: swap on encrypted volume not mounted
Am 27.03.2015 um 21:48 schrieb Kevin Price: > Sry I can't recall that, but I'm now trying rc2 The problem is also in rc2. /etc/fstab: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a # device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices # that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5). # # /dev/mapper/sdb3_crypt / ext4noatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1 # /boot was on /dev/sdb1 during installation UUID=eef65a61-8310-44d5-a3fc-5692c3dcd464 /boot ext4 noatime 0 2 /dev/mapper/sdb2_crypt noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/sr0/media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 /etc/crypttab: sdb2_crypt /dev/sdb2 /dev/urandom cipher=aes-xts-plain64,size=256,swap sdb3_crypt UUID=64b58af0-e652-4134-8637-20a0843a5c49 none luks -- Kevin Price http://www.kevin-price.de/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Bug#406007: installation-report: RC1 installer (NSLU2) does not use swap before partitioning
Gordon Farquharson schrieb: > Kevin, what partitioning scheme were you trying to implement? >From memory, it was something like sda1 1 GB swap sda2 5 GB ext3 / sda3 995 GB ext3 /media/data I don't have access to my slug at this moment, but will have soon (this week most probably) and will re-test if you have any good ideas. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
