Joey Hess schrieb am Sonntag, 02. Januar 2005 um 13:17:18 -0500:
> Joerg Friedrich wrote:
> > Because the user is aware of what he wants to use and does not need the
> > other part of the world.
>
> You've just described the class of users whom the debian task system is
> not designed. There exist
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 07:37:33AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Jaap van Wingerde ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > Package: debian-installer
> > Version: 20041118
> > Debian Sarge installation CD-ROM, built on 20041118
> > Select and install packages
> > There was a problem installing the s
> So we will deny our English speaking users the grace of an error
> message because we want to screw speakers of all languages the same
> way? Great!
Yes. This has always been the policy during string freezes. The main
one is that we want to keep control of the messages addition during
these fr
Quoting Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Monday 03 January 2005 21:03, Joey Hess wrote:
> > No, the floppy-retriever assumes all udebs found on floppies are
> > standard priority as a special case to avoid this sort of problem.
> Ah. OK.
>
> /me thinks of something else (being an S/390 expert ;
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Quoting Jaap van Wingerde ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Package: debian-installer
> Version: 20041118
>
> Debian Sarge installation CD-ROM, built on 20041118
>
> Select and install packages
>
> There was a problem installing the selected software.
> .., be in broken state until you manually resolve
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Bug#288420: "Partition disks" fails without error if /target busy
Bug#255050: init.d/umount_target fails when /target is busy and the partitioner
can not start
Severity set to `minor'.
> merge 255050 288420
Bug#255050: init.d/umo
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On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 12:17 +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Sven Luther]
> > I think the real solution to this recuring problem is to split the
> > dekstop patch into a "just X", "gnome" and "KDE" task. This is much
> > more friendlier to our non-broadband users, and it makes the task
> > stuf
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>
End of
> Looking back through this bug report, manually loading sata_via worked
> for him with the 2.4.26 kernel before. I'm not clear on whether this is
> still the problem (in which case we need lspci information and to
> reassign it to discover1-data), or whether the module is now loaded by
> the insta
Package: debian-installer
Version: 20041118
Debian Sarge installation CD-ROM, built on 20041118
Select and install packages
There was a problem installing the selected software.
.., be in broken state until you manually resolve the problem.
Deselect:
fileutils 4.1-10_i386.deb
trying to over
Package: installation-reports
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: 20041217
uname -a: Linux leo.ido.ath.cx 2.6.8-1-k7 #1 Thu Nov 25 04:13:37 UTC
2004 i686 GNU/Linux
Date: 20041230
Method: linux26 install from CD 1 of 2.
Machine: nForce 2
Processor: Barton 2500+
Memory: 256 MB
Root Device: SEA
On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 08:52 +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 11:28:52PM -0500, Raylynn Knight wrote:
> > On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 15:12, Sven Luther wrote:
>
> > > Yeah, but which of the images do you use ? what is the name of it ? I use
> > > the
> > > zImage.chrp, so hopefully
Package: partman
Severity: normal
This is not really a partman bug, but a partman-prep bug, but since
partman-prep was never uploaded yet, i think it is better to fill the bug
report against partman so it shows up in the relevant places.
Cajus Pollmeier prepared a partman-prep package, copied fr
On Sunday 02 January 2005 21:27, Johan Ebbinghaus wrote:
> Comments/Problems:
> During reboot the system hangs. This is what can be
> seen on the screen when the boot hangs:
> ---
> /etc/rcS.d/S38discover: line 204: 389 segmentation
> fault modprobe $MODULE
>
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Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 20:50:48 +0100
To: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bug#282756: installation-reports
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On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 08:14:46PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
>
> > Ideally, the tasksel stuff would be rewritten with subtasks support, and
> > some
> > kind of priority scheme, where you could look at it on one priority and have
>
>
> It has already been rewritten, but I guess Joey would
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 08:05:27PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > > I've modified it to use the fdisk spelling all the time "PPC PReP
> > > Boot", but of cause, it's no problem to switch to "PowerPC PReP".
> >
> > That would be best "PowerPC PReP Boot" i think.
>
> Changing it ASAP would be
Marc Haber wrote:
> So we will deny our English speaking users the grace of an error
> message because we want to screw speakers of all languages the same
> way? Great!
For a relatively minor problem like this one, yes, consistency is more
important than fixing it for one small subset of the very
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 09:22:38PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 08:59:20PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> > Well, when you're responsible for more than a handful machines, it is
> > generally a Good Thing[tm] to have them set up all the same.
>
> And it is a Good Thing to have t
On Monday 03 January 2005 21:03, Joey Hess wrote:
> No, the floppy-retriever assumes all udebs found on floppies are
> standard priority as a special case to avoid this sort of problem.
Ah. OK.
/me thinks of something else (being an S/390 expert ;-)
For S/390 languagechooser and countrychooser are
reassign 288351 grub-installer
retitle 288351 Problem installing grub in RAID/LVM installation
thanks
On Monday 03 January 2005 10:19, Marjan Blatnik wrote:
> GRUB can't find the kernel image.
> GRUB looks for kernel in (hd0,0),
> but the kernel image is located in (hd0,1).
What was the actual er
Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > Christian Perrier wrote:
> > > We should then close this bug report though I have a little concern as the
> > > installation did not work with the 2.4 kernel which is the default d-i
> > > kernelshould we keep such bug report
Frans Pop wrote:
> On Monday 03 January 2005 20:18, you wrote:
> > Once fix would be to change the priority of all three packages
> > to optional, which would prevent them from being used unless they's
> > included on an initrd or driver floppy, or unless something else of a
> > higher priority dep
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 08:59:20PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 09:01:29PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 08:00:12PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 07:50:15PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > > I am curious, why in hell do you want
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 08:30:44PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Now that d-i is branched, there no objection for adding the message to
> partman. NOT in sarge branch of course, because of the still standing
> string freeze there.
So we will deny our English speaking users the grace of an erro
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Bug#288351: Debian installer bug report
Bug reassigned from package `installation-reports' to `grub-installer'.
> retitle 288351 Problem installing grub in RAID/LVM installation
Bug#288351: Debian installer bug report
Cha
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Bug#288420: "Partition disks" fails without error if /target busy
Severity set to `minor'.
> reassign 288420 partman
Bug#288420: "Partition disks" fails without
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 09:01:29PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 08:00:12PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 07:50:15PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > I am curious, why in hell do you want to put these partitions under /mnt
> > > and
> > > not under / dir
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 08:00:12PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 07:50:15PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > I am curious, why in hell do you want to put these partitions under /mnt and
> > not under / directly ?
>
> That one is actually a relic from pre-LVM times when it was ha
> Actually you'll have the same problem again, with anna loading
> languagechooser and countrychooser until they're removed from the
> archive. Once fix would be to change the priority of all three packages
> to optional, which would prevent them from being used unless they's
> included on an init
severity 288420 normal
merge 255050 288420
thanks
> This is indeed a known problem. libparted and thus partman doesn't like to
> modify the partition table while a partition is mounted, and thus fails to
> reread the partition table after partitioning, or plain refuses to do stuff.
Yes, this seem
> With the installation starting automatically after filesystem mount,
> this is not possible, hence my request to wait at this point.
If you install with a non default priority (for instance "linux
DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium"), you will be bringed back to the main menu
before the base system insta
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Christian Perrier wrote:
> > We should then close this bug report though I have a little concern as the
> > installation did not work with the 2.4 kernel which is the default d-i
> > kernelshould we keep such bug reports opened when using 2.6 solves
> >
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Bug#288420: "Partition disks" fails without error if /target busy
Severity set to `normal'.
> merge 255050 288420
Bug#255050: init.d/umount_target fails when /target is busy and the partitioner
can not start
Bug#288420: "Partiti
On Monday 03 January 2005 20:18, you wrote:
> Once fix would be to change the priority of all three packages
> to optional, which would prevent them from being used unless they's
> included on an initrd or driver floppy, or unless something else of a
> higher priority depends on them.
AFAIK that w
tags 288413 pending
thanks
Quoting Cajus Pollmeier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Package: discover1-data
> Version: 1.2004.11.27
> Severity: normal
>
> The attached patch adds detection support for emulex fibre channel
> controlers.
I have commited it to the CVS as it seemed very safe to me
Thanks fo
Christian Perrier wrote:
> We can probably. Indeed, I never focused on that as, in my mind,
> languagechooser should disappear as soone as localechooser is
> used. So, when we will switch the image build lists to use
> localechooser, languagechooser will never be on them and thus will no
> more app
Christian Perrier wrote:
> We should then close this bug report though I have a little concern as the
> installation did not work with the 2.4 kernel which is the default d-i
> kernelshould we keep such bug reports opened when using 2.6 solves
> a problem?
If you're going to close it otherwise
On Monday 03 January 2005 20:07, Marc Haber wrote:
> I used it, and I used it correctly, resulting in the desired
> partitioning scheme.
Ah yes, from your comments about the symlinks I now see what you're doing.
> Well, using the locally chosen partitioning scheme, it is necessary to
> manually c
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Bug#288413: discover1-data: Missing information for Emulex SCSI controllers
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Daniel Dickinson wrote:
> It turns out that this problem was due to missing pic libraries that
> dpkg-checkbuilddeps missed. The pic libraries I now have installed
> (though not all of them are needed I'm sure) are:
>
> libstdc++5-3.3-pic
> libstdc++5-pic
> libstdc++6-pic
I strongly doubt these
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 07:44:32PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Monday 03 January 2005 17:21, Marc Haber wrote:
> > hda1 Windows
> > hda2 Swap
> > hda3 root (XFS 200 MB) /
> > hda4 physical volume
> > vg0 volume group
> >usr XFS 8G /mnt/usr
> > home XFS 8G /mnt/home
> >
> Ideally, the tasksel stuff would be rewritten with subtasks support, and some
> kind of priority scheme, where you could look at it on one priority and have
It has already been rewritten, but I guess Joey would be very glad if
some more people jump in it.
Maybe branching tasksel could be usef
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 07:50:15PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> I am curious, why in hell do you want to put these partitions under /mnt and
> not under / directly ?
That one is actually a relic from pre-LVM times when it was hard to
repartition, and partitions didn't have a useable label.
The ad
> > I've modified it to use the fdisk spelling all the time "PPC PReP
> > Boot", but of cause, it's no problem to switch to "PowerPC PReP".
>
> That would be best "PowerPC PReP Boot" i think.
Changing it ASAP would be wise as the quickest translators have alredy
started to work on this translati
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Bug#288420: "Partition disks" fails without error if /target busy
Bug reassigned from package `install' to `partman'.
> severity 288420 minor
Bug#288420: "Partition disks" fails without error if /target busy
Severity set to `min
reassign 288409 debian-installer
thanks
On Monday 03 January 2005 17:21, Marc Haber wrote:
> hda1 Windows
> hda2 Swap
> hda3 root (XFS 200 MB) /
> hda4 physical volume
> vg0 volume group
>usr XFS 8G /mnt/usr
> home XFS 8G /mnt/home
> var XFS 7G /mnt/var
It appears t
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 05:21:50PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> Package: install
> Version: d-i 20050103
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Hi,
>
> I have partitioned my disk as follows:
>
> hda1 Windows
> hda2 Swap
> hda3 root (XFS 200 MB) /
> hda4 physi
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 06:40:44PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> Package: install
> Severity: normal
>
> When one selects "Partition disks" while /target is still busy (for
> example, if the shell on tty2 has /target as its cwd, no error message
> is displayed, but one is returned without further not
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Bug#288409: please consider waiting before installing the base system
Bug reassigned from package `install' to `debian-installer'.
> thanks
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> Output of lspci and lspci -n: couldn't get here
Could you try booting a Knoppix CD and send us the output of:
(lspci -v ; lspci -n) | sort
Knowing which module shoul dbe loaded for handling this car would
help, also.
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Package: install
Severity: normal
When one selects "Partition disks" while /target is still busy (for
example, if the shell on tty2 has /target as its cwd, no error message
is displayed, but one is returned without further notice to the menu,
with "Partition disks" still selected.
Greetings
Marc
Package: discover1-data
Version: 1.2004.11.27
Severity: normal
The attached patch adds detection support for emulex fibre channel
controlers.
-- Package-specific info:
lspci:
:00:00.0 0600: 1166:0008 (rev 23)
:00:00.0 Host bridge: ServerWorks CNB20HE Host Bridge (rev 23)
:00:00.1 060
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 05:36:29PM +0100, Cajus Pollmeier wrote:
>
> >That said, i think the trademarked word is PowerPC, ppc is the kernel
> >shorthand, and maybe also used in fdisk. "PowerPC PReP" should be the
> >right
> >way to describe it. I think IBM has some powerpc spelling guide
> >some
Am 03.01.2005 um 17:22 schrieb Sven Luther:
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 08:23:30AM +0100, Cajus Pollmeier wrote:
Am 03.01.2005 um 06:51 schrieb Christian Perrier:
(CC'ing you just to be sure you get this, but please answer only in
the list)
Quoting Cajus Pollmeier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Hi
I've prepared
Package: install
Version: d-i 20050103
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
I have partitioned my disk as follows:
hda1 Windows
hda2 Swap
hda3 root (XFS 200 MB) /
hda4 physical volume
vg0 volume group
usr XFS 8G /mnt/usr
home XFS 8G /mnt/home
var XFS 7G /mnt/var
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 01:17:18PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Joerg Friedrich wrote:
> > Because the user is aware of what he wants to use and does not need the
> > other part of the world.
>
> You've just described the class of users whom the debian task system is
> not designed. There exist plent
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 12:17:33PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Sven Luther]
> > I think the real solution to this recuring problem is to split the
> > dekstop patch into a "just X", "gnome" and "KDE" task. This is much
> > more friendlier to our non-broadband users, and it makes the task
>
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
I am thinking of
implementing a function which would return the partition table (disklabel)
type in parted_server (GET_DISK_TYPE or something), which would just
return disk->type->name.
Yes, this seams to be the best solution.
Anton Zinoviev
Hi Anton,
I hav
Package: installation-reports
Severity: important
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers experimental
APT policy: (990, 'experimental'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
INSTALL REPORT
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 08:23:30AM +0100, Cajus Pollmeier wrote:
>
> Am 03.01.2005 um 06:51 schrieb Christian Perrier:
>
> >(CC'ing you just to be sure you get this, but please answer only in
> >the list)
> >
> >Quoting Cajus Pollmeier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> >>Hi
> >>
> >>I've prepared a partman-
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 11:09:35PM -0500, Jurij Smakov wrote:
>
> I need to check that the disk
> where kernel is installed has a sun disklabel.
This is a problem for other architectures also...
> I am thinking of
> implementing a function which would return the partition table (disklabel)
>
Package: installation-reports
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: 2005-01-01
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/i386/20050101/
sarge-i386-netinst.iso
uname -a: not available
Date: 2005-01-02 -- 2005-01-03
Method: Boot from netinst CD. Reboot failed so
did not get to instal
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 08:44:21PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> > It would be wonderful if you can make partman-prep to work both on ppc
> > and hppa. The partman-palo package does not have testers and if there
> > are only string differences between partman-palo and partman-p
Hi Geert
I have installed Debian on a different machine using the suspect machines hard drive and all went well.
I also installed Ubuntu Warty Warthog Release on this suspect machine using it's suspect hard drive and that worked ok.
I am thinking that it may be worth checking what driver / module
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 20:10:08 +0100, Frank Lenaerts wrote:
> Can someone tell me why the hostname of a machine is added as an alias
> for 127.0.0.1 to /etc/hosts during the installation i.e. why do we
> have something like this in /etc/hosts?
>
> --- begin ---
> 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomai
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Well the pic libraries issue seems to be cleared up now - don't know why
dpkg-checkbuilddeps didn't catch on, but oh well.
Now I'm running into another problem with building the sarge branch as
you can see from the following build log for the sarge bran
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version:
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/i386/rc2/sarge-i386-netinst.iso
Date: January 3, 2005
Method: Downloaded the netinstall CD.
Machine: Home-built
Processor: Intel Celeron 500a
Memory: 128
Root Device: 13GB IDE
Root Size
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/i386/20041231/sarge-i386-netinst.iso
uname -a: Linux dkot 2.6.8-1-386 #1 Thu Nov 25 04:24:08 UTC 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
Date: 20050102
Method: sarge-i386-netinst, only base system
Machine: nonam
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 08:00:09PM -, Nick Bartle wrote:
>
> Hi Geert,
Hello Nick,
> Thanks for the reply, here's what I get:
>
> "Alt-F3"
>
> Mke2fs 1.35 28-feb-2004
> Warning: could not read block 0: attempt to read block from filesystem
> resulted in short read
> Ext2fs_mkdir: attempt to
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