Re: late_command to get user entered password

2010-08-07 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[William Belanger] > Is the password blanked out to prevent someone printing it out? Yes. The late_command part is executed in finish-install.d/07preseed, while the user setup is in finish-install.d/06user-setup, and the passwords are cleared just after user. To get access to the user password,

Bug#591016: flash-kernel: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/flash_kernel_set_root mis-detects root filesystems for systems using ubifs

2010-08-07 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Daniel Kahn Gillmor [2010-07-30 19:32]: > Warning: /etc/fstab parse error; guessing that the root device is /dev/sda2 Please show me what your /etc/fstab looks like. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject o

Bug#591016: flash-kernel: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/flash_kernel_set_root mis-detects root filesystems for systems using ubifs

2010-08-07 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Daniel Kahn Gillmor [2010-07-31 10:34]: > i also note that there is no command in flash-kernel for the guruplug to > actually write the kernel to NAND storage -- it generates uImage and > uInitrd, but does not store them to /dev/mtd1 as i'd expect something like: > nandwrite /dev/mtd1 /boot/uIm

Three little observations from a Newbie.

2010-08-07 Thread Albert
Hi there, I am new to Linux and have only started using Debian one year ago.I am not a programmer, only a user. I have found three little annoyances with Debian 5.0.4/5.0.5 and they are: 1. Evolution email client: the program seems unable to display more than three (3) email accounts when check

late_command to get user entered password

2010-08-07 Thread William Belanger
Hello, I'm attempting to create a custom install CD using preseeding. I've managed to get everything to work as expected with one exception. My preseed/late_command calls a script, which - among other things - creates a samba user using smbpasswd. The creation of this user requires a username and

Re: Freeze exception for busybox 1.17.1-2

2010-08-07 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
On 0, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Hi, > > I have just uploaded busybox version 1:1.17.1-2 into unstable (it was > previously in experimental), which supports Hurd and GNU/kFreeBSD. > > As already agreed with Otavio, could you please unblock this package? > Unblocked. Cheers, -- Mehdi Dogguy

Bug#591917: marked as done (/sbin/mdadm --detail --scan fails in d-i)

2010-08-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sat, 07 Aug 2010 17:17:50 + with message-id and subject line Bug#591917: fixed in partman-md 53 has caused the Debian Bug report #591917, regarding /sbin/mdadm --detail --scan fails in d-i to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.

partman-md_53_i386.changes ACCEPTED

2010-08-07 Thread Archive Administrator
Accepted: partman-md_53.dsc to main/p/partman-md/partman-md_53.dsc partman-md_53.tar.gz to main/p/partman-md/partman-md_53.tar.gz partman-md_53_all.udeb to main/p/partman-md/partman-md_53_all.udeb Override entries for your package: partman-md_53.dsc - source debian-installer partman-md_5

Processing of partman-md_53_i386.changes

2010-08-07 Thread Archive Administrator
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Bug#505111: will suggest removal from testing

2010-08-07 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 07 Aug 2010, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 04:31:22PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > On Saturday 07 August 2010, Neil McGovern wrote: > > > As there isn't a resolution in sight, I'll add a hint at the end of > > > August for the removal of the package unless there's significant

Bug#505111: will suggest removal from testing

2010-08-07 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 07 Aug 2010, Frans Pop wrote: > On Saturday 07 August 2010, Neil McGovern wrote: > > As there isn't a resolution in sight, I'll add a hint at the end of > > August for the removal of the package unless there's significant > > progress to fixing the issue. > > I still feel this is an overre

Processed: bug 591917 is not forwarded

2010-08-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.35lenny7 > notforwarded 591917 Bug #591917 [partman-md] /sbin/mdadm --detail --scan fails in d-i Unset Bug forwarded-to-address > End of message, stopping processing here. Please c

Firmware images moved

2010-08-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey folks, As promised earlier (a few weeks back), I've moved the download location for the daily netinst images that I've been building including firmware packages. They are deliberately not included alongside the official main daily builds, as they contain non-free material. They're now at ht

Bug#505111: marked as done (rescue-mode md auto-assembly could cause data loss)

2010-08-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sat, 07 Aug 2010 15:04:31 + with message-id and subject line Bug#505111: fixed in rescue 1.23 has caused the Debian Bug report #505111, regarding rescue-mode md auto-assembly could cause data loss to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dea

rescue_1.23_i386.changes ACCEPTED

2010-08-07 Thread Archive Administrator
Accepted: rescue-check_1.23_all.udeb to main/r/rescue/rescue-check_1.23_all.udeb rescue-mode_1.23_all.udeb to main/r/rescue/rescue-mode_1.23_all.udeb rescue_1.23.dsc to main/r/rescue/rescue_1.23.dsc rescue_1.23.tar.gz to main/r/rescue/rescue_1.23.tar.gz Override entries for your packag

Bug#591852: marked as done (libdebian-installer: FTBFS: Clock skew detected.)

2010-08-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sat, 7 Aug 2010 15:59:44 +0100 with message-id <20100807145943.ga21...@riva.ucam.org> and subject line Re: Bug#591852: libdebian-installer: FTBFS: Clock skew detected. has caused the Debian Bug report #591852, regarding libdebian-installer: FTBFS: Clock skew detected. to be mark

Bug#505111: will suggest removal from testing

2010-08-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 04:31:22PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Saturday 07 August 2010, Neil McGovern wrote: > > As there isn't a resolution in sight, I'll add a hint at the end of > > August for the removal of the package unless there's significant > > progress to fixing the issue. > > I still f

Processing of rescue_1.23_i386.changes

2010-08-07 Thread Archive Administrator
rescue_1.23_i386.changes uploaded successfully to localhost along with the files: rescue_1.23.dsc rescue_1.23.tar.gz rescue-check_1.23_all.udeb rescue-mode_1.23_all.udeb Greetings, Your Debian queue daemon (running on host franck.debian.org) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-b

Bug#505111: will suggest removal from testing

2010-08-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 07 August 2010, Neil McGovern wrote: > As there isn't a resolution in sight, I'll add a hint at the end of > August for the removal of the package unless there's significant > progress to fixing the issue. I still feel this is an overreaction as only the original reporter has ever see

Bag in boot.img.gz for testing version.

2010-08-07 Thread Daniel Vera
The boot.img.gz it is in: "http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/hd-media/"; to make bootable pen drives does not work on version testing. While the process gzip-dc boot.img.gz is created then will not work, however to the same process but for lenny vesion if it works correctly. Tha

Bug#505111: will suggest removal from testing

2010-08-07 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 07 Aug 2010, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Can we PLEASE rename this from "rescue" image to "safe mode" image, and > document in its boot screen that it should NEVER be used in a system with > filesystem or RAID problems? Well, my whole reply came out with a lot more annoyed tone th

Bug#505111: will suggest removal from testing

2010-08-07 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 07 Aug 2010, Neil McGovern wrote: > Well, it seems that other people haven't taken an interest in the bug, > and we've now frozen, again. Yes. And the justifications in the bug report for not fixing the underlying issues go like this: we should take actions which are guaranteed to destro

Bug#505111: will suggest removal from testing

2010-08-07 Thread Neil McGovern
Well, it seems that other people haven't taken an interest in the bug, and we've now frozen, again. As there isn't a resolution in sight, I'll add a hint at the end of August for the removal of the package unless there's significant progress to fixing the issue. Neil -- the hacklab room is the