Re: Bug#605009: serious performance regression with ext4

2010-11-26 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Ted, Ted Ts'o wrote: > 1) Suppose package contains files "a", "b", and "c". Which are you > doing? > > a) extract a.dpkg-new ; fsync(a.dpkg-new); rename(a.dpkg-new, a); > extract b.dpkg-new ; fsync(b.dpkg-new); rename(b.dpkg-new, b); > extract c.dpkg-new ; fsync(c.dpkg-new); rename(

Processed: Re: Bug#604992: Adendum

2010-11-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > reassign 604992 grub-installer Bug #604992 [installation-reports] installation-reports: Acer Aspire One ZG5 - Grub2 configures usb flashdrive, containing install files as boot device. Bug reassigned from package 'installation-reports' to 'grub-in

Bug#604992: Adendum

2010-11-26 Thread Christian PERRIER
reassign 604992 grub-installer retitle 604992 Installs GRUB on USB stick during a USB install tags 604992 moreinfo thanks Quoting Duane Paulson (duane_paul...@yahoo.com): > Also need to edit /etc/fstab to remove reference to /dev/sda as USB drive. There have been fixes in grub-installer 1.57 to b

Bug#605076: installation-reports: debian squeeze testing install fails with undefined video mode number 314

2010-11-26 Thread zac
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Debian squeeze testing install fails with undefined video mode number 314. I noticed that the boot parameter vga is set to vga=788. On debian 5.0, this variable is set to vga=normal, and the install works fine. When I press tab and set vga to vga=norm

Re: Bug#605009: serious performance regression with ext4

2010-11-26 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 03:53:27PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Just to sum up what dpkg --unpack does in 1.15.8.6: > 1/ set the package status as half-installed/reinst-required > 2/ extract all the new files as *.dpkg-new > 3/ for all the unpacked files: fsync(foo.dpkg-new) followed by >ren

Bug#604992: Adendum

2010-11-26 Thread Duane Paulson
Also need to edit /etc/fstab to remove reference to /dev/sda as USB drive. -- 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/4cf00ea1.7070...@yahoo.com

Encripting Issue result on many, many hours installing...

2010-11-26 Thread Raymundo Dionicio Flores Siordia
Dear debian-boot team: Could the instaler warn me that encripting my disk will render my 1Tb machine useless about 8 hours?. Maybe could offer to bypass the default pre-cleaning. Maybe could offer to encript the first free 25% of HD space. Someting like that. I know that this is a newbe issue. B

Re: Bug#605009: serious performance regression with ext4

2010-11-26 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, adding debian-devel, debian-boot, debian-kernel and Theodore Y. Ts'o in CC because I'm fed up with this problem. Sorry for the massive crosspost, you might want to follow up only on -devel and on the bug report. Some clones/reassign should probably result from this discussion anyway. On Fri,

Bug#605029: account for ZFS in warning

2010-11-26 Thread Robert Millan
Package: partman-ufs Version: 5 Severity: minor Tags: patch partman-ufs complains when the root filesystem is not UFS. Given that ZFS as root is now supported, I think it should only complain if it's neither UFS nor ZFS. Also, the warning requires that the user select UFS as root filesystem, I t

Re: RFC: future size of embed area in partition labels

2010-11-26 Thread Robert Millan
2010/11/22 Robert Millan : >> Let's just dig into the reason why the embedding area is small in the >> cases you've seen.  I suspect that it may just be a simple bug, and >> won't require policy changes to fix. > > I'm short on time currently but I'll hopefully be able to do this > before the relea

Bug#605013: netcfg: Please add armhf support

2010-11-26 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
Source: netcfg Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi, The armhf port has reached a very good state (at 87%) at debian-ports.org, and I'm now mass-filing bug reports to packages for armhf support. Most packages just have to add armhf in the architecture field. The complete list is in http://wiki.debia

Bug#598668: Fwd: Re: Installation fails on acer aspire one za3

2010-11-26 Thread Luc Novalès
Le 17/11/2010 10:40, Mariusz Białończyk a écrit : Hello I have exactly same behavior yesterday on this netbook. I suppose the problem is with the graphical mode which grub is trying to initialize. The graphics chipset is Poulsbo - it is even wrong handled by xorg (i mean out of the box) so maybe

Bug#604978: marked as done (installation-reports: Installation succeeded with no problems.)

2010-11-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Fri, 26 Nov 2010 06:52:31 +0100 with message-id <20101126055231.gt3...@mykerinos.kheops.frmug.org> and subject line Re: Bug#604978: installation-reports: Installation succeeded with no problems. has caused the Debian Bug report #604978, regarding installation-reports: Installati