Bug#806852: debian-installer: Rescue/Emergency shell unusable with locked root account

2015-12-01 Thread Kevin Locke
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Dear Debian Installer Developers, Currently if a user chooses to lock the root account during installation, they are in for an unpleasant surprise when attempting to fix boot-time issues using a rescue/emergency shell. In this case, the user will be pre

Bug#806849: debian-installer: d-i fails to install grub2 correctly for efi system using encrypted LVM

2015-12-01 Thread Carl Myers
Package: debian-installer Version: stretch alpha 4 Severity: important Tags: d-i Dear Maintainer, I have a new System76 Oryx Pro laptop using efi boot. Ubuntu installs successfully but I can't get debian to install using encrypted LVM. The laptop has an nvme device which requires efi boot so I

Re: Backports installed without prompt if not in base suite: bug or feature ?

2015-12-01 Thread David Kalnischkies
(see the other mail for more on this topic and also hopefully as a clearup of what was meant initially; just picking some semi-unique element here) On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 03:39:25PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > David Kalnischkies writes: > > Personally, I am in the "enable backports by default"

Re: Backports installed without prompt if not in base suite: bug or feature ?

2015-12-01 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 05:00:47PM +0100, Rhonda D'Vine wrote: > * David Kalnischkies [2015-11-30 22:22:08 CET]: > > In other words: If you have experimental sources on your stable system, > > packages new in experimental will be automatically installed, too, if > > requested without any force ne

Re: Trying to install Debian on an Asus VivoTab Smart ME400C

2015-12-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2015-12-01 at 23:49 +0100, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: > Hi! > > A friend gave me this tablet which has a broken glass + digitizer so I > thought I could maybe make some use of it under Debian. > > The device is a 32 bits Atom based uefi machine, so I got first jessie's > installer an

Trying to install Debian on an Asus VivoTab Smart ME400C

2015-12-01 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Hi! A friend gave me this tablet which has a broken glass + digitizer so I thought I could maybe make some use of it under Debian. The device is a 32 bits Atom based uefi machine, so I got first jessie's installer and then a weekly stretch build but on both of them I could get to the first menu b

Re: win32-loader_0.7.11_source.changes ACCEPTED into unstable

2015-12-01 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Debian FTP Masters (2015-11-30): > Accepted: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > Format: 1.8 > Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 19:25:40 +0100 > Source: win32-loader > Binary: win32-loader > Architecture: source > Version: 0.7.11 > Distribution: unstable > Urgency: medium > Main

Re: Backports installed without prompt if not in base suite: bug or feature ?

2015-12-01 Thread Rhonda D'Vine
* David Kalnischkies [2015-11-30 22:22:08 CET]: > In other words: If you have experimental sources on your stable system, > packages new in experimental will be automatically installed, too, if > requested without any force needed (it won't be upgraded through as > installed is pinned 100 which is

Re: Backports installed without prompt if not in base suite: bug or feature ?

2015-12-01 Thread Philip Hands
David Kalnischkies writes: ... > Personally, I am in the "enable backports by default" camp as I believe > that most people who issue a "apt install foo" want foo installed and do > not care enough about stable vs. backports to say 'no' to the solution > even IF they would know at the right momen

Bug#806780: --foreign/--second-stage breaks with multiple components

2015-12-01 Thread Sjoerd Simons
Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.75 Severity: normal Tags: patch When passing multiple components to --second-stage things fail as debootstrap tries to open debootstrap.invalid_dists_badger_snake|mushroom-armhf.Packages rather then seperate Packages file for snake and mushroom. Fixed in attached