Re: Bug#873041: libxcursor1-udeb: Broken dpkg-shlibdeps rule

On Thu, 2017-08-24 at 03:22 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Drew, such conversion from xsfbs to dh should really be accompanied > by > a thorough debdiff check: > >   $ debdiff --controlfiles=ALL ../libxcursor*changes > > which makes the breakage obvious: >

debootstrap bashisms

Looks like debootstrap uses bashisms, but is shebanged to /bin/sh. Should probably just be /usr/bin/env bash. -- Drew DeVault

RE: Preseed issues with LVM/Keyboard configuration unattended/pxe install

appreciate you taking the time to assist me. Thank you, -Drew -Original Message- From: Philip Hands [mailto:p...@hands.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2015 12:26 PM To: Drew Weaver ; 'debian-boot@lists.debian.org' Subject: Re: Preseed issues with LVM/Keyboard configuration unat

Preseed issues with LVM/Keyboard configuration unattended/pxe install

e some way that I can tell it to do that even though it's basically trying to warn me that it doesn't want to? If anyone has any ideas what is going on I appreciate guidance. Thanks, -Drew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &quo

Re: Debian Installer 6.0 Release Candidate 1 release

ive: Ukrainian was falling back to Russian, for > instanceand we've been told that Ukrainian people aren't > enthusiast about that..:-) Yes, it would make sense for it to be the responsibility of the language translation teams to select their chosen LANGUAGE variable with t

Re: Debian Installer 6.0 Release Candidate 1 release

For 57 of these, translation is 100% complete; > Curious about this point: if you select one of the languages with incomplete translation, which language gets selected for the missing pieces? Can the user choose what that secondary language will be? Drew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Rescue Mode

re-made debian boot packages that have a small self-contained linux rescue environment builtin? Thanks, -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#540031:

I downloaded the iso again and the routine finished. Looks like I should have tried a little harder first! thanks On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 4:59 AM, Frans Pop wrote: > On Wednesday 05 August 2009, Drew Kropp wrote: > > Comments/Problems: Twice the install froze on "retrieving file

Bug#540031:

Package: installation-reports Boot method: Image version: Date: <~11pm central time august 4th, again roughly 2 hours later> Machine: Processor: Memory: 512mb ddr1 Partitions: Output of lspci -knn (or

Debian-Installer (Etch) parses strings incorrectly.

php?type string 10.1.0.20/install.php?type=deb4 Does anyone know how I can avoid this? It doesn't do this in Lenny, only in Etch. Thanks, -Drew

Bug#456578: debian-installer: after first reboot, grub says: "unknown filesystem type" and then hangs

filesystem. hda1 is the boot filesystem, not root. Try this and see what happens: --- root (hd0,1) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-5-k7 root=/dev/sda1 ro initrd /initrd.img-2.6.18-5-k7 --- -Drew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: stagger forced fsck on reboot

On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 09:04 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 11:39:22AM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 17:18 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > I fail to see why this > > > would be a problem or is, indeed, relevant. >

Re: stagger forced fsck on reboot

On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 17:18 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > I fail to see why this > would be a problem or is, indeed, relevant. I'm sorry, Wouter, it's not clear to me that you correctly read the problem I was describing. Drew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: stagger forced fsck on reboot

On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 13:42 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 11:40:17AM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > > Robert wrote: > > > > > > as far as i know it's also possible to set the counter to a specific > > > value, which might be bet

Re: stagger forced fsck on reboot

On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 13:39 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 11:54:24AM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > > You're taking it too disastrously. The problem I'm trying to solve is > > when the max mount count is reached, this is the case in which the

Re: Re: stagger forced fsck on reboot

ere is no journal). You're taking it too disastrously. The problem I'm trying to solve is when the max mount count is reached, this is the case in which the forced fscks becomes annoying. Whether the forced fsck is done this time around or only on the next reboot instead is not going to m

Re: stagger forced fsck on reboot

Robert wrote: > On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 04:40:05PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > > The inconvenience could be ameliorated if the force-fsck mount counter > > could be staggered for each partition. For instance, the first > > partition on every 20 mounts, the second on every

Re: stagger forced fsck on reboot

On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 09:57 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Monday 19 June 2006 08:40, Drew Parsons wrote: > > The inconvenience could be ameliorated if the force-fsck mount counter > > could be staggered for each partition. For instance, the first > > partition on every 20

stagger forced fsck on reboot

ition. For instance, the first partition on every 20 mounts, the second on every 21, and so on. Then on a given reboot, on average you'd only have to put up with one forced fsck, not all of them together. Has this been discussed before? Is it worth considering? Drew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#278746: prerc2-net partman? detect problems & 2.6 red screen

4.7GB partition free... ;-) Yes, that's right, I'm trying to use the installer simply to repartition an extra drive that's full... all so I can back things up again. :-( Streaming backup to DVD sounds great, but then wham, there comes that 2GiB limit. Oh well, I'm on a tang

Re: Inconsistency wrt to ellipsis (...)

Christian Perrier wrote: Folks, just decide whether there should be a space or not and I'll change this (I'm very good for these boring half-technical/no-coding thingslet's save your valuable time:-)) Well, this message is kind of old, but isn't there a unicode ellipsis character? Perhaps

Bug#221533: debian-install beta 3 & airport driver, other comments

not supposed to be changed in base anymore, what is > going on? Possibly a hardware issue, otherwise a bug on perl (241810). Apt was just confused. -- Joe Drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Just admit to yourself that you're a thief: http://me.woot.net/stealing.htm

Bug#241984: One further bit of information

problem for the parser, but it was disconcerting. -- Joe Drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Just admit to yourself that you're a thief: http://me.woot.net/stealing.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#241984: more comments about installation

I accidentally mistyped my WEP key; DHCP failed for obvious reasons, but it should say said "You may have mis-typed your WEP key" if one is entered in such a situation, and offer to take you right back there before retrying. -- Joe Drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECT

Bug#241984: /etc/fstab not written

Package: installation-reports Severity: important This is debian-installer beta 3 on powerpc. Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: beta 3 uname -a: Linux virgo 2.4.25-powerpc #1 ven mar 19 19:29:26 CET 2004 ppc GNU/Linux Date: 2004-04-04 Method: Businesscard/network install fr

Bug#221533: debian-install beta 3 & airport driver, other comments

ll ended while trying to set up the base system because of dependency problems; util-linux depends on zlib1g, but zlib1g isn't installed. Testing must be broken ATM. Anyways, that's as far as I got. Other than airport not being detected, everything was flawless. I am VERY impressed.

Bug#221533: install fails - "couldn't download exim4"

On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 16:03, Joey Hess wrote: > Joe Drew wrote: > > At first, DHCP failed since the Debian installer didn't detect my > > Airport card. > > Is this a hardware detection problem that we should do something about? > Are you sure it didn't detect t

Bug#221533: install fails - "couldn't download exim4"

Package: installation-reports Severity: important INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: Beta 1 100 MB CD image for powerpc uname -a: Linux (none) 2.4.22-powerpc #1 Sat Sep 27 06:55:23 CEST 2003 ppc unknown Date: 2003-11-18, 17:00 EST Method: Boot off CD with 100 MB cd iamge Machine: iBook Pro

Bug#192305: "q to end, b for begin" ambiguous

go to the next page in the current selection menu But all this can be left for an extended help option or a manual... unless of course it's clear that enough people are still confused. Drew Daniels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#192305: "q to end, b for begin" ambiguous

> q to quit select, b for back, n for next page Sounds great to me. Thanks! Drew Daniels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Failed PowerPC install

returned an error code. I guess it's not idempotent; however, after that I was utterly unable to proceed. I gave up and went back into OS X. Please CC replies to me. -- Joe Drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> My weblog doesn't detail my personal life: ht

Re: d-i minimum system requirements

to create an installer that could have a ramdisk with just enough to create a hard drive partition and then have the installer use that? This would probably impose the burden of restarting the computer, managing another ramdisk image with it's related software (d-i installer?), and adding

d-i minimum system requirements

Arg, resending... Drew Daniels -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 11:06:20 -0500 (CDT) From: Drew Scott Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: d-i minimum system requirements Hi, I was wondering if there was any speculation on wh

d-i minimum system requirements

devices unlike an older version... Is this fixed? Is discover 2.0 out yet? Is discover still used on the installer? A good test for this might be using boches' ethernet card emulation. What other minimum requirements are there? I'll look at doing some testing on Boches again once I have time.

squashfs

On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 12:24:49PM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: ... > > Where would I file a wishlist bug to get squashfs included in > > kernel-images? It's value is discussed in > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2003/d

Re: squashfs compressed file system update?

system team finds it useful enough then maybe that would be enough to have squashfs include in the Debian Linux kernel. Drew Daniels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

PPMd (PPMII) memory, file order in archives, special tar/debs/udebs

the files be passed to tar in a different or several different orders so that they may be stored in different orders. Although technically the order in which files are stored is a piece of information (thus technically this idea is lossy) it's extremely unimportant and when played with can dram

PPMd (PPMII), bzip2 -9 misconception, order of files in archives

hing like file to group like files together. File has quite a few bugs against it though ( http://bugs.debian.org/file ) and it may be far from an optimal choice. Certainly using file would be a good place for me to start. It'd be nice if someone wrote such a script before me though. ;-) Dr

squashfs compressed file system update?

On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 14:08:14 +1100 Glenn McGrath wrote: > On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 10:27:59 -0600 (CST) Drew Scott Daniels > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> It looks stable enough now, but I wonder why it hasn't been included >> in the Linux kernel (even 2.5?). I al

squashfs compressed file system

none. If I ever get to it I'll try writing a zlib replacement that uses a PPM variant, but it seems unlikely that I will. Squashfs is hosted at http://squashfs.sourceforge.net Drew Daniels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

README on woody CD not updated?

i386/ directory. That's no longer true is it? The woody upgrade notes are now ready aren't they? Have the README files slipped through the system at the last moment? Drew p.s. please CC me, I'm not subscribed to this list. -- PGP public key available at http://people.debian.org/~dpa

trouble with LILO (no multi-boot function)

Problems with LILO... Installing Debian (potato kernel2.2 v6) for the first time, I went ahead and put LILO in the MBR, assuming this would give me the convenience of choosing which OS to boot, as did the modified version of LILO that ships with Mandrake. Here are my partitions for reference:

Re: Please test this woody cd image

On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 06:40:17PM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 11:35:31AM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 01:38:14PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote: > > ... > > > I just tested it on all the bootable

Re: Please test this woody cd image

CD. As far as I'm aware, this was because the boot image on the CD was based on a 2.88MB floppy image, where the Toshiba laptops could only handle a 1.44MB image. I'm impressed to hear Toshiba laptops can boot normally again :) Drew -- PGP public key available at http://people.debi

Bug#128237: Slight misunderstanding

The images-1.44 directory _does_ exist under the 32 and 64 directories; however, when selecting the directory, no mention of 32 or 64 is made. This is probably not an 'important' bug anymore, but I'll let you be the judge. -- Joe Drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PRO

Bug#128237: boot-floppies: [hppa] net install should not use nonexistent images-1.44

Package: boot-floppies Version: N/A; reported 2002-01-07 Severity: important Using the network base installation on hppa, images-1.44 is searched for, which doesn't exist in hppa. Instead, boot-floppies should use 32 or 64, depending on the kernel currently booted. -- System Information Debian

Re: woody release task needs help: package priorities

on? I use exim simply because it came standard. I'd like to know why postfix is better. Drew (p.s debian-devel: sorry for the resend, I wanted Adam to recieve the question since he doesn't read d-d) -- PGP public key available at http://dparsons.webjump.com/drewskey.txt Fingerprint