Bug#686502: pxz produces archives broken for busybox's unxz

2012-12-27 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Abou Al Montacir wrote: > Hover, I assume we can save this extra code as soon as we don't loose > data. That's fine with me. All you'd need to do is error out if there is anything after the first stream. That would make it a conformant decoder and prevent silent data loss, though it would mean

Bug#686502: pxz produces archives broken for busybox's unxz

2012-12-24 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Abou Al Montacir wrote: > On Sat, 2012-12-22 at 10:21 -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> What happens if a stream ends at a buffer boundary, followed by >> padding? Or if padding doesn't fit in the buffer, for that >> matter? [...] > Please find attached new debdif

Bug#686502: pxz produces archives broken for busybox's unxz

2012-12-22 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Abou Al Montacir wrote: > +--- busybox-1.20.0~/archival/libarchive/decompress_unxz.c2012-12-20 > 21:51:04.0 +0100 > busybox-1.20.0/archival/libarchive/decompress_unxz.c 2012-12-20 > 21:49:11.0 +0100 > +@@ -87,7 +87,17 @@ unpack_xz_stream(transformer_aux_data_t *aux,

Re: disable l2 cache on kirkwood devices (workaround #658904)

2012-09-11 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Ian Campbell wrote: > My main concern with doing this on the kernel side is that it will > eventually fall foul of the attempts to reduce everything to a single > kernel image, since the code will necessarily be quite kirkwood specific > and run very early on. Is it possible to do something reaso

Re: disable l2 cache on kirkwood devices (workaround #658904)

2012-09-10 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Ian, On Aug 30, 2012, Ian Campbell wrote: > I've just tried injecting the following onto the head of the zImage (in > a similar manner to flash-kernel's set_machine_id function): [...] > This works around the issue on my dreamplug (this is effectively the > same code sequence as what the u-boo

Microcode and the installer (Re: Towards d-i wheezy beta 3)

2012-09-10 Thread Jonathan Nieder
(replying to -devel and -boot only) Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 10 Sep 2012, Philipp Kern wrote: >> If we do that the same should also happen for firmware-linux-nonfree. Loading >> the radeon KMS module without firmware available results in an unusable >> (text) console. (Yes, it

Re: pxz produces archives broken for busybox's unxz

2012-09-05 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Holger Levsen wrote: > the typo3 orig.tar.gz as it is in squeeze or sid is sufficient: gunzip it and > compress it with pxz and "voila"... *builds pxz, tests* Luckily the cause seems to be simple. pxz works by concatenating whole XZ files, but for simplicity busybox unxz ignores everythin

Re: pxz produces archives broken for busybox's unxz

2012-09-02 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Holger, Holger Levsen wrote: > pxz (somtimes) produces archives broken for busybox's unxz, while they > decompress fine with unxz from xz-utils packges. I noticed when trying > to uncompress pxz compressed initramfs files, while this is an universal > way to reproduce it: Thanks! Could you

Priority field of xz-utils package

2012-08-17 Thread Jonathan Nieder
(please direct replies to debian-devel only) Ever since dpkg started using liblzma directly (dpkg 1.16.4), the xz command is no longer needed in a minimal Debian system. Based on its list of reverse-dependencies, it would presumably even be safe to lower its priority to optional. I think "standa

Bug#661069: d-i: radeon: Please make sure firmware is installed or the user warned about its lack

2012-08-05 Thread Jonathan Nieder
reassign 661069 base-installer 1.125 quit Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 15:29:57 -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> d-i team: can you reproduce this? Does installing on a machine with a >> radeon not warn about missing firmware? Is that fixable, for example >

Re: installation-reports: grub-install tries to install to a nonsense string

2012-08-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
reassign 681227 grub-installer quit Hi, Matthew Vernon wrote: > grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '/dev/sdb w33sxs34rfvbg789iokm·']' > grub-installer: info: grub-install supports --no-floppy > grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target grub-install --no-floppy > --force "/dev/sdb" >

Bug#601721: installation-reports: Build w/ /boot partition succeeds, but re-boot fails in fsck 445148

2012-08-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Miguel, Miguel Figueiredo wrote: > i would like to see this tested in with daily images, expert mode > using sid to see if the updated grub makes any difference. > Can you test it and give feedback? What change was made in grub? If it is one that directly addressed the problem described here

Bug#682946: latest weekly PowerPC CD#1 stalls because it cant find aptitude

2012-08-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
reassign 682946 cdimage.debian.org tags 682946 + wheezy moreinfo quit Hi Rick, Rick Thomas wrote: > Boot method: CD > Image version: > /cdimage/weekly-builds/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-testing-powerpc-xfce+lxde-CD-1.iso > (23-Jul-2012 07:59 635M) [...] > Jul 26 10:01:22 pkgsel: checking for (secur

Bug#675294: [squeeze] missing support for Marvell 6Gbps SATA controller (device 1b4b:91a3)

2012-08-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder --- drivers/ata/ahci.c |2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/ata/ahci.c b/drivers/ata/ahci.c index 6787aab..2aa7af1 100644 --- a/drivers/ata/ahci.c +++ b/drivers/ata/ahci.c @@ -684,6 +684,8 @@ static const struct pci_device_

Bug#658272: cdrom: testing image 64bit from 30.1.2012 crashed with first login and corrupted grup2

2012-08-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
# system-specific severity 658272 important tags 658272 = moreinfo wheezy # bug in the installed system, untriaged reassign 658272 base quit Hi, melchiaros wrote: > I have installed the latest testing image from 30.1.2012. The installation > works fine, but on first login in GNOME3 the system cr

Bug#673910: d-i: mounting/dev/sda1 on /target/ failed: Invalid argument

2012-08-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 673910 + moreinfo # failed installation, probably system-specific severity 673910 important quit Hi, Miguel Figueiredo wrote: > On 22-05-2012 01:52, Andrew Spiers wrote: >> I then receive the error "The attempt to mount a file system with the >> type ext4 in SCSI3 (0,0,0), partition #1 (sda

Bug#664142: installation-reports: Boot selection screen freezes with testing amd64 on hd-media

2012-08-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
# important (installer failed), probably system-specific severity 664142 important quit Hi Max, Max Sievers wrote: > the initial boot only shows the selection screen and then freezes. This was > also the case with older Debian Wheezy versions on this machine. That's why I > use CDs for intalla

Bug#661069: radeon (evergreen): random-looking pattern of pixels when firmware not installed

2012-08-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
retitle 661069 d-i: radeon: Please make sure firmware is installed or the user warned about its lack. tags 661069 + wheezy # basic support for common hardware severity 661069 important quit Hi, Thomas Kippenberg wrote: > Concerning the installer: There was no warning about the missing > firmwar

Bug#652353: installation-reports: Bottom 1/3 of screen turns black, then system locks-up

2012-08-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
# hardware support severity 652353 important reassign 652353 src:linux linux-2.6/2.6.32-39 quit Hi Chris, asdf wrote: >>> I have this in my /var/log/syslog, repeated for probably about 100 lines or >>> so... >>> >>> nSource: METHOD_CNT, nStatus: INVALID_STATE PROTECTION_FAULT Ch: 1/3 Class >>> 0

Re: Failed to Install Debian 6.0 on Dell PERC H710P

2012-06-09 Thread Jonathan Nieder
gator_...@dell.com wrote: > thank you. where can i download the updated kernel? Here it is: http://alioth.debian.org/~jrnieder-guest/temp/driver-test/ Completely untested, since I don't have a 64-bit machine handy at the moment. I would be interested in hearing how it behaves on a variety of

Re: Failed to Install Debian 6.0 on Dell PERC H710P

2012-06-08 Thread Jonathan Nieder
gator_...@dell.com wrote: > thank you. where can i download the updated kernel? I'll build one. Is the customer using the 32-bit (i386) or 64-bit (amd64) version of the OS? Here are instructions for building a patched kernel on the same kind of Debian system, from a directory containing the twe

Re: Failed to Install Debian 6.0 on Dell PERC H710P

2012-06-08 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, gator_...@dell.com wrote[1]: > My customer just bought a PowerEdge R620 with H710, and their OS is > Debian 6.0. they failed to install Debian 6.0 on R620. I searched > Debian bugs, and found this bug was fixed. > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=666108 > > I have poor linux s

Bug#613564: [Debian 6] Installation hangs during network hardware probing

2012-05-23 Thread Jonathan Nieder
reassign 613564 src:linux-2.6 2.6.32-43 tags 613564 + d-i quit Hi, Dmitry Zvorikin wrote: > Yes, the problem persists. It can be reproduced at 2 different > computers (S775 C2d E5400 G31 and that S478 old pc). > Both have latest-updated debians (apt-get update && apt-get > dist-upgrade && reboot

Re: linux-image-2.6.32-5-kirkwood: Can't load module ipv6

2012-05-18 Thread Jonathan Nieder
reassign 673418 flash-kernel 2.37 forcemerge 656877 673418 retitle 656877 flash-kernel is not being run for kernel upgrades with unchanged ABI version quit Hi Franz, Franz Ratzinger wrote: > Package: linux-2.6 > Version: 2.6.32-44 [...] > [ 31.554510] ipv6: Unknown symbol sock_queue_err_skb [

Bug#670993: busybox: Please use dpkg-buildflags for hardening support

2012-05-14 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Michael Tokarev wrote: > If I were upstream I'd reject this approach. Oh, sorry for the lack of clarity. I'm personally fine with leaving these warnings unaddressed. (Debian doesn't use busybox's selinux support as far as I can tell.) My only goal was to convey that there are at least three op

Bug#670993: busybox: Please use dpkg-buildflags for hardening support

2012-05-14 Thread Jonathan Nieder
er patch might involve introducing a separate bb_error_msgf function for callers that want to pass a format and letting bb_error_msg take a simple string, or turning bb_msg_memory_exhausted et al into string literals as you suggested. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder --- archival/bzip2.c

Bug#605076: [zac.3.14...@gmail.com: Re: debian squeeze testing install fails with undefined video mode number 314]

2012-02-21 Thread Jonathan Nieder
correctly to allow me to select the video mode. but it's all scrambled. I had to decipher the glitched up tiny text to figure it out. On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 12:03 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Miguel Figueiredo wrote: > > > vga=788 is 800x600 16bit color. > > > >

Bug#613564: [Debian 6] Installation hangs during network hardware probing

2012-02-19 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Dmitry, Miguel Figueiredo wrote: > A Terça 15 Fevereiro 2011 17:59:41 Dmitry Zvorikin você escreveu: >> Installation of newest stable debian 6 hangs. > > Is it a kernel crash? The installer is stopped? > Can you take a look on what is happeding on the virtual console 4 and give > more detai

Bug#605477: [squeeze] hyperv: d-i failed to detect synthetic network card

2012-02-19 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 605477 - moreinfo severity 605477 wishlist unarchive 652014 tags 652014 - pending # test was presumably with an older version, but hyperv drivers # haven't been backported, so reassign 605477 src:linux-2.6 2.6.32-41 merge 652014 605477 quit Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting Giovanni Proscia

Bug#600329: Fwd: RE: Manual submission: reportbug installation-reports

2012-02-19 Thread Jonathan Nieder
k. There's no hope of powering it up in it's current condition, and it'll have to wait until the rack gets a new permanent home maybe next year. Regards, Chris Bartels President/CEO Superior Sound Systems, LLC -Original Message- From: Jonathan Nieder [mailto:jrnie...@gmail.com

Bug#607480: installation-reports: Ethernet Card Atheros AR8152

2012-02-19 Thread Jonathan Nieder
retitle 607480 installation-reports: Toshiba Satellite Pro C650: Grub installation fails tags 607480 - moreinfo quit Hi, Jean-Michel OLTRA wrote: > During installation, the kernel recognized the wireless card atheros > AR8152, but it's atl1c driver is not loaded. Loading the driver by hand > di

Bug#600329: Manual submission: reportbug installation-reports

2012-02-19 Thread Jonathan Nieder
retitle 600329 PowerEdge R210: d-i: firmware on USB stick not detected and other problems quit Hi Miguel, Miguel Figueiredo wrote: > what a very problematic installation you report! > Let's divide the problems, if appropriate they can be divided in several BRs. Thanks for this. It would have

Bug#577840: No network on Toshiba Satellite L300

2012-02-19 Thread Jonathan Nieder
retitle 577840 Missing support for Agere softmodems (e.g., HDA modem chips 11c11040 and 11c13026) reassign 577840 src:linux-2.6 3.2.6-1 # hardware support severity 577840 important tags 577840 = upstream quit Hi Diana, Diana Allen wrote: > 4. On install, (Graphical or Graphical Expert or Rescu

flash-kernel not run during ordinary squeeze->squeeze upgrade

2012-01-22 Thread Jonathan Nieder
reassign 656877 flash-kernel 2.37 quit Guillard wrote: > Le 22/01/2012 18:01, Jonathan Nieder a écrit : >> Did you flash the kernel correctly? > > Indeed I did not and flash-kernel did not run by itself > (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=550584 ?). > >

Re: linux-image-2.6.32-5-kirkwood: 2.6.32-38 does not recognise USB harddisks any longer

2011-10-09 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Joerg Morbitzer wrote: > Mmmh, I am quite sure that I didn't see any error message when running > the upgrade to 6.0.3, and I can find those messages in /var/log/dpkg.log ... > > 2011-10-09 17:27:03 configure linux-image-2.6.32-5-kirkwood 2.6.32-38 > 2.6.32-38 > 2011-10-09 17:27:03 status unpacked

Re: Can't install wheezy on a 2011 iMac

2011-08-14 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Mike Hore wrote: > Booting into the new system now doesn't display flashing lights any > more, however the boot process stops with a message > "ID "co" respawning too fast - disabled for 5 minutes" That means /sbin/getty is failing to start. d-i team, any ideas what could be causing this?

Re: linux-image-2.6.39-2-ixp4xx: Unable to upgrade with package as released

2011-08-07 Thread Jonathan Nieder
reassign 637024 flash-kernel forcemerge 550584 637024 quit Hi Marc, Marc Singer wrote: [...] > The package will fail to install > because the postinst hook attempts to flash the kernel and initramfs before > the initramfs > has been created. [...] > I can work around the issue by unpacking the

Re: libc6: broken LANGUAGE design

2011-07-07 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi again, One more quick comment. Vincent Lefevre wrote: > My settings come from the installation. /etc/default/locale was: > > # File generated by update-locale > #LANG="en_US.UTF-8" > LANGUAGE="en_US:en" > > (I only added a LC_TIME=en_DK since, hoping it would be taken into > account for the

Bug#608471: www.debian.org: Installation Guide and d-i errata pages should be release-specific

2010-12-31 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: www.debian.org Version: 20101231 Severity: wishlist The intro to section 3 "Installation system" of the release notes contains cross references to the installation guide[1] and errata[2]: [1] http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/debian-installer/ [2] http://www.debian.org/releases/stabl

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(

Bug#597498: keyboard-configuration: HAL is still mentioned in comments of `/etc/default/keyboard`.

2010-10-16 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 15:30:53 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> Perhaps at least #2 is fixable? Reopening just in case. > > The lack of documentation in /usr/share/doc/keyboard-configuration/ is a > different bug, please don't abuse this one, w

Bug#597498: keyboard-configuration: HAL is still mentioned in comments of `/etc/default/keyboard`.

2010-10-16 Thread Jonathan Nieder
reopen 597498 1.57 quit Hi Anton, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:10:25AM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: >> in contrary to what is said for 1.56 in `changelog.Debian.gz` [1] >> >> * Do not mention HAL in the comment of /etc/default/keyboard. >> Suggest a rebo

Bug#575682: installation-reports: successful installation on hercules-emulated s390x

2010-03-29 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Frans Pop wrote: > Thanks for the report Jonathan. Thanks for the insightful response. If I end up finding time to look into speed-ups (using data from a more common platform), now I will know where to start. >> 17. Something strange happened when I suspended reportbug: it seems >> to have

Bug#575682: installation-reports: successful installation on hercules-emulated s390x

2010-03-28 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: installation-reports Severity: wishlist Boot method: card reader Image version: http://people.debian.org/~fjp/d-i/s390/images/daily/generic/ dd1843ff2ea2732c1c148827dc004827 initrd.debian cb4f3536b61cc24f447c4df6f83612c6 kernel.debian ca2e8b612360637f881547617ee76b43 parmfile.debian

Bug#565391: console-setup: typo in FAQ

2010-01-16 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Anton Zinoviev wrote: > On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 04:49:40AM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> What do you think? I would be tempted to fix some of these and then >> abuse the services of debian-l10n-en to clean up the result. :-) > > Please fix them - I appreciate your work. :

Bug#565391: console-setup: typo in FAQ

2010-01-16 Thread Jonathan Nieder
lt. :-) Anyway, before then, perhaps one of the patches could be useful. Hope that helps, Jonathan From: Jonathan Nieder Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 04:19:25 -0600 Subject: fix a few spelling errors in FAQ Reported-by: Vincent Lefevre Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder --- diff -u console-setup-r62018/FAQ m

xz support in dpkg (was Re: dpkg plans for the squeeze cycle)

2009-09-21 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi! d-i maintainers: If you’re impatient, please skip to "a." below. Guillem Jover wrote re dpkg plans for squeeze: > * XZ compression support (to deprecate lzma). > >The lzma format will still be supported, though, always for >extraction (as xz tools support it in a backward manner),