Bug#1079595: Please remove synaptic from task-gnome-desktop

Package: task-gnome-desktop Severity: normal Usertags: trixie sid Dear Maintainers, Please consider removal of 'synaptic' from this task. This package is not one used often by default these days and has been superseded by other GUI packages. Regards Phil -- "I play the game

Bug#994409: task-laptop: please recommend automatic apt proxying

Package: task-laptop Version: 3.53 Severity: wishlist I'm not sure on the difference between auto-apt-proxy and squid-deb-proxy-client. Avahi is already pulled in by task-laptop. On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 09:33:56AM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > On Wed, Sep 08, 2021 at 07:12:18PM -0400, Michael St

Bug#983835: base-installer: hostname= is ignored if reverse-dns exists

ready generated by my provisioning system). So perhaps it would be useful to have a like netcfg/hostname_priority flag where one can choose a priority order? -- Phil Dibowitz p...@ipom.com Open Source software and tech docsInsanity Palace of Metallica

Bug#983835: base-installer: hostname= is ignored if reverse-dns exists

Package: base-installer Severity: normal Tags: d-i Dear Maintainer, When doing a network-install of a system, if one passes `hostname=foo` on the kernel commandline, the installer will use that to set the hostname of the installed system... EXCEPT if there's reverse-DNS for the IP address that w

Bug#977985: uefi secure boot instructions

Package: installation-reports > dear developers and staff! > i struggled booting into a new install > as it hanged on 'loading initial ramdisk' > then at the end of a forum thread > came across this instruction, > > http://bernaerts.dyndns.org/linux/74-ubuntu/340-ubuntu-install-acer-aspire-cloudbo

Bug#977398: base-installer: kernel selection cannot work with user-configured repos

Package: base-installer Severity: normal As it stands today, the installer will always fail to find kernels in private mirrors defined in a preseed. This is true, even if you add keys with `apt-setup/local0/key` and set `debian-installer/allow_unauthenticated` and `debian-installer/allow_unauthen

Bug#837715: Debain installer fails on Gigabyte MP30-AR1 (ARM64 X-Gene1)

d 4.6.0-1-arm64 #1 Debian 4.6.2-2 [ 0.00] Hardware name: Gigabyte X-Gene MP30-AR0 board (DT) [ 0.00] task: ff8008b88800 ti: ff8008b78000 task.ti: ff8008b78000 [ 0.00] PC is at __memcpy+0x100/0x180 [ 0.00] LR is at copy_from_early_mem+0x6c/0x94 Cheers, Phil.

Bug#797594: Problem with debian-8.1.0-amd64-netinst.iso

Package: installation-reports Boot method: usb stick netinst Image version: debian-8.1.0-amd64-netinst.iso Date: 8/31/2015 Machine: Dell XPS 8300 Processor: N/A Memory: N/A Partitions: N/A Output of lspci -knn (or lspci -nn): 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Proc

Bug#697035: KB problem with decTop: some more info

keyboard worked fine in grub menu and was usable with 2.6.26-2-486, but froze right after choosing 2.6.32-5-486 from grub menu) I hope this is useful. Thanks, Phil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Bug#697035: installer: kb and mouse don't work on a decTop (NSC geode processor)

cTop. Besides, your letters make me hopeful that I'll soon be able to install squeeze or wheezy after all. <:-) > -- > Ben Hutchings > Always try to do things in chronological order; > it's less confusing that way. Thanks, and let me know if I can answer any more questions. Phil -- 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/1357288661.49667.yahoomailclas...@web162901.mail.bf1.yahoo.com

Bug#697035: installer: kb and mouse don't work on a decTop (NSC geode processor)

ully-booted system. i hope you can get it working, at this point i've pretty much run out of options with linux for these machines and am about to try kfreebsd. thanks, and good luck! let me know if i can help in any way. phil. btw, the DecTop doesn't have any ps/2 kb or mouse ports,

Bug#697035: installer: kb and mouse don't work on a decTop (NSC geode processor)

Package: installation-reports Boot method: Image version: Date: <2012-12-29> Machine: Processor: NSC

Bug#689512: installation-reports: Lenovo ThinkPad X131e AMD - graphics initially fail after installation

Package: installation-reports Severity: important Dear Maintainer, Boot method: USB stick with dd of iso netinstall image Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/wheezy_di_beta2/amd64/iso-cd /wheezy-DI-b2-amd64-netinst.iso Date: 01/10/2012 17:00-02/10/2012 11:45 Machine: Lenovo ThinkPad

Bug#684551: ERROR: 'kexec' is not a valid plugin. Check and try again.

Package: debian-installer-launcher Version: 5 Severity: important On a new install of debian, Gui of debian-installer-launcher fails to apear after authentication prompt. When run from terminal as root it gives this error and exits: "ERROR: 'kexec' is not a valid plugin. Check and try again."

Bug#678008: debian-installer: "Space fun" theme considered harmful

I feel I should put in my 2 cents worth. I don't qualify as a developer, but I do qualify as an old fogy. I like the "Space Fun" theme. I think it shows a willingness to be a bit whimsical, when the occasion permits. We don't want to be stogy like microsoft. :-) Phil On Tu

MacOS iBook G4 woes

Hello, I'm writing today because it just took me a week to figure out that all I needed to do was partition my hard-drive with mac-fdisk to get it to install and boot correctly. Is there anyway this could be modified in the powerpc installer? Thanks, -Phil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Bug#617483: installation-reports: After install on external firewire, display hosed and can't boot into Mac OS X

Package: installation-reports Severity: important *** Please type your report below this line *** -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.0/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-6.0.0-powerpc-netinst.iso downloaded 7 March 2011 Date: 8 March 2011 AM Ma

Bug#527955: console-setup: ckbcomp manpage typo

Package: console-setup Version: 1.34 Severity: minor "man ckbcomp" says: ckbcomp - compile a XKB keyboard description to a console font That should surely say: ckbcomp - compile a XKB keyboard description to a console KEYMAP While you're there, "a XKB" =&

Bug#515160: debian-installer: Absolutely a bug

On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 12:20, Phil Miller wrote: > [snip] To be really stringent about it, it > should make sure there's enough free space left after installation > that the system doesn't immediately fall flat on its face. For > example, if /var is on the root partition

Bug#515160: debian-installer: Absolutely a bug

least moves the burden of diagnosing an installation failure from the user to the software, where it belongs. Phil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#412397: Etch net install hangs at beginning of net package download on nforce 4 mb

Also - the additional Ethernet connection (eth0) now shows as the firewire port. This is ok. Phil T. - Original Message - From: "Frans Pop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "barny rabbit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, Febru

Bug#412397: Etch net install hangs at beginning of net package download on nforce 4 mb

Sorry about no feedback. Did try this but it still hangs. Will try another image later on. Thanks, Phil T. - Original Message - From: "Frans Pop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "barny rabbit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday,

Bug#402142: flash-kernel: Minor correction to comment in source code

Package: flash-kernel Version: 0.7 Severity: minor Current comment: # See http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Info/BootFlash -- the NSLU2 uses a # 16 byte MTD header, the first two bytes (big endian) give the length of # the remainder of the image, and the remaining bytes are zero. Generate # this

Bug#401175: debian-installer: Could offer to set a label on swap partitions

Package: debian-installer Severity: minor The "partition disks" dialog presents an option to set a partition label if "use as" is set to ext3 filesystem. If "use as" is set to "swap area" the label field is not included. It is possible to set partition labels on swap partitions using "mkswap

Bug#288614: Package: installation-reports

..much more than is reasonable. Thanksthe product is getting better... Phil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#282522: installation report

Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: "Sarge" pre-rc2 from http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/i386/pre-rc2/sarge-i386-netinst.iso uname -a: Linux PHIL 2.6.9-1-k7 #1 Tue Nov 16 18:33:58 JST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux (uname -a done on /dev/hda2

Re: Sarge netinst: wrong sequence of SCSI drives

On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 19:09, Harald Dunkel wrote: > The problem is that the d-i bootdisk contains an USB driver, > which seems to be always loaded as soon as you've got any > mass storage attached to USB. Later (in the running system) > the USB stuff is loaded when running hotplug, i.e. its one > o

Bug#138849: boot-floppies: syslinux screen on boot-floppies created boot-floppy has messed chars

On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 10:24, Santiago Vila wrote: > Are you using CP437 (which was for US english) for i18n boot floppies? I don't believe we include any fonts on the boot disk, so you will get whatever the default codepage is for your hardware. No doubt it would be possible to change this for p

Bug#138849: boot-floppies: syslinux screen on boot-floppies created boot-floppy has messed chars

On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 08:04, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Same for german. The message is hardcoded in dbootstrap translation and > is converted to utf8 as other strings. I do not see a nifty workaround, > but I could replace the non-ASCII characters with their ASCII > transcriptions ( -> ae). This is ev

Re: Please don't make update-po in a cron tab. Re: cvs commit toboot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/po by claush

On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 10:28, Martin Quinson wrote: > I'm currently editing the french version, and now, i have to revert your > changes before I can go further. Can you not just make update-po locally to get back in step? p. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Re: 3.0.20 powerpc build

On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 04:27, Chris Tillman wrote: > First, mac-fdisk doesn't run. From the menu, there's just a > flash. From vc 2, it complains about an extra "(". I think we saw this > problem before, (the last time aph built? - sorry, but I think it's > true) and it had to do with library reduc

Bug#137992: base installation fails because of missing package

On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 12:41, Martin Pitt wrote: > Couldn't download pppoeconf > > This package is indeed not on the first CDROM. I already tried the > following alternatives: > > * downloading an image from a different mirror > * checking md5sums (all were okay) > * building a jigdo image

Re: losetup on boot-floppies

On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 14:35, Eduard Bloch wrote: > In last days, I tried to find the reason for the ugly behaviour of the > loop driver, see #135504. I tried to reuser the code from losetup.c, > nothing did work. A loop device created by losetup can be attached and > detached as usual, but if done

Re: more .bin breakage

On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 13:34, Richard Hirst wrote: > >From utilities/dbootstrap/choose_medium.c: > > const char *fs_type_tab[] = { "auto", "msdos", "vfat", "fat", "minix", "ext2", NULL >}; > > so the code first tries to mount rescue.bin as type 'auto'. That's fine > on a normal system, where mo

Re: cvs commit to boot-floppies by sgybas

On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 16:13, Stefan Gybas wrote: > On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 03:37:32PM +0000, Phil Blundell wrote: > > > That shouldn't be a problem. If the pre-existing definitions in > > /etc/terminfo weren't being found, that's just a bug. > >

Re: cvs commit to boot-floppies by sgybas

On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 15:13, Debian Boot CVS Master wrote: > disable canonicalising terminfo directories on s390, s390 already includes > some terminal definitions in /etc/terminfo That shouldn't be a problem. If the pre-existing definitions in /etc/terminfo weren't being found, that's just

Re: non-i18n'd arches

On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 15:00, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > The boot-floppies on amiga usually boot in 640x480, but I just tried > 1024x768, some thing. Maybe is related to the Penguin in the top left corner > which is not deleted? The non-UTF boot-floppies always cleared the screen so > that the

Re: Changing the file linux to linux.bin

On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 03:45, Chris Tillman wrote: > I've spent several hours constructing and proofing, and I'm confident > this will do exactly what we want, without affecting other instances > of linux in the code/docs/messages. But please sample it in the next > day or two to see if you agre

Re: non-i18n'd arches

On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 15:21, Guido Guenther wrote: > IP22 is currently the only supported subarch on big endian mips machines, > since none of the mips porters has access to something else. I see. In that case, you're right, there is no point in turning on i18n for mips at the moment. p. --

Re: non-i18n'd arches

On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 14:54, Guido Guenther wrote: > On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 09:21:14PM +, Philip Blundell wrote: > [..snip..] > > The only requirements I can think of are: > > > > - framebuffer support in your kernel (should be no problem for m68k) > There's no fb support on mips ip22 and

Re: localising base-config - end game

On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 14:17, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > - use the current language and locale as the system default for all >users after the second stage installer is finished. I don't think setting a system-wide default locale is within the boot-floppies remit at this time. We should pro

Re: localising base-config - end game

On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 13:35, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Philip Blundell] > > Given a locale string in german.src of "de_DE.ISO-8859-15@euro", you > > ideally want to be writing "de_DE@euro ISO-8859-15" into > > /etc/locale.gen and setting LANG to "de_DE@euro". > > There is no need to rewrit

Re: localising base-config - end game

On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 13:33, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Could someone add this patch: Seems safe enough. I've checked it in. p. > Index: util.c > === > RCS file: /cvs/debian-boot/boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/util.c,v > ret

eo & fi boot-floppies translations

The Woody boot-floppies have apparently been translated to Finnish and Esperanto. However, because there are no language definition files for these translations, they are not showing up in the language chooser that the user sees. I have attached the English definition as an example of what is ne

pt.po broken

"make check-all" says: pt.po: pt.po:4623: number of format specifications in `msgid' and `msgstr' does not match p. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#136312: boot-floppies: Support list of languages to use like glibc LANGUAGE varialbe

On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 12:32, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Philip Blundell] > > No, I thought the sense of the test was backwards, but maybe I was > > mistaken. What is LOAD_TRMFILE's return value? > > In the present code, 0 reports an error. Yes, it is strange, but I > did not write that co

Bug#136312: boot-floppies: Support list of languages to use like glibc LANGUAGE varialbe

On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 13:40, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > - Avoid code duplication in main.c, and standardize how the messages >catalog file is loaded. Allow the language code string to be a colon >separated list. > - Modify boxChooseLanguageVariant() accept a list of language codes >

Re: Why is Korean support disabled?

On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 16:30, Claus Hindsgaul wrote: > Is there a reason why support for Korean (ko.po) is disabled for > dbootstrap in the "config" file? Dunno. Maybe the catalog was really outdated at the time it was removed. Chinese (zh_CN) is also disabled. p. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#137076: boot-floppies: Remove more redundant phrases

tags 137076 + pending thanks On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 13:48, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Here are more redundant phrases with a patch to get rid of them. My > choice is marked with a star (*). Thanks. I've checked these in, except for... > msgid "Critical Error" > msgid "Critical error" *

Re: Demographic analysis of debian user's language (was Re: b-fone-liner needs translating

On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 13:19, Chris Tillman wrote: > Does this code check to be sure it's not exceeding the ramdisk's capacity? > That's pretty easy to do (exceed it, I mean). And it would create a hard-to- > track-down problem. My ramdisks (on i386) always seem to have about 3.5MB free, so I woul

Re: non-i18n'd arches

On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 04:58, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > I tried it on my amiga, it does not seem to work. All the output (blue > background with window, text et all) seems to be scrolled through the first > line of the display, all the other lines remain empty. Until I switch to the > second c

Re: b-f one-liner needs translating

On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 14:33, Jordi Mallach wrote: > Of this list, I think pl is one of the most outdated languages. > [...] > And dbootstrap isn't in a good shape either: > 65679:jordi@nubol:...s/utilities/dbootstrap/po$ msgfmt --statistics pl > 732 translated messages, 33 fuzzy translations, 75 u

Bug#135504: Bug reproduced

On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 11:12, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include > Eduard Bloch wrote on Mon Mar 04, 2002 um 11:26:36AM: > > > > Kernel threads can become zombies in exactly the same way as any other > > > process, ie if they die and their parent doesn't call wait. As a > > > temporary hack, try som

Re: language chooser clarity report

On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 12:10, Mikhail Sobolev wrote: > Originally, this message was shown at the bottom (in status line), so "choosing" > over here means "you choose appropriate item in the menu". Out of interest, why did this get changed? Displaying just the language name in the menu, with the m

Bug#136712: boot-floppies locale existence check is not perfect

On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 03:09, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > The above check in make/check does succeed when: > > a. locale-gen was not executed > b. /etc/locale.gen has no final newline and locale-gen fails to parse > > > I think it might be better to check for existence of > /usr/lib/locale/en_I

Bug#135504: Bug reproduced

On Sun, 2002-03-03 at 23:17, Eduard Bloch wrote: > I was able to reproduce this bug while hacking at the new cdrom > auto-detection functions. It is simple: use bf2.4 flavor and try to > install kernel&modules twice. Then you can see a [loop0] _Zombie_ > process, which apparently locks the file wh

Bug#123948: can someone test the patch?

On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 13:09, Eduard Bloch wrote: > A good compromise. I suggest two kinds of flags on the CD-ROM: > > .disk/kernel_installable > .disk/base_installable > > The first marks the disk containing kernel and modules, the second the > one with the basedebs. Sounds fine to me. p. -

Bug#123948: can someone test the patch?

On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 11:56, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Maybe I got the wrong impression, but why do we do all this detection > and _force_ the user to use that Cd? The idea was to reduce the number of questions that the user gets asked. Debian's installer has long been notorious for forcing you to

Bug#136241: Processed: Re: Bug#136241: binfmt_aout Install Failure

I don't expect there will be any more boot-floppies releases for potato. The submitter probably just needs to install the updated kernel-image package. Do you happen to know which version includes the fix? p. On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 10:22, Herbert Xu wrote: > reassign 136241 boot-floppies > quit

Re: Having CD in drive should not disable network install

On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 11:35, Richard Hirst wrote: > I can file bugs if people think these things are worth fixing. No need. :-) We already have two serious bugs open for this. Everybody agrees that the current behaviour is wrong, it's just a case of fixing it. See, for example, David's note ye

Re: some special casings which should no longer be necessary

On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 01:03, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > I am seeing in rootdisk.sh: > > # i386 can't reduce libnewt if we're in LANG_CHOOSER mode > if [ "$arch" != "i386" -o "$USE_LANG_CHOOSER" != "true" ]; then > rm -f $R/usr/lib/libnewt* > fi > > Could this have been fixed wit

Bug#136241: binfmt_aout Install Failure

reassign 136241 kernel-image-2.2.19 thanks On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 22:08, Keith Parkansky wrote: > After this basic installation finishes, > every time I boot the system the following > error appears: > > Calculating module dependencies... > depmod: ***Unresolved symbols exist in /lib/modules/2.

Re: language chooser clarity report

Agreed, your patch looks good to me. Reading the original poster's message again, though, I think he might actually be complaining about the debconf screen you get when configuring the "locales" package, rather than the LC itself. p. On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 07:19, David Kimdon wrote: > Maybe this

Bug#135504: CD isn't unmounted after Kernel/Drivers install

On Sun, 2002-02-24 at 17:19, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include > Dale Scheetz wrote on Sun Feb 24, 2002 um 11:16:10AM: > > > If I install the Kernel and Drivers from floppies, I can mount the CD for > > the base install. > > > > I suspect that the Kernel/Drivers install is unable to unmount when d

Re: Droping 1200kB boot floppies - who minds?

On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 07:37, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 08:20:52 +0100 > Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I can symlink usr/lib/locale/ja_JP->C@utf-8 and setting locale to > > > LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 > > > LC_ALL=ja_JP.UTF-8 > > > seems to allow whiptail-utf8 to do its

Re: Droping 1200kB boot floppies - who minds?

On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 15:06, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > I really don't understand what C@utf-8 is, really. It's like the C locale in all respects except that it uses the UTF-8 character set rather than ASCII. p. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: Droping 1200kB boot floppies - who minds?

On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 11:31, Eduard Bloch wrote: > It is only needed as LC_MESSAGES to enable usage of utf8-converted > string files. If whiptail-utf8 also needs the value (though it should > NOT depend on it), this may cause our trouble. By the way, another fix would be for someone to actually i

Re: Droping 1200kB boot floppies - who minds?

On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 11:31, Eduard Bloch wrote: > It seems that it has problems on detecting that it is in UTF-8 mode. I > tried setting: > > LANG=C@utf-8 (valid, existing) > LC_CTYPE=C@utf-8 (valid, existing, for whiptail-utf8) > LC_MESAGES=de_DE.UTF-8 (just a string, parsed and used by modconf

Re: Droping 1200kB boot floppies - who minds?

On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 00:31, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Note: I have not gotten evil enough to rename the utf8 version of > newt library soname. Oh. Wasn't the fact that the utf8 and non-utf8 libnewts shared the same soname the cause of all our original problems with flashing screens? p. -- To

Re: Droping 1200kB boot floppies - who minds?

On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 16:41, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Is wrong, copied too much. I have also found the other problem. But here > is now another problem: the i18n build does no longer fit on the 1200 > disk. I tried to hack the build system to use less languages on the 1200 > disks, but it is nothing

Re: Notes about boot-floppies, slang, and newt

On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 12:55, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Well, use utf-8, is probably the most simple answer > In fact, I have an impression that -utf8 libs will work > with any locale, but I might be wrong. It uses > the locale-charset conversion routines... They will work with any locale so long as

Bug#123948: b-f cdrom detection

On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 15:14, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [David Kimdon] > > We don't want to net only install CDs to be detected as an official > > cdrom since the packages aren't on the cd. > > I thought the point was to avoid asking questions if the base packages > where present on the CD. Wh

Re: 3.0.19-bf2.4 install report

On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 03:06, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > I think it would be nice to have an entry associating > language to a URL. > > Or make the entry _("ftp.us.debian.org") a translatable string > to give a somewhat sane-ish result. Translating the string will probably just give you the same re

Re: Language and locale setting in /root/dbootstrap_setting

On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 10:35, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Should the string to put in /etc/locale.gen be passed in as well? It > is required to generate the valid locale. I'm not sure if it easy to > guess is string based on the locale, or if it is easy to guess locale > based on this string. I

Bug#133882: boot-floppies: dbootstrap hangs after installing base system

reassign 133822 debootstrap thanks On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 10:24, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 02:36:43PM +0000, Phil Blundell wrote: > > On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 14:28, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > > > Attached are the aforementioned

Re: network install hang

On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 03:24, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 02:06:38AM -0600, Bob McElrath wrote: > > I have tried to install debian woody from both floppy (2.4bf), and CD-ROM > > (netinst images: http://people.debian.org/~ieure/netinst/) and for two > > different machines the inst

Bug#133882: boot-floppies: dbootstrap hangs after installing base system

On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 14:28, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > Attached are the aforementioned files what is causing this? why does > debconf send mails upon base installation? (if it does) Here's the text of the message. I don't know exactly what the cause of the hang was, but it look

Bug#132671: sparc disks outdated

The latest sparc boot-floppies in woody are 3.0.16 from back in October. Bug 132671 looks like it might be fixed by just building against a new kernel image. Is anyone on the list in a position to build a new set of disks? p. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Bug#133794: Bug Report Installing Alpha with Aspen Alpine Board

On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 16:48, Guenther, Daniel wrote: > I got ISO-Images of debian 2.2r5 stable for our noname alpha. As you can > see, I boot from CD. I tried it with floppy, too, and got the same problem. > Description: after loading Milo and entering: > MILO> boot scd0:/boot/linux root=/dev/scd

Bug#133882: boot-floppies: dbootstrap hangs after installing base system

On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 12:02, Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena wrote: > Looking into the process table shows up to eximp processes, > one with '-Mc' options and one with '-oem -oi -f <>' options. > Killing this processes makes the base installation finish properly and > continue with the next step (C

Re: Why does dbootstrap not make a core file?

On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 04:06, Mark Zimmerman wrote: > One of my tests of dbootstrap (in trying to get past the white screen > of death) resulted in a register dump to the screen. I was wondering > why it didn't dump core instead? Is this something related to how > dbootstrap is built or is it cause

Re: Language and locale setting in /root/dbootstrap_setting

On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 13:01, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: >> I have to use the name listed in the LANG variable to get the German > translation. I can't use any other variation: > > % LANG=de_DE.ISO-8859-15@euro date > Mit Feb 13 13:59:08 CET 2002 > % LANG=de_DE.ISO-8859-15 date > Wed Feb

Re: Language and locale setting in /root/dbootstrap_setting

On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 12:54, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Philip Blundell] > > I checked these in. But, in fact, I suspect this should probably be > > "de_DE.ISO-8859-15@euro", and similarly for the other EMU countries. > > I guess you mean "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"? Oh, I thought the character set

Re: Language and locale setting in /root/dbootstrap_setting

On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 11:08, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Phil Blundell] > > If you are putting "en_US.ISO-8859-1" in $LANG, you need to put > > "en_US.ISO-8859-1 ISO-8859-1" in /etc/locale.gen. But yes, "." is > > always the separator for th

Re: Language and locale setting in /root/dbootstrap_setting (patch)

On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 10:52, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > I combined and corrected your patch. Here is a better suggestion. > I'm not sure if the question should be presented at all. If it is > needed to get the translations working, it should be installed. Agreed. We should try to avoid askin

Re: Language and locale setting in /root/dbootstrap_setting

On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 10:32, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > I should suggest using the locale member in 'struct language_item' in > LANG, and making sure this is a proper locale, and then use the msgcat > member in LANGUAGE. I do not really understand why perl was > complaining earlier. If the LAN

Re: Language and locale setting in /root/dbootstrap_setting

On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 10:32, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > I should suggest using the locale member in 'struct language_item' in > LANG, and making sure this is a proper locale, and then use the msgcat > member in LANGUAGE. Yes, that looks like it could work. We could also consider re-enabling

Re: Language and locale setting in /root/dbootstrap_setting

On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 10:32, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Philip Blundell] > > Mistakenly. Feel free to change it back. > > I don't have write access to the CVS. I'm not a Debian developer. Oh, right, sorry. Okay, I'll do this. If you make a patch to add some appropriate "--include" options

Re: cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap by blade

On Sun, 2002-02-10 at 23:45, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Why not ask for country and language in boot-floopies, and pass the > information on to base-config for use by tzconfig, keyboard config and > in the LANG variable? > > I guess patches are welcome? Absolutely, bring 'em on. I think there

Bug#131553: missing keyboard selection?

>Where did the adb (mac-ext) keyboards go? >Selecting _any_ keyboard from the list prevents further input. I'm not familiar with the ppc keyboard stuff, but from looking at the code I guess you should have been offered these four choices: { "qwerty/mac-usb-us", "U.S. English (Apple USB)

Re: Trying to fix slang

On Wed, 2002-01-30 at 11:56, Glenn Maynard wrote: > I don't think this affects anything not already building for > slang1-utf8; to them, the only change is that the drop-in utf8 > diversion is no longer available. The "drop-in" diversion was always a fiction in any case, because SLsmg_Char_Type c

Re: an important patch (at least for non-english users ;))

On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 13:39, Mikhail Sobolev wrote: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 11:38:37AM -0200, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > > [CC me on replies, I'm not on the list] > > > > Hello team, > > > > thanks for the good work! here's an important patch for us translators/users > > of a non-english l

Bug#124143: boot-floppies #124143 testing

On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 09:55, Gregg Cercy wrote: > Using the latest disk images from testing, I'm having the same black background >problem > on a i386 (dell dimension xpg RIVA128). Also, it looks like the initial >"popup window" > containing the release notes looks misaligned. Can you be more

Bug#129069: Woody does not load module wd.o

reassign 129069 kernel-image-2.2.19-i386 thanks > /lib/modules/2.2.19/net/wd.o: init_module: Device or resource busy I think this would have to be a kernel bug. There isn't a whole lot that the boot floppies can do to affect the loadability of a particular driver. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#128941: Difficulties with monochrome display

reassign 128941 libnewt-utf8-0 thanks With potato there was a dialog explicitly asking whether you wanted mono or colour. Since this has been removed for woody, we should probably add a mention of the "mono" boot argument in the release notes. As to the actual problem at hand, it would seem to

Bug#122750: Bug #122750: serial console problems

unmerge 122750 tags 122141 - unreproducible thanks Despite initial appearances, it now seems that 122750 and 122141 are unrelated problems. Submitter, can you still reproduce the problem described in 122750 on your machine? A quick poll of the debian-powerpc list didn't turn up anybody else who

Re: Problem

On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 16:53, Iván Filpo wrote: > The problem is i have a ps/2 keyboard instead of an at one. You mean you have a PS/2 style connector? That doesn't make any difference: in electrical terms the keyboards are just the same. > When i boot the installation from the cd it loads the k

Bug#122142: Happens here too

>yay, my install is broken. Please take a look at the log for bug #122750 and see if you can shed any more light on what's going on. In particular, the stuff about inspecting /etc/inittab at different stages of the install to see whether it has the right contents. Did you notice anything unusal

Re: URGENT! Install Base System via network: settings wrong

On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 07:37, Ariel Tankus wrote: > I think it is weird to leave some files on older archives like potato's, > forcing any mirror site to mirror also potato! You'd have to take that up with ftpmaster. I don't really know anything about the details of how the archive is supposed to

Re: problem with console-data 1999.08.29-23 ?

>Yes, we can disable gr and make sure none of the below are used: > >> [1] Those are: mac-usb-pt-latin1.kmap, mac-de-latin1-nodeadkeys and >> mac-us-dvorak.kmap. > >... > >Anyone on the debian-boot list wanna take it or must I do it tonight? I've removed gr (from keymaps.sh anyway; I haven't deal

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