Bug#689528: please add virtio support for cdrom at install time

2025-07-05 Thread Witold Baryluk
Package: debian-installer Followup-For: Bug #689528 X-Debbugs-Cc: witold.bary...@gmail.com Dear Maintainer, I just tested daily snapshot installed for amd64 for trixie, and it appears that some parts of this issue are fixed (I do not know when, probably years ago). For example qemu-system-x86_6

Bug#1070877: debian-installer: xfsprogs not available in the installer, but xfs fs type available, mkfs fails

2024-05-10 Thread Witold Baryluk
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: witold.bary...@gmail.com This is against di in testing, for trixie. netinst iso from 2024-05-10. xfs-modules 6.7.12-1 libparted2-udev 3.6-4 partman-auto 164 partman-auto-raid 52 partman-base 227 partman-utils 227 partman-basicfilesystems 16

Bug#991951: debian-installer: Text installer sporadically hangs when using 512 - 1024 MB of memory.

2021-08-07 Thread Witold Baryluk
Package: debian-installer Followup-For: Bug #991951 Hi Samuel. > Witold Baryluk, le ven. 06 août 2021 16:29:50 +0200, a ecrit: >> https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye//amd64/ch03s04.en.html says this >> should be supported. > Yes, that should be working, and does work in

Bug#991951: debian-installer: Text installer sporadically hangs when using 512 - 1024 MB of memory.

2021-08-06 Thread Witold Baryluk
Package: debian-installer Severity: important https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye//amd64/ch03s04.en.html says this should be supported. But when using 512 MB of memory in text mode (which triggers low memory mode), or even 1024 MB of memory, makes it be stuck. Using multi-arch image for te

Bug#985119: debian-installer: shared-mime-info installed for no apparent reason

2021-03-14 Thread Witold Baryluk
Package: debian-installer Followup-For: Bug #985119 X-Debbugs-Cc: witold.bary...@gmail.com Hi Samuel. > On qemu, the hwdetect package installs qemu-guest-agent, which depends > on libglib2.0-0, which recommends shared-mime-info. Oh. I see, I didn't consider the "Recommends". That makes now sense

Bug#985119: debian-installer: shared-mime-info installed for no apparent reason

2021-03-12 Thread Witold Baryluk
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: witold.bary...@gmail.com I just used the daily netinst for testing on arm64 in qemu. I used the non-expert install (default). In the selection of tasks, I only added "SSH server". No standard utils, laptop tools or desktop, printer or we

Bug#689528: please add virtio support for cdrom at install time

2020-12-22 Thread Witold Baryluk
ios /usr/share/qemu-efi-aarch64/QEMU_EFI.fd I don't find this exotic at all, and rather straightforward, and probably the first thing user will try. Thanks, Witold On Tue, 22 Dec 2020 at 04:31, Michael Tokarev wrote: > > 22.01.2020 09:18, Witold Baryluk wrote: > > Package:

Bug#689528: please add virtio support for cdrom at install time

2020-12-21 Thread Witold Baryluk
FYI. This happens on both alpha and arm64 from my tests. So possibly more architectures are affected if it is arch specific. On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 at 21:52, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > On 12/21/20 10:42 PM, Witold Baryluk wrote: > > The device is there and supported by kernel,

Bug#689528: please add virtio support for cdrom at install time

2020-12-21 Thread Witold Baryluk
Package: debian-installer Followup-For: Bug #689528 X-Debbugs-Cc: witold.bary...@gmail.com Hi, this is still broken with recent debian installer daily snapshots. The device is there and supported by kernel, I can mount things manually (i.e. mount -t iso9660 /dev/vda /media), but installer simp

Bug#977133: debootstrap: Add ${HOME}/.local/bin to default non-root PATH

2020-12-11 Thread Witold Baryluk
Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.123 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: witold.bary...@gmail.com I am not sure if this is bug more for debootstrap or some other package (base-files?), but: I think ~/.local/bin should be added to default non-root PATH. I belive Fedora and Ubuntu already does that. I

Bug#949626: busybox-static: Please include less and ftpput in busybox-udeb

2020-01-23 Thread Witold Baryluk
Campbell wrote: > > On Wed, 2020-01-22 at 22:42 +, Witold Baryluk wrote: > > > The age of FTP has long passed. > > > > You think you can fit the scp or ssh then? :D I doubt so. > > If you have a network to scp over then you can `anna-install` the ssh > ude

Bug#949626: busybox-static: Please include less and ftpput in busybox-udeb

2020-01-22 Thread Witold Baryluk
On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 at 22:03, Philipp Kern wrote: > > Please include functional less, just like in busybox-static with the same > > build options. > > There is nano though. (I'd still second less. I think we can spare the > space.) ~17kB from my estimates and looking at build logs. > > ftpput to

Bug#949626: busybox-static: Please include less and ftpput in busybox-udeb

2020-01-22 Thread Witold Baryluk
Package: busybox-static Version: 1:1.30.1-4 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, it is really hard to debug issues and read long log files (like syslog), especially in debian-installer failures. There is more, but it is really equivalent to cat. It doesn't actually do paging. Please include functi

Bug#949572: debian-installer: Do not install Python2 by default.

2020-01-22 Thread Witold Baryluk
Package: debian-installer Followup-For: Bug #949572 I was thinking maybe it is being installed because of the Priority: important or Priority: essential, but no I checked python{,2}{,-minimal} and they are either Priority: standard and Priority: optional. So I a not exactly sure what decides to i

Bug#689528: please add virtio support for cdrom at install time

2020-01-21 Thread Witold Baryluk
Package: debian-installer Followup-For: Bug #689528 Dear Maintainer, any progress on this, I still have this issue. I think the culprit might be in the `list-devices cd`, but the git / salsa organization of debian-installer is very convoluted, and I can't track it down where it is. Regards, Wi

Bug#949572: debian-installer: Do not install Python2 by default.

2020-01-21 Thread Witold Baryluk
Package: debian-installer Followup-For: Bug #949572 One more thing, reportbug, apt-listchanges, and few other packages that look to be using Python, all work fine, and use Python3. I rebooted the system, and things are working fine.

Bug#869897: [debian-installer] Please add support for the TRIM command for SSDs

2020-01-21 Thread Witold Baryluk
Package: debian-installer Followup-For: Bug #869897 The dmcrypt / LUKS doesn't enable discard by default on purpose, as it might potentially be a security issue. I don't think personally it is actual security problem, but it is just my personal opinion. You would need to convince dmcrypt / luks m

Bug#949572: debian-installer: Do not install Python2 by default.

2020-01-21 Thread Witold Baryluk
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Hi, I just installed Debian using daily amd64 netinst iso (2020-01-21 iso), and after I selected mostly minimal amount of stuff (plus popcon, unatannteded-upgrades, and ssh server and standard utilities), I rebooted, and checked the python2 packages. I

Bug#749991: debian-installer: Wrong kernel in debian-installer package

2019-10-27 Thread Witold Baryluk
Package: debian-installer Followup-For: Bug #749991 I think I did hit the same issue with todays daily netinst CD images. See https://bugs.debian.org/943685 Cheers, Witold

Bug#943685: installation-reports: Missing modules for all ethernet NICs

2019-10-27 Thread Witold Baryluk
Package: installation-reports Severity: important I have never seen this problem before with debian testing installer, but here it is 3d1f1fbae2fa937f6af9a71e96dbad10f9ce8ce1f0210deb1ac069b57f074948 debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-l

Bug#689528: please add virtio support for cdrom at install time

2019-07-17 Thread Witold Baryluk
Package: debian-installer Followup-For: Bug #689528 Dear Maintainer, I encountered the same issue. The kernel and initrd on the installer CD (unofficial one for Alpha architecture), does detect attached drive (/dev/vda, and I did read it using dd without issues, and it has correct content, dd |

Bug#925182: Feature request: Support for QEMU Virtio driver for CD-ROM

2019-07-17 Thread Witold Baryluk
Package: debian-installer Followup-For: Bug #925182 This looks to be a duplicate of #689528 Cheers.

Bug#833599: debian-installer: choose-mirror segfaults

2016-08-08 Thread Witold Baryluk
Package: debian-installer Followup-For: Bug #833599 Few more details. I bissected the problem to start showing up in image https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/amd64/20160731-00:14/netboot/mini.iso but not showing in Comparing https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/amd64/20160731-00:14/build_ne

Bug#740068: debian-installer: segfaults when built against testing

2016-08-06 Thread Witold Baryluk
Package: debian-installer Followup-For: Bug #740068 Indeed this looks to be happening in stretch alpha 7 too. My mistake for mentioning a daily snapshot - there is a separate segfault for choose-mirror, that happen before we load libc6-udeb, and it is a regression in current daily snapshots. I fil

Bug#833432: Segfault in choose-mirror in PXE install, Stretch/daily

2016-08-06 Thread Witold Baryluk
Package: choose-mirror Followup-For: Bug #833432 I think this is a regression in version 2.70, version 2.69 from alpha works. I accidently opened bug in debian-installer, bug #833599 with same symptomps.

Bug#833599: debian-installer: choose-mirror segfaults

2016-08-06 Thread Witold Baryluk
Package: debian-installer Followup-For: Bug #833599 BTW. This is the source of the image downloaded: https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/amd64/daily/netboot/mini.iso on 2016-08-06 MD256SUM eda5ccb294131789f2b6f651b6a88ca805428f9cfb04e475e354b219ecc33731 ./netboot/mini.iso renamed as debia

Bug#833599: debian-installer: choose-mirror segfaults

2016-08-06 Thread Witold Baryluk
Package: debian-installer Followup-For: Bug #833599 I can confirm this is unrelated to libc6-udeb issues. I am able to go past choose-mirror on strech alpha 7 netboot.iso (however it fails with libc6-udeb 2.23-4 , and a segfault in 'sh' much later in the install process after retriving installer

Bug#833599: debian-installer: choose-mirror segfaults

2016-08-06 Thread Witold Baryluk
Package: debian-installer Followup-For: Bug #833599 Same problem reported by another person for choose-mirror package in bug #833432 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=833432 Regards, Witek

Bug#833599: debian-installer: choose-mirror segfaults

2016-08-06 Thread Witold Baryluk
Package: debian-installer Severity: grave Tags: d-i Justification: renders package unusable Hi. When using todays (and few previous days) netboot/mini.iso amd64 snapshot, I am consistently getting segfault when executing "Choose mirror to install from (menu item)" during expert install. in the d

Bug#740068: debian-installer: segfaults when built against testing

2016-08-06 Thread Witold Baryluk
Package: debian-installer Followup-For: Bug #740068 I do have same problem when suing today's (and last few days) netboot/mini.iso amd64 images. I was going crazy it is something with my machine memory, but normal memtest86+ is passing, including sequential tests on all cores. The memtest86+ paral

Bug#683586: debian-installer: Please include rdnssd in d-i and base system to fully automatic IPv6 support

2012-08-01 Thread Witold Baryluk
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Tags: ipv6 d-i I belive that rdnssd package (IPv6 recursive DNS server discovery daemon) should be included in d-i as udeb or even used by default, as well installed by default in base system. It is used for automatic configuration without DHCP (v6). Th

Bug#678567: debian-installer: DMA errors when using tg3 (Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme) prevents using network in d-i

2012-06-22 Thread Witold Baryluk
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Hello, I was trying to install using netinstall or businesscard or netinst+firmware images of wheezy/testing on IBM xSeries x366 server and ended with serious DMA error when using tg3 driver with Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet

Bug#640377: debian-installer: /usr partition is too small, even on hugh hard disk

2011-09-04 Thread Witold Baryluk
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Hi. I am normally using FAI to installing Debian boxes, but I was evaluating migration to amd64 from i386, so needed some more control. Mostly applications (some are i386 only), and some user testing if everything is OK. I done this manually using squee

Bug#598765: debian-installer: FTBFS on alpha: needs mirror update?

2011-03-30 Thread Witold Baryluk
-installer is slightly pointless for a while, because of udev issues, which will be fixed when eglibc 2.13 will enter unstable. (it already is fixed for example in libc6.1 2.13-0exp5 for experimental). Regards, Witek -- Witold Baryluk signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#619640: Architecture field dissapered few days ago

2011-03-25 Thread Witold Baryluk
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Well, this change beetween 2011-03-24 and 2011-03-24 in Archive, explains a problem $ wget -q -O - http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20110323T113108Z/dists/sid/main /binary-amd64/Release Archive: unstable Component: main Origin: Debian Label: Deb

Bug#619640: debian-installer: "Architecture not supported" when trying to install wheezy using daily businescard

2011-03-25 Thread Witold Baryluk
Package: debian-installer Severity: important Tags: sid Hi, i was using debian-testing-amd64-businesscard.iso 'Debian GNU/Linux testing "Wheezy" - Official Snapshot amd64 BC Binary-1 20110325-10:40' to install wheezy using one of the mirrors. After choosing distribution (from squeezy, wheezy, s

Bug#398255: boot flopies for i386 20061111 fails to boot

2006-11-12 Thread Witold Baryluk
Package: installation-reports Boot method: floppy Image version: http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/floppy/root.img (11-Nov-2006 21:04) http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/floppy/boot.img (11-Nov-2006 21:04) Date: 12-11-2006 19:61 Machine: Compaq DeskPro En P800 Proces