Re: 3.0.18 testing needed

> >So how do the ramdisks get built these days? Just copy the binaries over? > > Well, they get stripped first, see scripts/rootdisk/strip-executables.sh. I thought the binaries were stripped before but a look at the makefile cured me of that :-) > The kind of ELF damage that we're seeing he

Re: 3.0.18 testing needed

>So how do the ramdisks get built these days? Just copy the binaries over? Well, they get stripped first, see scripts/rootdisk/strip-executables.sh. The kind of ELF damage that we're seeing here is usually a symptom of using a "strip" that expected to target another architecture, or had some si

Re: 3.0.18 testing needed

> > What package version did you use from woody? > > Latest from unstable at the time the pkg was built. Probalby whatever > is still latest from unstable, it doesn't change often. The latest version (-8) is from Dec. 7. I'd better install that from the archive instead of using the one from my

Re: 3.0.18 testing needed

> >> So /sbin/mac-fdisk is hosed for some reason, but /sbin/fdisk seems to be > >> a working mac-fdisk. > > > > And that's what should be executed (fdisk should be the 'default' fdisk > > for the particular machine IIRC). > > Hm, which means there's no 'real' fdisk? Which means no way to do DOS

Re: 3.0.18 testing needed

On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 10:29:36PM +0100, Michel Lanners wrote: > Hey all, > > Some further checking on the ramdisk... > > On 2 Jan, this message from Michel D?nzer echoed through cyberspace: > > On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 01:05, Philip Blundell wrote: > >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michel La

Re: 3.0.18 testing needed

On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 22:29, Michel Lanners wrote: > Hey all, > > Some further checking on the ramdisk... > > On 2 Jan, this message from Michel Dänzer echoed through cyberspace: > > On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 01:05, Philip Blundell wrote: > >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michel Lanners writes:

Re: 3.0.18 testing needed

Hey all, Some further checking on the ramdisk... On 2 Jan, this message from Michel Dänzer echoed through cyberspace: > On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 01:05, Philip Blundell wrote: >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michel Lanners writes: >> >- trying to use mac-fdisk from a shell, I get this error: >>

Re: 3.0.18 testing needed

On 2 Jan, this message from Michael Schmitz echoed through cyberspace: >> (1)daenzer@pismo> /mnt/sbin/fdisk ~ >> mac-fdisk: bad usage - no device argument >> >> mac-fdisk [-h|--help] >> mac-fdisk [-v|--version] >> mac-fdisk [-l|--list [name ...

Re: 3.0.18 testing needed

> It seems like some sort of bad build on my part. The package in woody > I don't think has changed since the previous build. Hmm. What package version did you use from woody? ldd on your binary gives 'not a dynamic executable'. objdump needs the -m flag to do anything with the file (so the ELF

Re: 3.0.18 testing needed

> > Maybe the library reduction went astray? Not that mac-fdisk uses a lot of > > weird libraries. Can you send me that binary for closer inspection? > > It's all in > dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/3.0.18-2001-12-21/powermac/ramdisk.image.gz Bite me :-) At least you did provide part of an URL. I

Re: 3.0.18 testing needed

On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 09:50, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > > Hmmm.. looks like ash tries to execute mac-fdisk as a shell script? > > > > > > Apparently the mac-fdisk binary is corrupted somehow. There's already a bug > > > open on this: I don't know if those builds of boot-floppies were just bad

Re: 3.0.18 testing needed

> > > Hmmm.. looks like ash tries to execute mac-fdisk as a shell script? > > > > Apparently the mac-fdisk binary is corrupted somehow. There's already a bug > > open on this: I don't know if those builds of boot-floppies were just bad > > for some reason, or the binary in the archive is actuall

Re: 3.0.18 testing needed

On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 01:05, Philip Blundell wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michel Lanners writes: > >- trying to use mac-fdisk from a shell, I get this error: > > > > /sbin/mac-fdisk: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected > > > > Hmmm.. looks like ash tries to execute mac-fdisk as a shell s

Re: 3.0.18 testing needed

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michel Lanners writes: >- trying to use mac-fdisk from a shell, I get this error: > > /sbin/mac-fdisk: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected > > Hmmm.. looks like ash tries to execute mac-fdisk as a shell script? Apparently the mac-fdisk binary is corrupted somehow. T

Re: 3.0.18 testing needed

Hey, Maybe a bit late but testing nevertheless ;-) On 15 Dec, this message from Adam Di Carlo echoed through cyberspace: > I've uploaded i386 and powerpc boot-floppies to > http://people.debian.org/~aph/debian/dists/woody/main/>. OK, tested these (in fact the 20011221 build of bf 3.0.18) for

Re: 3.0.18 testing needed

On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 01:32:44PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > I've uploaded i386 and powerpc boot-floppies to > http://people.debian.org/~aph/debian/dists/woody/main/>. > > The PowerPC ones are still uploading -- they vary in that they enable > i18n, which is not yet decided upon for power

Re: 3.0.18 testing needed

FYI: On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 08:37:11PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > >> en pt de pl fr es ja sv it hu > >> no jp there > > What do you think ja is ? > java? dunno As started in /usr/share/doc/locales/SUPPORTED.gz : ... ja_JP.EUC-JP EUC-JP ja_JP.UTF-8 UTF-8 ... Thus ja for language, JP fo

Re: 3.0.18 testing needed

On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 08:37:11PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > >> en pt de pl fr es ja sv it hu > >> > >> no jp there > > > > What do you think ja is ? > > java? dunno Think "Japan" and "Japanese"... -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: 3.0.18 testing needed

On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 08:11:09PM -0500, S. Salman Ahmed wrote: > > "ADC" == Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > - a white screen flashed one time only just before the language > >> chooser > dialog popped up. > ADC> > >> I don't think we should worry about this.

Re: 3.0.18 testing needed

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" writes: >On 16-Dec-2001 Adam Di Carlo wrote: >> The i18n builds do include Japanese support. Is that what you were >> asking about? > >en pt de pl fr es ja sv it hu > >no jp there Right. The ISO-639 language code for Japanese is "ja". p.

Re: 3.0.18 testing needed

On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 10:40:01PM +0100, Karsten Merker wrote: > On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 09:37:51PM +0100, Guido Guenther wrote: > > > Karsten, > > what exactly are you working on? Is this related to: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=123895&repeatmerged=yes > > Yes, I have

Re: 3.0.18 testing needed

On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 05:28:11PM -0500, S. Salman Ahmed wrote: > > "CT" == Chris Tillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> That's what I figured, although I personally preferred the old > >> behaviour. This current behaviour makes me think that the > >> installer is trying to be

Re: 3.0.18 testing needed

On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 01:32:44PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: PowerPC i18n not ready yet, see post to 'confirmation' thread. -- *--v- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 v--* | | | debian-imac (potato):

Re: 3.0.18 testing needed

On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 04:16:44PM -0500, S. Salman Ahmed wrote: > >> The same happened when I had to initialize a Linux > >> partition. /dev/hda2 was automatically chosen for me and I was > >> only asked about retaining kernel-2.0 compatibility and about the > >> badblock check.

Re: 3.0.18 testing needed

On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 08:46:51PM +0100, Karsten Merker wrote: > On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 01:32:44PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > > - base installation actually works again (we got an unofficial > >busybox/wget for these builds) > > Where can I find this? I would like to do a test build

Re: 3.0.18 testing needed

>> >> en pt de pl fr es ja sv it hu >> >> no jp there > > What do you think ja is ? > java? dunno -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 3.0.18 testing needed

"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 16-Dec-2001 Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> Will you add i18n for jp? Or do they build special bf anyways? Just > >> curious. > > > > The i18n builds do include Japanese support. Is tha

Re: 3.0.18 testing needed

On 16-Dec-2001 Adam Di Carlo wrote: > "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Will you add i18n for jp? Or do they build special bf anyways? Just >> curious. > > The i18n builds do include Japanese support. Is that what you were > asking about? > en pt de pl fr es ja sv it h

Re: 3.0.18 testing needed

thanks for the report! We have some work to do. > > Ok, I tried out images-1.44/compact (from the 3.0.18-2001-12-14 dir) and > here is what I found: > > - the language chooser dialog was too wide (as you already mentioned in >another email) I'm not sure how to fix this one. > > - a w

Re: 3.0.18 testing needed

On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 08:46:51PM +0100, Karsten Merker wrote: > On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 01:32:44PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > > - base installation actually works again (we got an unofficial > >busybox/wget for these builds) > > Where can I find this? I would like to do a test build

Re: 3.0.18 testing needed

On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 10:52:12AM -0800, David Kimdon wrote: > > >trying another version, > > >http://people.debian.org/~dwhedon/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/>) > > > > I get exactly the same behavior with this one. > > FWIW I just installed two systems using the idepci/reiserfs

Re: 3.0.18 testing needed

Will you add i18n for jp? Or do they build special bf anyways? Just curious. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 3.0.18 testing needed

> >trying another version, > >http://people.debian.org/~dwhedon/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/>) > > I get exactly the same behavior with this one. FWIW I just installed two systems using the idepci/reiserfs flavors built out of current cvs, perhaps UML is causing the bad behavior?

Re: 3.0.18 testing needed

On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 01:32:44PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > The primary things to test for: > > - no more flashing screen or nasty segfaults when dbootstrap starts I get the same flashing screen (segfaulting dbootstrap), with the same segfault as before: (gdb) bt #0 0x4007915f in mallo