Processed: Re: #1049919 d-i: pressing ESC in graphical installer does nothing, unable to preseed installation

2023-08-20 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > retitle -1 installation-guide: add information about how to append boot > parameters to the installer? Bug #1049919 [debian-installer] d-i: pressing ESC in graphical installer does nothing, unable to preseed installation Changed Bug title to 'install

Bug#1049919: #1049919 d-i: pressing ESC in graphical installer does nothing, unable to preseed installation

2023-08-20 Thread Holger Wansing
Control: retitle -1 installation-guide: add information about how to append boot parameters to the installer? Ernesto Alfonso wrote: > The docs for preseeding debian recommend pressing ESC after entering > the graphical installer menu: > > > > Loading the preseeding fil

Bug#1036038: debian-installer: Debian installer, graphical installer, live image, hang on Dell Inspiron 27

2023-06-14 Thread Ernesto Alfonso
Thanks for following up. I tried the bookworm netinstall and the PXE boot, but the install failed in the same way: https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/bookworm/main/installer-amd64/current/images/SHA256SUMS I used the netbot.tar.gz as well as the USB b41d766e5389b4e35bac3a664da84822e0990439c9c4d

Re: Bug#1036038: debian-installer: Debian installer, graphical installer, live image, hang on Dell Inspiron 27

2023-05-14 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, May 14, 2023 at 12:58:47AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi Ernesto, > > Ernesto Alfonso (2023-05-13): > > I'm attempting to setup Debian on a Dell Inspiron All-in-One system, > > either as dual boot or replacing the existing windows 10 OS. > > > > The installer hangs after entering ei

Bug#1036038: debian-installer: Debian installer, graphical installer, live image, hang on Dell Inspiron 27

2023-05-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Ernesto, Ernesto Alfonso (2023-05-13): > I'm attempting to setup Debian on a Dell Inspiron All-in-One system, > either as dual boot or replacing the existing windows 10 OS. > > The installer hangs after entering either the "graphical install", > "install" or "live" options from the initial me

Bug#1036038: debian-installer: Debian installer, graphical installer, live image, hang on Dell Inspiron 27

2023-05-13 Thread Ernesto Alfonso
Package: debian-installer Severity: important Tags: d-i X-Debbugs-Cc: erjoa...@gmail.com Dear Maintainer, I'm attempting to setup Debian on a Dell Inspiron All-in-One system, either as dual boot or replacing the existing windows 10 OS. The installer hangs after entering either the "graphical in

Re: Bug#1035014: installation-reports: Graphical installer has Xorg "no screens found" error

2023-05-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Timo! Timo Aaltonen (2023-05-02): > Hi, fine by me! Thanks, uploaded. I'll keep an eye on it, and request an unblock (letting debian-x@ know via X-Debbugs-Cc) once I've checked britney doesn't report any red flags. It's going to be on two different radars of mine anyway: - https://d-i.debi

Processed: Re: Bug#1035014: installation-reports: Graphical installer has Xorg "no screens found" error

2023-05-01 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > reassign -1 xserver-xorg-core-udeb 2:21.1.1-1 Bug #1035014 [installation-reports] installation-reports: Graphical installer has Xorg "no screens found" error Bug reassigned from package 'installation-reports' to 'xserver-xorg-core-udeb

Bug#1035014: installation-reports: Graphical installer has Xorg "no screens found" error

2023-05-01 Thread Cyril Brulebois
ind of things. For completeness: A friend of mine tested all 3 available options (VBoxVGA, VMSVGA, and VBoxSVGA) in VirtualBox, on both Windows and Apple hosts, and the graphical installer worked fine for him in all cases, so it looks like the VirtualBox reports we've received are about a

Bug#1035014: installation-reports: Graphical installer has Xorg "no screens found" error

2023-04-27 Thread kt programs
On Thu Apr 27, 2023 at 10:39 PM +08, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Control: tag -1 patch > > Hi Keith and X team, > > and thanks for your report. > > Keith Toh (2023-04-27): > > Image version: > > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/arm64/iso-cd/debian-testing-arm64-netins

Bug#1035014: installation-reports: Graphical installer has Xorg "no screens found" error

2023-04-27 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Control: tag -1 patch Hi Keith and X team, and thanks for your report. Keith Toh (2023-04-27): > Image version: > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/arm64/iso-cd/debian-testing-arm64-netinst.iso > (2023-04-24 23:09) For the avoidance of doubt: same story with am

Processed: Re: Bug#1035014: installation-reports: Graphical installer has Xorg "no screens found" error

2023-04-27 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > tag -1 patch Bug #1035014 [installation-reports] installation-reports: Graphical installer has Xorg "no screens found" error Added tag(s) patch. -- 1035014: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1035014 Debian Bug Tracking Syst

Bug#1035014: installation-reports: Graphical installer has Xorg "no screens found" error

2023-04-27 Thread Keith Toh
Package: installation-reports Severity: important Boot method: CD Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/arm64/iso-cd/debian-testing-arm64-netinst.iso (2023-04-24 23:09) Machine: UTM QEMU VM Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (pl

Bug#370487: partitions get formated after unsure confirmation in graphical installer

2023-03-02 Thread James Addison
Source: partman-base Followup-For: Bug #370487 On Thu, 02 Mar 2023 13:35:29 +, James wrote: > If the user selects 'undo', or if 'no' is selected and the operator continues > from the second step, then the user is taken back to the 'partition disks' > menu without any changes being written to

Bug#370487: partitions get formated after unsure confirmation in graphical installer

2023-03-02 Thread James Addison
Source: partman-base Followup-For: Bug #370487 X-Debbugs-Cc: geye...@googlemail.com Oops: I provided an update earlier today on this bug that you reported in 2006, but I forgot to cc your email address, Thomas. Please find my previous comment in the bug thread.

Bug#370487: partitions get formated after unsure confirmation in graphical installer

2023-03-02 Thread James Addison
Source: partman-base Followup-For: Bug #370487 Hi Thomas, I discovered this bug while wondering about some of the default options during the disk partition configuration steps (also known as the 'partman' component) in the Debian 12 (bookworm) alpha 2 installer. Since disk partition configuratio

Bug#1026027: marked as done (graphical installer: using nano in a installer shell fails)

2023-02-25 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sat, 25 Feb 2023 17:06:39 + with message-id and subject line Bug#1026027: fixed in debian-installer-utils 1.145 has caused the Debian Bug report #1026027, regarding graphical installer: using nano in a installer shell fails to be marked as done. This means that you claim

Processed: Re: Bug#1026027: graphical installer: using nano in a installer shell fails

2023-02-18 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > tags -1 + pending Bug #1026027 [di-utils-terminfo] graphical installer: using nano in a installer shell fails Added tag(s) pending. -- 1026027: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1026027 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org w

Bug#1026027: graphical installer: using nano in a installer shell fails

2023-02-18 Thread Philip Hands
Control: tags -1 + pending Sven Joachim writes: ... > I have attached the obvious patch. Here's your patch: https://salsa.debian.org/philh/debian-installer-utils/-/tree/sven-bug/102602 which generates this mini ISO: https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer/-/jobs/3960725/

Processed: Re: Bug#1026027: graphical installer: using nano in a installer shell fails

2023-02-18 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > reassign -1 di-utils-terminfo Bug #1026027 [debian-installer] graphical installer: using nano in a installer shell fails Bug reassigned from package 'debian-installer' to 'di-utils-terminfo'. Ignoring request to alter found versions of b

Bug#1026027: graphical installer: using nano in a installer shell fails

2023-02-18 Thread Sven Joachim
Control: reassign -1 di-utils-terminfo Control: tags -1 + patch On 2023-02-17 09:29 +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote: >> Philip Hands (2022-12-15): >>> Perhaps the presence of the termcap file is irrelevant, or could it be >>> that nano used to be able to make use of that, and more recently only >

Bug#1026027: graphical installer: using nano in a installer shell fails

2023-02-17 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Philip Hands (2022-12-15): Perhaps the presence of the termcap file is irrelevant, or could it be that nano used to be able to make use of that, and more recently only supports terminfo? This is the explanation, I think. Nano removed support for Slang in version 5.5. The nano-udeb (5.4) th

Bug#1026027: graphical installer: using nano in a installer shell fails

2023-02-16 Thread Cyril Brulebois
cc += nano maintainers Long story short: nano no longer starts in the graphical installer when started from the menu (meaning integrated via VTE), but does start fine when started from a console. Any insight welcome. Below, latest message on the bug report: Philip Hands (2022-12-15): > Hol

Bug#1026027: graphical installer: using nano in a installer shell fails

2022-12-15 Thread Philip Hands
Holger Wansing writes: > Hi, > > Philip Hands wrote (Tue, 13 Dec 2022 20:34:17 +0100): >> On the 11.5 netinst I just tried out, in the Graphical Install's shell, >> TERM=xterm so that's obviously not the cause of the issue, but the >> difference would appear to be that it has: >> >> /usr/shar

Bug#1026027: graphical installer: using nano in a installer shell fails

2022-12-15 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Philip Hands wrote (Tue, 13 Dec 2022 20:34:17 +0100): > On the 11.5 netinst I just tried out, in the Graphical Install's shell, > TERM=xterm so that's obviously not the cause of the issue, but the > difference would appear to be that it has: > > /usr/share/vte/termcap-0.0/xterm > > So I g

Bug#1026027: graphical installer: using nano in a installer shell fails

2022-12-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Holger Wansing (2022-12-13): > I just noticed that nano cannot be used anymore in the installer shell > (graphical installer): > > - start the installer > - choose 'Graphical expert install' > - 'Execute a shell' > - call 'nano /etc/fstab'

Bug#1026027: graphical installer: using nano in a installer shell fails

2022-12-13 Thread Philip Hands
Holger Wansing writes: > - start the installer > - choose 'Graphical expert install' > - 'Execute a shell' > - call 'nano /etc/fstab' > ---> Error opening terminal: xterm. That would seem to be because $TERM is set to 'xterm', whereas there's no terminfo file available for xterm. Under /lib/te

Bug#1026027: graphical installer: using nano in a installer shell fails

2022-12-13 Thread Holger Wansing
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Hi, I just noticed that nano cannot be used anymore in the installer shell (graphical installer): - start the installer - choose 'Graphical expert install' - 'Execute a shell' - call 'nano /etc/fstab' ---> Error open

Bug#1004274: debian-installer: graphical installer breaks debconf in rescue shell

2022-01-23 Thread Cyril Brulebois
an't locate Debconf/FrontEnd/Newt.pm in @INC...) > debconf: falling to frontend: Noninteractive > > Forcing --frontend=dialog or readline does not help. > > This seems to be caused by the DEBIAN_FRONTEND=newt environment variable > leaked from the graphical installer. It does not happen i

Bug#1004274: debian-installer: graphical installer breaks debconf in rescue shell

2022-01-23 Thread Pascal Hambourg
t.pm in @INC...) debconf: falling to frontend: Noninteractive Forcing --frontend=dialog or readline does not help. This seems to be caused by the DEBIAN_FRONTEND=newt environment variable leaked from the graphical installer. It does not happen in the text installer nor in tty2/tty3 shells. Not sure if th

Re: Fixing graphical installer

2022-01-09 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Holger Wansing wrote (Mon, 28 Sep 2020 23:34:45 +0200): > Hi, > > Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Hey Holger, > > > > We've had that broken rendering in the graphical installer for a while, > > and based on last answers on the bug, it seems we&#

Re: [installation-guide for arm64] Outdated statement regarding graphical installer

2021-11-21 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Holger Wansing wrote (Fri, 29 Oct 2021 19:49:58 +0200): > Maybe someone could look at that page, if there are some more outdated > infos there? > At the very least, we should change it similar to this: > > - The graphical installer is not enabled on the arm64 debian-installer

[installation-guide for arm64] Outdated statement regarding graphical installer

2021-10-29 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi arm people, I just noticed this outdated information on https://d-i.debian.org/manual/en.arm64/ch05s01.html: <<<<<<< snip <<<<<<<<<< 5.1. Booting the Installer on 64-bit ARM [Note] Note For information on how to boot the graphical inst

Re: moving graphical installer to GTK 3

2021-05-20 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
't give up on it. The ability to support everything from a > > serial terminal up to a graphical installer on the same media is > > lovely. > > Yes, debian-installer is a fantastic piece of software and the right installer > for a distribution that can be installed on

Re: moving graphical installer to GTK 3

2021-05-19 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 5/20/21 12:54 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Even if was decided to recommend that new users use live media for > installations, the flexibility of d-i is massively powerful, and we > shouldn't give up on it. The ability to support everything from a > serial terminal up to a graph

Re: moving graphical installer to GTK 3

2021-05-19 Thread john doe
ve up on it. The ability to support everything from a serial terminal up to a graphical installer on the same media is lovely. I concur. -- John Doe

Bug#987449: marked as done ([rc-1 graphical d-i] graphical installer hangs at language chooser step for several languages)

2021-05-19 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Thu, 20 May 2021 05:33:25 + with message-id and subject line Bug#987449: fixed in cdebconf 0.258 has caused the Debian Bug report #987449, regarding [rc-1 graphical d-i] graphical installer hangs at language chooser step for several languages to be marked as done. This

Re: moving graphical installer to GTK 3

2021-05-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Steve McIntyre, le mer. 19 mai 2021 23:54:06 +0100, a ecrit: > We could quite readily improve some of the more difficult areas of > today's d-i by adding support for (say) Python 3 That would also open the path for the Orca screen reader, that some blind people would like to have :) Samuel

Re: moving graphical installer to GTK 3

2021-05-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
fficult areas of today's d-i by adding support for (say) Python 3 instead of sticking to the existing mix of mostly shell with C and perl bits. Even if was decided to recommend that new users use live media for installations, the flexibility of d-i is massively powerful, and we shouldn'

Re: moving graphical installer to GTK 3

2021-05-17 Thread Cyril Brulebois
this use: it's perhaps less crucial to have full support > for non-Latin character sets in an environment where your interactions > with the installed system will have more in common with 1980s Unix than > any particular natural language. > > For desktop- and laptop-class

Re: moving graphical installer to GTK 3

2021-05-17 Thread Simon McVittie
system will have more in common with 1980s Unix than any particular natural language. For desktop- and laptop-class systems, I think Calamares from a live-system environment has a lot of potential, perhaps combined with gnome-initial-setup or a non-GNOME equivalent to do "first-run" s

Bug#987449: [rc-1 graphical d-i] graphical installer hangs at language chooser step for several languages

2021-04-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Control: block -1 by 987587 Hi, Holger Wansing (2021-04-24): > While trying to debug another problem yesterday, I found that the RC1 > graphical > installer fails to go forward, when selecting one of these languages: > - Kannada > - Marathi > - Persian > - Sinhala

Processed: Re: Bug#987449: [rc-1 graphical d-i] graphical installer hangs at language chooser step for several languages

2021-04-28 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > block -1 by 987587 Bug #987449 [debian-installer] [rc-1 graphical d-i] graphical installer hangs at language chooser step for several languages 987449 was not blocked by any bugs. 987449 was blocking: 987441 Added blocking bug(s) of 987449: 987587 -- 987

Bug#987377: Bug#987449: [rc-1 graphical d-i] graphical installer hangs at language chooser step for several languages

2021-04-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Holger Wansing (2021-04-25): > Chris Hofstaedtler : > > I spent a few hours today on this issue, but did not get very far. > > Not totally unexpected if you know nothing about the installer. And yet! > > I have, however, a perf top output to share. I believe this more or > > less means the

Bug#987449: [rc-1 graphical d-i] graphical installer hangs at language chooser step for several languages

2021-04-25 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote (Sun, 25 Apr 2021 14:13:05 +0200): > While the -exact- same bug does not appear on the > 20210424-7/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso image, I > think the bug is still there, just better hidden. > I managed to make debconf hang by: > - select Marathi >

Bug#987449: [rc-1 graphical d-i] graphical installer hangs at language chooser step for several languages

2021-04-25 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
* Holger Wansing [210425 16:53]: > Chris Hofstaedtler wrote (Sun, 25 Apr 2021 14:13:05 +0200): > > While the -exact- same bug does not appear on the > > 20210424-7/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso image, I > > think the bug is still there, just better hidden. > > I managed to make de

Bug#987449: [rc-1 graphical d-i] graphical installer hangs at language chooser step for several languages

2021-04-25 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Cyril Brulebois wrote (Sun, 25 Apr 2021 11:53:22 +0200): > Given the question below, I suppose you could revert this change > manually and restart the installer (after all, it's about a symlink and > a line in a config file). Sure. I did that already. But this does not gain any value, becaus

Bug#987449: [rc-1 graphical d-i] graphical installer hangs at language chooser step for several languages

2021-04-25 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote (Sat, 24 Apr 2021 23:45:13 +0200): > Hello, > > * Holger Wansing [210424 21:42]: > > While trying to debug another problem yesterday, I found that the RC1 > > graphical > > installer fails to go forward, when selecting one of these l

Bug#987449: [rc-1 graphical d-i] graphical installer hangs at language chooser step for several languages

2021-04-25 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
Hi, * Holger Wansing [210425 11:34]: > Chris Hofstaedtler wrote (Sat, 24 Apr 2021 23:45:13 +0200): > > * Holger Wansing [210424 21:42]: > > > While trying to debug another problem yesterday, I found that the RC1 > > > graphical > > > installer fails to go

Bug#987449: [rc-1 graphical d-i] graphical installer hangs at language chooser step for several languages

2021-04-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Holger Wansing (2021-04-25): > Cyril Brulebois wrote (Sun, 25 Apr 2021 11:53:22 +0200): > > Given the question below, I suppose you could revert this change > > manually and restart the installer (after all, it's about a symlink and > > a line in a config file). > > Sure. I did that already. > B

Bug#987449: [rc-1 graphical d-i] graphical installer hangs at language chooser step for several languages

2021-04-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Holger Wansing (2021-04-25): > Chris Hofstaedtler wrote (Sat, 24 Apr 2021 23:45:13 +0200): > > Hello, > > > > * Holger Wansing [210424 21:42]: > > > While trying to debug another problem yesterday, I found that the RC1 > > > graphical > > > inst

Bug#987449: [rc-1 graphical d-i] graphical installer hangs at language chooser step for several languages

2021-04-24 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
Hello, * Holger Wansing [210424 21:42]: > While trying to debug another problem yesterday, I found that the RC1 > graphical > installer fails to go forward, when selecting one of these languages: > - Kannada > - Marathi > - Persian > - Sinhala I sp

Bug#987449: [rc-1 graphical d-i] graphical installer hangs at language chooser step for several languages

2021-04-24 Thread Holger Wansing
Package: debian-installer Version: bullseye-rc1 Severity: grave While trying to debug another problem yesterday, I found that the RC1 graphical installer fails to go forward, when selecting one of these languages: - Kannada - Marathi - Persian - Sinhala (tested

Re: bullseye alpha3: graphical installer activated for arm64

2020-12-11 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Alper Nebi Yasak wrote: > On 07/12/2020 23:23, Holger Wansing wrote: > > Alper Nebi Yasak wrote: > >> I've tried debian-bullseye-DI-alpha3-arm64-netinst.iso on a QEMU VM, the > >> gtk installer refused to run with less than 578MiB (falling back to > >> newt). I could successfully go through

Re: bullseye alpha3: graphical installer activated for arm64

2020-12-09 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
On 07/12/2020 23:23, Holger Wansing wrote: > Alper Nebi Yasak wrote: >> I've tried debian-bullseye-DI-alpha3-arm64-netinst.iso on a QEMU VM, the >> gtk installer refused to run with less than 578MiB (falling back to >> newt). I could successfully go through the rest of the gtk installer >> with th

Re: bullseye alpha3: graphical installer activated for arm64

2020-12-07 Thread Holger Wansing
wo different user interfaces: a > >>> +graphical one and a character-based one. The graphical interface is > >>> +used by default unless you select an Install > >>> +option in the boot menu. For more information about the > >>> +graphical installer, please ref

Re: bullseye alpha3: graphical installer activated for arm64

2020-12-07 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Alper Nebi Yasak wrote: > On 06/12/2020 23:11, Holger Wansing wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I read in alpha3 release-notes about the activation of the graphical > > installer for arm64. > > > > This needs to be documented in the installation-guide then. >

Re: bullseye alpha3: graphical installer activated for arm64

2020-12-07 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
a character-based one. The graphical interface is >>> +used by default unless you select an Install >>> +option in the boot menu. For more information about the >>> +graphical installer, please refer to . >> > > Is it for consistency that 'character'

Re: bullseye alpha3: graphical installer activated for arm64

2020-12-07 Thread john doe
n in the boot menu. For more information about the +graphical installer, please refer to . Is it for consistency that 'character' is used instead of 'text'? To me, 'text' is more descriptive than 'character'. -- John Doe

Re: bullseye alpha3: graphical installer activated for arm64

2020-12-07 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
On 06/12/2020 23:11, Holger Wansing wrote: > Hi, > > I read in alpha3 release-notes about the activation of the graphical > installer for arm64. > > This needs to be documented in the installation-guide then. > > I have prepared a first patch for this, attached. &

bullseye alpha3: graphical installer activated for arm64

2020-12-06 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, I read in alpha3 release-notes about the activation of the graphical installer for arm64. This needs to be documented in the installation-guide then. I have prepared a first patch for this, attached. There are two points remaining open: - needed RAM: what is the minimal required

Re: Fixing graphical installer

2020-09-28 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Holger Wansing wrote: > > I think you prepared the changes in branches, or something? I'd > > appreciate a quick summary, so that I can test stuff locally, and > > possibly proceed to updating the reference images I'm using for semi > > autoamted tests. > > Working with branches is still som

Re: Fixing graphical installer

2020-09-28 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hey Holger, > > We've had that broken rendering in the graphical installer for a while, > and based on last answers on the bug, it seems we're not getting a fix. > I'm therefore considering moving forward to switching to a different

Fixing graphical installer

2020-09-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hey Holger, We've had that broken rendering in the graphical installer for a while, and based on last answers on the bug, it seems we're not getting a fix. I'm therefore considering moving forward to switching to a different font regardless (I initially wanted to compare before

Bug#766398: marked as done ("synaptics touchpad not working in graphical installer")

2020-08-22 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
: [O] User/password setup:[O] Detect hard drives: [ ] Partition hard drives: [ ] Install base system:[O] Install tasks: [O] Install boot loader:[O] Overall install:[O] Comments/Problems: The synaptics touchpad on the system was non operational in the graphical

Bug#864935: marked as done (installation-reports: stretch 9.0 netinst graphical installer seemingly tries to start X twice)

2020-08-20 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
etinst graphical installer seemingly tries to start X twice to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a

Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-07-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey Alper, Apologies, I've been swamped with a lot of other things lately, both in Debian and in starting up with a new day job. I'll try and review your more recent changes shortly... On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 07:46:39PM +0300, Alper Nebi Yasak wrote: >Hi, I just wanted to remind you of some patch

Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-07-01 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
Hi, I just wanted to remind you of some patches I sent a while back. Do you (or anyone else) have time to comment on / review / merge them? On 19/05/2020 17:17, Alper Nebi Yasak wrote: So I tested my earlier patch, and did a bit more. I've attached three patches, first two for debian-installer

Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-05-19 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
On 20/04/2020 19:36, Alper Nebi Yasak wrote: On 20/04/2020 18:38, Steve McIntyre wrote: Does /dev/tty0 show up in /proc/consoles in your setup? We might need to tweak that yet... Here is a small but untested patch for rootskel's reopen-console for that. I don't think this (having to set cons

Re: Completely switch graphical installer to fonts-noto?

2020-05-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Finally getting back to this slightly old thread… Holger Wansing (2020-04-13): > Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > I'm not sure there's actually “no point”. A possible fontconfig > > issue could be hindering your tests regarding that switch… So in the end it wasn't a fontconfig issue, but a pango

Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-04-28 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
On 26/04/2020 05:54, Paul Wise wrote: ISTR that CCing Andrew Morton can help get patches into Linux if the maintainers of the code in question do not reply. I suggest you try that after you fix the issue pointed out by the bot. Thanks! Do you mean CCing at the version with the fix, or at furth

Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-04-28 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
On 21/04/2020 15:42, Wookey wrote: One thought - can we just perhaps use /dev/console 'anyway' and that'll get us the right thing even when tty0 has not been properly enabled when it should have been? (I've forgotten how all this works and would need to go read the runes again, and most of my tes

Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-04-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 06:41:36PM +0300, Alper Nebi Yasak wrote: >On 21/04/2020 14:14, Alper Nebi Yasak wrote: >> Since you've already pushed to master, I'll try to do a full >> installation once daily cdroms are available. > >I've tested with today's (2020-04-27) weekly-built >debian-testing-arm6

Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-04-27 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
On 21/04/2020 14:14, Alper Nebi Yasak wrote: Since you've already pushed to master, I'll try to do a full installation once daily cdroms are available. I've tested with today's (2020-04-27) weekly-built debian-testing-arm64-xfce-CD-1.iso on my chromebook. Overall rushing through the graphical

Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-04-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 11:15 AM Alper Nebi Yasak wrote: > IMO, the right answer is "tty0 not even being in /proc/consoles in this > case (where it should've also been the /dev/console) is a kernel bug". I > tried to write a patchset [1] a while back, but received no feedback > except from kbuild

Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-04-21 Thread Wookey
On 2020-04-21 14:14 +0300, Alper Nebi Yasak wrote: > > IMO, the right answer is "tty0 not even being in /proc/consoles in this case > (where it should've also been the /dev/console) is a kernel bug". This is my opinion too, although I'm prepared to change it if someone can given a good reason why

Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-04-21 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
x27;s reopen-console for that. Hmmm. Is this the right answer, though? I've got totally headless arm64 machines that also have a /dev/tty0. Would we want to run d-i there? Maybe, I'm genuinely not sure. It might be harmless, I guess...? Fedora's installer launches a graphical in

Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-04-21 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
es to master now. I'm not sure about adding the graphical installer for armhf right now, but I'm open to being convinced... Once we have a working d-i daily build I'll also push my changes for debian-cd to use it on arm64. The installer's kernel is 5.5.0-2, but the ones in t

Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-04-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 07:36:42PM +0300, Alper Nebi Yasak wrote: >On 20/04/2020 18:38, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Does /dev/tty0 show up in /proc/consoles in your setup? We might need >> to tweak that yet... > >Here is a small but untested patch for rootskel's reopen-console for that. Hmmm. Is this

Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-04-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
oing to test again with that change included, then I can >>>> push a netinst image somewhere for you to test... >>> >>>I'd appreciate it. Here's another patch, this time for the armhf graphical >>>cdrom. I checked that it boots into a graphical installer w

Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-04-20 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
On 20/04/2020 18:38, Steve McIntyre wrote: Does /dev/tty0 show up in /proc/consoles in your setup? We might need to tweak that yet... Here is a small but untested patch for rootskel's reopen-console for that. (Thanks for the cd image, it'll probably take me until tomorrow to test and report b

Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-04-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
image somewhere for you to test... >> >>I'd appreciate it. Here's another patch, this time for the armhf graphical >>cdrom. I checked that it boots into a graphical installer when run in a QEMU >>arm VM (still with 'direct kernel boot') but no further. If

Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-04-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
7;s another patch, this time for the armhf graphical >cdrom. I checked that it boots into a graphical installer when run in a QEMU >arm VM (still with 'direct kernel boot') but no further. If you can also make >an armhf netinst image from this I can test that too (at least in a VM,

Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-04-20 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
On 20/04/2020 16:36, Steve McIntyre wrote: I'm just going to test again with that change included, then I can push a netinst image somewhere for you to test... I'd appreciate it. Here's another patch, this time for the armhf graphical cdrom. I checked that it boots into a grap

Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-04-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
t; And I have a build that looks OK by eye. Unfortunately, my local test >> machine (Macchiatobin) seems to be dying and I can't test this >> effectively now. :-( > >Ah, OK. Thanks for spending time on this. > >> It needs some tiny debian-cd changes and then we&

Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-04-19 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
ively now. :-( Ah, OK. Thanks for spending time on this. It needs some tiny debian-cd changes and then we'll get netinst, DVD images etc. also including the graphical installer. Final thing missing - the grub.cfg that's generated for the CD/DVD/USB boot doesn't include menu entrie

Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-04-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
me tiny debian-cd changes and then we'll get netinst, DVD images etc. also including the graphical installer. Final thing missing - the grub.cfg that's generated for the CD/DVD/USB boot doesn't include menu entries for graphical boot. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-04-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 10:11:12PM +0300, Alper Nebi Yasak wrote: >On 06/04/2020 17:48, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> > Alper Nebi Yasak: >> > - added event-modules to arm64 netboot-gtk >> > - commented-out serial-modules from arm64 netboot >> >> So why comment out the serial modules here? Do they caus

Re: Completely switch graphical installer to fonts-noto?

2020-04-13 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Holger Wansing (2020-04-09): > > Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > > Cyril Brulebois (2020-03-28): > > > > This would be an easy way to publish updated installation images for > > > > people to toy with, and compare with the previous alpha. And I think > > > > that'd be a

Re: Completely switch graphical installer to fonts-noto?

2020-04-09 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Holger Wansing (2020-04-09): > Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Cyril Brulebois (2020-03-28): > > > This would be an easy way to publish updated installation images for > > > people to toy with, and compare with the previous alpha. And I think > > > that'd be a sensible approach (at least that's what

Re: Completely switch graphical installer to fonts-noto?

2020-04-09 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Cyril Brulebois (2020-03-28): > > This would be an easy way to publish updated installation images for > > people to toy with, and compare with the previous alpha. And I think > > that'd be a sensible approach (at least that's what I had in mind). > > > > Gathering

Re: Completely switch graphical installer to fonts-noto?

2020-04-09 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Cyril Brulebois (2020-03-28): > This would be an easy way to publish updated installation images for > people to toy with, and compare with the previous alpha. And I think > that'd be a sensible approach (at least that's what I had in mind). > > Gathering the results and drawing a conclusion is w

Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-04-06 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
On 06/04/2020 17:48, Steve McIntyre wrote: Alper Nebi Yasak: - added event-modules to arm64 netboot-gtk - commented-out serial-modules from arm64 netboot So why comment out the serial modules here? Do they cause a problem? The "serial-modules" udeb isn't built on arm64 yet and including it he

Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-04-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi! Great work here! :-) More comments inline... On Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 07:46:01PM +0300, Alper Nebi Yasak wrote: >I posted a while ago about graphical installer on arm64, here's an update. >The first two patches I've attached are Wookey's patches with two module >cha

Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-04-02 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
I posted a while ago about graphical installer on arm64, here's an update. The first two patches I've attached are Wookey's patches with two module changes (noted in the patch message). The third one is to enable graphical cdrom builds, which I tested with the d-i bullseye alpha

Re: Completely switch graphical installer to fonts-noto?

2020-03-28 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Besides the first topic you mentioned, and the idea of putting all our > eggs in the same basket (possibly meaning less maintenance for us, > and/or maybe more pressure on the maintainers of a newly-critical > component), the big question is what users will think of t

Re: Completely switch graphical installer to fonts-noto?

2020-03-28 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > [ I am not subscribed: please cc me on replies ] > > Quoting Cyril Brulebois (2020-03-28 18:09:51) > > Steve McIntyre (2020-03-28): > > > Hey folks, > > > > > > On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 05:52:26PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > > >Holger Wansing (2020-03-27): >

Re: Completely switch graphical installer to fonts-noto?

2020-03-28 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
[ I am not subscribed: please cc me on replies ] Quoting Cyril Brulebois (2020-03-28 18:09:51) > Steve McIntyre (2020-03-28): > > Hey folks, > > > > On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 05:52:26PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > >Holger Wansing (2020-03-27): > > >> > > >> So, what's the opinion of the te

Re: Completely switch graphical installer to fonts-noto?

2020-03-28 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
[ I am not subscribed: please cc me on replies ] Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2020-03-28 18:45:56) > Holger Wansing wrote: > > However, I did some tests, and I managed to get a netboot-gtk > > mini.iso image built with only this font packages: > > fonts-android-udeb (apparently needed for CJK

Re: Completely switch graphical installer to fonts-noto?

2020-03-28 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
[ I am not subscribed: please cc me on replies ] Quoting Steve McIntyre (2020-03-28 17:58:54) > On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 05:52:26PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > >Holger Wansing (2020-03-27): > >> > >> So, what's the opinion of the team: is there any interest to move > >> to fonts-noto? > > >

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