AW: problems with my partman recipe

2008-07-24 Thread Lenz, Mario (LDS)
Hi! I have to apologize: I'm not used to mailing lists as I am able to solve the most problems myself or with the help of my good old friend google. So here's some additional information: I'm using Lenny and got the kernel and initrd from http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/install

Re: Is it possible to create several LV on a VG with different names using partman ?

2008-07-24 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 08:06:43AM +0200, Grégory Oestreicher wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:19:20PM +0200, Grégory Oestreicher wrote: > > I was planning to have another look at it soon, but if you have the time > > to update and test it before that, that would indeed be great. :) > > Well

Bug#491712: firmware for iwl4965 is asked in disk-detect (was: installation-reports: HP lenovo R61i laptop)

2008-07-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 23 July 2008, Joey Hess wrote: > Frans Pop wrote: > > You change has not yet be committed though, so this could be taken > > along. It would just be: > > ls -1 /sys/class/net | grep -v "^lo$" > > I like keeping bugfixes separate from potential bug introduction. :-) > And your code

Re: Please unblock pango1.0 and glib2.0

2008-07-24 Thread Luk Claes
Otavio Salvador wrote: > Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Josselin Mouette wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> please allow pango1.0 1.20.5-1 and glib2.0 2.16.4-2 migrate to testing. >>> Both have important bugfixes. >> Both need ack from debian-boot > > No objection unblocked Cheers Luk -- To

Bug#492188: [INTL:sv] Swedish strings for hw-detect debconf

2008-07-24 Thread Martin Bagge
package: hw-detect severity: wishlist tags: patch l10n -- brother http://frakalendern.se# THIS FILE IS GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY FROM THE D-I PO MASTER FILES # The master files can be found under packages/po/ # # DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE DIRECTLY: SUCH CHANGES WILL BE LOST # # THIS FILE IS AUTOMATIC

Re: [PATCH] RAID10 and RAID6

2008-07-24 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 12:49:39PM -0700, Ryan Niebur wrote: > here are the patches A test image of the patches applied on top of the rework of MD devices initialisation is available at: http://people.debian.org/~lunar/d-i+md_love+raid6_10-mini.iso Due to disk space constraints (*sigh*) I was n

Re: Automatic activation of pre-existing RAID/LVM devices (was: RAID10 and RAID6)

2008-07-24 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 09:26:12PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Saturday 19 July 2008, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > > I have quickly reviewed all bug reports against these two packages and > > no bugs seem to mention this issue. Either the relevant installation > > reports were not sorted correctly or w

Bug#492178: marked as done ([INTL:sv] Swedish strings for cdrom-detect debconf)

2008-07-24 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#492188: marked as done ([INTL:sv] Swedish strings for hw-detect debconf)

2008-07-24 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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how to create debian-installer for amd64 on i386 system ?

2008-07-24 Thread sol-666
Hello, I'am a debian administrator, and I want to use netboot. I've two questions. First: Recently I found documentationd wich explain how to create debian-installer from source with SSH and pressed : http://www.pckult.net/tutoriaux/23-linux/1135-installer-debian-sur-une-machine-distante-avec

Re: unblocking e2fsprogs

2008-07-24 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 01:13:06AM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: > > > In addition 1.41.0 closed a large number of bugs over 1.40.11, and is > > the first version to have ext4 support. Btw, a version of GRUB 2 with ext4dev support was just uploaded (1.96+20080717-1). -- Robert Millan I know my

Re: [RFC] Add support for shells in the graphical installer

2008-07-24 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 04:27:24PM +0200, Davide Viti wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 02:04:59AM +0200, J??r??my Bobbio wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 08:04:29PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > > That is still with the to-much-reduced font udeb, isn't it? Or did Davide > > > already provide a new

Re: [RFC] Add support for shells in the graphical installer

2008-07-24 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 07:10:38PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Tuesday 22 July 2008, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > > If you want to have a look, I have updated the test image at: > > http://people.debian.org/~lunar/g-i+terminal-mini.iso > > > > I am quite happy with the result. :) > > Yes, much more n

Re: unblocking e2fsprogs

2008-07-24 Thread Theodore Tso
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 03:34:26PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 01:13:06AM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: > > > > > In addition 1.41.0 closed a large number of bugs over 1.40.11, and is > > > the first version to have ext4 support. > > Btw, a version of GRUB 2 with ext4dev s

Re: unblocking e2fsprogs

2008-07-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 24 July 2008, Theodore Tso wrote: > I wouldn't dream of asking debian-boot to support ext4dev at this late > date --- but there is one thing I would ask. As I recall, there was a > temporary fix to force to use of 128 byte inodes for the interim etch > release of the d-i. Could we mak

Re: unblocking e2fsprogs

2008-07-24 Thread Theodore Tso
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 06:02:37PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Thursday 24 July 2008, Theodore Tso wrote: > > I wouldn't dream of asking debian-boot to support ext4dev at this late > > date --- but there is one thing I would ask. As I recall, there was a > > temporary fix to force to use of 128 b

Bug#492051: Lenny Beta 2 installer failure

2008-07-24 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 03:26:27PM +0100, Jon Thackray wrote: > Despite the fact that my system is using what is now a relatively well > known Intel motherboard, the netinst could not find CDROM drivers. The > CDROM is a standardr IDE CDROM, designed by Toshiba/Samsung, model SH-C522. > The moth

Re: unblocking e2fsprogs

2008-07-24 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:58:39AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 03:34:26PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 01:13:06AM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: > > > > > > > In addition 1.41.0 closed a large number of bugs over 1.40.11, and is > > > > the first ve

Bug#490382: netcfg: Wireless configuration issues with ath5k

2008-07-24 Thread Glenn Saberton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As all mac80211 drivers will have this problem, I have made a few more changes in netcfg. When iw_get_basic_config is called, the current freq is stored. Non mac80211 drivers appear to ignore this after a trigger to associate, but mac80211 drivers appe

Re: [RFC] Add support for shells in the graphical installer

2008-07-24 Thread Otavio Salvador
Jérémy Bobbio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [4] NACK > [3] Further discussions after Lenny is released > [1] Merge now, including cdebconf-gtk-terminal in the gtk initrd > [2] Merge now, loading cdebconf-gtk-terminal on demand > > I would tick the third one myself. As far as I have seen, the

Bug#491712: firmware for iwl4965 is asked in disk-detect (was: installation-reports: HP lenovo R61i laptop)

2008-07-24 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: > No. With '-1' you don't get trailing slashes for directories. FWIW, that's a busyboxism. I'd use find. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#492077: debian-installer: avoid searching for libgcc_s.so

2008-07-24 Thread Joey Hess
John Reiser wrote: > Many executables used by the installer depend on libgcc_s.so. Searching for > this library (by ld-linux.so just after execve) takes more than 1% of install > time. The search tries: >2375 open("/lib/tls/libgcc_s.so.1", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT >2373 open("/lib/fast-mult/

Bug#492086: partman: menus are very slow

2008-07-24 Thread Joey Hess
There is already discussion about how to speed up partman elsewhere in the BTS. Minor shell efficiency tricks are not going to help much. It forks *thousands* of processes per menu. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#492077: debian-installer: avoid searching for libgcc_s.so

2008-07-24 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>time perl -e 'for (1..16625) { open(IN, "/no/file") }' > > 0.03user 0.03system 0:00.06elapsed 96%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k > > So for a typical install on modern hardware, these 16 thousand extra syscalls > use less than 0.1 second. > > I

Bug#492246: setting package to archdetect hw-detect ethdetect disk-detect, tagging 492246, tagging 491712

2008-07-24 Thread Joey Hess
# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.34 # via tagpending # # hw-detect (1.65) UNRELEASED; urgency=low # # * ethdetect: Some modules do not request firmware until their interface #has been brought up. So up and down every interface so missing firmware #can be d

Processed: setting package to archdetect hw-detect ethdetect disk-detect, tagging 492246, tagging 491712

2008-07-24 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.34 > # via tagpending > # > # hw-detect (1.65) UNRELEASED; urgency=low > # > # * ethdetect: Some modules do not request firmware until their interface > #has been brought up. So up a

Bug#491712: firmware for iwl4965 is asked in disk-detect (was: installation-reports: HP lenovo R61i laptop)

2008-07-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 24 July 2008, Joey Hess wrote: > Frans Pop wrote: > > No. With '-1' you don't get trailing slashes for directories. > > FWIW, that's a busyboxism. And bashism too then... > I'd use find. Yes, I thought of that. I dislike having to restrict depth but it would allow to explicitly sel

Re: [PATCH] RAID10 and RAID6

2008-07-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 20 July 2008, Ryan Niebur wrote: > here are the patches Other than the comments below and final testing this looks ready for committing to me. Please also test creating (and deleting) multiple RAID devices in the same "configure RAID" session, for example RAID1 for /boot + RAID5 for

Re: Please unblock nano 2.0.7-3

2008-07-24 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Jordi Mallach [Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:07:34 +0200]: > Hi, Hi Jordi, > I'm requesting a freeze exception for nano 2.0.7-3, when current in > lenny is 2.0.7-1. Ok; nano is not frozen because of the freeze (yet), but just because it produces an udeb. Thanks for the detailed explanations, though :),

Re: [PATCH] RAID10 and RAID6

2008-07-24 Thread Frans Pop
One more... Patch 1: + let SELECTED++ I don't think we use that syntax anywhere else in D-I, at least I cannot remember seeing it. Please use 'SELECTED=$(($SELECTED + 1))' instead. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Processed: setting package to archdetect hw-detect ethdetect disk-detect, tagging 492249

2008-07-24 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.34 > # via tagpending > # > # hw-detect (1.65) UNRELEASED; urgency=low > # > # * check-missing-firmware: Check that debs are the right architecture before > #trying to use them. Clos

Bug#492249: setting package to archdetect hw-detect ethdetect disk-detect, tagging 492249

2008-07-24 Thread Joey Hess
# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.34 # via tagpending # # hw-detect (1.65) UNRELEASED; urgency=low # # * check-missing-firmware: Check that debs are the right architecture before #trying to use them. Closes: #492249 # package archdetect hw-detect ethdetect dis

Bug#490896: marked as done (Keyboard related issues in the graphical installer)

2008-07-24 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
d. Tests on the i386 netboot mini.iso dated 20080724-19:33 were positive about it. :) Cheers, -- Jérémy Bobbio.''`. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: :Ⓐ : # apt-get install anarchism `. `'`

Processed: setting package to archdetect hw-detect ethdetect disk-detect, tagging 492248

2008-07-24 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.34 > # via tagpending > # > # hw-detect (1.65) UNRELEASED; urgency=low > # > # * post-base-installer: If dpkg fails to install a firmware package, likely > #because it has dependenci

Bug#492248: setting package to archdetect hw-detect ethdetect disk-detect, tagging 492248

2008-07-24 Thread Joey Hess
# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.34 # via tagpending # # hw-detect (1.65) UNRELEASED; urgency=low # # * post-base-installer: If dpkg fails to install a firmware package, likely #because it has dependencies outside base, remove it rather than leaving #the d

Bug#492086: partman: menus are very slow

2008-07-24 Thread Joey Hess
John Reiser wrote: > First, avoid searching for "cat" every time. The default search tries: >/usr/local/sbin/cat >/usr/local/bin/cat >/usr/sbin/cat >/usr/bin/cat >/sbin/cat > before finding /bin/cat. Instead: use 'which' or 'type' to do the search > once, > assign the result

Re: RFC: Output files for netboot-xen flavour

2008-07-24 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 12:35 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Tuesday 22 July 2008, Ian Campbell wrote: > > I've attached a patch which implements this and would appreciate any > > comments. In particular I'm pretty sure dumping xm-debian.cfg into > > build/config/i386 is not the right place -- any sugg

location of etch-n-half netboot-images

2008-07-24 Thread Franklin PIAT
Hello, By chance, do you already know what will be the URL for etch-n-half netboot image ? This is for di-netboot-assistant's di-source.list. Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#492086: partman: menus are very slow

2008-07-24 Thread John Reiser
Joey Hess wrote: > Conclusion 2: Benchmark before optimising. In this case, trying to > optimise away the wrong system calls is a waste of time. The benchmark code and measurements [snipped] are not a good comparison with the actual environment of low-memory mode. In particular, the use of swap

Re: [PATCH] RAID10 and RAID6

2008-07-24 Thread Ryan Niebur
oops, I meant to send this to debian-boot. On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 02:59:17PM -0700, Ryan Niebur wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 09:45:26PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > One more... > > > > Patch 1: > > + let SELECTED++ > > > > I don't think we use that syntax anywhere else in

Re: [PATCH] RAID10 and RAID6

2008-07-24 Thread Ryan Niebur
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 09:39:15PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Sunday 20 July 2008, Ryan Niebur wrote: > > here are the patches > > Other than the comments below and final testing this looks ready for > committing to me. > yay! > Please also test creating (and deleting) multiple RAID devices

Bug#492086: partman: menus are very slow

2008-07-24 Thread Joey Hess
John Reiser wrote: > The benchmark code and measurements [snipped] are not a good comparison > with the actual environment of low-memory mode. In particular, the use of > swap space is likely in low memory mode, but almost certainly not present > in the measurements reported above. Any actual use

Bug#492086: partman: menus are very slow

2008-07-24 Thread John Reiser
Joey Hess wrote: >>Consider this shell code: >>which runs in 22.2 seconds on my NSLU2 for 1000 executions of "cat /dev/null" >>in an environment much more similar to real partman than previous benchmarks. >>Changing to "PATH=/bin " runs in 21.5 seconds, which is 0.7 seconds faster. >>Altering the

Bug#492086: partman: menus are very slow

2008-07-24 Thread Joey Hess
John Reiser wrote: > Partman runs very slowly. It reflects poorly on debian-installer. Humans percieve interactive things as "slow" if they take longer than approximatly 0.1 seconds to respond. Increasing the speed of partman by less than 50% is not going to yield a difference that is percievable

Bug#492086: partman: menus are very slow

2008-07-24 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 07:28:41PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Or one could teach busybox shell to jump to the in-busybox > implementations of cat and all other busybox commands, thereby > eliminating every exec in partman except for those needed to run > subshells. (It'd still have to fork, but linu