Re: Call for testing of RC1 images

2008-11-06 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Otavio Salvador ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Wednesday 05 November 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: > >> No, this is a person who has a fullday work plus University trying to > >> do his best to make the release happen. > > > > Why don't you try _asking_ for help if you can't do everything your

Re: Another round of GNOME unblock requests

2008-11-06 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 31 octobre 2008 à 11:12 +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt a écrit : > > vte (1:0.16.14-4) unstable; urgency=low > > Looks fine, need d-i RM ACK. Please, debian-boot? This is a very important fix for anjuta. BTW, it needs a give-back on hppa now that pango1.0 and gtk+2.0 have been rebuilt

todo list for the release (Re: Call for testing of RC1 images

2008-11-06 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, I'm refraining from crossposting this to -release and -devel... but I think this news get to go out! On Thursday 06 November 2008 01:09, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Basically my TODO list, that I'm lacking time to do... and I > appreciate help with: > > - check missing items in release announc

Bug#504659: tasksel: Gnome pushes File and DNS server and language tasks off CD1

2008-11-06 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 06 novembre 2008 à 00:01 +0100, Frans Pop a écrit : > It looks like the main reason for this is the recent changes in the > gnome-desktop task, which changed its "key" package to 'gnome' from > 'gnome-desktop-environment'. You’re raising quite a while after we discussed it. I wonder why

Debian Installer Meeting on Friday 7 November 2008 at 21:00 UTC

2008-11-06 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
There will be a Debian Installer Meeting on Friday 7 November 2008 at 21:00 UTC. More information is available at the wiki page below. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Meetings/Coordination Please add your agenda items at the above wiki page where you could find a number of agenda items al

Re: Another round of GNOME unblock requests

2008-11-06 Thread Otavio Salvador
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Le vendredi 31 octobre 2008 à 11:12 +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt a > écrit : >> > vte (1:0.16.14-4) unstable; urgency=low >> >> Looks fine, need d-i RM ACK. > > Please, debian-boot? This is a very impor

Bug#504702: Enable sunvnet and sunvdc modules in the installer kernel

2008-11-06 Thread Mike Grice
Package: linux-kernel-di-sparc-2.6 Version: 1.37 Severity: wishlist This refers to bug 501651, a wishlist bug to enable these modules and the kernel option CONFIG_SUN_LDOMS in the kernel. Discussion on this took place on debian-boot here: Please enable the two modules: sunvdc (block) sunvnet (n

Re: Sparc d-i terminal weirdness?

2008-11-06 Thread Mike Grice
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 9:27 PM, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 03 November 2008, Mike Grice wrote: >> > Does the Etch version of the installer work? >> >> No. I'm actually doing a netboot into a SUN LDOM. This shouldn't be >> any different from a normal SPARC install, except tha

Processed: Re: Bug#504702: Enable sunvnet and sunvdc modules in the installer kernel

2008-11-06 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > block 504702 with 501651 Bug#501651: debian-installer: Unable to install lenny onto a Sun logical domain Bug#504702: Enable sunvnet and sunvdc modules in the installer kernel Was not blocked by any bugs. Blocking bugs of 504702 added: 501651 > retitle

Bug#504590: (forw) Bug#504590: clock-setup: OpenSolaris uses local time by default

2008-11-06 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 06 November 2008, Laurent Blume wrote: > The executive summary is, yes, by default, on *x86* systems, both > Solaris and OpenSolaris considers the system clock to be the local > time. Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation. It means that IMO the current patch proposed by Colin is n

Re: Sparc d-i terminal weirdness?

2008-11-06 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 06 November 2008, Mike Grice wrote: > Ok, I got a little further. I started running the wrapper scripts the > same way init calls them (via reopen-console). The first part of the > installer, /sbin/debian-installer-startup, works fine. When I run the > second part, /sbin/debian-insta

Bug#504590: (forw) Bug#504590: clock-setup: OpenSolaris uses local time by default

2008-11-06 Thread Laurent Blume
Hello, Christian Perrier forwarded me the question, as a longtime Solaris and OpenSolaris user, so let me try to shed more light on this. The executive summary is, yes, by default, on *x86* systems, both Solaris and OpenSolaris considers the system clock to be the local time. The longer explanat

Bug#504590: (forw) Bug#504590: clock-setup: OpenSolaris uses local time by default

2008-11-06 Thread Laurent Blume
Frans Pop a écrit : > It means that IMO the current patch proposed by Colin is not correct: > - we should make sure we only default to local time on x86, and not on > sparc > - we probably should ask the user what he actually wants because he > may be running OpenSolaris in UTC, for example if

Re: Call for testing of RC1 images

2008-11-06 Thread André Luís Lopes
Hello, Just a note that I downloaded [0] and gave it a try, installing under a KVM x86/ia32 virtio-enabled guest machine and everything was fine. I did two installs, one using the standard text (ncurses) based install option and other using the graphicall (GTK+) based install option, bith u

Different source packages producing the same binaries in different architectures makes dak unhappy

2008-11-06 Thread Adeodato Simó
Hello, (please CC me on replies) the other day the source for linux-modules-di-arm-2.6 was accidentally removed from unstable. Luckily britney scripts were able to catch this and send an alert, and the source package was reinjected from the pool into the database. This happened because ftpmaster'

Re: Call for testing of RC1 images

2008-11-06 Thread Ryan Niebur
Hi, On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 10:09:32PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: [snip] > > Release the Debian Installer is a huge job and when I've joined as > Release Manager the idea was to do that as a team. That team was I, > Jeremy and Joey. After that each one has stoping to work as RM (each > one has

Bug#504718: installation-reports: boot partition not found

2008-11-06 Thread Khalid Shukri
Package: installation-reports Severity: important -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: [Debian GNU/Linux LennyBeta2 _Lenny_ - Official Beta i386 NETINST Binary-1 20080608-11:24]/ Date: Machine: x86 desktop PC with ASRock motherboard, IDE (P-ATA) hard disk on 1st controlle

Bug#504721: Console broken on debian-installer on Sparc LDOM

2008-11-06 Thread Mike Grice
Package: rootskel Version: 1.69 Severity: important Hi rootskel maintainers :) I've been trying to get debian-installer (lenny) working on a Sun LDOM (i.e., SPARC, sun4v). I'm having some trouble, though. When the installer boots, you get a mono console, and the arrow keys, tab, and enter don't

Re: Sparc d-i terminal weirdness?

2008-11-06 Thread Mike Grice
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 06 November 2008, Mike Grice wrote: >> Ok, I got a little further. I started running the wrapper scripts the >> same way init calls them (via reopen-console). The first part of the >> installer, /sbin/debian-insta

Re: Call for testing of RC1 images

2008-11-06 Thread André Luís Lopes
Hello, André Luís Lopes escreveu: > Hello, > >Just a note that I downloaded [0] and gave it a try, installing under > a KVM x86/ia32 virtio-enabled guest machine and everything was fine. Yeah, I know, [0] wasn't actually provided. It's now :-) Besides that, I also did the exact same t

Re: Call for testing of RC1 images

2008-11-06 Thread Otavio Salvador
Ryan Niebur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 10:09:32PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > [snip] >> >> Release the Debian Installer is a huge job and when I've joined as >> Release Manager the idea was to do that as a team. That team was I, >> Jeremy and Joey. After tha

Bug#504753: debian-installer: autodetect correct network card [PATCH]

2008-11-06 Thread Adrian Bridgett
Package: debian-installer using PXElinux, if you add "IPAPPEND=3" in the pxelinux.cfg, /proc/cmdline will contain the boot adapter's MAC address. Using this we can automatically detect which card the box PXEbooted from. This removes the need for us to hardcode eth0 on some servers, eth1 on other

Bug#492878: lenny installer -dosen't detect Broadcom ethernet adapter

2008-11-06 Thread Adrian Bridgett
I added the firmware from the firmware-bnx2 package into the initrd (we pxeboot the servers) to fix this FWIW. You can't download it via udeb since it could be the network adapter you are trying to use! Adrian -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -*- GPG key available on public key servers Debian GNU/L

[win32-loader] Installation difficulties.

2008-11-06 Thread Ahren J. Bohmrich
Hello, I recently downloaded and installed the win32-loader from goodbye-microsoft. I ran the program from Windows XP Home SP3 on my HP Pavilion zv5000 laptop computer. Upon reboot, after selecting the option to run the installer, a "no module found" error appeared, followed by another error

Bug#504760: s390 installer doesn't work on 3215 console running as a VM guest

2008-11-06 Thread zlinuxman
Package: debian-installer Version: 20081029 The latest version of the installation program for the s390 architecture (for lenny/sid) doesn't work when running on a 3215 virtual console as a guest of z/VM. In this installation method, the installer performs some initial steps, such as configuring t

Processed: Re: Bug#504753: debian-installer: autodetect correct network card [PATCH]

2008-11-06 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 504753 rootskel Bug#504753: debian-installer: autodetect correct network card [PATCH] Bug reassigned from package `debian-installer' to `rootskel'. > severity 504753 wishlist Bug#504753: debian-installer: autodetect correct network card [PATCH

Bug#504760: s390 installer doesn't work on 3215 console running as a VM guest

2008-11-06 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 504760 rootskel 1.66 severity 504760 serious thanks On Thursday 06 November 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The latest version of the installation program for the s390 > architecture (for lenny/sid) > doesn't work when running on a 3215 virtual console as a guest of z/VM. > In this insta

Processed: Re: Bug#504760: s390 installer doesn't work on 3215 console running as a VM guest

2008-11-06 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 504760 rootskel 1.66 Bug#504760: s390 installer doesn't work on 3215 console running as a VM guest Bug reassigned from package `debian-installer' to `rootskel'. > severity 504760 serious Bug#504760: s390 installer doesn't work on 3215 console

Re: Call for testing of RC1 images

2008-11-06 Thread Ryan Niebur
On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 03:24:45PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Ryan Niebur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi, > > > > On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 10:09:32PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > [snip] > >> > >> Release the Debian Installer is a huge job and when I've joined as > >> Release Manage