Re: Question about having an always clean base system in Debian Sid

2010-01-28 Thread Geek87
Le mercredi 27 janvier 2010 à 10:43 +0100, Frans Pop a écrit : > On Wednesday 27 January 2010, Geek87 wrote: > > I also would like to have it working similarly for the tasks: for > > example if I have a task "Mail server" installed depending on Sendmail > > and that the new version of this task now

Re: Question about having an always clean base system in Debian Sid

2010-01-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 28 January 2010, Geek87 wrote: > Thanks! So it's impossible to have it work with tasksel. And for the > base system? Does someone have an idea? That's a question that's probably better asked on the debian-user list. Cheers, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.

Re: Status of netcfg-static

2010-01-28 Thread Josef Wolf
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 03:39:46PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Wednesday 27 January 2010, Josef Wolf wrote: > > I am wondering what netcfg-static is good for. Looks like it is an > > (outdated) subset of the more generic netcfg. > > No. It's used for s390: > installer/build/pkg-lists/netboot/s390

Bug#565639: SunBlade 1000 installation report - boot fails after installation

2010-01-28 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 565639 linux-2.6 2.6.30-8 severity 565639 serious affects 565639 debian-installer On Sunday 24 January 2010, Jurij Smakov wrote: > Adding kernel team for comment: it looks like the value returned by > uname -m has changed from 'sparc64' in kernel 2.6.26 to 'sparc' in > 2.6.30 (and, probab

Processed (with 5 errors): Re: Bug#565639: SunBlade 1000 installation report - boot fails after installation

2010-01-28 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > reassign 565639 linux-2.6 2.6.30-8 Bug #565639 [installation-reports] SunBlade 1000 installation report - boot fails after installation Bug reassigned from package 'installation-reports' to 'linux-2.6'. Bug #565639 [linux-2.6] SunBlade 1000 insta

32-bit install kernel sleeps off during installation

2010-01-28 Thread Rainer Koenig
Hi, I'm a linux hardware test engineer and I'm also testing Debian on new hardware from time to time. Actually I'm trying to figure out a strange problem: I have a system that sleeps of when I'm installing Debian/Lenny 32bit. The installation is done by booting the netboot kernel & initrd.gz from

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2010-01-28 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > block 373253 by 567182 Bug #373253 [debian-installer] "libgcc_s.so.1 on AMD64 and PowerPC should be provided Was not blocked by any bugs. Added blocking bug(s) of 373253: 567182 > End of message, stopping processing here. Please contact me if yo

Re: 32-bit install kernel sleeps off during installation

2010-01-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 28 January 2010, Rainer Koenig wrote: > Would be nice to figure out the "why" behind this problem. My guess at > the moment is that it is related to > a) the CPU which is a new AMD dual core athlon > b) the 2.6.26-2-486 kernel that is used during the installation > > So I think there is

Re: Bug#567182: gcc: Please add libgcc1-udeb for Debian Installer

2010-01-28 Thread Matthias Klose
On 27.01.2010 23:26, Frans Pop wrote: Thanks a lot for the quick reply. On Wednesday 27 January 2010, Matthias Klose wrote: The patch itself looks ok, some other questions: - did you consider building the udeb from a separate source package, build-depending on gcc-4.4-source? No, I h

Re: Bug#567182: gcc: Please add libgcc1-udeb for Debian Installer

2010-01-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 28 January 2010, Matthias Klose wrote: > On 27.01.2010 23:26, Frans Pop wrote: > > On Wednesday 27 January 2010, Matthias Klose wrote: > >>- did you consider building the udeb from a separate source > >> package, build-depending on gcc-4.4-source? > > > > No, I had not consider

Re: Build failures for hd-media

2010-01-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 28 January 2010, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Since 2 or 3 days, I'm having build failures on my local daily build > for i386. The IA64 buildd has a similar error: mkfs.msdos -i deb1 -n "Debian Inst" -C ./tmp/cdrom/boot.img 32768 mkfs.msdos 3.0.8 (23 Jan 2010) mmd -i./tmp/cdrom/boot.

Re: Build failures for hd-media

2010-01-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 28 January 2010, Frans Pop wrote: > On Thursday 28 January 2010, Christian PERRIER wrote: > > Since 2 or 3 days, I'm having build failures on my local daily build > > for i386. > > The IA64 buildd has a similar error: > mkfs.msdos -i deb1 -n "Debian Inst" -C ./tmp/cdrom/boot.img 327

[RFT]: Debian Installer - Pre-Alpha1 images ready for testing

2010-01-28 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello, The images using last uploaded debian-installer are available for testing[1]; If all looks fine I'd like to call it "a release". 1. http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/squeeze_di_test1/ I'd like to ask people to run tests using those so we can decide about releasing it or fixing any major i

Re: [RFT]: Debian Installer - Pre-Alpha1 images ready for testing

2010-01-28 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 13:53 -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Hello, > > The images using last uploaded debian-installer are available for > testing[1]; If all looks fine I'd like to call it "a release". > > 1. http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/squeeze_di_test1/ > > I'd like to ask people to run t

Re: [RFT]: Debian Installer - Pre-Alpha1 images ready for testing

2010-01-28 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello Ian, On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 13:53 -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: >> Hello, >> >> The images using last uploaded debian-installer are available for >> testing[1]; If all looks fine I'd like to call it "a release". >> >> 1. http://cdimage.d

Critical points concerning the current Debian Sid installer

2010-01-28 Thread Chicken Shack
Hi, I tested the Debian Sid Installer from January 25th. It's close to perfection, it is really good and usable. Here are the critical points I am missing: 1. At the end of the first gothrough you are asked whether you want UTC or local time. Knowing that UTC is the standard switch I always chos

Re: Status of netcfg-static

2010-01-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 28 January 2010, Josef Wolf wrote: > This can not be replaced by the generic netcfg with netcfg/use_dhcp set > to "false" or netcfg/disable_dhcp set to "true"? In theory that could maybe be done (but see below). Also note that setting an arch-dependent default while still fully suppor

Re: [RFT]: Debian Installer - Pre-Alpha1 images ready for testing

2010-01-28 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 14:35 -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Hello Ian, > > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 13:53 -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > I'd like to test the xen guest install functionality and this is only > > present on the amd64+i386+pow

Re: Build failures for hd-media

2010-01-28 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: > P.S. It really would be great if you could do such basic and simple checks > yourself next time instead of always leaving it to others to solve > problems. From 7:51 am timestamp, I assume Christian needed to get to work and didn't have time. Anyway, the message has value as

Re: Build failures for hd-media

2010-01-28 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Frans Pop (elen...@planet.nl): > The aptitude log for my i386 chroot had: > [UPGRADE] dosfstools 3.0.7-1 -> 3.0.8-1 > > Downgrading that solved it. I'll file a BR. Confirmed on my side. > > Cheers, > FJP > > P.S. It really would be great if you could do such basic and simple checks >

Re: Build failures for hd-media

2010-01-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 28 January 2010, Joey Hess wrote: > From 7:51 am timestamp, I assume Christian needed to get to work and > didn't have time. It also said "for the last few days". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listm

Re: [RFT]: Debian Installer - Pre-Alpha1 images ready for testing

2010-01-28 Thread Samuel Thibault
Otavio Salvador, le Thu 28 Jan 2010 13:53:26 -0200, a écrit : > The images using last uploaded debian-installer are available for > testing[1]; If all looks fine I'd like to call it "a release". > > 1. http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/squeeze_di_test1/ Braille seems to be working. As this doesn'

Re: 32-bit install kernel sleeps off during installation

2010-01-28 Thread Rainer Koenig
Frans Pop schrieb: > The first thing I would suggest to do is try if the Squeeze installer [1] > (which currently uses a 2.6.30 kernel) still has the same problem. Tried this out and yes, it works with Squeeze 32bit installer from todays snapshot. > You're in luck as the 686 kernel is already av

Re: 32-bit install kernel sleeps off during installation

2010-01-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 28 January 2010, you wrote: > a) can I build a 32bit install image on a Debian amd64 system? Only if you create an i386 chroot (using debootstrap). > b) is there a bit of documentation for those things? Websites, books > or whatever. Wouldn't mind reading some stuff to get deeper into

Re: Build failures for hd-media

2010-01-28 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello Christian, On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting Frans Pop (elen...@planet.nl): > Well, as I said earlier, the time I'm giving to D-I these days is > limitedvery limited. I happen to still have daily builds running > on my machine and was thinking that repo

Bug#564441: new version of the proposed patch

2010-01-28 Thread Fred
Hello, I've updated my patch to follow suggestions from F. Pop, and tested it at my level. Perhaps some enhancements could be added for a better usability. If you call the Debian Installer with default debconf level, it automatically scans all devices and select the first detected ISO

d-i documentation [was: 32-bit install kernel sleeps off during installation]

2010-01-28 Thread Douglas Guptill
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 08:58:41PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Thursday 28 January 2010, you wrote: > > b) is there a bit of documentation for those things? Websites, books > > or whatever. Wouldn't mind reading some stuff to get deeper into this. > > http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/doc/internals/

Bug#557242: Acknowledgement (debian-installer: current daily squeeze installer installs grub to mbr without asking the user)

2010-01-28 Thread Jens Thiele
Just tested again with the current network installer. MBR is still destroyed. How to reproduce: - say no to "want to install in mbr" question - leave field empty when asked where to install grub (this time i entered "doesnotexist" but mbr was destroyed anyway) - continue without bootloader - fin

Re: Bug#433568: VLANs during install are important

2010-01-28 Thread Josef Wolf
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 09:35:47PM +0100, Josef Wolf wrote: > AFAICS, getting vlan support into the installer needs to be done in three > steps: > > 1. Get 8021q kernel module into installer environment. > > 2. Install vlan package into installer environment. Only the vconfig >binary (9kb) is

Bug#562575: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]

2010-01-28 Thread Rick Thomas
I tested it today with the sid-di daily PowerPC buisnesscard dated "Thu Jan 28 22:35:10 UTC 2010" It still segfaults at startup. Sadly, I don't have the chops to fix this myself. If someone else doesn't step up, PowerPC will not be working when Squeeze releases. I can test anything you want

Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]

2010-01-28 Thread Rick Thomas
I tested it today with the sid-di daily PowerPC buisnesscard dated "Thu Jan 28 22:35:10 UTC 2010" It still segfaults at startup. Sadly, I don't have the chops to fix this myself. If someone else doesn't step up, PowerPC will not be working when Squeeze releases. I can test anything you want

Bug#567431: Installation Report

2010-01-28 Thread boicekev
Package: installation-reports Boot method: CD Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso Date: 1/28/2010 Machine: Custom AMD64 Processor: Athlon64 3500 Memory: 2GB Partitions: FilesystemType 1K-blocks

Seg faults on PowerPC Re: [RFT]: Debian Installer - Pre-Alpha1 images ready for testing

2010-01-28 Thread Rick Thomas
Otavio Salvador wrote: Hello, The images using last uploaded debian-installer are available for testing[1]; If all looks fine I'd like to call it "a release". 1. http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/squeeze_di_test1/ I'd like to ask people to run tests using those so we can decide about releasing