Bug#600789: debian-installer: Xen block device driver cannot be loaded

Hi Emmanuel, On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 08:18 +0200, Emmanuel Benoît wrote: > Package: debian-installer > Severity: important > > I have tried to install both Sid and Squeeze from the provided Xen netboot > images. > > However, the installation cannot be completed since the installer does not > de

Bug#600789: debian-installer: Xen block device driver cannot be loaded

Hi Ian, On 10/20/2010 09:23 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: Please could you post the full kernel log so I can confirm. Here it is: ~ # dmesg [0.00] Reserving virtual address space above 0xf580 [0.00] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset [0.00] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu

Re: next d-i meeting - 2010.10.20, 21h00 GMT

Reminder Later on (21h00 GMT) will take place the next d-i meeting. If you are planning to make some notes before now it's a good time. (x-posting to -devel to reach a wider audience) -- Melhores cumprimentos/Best regards, Miguel Figueiredo http://www.DebianPT.org A Sexta 15 Outubro 2010 00:02

Re: [RFC] disabled root account / distinct group for users with administrative privileges

[reply-to set to d-d only] On 20/10/2010 07:12, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting Steve Langasek (vor...@debian.org): > >>> On the other hand, is it really necessary a new group? Can't adm or >>> operator >>> be overloaded with this new functionality? (think Ockham's razor). >> >> No. Both o

Bug#600789: debian-installer: Xen block device driver cannot be loaded

On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 09:30 +0200, Emmanuel Benoît wrote: > Hi Ian, > > On 10/20/2010 09:23 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: > > Please could you post the full kernel log so I can confirm. > > Here it is: Thanks. > ~ # dmesg > [0.00] Reserving virtual address space above 0xf580 > [0.

Re: Request for updated info on d-i for the Release Notes

2010/10/16 Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña : > I have used this information to prepare the text for the Release Notes. > It should be available in the next few hours in > http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/i386/release-notes/ch-installing.en.html I'm sorry, it looks like there is some build iss

Bug#600789: debian-installer: Xen block device driver cannot be loaded

On 10/20/2010 10:32 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: The daily builds of the installer seem to be fine: http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/amd64/daily/netboot/xen/ http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/netboot/xen/ Ian. That worked flawlessly! Thank you. Regards, Emmanuel -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: [RFC] disabled root account / distinct group for users with administrative privileges

On 20/10/2010 11:18, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > So I would suggest to use a name that is more likely to be unique. > unique wrt. what? "admin" seems "unique" since not used in Debian yet. > Happy hacking, -- Mehdi Dogguy مهدي الدڤي http://dogguy.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Bug#600671: installation-reports: (daily-image 20101017) GRUB-2 failed to install on Intel X-25M 80GB

Hi there! On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 02:41:49 +0200, Luca Capello wrote: > 1) the amd64-i386-powerpc-netinst multi-arch image built on >20101016-08:59 (d-i 20101016-03:54) is useless, given that on both >amd64 (my laptop) and i386 (a Compaq Deskpro EN SFF PIII-650) after >the country/language

Re: next d-i meeting - 2010.10.20, 21h00 GMT

Miguel Figueiredo wrote: > > When? I propose a meeting for next wednesday, the 20th of October, 21h00 > GMT time [1]. IRC, #debian-boot on OFTC network. > > I know the team is not so big but this only makes sense if the team will > join. So i invite you to join for the following agenda: > > Agen

Re: next d-i meeting - 2010.10.20, 21h00 GMT

Didier 'OdyX' Raboud, le Wed 20 Oct 2010 14:20:45 +0200, a écrit : > * win32-loader and kfreebsd with stable = Squeeze . win32-loader in its > standalone flavour is currently able to install a "stable" kfreebsd. As I > understand it, the kfreebsd-* arches are not necessarily going to be > releas

Bug#600762: debian-installer: testing d-i missing e100 firmware

Hi Christian PERRIER! On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 07:14:23AM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote next: > Quoting Andrey Melnikov (temn...@kmv.ru): > > Package: debian-installer > > Severity: important > > Tags: squeeze > > > > D-i form squeeze missing e100 firmware blob, this break netinstall > > procedu

Re: [RFC] disabled root account / distinct group for users with administrative privileges

Maybe "god" ;-) On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > On 20/10/2010 11:18, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: >> >> So I would suggest to use a name that is more likely to be unique. >> > > unique wrt. what? "admin" seems "unique" since not used in Debian yet. > >> Happy hacking, > > --

Re: [RFC] disabled root account / distinct group for users with administrative privileges

Otavio Salvador wrote: > Maybe "god" ;-) What about the "adm" group ? Is it the same as the "admin" ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/i9n2cp$am...@dou

Re: [RFC] disabled root account / distinct group for users with administrative privileges

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 17:38:23 +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > Otavio Salvador wrote: > > > Maybe "god" ;-) > > What about the "adm" group ? Is it the same as the "admin" ? > What about reading the thread and relevant documentation instead of repeating turned down ideas for the bikeshed

Re: [RFC] disabled root account / distinct group for users with administrative privileges

Julien Cristau wrote: > > What about reading the thread and relevant documentation instead of > repeating turned down ideas for the bikeshed colour? > > Cheers, > Julien Sorry, I overlooked it. 20101020021142.ga11...@virgil.dodds.net was the argueing against "adm". Sorry for the noise and than

Bug#600852: Fail to read empty but gzipped Packages files

Package: apt Version: 0.8.7 Severity: critical Tags: d-i During the build of Debian Installer we have the possibility to use localudebs so a build/localudebs directory scanned and a Packages file is generated for it. In the case of an empty Packages file (gzipped) is used, APT fails to read it an

Re: next d-i meeting - 2010.10.20, 21h00 GMT

Hello, On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > as some might know, I am the new win32-loader co-maintainer. Unfortunately, > the meeting schedule doesn't fit for me, I won't be able to attend. It would be nice to have you there. Please share with us the best time for you

Re: next d-i meeting - 2010.10.20, 21h00 GMT

Otavio Salvador, le Wed 20 Oct 2010 14:42:16 -0200, a écrit : > > * New goodbye-microsoft.com ? That website once installed Debian; now it's > > gNewSense that gets proposed. There is also get.debian.net, which had not > > the win32-loader.exe until recently. It gained a "debian.exe" which is > > a

Bug#600762: debian-installer: testing d-i missing e100 firmware

Quoting Andrey Jr. Melnikov (temn...@kmv.ru): > > What (*exact URL please*) image were you using? > > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso > and > http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/main/installer-i386/current/imag

Re: next d-i meeting - 2010.10.20, 21h00 GMT

Hello, Please FTP-Master, take a look bellow for the background: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Otavio Salvador, le Wed 20 Oct 2010 14:42:16 -0200, a écrit : >> > * New goodbye-microsoft.com ? That website once installed Debian; now it's >> > gNewSense that gets propos

Bug#600861: [console-setup-mini] Package console-setup-mini needs to be xserver installed?

Package: console-setup-mini Version: 1.57 Severity: minor --- Please enter the report below this line. --- Why is Bugreport Nr. 546983 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=546983 not listed under bugreports of console-setup-mini: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=co

Bug#550584: Running flash-kernel automatically from postinst

* Steve McIntyre [2010-09-24 11:14]: > >I wonder if we need any code to make sure flash-kernel is not executed > >several times when updating/installing several kernels at the same > >time. > > That's going to be a problem. How do you know which kernel to use if > people are installing several at

Bug#600762: debian-installer: testing d-i missing e100 firmware

Andrey Melnikov wrote: > D-i form squeeze missing e100 firmware blob, this break netinstall > procedure. Plz, add e100 firmware to d-i image. j...@gnu:~>apt-cache search e100 firmware firmware-linux-nonfree - Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux kernel Nonfree firmware cannot be inclu

Re: Bug#584254: dpkg should support a --force-unsafe-io option or such

Hello, On sekmadienis 10 Spalis 2010 15:21:47 Guillem Jover wrote: > Anyway, I actually had the changes around last July, and I'll run them > through the release team to see what they say. I've rebased them now, > and will polish them a bit, but they are essentially these: > >

Re: Bug#584254: dpkg should support a --force-unsafe-io option or such

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 22:20:31 +0300, Modestas Vainius wrote: > Btw, how will I be able to enable --force-unsafe-io for dpkg when it's run > under apt/aptitude? Maybe environment variable and/or /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg > option is a better solution then? > -o DPkg::options="--force-unsafe-io"? Ch

Re: Bug#584254: dpkg should support a --force-unsafe-io option or such

Hello, On trečiadienis 20 Spalis 2010 22:33:34 Julien Cristau wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 22:20:31 +0300, Modestas Vainius wrote: > > Btw, how will I be able to enable --force-unsafe-io for dpkg when it's > > run under apt/aptitude? Maybe environment variable and/or > > /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg opt

Re: Bug#584254: dpkg should support a --force-unsafe-io option or such

Hi, On Wed, 20 Oct 2010, Modestas Vainius wrote: > On trečiadienis 20 Spalis 2010 22:33:34 Julien Cristau wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 22:20:31 +0300, Modestas Vainius wrote: > > > Btw, how will I be able to enable --force-unsafe-io for dpkg when it's > > > run under apt/aptitude? Maybe envi

"new" udebs

Hi, There are currently some udeb-producing packages which are neither on the "needs approval from a d-i RM before migrating" list, nor the explicit "can migrate at will" list; from a quick scan, many of them appear to be kfreebsd related. I've listed these below; please could you confirm whether

Re: Bug#584254: dpkg should support a --force-unsafe-io option or such

Hello, On trečiadienis 20 Spalis 2010 23:08:36 Raphael Hertzog wrote: > It does but it's “-o DPkg::options::="--force-unsafe-io"”. Indeed, this syntax works. Thanks. > And /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg can be used to enable any command-line parameter > so you should be able to put "force-unsafe-io" in that

Bug#502649: installation-reports: installation report i386

firmware-iwlwifi is non-free. d-i does not distribute non-free software. But... d-i allows you to load firmware [1]. 1 - http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch06s04.html -- Melhores cumprimentos/Best regards, Miguel Figueiredo http://www.DebianPT.org A Terça 19 Outubro 2010 13:15:58 Ma

Processing of rootskel_1.91_i386.changes

rootskel_1.91_i386.changes uploaded successfully to ftp-master.debian.org along with the files: rootskel_1.91.dsc rootskel_1.91.tar.gz rootskel_1.91_i386.udeb rootskel-bootfloppy_1.91_i386.udeb Greetings, Your Debian queue daemon (running on host ravel.debian.org) -- To UNSUBSC

Processing of rootskel_1.91_i386.changes

rootskel_1.91_i386.changes uploaded successfully to localhost along with the files: rootskel_1.91.dsc rootskel_1.91.tar.gz rootskel_1.91_i386.udeb rootskel-bootfloppy_1.91_i386.udeb Greetings, Your Debian queue daemon (running on host franck.debian.org) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

rootskel_1.91_i386.changes ACCEPTED into unstable

Accepted: rootskel-bootfloppy_1.91_i386.udeb to main/r/rootskel/rootskel-bootfloppy_1.91_i386.udeb rootskel_1.91.dsc to main/r/rootskel/rootskel_1.91.dsc rootskel_1.91.tar.gz to main/r/rootskel/rootskel_1.91.tar.gz rootskel_1.91_i386.udeb to main/r/rootskel/rootskel_1.91_i386.udeb Over

Incomplete upload found in Debian upload queue

Probably you are the uploader of the following file(s) in the Debian upload queue directory: debian-installer_20101020.dsc debian-installer_20101020.tar.gz debian-installer_20101020_amd64.deb This looks like an upload, but a .changes file is missing, so the job cannot be processed. If no .ch

Bug#599041: marked as done (debian-installer: Menu mismatch)

Your message dated Wed, 20 Oct 2010 22:02:20 + with message-id and subject line Bug#599041: fixed in debian-installer 20101020 has caused the Debian Bug report #599041, regarding debian-installer: Menu mismatch to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt

Processing of debian-installer_20101020_amd64.changes

debian-installer_20101020_amd64.changes uploaded successfully to localhost along with the files: debian-installer_20101020.dsc debian-installer_20101020.tar.gz debian-installer_20101020_amd64.deb debian-installer-images_20101020_amd64.tar.gz Greetings, Your Debian queue daemon (ru

Re: next d-i meeting - 2010.10.20, 21h00 GMT

Otavio Salvador wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud > wrote: >> as some might know, I am the new win32-loader co-maintainer. >> Unfortunately, the meeting schedule doesn't fit for me, I won't be able >> to attend. > > It would be nice to have you there. Pl

debian-installer_20101020_amd64.changes ACCEPTED into unstable

/debian-installer/debian-installer_20101020_amd64.deb Changes: debian-installer (20101020) unstable; urgency=low . [ Joey Hess ] * Run isohybrid on i386 and amd64 miniiso, which allows it to be written directly to and booted from a USB stick. . [ Samuel Thibault ] * Explicitly set

Re: next d-i meeting - 2010.10.20, 21h00 GMT

2010.10.20 - d-i meeting summary Meetbot log - http://meetbot.debian.net/debian-boot/2010/debian- boot.2010-10-20-21.02.html Full IRC log - http://meetbot.debian.net/debian-boot/2010/debian- boot.2010-10-20-21.02.log.html Here's a short summary from the meeting: Current isues: = * Know