Bug#647267: debian-installer: grub-install tries to install on the wrong drive

2013-03-04 Thread Alex Young
Just to confirm that this bug still exists: I've just done an ordinary (non-expert) installation toa Thinkpad T420 with the wheezy netinst iso written to a USB drive with unetbootin, and grub was told to install to /dev/sda (the USB drive) rather than /dev/sdb (the installation target), which

Bug#700642: wheezy live rc1 seems working

2013-03-04 Thread Praveen A
I disabled network card in Virtual Box and installation succeeded (using wheezy live rc1 amd64 gnome iso). I will try again with a network card without its interface configured. -- പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്‍ You have to keep reminding your government that you don't get your rights from them; yo

Bug#701814: Re: Bug#701814: os-prober: damages XFS exported via iSCSI but not mounted locally; potential data loss

2013-03-04 Thread Balint Reczey
Hi, On 02/27/2013 05:28 PM, Torsten Jerzembeck wrote: > Julien Cristau wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 13:41:45 +0100, Torsten Jerzembeck wrote: >>> Package: os-prober >>> Version: 1.42 >>> Severity: grave >>> Justification: causes non-serious data loss >>> >>> While updating the kernel on a sto

Bug#702021: debian wheezy not booting

2013-03-04 Thread Piotrek
I did not try it and I have no idea where that recovery image is . It's true i didn't paid any taxes but it's because i'm a student :-D 2013/3/4 Leslie S Satenstein > Two raesons. You did not pay your taxes for 2012 > > or have you tried to boot with the DVD image recovery linux that is part >

Bug#700642: looks like this is fixed in rc1

2013-03-04 Thread Praveen A
Installation succeeded with network card enabled but interface not configured. Now let me try once again with a closer to real situation, network is configured but no internet connection available. -- പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്‍ You have to keep reminding your government that you don't get your

Bug#701814: Using lsof as input for os-prober

2013-03-04 Thread Peter Senna Tschudin
Isn't it a good idea to use lsof to determine what is being exported through iscsi and avoid trying to mount it? Should I try to make the patch for this? -- Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists

Bug#702226: live-installer hangs when starting installation from live system

2013-03-04 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 04/03/13 06:20 AM, Praveen A wrote: > package: live-installer > version: 40 > severity: critical > > I downloaded debian-wheezy-live-rc1-amd64-gnome-desktop.iso and live > installer just hangs when selecting "Install Debian Sid" from System > Tools menu as seen in the screenshot. It was working

Bug#701814: Re: Bug#701814: os-prober: damages XFS exported via iSCSI but not mounted locally; potential data loss

2013-03-04 Thread q1werty
Hi, > os-prober uses 'mount -o ro', or grub-mount from 1.45: Please excuse me if this is trivial, but '-o ro' does not prevent write access! According to man: "Note that, depending on the filesystem type, state and kernel behavior, the system may still write to the device. For example, Ext3 o

Bug#702226: live-installer hangs when starting installation from live system

2013-03-04 Thread Praveen A
2013/3/4 Ben Armstrong : > On 04/03/13 06:20 AM, Praveen A wrote: >> package: live-installer >> version: 40 >> severity: critical >> >> I downloaded debian-wheezy-live-rc1-amd64-gnome-desktop.iso and live >> installer just hangs when selecting "Install Debian Sid" from System >> Tools menu as seen

Re: [d-i manual] Please update translations

2013-03-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Holger Wansing, le Mon 04 Mar 2013 14:35:09 +0100, a écrit : > I'm pretty sure we could get one more upload from Samuel, if some translation > work is done ;-) Sure! There have been work already so I do plan another upload. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.o

Processed: reassign to debian-installer-launcher

2013-03-04 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > reassign 702226 debian-installer-launcher Bug #702226 [live-installer] live-installer hangs when starting installation from live system Bug reassigned from package 'live-installer' to 'debian-installer-launcher'. No longer marked as found in vers

Processed: marking fixed in 40

2013-03-04 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > notfound 700642 live-installer/40 Bug #700642 [live-installer] installation fails with unclean pkgcache Ignoring request to alter found versions of bug #700642 to the same values previously set > -- Stopping processing here. Please contact me if

Bug#702257: apt-setup: new preseed option to disable CDROM entries at the end of the install

2013-03-04 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Package: apt-setup Version: 0.77 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch apt-setup keep the cdrom: entries in sources.list unless the cdrom is a netinst. More ofthen than not, those cdrom entries are not desired: - ISO images to install virtual machines do not want to rely on the ISO image down the road

Bug#700642: looks like this is fixed in rc1

2013-03-04 Thread Anup Kumar
I tried to install it in virtualbox, I suceeded installing the debian package without the network ports being enabled.

Processed: Re: installation fails with unclean pkgcache

2013-03-04 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > reopen 700642 Bug #700642 {Done: Praveen A } [live-installer] installation fails with unclean pkgcache Bug reopened Ignoring request to alter fixed versions of bug #700642 to the same values previously set > found 700642 40 Bug #700642 [live-ins

Bug#700642: installation fails with unclean pkgcache

2013-03-04 Thread Daniel Baumann
reopen 700642 found 700642 40 thanks wheezy live rc1 doesn't 'solve' this, that release just hasn't sid configured in sources.list.d because we did not need to pin in live-* to workaround having live-* not migrated to testing. the original issue persists, reopening. -- Address:Daniel Ba

Re: fails to detect usb mobile broadband device

2013-03-04 Thread Richard Betham
I have, to-day, re-installed debian-wheezy-DI-rc1-i386-DVD.iso on the same computer. This time I did not plug the printer into the USB socket However, I did plug in the USB mobile broadband device made by Huawei before I started. I chose alternative desktop KDE, and British English, Then I used

Bug#701814: Re: Bug#701814: os-prober: damages XFS exported via iSCSI but not mounted locally; potential data loss

2013-03-04 Thread Bálint Réczey
Hi, 2013/3/4 : > Hi, > >> os-prober uses 'mount -o ro', or grub-mount from 1.45: > > Please excuse me if this is trivial, but > '-o ro' does not prevent write access! > According to man: > > "Note that, depending on the filesystem type, state and kernel > behavior, the system may still write t

Bug#702226: live-installer hangs when starting installation from live system

2013-03-04 Thread Ben Armstrong
Praveen, What this comes down to is the b4 version of the image was inadvertently built with extra material from sid due to an error in configuration (it was intended that only the live-* packages be included from sid). This problem was fixed in rc1, but that meant that it used all wheezy versions

Bug#701694: Custom experimental 3.8-kernel-image built

2013-03-04 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 08:33:11AM +0100, Andreas Glaeser wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > See attachments for documentation. > The boot-time error-message about microcode-update disappeared, but it still > does not > work. A different error-message shows in the dmesg-

Bug#700642: looks like this is fixed in rc1

2013-03-04 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Anup Kumar (allamsetty.a...@gmail.com): > I tried to install it in virtualbox, I suceeded installing the debian > package without the network ports being enabled. So, well, feel free to close the bug report, then...:-) -- signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#702294: installation-reports: netinst all ok

2013-03-04 Thread Yury
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? * What was the outcome of this action? *

Bug#410878: d-i uses mirror/http/proxy setting when it (probably) shouldn't

2013-03-04 Thread Alexander Perlis
The bug Roland reported is real, and occurs in 2013 with Debian 6 installer. There should indeed be a distinction between an APT proxy and a general-purpose HTTP proxy. Our APT proxy knows how to serve up files related to Debian mirrors, but can't do general-purpose HTTP retrievals such as pres

Re: [d-i manual] Please update translations

2013-03-04 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Holger Wansing, le Mon 04 Mar 2013 14:35:09 +0100, a écrit : > > I'm pretty sure we could get one more upload from Samuel, if some > > translation > > work is done ;-) > > Sure! > > There have been work already so I do plan another upload. What do people think abo

RFC: Deprecating http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Today

2013-03-04 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, as noted on that page, it's unmaintained: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Today I'm tempted to remove it altogether, as part of spring cleaning; not maintained + somewhere after RC1 means it's not really useful anyway during this part of the release cycle. (Unless of course somebody

Re: [d-i manual] Please update translations

2013-03-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Holger Wansing, le Mon 04 Mar 2013 22:58:00 +0100, a écrit : > What do people think about the finnish and catalan translation? Right, we have waited long enough, I've disabled them. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Bug#697890: iwconfig not in /sbin

2013-03-04 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 11:03:59PM +, Ben Hutchings a écrit : > On Sun, 2013-03-03 at 13:51 +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: > > Quoting Charles Plessy (ple...@debian.org): > > > > > unfortunately it makes the package fail to build. > > > > > > dpkg-gencontrol: error: the Recommends field cont

Reviving http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Tasks

2013-03-04 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi folks, http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Tasks is quite outdated. I'm not sure whether it still makes sense to list all packages there, or we should just list those with well-known maintainers. Or if that makes sense at all. For other tasks (everything unrelated to individual packages), I

Updating http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/FAQ

2013-03-04 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hello folks, the FAQ page could use an update. Entries about Etch and Lenny, floppies, etc. ;-) Volunteers? It's here → http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/FAQ Thanks already! Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Retiring http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/LibraryUdebs

2013-03-04 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, this looks like old history: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/LibraryUdebs Time for removal? Any objections? Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Debian installer build: failed or old builds

2013-03-04 Thread Daily build aggregator
Debian installer build overview --- Failed or old builds: * OLD BUILD:s390x Feb 27 00:01 buildd@zemlinsky build_generic http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/s390x/daily/build_generic.log * OLD BUILD:s390x Feb 27 00:01 buildd@zemlinsky build_tape

Re: fails to detect usb mobile broadband device

2013-03-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2013-03-04 at 15:49 +, Richard Betham wrote: > I have, to-day, re-installed debian-wheezy-DI-rc1-i386-DVD.iso on the > same computer. > This time I did not plug the printer into the USB socket > However, I did plug in the USB mobile broadband device made by Huawei > before I started.

Bug#697890: iwconfig not in /sbin

2013-03-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2013-03-05 at 09:01 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 11:03:59PM +, Ben Hutchings a écrit : > > On Sun, 2013-03-03 at 13:51 +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: > > > Quoting Charles Plessy (ple...@debian.org): > > > > > > > unfortunately it makes the package fail to bu

Re: RFC: Deprecating http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Today

2013-03-04 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org): > Hi, > > as noted on that page, it's unmaintained: > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Today > > I'm tempted to remove it altogether, as part of spring cleaning; not > maintained + somewhere after RC1 means it's not really useful anyway > during

Bug#697890: iwconfig not in /sbin

2013-03-04 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Ben Hutchings (b...@decadent.org.uk): > Just because a package is architecture: all, does not mean it has to be > installable on all architectures. > > > Would that break something ? Otherwise, despite it looks unusual, I would > > suggest to go ahead with architecture-dependant tasks if

Re: RFC: Deprecating http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Today

2013-03-04 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mardi, 5 mars 2013 00.53:12, Cyril Brulebois a écrit : > Hi, > > as noted on that page, it's unmaintained: > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Today > > I'm tempted to remove it altogether, as part of spring cleaning; not > maintained + somewhere after RC1 means it's not really useful a