Spam cleaning effort: June 2013

2013-07-01 Thread Christian PERRIER
We're now in July, so it's time for our team of magic reviewers to work on June 2013 archives. More details on http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/SpamClean signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Manual encrypted LVM partition causes grub install failure

2013-07-01 Thread luc rieux
Hardware Intel DN2800MT motherboard Samsung 830 64GB with latest firmware Iso of Jessie and Wheezy (CD1, xfce CD1, netinst ) copied to microsd in microsdhc card reader using dd method or cp method both with sync. Stopped providing realtek firmware on fat usb stick otherwise partition load would f

Bug#714615: partman-base: partman hangs infinitivly if daemon died

2013-07-01 Thread M. Dietrich
Package: partman-base Severity: normal hi, i used the net-installer method to install onto a current mac book pro. when partitioning started it hang on 50% (step 30parted) forever. when i killed the 30parted-script it hang in 54% (step 35dump) when re-doing the partitiong-step. when investigating

Re: Move desktop type selection from kernel parameter to debconf question?

2013-07-01 Thread Joey Hess
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > At the moment one can choose which of kde, gnome, lxde,xfce (and > others?) should be installed using the desktop= kernel option to d-i, > or by preseeding the tasksel/desktop debconf value. > > But I've seen requests for a normal debconf question instead, and > imple

Re: Move desktop type selection from kernel parameter to debconf question?

2013-07-01 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Joey Hess] > If this is part of d-i, the repository should be added to the > top-level .mrconfig file in d-i, so it is checked out with the rest. Aha. I'll fix that soon. > That's the entire reason that tasksel does not prompt the user to > choose between desktop environments. They are not desc

Bug#511896: Problem maybe related to debootstrap

2013-07-01 Thread Juergen Kosel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I believe, that I had run into the same problem when I tried to install Debian 7.1 on a PC which hosted SUSE Linux. This PC had /home on /dev/sda3, which I had choosen to reuse as /home without reformating. In the next step the debian-installe

Bug#690210: debian-ports and debootstrap version 1.0.52

2013-07-01 Thread jhcha54008
Dear Maintainer, Here is an updated script for debootstrap version 1.0.52. Regards, JH Chatenet # /usr/share/debootstrap/scripts/debian-ports SUITE="unstable" DEF_MIRROR="http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian"; mirror_style release download_style apt finddebs_style from-indices variants - buildd

Debian installer build: failed or old builds

2013-07-01 Thread Daily build aggregator
Debian installer build overview --- Failed or old builds: * OLD BUILD:armel Jun 25 08:11 buildd@ancina build_iop32x_netboot http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/armel/daily/build_iop32x_netboot.log * OLD BUILD:armel Jun 25 08:15 buildd@ancina

Re: Move desktop type selection from kernel parameter to debconf question?

2013-07-01 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Petter Reinholdtsen (p...@hungry.com): > Well, I did not plan to present it in the normal installation. The > question should be a priority low or medium in the common case. I > added code to make it possible to preseed the priority to raise it to > a point where it is presented to users