Hello Christian,
> > Maybe "Skip" would be more precise than "Cancel"?
>
> You probably can't change this as the 'Cancel' button comes from the
> cdebconf interface.
I see. In this case, I agree with Gaudenz that we should explain what
"Cancel" means. I've given it a try:
"Overwriting ${DEVICE}
Package: partman-crypto
Severity: important
Tags: d-i
Hello,
it seems that upon initialization of encrypted volumes, the LUKS master
key is created by reading "entropy" from /dev/urandom which means that
in case the kernel is low on entropy at the time of volume creation,
the volume will be vulne
Cyril Brulebois (2013-09-19):
> Since Owner->DestFile is used both for creating a Message and for
> printing URIs, I suspect that's the one going bad. Looking at
> apt-private/private-install.cc's InstallPackages(), it appears
> the Fetcher is created by the PackageManager, and one then gets the
>
Cyril Brulebois (2013-09-19):
> Tracked down to: pkgAcqArchive::pkgAcqArchive(), where Parse.FileName()
> returns: "pool/main/c/c"
>
> Looking further, through debindexfile.cc then debrecords.cc, it
> looks like debRecordParser::FileName() returns a faulty (truncated)
> string.
>
> Root cause is
Quoting Thiemo Nagel (thiemo.na...@gmail.com):
> "Overwriting ${DEVICE} with random data to prevent meta-information
> leaks from the encrypted volume. This step may be skipped by pressing
> 'Cancel', albeit at the expense of a slight reduction of the quality
> of the encryption."
Well, no eithe
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Quoting Thiemo Nagel (thiemo.na...@gmail.com):
>
>> 2. In case the job doesn't return within a couple of seconds, instruct
>>the user to a) either press keys until enough entropy has been
>>gathered or b) select "Cancel" and conti
Thank you for the explanations! Your final proposal looks good to me.
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 6:55 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Quoting Thiemo Nagel (thiemo.na...@gmail.com):
>
>> "Overwriting ${DEVICE} with random data to prevent meta-information
>> leaks from the encrypted volume. This step m
Quoting Thiemo Nagel (thiemo.na...@gmail.com):
> 2. In case the job doesn't return within a couple of seconds, instruct
>the user to a) either press keys until enough entropy has been
>gathered or b) select "Cancel" and continue in unsafe manner. If the
Don't we have such things?
I'm su
Debian installer build overview
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Failed or old builds:
* FAILED BUILD: amd64 Sep 20 00:03 buildd@barber build_cdrom_isolinux
http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/amd64/daily/build_cdrom_isolinux.log
* FAILED BUILD: amd64 Sep 20 00:03 buildd@barber b
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