Stretch Alpha 5 netinst images "broken"

2016-05-10 Thread Evgeni Golov
[ please CC me, I am not subscribed to debian-boot@ ] Ohai, [1] one should use the Stretch Alpha 5 images to install Stretch, however at least the netinst images run into funny dependency problems when doing so: [2]. Technically this is fine, Stretch is a moving target and one should not expect

Re: Stretch Alpha 5 netinst images "broken"

2016-05-10 Thread Holger Levsen
On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 10:57:10AM +0200, Evgeni Golov wrote: > [2] https://img5.picload.org/image/rgodplwp/virtualbox_debiantesting_10_05.png FWIW this can be worked around just as indicated in the screenshot: - change into a shell - chroot into /target - apt-get install -f - leave shell - conti

Re: Stretch Alpha 5 netinst images "broken"

2016-05-10 Thread Evgeni Golov
On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 09:37:04AM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 10:57:10AM +0200, Evgeni Golov wrote: > > [2] > > https://img5.picload.org/image/rgodplwp/virtualbox_debiantesting_10_05.png > > FWIW this can be worked around just as indicated in the screenshot: > > - chan

Re: Bug#823881: dosfstools: mmd fails right after mkfs.msdos (sectors/tracks mismatch)

2016-05-10 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 01:53:24AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > The version bump from 3.0.28-2 to 4.0-1 led to a new FTBFS on all EFI > archs for debian-installer (amd64, arm64, i386), where the following > operations are happening: > | + mkfs.msdos -C ./tmp/netboot-gtk/grub_efi/efi.img 416 > |

Re: d-i daily failed on amd64/i386/arm64 due to efi?

2016-05-10 Thread Roger Shimizu
On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 9:34 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 09:29:02AM +0900, Roger Shimizu wrote: >>Dear boot list, >> >>I find most amd64/i386/arm64 d-i daily failed yesterday [0], seems due >>to efi error: >> >> >>mkdir -p ./tmp/cdrom_gtk/syslinux >>TYPE=template INCLUD

Re: Trying to resume monthly(ish) d-i releases

2016-05-10 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2016-05-06 00:25, Cyril Brulebois wrote: I've been away from Debian and d-i duties for a while, but I'd like to get back to trying to release d-i every month or so. Is there a current d-i release playbook somewhere? Kind regards and thanks Philipp Kern

Bug#787279: d-i screen blanking (more info)

2016-05-10 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2016-05-09 23:28, Philip Hands wrote: In order to make the dpms stuff work again in future versions I'd think that screen-blanking is really not helpful during install, so would set DPMS="-s 0" or perhaps DPMS="-s 0 -dpms", by default, and also make it so that is what's set when dpms=false is

Processed: debootstrap: --variant=fakechroot fails when host system does not have dbus installed

2016-05-10 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > affects -1 fakechroot dbus debirf Bug #823982 [debootstrap] debootstrap: --variant=fakechroot fails when host system does not have dbus installed Added indication that 823982 affects fakechroot, dbus, and debirf -- 823982: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.

Bug#823982: debootstrap: --variant=fakechroot fails when host system does not have dbus installed

2016-05-10 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.81 Severity: wishlist Control: affects -1 fakechroot dbus debirf On a very minimal/lean system running debian sid, i tried to do the following as a non-privileged user: fakechroot fakeroot /usr/sbin/debootstrap --variant=fakechroot --include=dbus sid ~/target

Re: Bug#823881: dosfstools: mmd fails right after mkfs.msdos (sectors/tracks mismatch)

2016-05-10 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 02:15:42PM +0200, Andreas Bombe wrote: > Since 416 blocks is a rather odd value, the default is used and that has > changed. I think mtools is overzealous in checking those values and > refusing to work. Still, it probably makes sense to use 64/32 as the > default for smalle

Bug#823986: installation-reports: "hardware" errors on virtualbox

2016-05-10 Thread Jose R R
"02:29 < kilobyte> reproduced in virtualbox: lots of I/O errors: ata1.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED" As I frequently test Reiser4-enabled unstable Debian-Installers on VirtuaBox 5.0.16 (my latest version), on a frequent basis I come across similar I/O errors: ata related

Re: Bug#823881: dosfstools: mmd fails right after mkfs.msdos (sectors/tracks mismatch)

2016-05-10 Thread Cyril Brulebois
[ Poke Steve. ] Andreas Bombe (2016-05-11): > On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 02:15:42PM +0200, Andreas Bombe wrote: > > Since 416 blocks is a rather odd value, the default is used and that has > > changed. I think mtools is overzealous in checking those values and > > refusing to work. Still, it probabl

Bug#823994: libwacom2-udeb: uninstallable, depends on non-udeb libgudev-1.0-0

2016-05-10 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Package: libwacom2-udeb Version: 0.19-1 Severity: important [ X-D-Cc: debian-boot@lists.debian.org, please keep it in copy when replying. ] Hi, As a follow-up to the just-closed #815717, where libinput10-udeb should become installable once rebuilt against newest libwacom (which now has an udeb

Bug#823996: partconf: hang when formatting a partition containing 'dos extended' partition table

2016-05-10 Thread Daniel R. Warner
Package: partconf Version: 1.47 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, When installing into a partition previously containing a 'dos extended' partition table, even if the partition was deleted and recreated, mkfs.ext4 (and likely other mkfs.[filesystem] utilities do not proceed, instead d-i effect