Bug#1043226: debian-installer: Please consider moving root user setup to expert install, or change text

2023-08-15 Thread Samuel Henrique
> So, many users, and especially newcomers to Debian, follow the instructions > in the > first line and are then surprised when they can't use sudo from their user > from > their newly installed system. I've seen this issue happening so many times. This would be a huge UX improvement for the in

Bug#1017762: incompatible after "btrfs subvolume set-default ..."

2023-08-15 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hello, Osamu Aoki writes: > It is great to have btrfs support with @rootfs. Thanks. I wish if it > is a bit more verbose on what it does in installer dialogue. This is > more important if we want to use existing btrfs with something like > @home-uid1000 in it ;-) > You are welcome, and yes, I

Bug#757182: debian-installer: Please provide a warning about BTRFS

2023-08-15 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
P.S. > Dimitri John Ledkov writes: > >> On 6 August 2014 03:46, Russell Coker wrote: snip >>> be that we should have a warning. BTRFS isn't at the stage where someone >>> with >>> little knowledge of it can just use it. To have it work reliably the >>> sysadmin >>> needs to know more about

Bug#757182: debian-installer: Please provide a warning about BTRFS

2023-08-15 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Dimitri John Ledkov writes: > On 6 August 2014 03:46, Russell Coker wrote: >> Package: debian-installer >> Severity: normal >> >> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-btrfs/msg36461.html >> >> BTRFS has some issues that can cause system lockups, filesystem deadlocks >> that >> prevent writing to

Bug#777578: initramfs-tools: update-initramfs fails with btrfs

2023-08-15 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi, jnqnfe writes: > On 11/02/2015 18:42, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> So the root (no pun intended) of the problem is that btrfs-tools was >> not installed. Ben. > > Ah ha, you're absolutely right, I assumed it was but it is indeed not > installed. Thanks for that. > > Yep, now it boots successfull