Re: desktop requalification: KDE seems to be portable

2014-11-01 Thread Helge Deller
On 11/01/2014 05:13 AM, Adam Borowski wrote: On Sat, Nov 01, 2014 at 04:28:05AM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: I see the field for "KDE/portability" is left as a question mark. In case you won't get answers from official porters soon, I can confirm KDE does work at least on: * real metal: an armhf

Re: Archiving the attic folders from d-i for ports

2018-05-05 Thread Helge Deller
On 05.05.2018 13:37, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sat, May 05, 2018 at 01:29:03PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> On 04/27/2018 08:14 AM, Bastian Blank wrote: >>> On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 05:37:25AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Since there are still some repositories that we

Re: commit rights to d-i on salsa

2018-05-10 Thread Helge Deller
On 10.05.2018 12:54, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 12:26:52PM +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: >> Frans Spiesschaert wrote: >> And me too :-) Somehow I had the impression, that I am already a member, but >> I am not. > > Done, for all 3. Can you please add me as well? deller-guest

Bug#964248: marked as done (base-installer: Pass "--extra-suites=unreleased" to debootstrap on ports arches)

2020-08-19 Thread Helge Deller
On 19.08.20 19:01, jhcha54008 wrote: > Le lundi 17 août à 00h 55mn 08s (+0200), John Paul Adrian Glaubitz a écrit : >> What happens when a port does not have any packages in "unreleased"? >> >> ... to dicuss first whether enabling "unreleased" unconditionally will work >> even if a port doesn't hav

Bug#787794: lifimage fails to successfully boot on hppa

2015-06-05 Thread Helge Deller
On 05.06.2015 08:08, ⁣ ⁣ wrote: Date: Sat Jul 04 13:03:37 CET 2015 You seem to be ahead of time :-) Machine: HP712/100 Hmm, your bug #302700 mentions a HP715/100XC machine. Do you have both or is it a mistake? If you have both machines, does it happens on both? How are you booting? Via tftp

Bug#787794: lifimage fails to successfully boot on hppa

2015-06-05 Thread Helge Deller
On 05.06.2015 17:10, ⁣ ⁣ wrote: Machine: HP712/100 Hmm, your bug #302700 mentions a HP715/100XC machine. Do you have both or is it a mistake? If you have both machines, does it happens on both? How are you booting? Via tftpboot, or via CDROM ? Its the 712/100. 302700 is not my bug, that's jus

Bug#787794: lifimage fails to successfully boot on hppa

2015-06-07 Thread Helge Deller
only lifimage.old is able to boot on a subject machine. Other bring it into an endless "HP SDC: Transaction add failed: transaction already queued ?" print loop. Ok, I found this kernel commit: commit 305e342bba16730a0821131af6d7d0df43bfff4c Author: Helge Deller Date: Mon Jul 1

Bug#787794: lifimage fails to successfully boot on hppa

2015-06-08 Thread Helge Deller
Hi Lausgans, Could you please try to boot this lifimage: ftp://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-cd/hppa/debian-8.0/lifimage_mini It's the same as the other lifimages, but all 64bit Linux kernel related drivers were dropped. Additionally it's without USB drivers and some other things which should not

Bug#787794: lifimage fails to successfully boot on hppa

2015-06-08 Thread Helge Deller
On 08.06.2015 16:07, ⁣ ⁣ wrote: Anyway, since I have an installed working Debian 8 sid on this machine, should I gzip the kernel and try to boot it to see whether this issue occurs in non-netboot case too? Yes, please. And send the dmesg log of the sucessful boot. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#787794: lifimage fails to successfully boot on hppa

2015-06-09 Thread Helge Deller
the message 'seekread() returned 2048 expected 8192' on gzipped kernel. That seekread-message is not critical. I think I fixed it in a newer palo version. You attached the dmesg from latest debian kernel (4.0.0) - so it's booting fine with latest kernels. But could you try to boot (and atta

Bug#787794: lifimage fails to successfully boot on hppa

2015-06-11 Thread Helge Deller
On 10.06.2015 19:35, ⁣ ⁣ wrote: Here's the boot failure log taken from serial console using the latest lifimage. By some reason HP SDC got enabled even with lifimage_mini (i.e. equally same messages at the end) where you set "no_hpsdc=1" as the default boot parameter. Yes, it still loads the HP

Bug#787794: lifimage fails to successfully boot on hppa

2015-06-11 Thread Helge Deller
Can you please check this image next? It does not includes the driver so we should be able to see if it's really HP SDC driver related: ftp://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-cd/hppa/debian-8.0/lifimage_mini_without_hpsdc Thank you! This one boots just fine. The installer screen shows on as expected.

Bug#787794: lifimage fails to successfully boot on hppa

2015-06-14 Thread Helge Deller
Maybe the easiest way is to simply blacklist the 712 in the driver itself? But please don't blacklist! Openpa.net mentions that 712s have no HIL bus. I don't know the history of this particular machine, maybe it's an engineering sample or like that. I also don't see an error reports of HP SDC d

Bug#787794: lifimage fails to successfully boot on hppa

2015-06-16 Thread Helge Deller
Hi Alex, Anyway, please let me know if you're going to make no_hpsdc=1 parameter work some way. The debian installer allows you to set such values on the kernel command line: modulename.blacklist=yesor modulename.parametername=value In this case you could try to add to the kernel

Bug#787794: lifimage fails to successfully boot on hppa

2015-06-16 Thread Helge Deller
In this case you could try to add to the kernel command line (at the IPL prompt) one (or both) of: hp_sdc.blacklist=yes hp_sdc.no_hpsdc=1 Awesome! hp_sdc.no_hpsdc=1 does the trick. Thanks much for the great help! Great, but I still think blacklisting the machine in the driver is the better wa

Bug#736791: installation-guide: please re-activate build for hppa architecture

2014-01-26 Thread Helge Deller
Package: installation-guide Severity: normal Version: 20131009 Dear Installation-guide maintainers, I and a collegue currently work on getting the hppa architecture in a good shape again in debian. We have done great progress, which means that more than 80% of debian unstable packages are now a

Bug#736966: debian-installer: patch for new hppa kernel

2014-01-28 Thread Helge Deller
Package: debian-installer Version: git Severity: normal Tags: patch With the attached trivial patch I was able to build the debian-installer for the hppa architecture (and afterwards a netboot install image :-)). It would be nice if someone with enough karma would apply it to the git tree. Thank

Bug#736791: installation-guide: please re-activate build for hppa architecture

2014-01-28 Thread Helge Deller
Hi Samuel, On 01/26/2014 10:58 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Helge Deller, le Sun 26 Jan 2014 21:21:49 +0100, a écrit : >> Next step for me was to try to create a installation-cd. >> For that I used debian-cd, but failed because the package >> "installation-gui

Bug#736791: installation-guide: please re-activate build for hppa architecture

2014-01-28 Thread Helge Deller
On 01/28/2014 09:10 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Helge Deller, le Tue 28 Jan 2014 21:06:12 +0100, a écrit : >> That said: Is it technically possible to just activate the >> generation of "installation-guide-hppa" (and maybe for other arches >> which won't be in

d-i: How is the installer for the bootloader called?

2014-04-10 Thread Helge Deller
Hi all, During the last few months we have invested quite some time to bring the hppa arch back into shape for debian-ports. Up to now we have more than 9700 up-to-date packages available: http://buildd.debian-ports.org/status/architecture.php?a=hppa&suite=sid I've even been able to build an in

Re: d-i: How is the installer for the bootloader called?

2014-04-16 Thread Helge Deller
Hi Cyril, On 04/10/2014 10:52 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Helge Deller (2014-04-10): >> The udebs for partman-palo and palo-installer are included on the CDs. >> But during installation, those don't seem to be called and/or >> installed. Maybe someone here on t

Aw: Re: d-i: How is the installer for the bootloader called?

2014-04-17 Thread Helge Deller
Hi Cyril, > > That said, what's really missing for me to be able to provide install > > medias which can install directly from debian-ports.org is, that those > > two packages get back into the debian unstable archive. > > Since it's about hppa-only packages, I don't see how they could be added >

Bug#852215: [Debian-ports-devel] Bug#852215: FTBFS on non-release architectures

2017-01-22 Thread Helge Deller
On 22.01.2017 17:03, James Clarke wrote: > As you know, debian-installer does not build on non-release > architectures, since it tries to build for stretch. Some architectures > also have some of the needed udebs in the unreleased suite, such as > sparc-utils on sparc64. The attached patch lets me

Re: Missing virtio modules for sparc64

2017-03-16 Thread Helge Deller
On 16.03.2017 10:32, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > Hi all, > > Recent versions of the debian-installer for sparc64 no longer contain > the virtio-modules included in the kernel used to boot the installer. > This makes it impossible to install Debian directly from a virtio CDROM > device. > > Currentl

Re: Debian-Installer gets stuck at selecting mirror

2017-04-12 Thread Helge Deller
On 13.04.2017 03:18, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > (Adding tbm to the loop explicitly since he's the QNAP master.) >> [...] >> After flashing and rebooting, the installer gets stuck at the step where >> I have to select the mirror. When I press to select a mirror, >> for a very short time, like some mi

Re: Debian-Installer gets stuck at selecting mirror (choose-mirror)

2017-05-04 Thread Helge Deller
On 13.04.2017 08:47, Helge Deller wrote: > On 13.04.2017 03:18, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> (Adding tbm to the loop explicitly since he's the QNAP master.) >>> [...] >>> After flashing and rebooting, the installer gets stuck at the step where >>> I have to s

Bug#840467: partman-auto: [hppa] Increase palo partition size to 45-50 MB

2016-10-11 Thread Helge Deller
Package: partman-auto Version: 136 Tags: patch Can you please increase the default palo partition size (on the hppa architecture) to 45-50 MB. The reason is, that on a 64bit kernel we now have ~17 MB kernel size and ~20 MB initrd size (both can be stored in the palo partition). This sums up to 37

Bug#840467: partman-auto: [hppa] Increase palo partition size to 45-50 MB

2016-10-11 Thread Helge Deller
On 11.10.2016 23:49, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2016-10-11 at 22:03 +0200, Helge Deller wrote: >> Package: partman-auto >> Version: 136 >> Tags: patch >> >> Can you please increase the default palo partition size >> (on the hppa architecture) to 45-50 M

Bug#416208: Installation report HP-715/64 (HIL)

2007-03-25 Thread Helge Deller
Package: installation-reports Boot method: CD-Image (Etch RC-2 Installer) Image version: http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/installer-hppa/rc2/images/2.6/mini.iso Date: 23. March 2007 Machine: HP PARISC (HP 715/64) Processor: PA7100LC (PA-RISC) Memory: 128MB Base System Installatio

Bug#508180: Successful installation on AlphaServer 1000a

2008-12-08 Thread Helge Deller
Subject: Successful installation on AlphaServer 1000a Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT -- Package-specific info: Boot method: network (bootp) Image version: debian-alpha-installer from Dec 11 2008 Date: Dec 12 2008 Machine: Partitions: FilesystemType 1K-blocks Used Availa

Re: Installation report HP-715/64 (HIL)

2008-12-24 Thread Helge Deller
Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 12:35:51PM +0100, Helge Deller wrote: >> Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: >>>> The boot-kernel (2.6.18) does not detect this keyboard on the HIL bus. >>>> It seems the needed .config values are not set when it was built

Re: Installation report HP-715/64 (HIL)

2008-12-25 Thread Helge Deller
Frans Pop wrote: > On Wednesday 24 December 2008, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: >>> Is it possible that someone from the debian-installer teams add this >>> "modprobe hilkbd" somewhere to the bootup process? ... >> Can that be considered for rc2? > > Theoretically that would still be possible, but it

Bug#416208: Installation report HP-715/64 (HIL)

2008-12-26 Thread Helge Deller
Frans Pop wrote: > On Thursday 25 December 2008, Helge Deller wrote: >>> - why doesn't the kernel/udev autoload this module? >> Probably yes, but as we discussed last time, this needs to be >> implemented. I already looked into implementing it, but sadly it isn'

Bug#416208: Installation report HP-715/64 (HIL)

2008-12-26 Thread Helge Deller
> - why doesn't the kernel/udev autoload this module? For the record, those four patches are needed to fix the parisc kernel module autoloader fully functional: [PATCH] parisc: add uevent helper for parisc bus: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.parisc/1035 [PATCH] input/keyboa

Bug#527768: Mostly sucessfull AlphaServer debian/lenny installation

2009-05-08 Thread Helge Deller
Package: installation-reports Boot method: netboot via TFTP Image version: http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-alpha/current/images/netboot/ Date: May 8th 2009 Machine: AlphaServer 1000A 4/266 (alpha) Partitions: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/