Bug#998408: "good password" advice in installer is still bad two years after this was reported

2023-09-02 Thread Jonathan Kamens
Oh, I see now that the fact that the installer shouldn't recommend changing one's password regularly was also reported previously, in bug #868869. On 9/2/23 22:04, Jonathan Kamens wrote: Nearly two years after Alejandro Colomar reported this issue, the Debian installer is st

Bug#1051120: debian-installer: can't use YubiKey for secure drive encryption passphrase because enter clears form

2023-09-02 Thread Jonathan Kamens
Source: debian-installer Version: 20230607+deb12u1 Severity: normal Tags: a11y d-i Dear Maintainer, I keep my hard drive encryption passphrase in the "second slot" of my YubiKey, so that I can use a long, random, secure encryption passphrase. The YubiKey impersonates a USB keyboard, and when I pr

Bug#1051121: debian-installer: TrackPad, ThinkPad X1 Carbon 6th Gen., slow and jerky during install

2023-09-02 Thread Jonathan Kamens
Source: debian-installer Version: 20230607+deb12u1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I recently installed Bookworm on a ThinkPad X1 Carbon 6th Gen. During the installation the TrackPad was virtually unuseable. If I put my finger on it and moved it very slowly I could get the pointer to go in the

Bug#998408: "good password" advice in installer is still bad two years after this was reported

2023-09-02 Thread Jonathan Kamens
Nearly two years after Alejandro Colomar reported this issue, the Debian installer is still giving people this bad advice: "A good password will contain a mixture of letters, numbers and punctuation and should be changed at regular intervals." Alejandro explained at length why this advice abou

Bug#1076684: debian-installer: installer adds unrecognized x-initrd.attach option to /etc/crypttab

2024-07-21 Thread Jonathan Kamens
Source: debian-installer Version: 20230607+deb12u6 Severity: normal After installing from the most recent amd64 testing netinst, I keep seeing complaints from cryptsetup, e.g., during boot, about ignoring the unrecognized option "x-initrd.attach". It appears that the installer inserted this into /

Bug#1076695: debian-installer: /boot partition created by installer isn't big enough

2024-07-21 Thread Jonathan Kamens
Source: debian-installer Version: 20230607+deb12u6 Severity: important Something changed recently in testing which caused the size of my initrd to go up A Lot, e.g., on one computer from 70MB to 248MB. As a result my boot partition was no longer big enough to handle two extant kernels plus the new

Bug#1076695: debian-installer: /boot partition created by installer isn't big enough

2024-07-22 Thread Jonathan Kamens
On 7/21/24 10:39 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Hi, Jonathan Kamens (2024-07-21): Something changed recently in testing which caused the size of my initrd to go up A Lot, e.g., on one computer from 70MB to 248MB. As a result my boot partition was no longer big enough to handle two extant kernels

Bug#1109988: debian-installer: installer fails to ask for info to authenticate to wifi, fails to connect to network

2025-07-27 Thread Jonathan Kamens
On 7/27/25 2:31 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: On 27/07/2025 at 20:07, Jonathan Kamens wrote: However, after that, _it did not prompt me for which WiFi network to use or for the password for that network_. It just went into "Detecting Link", which failed (...) Note that when I boot fro

Bug#1109988: debian-installer: installer fails to ask for info to authenticate to wifi, fails to connect to network

2025-07-27 Thread Jonathan Kamens
Source: debian-installer Version: 20250701 Severity: normal I recently installed Debian Trixie on a brand new computer I built out myself. Intel Core Ultra 7 265K CPU, MSI Pro B60M A WF motherboard. The installer told me that it needed additional firmware files to be able to use my WiFi adapter:

Bug#1109988: debian-installer: installer fails to ask for info to authenticate to wifi, fails to connect to network

2025-07-27 Thread Jonathan Kamens
From /var/log/syslog: 2025-07-26T19:49:56.969785-04:00 jik7 kernel: pci :83:00.0: [8086:272b] type 00 class 0x028000 PCIe Endpoint 2025-07-26T19:49:56.969785-04:00 jik7 kernel: pci :83:00.0: BAR 0 [mem 0xb800-0xb8003fff 64bit] 2025-07-26T19:49:56.969785-04:00 jik7 kernel: pci :8