Hi,
just wondering: why can I tell d-i (manual partitioner)
the filesystem label for an ext4 filesystem, but not for
a swap partition?
mkswap has a -L option, too.
bye,
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Jonas Smedegaard dixit:
>> 3. The installer CAN be used to install sysvinit via preseeding (and
>> admins should know how to use preseeding to install systems...)
[…]
>script late in the install process to replace init-related packages
>already installed by debian-installer.
Indeed. You can also
Cyril Brulebois dixit:
>bad, because we're not going to change debootstrap, especially not at
>this late stage of the release cycle, to behave differently depending
>on the target distribution. The current script covers all suites from
This is not necessary. Well, not at first.
The changes to de
Steven Chamberlain dixit:
>* standard task still seems to bring in a huge amount of dependencies
>via gnupg2 > gnupg-agent > pinentry-gtk2 > xserver-*
Break this by installing pinentry-curses before anything that
brings in gnupg-agent (same apt-get command line works).
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Cyril Brulebois dixit:
>'d console-setup' says binary diffs and:
> 151 files changed, 93 insertions(+), 9257 deletions(-)
The person doing the upload did not do so cleanly.
There is an extra subdirectory fontconfig/ in the
.tgz recently, which has 940'632 bytes in 96 files
in 1.115 (I noticed bec
On Tue, 25 Nov 2014, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Meh, what are debian-bugs-dist@ and debian-boot@ doing in Cc?!
I just hit “reply”, “reply to mails instead of follow up to usenet”,
“reply to all”…
> I'm therefore tempted to upload 1.116 which would match 1.115 without
> the cruft, also known as 1.1
Daniel Lange dixit:
> Thorsten Glaser (CC) has produced a prototype early-rng-init-tools (cf.
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2019/02/msg00327.html) which could be
> extended to try reading entropy off the network when it doesn't have a
> carried-over seed (as in the Debi
Tobias Junghans dixit:
>I tried to upgrade my Docker-based pbuilder containers from stretch to
Erm… why do you use chroots inside of chroots? That’s… tricky.
>mount: failed to read mtab: No such file or directory
This might be a container issue.
>mount: /proc: mount(2) system call failed: Too
Tobias Junghans dixit:
>> But with {cow|p}builder --login --save-after-login you can
>> upgrade the base to buster inside pbuilder.
>
>It's not about the pbuilder environment itself but the Docker container used
>for invoking pbuilder/debootstrap. Using a stretch-based Docker container and
>debo
… in deep freeze, just shy of the release, is probably
not the best idea, is it? (Especially of things like
libraries which can affect other packages uploaded with
fixes that SHOULD migrate…)
You are not the first, but the package likely affects
everything in d-i due to cdebconf…
Just wondering f
Version: 1.0.115
Hi everyone,
I’m appalled that this feature request is still open…
I’ve got a need to do this without patching debootstrap, and have had
success (although I did not time it, but someone else can ;-) with this
sequence of commands (assuming dpkg-deb is available ― which my script
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz dixit:
>No idea what the stance on i386 is. But I think Thorsten is a LILO user.
No, I haven’t been using LILO for a long time either.
I _did_ use it about a decade ago, when I got back to Debian
after using only BSD for a while, but even before that, I
used loadlin more
Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal
d-i always insists on rebooting at the end. This is made worse
by it telling the user to change boot media, which, for virtual
machines, means reconfiguring the VM.
I *generally* wish to reconfigure the VM after first install
*anyway*.
So, please, at th
Ben Hutchings dixit:
>virt-manager (or maybe the underlying libvirt) seems to handle this:
>when you create a VM and provide an installation image, it is
>automatically detached when the VM reboots.
Indeed it does. However, virt-manager also insists on
automatically starting the VM, and I usually
Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i
X-Debbugs-Cc: t...@mirbsd.de
Boot method: CD
Image version:
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2020-10-12/debian-10.0.0-alpha-NETINST-1.iso
Date: 2021-03-26 to 2021-03-27
Machine: qemu-system-alpha on a buster host
Partitio
Hi,
I’m wondering how to invoke/change d-i so that the defaults for
tasksel are changed but the selection is still shown.
AIUI tasksel is run in the installed system, so patching it and
including a patched build in a self-built d-i image won’t do.
Specifically, I want to preselect no desktop and
Hi,
another case of multiple wonderings, this time moving closer
to “could be merged” land:
• Why are the monolithic images not built by default?
I’ve been using a local build of them for ages with great
success; all others are fragile wrt. udeb availability in
at least netboot scenarios.
Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: t...@mirbsd.de
Boot method: CD
Image version:
https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/ppc64el/daily/netboot/mini.iso Mar 26 18:04
Date: 2021-03-26 to 2021-03-28 (yes it took three days, the machine was busy)
Machine: qemu-system-ppc64le
Pa
Cyril Brulebois dixit:
>Lucas Nussbaum (2021-04-24):
>> C) Do nothing and document this in the release notes
>
>As said above, I strongly recommend against this.
Right… what about, add another Plan C…
C) When X won’t work, fail gracefully, show a console login
… and dump the above to Plan D?
Package: debian-installer
Followup-For: Bug #901332
X-Debbugs-Cc: t...@mirbsd.de
Did anything ever come from this, now that we’re nearing a release?
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Hi Phil,
>BTW one can preseed this behaviour with 'debian-installer/exit/halt' or
>'debian-installer/exit/poweroff' as mentioned here:
>
> https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/apbs04.en.html#preseed-finish
oh, good to know.
>which means that you could specify such a setting on the kerne
Hi,
as the content for the release notes was suggested to be put into the
Wiki (instead?) anyway, how about, to lower translator burden, there
*will* be put a section about this into the installation guide, but one
that is mostly comprised of a link to the Wiki, with a short intro.
@Matthew: that
found 684128 226
thanks
Hi,
why is this bug still unfixed?
In bookworm d-i, entering 512 MiB seems to be using something
entirely different, and 512 Mi gives an error “invalid size”.
This still makes d-i unsuitable for most partitioning.
bye,
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Cyril Brulebois dixit:
>https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/News/2023/20230516.en.html
>documents a fix for #913431, which is a duplicate of this bug report.
Huh.
>> In bookworm d-i, entering 512 MiB seems to be using something
>> entirely different
>
>“Something entirely different” co
reopen 684128
retitle 684128 src:debian-installer: show ISO/IEC 60027-2 units (as well); show
valid suffixes
found 684128 226
thanks
Holger Wansing dixit:
>So I guess it works as it should.
>
>The (visual) output is still in MB / GB, apart from this a see no issue.
Hrm, the output being only in
Holger Wansing dixit:
>>Could this information (valid unit sufficēs) be added to the dialogue
>>where the size is entered? Screen space should suffice.
>
>Yes, I already thought about if changing the template would make sense here.
Thanks!
Could we also get the size output in both formats? I rea
Hi,
I ran into this because I have an elaborate chroot script¹ that
handles start-stop-daemon, initctl, policy-rc.d, etc. and can
reproduce this as follows:
I’ve debootstrapped bullseye up to first stage, then entered
the chroot and:
# dpkg-divert --local --quiet --rename --divert /sbin/start-st
reopen 921815
thanks
On Wed, 8 Nov 2023, Roland Clobus wrote:
> While triaging #919659, I found this bug report.
[…]
> It works, debootstrap reports:
> I: Base system installed successfully.
But did you also test whether /proc was not umounted?
bye,
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close 921815 1.0.114+deb10u1
thanks
On Mon, 27 Nov 2023, Roland Clobus wrote:
> Do you want to have a more exact version? Which I closed this issue, I used
> the
> version that is present in Buster. (Version: 1.0.114+deb10u1)
> Going deeper into older versions didn't seen necessary to me.
Yeah,
Package: debootstrap
Version: 1.0.134
Severity: important
There exist multiversion Packages files, e.g. they can be created
by dpkg-scanpackages -m but dak also occasionally seems to create
them.
I just had multiple attempts at creating a buildd chroot fail.
One was with debootstrap --variant=bu
Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: t...@mirbsd.de
https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/debian-12.5.0-amd64-netinst.iso
I was booting in expert mode and expecting between the mirror select
and the installing of the base system there to be an option to sel
Package: debootstrap
Version: 1.0.136
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: t...@mirbsd.de
It is a useless dependency, only used when no script is given
after all (thankfully; the Depends gave me a shock thinking newer
debootstrap versions can no longer just be used on any Linux).
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he system
>firmware.
Oh well… apparently, the firmware setup screens don’t signal the
watchdog either, so you can’t use that one for five minutes while
the watchdog is enabled. This all points to buggy firmware. Again,
details would have to come from Nik.
bye,
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James Clarke dixit:
>#817236 strikes again; the thread there has various workarounds.
Why is this still not fixed in debootstrap, anyway?
Thanks,
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Michael Schmitz on nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.ports.68k
a.k
Source: busybox
Version: 1:1.22.0-19
Followup-For: Bug #789475
Control: tag 789475 = patch confirmed fixed-upstream d-i
Hi,
I’ve stumbled upon this bug by means of d-i using “bad” as hostname
right now as well and tracked it down to the offending piece of code
myself.
When reading the bugreport
Package: debian-installer
Followup-For: Bug #717298
This is probably because of this…
Choices-C: kde, gnome, lxde, xfcd, sugar
… in debian-installer/packages/desktop-chooser/debian/desktop-chooser.templates.
Quick fix att
Christian PERRIER dixit:
>Well, desktop-chooser is a package that has never been released, so I
>doubt the problem comes from it.
Oh, okay. I only found it because I was searching for which desktop=
command line options are valid for d-i (to tell a coworker), and since
there is no documentation f
On Mon, 24 Oct 2016, root wrote:
> debootstrap (1.0.85) unstable; urgency=medium
> * Enable merged-/usr by default. (Closes: #839046)
This leaves the question: how can we install stretch
without usrmerge?
Thanks,
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On Mon, 24 Oct 2016, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Oct 24, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
>
> > This leaves the question: how can we install stretch
> > without usrmerge?
> By using the appropriate debootstrap switch.
In d-i?
> But the real question would be: why would you w
@debootstrap maintainers, look near the end for a tl;dr
James Clarke dixit:
>> # ls -l /dev/ptmx
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Oct 4 06:43 /dev/ptmx -> pts/ptmx
>> # ls -l /dev/pts/ptmx
>> c- 1 root root 5, 2 Oct 24 14:46 /dev/pts/ptmx
>> For comparison this is from my regular system:
>>
Ansgar Burchardt dixit:
>That looks like the same issue as I reported in sbuild in #817236 (which
It looks so, yes (Cc’ing now).
>severity maybe should be raised if this is an issue for more packages):
It certainly is! For example, a couple of months ago, cbmuser could
not sponsor my mksh uploa
On Thu, 27 Nov 2014, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> (The Built-Using field generation is a bit fun here: I asked on IRC
> how people identify which libc is in use, and got various somewhat-
> incpmplete replies (the prob is that on different arches, libc package
> is named differently). So I invented m
On Fri, 28 Nov 2014, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> > ‣ intimate knowledge of the build system required, so you know
> > what precidely is pulled in (reading shlibs:Depends from the
> > build of the shared version is almost certainly wrong)
>
> Why it is wrong? To be this looks like the most accur
On Fri, 28 Nov 2014, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> Um. Maybe we should assume exact versions of software running in
> buildds too?
No, only things that end up in the binaries.
> BTW, how about somethig like gcc -v (I'm not sure it is the right
> option actually) which shows all libs it actually used
Cyril Brulebois dixit:
> * Due to a change on the linux kernel side, the "---" separator is
> now used instead of the historical "--" one to separate kernel
> parameters from userland parameters. This makes it possible for
> user-params to do its job, and copy e.g. console="..." settings
>
reassign 705454 mdadm
found 705454 3.2.5-5
retitle 705454 mdadm: --examine --scan generates wrong #spares
thanks
I can reproduce this in a "live" sid system by creating
the md arrays then running this command:
root@tglase:/ # mdadm --examine --scan
ARRAY /dev/md0 UUID=b4a6dcca:639ab49e:3cbfd189:3
On Tue, 18 Apr 2017, Olliver Schinagl wrote:
> has its shebang set to /bin/sh, it would work with any posix shell, including
> posh.
Do note that posh is *not* a POSIX shell, nor suitable for /bin/sh on
Debian systems at all. It contains tons of bugs inherited from pdksh
which I had to fix in mks
Hector Oron dixit:
>m68k 2.6.26 (-7) 2.6.26-1 # unoficial
I’ve got working 2.6.32-26+m68k.2 which I uploaded to unreleased on
debian-ports.org yesterday, and 2.6.32-27+m68k.3 is almost built.
The kernels for m68k sort of need patches to build which, at the
current time, will probably n
Luca Favatella dixit:
>Is there a way to use d-i to install kfreebsd-i386 from usb?
I don't see any technical reason why not. It probably depends
on the bootloader used.
MirBSD uses the manifold-boot method with MirBSD's loader.
Grml uses the manifold-boot method with GNU GRUB 2.
Others use ISOH
Luca Favatella dixit:
>I'll probably test this solution (dd iso to usb) when possible.
Well, the ISO image has to be specially prepared for it.
At the *very* least, you’ll need to
• make sure there is GRUB2 *inside* the ISO on /boot/grub
• git clone git://git.grml.org/grml-live.git
• take the *s
Luca Favatella dixit:
>I was thinking there was no need to prepare a special iso.
>Thanks for your clarification.
Well, no. ISO 9660 filesystem images are usually booted from CD-ROM or
similar media using the El Torito standard. However, when dd’d onto a
hard disc, CF/SD card, USB stick, etc. the
Ferenc Wagner dixit:
>In case it's not widely known, let me quote isolinux.doc:
>
>Starting in version 3.72, ISOLINUX supports a "hybrid mode" which can
>be booted from either CD-ROM or from a device which BIOS considers a
>hard disk or ZIP disk, e.g. a USB key or similar.
That’s one of the metho
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Thorsten Glaser
* Package name: makefs
Version : 20090724
Upstream Author : The MirOS Project
* URL : http://www.mirbsd.org/cvs.cgi/src/usr.sbin/makefs/
* License : 4-clause BSD
Programming Lang: C
Description
Luca Favatella dixit:
>* the patch against current kfreebsd d-i svn
Try something like this:
IMGSZ?= 20m
define mkfs.ufs1
fs=$$(mktemp -d) ; \
cp -a $(TREE)/* $${fs}/ ; \
tmp=$$(mktemp -d) ; \
makefs -t ffs -s ${IMGSZ} -o minfree=0 $${tmp}/ufs $${fs}/ ; \
mv $${tmp}/ufs
endef
define mk
Luca Favatella dixit:
>I'm attaching
>* a screenshot of the problem I get in the (monolithic) image built using
>makefs
Please attach screenshots in ASCII. I mostly read my eMails either
via ssh or on an 80486DLC laptop from 1993 with not enough RAM for
XFree86®, so I cannot view any images.
>H
Luca Favatella dixit:
>* a screenshot of the problem I get in the (monolithic) image built
> using makefs
Ok, I see now (forwarded to workplace):
I think you really should RTFM. There are quite some options:
-f free-files
Ensure that a minimum of free-files free files (inodes)
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Luca Favatella wrote:
> It looks like there are no regressions in the produced monolithic and
> netboot images.
Cool!
Should I proceed to upload makefs as-is to Debian? Is there someone
here willing to sponsor? Otherwise, Mika Prokop from grml.org has
volunteered to do it if
Luca Favatella dixit:
>Tested. Please see
Great ☺
>http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/d-i/branches/d-i/kfreebsd/installer/build/Makefile?r1=59940&r2=59943&pathrev=59943
You forgot “&diff_format=u” otherwise I see nothing…
Why didn’t you set minfree to 0 from the default of 5% as
it doesn’t make any
Aurelien Jarno dixit:
>I will have a look at the package and upload it if everything is fine.
Thanks.
>I am a bit concerned by the name though. I understand it comes from the
NetBSD® world, actually. It handles 4.2FFS, UFS2 and ISO 9660 (plus
SUSP, RRIP, El Torito). Support for ext2fs is possib
Luca Favatella dixit:
>Can you please explain me better the difference between "-f" and
>"minfree" (the man page is not clear). I read:
Sure. -f ensures, for makefs(8), that the filesystem has enough
free inodes, whereas minfree is a tunefs(8) parametre you might
know from ext2fs, which measures
Source: busybox
Version: 1.18.5-1
Priority: wishlist
include/archive.h:17: warning: integer overflow in expression
Only shown on big endian architectures. Probably best to replace
17 XZ_MAGIC1a = ((0xfd * 256 + '7') * 256 + 'z') * 256 + 'X',
with XZ_MAGIC1a = 0xFD377A58UL directly i
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA384
This is really useful and may be needed in a lot of situations:
+1 for cttyhack
This can help in some cases:
+1 for setsid
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FWIW, I'm quite impressed with mksh interactively. I thought it was much
*much* more bare bones. But it t
Hector Oron dixit:
>(CC me on replies as I might not be subscribed to this list)
Done.
> On SH4, m68k and alpha architecture, as those are not Debian
>"Official" candidates for release, debian-installer is lagging kernel
>behind.
>
>d-i/installer/doc/devel/kerntabl:
>arch kernel udebs
Hector Oron dixit:
>If you have kernel flavours, then you probably want to have
>subarch support for m68k (similar to armel).
I don’t know. Do we have kernel flavours? The -atari, -amiga,
etc. are like -i486 and -i686-pae kernels.
>If you need any update, please send a patch with updated
>inform
Stéphane Glondu dixit:
>Why not just do nothing if /dev/shm is a symlink?
A $chroot/run/shm should probably be umounted.
>Are there cases where umount_on_exit is called on a symlink that should
>be followed? If not, I would just kill the problem directly there, as in
I was thinking about this a
Cyril Brulebois dixit:
>Certainly not an RC one. Faulty setups can lead to suboptimal
>behaviours. That's one such case. Lowering severity accordingly (even
>if as I said, important is probably too high on the debootstrap side).
Excuse me? Running debootstrap umounts /run/shm and you
call this a
Package: debian-installer
Hi,
when using d-i to install Debian on a system with RAID,
which we normally preconfigure on the second console in
the shell with a few commands, mdadm.conf is wrong.
We use something like this:
mdadm --create --level=1 -n 4 --spares=1 /dev/md0 /dev/sd{a,b,c,d,e}1
mda
Package: debian-installer
Severity: minor
Hi,
when installing a system "foo-demo" in the datacentre DMZ,
the DHCP server gave back the following information to d-i:
hostname foo-demo.tarent.de
dhcp domain tarentex14.tarent.de
Now, d-i gained a new system hostname prompt since Apr 2012,
in tha
Hi,
just another how-to-reproduce: run d-i on a system with
/boot on RAID 1 and / on LVM on RAID 10 on five discs.
d-i (priority=low) asks whether to install grub2 to the
MBR, I say yes, and it installs to /dev/sda, so I’ll have
to, later, in the installed system, reconfigure it to tell
it to ins
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