Bug#779612: [pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#779612: systemd-sysv,cryptsetup: systemd-sysv, cryptsetup should recommend plymouth; without plymouth cryptsetup prompts are unusable

2015-03-30 Thread Gordon Morehouse
On 03/25/2015 10:24 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: Gordon, can you try systemd v219 from experimental? It has some tricks to suppress output from other jobs while a password prompt is running. I dunno how well that works, though so having someone with such a setup test this would be appreciated. Hi

Bug#779612: [pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#779612: systemd-sysv,cryptsetup: systemd-sysv, cryptsetup should recommend plymouth; without plymouth cryptsetup prompts are unusable

2015-03-25 Thread Gordon Morehouse
On 03/25/2015 09:29 AM, Jonas Meurer wrote: [snip] > Seems like there's some more discussion needed in order to fix the reported bug: a) do we want cryptsetup to recommend plymouth? this way at least for manual installation of cryptsetup, plymouth would be pulled in, fixing destroyed nas

Bug#779612: [pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#779612: systemd-sysv,cryptsetup: systemd-sysv, cryptsetup should recommend plymouth; without plymouth cryptsetup prompts are unusable

2015-03-20 Thread Gordon Morehouse
On 03/19/2015 06:58 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: > As pointed out, a recommends does not really help for new installs, > since they have no effect when installing the base system. A recommends at least provides users a pointer towards fixing a really nasty problem (which they shouldn't even have, bu

Bug#779612: [pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#779612: systemd-sysv,cryptsetup: systemd-sysv, cryptsetup should recommend plymouth; without plymouth cryptsetup prompts are unusable

2015-03-08 Thread Gordon Morehouse
On Sun, 08 Mar 2015 12:45:28 +0100, Jonas Meurer wrote: > Hi Gordon, > > thanks for the bugreport. I escalate this bugreport to the > debian-release team, asking for advice: would you accept another > cryptsetup upload targeted to jessie in order to add 'plymouth' to the > list of recommended pac

Bug#779612: recommends, suggest, and which packages

2015-03-08 Thread Gordon Morehouse
Hi folks, My mention of creating Bug#779612 was intended to steer discussion of a packaging-related "fix" for jessie into that bug and out of this bug. ;) It's currently being discussed there[1] and has been escalated to the Debian release list. 1. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi

Bug#771623: submitter reachable

2015-03-04 Thread Gordon Morehouse
Please use gor...@morehouse.me. I don't use the gmail, I'll see about setting up a forward. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#768314: proposed 'recommend' as suggested on debian-qa

2015-03-04 Thread Gordon Morehouse
On Wed, 04 Mar 2015 17:56:52 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > A recommends in systemd-sysv doesn't help on new installations, since > during debootstrap, recommends are not considered. I personally believe it should be a dependency, but I spoke with some people who are more involved in Debian than

Bug#768314: proposed 'recommend' as suggested on debian-qa

2015-03-04 Thread Gordon Morehouse
I've created Bug#779612 [1] to propose that 'systemd-sysv' and 'cryptsetup' recommend 'plymouth' in Jessie. There is related discussion in debian-qa[2]. 1. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=779612 2. https://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2015/02/msg00051.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Bug#779612: systemd-sysv,cryptsetup: systemd-sysv, cryptsetup should recommend plymouth; without plymouth cryptsetup prompts are unusable

2015-03-02 Thread Gordon Morehouse
Package: systemd-sysv,cryptsetup Severity: important Dear Maintainer, Booting in jessie is currently nearly impossible with multiple cryptsetup volumes which are mounted at boot time. systemd spews messages over the prompt and there's a 90-second timeout while typing blind. Please see the bug r

Bug#768314: systemd: encrypted disk passphrase prompt nearly unusable

2015-02-19 Thread Gordon Morehouse
Package: systemd Version: 215-11 Followup-For: Bug #768314 Dear Maintainer, This renders systems with needed partitions (e.g. /var, /usr) on encrypted volumes near-totally unusable, especially if there are multiple partitions. I updated recently and the UI changed again. If anything, it's WORSE

Bug#768314: cryptsetup: Passphrase prompt rolls by without stopping

2015-01-23 Thread Gordon Morehouse
Corrections on my above update, apologies: On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 16:35:09 -0800, Gordon Morehouse wrote: > What I expect to happen: > > 1. The system should STOP and WAIT for a password for any encrypted volume > which is marked as critical to boot (I had debconf ask me which of my

Bug#776101: aptitude: hangs forever on 'setting up console-setup (1.116)'

2015-01-23 Thread Gordon Morehouse
Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.11-1+b1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, running 'aptitude upgrade' followed by 'aptitude update' on a Debian testing system hangs after similar output from aptitude: Installing new version of config file /etc/console-setup/compose.ISO-8859-3.inc ... Installin

Bug#771623: installation-reports: expert installer 'targeted' initrd does not contain modules for USB keyboard on intended system

2014-11-30 Thread Gordon Morehouse
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Tags: d-i Dear Maintainer, Please ignore the system information, this is an attempt to install jessie beta 2 from netinst. I used 'expert mode' to install for various reasons, and when presented with the choice between generic and targeted initrd im

Bug#771617:

2014-11-30 Thread Gordon Morehouse
This has happened to me again. It appears to happen any time the installer, in 'expert mode' (haven't tried normal mode), gets to "Starting up the partitioner" after making certain kinds of changes to encrypted volumes. I don't know what the set of those changes is, though. Again the same couple m

Bug#771617: installer beta 2: jessie parted_server segfault on AMD Athlon64

2014-11-30 Thread Gordon Morehouse
Package: installation-reports Severity: important Tags: d-i Dear Maintainer, Please ignore the system information, this is being submitted from a different system. I am attempting to install jessie on an Athlon64 3000+. This is the jessie DI netinst beta 2 amd64 iso installer. I was in the par

Bug#770873: bugs.debian.org: http://bugs-search.debian.org/cgi-bin/search.cgi completely broken (HTTP 500)

2014-11-24 Thread Gordon Morehouse
Package: bugs.debian.org Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, The "HyperEstraier based search engine" for bugs does not work. Steps to reproduce: 1. Visit http://bugs-search.debian.org/cgi-bin/search.cgi 2. Enter some text and search 3. Receive HTTP 500 --

Bug#770870: cdimage.debian.org: Untrustworthy key used to sign SHA512SUMS: DF9B 9C49 EAA9 2984 3258 9D76 DA87 E80D 6294 BE9B

2014-11-24 Thread Gordon Morehouse
Package: cdimage.debian.org Severity: important Dear Maintainer, Debian 7.7 SHA512SUMS are signed with a key that doesn't appear to be signed by anyone on the Debian keyring, leaving SHA512SUMS unverifiable by any easy means. Please note that I have the debian keyring installed in GPG on the mac