Bug#344592: rsync sometimes does unnecessary copies - fixed in latest release from upstream

Package: rsync Version: 2.6.4-6 Severity: normal Tags: patch this bug is fixed in upstream release 2.6.5 (and presumably also in the latest upstream release, 2.6.6) from rsync.samba.org Quote from the changelog for 2.6.5 - Fixed a case where rsync would erroneously delete some files and the

Bug#344592: rsync sometimes does unnecessary copies - fixed in latest release from upstream

On Dec 23, 2005, at 5:37 PM, Paul Slootman wrote: tags 344592 = sarge thanks On Thu 22 Dec 2005, Rick Thomas wrote: Package: rsync Version: 2.6.4-6 Severity: normal Tags: patch I see no patches... Perhaps you wanted to tag it as sarge, as testing and unstable have had 2.6.6 since one day

Bug#310529: PowerPC Netinst RC3 CD is missing kernel-image-2.4.27-powerpc

Package: installation-reports > INSTALL REPORT > > Debian-installer-version: image> Index of /pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/powerpc/rc3 Name Last modified Size Description Parent Directory 24-Mar-2005 02:39 - MD5SUMS

Bug#293506: Debian sarge RC2 NewWorld PowerMac installation report

Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT = Executive Summary: All went well until it came time after the reboot to configure the software packages. After repeated failures, I tried "choose packages manually" (i.e. aptitude) and that went OK. This is O

Bug#315308: (no subject) PowerMac Debian install boot floppies

On Jun 21, 2005, at 3:31 PM, Jacob Fugal wrote: Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: boot.img from http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-powerpc/ current//images/powerpc/floppy/ on 6-21-2005 uname -a: Never got that far (Debian 3.1 Sarge) Date: 6-21

Bug#315393: Problems installing Sarge on OldWorld 7300/200 Mac

There are "freeness" problems with the boot-loader program that goes on the PowerMac (OldWorld) floppies. So the working PowerMac Debian boot floppies are not well advertised [*]. They are buried away at http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/2005-06-20/powerpc/ Give that a tr

Bug#315393: Problems installing Sarge on OldWorld 7300/200 Mac

On Jun 22, 2005, at 6:45 AM, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: * The 7300/200 seems to not be able to boot off a CD-ROM, at least I failed to do that using http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r0a/powerpc/iso-cd/debian -31r0a-powerpc-businesscard.iso Maybe I just used a wrong boot c

Bug#317727: installation-reports

On Jul 12, 2005, at 6:45 PM, Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 11 July 2005 02:51, Josh wrote: Aptitude works well, but when installing a package after download, and it leaves the ncurses built screen, it doesn't clear the terminal, which creates garbage looking output. That should be solvable, bu

Bug#323182: debian-installer: boot.img for sarge doesn't, on PPC

It's clear that, as a practical matter, Apple doesn't mind if people distribute the "boot block which is coming directly from Apple and has a couple tens of m68k assembly instructions nobody could be bothered to reverse-engineer", because other Linux distributions provide it and Apple has not

Bug#403778: installation-report: sudo password not specified

On Dec 21, 2006, at 1:16 PM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Anyways, I didn't know that one has access to man pages during installation. Is that because I'm a newbie myself? So far as I know (and I've been using and administering Linux machines for 10 years, and UNIX machines for 20 years befo

Bug#404876: Acknowledgement ()

retitle 404876 gnome-desktop: strange behavior on OldWorld PowerMac "beige G3" thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#404876:

Package: gnome-desktop I really don't know what package to file this bug report under. If I make it to "installation-reports", FJP will just say, "The installer did everything right, so I'm closing this report." which seems a little like the surgeon who said, "The operation was as success.

Bug#404876:

On Dec 28, 2006, at 5:55 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le jeudi 28 décembre 2006 à 15:52 -0500, Rick Thomas a écrit : However, after rebooting following the install, and logging in to gnome, it seems to be repeatedly trying to start/re-start something having to do with the appearance of the

Bug#404876:

On Dec 28, 2006, at 6:41 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: Could you try to update the liborbit2 and orbit2 packages to the 1:2.14.4-1 version in unstable, and then tell me if that bug is still happening? I changed "etch" to "unstable" in sources.list. Then I did "ap

Bug#404876:

On Dec 28, 2006, at 6:58 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le jeudi 28 décembre 2006 à 18:55 -0500, Rick Thomas a écrit : I changed "etch" to "unstable" in sources.list. Then I did "aptitude update && aptitude install liborbit2 orbit2". It installed orbi

Bug#404876:

On Dec 28, 2006, at 7:07 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le jeudi 28 décembre 2006 à 18:55 -0500, Rick Thomas a écrit : On an off chance, I rebooted the system. Still no change. Still all wiggly. Interesting difference -- Now it stays wiggly forever (well -- for 5 minutes or more). I never

Bug#404876:

On Dec 29, 2006, at 4:42 AM, Josselin Mouette wrote: Well, nothing really useful here, except this confirms this is a problem somewhere in the GStreamer stack. Reassigning. @debian-powerpc: as it seem to render gstreamer completely useless on G3 processors, I think this must be addressed

Bug#404876: Fwd: Problems with GNOME on Beige G3

Begin forwarded message: Resent-From: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org From: Yavor Doganov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: December 29, 2006 1:47:46 PM EST To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Problems with GNOME on Beige G3 Rick Thomas wrote:

Bug#404876: Output of gst-launch

On Dec 30, 2006, at 2:23 AM, Yavor Doganov wrote: On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 02:45:14PM -0800, David Schleef wrote: Could you run: rm ~/.gstreamer-0.10/registry.*.xml GST_DEBUG=*:3 gst-launch --gst-debug-no-color and attach the output? Attached is the output produced on my machine running

Bug#404876: Re:

On Dec 30, 2006, at 8:11 PM, Paul Mackerras wrote: Rick Thomas writes: However, after rebooting following the install, and logging in to gnome, it seems to be repeatedly trying to start/re-start something having to do with the appearance of the desktop. Things are very slow (as if a process

Bug#404876: Quick G3 Wiggly Gnome Fix

On Dec 31, 2006, at 12:37 PM, b9 wrote: I've created a quick hack fix for the Wiggly Gnome Bug. This is not a good fix as it doesn't address *why* the problem occurred or prevent it from occurring again. However, it's good enough for me to get work done on my G3 iMac, and I figured you might fi

Bug#404876: PowerMac beige G3 - test of [Re: G3 (or other non-altivec machines) testers sought]

On Jan 14, 2007, at 5:08 PM, Sjoerd Simons wrote: The best hint to what the problem might be seems to indicate there is an issue in the libvisual altivec detection code[0].. I installed on my "beige G3" PowerMac (OldWorld) test machine. I used the latest d-i netinst CD dated 2007 Jan 21

Bug#402547: debian-installer: OldWorld beige G3 Macintosh bmac network interface disabled on reboot

On Dec 11, 2006, at 2:08 PM, Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 11 December 2006 09:26, Rick Thomas wrote: After installing etch from a daily netinst CD (2006/12/10 20:42 UTC) on my beige G3 (OldWorld) PowerMac machine, the builtin ethernet interface is disabled. [...] There is a strange and

Bug#402547: debian-installer: OldWorld beige G3 Macintosh bmac network interface disabled on reboot

On Dec 11, 2006, at 4:31 PM, Joey Hess wrote: Frans Pop wrote: Joey: does this impact your decision to install networkmanager by default? It's a data point. I'd imagine that one can get networkmanager to deal with the interface by prodding it in the gui though. -- see shy jo In interes

Bug#402547: debian-installer: OldWorld beige G3 Macintosh bmac network interface disabled on reboot

On Dec 11, 2006, at 5:39 PM, Joey Hess wrote: Rick Thomas wrote: In interesting image... (<-8) Can you be a little more specific about how to go about doing this? If networkmanager is running I assume you are logged into a desktop environment that has some kind of netowork manager app

Bug#402547: NetworkManager: Workaround for "OldWorld beige G3 Macintosh bmac network interface disabled on reboot"

Package: networkmanager See bug number 402547 (originally filed against debian-installer) for previous discussion. The problem does seem to be that NetworkManager doesn't know what to do with the bmac interface, because it doesn't have carrier detect, so NetworkManager can't tell when it'

Bug#402547: Further details at Bug#403112

Further details at Bug#403112 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#403112: NetworkManager: Workaround for "OldWorld beige G3 Macintosh bmac network interface disabled on reboot"

On Dec 14, 2006, at 5:05 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign 403112 network-manager Bug#403112: NetworkManager: Workaround for "OldWorld beige G3 Macintosh bmac network interface disabled on reboot" Warning: Unknow

Bug#402547: Processed: Re: Bug#403112: NetworkManager: Workaround for "OldWorld beige G3 Macintosh bmac network interface disabled on reboot"

On Dec 14, 2006, at 5:05 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign 403112 network-manager Bug#403112: NetworkManager: Workaround for "OldWorld beige G3 Macintosh bmac network interface disabled on reboot" Warning: Unknow

Bug#403112: Processed: Re: Bug#403112: NetworkManager: Workaround for "OldWorld beige G3 Macintosh bmac network interface disabled on reboot"

On Dec 14, 2006, at 7:07 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: Could you please send me the version of network-manager and attach your /etc/network/interfaces. Here's the interfaces file that works for me now. It's based on what the installer creates when I tell it not to use DHCP during the initi

Bug#372070: Just tried it on a PPC system

fgfs seems to work more or less as expected on my PowerMac G4 533MHz with 1.5 Gbyte of RAM. It was very slow, but I think that's likely to be the relatively underpowered CPU and graphics card I have. CPU usage went up to 90% and stayed there. Most of that was fgfs. Here's some stats [E

Bug#397649: install-report: NTP sync missing by default

On Nov 11, 2006, at 5:24 PM, Geert Stappers wrote: Op 08-11-2006 om 20:09 schreef Olaf van der Spek: Also, no NTP synchronization is available by default. I really think Debian should install. Maybe install but disable, although I'd prefer it to be enabled by default. The Debian-installer

Bug#402267: PowerPC Netinst CD "Invalid Release File"

Package: installation-reports Installing from the netinst CD on a PowerMac G4, I get the following error: [!!] Install the base system Debootstrap Error Invalid Release file: no entry for main/binary-powerpc/Packages. This is the netinst CD from: cdimage.debian.org:cdimage/daily-builds/sid_

Bug#402267: More info

Curiously enough, the netinst CD does appear to have the missing file... $ ls -l dists/etch/main/binary-powerpc/ total 688 -rwxr-xr-x 1 rbthomas rbthomas 209980 Dec 8 10:33 Packages -rwxr-xr-x 1 rbthomas rbthomas 131702 Dec 8 10:33 Packages.gz -rwxr-xr-x 1 rbthomas rbthomas 8

Bug#402267: Not just powerpc -- x86 too [Re: Bug#402267: PowerPC Netinst CD "Invalid Release File"]

On Dec 9, 2006, at 1:01 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: Package: installation-reports Installing from the netinst CD on a PowerMac G4, I get the following error: [!!] Install the base system Debootstrap Error Invalid Release file: no entry for main/binary-powerpc/Packages. This is the netinst CD

Bug#402267: More info

On Dec 9, 2006, at 12:15 PM, Frans Pop wrote: Hi Rick, On Saturday 09 December 2006 07:49, Rick Thomas wrote: Curiously enough, the netinst CD does appear to have the missing file... Seems to me like the message is not about the presence of the file itself but rather that it is not

Bug#402267: PowerPC Netinst CD "Invalid Release File"

On Dec 9, 2006, at 5:16 PM, Frans Pop wrote: Hmmm Bug#401586 seems to indicate that this may not be limited to the powerpc port. Bug#401586 is for x86. Not sure what you see in that report that makes you say that. I only see unrelated issues. Well... the first few lines of this em

Bug#402547: debian-installer: OldWorld beige G3 Macintosh bmac network interface disabled on reboot

Package: debian-installer Severity: normal After installing etch from a daily netinst CD (2006/12/10 20:42 UTC) on my beige G3 (OldWorld) PowerMac machine, the builtin ethernet interface is disabled. This box has two ethernet interfaces: eth0: D-Link RTL8139 eth1: builtin "bmac" on the mother

Bug#404876: no background screen activity in GDE or KDE @debian

On Jan 6, 2007, at 2:21 AM, pranay prateek wrote: hi I am using debian 2.6 kernel . When i log in , the screen which i am greeted with doesnt show any activity in the background screen .i.e i dont get any pop up when i click mouse on my background , no icons in my desktop screen and havi

Bug#397649: install-report: NTP sync missing by default

On Nov 22, 2006, at 1:05 PM, Olaf van der Spek wrote: reopen 397649 thanks Could we have NTP by default? > But it would be a problem for the minority who have no or only > intermittent (e.g. dial-up) network access. Why would it be a problem? No network mean the "Network Time Protocol" won

Bug#397649: install-report: NTP sync missing by default

On Nov 22, 2006, at 4:18 PM, Olaf van der Spek wrote: Rick Thomas wrote: No network mean the "Network Time Protocol" won't work. Intermittent network (e.g. dial-up) means that NTP goes for long periods with no connection to the external time servers. The ntpd daemon is (

Bug#397649: install-report: NTP sync missing by default

On Nov 25, 2006, at 3:01 PM, Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 03:57:25PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: Installing ntp by default (making it have priority "standard") would be good for the many Debian users who have always-on network access. But it would be a problem for th

Bug#398496: Installing python2.5 on etch for powerpc is broken...

Package: python2.5 Installing python2.5 on etch for powerpc is broken... Specifically: Linking and byte-compiling packages for runtime python2.5... pycentral: pycentral rtinstall: installed runtime python2.5 not found pycentral rtinstall: installed runtime python2.5 not found dpkg: erro

Bug#398496: Installing python2.5 on etch for powerpc is broken...

Klose wrote: which version of python-central is installed on the system? Rick Thomas writes: Package: python2.5 Installing python2.5 on etch for powerpc is broken... Specifically: Linking and byte-compiling packages for runtime python2.5... pycentral: pycentral rtinstall: installed runti

Bug#399636: g3 imac: installation with the gtk-mini.iso

Holger's success emboldened me to try it on a couple of my own PowerMac machines. It worked flawlessly on my G4 test machine. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ( lspci ; lspci -n ) | sort :00:0b.0 0600: 106b:002d :00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 1.5 AGP :00:10.0 0300: 1002:50

Bug#404876: Doesn't work on Blue&White G3 either...

Previously I reported that my Blue&White G3 Powermac didn't get the wigglies. Apparently that was a lie. I recently re-installed this machine and there there were! So both my G3 machines (Beige OldWorld G3 and B&W NewWorld G3) have this problem. Has there been any progress lately? Ric

Bug#410625: G3 B/W pcilynx firewire blues

On Feb 12, 2007, at 7:22 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 15:30 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: Maybe I should try the whole thing again and write down the details. Can you give me a URL for the linux ieee1394 mailing list? https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo

Bug#410846: [powerpc] The PCILynx firewire driver is broken on PPC machines, and should be disabled.

Package: release-notes When I boot Debian (Etch or Sarge) on my Blue&White PowerMac, with the old TI PCILynx firewire chip on the motherboard, the pcilynx driver crashes consistently. If I blacklist pcilynx, the crash goes away, but I have no firewire capability. https://lists.sourcef

Bug#410845: [powerpc] The PCILynx firewire driver is broken on PPC machines, and should be disabled.

Package: linux-2.6 When I boot Debian (Etch or Sarge) on my Blue&White PowerMac, with the old TI PCILynx firewire chip on the motherboard, the pcilynx driver crashes consistently. If I blacklist pcilynx, the crash goes away, but I have no firewire capability. https://lists.sourceforge

Bug#410971: interactive aptitude wants to remove hfsutils and sudo after etch installation

Package: installation Severity: important After installation on a powerpc system (PowerMac Blue&White G3) when aptitude is run in interactive (curses) mode, told to do update and finish any pending operations ("g") command, it turns out that the "hfsutils" and "sudo" packages are marked for d

Bug#410971: interactive aptitude wants to remove hfsutils and sudo after etch installation

On Feb 14, 2007, at 8:00 PM, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 15 February 2007 01:10, Joey Hess wrote: Rick Thomas wrote: After installation on a powerpc system (PowerMac Blue&White G3) when aptitude is run in interactive (curses) mode, told to do update and finish any pending operations

Bug#411446: Clock not set correctly; MacOS9 not detected?

So the problem is that (aside from the possibility that OS9 is not being recognized) if the other OS is OS9, the default for hardware clock should be "local time", but if the other OS is OS-X, the default for the hardware clock should be "UTC". Is that a correct assessment? I solve it

Bug#403112: network-manager can't cope with OldWorld G3 PowerMac with "bmac" ethernet

Package: network-manager Version: 0.6.4-6 Followup-For: Bug #403112 OldWorld PowerMac beige G3 tower. Bog-standard configuration. No additional devices above those on the motherboard. In particular, the only ethernet interface is the "bmac" that comes standard on lots of OldWorld PowerMac m

Bug#413424: xserver-xorg: xserver fails to start because of resource conflict on PowerMac beige G3 (OldWorld)

Package: xserver-xorg Version: 1:7.1.0-13 Severity: important Configuration is bog-standard PowerMac beige G3 tower (OldWorld) with ATI video controller on the motherboard. Details are in the attached configuration files and log files. I've tried this with both "ati" driver and "fbdev" driver.

Bug#413814: installing Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 on a Power Macintosh G3 Server

Hi Alex! Welcome to an elite minority of those of us who have got this to work! Below are a couple of hints from my own experience in doing this. Rick On Mar 7, 2007, at 5:21 AM, Alex Teclo wrote: Package: installation-reports Boot method: BootX Image version: Debian etch powerpc weekly bui

Bug#411637: dpkg-reconfigure enscript should allow to set papersize

Package: enscript Version: 1.6.4-11 Severity: wishlist Tags: l10n enscript currently defaults to A4 size paper regardless of locale. It would be nice if there were a way (possibly via "dpkg-reconfigure") to set it to whatever the local standard is ("Letter" in the US, for example). This is a

Bug#411642: should be possible to build simple /etc/printcap with dpkg-reconfigure lpr

Package: lpr Version: 1:2006.11.04 Severity: wishlist It would be nice if there were some help available (e.g. with dpkg-reconfigure) to build the /etc/printcap file -- at least in the simple case of a remote printer where the only information needed are the host and the printername. -- Syst

Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

On Mar 15, 2007, at 1:12 PM, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 15 March 2007 17:44, Colin Watson wrote: Personally I also feel that all possible solutions effectively make /etc/fstab unreadable and unmaintainable. The approach we took in Ubuntu was to put comments above each UUID entry in /etc/fs

Bug#415543: xorg: xserver crashes on beige G3 PowerMac

Package: xorg Version: 1:7.1.0-15 Severity: important (Note: this bugreport is about a beige G3 PowerMac tower, but the same problem also appears on my Blue&White G3 PowerMac.) Problem: X fails to start on a beige G3 PowerMac. I get the following error messages... In particular, note the mes

Bug#415543: xorg: xserver crashes on beige G3 PowerMac

On Mar 20, 2007, at 1:19 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: Package: xorg Version: 1:7.1.0-15 Severity: important (Note: this bugreport is about a beige G3 PowerMac tower, but the same problem also appears on my Blue&White G3 PowerMac.) Problem: X fails to start on a beige G3 PowerMac. I get

Bug#404876: G3 (or other non-altivec machines) testers sought

On Jan 14, 2007, at 5:08 PM, Sjoerd Simons wrote: Hi, Gstreamer currently has a release critical bug that seems to be only reproducable on powerpc machines without altivec support and even then not always. The best hint to what the problem might be seems to indicate there is an is

Bug#408818: cool

On Jan 28, 2007, at 9:42 PM, Phill Thorpe wrote: On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 03:09 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 29 January 2007 02:41, Phill Thorpe wrote: I dont think that you read it correctly. This install did not detect my nic at first, it only detected my nic when I booted with: install i

Bug#409218: one of three cdimage.d.o has different timezone from other two

Package: cdrom One of the three machines that round-robin for the server "cdimage.debian.org" seems to have a different timezone (for ftp, but not http) from the other two. Specifically: $ host cdimage.debian.org cdimage.debian.org is an alias for ftp.acc.umu.se. ftp.acc.umu.se has addres

Bug#383690: Latest update breaks ntp

Hi Daniel, I'll see if I can reproduce the symptoms and keep a careful log. What logs/outputs would you like to to collect? Rick On Sep 1, 2006, at 10:27 PM, Daniel Burrows wrote: Do you have any information that would explain why it did this? I'll need more data to do anything usefu

Bug#383690: Latest update breaks ntp

I'm wondering if this is similar to the problem that is described in http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/09/msg00090.html Certainly the pattern of dependency/pre-dependency seems similar... What happened was this: I had installed ntpdate, ntp-simple and ntp packages at the 4.2.0a +stabl

Bug#383690: Latest update breaks ntp

On Sep 2, 2006, at 1:35 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: I plan to do a non-network install (dvd-only) of the beta3 dvd (which should get me to the condition I was in before the problems) then add a network repo to sources.list (which should attempt to update to the dfsg versions) and see what

Bug#383690: Latest update breaks ntp

Hi Daniel, Here's a strange one! I assume a bug-report is appropriate, and I'll make one, but I'll need your help in figuring out which package to report it against... I have a machine ("darkstar") running etch, which I use for testing debian installer things. I did an "aptitude update

Bug#389881: SCSI device renaming breaks install

On Sep 28, 2006, at 6:50 AM, Stephen Gran wrote: Either use udev rules to map the RAID array to a consistent device name, or use filesystem labels in fstab and menu.lst. Which is great if you know about the problem and can deal with it in advance. Just because it's listed in the errat

Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes

On Oct 1, 2006, at 7:34 PM, Sven Luther wrote: I have built the images, and tested it on radeon with the 9200SE, i confirm that disable-module=radeon is uncomented, and the bugs (white-on- white during selection, broken font in the console) are gone this way. I am uploading the images i bui

Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes

On Oct 2, 2006, at 3:34 AM, Sven Luther wrote: When I tried this mini.iso on a G4/533MHz "QuickSilver" tower with "ATY Rage128" graphics, I saw the white-on-white problem. So it's not gone away completely. Normal, your aty rage128 is not a radeon, and is thus using whatever driver is using

Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes

On Oct 2, 2006, at 2:28 PM, Sven Luther wrote: I am building a new image, and uploading it, stay tuned. I tried the new image (from http://people.debian.org/~luther/g-i/ powerpc/gtk-miniiso/mini.iso dated 02-Oct-2006 05:07) on my PowerMac 3,5 with the Radeon video card. /proc/cpuinfo=

Bug#342053: [directfb-users] Bug#342053: DirectFrameBuffer crashes on PPC systems if HW accelerated drivers are used

On Oct 3, 2006, at 9:25 AM, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: fbset exists as an udeb [1]: rick, you could boot textual, pull the ppc version in the d-i using wget, unpack it with anna and run it. Maybe fbset should become part of the g-i ? Attilio [1] http://packages.debian.org/unstable/debian-ins

Bug#390565: Patch for the graphical installer on PPC boxes

On Oct 3, 2006, at 4:10 AM, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: Did you enter "export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gtk" or "DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gtk" before running debian-installer? In the latter case, the DEBIAN_FRONTEND variable simply may not have been made visible to debconf, try again with "export ..." before

Bug#382129: Beta3 won't boot on OldWorld PowerPC Mac

On Aug 18, 2006, at 7:59 AM, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: Hi, On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 03:19:18AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: Has *anybody* had any success getting the "Linux version 2.6.16-2- powerpc (Debian 2.6.16-17)" kernel to boot an OldWorld machine with BootX? Or *any* kernel af

Bug#383663: Latest update breaks ntp

Package: ntp I just did an aptitude update/upgrade of an etch system. It resulted in deleting ntp, ntp-simple, and ntp-server, leaving me without a function ntp daemon. Rick "Not the sort of behavior you ordinarily expect from a major appliance" - ghostbusters -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Bug#383663: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#383663: Latest update breaks ntp

mysterious too...) Is that in your purview? Thanks, Rick PS: I'd be happy to RTFM. Is there an FM I can R on any of this? PPS: Why is everybody in Debian so bad tempered? On Aug 18, 2006, at 12:24 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Am Freitag, 18. August 2006 17:33 schrieb Rick Thomas:

Bug#382129: Beta3 won't boot on OldWorld PowerPC Mac

On Aug 18, 2006, at 2:31 PM, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: What is PTBs? :) Powers that be...

Bug#382129: Beta3 won't boot on OldWorld PowerPC Mac

On Aug 18, 2006, at 2:31 PM, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: Wow! great! I'm really glad somebody's working on that. Do you think it will be ready for inclusion in etch at release time? Rick

Bug#382129: Beta3 won't boot on OldWorld PowerPC Mac

On Aug 18, 2006, at 2:31 PM, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: Well, aside the issue of booting, the kernel runs just fine and so does the user space... As you can look at , I think it is partially admitted in "Oldworld powerpc boot floppies will not

Bug#383690: Latest update breaks ntp

Package: aptitude I just did an aptitude update/upgrade of an etch system. It resulted in deleting ntp, ntp-simple, and ntp-server, leaving me without a functioning ntp daemon. Rick "Not the sort of behavior you ordinarily expect from a major appliance" - ghostbusters -- To UNSUBSCR

Bug#382129: Beta3 won't boot on OldWorld PowerPC Mac

On Aug 18, 2006, at 5:58 PM, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:52:24PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: On Aug 18, 2006, at 2:31 PM, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: What is PTBs? :) Powers that be... On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 11:44:23AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: Perhaps the Debian PTBs

Bug#382129: Beta3 won't boot on OldWorld PowerPC Mac

On Aug 18, 2006, at 6:43 PM, Sven Luther wrote: On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 12:18:23AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 11:58:07PM +0200, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:52:24PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: On Aug 18, 2006, at 2:31 PM, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote

Bug#382129: Beta3 won't boot on OldWorld PowerPC Mac

t to update the system. I imagine it's possible to use this same technique to update to the latest version of Debian; wouldn't you think? Thanks for sending along your script, Harold On 8/19/06, Rick Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Aug 19, 2006, at 6:29 PM, Harold Johnson wr

Bug#380105: Show current hour in hardware clock question

On Aug 25, 2006, at 10:57 AM, Christian Perrier wrote: I am not sure, but in the graphical installer, we could add a clock widget somewhere from the start, and do clock setting pretty early one (we probably only need hwclock and a little menu thingy), it can even be done before base-insta

Bug#381875: loop-AES key generation requires tiresome typing

On Oct 10, 2006, at 3:39 PM, James Westby wrote: I had a couple of idea while I was typing to generate keys in this fashion. Here they are in no particular order. 1) Make a game that involves typing, Doesn't aptitude have a minesweeper game built in? Would that work? Rick -- To UNSUBSCR

Bug#382129: Is now a good time to revisit installer not booting on OldWorld PowerMac beige G3?

Is there someone out there who will work with me to get a kernel that boots to run debian-installer on my beige G3 PowerMac (OldWorld) machine? As I reported in Bug#382129 regarding the Linux-powerpc 2.6.16 kernel not booting on my OldWorld test machine, I now find that the 2.6.17 kernel

Bug#382129: Is now a good time to revisit installer not booting on OldWorld PowerMac beige G3?

On Sep 16, 2006, at 3:05 PM, Sven Luther wrote: On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 09:50:03AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Saturday 16 September 2006 09:09, Rick Thomas wrote: Is there someone out there who will work with me to get a kernel that boots to run debian-installer on my beige G3 PowerMac

Bug#388159: missing lspci on a fresh install

Package: base On Sep 18, 2006, at 4:57 PM, Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 18 September 2006 21:49, Rick Thomas wrote: On Sep 18, 2006, at 10:17 AM, De Leeuw Guy wrote: Frans Pop a écrit : The d-i team is not responsible for what is part of the base system and what is not. Then who is? Where

Bug#388328: boot logging fix for ntpdate in /etc/init.d

Package: ntpdate I was Poking around in /var/log/syslog recently. I noticed that there was no log entry for ntpdate. Investigating a little, I found that /etc/init.d/ntpdate (alias /etc/rcS.d/S51ntpdate) is called before syslogd gets started. This is OK... The ntpdate call has to occur

Bug#388328: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#388328: boot logging fix for ntpdate in /etc/init.d

On Sep 21, 2006, at 1:42 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Rick Thomas wrote: I was Poking around in /var/log/syslog recently. I noticed that there was no log entry for ntpdate. Investigating a little, I found that /etc/init.d/ntpdate (alias /etc/rcS.d/S51ntpdate) is called before syslogd gets

Bug#388328: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#388328: boot logging fix for ntpdate in /etc/init.d

On Sep 21, 2006, at 5:47 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Again, check the package in unstable. That's the direction. Thanks for the pointer. I've looked at the ntpdate_4.2.2+dfsg.2-2 stuff now, and I have a couple of comments on that. The first is just an extension of this original

Bug#388328: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#388328: boot logging fix for ntpdate in /etc/init.d

On Sep 21, 2006, at 9:00 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Rick Thomas wrote: So the logic in /etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate needs to be a bit like the login in the old /etc/init.d/ntpdate in that it knows whether it's being called as part of system initialization or on-the-fly after initializ

Bug#388328: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#388328: boot logging fix for ntpdate in /etc/init.d

On Sep 22, 2006, at 4:18 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Am Freitag, 22. September 2006 04:25 schrieb Rick Thomas: But that information is not available in the if-up script. There are ways to find it out. If you like, I'll do up and test a sample. Please. Will do. I hope to get ba

Bug#342053: DirectFrameBuffer crashes on PPC systems if HW accelerated drivers are used

On Sep 23, 2006, at 6:13 AM, Sven Luther wrote: Also, about the console font corruption with radeonfb, i would be interested in feedback of if it is a powerpc only issue, or ppc stuff ? No idea, i on no radeon boards :( Someone else ? I might have a NewWorld Mac with a radeon board...

Bug#342053: DirectFrameBuffer crashes on PPC systems if HW accelerated drivers are used

On Sep 24, 2006, at 5:52 AM, Sven Luther wrote: On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 04:17:58AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: On Sep 23, 2006, at 6:13 AM, Sven Luther wrote: Also, about the console font corruption with radeonfb, i would be interested in feedback of if it is a powerpc only issue, or ppc

Bug#342053: DirectFrameBuffer crashes on PPC systems if HW accelerated drivers are used

On Sep 26, 2006, at 4:04 PM, Sven Luther wrote: On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 04:01:15PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: OK. I have a G4 PowerMac with :00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV200 QW [Radeon 7500] Should work flawlessly with the current daily-builds

Bug#342053: DirectFrameBuffer crashes on PPC systems if HW accelerated drivers are used

OK, I booted from the CD with "install DEBIAN_FRONTEND=newt" switched to the F2 console when the "choose language" screen came up. The hardware info you wanted is: ~# cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep motherboard Motherboard: PowerMac3,5 MacRISC2 MacRISC Power Macintosh ~# cat /proc/fb 0 ATI Radeon QW

Bug#342053: DirectFrameBuffer crashes on PPC systems if HW accelerated drivers are used

OK, I booted from the CD with "install DEBIAN_FRONTEND=newt" switched to the F2 console when the "choose language" screen came up. Then I did: ~# echo "disable-module=radeon" >>/etc/directfbrc ~# echo "no-hardware" >>/etc/directfbrc ~# export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gtk ~# debian-installer It crashe

Bug#342053: DirectFrameBuffer crashes on PPC systems if HW accelerated drivers are used

On Sep 27, 2006, at 7:03 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: (!) DirectFB/FBDev: No supported modes found in /etc/fb.modes and current mode not supported! (!) DirectFB/FBDev: Current mode's pixelformat: rgba 8/0, 8/0, 8/0, 0/0 (8bit) For what it's worth, there is no file "/etc/f

Bug#342053: once more without the mouse (part 1)

This time without the mouse connected ~# echo "disable-module=radeon" >>/etc/directfbrc ~# echo "no-hardware" >>/etc/directfbrc ~# export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gtk ~# debian-installer As usual, it crashed when it tried to initialize the graphical installer. Messages were substantially the same

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