Bug#342053: once more without the mouse (part 2 -- linux-input disabled)

2006-09-27 Thread Rick Thomas
This time without the mouse connected, and with disabling "linux-input" ~# echo "disable-module=linux-input" >>/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

Bug#382070: Long pauses during configuring portmap and configuring printconf

2006-08-08 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: installation-reports I recently did a businesscard install of the etch daily. There were two unexpectedly long pauses in the later part of the installation. I've seen these before, so they aren't just a fluke. So I'm reporting them now. The first was during "Configuring portmap

Bug#382129: daily wont boot on OldWorld PowerPC Mac

2006-08-08 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: installation-reports kernel and initrd from latest daily refuses to boot on OldWorld beige G3 Mac Hardware used is PowerMac G3 (Gossamer) this is an OldWorld powerpc Macintosh Boot loader used is MacOS-9.2 with the BootX extension. Kernel version used is 2.6

Bug#382129: daily wont boot on OldWorld PowerPC Mac

2006-08-09 Thread Rick Thomas
I should have added that sarge boots and runs just fine on this machine with BootX. On Aug 9, 2006, at 2:05 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: Package: installation-reports kernel and initrd from latest daily refuses to boot on OldWorld beige G3 Mac Hardware used is PowerMac G3 (Gossamer

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

2006-08-13 Thread Rick Thomas
I just tried the etch Beta3 kernel on my Beige G3 OldWorld PowerPC Macintosh. Same results as noted in the original bugreport by this number. It hangs almost immediately. The picture of Tux never appears at the top of the screen. See the original bug report for details. Seriously, Has

Bug#713943: Lack of i2c_powermac module may be the cause

2014-02-22 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 22, 2014, at 12:23 AM, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Hi, > > I run debian testing on a dual G5 powermac. > > Just upgraded from linux-image-3.4-trunk-powerpc64 to > linux-image-3.12-1-powerpc64 and found the same issue. The windfarm > modules are loading but the about 30 seconds to a coup

Bug#713943: Lack of i2c_powermac module may be the cause

2014-02-22 Thread Rick Thomas
I have a single processor MacPro G5 "PowerMac7,3" running Jessie. model : PowerMac7,3 machine : PowerMac7,3 motherboard : PowerMac7,3 MacRISC4 Power Macintosh detected as : 336 (PowerMac G5) I also have a dual core G5 "PowerMac11,2" but it's running MacOS-X. The "7,

Bug#713943: linux-image-3.9-1-powerpc64: windfarm module is not working any more

2014-02-22 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 30, 2013, at 8:01 AM, Vladimir Berezenko wrote: > Seems that there's another one problem. > From time to time cursor in X become garbage and after some time kernel goes > panicking. > Last update seems not causing panick, but cursor garbage stayed. > The 3.2 kernel works OK with all the

Bug#736130: linux-image-3.12-1-powerpc64 crashes during shutdown of PowerPC G5 Mac. But PowerPC g4 Mac (23-bit) works OK.

2014-01-19 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: src:linux Version: 3.12.6-2 Severity: important -- Package-specific info: ** Version: Linux version 3.12-1-powerpc64 (debian-ker...@lists.debian.org) (gcc version 4.8.2 (Debian 4.8.2-10) ) #1 SMP Debian 3.12.6-2 (2013-12-29) ** Command line: root=UUID=22825ec8-11c9-4041-8bb3-d74fabacf

Bug#736130: linux-image-3.12-1-powerpc64 crashes during shutdown of PowerPC G5 Mac. But PowerPC g4 Mac (23-bit) works OK.

2014-01-19 Thread Rick Thomas
Thanks, Ben, for the very quick response! I'd love to do that. But I don't have a serial console for this machine (no serial port -- it's a PowerMac "MacPro" G5, 64-bit CPU) and the messages logged at crash time scroll off the screen too fast for me to copy them down (or even photograph). I'l

Bug#736130: linux-image-3.12-1-powerpc64 crashes during shutdown of PowerPC G5 Mac. But PowerPC g4 Mac (23-bit) works OK.

2014-01-19 Thread Rick Thomas
One additional bit of information that may help -- Wheezey ( the 3.2 ppc64 kernel ) doesn't have this problem on this machine. Rick On Jan 19, 2014, at 7:23 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > Thanks, Ben, for the very quick response! > > I'd love to do that. But I don't h

Bug#736130: linux-image-3.12-1-powerpc64 crashes during shutdown of PowerPC G5 Mac. But PowerPC g4 Mac (23-bit) works OK.

2014-01-19 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 19, 2014, at 7:41 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2014-01-19 at 19:23 -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: >> Thanks, Ben, for the very quick response! >> >> I'd love to do that. But I don't have a serial console for this >> machine (no serial port -- it

Bug#736130: Mac64 - wrong colors and other problems

2014-01-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 24, 2014, at 11:10 AM, Vladimir Berezenko wrote: > В письме от 24 января 2014 11:07:51 пользователь Michel Dänzer написал: > >> The mach64 DRM driver never made it into the mainline kernel, so I'm >> afraid getting DRI working is hopeless (unless you want to revive the >> mach64 DRM driv

Bug#728936: tried amd64 netinst sid daily-build. Problem not found on amd

2013-12-08 Thread Rick Thomas
I just tried the amd64 daily-builds netinst CD. I did not have this problem. The USB keyboard was recognized and functioned as expected. So what's it about PowerPC ??? Rick /cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/ debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso 2013-12-08 04:49 213M --

Bug#728936: Fwd: Bug#728936 - Has anyone succeeded in installing Jessie on PowerPC?

2013-12-08 Thread Rick Thomas
nks! Rick Begin forwarded message: From: Robert Hagan Date: December 7, 2013 11:52:39 PM PST To: Rick Thomas Subject: Re: Bug#728936 - Has anyone succeeded in installing Jessie on PowerPC? I have had success but I am using an old 'YDL Power Station' with PPC970MP processors.

Bug#728936: Fwd: Bug#728936 - Has anyone succeeded in installing Jessie on PowerPC?

2013-12-09 Thread Rick Thomas
Begin forwarded message: > Resent-From: debian-powe...@lists.debian.org > From: Dan DeVoto > Subject: Re: Bug#728936 - Has anyone succeeded in installing Jessie on > PowerPC? > Date: December 8, 2013 11:16:29 PM PST > To: Installer List Debian , Rick Thomas > >

Bug#728936: Fwd: Bug#728936 - Has anyone succeeded in installing Jessie on PowerPC?

2013-12-09 Thread Rick Thomas
I'm guessing the keyboard that worked is not USB??? Rick On Dec 8, 2013, at 11:09 PM, Dan DeVoto wrote: > I can confirm this bug. The keyboard is functional on the first boot screen, > but when it gets to the "Choose a language" screen, the keyboard no longer > works. I tested this on a Po

Bug#728936: Fwd: Bug#728936 - Has anyone succeeded in installing Jessie on PowerPC?

2013-12-09 Thread Rick Thomas
Begin forwarded message: > I can confirm that the Dec 8 version of netinst for debian testing (Jesie) > loads with a request for 'select a language' but does not respond to my usb > Dynex keyboard on a ydl powerstation. > > Best wishes, Robert >

Bug#728936: - Has anyone succeeded in installing Jessie on PowerPC?

2013-12-09 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 9, 2013, at 7:55 AM, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > On Sun, Dec 08, 2013 at 11:16:29PM -0800, Dan DeVoto wrote: >> Confirmed on my Powerbook5,6 and PowerMac3,1. The Dec. 8th nightly still >> has this bug. Though the keyboard on my G3 iBook (Powerbook4,3) works fine, >> so Team G3! > > The

Bug#728936: Bug#715408: possibly duplicate: Bug#728936: Debian testing installer does not dectect USB keyboard

2013-12-09 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 9, 2013, at 9:05 AM, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: > Hi Manfred, > > I tried to reproduce the problem on my Laptop (i3-2330M) with a Logitech USB > keyboard, that Windows 7 reports as: > HID\VID_046D&PID_C312\7&26B80A52&0& > > For me the external keyboard worked in the installer. > >

Bug#715408: possibly duplicate: Bug#728936: Debian testing installer does not dectect USB keyboard

2013-12-09 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 9, 2013, at 1:36 PM, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: > Hi Rick, > > On 09.12.2013 22:19, Rick Thomas wrote: >> As noted in bugreport 728936, I tried this with a recent amd64 netinst daily. >> It works fine. The problem only appears on PowerPC hardware. > I also have

Bug#715408: possibly duplicate: Bug#728936: Debian testing installer does not dectect USB keyboard

2013-12-09 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi Manfred, It's the Jessie ("testing") daily build installer we're having trouble with. What you got was the Wheezy release (v7.2). An understandable mistake. Please download from here: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-neti

Bug#715408: Bug#731939: debian-installer: USB input not functioning during install

2013-12-11 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 11, 2013, at 5:06 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Jason Young (2013-12-11): >> Package: debian-installer >> Severity: normal >> >> Dear Maintainer, >> I booted the amd64 netinstall disc for debian jessie, and at first I >> thought that it was frozen because neither the keyboard and mouse,

Bug#728936: Bug#731939: debian-installer: USB input not functioning during install

2013-12-12 Thread Rick Thomas
Manfred and Jason, It would help a lot if each of you please reply-all to this with the output of (as root -- and with the USB keyboard and mouse plugged in to the machine) lsusb -v and lsmod That may help tell what USB/HCI driver is needed for your devices. Thanks! Rick On

Bug#728936: Is there a way to ssh into the debian installation process?

2014-01-05 Thread Rick Thomas
pose a fix. Do you have any experience making a pre seeded bootable CD for powerpc? If so, could you share it with us? Rick On Jan 5, 2014, at 9:48 AM, Gary Driggs wrote: > On Jan 5, 2014, at 1:22 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: >> So I think I could do the same thing on a PowerPC Ma

Bug#728936: Seems to be fixed in PowerPC Netinst from Jan 8th

2014-01-13 Thread Rick Thomas
This bug seems to be fixed in Debian GNU/Linux testing "Jessie" - Official Snapshot powerpc NETINST Binary-1 20140108-22:14 However, that netinst image installs a system that refuses to boot on PowerPC64 -- works fine on powerpc (32-bit) though! I'll be submitting a s

Bug#728936: Seems to be fixed in powerpc netinst from Jan 8

2014-01-13 Thread Rick Thomas
This bug seems to be fixed in Debian GNU/Linux testing "Jessie" - Official Snapshot powerpc NETINST Binary-1 20140108-22:14 However, that netinst image installs a system that refuses to boot on PowerPC64 -- works fine on powerpc (32-bit) though! I'll be submitting a s

Bug#735260: installation-reports: Jessie Netinst for PowerPC-64 creates will not boot after installation -- but works for PowerPC-32

2014-01-14 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: installation-reports Severity: important Tags: d-i -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: Debian GNU/Linux testing "Jessie" - Official Snapshot powerpc NETINST Binary-1 20140108-22:14 Date: Jan 13, 2014 Machine: PowerPC MacPro G5 Partitions: sudo mac-fdisk -l /dev/s

Bug#728936: Problem also present in Weekly build CD

2013-11-25 Thread Rick Thomas
Same problem in CD downloaded from: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/powerpc/iso-cd/ debian-testing-powerpc-netinst.iso 2013-11-18 07:54 254M Hope this helps… Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Bug#728936: installation-reports: still present on PowerPC netinst as of 2013/11/24 Followup-For: Bug #728936 Package: installation-reports

2013-11-25 Thread Rick Thomas
Dear Maintainer, when it got to the "chose language" screen, there was no response to the keyboard or the mouse. See below for details... -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: /cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd Date: 2013/11/25 approximately 01:00 UTC Ma

Bug#713943: Not fixed for me

2014-04-21 Thread Rick Thomas
On Apr 21, 2014, at 1:49 PM, Bertrand Dekoninck wrote: > I've installed jessie with linux-3.13.7-1 last night on my powermac7,3 (2x2.0 > ghz). The fans are still crazy, even if i2c-powermac is build-in (and not a > module anymore). Hi Bertrand, Have you tried echo 'i2c-powermac' > /etc/m

Bug#713943: Not fixed for me

2014-04-22 Thread Rick Thomas
mething about radeon-kms (and I only have a software rasterizer for opengl, > even if I boot with the "video=offb:off video=radeonfb:off " kernel > argument.). > > Thank you again. > > Le 22/04/2014 05:18, Rick Thomas a écrit : >> On Apr 21, 2014, at 1:49 PM, Be

Bug#750639: installing adjtimex gives syntax error message

2014-06-05 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: adjtimex Version: 1.29-2.2 Severity: minor Installing adjtimex gives the following syntax error Setting up adjtimex (1.29-2.2) ... egrep: character class syntax is [[:space:]], not [:space:] -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.9 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500,

Bug#750796: libldb1: aptitude upgrade on sid runs into trouble with libldb1 versioning

2014-06-06 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: libldb1 Version: 1:1.1.16-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Doing "aptitude update" on sid gives the followin error messages... The following packages have unmet dependencies: samba-libs : Depends: libldb1 (< 1:1.1.17~) but 1:1.1.17-1 is to be installed. Holing back libldb1 from bei

Bug#684265: Bug#690515: Still with us -- still in Beta3

2012-11-04 Thread Rick Thomas
On Oct 14, 2012, at 11:55 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: On Sep 24, 2012, at 6:26 AM, Milan Kupcevic wrote: Please file a separate debian-installer bug report for problems related to finding other OS's on LVM partitions. Milan OK, here it is: Bug#690515 I hope it's an easy fix. It

Bug#684265: Still with us

2012-10-14 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 24, 2012, at 6:26 AM, Milan Kupcevic wrote: Please file a separate debian-installer bug report for problems related to finding other OS's on LVM partitions. Milan OK, here it is: Bug#690515 I hope it's an easy fix. It would be a shame to see it get into beta3... Rick -- To U

Bug#684265: Still with us

2012-09-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 24, 2012, at 6:26 AM, Milan Kupcevic wrote: Please file a separate debian-installer bug report for problems related to finding other OS's on LVM partitions. Milan Well... I tried it on a machine that was not using LVM, and got the same results. So the bug isn't fixed yet. Ric

Bug#684265: Still with us -- Re: Bug#684265: (installation-reports: yaboot.conf missing existing root partitions -- sources.list still has deb cdrom from installation)

2012-08-18 Thread Rick Thomas
I just downloaded and burned the PowerPC Netinst CD and did an install with it. Specifically, http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-testing-powerpc-netinst.iso Daily build #3 for powerpc, using installer build from sid This build fi

Bug#685414: installation-reports: Hangs while searching drives on a Mac Mini G4 (PowerPC)

2012-08-20 Thread Rick Thomas
See my suggestions at the bottom of this report... On Aug 20, 2012, at 9:40 AM, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Package: installation-reports Severity: important Tags: d-i In case it matters: The computer's CD drive is broken and it cannot AFAIK boot from USB media, so I downloaded the files and instructed

Bug#678066: Proposal to simplify PowerPC CD/DVD boot options

2012-08-29 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 4, 2012, at 10:22 AM, Milan Kupcevic wrote: On 08/04/2012 12:41 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 05:56:54PM -0400, Milan Kupcevic wrote: This is a Debian installation ${MEDIA_TYPE}, built on ${BUILD_DATE}. + Enter one of the following options to begin: -install 3

Bug#678066: Proposal to simplify PowerPC CD/DVD boot options

2012-08-29 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 29, 2012, at 4:25 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: I just tried booting a PowerMac G4 with the Wheezy installer image "built on 20120826-03:23" (details of where I downloaded it from, etc available on request). The G4 is a 32-bit machine, but it seems to be offering me the cho

Bug#684265: Still with us -- Re: Bug#684265: (installation-reports: yaboot.conf missing existing root partitions -- sources.list still has deb cdrom from installation)

2012-08-29 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 18, 2012, at 2:02 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: I just downloaded and burned the PowerPC Netinst CD and did an install with it. Specifically, http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-testing-powerpc-netinst.iso Daily build #3 for powerpc

Bug#686218: cdimage.debian.org: booting powerpc netinst installer from USB-stick complains about type (Apple_HFS) of bootstrap partition (wants Apple_bootstrap)

2012-08-29 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: cdimage.debian.org Severity: wishlist Tags: d-i When booting the Debian netinst powerpc installer from a USB flash disk you may see a mesage WARNING: Bootstrap partition type is wrong: "Apple_HFS" type should be: "Apple_Bootstrap" This does not occur when booting the

Bug#678066: Proposal to simplify PowerPC CD/DVD boot options

2012-08-30 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 29, 2012, at 11:04 PM, Milan Kupcevic wrote: On 08/29/2012 07:58 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: On Aug 29, 2012, at 4:25 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: I just tried booting a PowerMac G4 with the Wheezy installer image "built on 20120826-03:23" (details of where I downloaded it f

Bug#686218: cdimage.debian.org: booting powerpc netinst installer from USB-stick complains about type (Apple_HFS) of bootstrap partition (wants Apple_bootstrap)

2012-08-30 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 29, 2012, at 11:30 PM, Milan Kupcevic wrote: On 08/29/2012 08:48 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: When booting the Debian netinst powerpc installer from a USB flash disk you may see a mesage WARNING: Bootstrap partition type is wrong: "Apple_HFS" type

Bug#686471: cdimage.debian.org: Please made DVD-1 image small enough to fit on a 4GB USB stick

2012-09-01 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: cdimage.debian.org Severity: wishlist Tags: d-i It would be nice if the DVD-1 iso image were just a bit smaller, so it would fit onto a 4 GB USB flash drive. I'm presonally interested in seeing this happen for PowerPC architecture, but I'd even be happy if it only happened for the x86/am

Bug#678066: Proposal to simplify PowerPC CD/DVD boot options

2012-09-01 Thread Rick Thomas
On 08/30/12 06:57, Milan Kupcevic wrote: On 08/30/2012 03:00 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: Regardless, I'm trying to write a comprehensive set of notes on booting Apple PowerMacs from USB drives, and it would be nice to have this part fully documented. Is there something I can tell people to

Bug#686471: cdimage.debian.org: Please made DVD-1 image small enough to fit on a 4GB USB stick

2012-09-01 Thread Rick Thomas
On 09/01/12 18:02, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 05:55:54PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: Package: cdimage.debian.org Severity: wishlist Tags: d-i It would be nice if the DVD-1 iso image were just a bit smaller, so it would fit onto a 4 GB USB flash drive. I'm preso

Bug#686471: cdimage.debian.org: Please made DVD-1 image small enough to fit on a 4GB USB stick

2012-09-02 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 1, 2012, at 6:02 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: Ummm. We've been doing this for ages for amd64 and i386 so that they'll work in isohybrid mode from USB. Have you tried to use one of the current images? Ahhh Sorry, I didn't catch your meaning the first time. I'll try the Beta1 DVD-1

Bug#686471: cdimage.debian.org: Please made DVD-1 image small enough to fit on a 4GB USB stick

2012-09-02 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 2, 2012, at 1:31 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: I've not done anything like isohybrid for ppc at all; I've no idea if it's even possible... It may not be strictly necessary. See my recent email with subject "Detailed notes: How to boot and install Debian from a USB stick on a PowerPC M

Bug#686471: cdimage.debian.org: Please made DVD-1 image small enough to fit on a 4GB USB stick

2012-09-02 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 2, 2012, at 3:39 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: tags 686471 pending thanks On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 02:37:08PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: On Sep 2, 2012, at 1:31 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: I've not done anything like isohybrid for ppc at all; I've no idea if it's even p

Bug#682946: installation-report: latest weekly PowerPC CD#1 stalls because it cant find aptitude

2012-07-27 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: installation-reports Version: 2.47 Severity: grave Tags: d-i Justification: renders installer CD unusable -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: /cdimage/weekly-builds/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-testing-powerpc-xfce+lxde-CD-1.iso (23-Jul-2012 07:59 635M) Date: 2012/07/

Bug#682946: latest weekly PowerPC CD#1 stalls because it cant find aptitude

2012-08-05 Thread Rick Thomas
ug 4, 2012, at 4:07 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: reassign 682946 cdimage.debian.org tags 682946 + wheezy moreinfo quit Hi Rick, Rick Thomas wrote: Boot method: CD Image version: /cdimage/weekly-builds/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-testing- powerpc-xfce+lxde-CD-1.iso (23-Jul-2012 07:59 635M) [...] Jul 2

Bug#682946: latest weekly PowerPC CD#1 stalls because it cant find aptitude

2012-08-06 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 5, 2012, at 12:31 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Hi Rick, Rick Thomas wrote: I just downloaded the beta1 netinst images for powerpc, i386 and amd64. I'll be testing them this weekend if I can get time. Thanks! Is the problem likely to be specific to the CD1 images and not show

Bug#686471: testing report [Re: Bug#686471: cdimage.debian.org: Please made DVD-1 image small enough to fit on a 4GB USB stick]

2012-09-06 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 2, 2012, at 4:11 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: On Sep 2, 2012, at 3:39 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: tags 686471 pending thanks On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 02:37:08PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: On Sep 2, 2012, at 1:31 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: I've not done anything like isohybrid for ppc a

Bug#686927: installation does not detect existing Lubuntu

2012-09-07 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 7, 2012, at 1:51 AM, Herbert Kaminski wrote: Comments/Problems: 2. The installation did not detect the existing Lubuntu 10.04 and wanted to install grub into the master boot record (I did not allow that). 3. the grub installer was unable to install grub into any partition of the

Bug#686927: installation does not detect existing Lubuntu

2012-09-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 7, 2012, at 11:33 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Rick Thomas (rbtho...@pobox.com): PS: Is anybody working on this bug? It would be a shame if it got into beta2... I'd be happy to take a look and see if I could find anything, but I don't know where to look. Can some

Bug#684265: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta2 release bug #684265

2012-09-12 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 10, 2012, at 10:16 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Rick Thomas (rbtho...@pobox.com): I'll be happy to provide installation log files to anyone who wants them. I'd also be happy to look at the relevant code and see if I can figure out what's wrong, but I don'

Bug#684265: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta2 release bug #684265

2012-09-12 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 12, 2012, at 4:21 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: I have not tried running os-prober from the -F2 console during the install, to see if it gives different results. I'll do that and report back. Any hints of things I should be looking out for? Here's the stderr/stdout output when

Bug#684265: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta2 release bug #684265

2012-09-12 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 12, 2012, at 10:41 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Rick Thomas (rbtho...@pobox.com): On Sep 12, 2012, at 4:21 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: I have not tried running os-prober from the -F2 console during the install, to see if it gives different results. I'll do that and report

Bug#684265: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta2 release bug #684265

2012-09-13 Thread Rick Thomas
On 09/12/12 23:22, Rick Thomas wrote: On Sep 12, 2012, at 10:41 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Rick Thomas (rbtho...@pobox.com): On Sep 12, 2012, at 4:21 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: I have not tried running os-prober from the -F2 console during the install, to see if it gives different

Bug#684265: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta2 release bug #684265

2012-09-13 Thread Rick Thomas
On 09/13/12 01:15, Rick Thomas wrote: The "umount: can't umount..." error message went away, but the three 'no such disk' messages remained. And grub install still objected because there was only one OS... I've attached the relevant section of /var/log/inst

Bug#684265: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta2 release bug #684265 -- partial success

2012-09-13 Thread Rick Thomas
On 09/13/12 01:15, Rick Thomas wrote: On 09/12/12 23:22, Rick Thomas wrote: On Sep 12, 2012, at 10:41 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Rick Thomas (rbtho...@pobox.com): On Sep 12, 2012, at 4:21 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: I have not tried running os-prober from the -F2 console during

Bug#684265: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta2 release bug #684265

2012-09-13 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 13, 2012, at 5:49 AM, Milan Kupcevic wrote: When I load the fuse module manually os-prober works fine. Therefore solution for bug reports 684265, 686314, 686631, 687286 is to create fuse-modules udeb package. Patch is available here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=

Bug#684265: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta2 release bug #684265

2012-09-16 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 15, 2012, at 8:36 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 14:58 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: [...] 1) It seems likely that adding a udeb for fuse-modules will allow os- prober to identify other Linux OS root partitions and get them added to the boot-loader config file... But only

Bug#704496: lynx-cur: lynx prepends html stuff when downloading a pure text file

2013-04-01 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: lynx-cur Version: 2.8.8dev.5-1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Hi there! The following discussion occurred on the "debian-users" email list. Enjoy! Rick == Rick wrote: On an apple macintosh G4, running debian squeeze, I use lynx to

Bug#704496: lynx-cur: lynx prepends html stuff when downloading a pure text file

2013-04-01 Thread Rick Thomas
On Apr 1, 2013, at 5:01 PM, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: On an apple macintosh G4, running debian squeeze, I use lynx to download cd-images from cdimage.debian.org. I have no problem getting CD ".iso" images. But when I try downloading the MD5SUMS file from the same directory, I get a few li

Bug#572605: installation-reports: Sid d-i on PowerPC can not find driver for network interface

2010-03-04 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: installation-reports Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable -- Package-specific info: Boot method: businesscard Sid_D-I CD Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/ This build finished at Fri Mar 5 04:06:02 UTC

Bug#572605: installation-reports: Sid d-i on PowerPC can not find driver for network interface

2010-03-05 Thread Rick Thomas
This problem does not occur on i386. It's specific to the PowerPC installer. (i386 sid d-i has other problems, but not any that are relevant to this bug report) Rick On Mar 5, 2010, at 2:15 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: It booted, chose language and locale OK, found the CD, loaded inst

Bug#572420: Please change this bug to libsdl1.2debian

2010-04-03 Thread Rick Thomas
I own both G3's and G4's running Debian Stable. I can take them down for limited periods (a day or so) to run other versions of Debian. If someone who knows what he/she's doing can walk me through the steps (I'm an experienced system admin. But I'm not a developer.) I'm willing to do wh

Bug#572420: Please change this bug to libsdl1.2debian

2010-04-04 Thread Rick Thomas
tude install". "Run it to confirm whether the crash is fixed" should be just like "confirm that it crashes" above. Should be no problem if we get this far. Would it be helpful if I set up an account for you on the machines after I've installed Sid on them?

Bug#637452: Lower priority of first user's fullname question

2011-08-11 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 11, 2011, at 11:49 AM, Miguel Figueiredo wrote: Package: user-setup Version: 1.40 Tags: patch currently it is asked the fullname of the first user being created during the standard installation. Lowering the priority, the question will be skipped and the standard installation will be

Bug#636265: reboot after install fails

2011-08-01 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: installation-reports Boot method: CD "expert" mode. Installed "unstable" Image version: | Daily build #7 for powerpc, using installer build from sid | These images will install the testing version of Debian, currently Wheezy. | See the top-level daily directory for more infor

Bug#636265: reboot after install fails

2011-08-01 Thread Rick Thomas
Yeah, Sorry! See Bug#636269. Rick On Aug 2, 2011, at 1:26 AM, Jeroen Diederen wrote: You did not add the log file. On Mon, 2011-08-01 at 16:38 -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: Package: installation-reports Boot method: CD "expert" mode. Installed "unstable" Ima

Bug#636269: Acknowledgement (PowerPC Mac G4 can't boot after installing Sid)

2011-08-04 Thread Rick Thomas
Does this patch (from the yaboot-devel mailinglist) help with this bug? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=636269 Is there some way I can help test it? "[PATCH 1/2] Support sysfs in ofpath" http://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/yaboot-devel/2011-August/000382.html a

Bug#636269: Bug #636269 -- Problem is still with us...

2011-08-09 Thread Rick Thomas
I tried again today. I installed Sid from the Sid_d-i PowerPC daily businesscard. Same problem. Here's what I installed: Daily build #1 for powerpc, using installer build from sid ... This build finished at Wed Aug 10 03:24:48 UTC 2011. ... debian-testing-powerpc-businesscard.iso 10-Aug-2011

Bug#713943: Fwd: Sound and BCM4318 wireless no longer working in Wheezy on late 2005 G5

2013-08-05 Thread Rick Thomas
This may have some relevance to bug#713943 Begin forwarded message from Debian PowerPC list: Resent-From: debian-powe...@lists.debian.org From: Chris Wareham Date: August 5, 2013 12:27:06 PM PDT To: debian-powe...@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Sound and BCM4318 wireless no longer working in W

Bug#647682: gadmin-dhcpd: "ISC DHCPD is not installed or not in your path" even though ISC dhcpd is installed

2011-11-04 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: gadmin-dhcpd Severity: normal Right after starting, the GUI displays the following error message: "ISC DHCPD is not installed or not in your path" The problem seems to be that it is looking for the dhcpd3 binary, but it's actually called dhcpd (/usr/sbin/dhcpd to be exact) in Debian

Bug#641886: mdadm: Possible fix

2011-11-30 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: mdadm Followup-For: Bug #641886 Version: 3.2.2-1 Please consider adding the " --no-sharing" option to the mdadm call in /etc/cron.daily/mdadm Thanks! -- Package-specific info: --- mdadm.conf CREATE owner=root group=disk mode=0660 auto=yes HOMEHOST MAILADDR root ARRAY /dev/md127 UUI

Bug#678008: debian-installer: "Space fun" theme considered harmful

2012-06-18 Thread Rick Thomas
Holger, Thanks for your helpful replies. Can we keep this bug report open, as a way of tracking this issue in the period before Wheezy release? While I understand that the debate has passed and it's probably too late to get the radical changes the OP requested, perhaps there's still some

Bug#678008: debian-installer: "Space fun" theme considered harmful

2012-06-19 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 19, 2012, at 12:07 PM, Miguel Figueiredo wrote: For Wheezy, and for quite a time, the Call For Proposals [1] it's open and the process will follow. 1 - http://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes Well, as I said, I've decided that, unfortunately, I can't win that argument. So I'm t

Bug#630812: adjtimex: still with us

2011-10-28 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: adjtimex Version: 1.29-2.2 Followup-For: Bug #630812 Dear Maintainer, This bug is still with us. Very recent Sid install. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (

Bug#800005: fbset gets 'ioctl FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: Invalid argument'

2015-09-25 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: fbset Version: 2.1-28 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, Prior to Jessie, I could use "fbset" toset the screen resolution on my PowerPC Macs. This was often necessary if the system happened to mis-guess the actual screen resolution, or the screen wa

Bug#837629: OpenRD* with debian's u-boot 2016.09

2016-11-12 Thread Rick Thomas
On 11/02/16 10:38, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: I've uploaded u-boot 2016.11~rc3 to the cascadia.debian.net repository. I won't hold my breath, but give it a try... Good thing you didn't hold your breath. I tried it. Same result as before: No response after "reset". I think I heard that suppor

Bug#856441: Please restore OpenRD support - works, yay!

2017-03-25 Thread Rick Thomas
If testing goes well, we'll see what the release team thinks... Rick Thomas has offered to test on the OpenRD Ultimate and (I believe) Client. And Phil Hands too. Yay! live well, vagrant Sorry it took me so long to get to this test. Real-life's a demanding mistress! I'm no

Bug#856441: Please restore OpenRD support - works, yay! also on openrd ultimate

2017-03-25 Thread Rick Thomas
On 03/25/17 17:40, Rick Thomas wrote: On 03/08/17 17:44, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: On Feb 28, 2017, at 6:39 PM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: Debian introduced OpenRD images and later removed them because the stopped working (see #837629). A fix has now been posted upstream: https

Bug#856441: Please restore OpenRD support

2017-03-22 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 10, 2017, at 7:34 AM, Philip Hands wrote: > Vagrant Cascadian writes: > >>> On Feb 28, 2017, at 6:39 PM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: Debian introduced OpenRD images and later removed them because the stopped working (see #837629). A fix has now been posted upstream: >>

Bug#856441: Please restore OpenRD support

2017-03-22 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 22, 2017, at 4:00 AM, Philip Hands wrote: > Rick Thomas writes: > >> On Mar 10, 2017, at 7:34 AM, Philip Hands wrote: >> >>> Vagrant Cascadian writes: >>> >>>>> On Feb 28, 2017, at 6:39 PM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: >>&g

Bug#856441: Please restore OpenRD support

2017-03-01 Thread Rick Thomas
ne provided by Debian is much more modern. > > On the other hand, there are few OpenRD users, so this is not high > priority. > > I haven't spoken to the release team but in the past they have been > supportive towards changes for hardware support. > > Rick Thomas has

Bug#861326: ntp: please put ntp vers 1:4.2.8p10+dfsg-1 in jessie-backports. It has important security and bug fixes.

2017-04-27 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: ntp Version: 1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-7+deb8u2 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, NTP versin 1:4.2.8p10+dfsg-1 has several important security and bug fixes. It should be available for jessie users. Would it be possible to put it in jessie-backports? Thanks! -- System Information: Debian Rele

Bug#854946: ntp: please backport ntp version from stretch to jessie-backports

2017-02-12 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: ntp Version: 1:4.2.8p9+dfsg-2.1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, It would sure be nice to have the 1:4.2.8p9 version of ntp available for Jessie. Thanks for your consideration!

Bug#794636: dnsmasq: /etc/dnsmasq.conf does not end with newline

2015-08-05 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: dnsmasq Version: 2.72-3+deb8u1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, The default /etc/dnsmasq.conf file does not end with a newline. -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.1 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (

Bug#794640: dnsmasq: last line of /etc/dnsmasq.conf is missing a comma.

2015-08-05 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: dnsmasq Version: 2.72-3+deb8u1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, The last line of the default /etc/dnsmasq.conf file needs a comma to be syntacticaly correct: Currently is: #conf-dir=/etc/dnsmasq.d/*.conf Should be: #conf-dir=/etc/dnsmasq.d/,*.conf -- System Informat

Bug#794642: dnsmasq: pick one of the conf-dir directives and un-comment it, please

2015-08-05 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: dnsmasq Version: 2.72-3+deb8u1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, The default /etc/dnsmasq.conf file, toward the end of the file, suggests several options for allowing local drop-in configurations without changing the dnsmasq.conf file itself. But they are all commented out. If one o

Bug#794642: dnsmasq: pick one of the conf-dir directives and un-comment it, please

2015-08-05 Thread Rick Thomas
rt script, without the need to include is > in /etc/dnsmasq.conf > > This is documented in para 2 of /usr/shar/doc/dnsmasq/README.Debian > > Cheers, > > Simon. > > > > On 05/08/15 11:12, Rick Thomas wrote: >> Package: dnsmasq >> Version: 2.72

Bug#825794: procmail: attachments containing the string From at the beginning of a line confuse procmail

2016-05-29 Thread Rick Thomas
update distro_bootcmd patch accordingly. * u-boot-tools: Add fw_env.config for openrd (Closes: #821056). Thanks to Rick Thomas. * u-boot-omap: Add support for dra74_evm (Closes: #824730). Thanks to Ben Hutchings. * Added odroid-xu3 target, tested on Odroid-XU4. . [ Gera

Bug#825794: procmail: attachments containing the string From at the beginning of a line confuse procmail

2016-05-30 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 30, 2016, at 2:36 AM, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Sun, 29 May 2016, Rick Thomas wrote: > >> Package: procmail >> Version: 3.22-24 >> Severity: normal >> >> Dear Maintainer, >> >> *** Reporter, please consider answering these questio

Bug#825794: procmail: attachments containing the string From at the beginning of a line confuse procmail

2016-05-31 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 31, 2016, at 2:18 AM, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Mon, 30 May 2016, Rick Thomas wrote: > >> Here’s the setup: >> >> I have a POP/IMAP account at pobox.com. I use cron to run fetchmail which >> retrieves (POP3) mail from pobox to a local server on my

Bug#800005: fbset gets 'ioctl FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: Invalid argument'

2016-06-30 Thread Rick Thomas
, 2016, at 11:20 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 2:59 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: >> For what it’s worth, I get the same behavior on amd64 running stretch. It’s >> not just on powerpc. > > Great ! Could you please turn more debugging info. eg: drm.debu

Bug#800005: fbset gets 'ioctl FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: Invalid argument'

2016-07-03 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 30, 2016, at 12:50 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 9:45 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: >> Do I understand correctly that I should put “drm.debug=0xe” as a kernel >> argument at boot time? Then boot, try running my “fbset” test and send you >> the e

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