Bug#582608: installation-reports: buisnesscard sid_d-i in "expert" mode asks different questions on amd64 vs powerpc

2010-05-22 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Tags: d-i squeeze sid -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: businesscard http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/ Daily build #7 for powerpc, using installe

Bug#460428: Suggestion/Question for the approx apt(itutde) proxy daemon

2010-05-05 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi Eric, I just started using approx. I'm really impressed. It's a great piece of work. Thanks! Here's a question: Is it permissible/possible to have two (or more) different mirrors listed as servers for the same set of archives? for example, my approx server's approx.conf file has

Bug#580455: lastest Sid upgrade breakes yaboot.conf and (maybe) ybin

2010-05-05 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: yaboot Version: 1.3.13a-1 Severity: important The latest kernel upgrade modifies yaboot.conf in bad ways. 1) It puts spaces around the "=" and quotes the argument, which confuses ybin. # diff /etc/yaboot.conf.old /etc/yaboot.conf 9c9,12 < boot=/dev/hda2 -

Bug#580455: PATCH (lastest Sid upgrade breakes yaboot.conf and (maybe) ybin)

2010-05-08 Thread Rick Thomas
Here's a patch that makes ybin strip off leading and trailing whitespace and (0 or 1) leading and trailing quote marks. It also passes arguments for ofpath thru "readlink -f" before calling ofpath. I've tested it on my PowerMac G4. It works there. I don't know if it will work in the other

Bug#580455: (with patch) lastest Sid upgrade breakes yaboot.conf and (maybe) ybin

2010-05-09 Thread Rick Thomas
was listed as the bug contact for yaboot. If this is incorrect or out-of-date, please let me know who has taken over supporting yaboot and ybin. Thanks! Rick Begin forwarded message: From: Rick Thomas Date: May 6, 2010 1:59:09 AM EDT To: Debian Bug Tracking System Subject: lastest Sid

Bug#581255: gpm should be rebuilt with new debhelper to get trigger support

2010-05-11 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: gpm Version: 1.20.4-3.3 Severity: normal When installing gpm on my G3 PowerMac, I encountered the follogin error messages. Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously deselected package gpm. (Reading database ... 129723 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking

Bug#581256: debian Sid powerpc mouseemu and gdm combine to make apple ADB keyboard nonfunctional

2010-05-11 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: mouseemu Version: 0.15-8.1 Severity: important After installing mouseemu, the Apple ADB keyboard on my G3 PowerMac went nonresponsive. nothing happened when I hit any key. The ADB mouse worked fine. When I stopped gdm I was able to type at that keyboard into the text console. Restartin

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

2010-03-23 Thread Rick Thomas
This bug is still present in the current (3/22) PowerPC sid d-i daily businesscard install CD. What needs to be done to get it fixed? On Mar 5, 2010, at 2:15 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: It booted, chose language and locale OK, found the CD, loaded installer parts from the CD... Then when it

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

2010-03-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 24, 2010, at 10:13 AM, Benjamin Cama wrote: OK. So, if it has not already been told (I didn't see much details about that in this BR) what steps should be taken for powerpc volunteers ? Take care of the buildd ? Who is in charge of it at the moment ? So how do we get this fixed? If

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

2010-03-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 24, 2010, at 4:24 PM, Frans Pop wrote: For the "centralized" D-I buildds (which includes powerpc) Luk Claes and Otavio Salvador are the persons who set up the buildds and who are AFAIK the only people who currently have the access required to maintain the buildds. I've emailed Luk and

Bug#586428: Please clear the apt cache

2010-06-20 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 20, 2010, at 6:06 AM, Frans Pop wrote: On Sunday 20 June 2010, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Otavio Salvador [2010-06-19 12:35]: The following patch, which clears the cache after debootstrap and then again at the end (after kernel/extra packages), works for me. OK to apply? Conceptuall

Bug#510271: installation-report: Lenny on a Slug - eventual success after a few tries and some fixups

2009-01-13 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 13, 2009, at 2:58 AM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Martin Michlmayr [2009-01-13 08:23]: 3) Is there any way to have d-i offer slug users the same kind of network configuration options as are considered normal for users of other systems? For example, it appears that there is room for some

Bug#510271: installation-report: Lenny on a Slug - eventual success after a few tries and some fixups

2009-01-13 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 13, 2009, at 2:23 AM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: 2) Assume a user has a slug they've been using with the Linksys software for a while and wants to switch to Debian: What should they do to make sure d-i gets their network configuration right without having to resort to the fixups you descri

Bug#512273: xorg: Macintosh Blue&White G3 w/ ATI 3D Rage Pro - monitor complains "out of range"

2009-01-18 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: xorg Version: 1:7.3+18 Severity: important I recently installed Lenny on a Mac Blue&White with an ATI 3D Rage Pro video card. When X starts up the monitor displays a message "out of range" indicating that the computer is feeding it stuff it can't handle. (This message is coming from

Bug#512273: xorg: Macintosh Blue&White G3 w/ ATI 3D Rage Pro - monitor complains "out of range"

2009-01-19 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: xorg Version: 1:7.3+18 Severity: important I recently installed Lenny on a Mac Blue&White with an ATI 3D Rage Pro video card. When X starts up the monitor displays a message "out of range" indicating that the computer is feeding it stuff it can't handle. (This message is coming

Bug#515511: webpages: web page for "volatile" needs to be updated for Lenny

2009-02-15 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: webpages Severity: normal The web page at http://www.debian.org/volatile/ mentions Sarge and Etch, but not Lenny. Now that Lenny is released as Stable, that should be changed. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: p

Bug#515513: lenny-backports public key is not available

2009-02-15 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: backports Severity: normal To celebrate the relesase of Lenny as Stable, I added "volatile" and "backports" to my sources.list file. When I did "aptitude update" I got: Reading package lists... Done W: GPG error: http://www.backports.org lenny-backports Release: The following signat

Bug#515513: lenny-backports public key is not available - SOLVED

2009-02-15 Thread Rick Thomas
Hmmm... "When all else fails, read the instructions." On "http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=instructions"; it says to do this: wget -O - http://backports.org/debian/archive.key | apt-key add - I did, and all is well... Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#520165: gnome: error dialog box when starting root-terminal

2009-03-17 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: gnome Version: 1:2.22.2~5 Severity: normal more or less bog-standard powerpc squeeze installation on PowerMac G4 When I choose the "Root Terminal" in the accessories menu, I get an error dialog box with error messages There was an error loading a terminal keybinding. (Failed to contact

Bug#520711: installation-reports: The squeeze netinst doesn't find archive

2009-03-24 Thread Rick Thomas
I just tried the PowerPC squeeze businesscard install disk, with the same results. The CD was downloaded from the URL: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/testing/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/ The boilerplate on that directory says: Daily build #3 for powerpc, using instal

Bug#520711: syslog from a failed install

2009-03-24 Thread Rick Thomas
syslog.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data

Bug#520711: installation-reports: The squeeze netinst doesn't find archive

2009-03-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 24, 2009, at 10:09 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: When I switch to the -F2 console and try to do a "wget", I get a segmentation fault. Please take a look on the syslog of the installer and if possible attach it to this

Bug#520711: installation-reports: The squeeze netinst doesn't find archive

2009-03-25 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 25, 2009, at 7:37 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote: On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 3:09 AM, Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Otavio Salvador (ota...@ossystems.com.br): On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: When I switch to the -F2 console and try to do a "wget",

Bug#520711: installation-reports: The squeeze netinst doesn't find archive

2009-03-26 Thread Rick Thomas
the squeeze d-i initrd. What does that tell us about which package the bug belongs to? Thanks! Rick On Mar 26, 2009, at 2:34 AM, Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Rick Thomas (rbthoma...@pobox.com): 2) Since this bug renders the install CDs (certainly "buisnesscard", and for most

Bug#520442: amd64 netinst netcfg segfault daily build 03/19/2009

2009-03-26 Thread Rick Thomas
This is the same bug as #520711 Rick On Mar 19, 2009, at 4:19 PM, Stanley Pinchak wrote: Package: installation-reports Boot method: CD Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:53:4

Bug#520711: same bug a #520442

2009-03-26 Thread Rick Thomas
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Bug#469919: Please increase the severity of this bug...

2008-03-11 Thread Rick Thomas
(zsync send *many* of them). in the case of the debian isos, the .zsync files should be updated to reflect the new position of the isos... regards robert On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 04:43:33PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: Package: zsync [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ zsync http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/

Bug#470840: marked as done (debian-installer: Fails to install Grub on a RAID5 system)

2008-03-13 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 13, 2008, at 8:18 PM, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: On Friday 14 March 2008, Andrea Lusuardi - uovobw wrote: I installed a debian stable system on a Pentium 4 machine with 4 320GB ide disks and the installation goes well, but when it comes to installing grub on the MBR i get an

Bug#589701: ofpath is not compatible with non-builtin disk controllers

2010-09-28 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 29, 2010, at 12:12 AM, Milan Kupcevic wrote: On 09/28/2010 07:26 PM, Benjamin Cama wrote: Well, even if you didn't mention it explicitly, it was listed in the lspci dump since the beginning and nobody saw it until now. And one may also find it disturbing that a piece of software does

Bug#557193: gnome: [Solved - sort of] Attempting to logout -- popup window saying "File Manager not responding"

2009-11-30 Thread Rick Thomas
On Nov 21, 2009, at 10:06 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: Josselin Mouette wrote: Le vendredi 20 novembre 2009 à 01:36 -0500, Rick Thomas a écrit : When Gnome starts up, the desktop icons do not appear. When I try to logout, get a popup window saying "File Manager not responding". T

Bug#557193: gnome: [Solved - sort of] Attempting to logout -- popup window saying "File Manager not responding"

2009-12-06 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 1, 2009, at 2:41 AM, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mardi 01 décembre 2009 à 00:00 -0500, Rick Thomas a écrit : The machine in question has a zip drive that is semi-non-functional. I was getting "interrupt timed out" on /dev/hdd. When I disconnected the zip drive (I don't

Bug#559853: yaboot: Yaboot does not handle ext4 root partition?

2009-12-06 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: yaboot Version: 1.3.13a-1 Severity: normal I installed a squeeze" system (using the sid d-i netinst image) and just for fun I decided to try setting root up as an ext4 filesystem. All went well until the reboot into the new system. It complained about the filesystem being corrupt and

Bug#564150: Segmentation fault on iBook

2010-01-07 Thread Rick Thomas
This is the same as bug #562575 Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#562575: Is Debian on PowerPC dead? [Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]]

2010-01-14 Thread Rick Thomas
rPC simply so unimportant that resources cannot be spared to even *look* at a problem that renders the installer unusable on that hardware? Rick On Dec 28, 2009, at 6:18 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: This bug (562575) is still present in today's netinst CD. The businesscard installer boots

Bug#562575: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]

2009-12-28 Thread Rick Thomas
This bug (562575) is still present in today's netinst CD. The businesscard installer boots and prints the ususal flock of kernel startup messages. then it says: Starting system log daemon Segmentation fault and then it loops saying INFO: kbd-mode: setting console mode to Unicode (UTF-

Bug#562998: epiphany-gecko: epiphany web browser print option does not honor libpaper1 configuration...

2009-12-29 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: epiphany-gecko Version: 2.22.3-9 Severity: normal The default paper size for the "print" (ctl-P) function of the epiphany browser is "A4". Doing "dpkg-reconfigure libpaper1" and telling it to default to "US Letter" is picked up by other browsers (e.g. iceweasel) and other printing soft

Bug#562575: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]

2010-01-04 Thread Rick Thomas
Interestingly enough, this problem does not seem to be present in the i386 daily installer CDs. Just another datapoint... Rick On Dec 28, 2009, at 6:18 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: This bug (562575) is still present in today's netinst CD. The businesscard installer boots and prints the u

Bug#557193: gnome: Attempting to logout -- popup window saying "File Manager not responding"

2009-11-19 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: gnome Version: 1:2.26+0 Severity: normal When Gnome starts up, the desktop icons do not appear. When I try to logout, get a popup window saying "File Manager not responding". There is an option to logout anyway. If I choose that, it logs out successfully. This behavior seems to only

Bug#557193: gnome: Attempting to logout -- popup window saying "File Manager not responding"

2009-11-21 Thread Rick Thomas
Josselin Mouette wrote: Le vendredi 20 novembre 2009 à 01:36 -0500, Rick Thomas a écrit : When Gnome starts up, the desktop icons do not appear. When I try to logout, get a popup window saying "File Manager not responding". There is an option to logout anyway. If I choose that, i

Bug#261463: close

2009-11-22 Thread Rick Thomas
Please close this bug. It's no longer possible to do tests due to the hardware being decommissioned. Thanks! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#557570: On Sid PowerPC aptitude unable to upgrade esound-clients and other packages

2009-11-22 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: esound-clients Version: 0.2.41-5 Severity: normal esound-clients is one of 4 packages that patitude cannot upgrade ob my sid PowerPC testing machine. Here's the output... dillserver:~# aptitude -Pv full-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading stat

Bug#557570: On Sid PowerPC aptitude unable to upgrade esound-clients and other packages

2009-11-23 Thread Rick Thomas
On Nov 23, 2009, at 4:32 AM, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le dimanche 22 novembre 2009 à 17:43 -0500, Rick Thomas a écrit : Package: esound-clients Version: 0.2.41-5 Severity: normal esound-clients is one of 4 packages that patitude cannot upgrade ob my sid PowerPC testing machine. Here'

Bug#559853: Yaboot does not handle ext4 root partition?

2009-12-07 Thread Rick Thomas
Michel Dänzer wrote: On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 16:58 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: I installed a squeeze" system (using the sid d-i netinst image) and just for fun I decided to try setting root up as an ext4 filesystem. All went well until the reboot into the new system. TTBOMK y

Bug#559853: Yaboot does not handle ext4 root partition?

2009-12-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 8, 2009, at 2:24 AM, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 11:49:44PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: [snip] I don't recall an offer from the installer to try installing grub2. Is there an incantation I'm not aware of that makes that possible? If you boot the debi

Bug#553533: debian-archive-keyring: squeeze Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG 9AA38DCD55BE302B Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (5.0/lenny)

2009-10-31 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: debian-archive-keyring Version: 2009.01.31 Severity: critical Tags: security Justification: root security hole Aptitude update gets the error message in the subject. The archive in question is http://debian.lcs.mit.edu squeeze I haven't tried it with other archives yet. -- Syst

Bug#553533: Acknowledgement (debian-archive-keyring: squeeze Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG 9AA38DCD55BE302B Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (5.0/lenny)

2009-10-31 Thread Rick Thomas
Aptitude update gets the error message in the subject. The archive in question is http://debian.lcs.mit.edu squeeze I haven't tried it with other archives yet. I tried it with ftp.us.debian.org and got the same message. So it's not just one bad archive. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#560684: Problems with Debian PowerPC

2009-12-19 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 17, 2009, at 5:39 PM, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 17 December 2009, Rick Thomas wrote: It may not be "grave" for the installer (indeed, you've already established at great length that it's not an installer problem at all) but that doesn't make it any th

Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults

2009-12-25 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: installation-reports Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/ Daily build #1 for powerpc, using installer build from sid debian-t

Bug#562579: nautilus-cd-burner: gui should have an "eject" button

2009-12-26 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: nautilus-cd-burner Version: 2.20.0-1 Severity: wishlist There is no convenient way to eject the CD tray when cd-burner is calling for a writable media -- hence no easy way to provide a writable media. Please provide an "eject" button in the gui. Thanks! -- System Information: Debian

Bug#631659: uboot-envtools: fw_printenv config file not included or documented in debian package

2011-06-25 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: uboot-envtools Version: 20081215-2 Severity: important The uboot-envtools package does not provide a config file. As such, the package is not usable. rbthomas@plug:~$ /usr/sbin/fw_printenv Cannot parse config file: No such file or directory rbthomas@plug:~$ ls -ld /etc/fw_env.config l

Bug#631659: Acknowledgement (uboot-envtools: fw_printenv config file not included or documented in debian package)

2011-06-25 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 25, 2011, at 4:33 PM, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: Thank you for filing a new Bug report with Debian. I have since discovered the examples in /usr/share/doc/ Unfortunately, there is no example config file for SheevaPlug or any of its relatives. So I guess this bug should be

Bug#403112: Workaround for "OldWorld beige G3 Macintosh bmac network interface

2011-04-08 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi Michael, Believe it or not, I still have the machine in question. It's been faithfully working as a mail server for our family without pause for anything but power failures for over eight years. Those old Macs were built to last! I'll see if I can coerce Squeeze to boot on it. Enjo

Bug#617469: installation-report: Debian sid_d-i wheezy PowerPC businesscard does not boot

2011-03-08 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: installation-reports Version: 2.44 Severity: grave Tags: d-i Justification: renders package unusable -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: Businesscard iso from http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/current/powerpc/iso-cd/ Daily build #7 for powerp

Bug#617469: Bug#617204: Things that make you go hmmmm....

2011-03-08 Thread Rick Thomas
Joey Hess wrote: Rick Thomas wrote: Well, in the mean-time, there's no way to test new d-i businesscard or netinst CDs beyond the disk partition step. Or, to put it more bluntly: Testing grinds to a halt until this is fixed. Use http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/si

Bug#617469: Things that make you go hmmmm....

2011-03-09 Thread Rick Thomas
Anybody notice that the current PowerPC sid_d-i businesscard installed CD refuses to finish the booting process on a PowerMac? See bug report #617469 for details. I verified the md5 checksum. That's OK. I verified the CD against the ISO when I burned it. That's OK. I've tried this CD (and

Bug#617204: Things that make you go hmmmm....

2011-03-11 Thread Rick Thomas
Joey Hess said: Rick Thomas wrote: Well, in the mean-time, there's no way to test new d-i businesscard or netinst CDs beyond the disk partition step. Or, to put it more bluntly: Testing grinds to a halt until this is fixed. Use http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/cu

Bug#904525: release-notes: Links to buster release notes don't work

2018-07-24 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: release-notes Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, On webpage https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/releasenotes There are a bunch of links that are claimed to be for draft release notes for Buster. Unfortunately, all of them wind up at “Page not found”. Is this deliberate? Or is it

Bug#615646: [installation-guide] How do I know which CD has the package I need?

2018-07-28 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 28, 2018, at 10:44 AM, Holger Wansing wrote: > > Robert Cymbala wrote: >> QUESTION: >> I burned the first fifteen (15) CD's and GNU/Emacs, which I want to >> install, >> is not on them. How do I find out which CDs I need to burn? (There are 37 >> more in cdimage.debian.org/

Bug#615646: [installation-guide] How do I know which CD has the package I need?

2018-07-29 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 28, 2018, at 10:50 PM, Holger Wansing wrote: > +Also, keep in mind: if the CDs/DVDs you are using don't contain some packages > +you need, you can always install that packages afterwards from your running > +new Debian system (after the installation has finished). If you need to know, >

Bug#901332: d-i: Offer to shut down / power off instead of reboot at the end

2018-06-13 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 12, 2018, at 8:56 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> So, please, at the end, where it tells the reboot message, add >> a third button that shuts down / powers off the system instead >> of rebooting. > > Still, I do agree that this would be useful in general. Especially if it could be pre-seed

Bug#982270: linux: [armhf] several imx6 systems unable to detect ethernet

2021-05-30 Thread Rick Thomas
: 2021-05-30 00:09 On Thu, Feb 11, 2021, at 10:56 AM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > Control: reassign 982270 linux > Control: retitle 982270 linux: [armhf] several imx6 systems unable to > detect ethernet > Control: found 982270 5.10.13-1 > > On 2021-02-07, Rick Thomas wrote: >

Bug#982270: linux: [armhf] several imx6 systems unable to detect ethernet

2021-05-30 Thread Rick Thomas
, Rick Thomas wrote: > I just tried this using the two-part uSD-card image at [1]. The > problem is still present. Can anyone suggest which of the ethernet > drivers to try in the long list it says is available? > > Thanks! > Rick > > [1] https://d-i.debian.org/daily-image

Bug#982270: Re Bug#982270 (installer can not find an ehternet driver for CuBox-i4Pro)

2021-06-01 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi! Is there any estimate of when the assumed fix (linux/5.10.40-1) will show up in the installer at [1] ? I'd love to test it! Failing that, is there some other place I can get an installer SDcard image with that fix? Thanks! Rick [1] https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/armhf/daily/netboot/

Bug#982270: Re Bug#982270 (installer can not find an ehternet driver for CuBox-i4Pro)

2021-06-02 Thread Rick Thomas
On Tue, Jun 1, 2021, at 11:06 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2021-06-01, Rick Thomas wrote: > > Is there any estimate of when the assumed fix (linux/5.10.40-1) will > > show up in the installer at [1] ? I'd love to test it! > ... > > [1] https://d-i.debian.org/dai

Bug#989645: /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig: dpkg: error processing package linux-image-powerpc (--configure):

2021-06-09 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: grub-common Version: 2.04-18 Severity: grave File: /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig Justification: renders package unusable X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-powe...@lists.debian.org, glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de, rbtho...@pobox.com This is what happens when I attempt to do "aptitude full-upgrade" on my Power

Bug#989645: /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig: dpkg: error processing package linux-image-powerpc (--configure):

2021-06-09 Thread Rick Thomas
On Wed, Jun 9, 2021, at 3:15 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Control: severity -1 normal > > Hello Rick! > > On 6/9/21 11:15 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > Package: grub-common > > Version: 2.04-18 > > Severity: grave > > File: /usr/sbin/grub-mkco

Bug#982270: Re Bug#982270 (installer can not find an ehternet driver for CuBox-i4Pro)

2021-06-21 Thread Rick Thomas
> Pushed a fix to git: > > https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/commit/f952b94621847732b3ed96a74babb89b6a1862f6 Wow! Thanks! At least I now know I'm not crazy... Any idea how long it will be before the fix is in something I can download and install with? Enjoy! Rick

Bug#982270: installation-reports: Installing Debian Bullseye on Cubox-i4 - installer finds no ethernet

2021-02-07 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: installation-reports Severity: important Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? * What was the outcome of thi

Bug#785419: Bug#855203: hwclock-set: Synchronize from hwclock despite systemd presence

2021-05-09 Thread Rick Thomas
it to util-linux. > > Is the problem still present? > > Further: > > On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 07:55:31PM +0100, Lukas Wunner wrote: > [...] > > @Rick Thomas: Could you verify if the attached patch solves this issue > > for you? > > Were you able to test th

Bug#985196: haveged: OpenRD "client" ( arch = armv5tel ) Upgraded from Buster to Bullseye and haveged stoped working

2021-03-14 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: haveged Version: 1.9.14-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I recently updated my OpenRD "client" ( arch = armv5tel ) from Buster to Bullseye and now haveged crashes. $ sudo service haveged status * haveged.service - Entropy Daemon based on the HAVEGE algorithm Loaded: loaded (/li

Bug#971069: ntpsec: why does poll not go beyond 256 even though maxpoll is set to 10?

2020-09-27 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: ntpsec Version: 1.1.9+dfsg1-4 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? I don't want to bother the national ntp pool servers more often than necessary. * What exactly did you do

Bug#918755: [deborphan] deborphan --guess-all --libdevel wants to remove python-cffi-backend despite it being needed by deluge

2020-12-27 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: deborphan Version: 1.7.31 --- Please enter the report below this line. --- I have manually installed the "deluge" package, which after a chain of depends, requires python-cffi-backend.  However, as can be seen from the following script, deborphan thinks it's not needed.  WTF? Detail

Bug#918755: Bug#978158: [upgrade-system] upgrade-system wants to delete package deluge and everything it depends on

2020-12-27 Thread Rick Thomas
Racine wrote: > la 26. jouluk. 2020 klo 21.30 Rick Thomas (rbtho...@rcthomas.org) kirjoitti: > > > > Package: upgrade-system > > Version: 1.7.3.1 > > Severity: normal > > > > --- Please enter the report below this line. --- > > > > The package &qu

Bug#918755: Bug#978158: [upgrade-system] upgrade-system wants to delete package deluge and everything it depends on

2020-12-28 Thread Rick Thomas
As I said, simply adding --no-guess-python to ORPHANOPTS does take care of the immediate problem of wanting to delete deluge, but in exchange, it opens up a potential can of worms when there is a python package that is indeed an orphan, which would then not be deleted by upgrade-system. So, for

Bug#958527: installation-reports: Successful install of Debian Ports on PowerMac G5

2020-04-23 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/2020-04-19/debian-10.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso Date: Machine: PowerMac G5 "PowerMac7,3" Partitions: rbthomas@kmac:~$ df -Tl | grep -v tmpfs Filesystem

Bug#958649: installation-reports: On PowerMac G4 Debian-Ports installer fails to find PATA disks unless a USB drive is also present

2020-04-23 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/2020-04-19/debian-10.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso Date: Apr 22 18:44 PDT Machine: PowerMac G4 Silver "PowerMac 3,5" Partitions: Base System Installati

Bug#958649: installation-reports: On PowerMac G4 Debian-Ports installer fails to find PATA disks unless a USB drive is also present

2020-04-23 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: installation-reports Followup-For: Bug #958649 I forgot to include the partion information... Her it is: rbthomas@grey:~$ sudo mac-fdisk -l /dev/sda ; lsblk /dev/sda #type name length base ( size ) system /dev/sda1 Apple_partitio

Bug#978158: [upgrade-system] upgrade-system wants to delete package deluge and everything it depends on

2020-12-26 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: upgrade-system Version: 1.7.3.1 Severity: normal --- Please enter the report below this line. --- The package "deluge" is manually (i.e. not "auto") installed on my system.  I use it daily. But when I try to run "upgrade-system" it lists deluge and a bunch of other packages that delug

Bug#962921: apticron: Use of tempfile(1) produces a warning message

2020-11-06 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: apticron Version: 1.2.3+nmu1 Followup-For: Bug #962921 Dear Maintainer, This produces an email every time apticron runs. Not useful. Thanks for your attention! Rick -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (100, 'unstab

Bug#896638: debian-cd: Unable to build CD image with unsigned repository

2018-04-22 Thread Rick Thomas
On Apr 22, 2018, at 1:43 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > Package: debian-cd > Severity: normal > Tags: patch > Control: block 879642 by -1 > > With recent changes to apt requiring signed repositories, simple-cdd is > unable to build an image, as it dynamically generates an unsigned apt > reposit

Bug#924192: Is this fix going to make it into Buster any time soon?

2019-09-21 Thread Rick Thomas
I’d really like to see this fix make it into Debian Buster! Any chance of that? Thanks! Rick

Bug#924192: Is this fix going to make it into Buster any time soon?

2019-09-21 Thread Rick Thomas
> On Sep 21, 2019, at 12:13 PM, Richard Laager wrote: > > On 9/21/19 7:22 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: >> I’d really like to see this fix make it into Debian Buster! >> Any chance of that? > > I dropped the ball on this before the Buster release, for lack of time. >

Bug#924192: ntpsec: at boot ntpsec starts before DNS is available

2019-03-10 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: ntpsec Version: 1.1.3+dfsg1-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? the /etc/ntpsec/ntp.conf file (attached) has two "pool" directives and no "server" directives. So it requ

Bug#924192: ntpsec: at boot ntpsec starts before DNS is available

2019-03-11 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi Tony! I’m not sure if I’m doing it right, but here’s what I did and what happened… What I did: Edited /lib/systemd/system/ntpsec-systemd-netif.path Here’s a diff > rbthomas@cube:~$ diff -c2 /SAVE//lib/systemd/system/ntpsec-systemd-netif.path > /lib/systemd/system/ntpsec-systemd-netif.path >

Bug#924192: ntpsec: at boot ntpsec starts before DNS is available

2019-03-11 Thread Rick Thomas
> On Mar 11, 2019, at 12:46 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > Examining the journal carefully, (specifically the lines labeled “Mar 11 > 00:23:44”, > it looks like the [Install] stanza isn’t the right place to put the “After” > “Wants” lines. > > I’ll keep looking for a mor

Bug#924192: ntpsec: at boot ntpsec starts before DNS is available

2019-03-11 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi Richard, My observations follow your quote… > On Mar 11, 2019, at 12:30 PM, Richard Laager wrote: > > On 3/10/19 4:11 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: >> If ntpsec implemented the "preempt" option on "peer" directives, the >> first "peer" woul

Bug#924192: ntpsec: at boot ntpsec starts before DNS is available

2019-03-11 Thread Rick Thomas
Thanks Richard, I’ll see if I can set up that experiment(s) and report back ASAP. Would unplugging/replugging the ethernet cable work for steps 2 and 4… Enjoy! Rick > On Mar 11, 2019, at 2:53 PM, Richard Laager wrote: > > Can we narrow this down to a reproducer? It sounds like something like

Bug#934040: tasksel: doesn't provide transitional package for task-print-server

2019-09-09 Thread Rick Thomas
I second this recommendation! Rick > On Aug 6, 2019, at 4:25 AM, Raphaël Halimi wrote: > > Package: tasksel > Version: 3.54 > > Hi, > > Following #696658, task-print-server was renamed to task-print-service. > > Running "apt-get dist-upgrade" on current Sid tries to remove > task-print-server

Bug#934974: u-boot: usb start fails on sheevaplug in u-boot 2019.01

2019-09-10 Thread Rick Thomas
I have a sheevaplug that has been on the shelf for a couple years because it appeared to be bricked. I decided to try to unbrick it to see if I could help with these tests. Unfortunately when I plug it in and connect it to a PC running Debian Buster with the micro-USB cable, there is no device

Bug#741663: linux-image-3.13-1-powerpc-smp: therm_windtunnel does not load correctly

2021-04-26 Thread Rick Thomas
I've got the latest (Apr 17) running on my G5 right now. No problems. Rick rbthomas@kmac:~$ cat /proc/version Linux version 5.10.0-6-powerpc64 (debian-ker...@lists.debian.org) (gcc-10 (Debian 10.2.1-6) 10.2.1 20210110, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.35.2) #1 SMP Debian 5.10.28-1 (2021-04-

Bug#741663: linux-image-3.13-1-powerpc-smp: therm_windtunnel does not load correctly

2021-04-27 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mon, Apr 26, 2021, at 10:45 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 4/27/21 2:07 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > I've got the latest (Apr 17) running on my G5 right now. No problems. > > Rick, you should just confirm that this particular problem is fixed but I > assume

Bug#741663: linux-image-3.13-1-powerpc-smp: therm_windtunnel does not load correctly

2021-04-27 Thread Rick Thomas
On Tue, Apr 27, 2021, at 12:15 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:> > On 4/27/21 8:54 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > I'll look around and see if I have any MDD (mirror drive door -- the type > > in the > > original bugreport) machines. If so, I'll try to find

Bug#741663: linux-image-3.13-1-powerpc-smp: therm_windtunnel does not load correctly

2021-04-29 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi William! On Thu, Apr 29, 2021, at 11:05 AM, William Bonnet wrote: > > The PowerMac G5 users on this list are kindly asked to confirm the bug > > has been fixed. Until then, I'll reopen it. > > I am running the latest version (5.10.0-6-sparc64-smp #1 SMP Debian > 5.10.28-1 (2021-04-09) sparc64)

Bug#741663: G4 MDD report (finally) Re: Bug#741663: linux-image-3.13-1-powerpc-smp: therm_windtunnel does not load correctly

2021-04-30 Thread Rick Thomas
intensive task yet. Hope this helps! Rick On Tue, Apr 27, 2021, at 3:55 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 27, 2021, at 12:15 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:> > > On 4/27/21 8:54 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > I'll look around and see if I have any MDD (m

Bug#741663: linux-image-3.13-1-powerpc-smp: therm_windtunnel does not load correctly

2018-09-03 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi Mathieu, I’m sorry that I don’t have the expertise to apply a patch and build a kernel. However, if someone who does have that expertise can build a “.deb’ file and tell me where to download it, I’ll be happy to test and provide detailed feedback. Another possibility, of course, would be f

Bug#741663: linux-image-3.13-1-powerpc-smp: therm_windtunnel does not load correctly

2018-09-08 Thread Rick Thomas
Thanks! Yes, I’ll give it a try. On Sep 8, 2018, at 6:51 AM, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Sep 03, 2018 at 11:38:32PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: >> Hi Mathieu, >> >> I’m sorry that I don’t have the expertise to apply a patch and build >> a kern

Bug#741663: linux-image-3.13-1-powerpc-smp: therm_windtunnel does not load correctly

2018-09-09 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 9, 2018, at 1:59 AM, Wolfram Sang wrote: > On Sat, Sep 08, 2018 at 02:48:01PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: >> Thanks! Yes, I’ll give it a try. > > Note: You can either build the v4.19-rc1 tar ball which has the patch > already included. Or you can take your Debian k

Bug#889290: If NTP is installed, then systemd-timesyncd should be disabled.

2018-10-31 Thread Rick Thomas
Is it possible to disable systemd-timesyncd whenever ntp is installed? Apparently, according to Jozsef’s contribution to this bug, the openntpd package has figured out how to do this. Can the same mechanism (whatever it is) be used in the ntp package? Thanks! Rick

Bug#889290: If NTP is installed, then systemd-timesyncd should be disabled.

2018-11-01 Thread Rick Thomas
Version: 232-25+deb9u4 has the file Package: systemd Version: 239-11 does not have the file Enjoy! Rick > On Oct 31, 2018, at 3:07 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > Is it possible to disable systemd-timesyncd whenever ntp is

Bug#934072: OpenRD images are gone

2022-06-22 Thread Rick Thomas
On Wed, Jun 22, 2022, at 7:27 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> (If it builds, can you upload the images somewhere so Rick can test >> them?) > > Sure, that was the plan all along. > > https://people.debian.org/~kibi/openrd4bullseye/ has the tarball after a > full debian-installer build (it'll stay

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