Bug#1088605: installation-reports: No installable kernel was found in the defined APT sources

2024-12-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Daniel Lewart wrote: > I did find 215 MiB of exact duplicate files. > ... > 24724624 Oct 30 10:07 firmware/firmware-atheros_20240909-2_all.deb > 24724624 Oct 30 10:07 > pool/non-free-firmware/f/firmware-nonfree/firmware-atheros_20240909-2_all.deb These two most probably share their content i

Bug#1067103: libisoburn1t64: should not depend on libburn4 nor libisofs6 after time_t transition

2024-03-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, being the one who usually prepares the releases, i am currently standing in hands-off position until the time_t change is completed. The package tracker is still complaining bitterly about the current intermediate state. Consider to re-open https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=

Bug#1062380: libisoburn: NMU diff for 64-bit time_t transition

2024-02-01 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i'm the upstream and help with preparing the Debian packages. So i assume that any needed action in this case is up to my sponsor Dominique Dumont (Cc'd). But: Are you aware that the effort to switch to 64 bit time_t is not worth much in a ISO 9660 producing software, even on amd64, as long

Bug#1062381: libisofs: NMU diff for 64-bit time_t transition

2024-02-01 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i'm the upstream and help with preparing the Debian packages. So i assume that any needed action in this case is up to my sponsor Dominique Dumont (Cc'd). But: Are you aware that the effort to switch to 64 bit time_t is not worth much in a ISO 9660 producing software, even on amd64, as long

Bug#982746: live-build: autopkgtest failure on arm64, armhf and ppc64el: Failed to prepare session write run

2021-02-14 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, this could be a bug in live-build. It seems to use "xorriso -as mkisofs" option -isohybrid-mbr on systems which have no PC-BIOS firmware and thus get no ISOLINUX BIOS bot equipment in the ISO. Line 69 in https://sources.debian.org/src/live-build/1:20210122/scripts/build/binary_iso/ adds -i

Bug#887831: jigdo-file: Jigdo .template file and resulting ISO are only verified by MD5

2019-10-22 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Antoine Beaupré wrote: > Severity set to 'grave' from 'normal' This is really overdone. See jigdo as a peculiar way of downloading the ISO with a MD5 check where e.g. wget has none at all. And as said, for now jigdo seems indispensible for the fat ISO sets. > If the ISO image generation is

Bug#887831: jigdo-file: Jigdo .template file and resulting ISO are only verified by MD5

2019-10-22 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > If jigdo would use the SHA256sum entries instead of the MD5 entries when > it is doing ISO assembly, then everyone could still fetch full DVD sets > or BD sized installation ISOs I am kindof the second-last jigdo export, but not at all with .deb entrails. Are you

Bug#929381: needs cdrecord binary which isn't in Debian

2019-05-22 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Debian's simpleburn depends among others on cdrskin. If it asks for cdrecord, then it has not been properly adapted to this dependency. A simple workaround would be to create a symbolic link sudo ln -s /usr/bin/cdrskin /usr/bin/cdrecord cdrskin understands many cdrecord options as of year

Bug#731806: debian-installer: FTBFS on sparc: genisoimage errors

2014-02-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > I'm not sure we want to continuously give it back until it builds (which > it might on schroeder, since it didn't fail there yet)... I would assume the problem is deterministic and depends on the exact tree of file names which is given to genisoimage as input. So adding a few names of empty

Bug#732717: growisofs - TRACKING SERVO FAILURE - Input/output error "

2013-12-21 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > isoinfo gave me this.. Looks like quite a normal bootable ISO 9660 filesystem image. Much like the Debian and Ubuntu ISOs which get burned to DVD all over the world. Still hard to believe that the problem should sit in this image and not in burner drive and medium. How much evidence do y

Bug#732717: growisofs - TRACKING SERVO FAILURE - Input/output error "

2013-12-21 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, (For some reason my subscription to this bug does not work. Better Cc: me.) > I guess this backup tool > creates iso's witch are not compattible with DVD file system. > (Universal Disk Format (UDF), ISO/IEC 13346 and/or ECMA The error message originally stems from the drive's firmware. I

Bug#732717: growisofs - TRACKING SERVO FAILURE - Input/output error "

2013-12-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > :-[ WRITE@LBA=538f0h failed with SK=4h/TRACKING SERVO FAILURE]: This is a problem between drive and medium. It does not necessary mean that either of them is bad. But at least the combination does not work properly. Try other media. If the problem persists, get another drive. Have a nice

Bug#731806: debian-installer: FTBFS on sparc: genisoimage errors

2013-12-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > genisoimage: Error: './tmp/miniiso/cd_tree/boot/.' and > './tmp/miniiso/cd_tree/boot/..' have the same ISO9660 name ''. > [...] > Probably some FS-dependent fun? Anyone would have a clue about it? Looks like an internal error of genisoimage. '.' should be mapped to a

Bug#718151: doxygen loops when passing "foo(>0)" to findParameterList

2013-08-04 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Helmut Grohne wrote: > As for the libburn maintainers, I suggest to change the comment in the > header to not include the verbatim string "burn_abort(>0)" in order to > not confuse doxygen. Done by http://www.libburnia-project.org/changeset/5122 Do you have more advise for me ? E.g. for t

Bug#718151: libburn: FTBFS: Failed to install docs

2013-08-03 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Matthias Klose wrote: > fix it in libburn or disable building the docs. > upstream did tell you that they didn't want to update that > for newer doxygen versions. If you mean me, as upstream of libburn, then you got me wrong. I am willing to help Debian packaging in any way. Just give me clea

Bug#718151: libburn: FTBFS: Failed to install docs

2013-07-29 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i am the upstream programmer of libburn. If i can do anything to help fixing the problem, please tell me. About the doxygen complaints (of which i am unsure whether they are the reason for the stalled build process): libbu

Bug#617409: brasero: Brasero corrupts all blank CD-R when burning

2012-10-31 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i see i made a mistake when writing: > The problem was introduced in october 2012 by It was introduced in october 2010, not 2012. Have a nice day :) Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@li

Bug#617409: brasero: Brasero corrupts all blank CD-R when burning

2012-10-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, a Brasero flaw was found in the course of Debian bug 688229. It would provide an explanation for the problems which are described here. Especially it is involved when burning directly to optical media and not involved when writing ISO filesystems to hard disk. The problem was introduced in oc

Bug#688229: Burning data DVD looks successful but mounting fails

2012-10-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > The log shows some Growisofs message and not the one I have. > Although, could it be that it is dependent on the libburn version? The libburn plugin was not used. Only the libisofs one. A run with growisofs as burn engine would also suffer from the bug we found in the libisofs plugin. But

Bug#688229: Burning data DVD looks successful but mounting fails

2012-10-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Paul Menzel wrote in his patch: > Substituting this command with the variable fixes the problem reported in > GNOME Bugzilla bug 655601. I have to stress that the found bug does _not_ explain the original report of https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=655601 (which is what i call the

Bug#688229: Burning data DVD looks successful but mounting fails

2012-10-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > 000 001 C D 0 0 1 001 \0 Yes. That is the start of a Primary Volume Descriptor block. Please mount the medium and use diff to compare the files in the image with their originals on hard disk. Just to be sure. (Mounting does not check all

Bug#688229: Burning data DVD looks successful but mounting fails

2012-10-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > - while (priv->libburn_src->read_xt (priv->libburn_src, buf, > sector_size) == sector_size) { > + while (read_bytes == sector_size) { > I am building it right now. Crossing fingers ... Have a nice day :) Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.deb

Bug#688229: Burning data DVD looks successful but mounting fails

2012-10-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, staring at lines 201, 202, and 216 of http://git.gnome.org/browse/brasero/tree/plugins/libburnia/burn-libisofs.c i realize that this loop drops every second block ! read_bytes = priv->libburn_src->read_xt (priv->libburn_src

Bug#688229: Burning data DVD looks successful but mounting fails

2012-10-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i have to correct myself: > > 004 002 C D 0 0 1 001 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 i wrote: > It should sit at block 17. > So it looks like we lose 17 blocks at start. Well, it sits now at block 8. So we lost 9 blocks before it. Have a nice day :) Thomas -- To UNSUBSC

Bug#688229: Burning data DVD looks successful but mounting fails

2012-10-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > I am also going to print out the sector size. (Or just use GDB.) The loop condition (read_bytes == sector_size) suggests that it must be 2048. Only this alignment is guaranteed for the output of libisofs. (Actually it would be a good reason for the 50 % bug if libisofs would not obey this

Bug#688229: 688229: hack to emulate drive

2012-10-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > + res = burn_drive_convert_fs_adr ("stdio:/tmp/my_emulated_drive, > libburn_device); Isn't there a quotation mark missing before the comma ? Have a nice day :) Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Bug#688229: Burning data DVD looks successful but mounting fails

2012-10-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i think i can spot a byte eating problem in http://git.gnome.org/browse/brasero/commit/?id=5ff86b48 resp. the master-branch commit http://git.gnome.org/browse/brasero/commit/?id=1b8397ee252df2d554682ca2d694d5937fbf6e39 -

Bug#688229: Burning data DVD looks successful but mounting fails with ISOFS: Unable to identify CD-ROM format.

2012-09-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > Could you please CC me I will try to remember. :) But maybe you better subscribe by a mail to 688229-subscr...@bugs.debian.org > Is there some way to simulate a burner to find out what happened? libburn would accept burner addresses like stdio:/tmp/my_emulated_drive which would behav

Bug#688229: Burning data DVD looks successful but mounting fails with ISOFS: Unable to identify CD-ROM format.

2012-09-22 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Paul Menzel wrote: > $ dd if=/dev/sr1 bs=2048 skip=16 count=1 | od -c > ... > 000 > \0 0 034 001 \0 \0 001 034 0 F 034 + \0 \0 + > 020 034 F p \t 023 022 1 ! \0 \0 \0 \0 001 \0 \0 001 > 040 034 \0 I \0 M \0 G \0 _ \0 2 \0 4 \0 2

Bug#688229: Burning data DVD looks successful but mounting fails with ISOFS: Unable to identify CD-ROM format.

2012-09-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > brasero (libisofs)DEBUG : Processed 2119108 of 2119108 KB (100 %) It went well, at least as far as libisofs was involved. So this is not the problem with premature end after 50 %. And it is not the riddling CD problem, where Brasero CDs are unreadable, whereas xorriso burned CDs ar

Bug#617409: brasero: Brasero corrupts all blank CD-R when burning (was: additional info)

2012-07-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, for the records: I managed to get my changes in burn-libburn.c into effect by copying from brasero-2.30.3/plugins/libburnia/.libs/libbrasero-libburn.so to /usr/lib/brasero-0/plugins/libbrasero-libburn.so I assume it is better to achieve this the Debian way. At least i could verify that i

Bug#617409: brasero: Brasero corrupts all blank CD-R when burning (was: additional info)

2012-07-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, on the risk to discourage Simon from testing SAO, i have to report a fact that weakens my TAO/SAO theory in his special case. Brasero writes TAO too, when copying an image from hard disk to CD, or when storing a newly generated image intermediately on hard disk. I had hoped to find the final

Bug#617409: brasero: Brasero corrupts all blank CD-R when burning (was: additional info)

2012-07-07 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > get the source package (apt-get source) and just edit > plugins/libburnia/burn-libburn.c Does it still have that name ? Are there other occasions of burn_write_opts_set_write_type() in 3.4 ? (Meanwhile i stirred up the system enough to get this: Message from syslogd@debian2 at Jul 7 21

Bug#617409: brasero: Brasero corrupts all blank CD-R when burning (was: additional info)

2012-07-07 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Simon Wenner wrote: > xorriso seems to work as expected. Your report and the one of Alain Rpnpif support the theory that your drives dislike CD write type TAO with your particular CD media or in general. I failed to force Brasero into using the other write type. (Details below.) I see in Bra

Bug#617409: brasero: Brasero corrupts all blank CD-R when burning (was: additional info)

2012-07-06 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > I get that growisofs is not recommended for burning CD-R[W] It flatly refuses: :-( /dev/sr0: media is not recognized as recordable DVD: A The growisofs runs were surely with DVD or BD. > simple solution is to remove the offending plugin from brasero plugin > directory ("install_path"/l

Bug#617409: brasero: Brasero corrupts all blank CD-R when burning (was: additional info)

2012-07-06 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > - Disabling the option "Burn the image directly without saving to disc" > (see screen shot) creates a working CDs (that can be ejected > automatically too). I will have to try at least the eject aspect. > But anyway, I updated to brasero 3.4.1 and I can still reproduce the bug. How did y

Bug#617409: brasero: Brasero corrupts all blank CD-R when burning (was: additional info)

2012-07-06 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > Hm, did you try to mess up with gconf-editor Not yet. But i try now:. I do not see an alternative to apps|brasero|config|priority|libisofs-image Well i now set apps|brasero|config|priority|growisofs-burn 1 This did not change anything. Now growisofs process to see while the DVD burn

Bug#617409: brasero: Brasero corrupts all blank CD-R when burning (was: additional info)

2012-07-06 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Alain Rpnpif wrote: > This works fine for CR-RW only but not > with CD-R (I have crashed 2 CD-R to confirm). > With CD-R, some files are full of 00H. This supports the theory of poor compatibility of drive and media. Blank CD-RW and CD-R are handled identically by burn software. They make no

Bug#617409: brasero: Brasero corrupts all blank CD-R when burning (was: additional info)

2012-07-06 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Paul Menzel wrote: > Until then I suggest to not bother anymore with that problem. It gives libisofs a bad name. Probably the squeeze Brasero is two notches too old. This comment could explain why: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=655601#c5 > ... > Nico Zanferrari 2012-01-1

Bug#617409: brasero: Brasero corrupts all blank CD-R when burning (was: additional info)

2012-07-06 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, in order to apply George's patch anyway, i have tried to disable libburn so that growisofs would be used with DVD. No success. Both, growisofs and libburn are enabled but also greyed, so that i cannot change their checkboxes. Whatever, just in case it brings any new insight: $ cd brasero-2

Bug#617409: brasero: Brasero corrupts all blank CD-R when burning (was: additional info)

2012-07-06 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i had a look at brasero build logs and have to drop the appealing theory of sizeof(off_t) == 4. The compiler gets a sufficient macro to avoid this: -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 I now managed to build Brasero brasero-2.30.3-2 from the Debian sources. It shows no differences to the previously instal

Bug#617409: brasero: Brasero corrupts all blank CD-R when burning (was: additional info)

2012-07-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > Command for what? For building the Brasero that was downloaded as source. dpkg-buildpackage seems to be the right one. > But as George put, the problems are about Data projects, that > means - as far as I understand - to choose some files from your disk and > burn them directly to a CD/DV

Bug#617409: brasero: Brasero corrupts all blank CD-R when burning (was: additional info)

2012-07-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, George Danchev wrote: > $ dpkg-checkbuilddeps # to check you have all build-dependencies installed > $ dpkg-buildpackage Ok. The messages from remnant root-owned result files tell me that this is indeed 2.30.3-2. dpkg-source: error: cannot write brasero_2.30.3-2.dsc: Permission denied Aft

Bug#617409: brasero: Brasero corrupts all blank CD-R when burning (was: additional info)

2012-07-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > PS: Somehow the Debian bug report address was not in CC but it was > archived [1] anyway. Did you put it in BCC? Anyway, I added it back to > the CC list. I thought i addressed my mails To: 617...@bugs.debian.org Cc: all others. but To: shows up with rpn...@free.fr. I am using a halfwa

Bug#617409: brasero: Brasero corrupts all blank CD-R when burning (was: additional info)

2012-07-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, George Danchev wrote: > Thomas (or anyone else), could you please try brasero on your squeeze box (I > currently don't have any burners at reach), Ok, for once ... :)) I will cry on your shoulder if it freezes my good old fvwm display. Actually i avoided trying myself because i do not want t

Bug#617409: brasero: Brasero corrupts all blank CD-R when burning (was: additional info)

2012-07-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Josselin Mouette wrote: > That would be brasero-list: > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/brasero-list Is there a chance that we could work together to find out what's wrong ? If not George Danchev's patch already brings insight, that is. Released libisofs-1.2.2 would be a good test b

Bug#617409: brasero: Brasero corrupts all blank CD-R when burning (was: additional info)

2012-07-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Paul Menzel wrote: > So unfortunately it looks like there is no list for Brasero and you need > to use the GNOME Bugzilla bug tracker. Well, there is a list, the last entry is of january 2012, and it complains about the burn errors which seem to have emerged in spring 2011. https://mail.gno

Bug#617409: brasero: Brasero corrupts all blank CD-R when burning (was: additional info)

2012-07-04 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i am currently the developer of libburn and libisofs. > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=655601 I know about such problems, but i do not know how to get into a discussion with Brasero developers. My impression is that the libisofs plugin causes libisofs to end prematurely. libburn