Re: Bug#333858: Proposed improved patch for yaird

2005-10-17 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 23:57:59 +0200 Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 10:35:45PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > But please wait doing too much about that. I'd like to have it setup > >

Re: Bug#333858: Proposed improved patch for yaird

2005-10-17 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
ed. Oh, you not only read my mind, but steal my focus away from RL too :-) Thanks for the offer. I have now joined the channel, but really is sceptical on using IRC as I feel it distracts me too much. So even if I seem online, please drop me an email if you want my attention on that scre

Re: Ramdisk generation tool migration and 2.6.14-rc4 status report (Was: Bringing the 2.6.13 (and beyond) kernel to sid, solving ramdisk generations issues and stuff.)

2005-10-17 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
t you allow the -r option but seem to not actually do anything about it - contrary to what's documented in the manpage. Also, I noticed some unquoted strings - would you mind me going over it and tighten up - or perhaps rather do it yourself? - - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og

IRC (Was: Bug#333858: Proposed improved patch for yaird)

2005-10-17 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
rks simultanously :-( - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDU3afn7DbMsAkQLgRAtxiAJ9aC1H8a0eZ8QdfV3e

Bug#332559: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686: Serial not working

2005-10-18 Thread Jonas Bevren
Horms, Thanks for the attention. Your note mentions a kernel that doesnt exist (2.6.26-5.99.sarge1). however, I made a guess at your intent being the 2.6.12-5.99 kernel, and tested it. I recorded a session log from the system. It has a bios-managed serial console, so an ansi viewer would be o

Re: Bug#333858: Proposed improved patch for yaird

2005-10-18 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 07:54:38 +0200 Erik van Konijnenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 09:57:49AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 23:57:59 +0200 Sven Luther > > <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Bug#333858: Proposed improved patch for yaird

2005-10-18 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 11:51:43 +0200 Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 11:31:28AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > What do you think? > > &

Re: Bug#333858: Proposed improved patch for yaird

2005-10-19 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 22:31:06 +0200 maximilian attems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > One of the things that worries me is what the dispute last night > > (european time) between you

Re: Bug#333858: Proposed improved patch for yaird

2005-10-19 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
de of debian-private ;-) Feel free to quote me: I don't blog. - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: Kernel-package, fix version 2 ...

2005-10-22 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
The only requirement is that generators do not lie about success in > their exit status, but no flags are needed. This works for yaird probing hardware at build time, but not tools like mkinitramfs generating a (more or less) global ramdisk image. - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - ideal

Re: Kernel-package, fix version 2 ...

2005-10-22 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Giving only a limited timeframe to raise concerns is not the Debian way. But perhaps the Kernel maintainers has adopted a different group dynamic internally? (I sure don't like how Maximilian and Jeff handled this either, but that's another issue!) - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard

Re: Kernel-package, fix version 2 ...

2005-10-22 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
27;s not do complex stuff. For the longer term it is not so obvious to me that we must use a scripting language favored by Sven. - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti

Kernel capabilities (Was: Kernel-package, fix version 2 ...)

2005-10-22 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-evms applied then Sesse would need to manually add a new file /boot/linux-2.6.15-1/local containing the single word "linux-devmapper". A little down the road then... 1) Kernel patch packages would hint about added capabilities 1) kernel-package would recognize and includ

Bug#335230: Yaird should support booting from an EVMS (local, at least) volume

2005-10-22 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
unsupported. Kind regards, - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDWrchn7DbMsAkQLgRAsQ0AJ91m4ynW

Bug#335230: Yaird should support booting from an EVMS (local, at least) volume

2005-10-22 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
name in a private mail. > > If I seemed aggressive I apologize, maybe is because of my bad > english, I'm really sorry. Nothing wrong, so no need to apologize. Nothing wrong with your language skills either, as far as I have noticed. I am not a native speaker either, by the way. Kind reg

Re: Kernel-package, fix version 2 ...

2005-10-22 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
lease do not bloat the postinst code! Separate it into a helper tool instead! - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -BEGIN PGP S

Re: Kernel-package, fix version 2 ...

2005-10-23 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 08:08:50 +0200 Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 03:00:12AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 23:50:10 +0200 > > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

Re: Final resolution for the kernel-package ramdisk handling project ...

2005-10-23 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
udocode[1], except the use of debconf. Your description above ignores legacy ramdisk tools when part of a list[2]. We agreed on including legacy tools even when not explicitly set in /etc/kernel-kpg.conf. With this one exception, I agree with you, and thank you for the fine announcement. - Jonas

Re: Final resolution for the kernel-package ramdisk handling project ...

2005-10-23 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 20:31:03 +0200 Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 07:57:09PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Your description above ignores legacy ramdisk tools when part of a > > list[2]. W

Re: Kernel-package, fix version 2 ...

2005-10-24 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
of this, and also look at the perl coding style already used by Manoj and mimic that as I best can. Would you like that, or would you rather do this yourself? If you agree, I will post so SVN but not upload a new NMU without your acknowledgement, Sven. - Jonas [1] I do not claim that we agreed _no

Re: 2.6.14-rc5 uploaded to experimental available at http://people.debian.org/~luther/2.6.14-rc5

2005-10-25 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
~luther/2.6.14-rc5/ ./ ^^ Lines are broken, and no Packages file found :-( - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: 2.6.14-rc5 uploaded to experimental available at http://people.debian.org/~luther/2.6.14-rc5

2005-10-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
ld this perhaps be the problem Bdale mentioned yesterday on #debian-kernel about sound problems after sleep? - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -BEGIN PGP SIGNATU

Bug#336378: yaird fails to prepare an initrd image when vesafb-tng is present

2005-10-29 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
ow look like this: identifier : /[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9_-]*/ and I want you to try changing them to this: identifier : /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ Regards, - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http:/

Bug#336392: Acknowledgement (linux-image-2.6.14-1-686: 2.6.14 doesn't boot after dist-upgrade from 2.6.12)

2005-10-30 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
is running in VMware. Do you use initramfs-tools (mkinitramfs) or yaird (mkinitrd.yaird) to generate your initial ramdisk? If you don't know, then check which of them got pulled in when installing your new kernel package, and also provide us the content of your /etc/kernel-img.conf.

Bug#336378: yaird fails to prepare an initrd image when vesafb-tng is present

2005-10-30 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
|| $value =~ /^"[-a-zA-Z0-9@,.:_\/= ]*"$/ > > OK this works for me, the other suggestion causes some other errors. > Anyway thank you both. Thanks. Erik is upstream author of yaird so knows what he is doing (unlike me :-P ) - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard

Bug#336392: Acknowledgement (linux-image-2.6.14-1-686: 2.6.14 doesn't boot after dist-upgrade from 2.6.12)

2005-10-30 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 retitle 336392 yaird silently fails with VMware reassign 336392 yaird thanks On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 11:16:58 +0100 Olaf van der Spek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 02:14:49 +0200 > &

Bug#336440: linux-image-2.6.14-1-k7: Missing dependency on cpio.

2005-10-30 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
; that cpio was automatically installed as well, but since yaird > doesn't have this dependency the kernel fails to install in this > specific case. Thanks. It's a bug in yaird then. Reassigning... - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tl

Bug#336450: linux-image-2.6.14-1-686: 2.6.14-1-686 doesn't support vga=795 option

2005-10-30 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
l version. You can also try installing initramfs-tools, uninstalling yaird, run "dpkg-reconfigure " and reboot with new kernel. - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eot

Bug#336450: linux-image-2.6.14-1-686: 2.6.14-1-686 doesn't support vga=795 o

2005-10-30 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
ls. So if you could boot an old kernel with initrd ramdisk and kernel options "init=/bin/sh rw", and run the following command: /sbin/lsmod > /mkinitrd-modules.dump Then do the same with same kernel but yaird ramdisk, and (blindly) dump to a separate file. Then post both du

Bug#336509: linux-image-2.6.14-1-686: Install fails: "yaird error: malformed line in /etc/fstab:9 (fatal)"

2005-10-30 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
/mnt/cdrw iso9660 noauto,user,ro > > ...no, my cdrw drive shouldn't influence kernel upgrades. I suspect this is the case. Could you try adding " 0 0" to the end of that line and do a "dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.14-1-686", to see if that helps? - Jonas

Bug#336518: yaird: document using NFS Root

2005-10-30 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
rootfs. Another issue is NIC drivers to include. When run on the NFS server as is usually the case with lessdisks, by default only the driver for the server NIC is included, which probably isn't what you want. Attached is my current approach to running lessdisks with yaird. - Jonas - -

Bug#336450: linux-image-2.6.14-1-686: 2.6.14-1-686 doesn't support vga=795 o

2005-10-30 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
ds a whole lot less modules. If I had to guess I'd say it > might be all those frame buffer modules that mkinitrd version loads > but yaird doesn't. Try editing /etc/yaird/Default.cfg and add the following: MODULE vesafb Then regenerate ramdisk and reboot (but sounds like I don&#x

Bug#336514: yaird: falls down when new scsi/sata disks are added

2005-10-30 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
o remove the trailing "\" in the line above). - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDZVl

Bug#336450: linux-image-2.6.14-1-686: 2.6.14-1-686 doesn't support vga=795 o

2005-10-31 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
conf, but I don't know if that's the right way. Yaird upstream (Erik) is listening here as well - I'll let him decide if fbcon should perhaps be loaded by default... Thanks alot for testing! - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Websi

Bug#335230: More Code also Random, but less :-) (was bug #335230, EVMS support to yaird)

2005-10-31 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
ug this time, dmraid is not supported by any tool in > debian, so no one can have his system not available updating > linux-ramdisk-tool... :-) Please file lots of bugreports! Just pay good attention to setting the importance flag appropriately :-) - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - ide

Bug#336450: linux-image-2.6.14-1-686: 2.6.14-1-686 doesn't support vga=795 o

2005-10-31 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
have thought so either, but the problems seem to > have appeared at about the same time that the change was > made (2.6.13), so I suspect a link. Isn't it simply the change of ramdisk tools? fbcon was always included with initrd-tools but not by either of the newer tools. If so, the

Bug#336514: yaird: falls down when new scsi/sata disks are added

2005-10-31 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 19:06:09 -0500 Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 12:37:49AM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > In your case it would make sense to only have the image tied to the > > UUI

Bug#336566: yaird error: error running modprobe auto (fatal) when installing linux-image-2.6.14-1-k7

2005-10-31 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 21:59:55 +1300 Srdjan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: yaird > Version: 0.0.11-10 > Severity: important > > > Please provide more info. - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Inter

Bug#336585: yaird: The fs_freq and fs_passno fields in /etc/fstab are optional

2005-10-31 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
line 49 of /usr/lib/yaird/perl/FsTab.pm suggest that the > author was aware that these were optional fields but I thought a bug > report was appropriate to stop the problem falling through the cracks. They are optional only? And upstream knew about it? Hmm - thanks for reporting this! - J

Bug#336514: yaird: falls down when new scsi/sata disks are added

2005-10-31 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 11:48:31 -0500 Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 05:43:00PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 12:37:49AM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > >

Bug#336514: yaird: falls down when new scsi/sata disks are added

2005-10-31 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 12:47:58 -0500 Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 06:09:28PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Ah, the mknod call. Yes, you are right. > > > > Erik: Recent versi

Bug#336514: yaird: falls down when new scsi/sata disks are added

2005-10-31 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 13:20:32 -0500 Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 07:18:01PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > O

Bug#336566: Same here

2005-10-31 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
> Please advise if you need some particular info. Thanks, Jon - I understand now the title of the original bugreport (and have adjusted it) :-) - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http:

Bug#336598: cannot parse /etc/fstab file with SMB share

2005-10-31 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
should fix this issue. Looks like a simple oversight from upstream (he noticed they are irrelevant but checks for them anyway). - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm --

Bug#336600: Processed: I guess yaird should resolve failures early?

2005-10-31 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
trd-tools... For 2) see draft at http://wiki.debian.org/FlexibleKernelHandling Ideally both should be met, off course :-) - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -BEGIN PG

Bug#336612: yaird: Fails to parse fstab

2005-10-31 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
her lines with the same problem. Looks like that to me too. So merging with the other bugreports about the same... I posted a patch as well, so check that merged bugreport if interested before next yaird release is out. - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf

Bug#336636: fails on fstab line without optional fields

2005-10-31 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
have > such problems, and mkinitrd.yaird should not either. I agree. Merging with the other bugreports already filed about this issue. - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org

Bug#336638: linux-image-2.6.14-1-686: acpi broken in Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook S-Series laptop

2005-10-31 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
(if you were on a > root console, you can blindly type "reboot" and it will reboot), but > the screen is dead. Is this in a text console, or within X11? If text console, then this might perhaps be related to other framebuffer-related bugreports. (not sure what to do about it, th

Bug#336598: cannot parse /etc/fstab file with SMB share

2005-10-31 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
ause of mismatching severity ...which means all my later merges inspired by this one will fail as well - I just haven't realized yet due to the slow response :-P - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden e

Bug#336585: yaird: The fs_freq and fs_passno fields in /etc/fstab are optional

2005-10-31 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 21:16:49 +0100 Erik van Konijnenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 04:51:11PM +, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 17:45 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > An

Bug#336514: yaird: falls down when new scsi/sata disks are added

2005-11-01 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Even if I had known > > that yaird would be such a problem before I did it, there's no > > obvious way to generate a new initrd for any configuration other > > than my current one. > > The plan for this is to modify the d-i rescue mode to be able to > regenerate the

Bug#336585: yaird: The fs_freq and fs_passno fields in /etc/fstab are optional

2005-11-01 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
tanding that Erik wants to lean on specs, rather than woodoo. I pointed out earlier (in this or one of the other bugreports?) to the manpage of fstab that says that "fourth field [..] contains at least the type of mount". Those mount points you have on your system - should they be mounte

Bug#335230: More Code also Random, but less :-)

2005-11-01 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
> Regarding dm-raid: lets discuss that *after* we get this working ... I think that suggestion was in a different bugreport - if so, then the bugreporter there most probably don't hear your comment here :-) - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +4

Bug#336450: linux-image-2.6.14-1-686: 2.6.14-1-686 doesn't support vga=795 o

2005-11-01 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 07:14:45 +0100 Erik van Konijnenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:42:13AM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 00:08:24 + "Richard Burton" >

Bug#336509: linux-image-2.6.14-1-686: Install fails: "yaird error: malformed line in /etc/fstab:9 (fatal)"

2005-11-01 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
advise users that their 'fstab' needs fixing. Next release of yaird will be less finicky (assuming "finicky" is the more polite form of "anal" - I am not a native speaker). thanks for the other suggestions - they may make sense for other similar situations: yaird is gene

Bug#336566: yaird error: error running modprobe auto (fatal) when installing linux-image-2.6.14-1-k7

2005-11-01 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
hould solve the problem. I believe so too. But just for the record: avoiding "auto" is just a workaround, not a bugfix: yaird really should support both "auto" and "ext3,ext2". - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136

Bug#336585: yaird: The fs_freq and fs_passno fields in /etc/fstab are optional

2005-11-01 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
for this option to be mandatory mandatory. If options are by definition optional then what is the proper word for "options" that are mandatory? Mandates? Naah... - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ -

Bug#336585: yaird: The fs_freq and fs_passno fields in /etc/fstab are optional

2005-11-01 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 12:15:21 +0100 Mattia Dongili <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 11:23:45AM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 21:53:34 +0100 > > Mattia Dongili <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Bug#336566: yaird error: error running modprobe auto (fatal) when installing linux-image-2.6.14-1-k7

2005-11-01 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 13:04:54 +0100 Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 12:41:48PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 09:11:03 +0100 > > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Bug#336636: fails on fstab line without optional fields

2005-11-01 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 14:48:47 +0100 Mattia Dongili <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [oh! I'm readding [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 01:53:01PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 12:03:09 +0100

Bug#336567: postinst fails runnng modprobe on 'ext3,ext2'

2005-11-01 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
ne): ramdisk = /usr/sbin/mkinitrd /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs /usr/sbin/mkinitrd.yaird - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -

Bug#336518: yaird: document using NFS Root

2005-11-01 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 19:52:52 -0700 Vagrant Cascadian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 11:51:11PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Currently, MOUNTDIR does not support nfsroot so needs to be > > com

Bug#336518: yaird: document using NFS Root

2005-11-01 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 22:24:05 +0100 Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 09:03:37PM +0100, Erik van Konijnenburg wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 06:02:57PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > On M

Bug#336567: postinst fails runnng modprobe on 'ext3,ext2'

2005-11-01 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 17:27:42 +0100 Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 04:11:19PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 09:03:23 + > > Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#336567: postinst fails runnng modprobe on 'ext3,ext2'

2005-11-01 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
available for redhat as well. Is debconf available for redhat? If not, then the use of debconf either needs to be separated from the tool itself (what I call the packaging - call it whatever you like) or indeed it gets rather complicated! - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet

Bug#336636: fails on fstab line without optional fields

2005-11-01 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
ntly mounted. /etc/fstab shows what is intended to be mounted. So switching to using a different rootfs for the next mount would not be possible if relying on what's mounted now. - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones

Bug#336636: fails on fstab line without optional fields

2005-11-01 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 22:10:31 +0100 Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 10:08:11PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 17:37:19 +0100 > > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Bug#336636: fails on fstab line without optional fields

2005-11-01 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
disk, with the relaxed one as a fallback (and if the strict image creation failed the relaxed one could be offered as default instead - allowing the user to take a chance). - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ -

Bug#336988: yaird: fails on beige G3, unrecognised 'mesh' device

2005-11-01 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
a policy violation: if tool fails it should clean up after itself. Thanks for spotting that! - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Ver

Bug#336518: yaird: document using NFS Root

2005-11-01 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
7;s an idea: Check the permissions for the ramdisk image. yaird only allows root to see the images (why, Erik?) and tftpd accesses them as nobody... - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://ww

Bug#337279: yaird: /boot != /tmp

2005-11-03 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
; yaird is attempting to use it as /tmp, and failing horribly as it > > runs out of inodes: > A tmpfs could also be used for that, could it not ? The problem is at ramdisk build time, not at boot time, so no need for fancy stuff: Better use plain standard /tmp I guess. - Jonas

Bug#337293: linux-image-2.6.14-1-k7: kernel doesn't boot...

2005-11-03 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
at I noticed you have installed already) then add the following to /etc/kernel-img.conf (all in one line): ramdisk = /usr/sbin/mkinitrd /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs /usr/sbin/mkinitrd.yaird Even if you succeed with initramfs-tools I would appreciate your additional info to understand and fix the failure w

Re: kernel 2.6.14 vega problem

2005-11-03 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
ix this problem? > > load fbcon. > initramfs-tools should do that for you. ...as should yaird, since 0.0.11-11. So no matter what ramdisk generator you use, all that it should take is to make sure your packages are up-to-date and then run dpkg-reconfigure - Jonas - -- * Jonas Sme

Bug#337415: linux-image-2.6.14-1-k7: Fails to parse "LABEL=/" in /etc/fstab

2005-11-04 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
initramfs-tools) capable of creating initramfs images required for the most recent Linux 2.6.x kernels. The classical tool, initrd-tools, only supports creating the older initrd images primarily used for Linux 2.4.x kernels. - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt *

Bug#337479: yaird: should use /usr/bin/perl, not /usr/local/bin/perl

2005-11-04 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
s not exist. I cannot reproduce. Please describe in detail how you rebuild the package. I suspect this to either be bad packaging routines on your end or bugs in the packaging tools you use. - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://d

Bug#337625: linux-image-2.6.14-1-k7: Framebuffer module for NVIDIA card not loaded in initrd

2005-11-05 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
e time of initially installing the kernel. Reassigning to initramfs-tools. > Regenerating initrd with yaird solved the problem. Yes, this has been fixed with most recent version of yaird. If this is fixed in recent initramfs-tools as well, I believe this bug can be closed. - Jonas -

Bug#337625: linux-image-2.6.14-1-k7: Framebuffer module for NVIDIA card not loaded in initrd

2005-11-05 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 5 Nov 2005 17:54:46 +0100 Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sounds like you had initramfs-tools and not yaird installed at the > > time of initially installing the kernel. > > > > Reassigning to

Re: Bug#336732: /lib/modules/*/build symlink should be ignored when checking if kernel is installed

2005-11-06 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
the years, k-p has been > more and more losing touch with the reality of the official kernel > packages, ...so he now suggests to move this out to a hook instead of hardcoded in k-p. I certainly feel this is sane! - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +

Bug#336988: yaird: ignoring 'mesh' doesn't allow root device to be found

2005-11-06 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
ilesystem. Whoops - that should teach me not to make too hast conclusions. I'll leave it to Erik to look at this then... - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -BE

Bug#337724: Yaird, grub and d-i should also support dmraid devices.

2005-11-06 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
nt support for it. > Patch included, diffed from yaird-evms archive from the above dbug > page. Thanks. I'll let Erik look at it before applying.. - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden e

Re: Bug#336732: /lib/modules/*/build symlink should be ignored when checking if kernel is installed

2005-11-06 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 6 Nov 2005 20:04:53 +0100 Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 08:02:27PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Sun, 6

Re: Bug#336732: /lib/modules/*/build symlink should be ignored when checking if kernel is installed

2005-11-07 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 6 Nov 2005 21:42:56 +0100 Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 09:05:49PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > I have heard this mentioned several times now, but without any > > details. Could y

Re: kernel-package and the build symlink ... I don't think we can continue to use k-p under current conditions.

2005-11-07 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
valid reference for source location, but I do not know if that location is universally agreed upon. And it seems to me that Manoj is not breaking things, but refusing to _change_ (and possibly improve) something that is not broken. - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkite

Re: Bug#336732: /lib/modules/*/build symlink should be ignored when checking if kernel is installed

2005-11-07 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
dule-building summarized by Sven [1] then I believe the answer is no. If instead the scheme includes the adjusted[3] plan for module-building [2] then I believe the answer is yes. I would appreciate more info on that scheme[4] - and would be happy to put it on wiki if it is not alr

Care to comment on plan for module building?

2005-11-07 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Could you please have a look and tell me what you think (or perhaps simply edit that wiki page directly)? I honestly have never ever used module-assistant, but suspect you have a lot of knowledge on ugly makefiles, and quite possibly have valuable input on this. Regards, - Jonas - -- * Jonas

Re: Care to comment on plan for module building?

2005-11-07 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
either directly if you so like, or by dropping an email to the list or yell out on IRC). - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: G

Why I wanted Sven to fuck himself (Was: Care to comment on plan for module building?)

2005-11-07 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 18:45:30 +0100 Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I still don't get why Jonas so suddenly took of with you and told me > to go fuck myself Let me illustrate through quoting IRC, since you seem to prefer tha

Bug#337855: yaird fails with error "Could not read output for /usr/bin/ldd ... (fatal)"

2005-11-07 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 21:05:12 +0100 Erik van Konijnenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As an aside, /bin/busybox is a dynamic executable on this sid box; > where did your version originate? Probably installed the package busybox-static ;-

Bug#338030: yaird error: Could not read output for /sbin/lvdisplay -c (fatal)

2005-11-07 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
52097:-1:0:0:254:0 > /dev/sda1: Checksum error > Couldn't read volume group metadata. > Volume group "vg0" not found lvdisplay belongs to lvm2 I believe. Why do you file this bugreport against yaird? It seems to me that you have problems with your LVM headers or somet

Bug#338030: yaird error: Could not read output for /sbin/lvdisplay -c (fatal)

2005-11-08 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Tell me if you've already opended another bugreport, and I'll either close this or reassign depending on your act. Regards, - - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti

Bug#278729: kernel-image-2.6-k7: kernel-image-2.6*-k7* and 2.6*-686* should

2005-11-08 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
id kernel-package? If so, I suggest using that instead of bloating linux-2.6 packaging unnecessarily. - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE---

Bug#338030: yaird error: Could not read output for /sbin/lvdisplay -c (fatal)

2005-11-08 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 reassign 338030 lvm2 retitle 338030 lvdisplay checksum error thanks On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 07:15:41 -0600 Bill Gatliff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jonas: > > Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > >On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 21:43:34 -0600 &g

Bug#338185: stay on 2.6.12 for now

2005-11-08 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
mfs-tools. Monitor this bug for status info. Well, there's already one beneral make-sure-this-does-not-enter-sarge bug opened a few days ago (by Sven, I believe), so better clarify what's special about this one :-) - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt

Comments on module packaging

2005-11-08 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
27;s just because the package is work-in-progress, right? - Jonas [1] http://wiki.debian.org/KernelModulesPackaging - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -BEGIN PGP SIGNATU

Bug#338185: stay on 2.6.12 for now

2005-11-09 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 9 Nov 2005 08:27:49 +0100 Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 01:51:53AM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > retitle 338185 ia64 has problems footprinting initramfs > > thanks > >

Bug#336471: still appears broken.

2005-11-09 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
B_MATROX_MYSTIQUE=y > > CONFIG_FB_MATROX_G=y > > CONFIG_FB_MATROX_I2C=m > > CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MAVEN=m > > CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MULTIHEAD=y > > CONFIG_FB_RADEON_OLD=m > > CONFIG_FB_RADEON=m > > CONFIG_FB_RADEON_I2C=y > > > < CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CO

Bug#337479: yaird: should use /usr/bin/perl, not /usr/local/bin/perl

2005-11-10 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
does not count as "messing up the system". > > > > Yes, sorry. I was thinking of a lot of silly corner cases when I > > wrote that (I hit the same issue when playing with ./configure and > > stuff so that's what I had in mind in the first place). > > >

Bug#327762: yaird: includes (unnecessary?) psmouse module in generated image.

2005-11-10 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
es of 0.0.11, configuration files are properly marked as such, and moved below /etc/yaird. Lowering the severity of this bugreport, as it is now officially configurable to avoid these modules (but a nicer default behaviour possibly still wanted). - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og In

Bug#336928: yaird should use /etc/mtab or the mount output to determine the filesystem, instead of fstab

2005-11-10 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
e plug on this one...! - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDc7bYn7DbMsAkQLgRAtRiAJ9xFvI4ERCIgZ7E/L

Bug#336392: Acknowledgement (linux-image-2.6.14-1-686: 2.6.14 doesn't boot after dist-upgrade from 2.6.12)

2005-11-10 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 12:01:28 +0100 Olaf van der Spek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > What version of yaird? > > ii yaird [linux-initramfs-tool] 0.0.11-9 Yet Another mkInitRD Oh - I must've

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