Bug#1094950: live-task-extra: not installable due to missing dnsutils

2025-02-01 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
Package: live-task-extra Version: 13.0.2 Severity: serious Your package depends on "dnsutils", which is not available anymore. Please switch to "bind9-dnsutils". Chris

Bug#1094357: live-boot: please release

2025-01-27 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
Source: live-boot Version: 1:20240525.1 X-Debbugs-CC: t...@grml.org Dear live-boot Maintainers, please stamp a new release from git and upload it to Debian unstable. We'd like to use the newly contributed features in Grml (a Debian-derivative) soon. Thanks, Chris

Bug#1043133: Patch which fixes the bug for me -> real fix already exists in git

2023-08-06 Thread Chris Ward
, or that something here should be done a different way; I just hunted for "firmware-linux" and dummied out all the references that I found. Chris Ward. On Sun, 6 Aug 2023 at 17:54, Roland Clobus wrote: > > Hello Chris, > > On 06/08/2023 17:19, Chris Ward wrote: > >

Bug#1043133: Patches fixed

2023-08-06 Thread Chris Ward
# 20230806 tjcw Already in base linux with debian 12.1 + #if [ $(apt-cache show "^firmware-linux$" 2> /dev/null | grep "^Package:" | wc -l) -eq 1 ] + #then + # FIRMWARE_PACKAGES="${FIRMWARE_PACKAGES} firmware-linux" + #fi Firmware_List_From_Contents "${LB_PARENT_MIRROR_CHROOT}" "${LB_PARENT_DISTRIBUTION_CHROOT}" "${LB_PARENT_ARCHIVE_AREAS}" Chris Ward

Bug#1043133: Patch which fixes the bug for me

2023-08-06 Thread Chris Ward
The following fixes the bug for me. It may need adjusting so that it can work both for debian 12.0 and previous, and for debian 12.11 where 'firmware-linux' is no longer a separate item. The patch to binary_rootfs fixes a bug that I reported previously. diff --git a/./binary_rootfs b/home/tjcw/li

Bug#1043133: Candidate fix

2023-08-06 Thread Chris Ward
FIRMWARE_PACKAGES="${FIRMWARE_PACKAGES} firmware-linux" /usr/lib/live/build/installer_debian-installer-        #fi /usr/lib/live/build/installer_debian-installer- tjcw@debian:~/lb$ and now I can run the live builds that I want to run Chris Ward.

Bug#1043133: live-build fails with debian 12.1 becuase it expects linux-firmware

2023-08-06 Thread Chris Ward
Package: live-build Version: 1:20230502 Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: t...@cantab.net Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? I installed debian 12.1 in a VM and installed the live-build package * W

Re: Bug#1037550: installation-reports: Command /usr/sbin/bootloader-config failed to finish in 600 seconds.

2023-06-13 Thread Chris Turner
Thank you for the clarification. On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 12:50 PM Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Chris Turner (2023-06-14): > > I beg your pardon, it was > > > > > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/debian-live-12.0.0-amd64-cinnamon.is

Bug#1032408: Fixing the patch

2023-03-06 Thread Chris Ward
I had my test parameters wrong; '-s' tests for size > 0, '-S' tests for socket, '-L' tests for sym-link. I think the intended test is '-e', file exists; and so the required patch is tjcw@debian:/usr/lib/live/build$ git diff binary_rootfs.0 binary_rootfs diff --git a/binary_rootfs.0 b/binary_rootf

Bug#1032408: Test should maybe be '-l' rather than '-s'

2023-03-06 Thread Chris Ward
As coded, there is a test '-s /etc/mtab'. This tests whether the item is a socket; it looks like the test should be '-l /etc/mtab' which tests whether the item is a symbolic link.

Bug#1032408: Patch

2023-03-06 Thread Chris Ward
This patch (to /usr/lib/live/build/binary_rootfs) resolves the problem when building bookworm live isos on a bookworm host system. I don't know if it is right for other environments. 109,113c109,113 < if ! Chroot chroot "test -s /etc/mtab" <

Bug#1032408: More information

2023-03-06 Thread Chris Ward
A full log of the failing build is here http://tjcw.freeshell.org/live-build/basic-bookworm.nohup.out . The error message is a few lines before the end of this. I get the same failure if I try 'ext2' or 'ext3' for filesystem type.

Bug#1032408: live-build: live build fails for bookworm release making ext4 filesystem

2023-03-06 Thread Chris Ward
Package: live-build Version: 1:20230131 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: t...@cantab.net Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? I wanted to build a 'live' iso with an ext4 file system instead of squashfs, a

Bug#1031677: More information -- problem specifying ext4 as the chroot-filesystem

2023-03-05 Thread Chris Ward
fails, the build gives a message ln: failed to create symbolic link '/etc/mtab': File exists Chris Ward

Bug#1031677: Info received (Bug#1031677: Acknowledgement (live-build of a bookworm system fails at build time))

2023-02-20 Thread Chris Ward
lding an SBOM for the ISO. When I am building for bullseye rather than bookworm, I don;t get these messages. Is live-build responsible for this behaviour, or should I report it against some other package ? Chris Ward

Bug#1031677: Acknowledgement (live-build of a bookworm system fails at build time)

2023-02-20 Thread Chris Ward
he problem. I have added log files from more runs in http://tjcw.freeshell.org/live-build/ showing the failures when I try to package anything based on bookworm or sid. Chris Ward

Bug#1031677: live-build of a bookworm system fails at build time

2023-02-20 Thread Chris Ward
Package: live-build Version: 1:20230131 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: tjc...@gmail.com Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? I installed a debian bookworm system from 'netinst' on 20 February 2023 I tri

Re: Monthly status update about reproducible live-build ISO images

2023-01-30 Thread Chris Lamb
Roland Clobus wrote: > here is the 16th update of the status for reproducible live-build ISO > images [1] > > […] Just to say that this is fantastic work. :) Best wishes, -- o ⬋ ⬊ Chris Lamb o o reproducible-builds.org 💠 ⬊ ⬋ o

Re: Ninth status update about reproducible live-build ISO images in Jenkins

2022-04-25 Thread Chris Lamb
hings like this in general. As in, the more we can bundle testing & quality assurance efforts with reproducible builds work/testing, the quicker we might see more widespread adoption as it just becomes simply beyond obvious to adopt it. :) Best wishes, -- o ⬋ ⬊ Chris Lamb o

Re: Recoding the configuration for live-build images (Was: Third status update about reproducible live-build ISO images in Jenkins)

2021-09-01 Thread Chris Lamb
t of thing, but IMHO all of them seem at odds with making the process of reproducing an artifact as simple, straightforward and (most importantly) as transparent as possible. Regards, -- o ⬋ ⬊ Chris Lamb o o reproducible-builds.org 💠 ⬊ ⬋ o

Re: Recoding the configuration for live-build images (Was: Third status update about reproducible live-build ISO images in Jenkins)

2021-09-01 Thread Chris Lamb
le" potentially misleading about whether Debian Y is itself reproducible — alas, it's likely not.) Finally, this is still all an unofficial effort at least at the moment... Still, really admire your keenness and am heartened by the progress in the right direction. Hope the above helps.

Re: Recoding the configuration for live-build images (Was: Third status update about reproducible live-build ISO images in Jenkins)

2021-08-31 Thread Chris Lamb
ssessing the minuscule .buildinfo file containing the inputs and output hashes). Anyway, I *totally* ACK that you were getting this all working first before moving on... and I hope didn't come across as "Never Satisfied Mailing List Guy". Looking forward to seeing what you come up with. :)

Re: Third status update about reproducible live-build ISO images in Jenkins

2021-08-30 Thread Chris Lamb
n more technical terms — are you generating some kind of .buildinfo file that contains (just for example's sake) the value of SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH and any other relevant inputs, as well as the resulting checksums? Best wishes, -- o ⬋ ⬊ Chris Lamb o o reproducible-bu

Bug#965999: live-task-standard: Please switch netcat-traditional dependency to netcat-openbsd

2020-07-21 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
, instead. Thanks, Chris

Bug#961728: live-task-recommended: Please remove Recommends: haveged

2020-05-28 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
. Please remove the Recommends: haveged. Thanks, Chris

Bug#946385: Progress

2019-12-08 Thread Chris Ward
That 'lb build' again finished early with no iso, but unmounting the pts and reissuing the 'lb build' resulted in an iso. So now I have my live system, but there is still some problem with live-build which prevents a clean run first time for me. -- Chris Ward

Bug#946385: More attempts at live build

2019-12-08 Thread Chris Ward
tempt I have removed linux-base linux-image-4.19.0-6-amd64 linux-image-amd64 from the desktop.list.chroot and issued 'lb clean;lb build'. This is currently running. -- Chris Ward

Bug#946385: live-build: "lb build" fails to install linux-image-4.19.0-6-amd64

2019-12-08 Thread Chris Ward
Package: live-build Version: 1:20190311 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? I am trying to create a live usb stick. This is the first time I am using live-build. I am running in a Deb

Bug#879169: live-build: please make the build reproducible

2017-10-19 Thread Chris Lamb
built reproducibly. Patch attached. [0] https://reproducible-builds.org/ Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk `- --- a/manpages/bin/update-version.sh2017-10-19 19:56:06.157097181 -0400 --- b

Bug#875903: clipit: please choose a sensible default in "live" mode?

2017-09-15 Thread Chris Lamb
mages seems sensible, especially as the concept of "history" on a live system is somewhat meaningless. Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk `-

Bug#846301: live-wrapper: builds should honour SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH

2016-11-30 Thread Chris Lamb
ils repository: https://git-tails.immerda.ch/live-build/log/?h=tails%2Fdebian-old-2.0 Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk `-

Re: Do the file timestamps in ISOs matter ?

2016-09-02 Thread Chris Lamb
7;t see this usecase of being "partly" reproducible being remotely useful to anyone, ever. I'm probably misunderstanding something, however. Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk `-

Re: Do the file timestamps in ISOs matter ?

2016-09-01 Thread Chris Lamb
that there is no believable use-case where one would be exporting SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH but somehow desire the atime and ctime to vary but have a fixed mtime, I believe this option is entirely unnecessary. No need to complicate things. Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk `-

Bug#744777: More sensible patch

2014-11-18 Thread Chris Read
g the af_packet module. It then sits in a tight loop waiting for interfaces and breaks out of the loop as soon as the first interface is registered, but before the rest of them do. Chris 744777.patch Description: Binary data

Bug#746966: debian-live: HiDPI support needed for debian-installer

2014-05-04 Thread Chris Bainbridge
Package: debian-live After booting the netinst iso, the text of the Debian installer is very small on HiDPI displays, for many users it will be unreadable. This problem is going to get worse as higher resolution 4k laptops begin to appear. I am filing this against debian-live as it seems that ea

Problems with live-7.4-xfce on MacBook Pro Retina 2012

2014-02-20 Thread Chris Bainbridge
Boot method: USB flash drive Machine: MacBook Pro Retina 13-inch late-2012 (MacbookPro10,2) Image version: debian-live-7.4-amd64-xfce-desktop.iso I tried the XFCE 7.4 livecd and noticed several issues: 1. Boot Live (amd64). Corrupt video after resolution change. After starting Xorg the display is

Re: Debian 7.0.0 "Live" images

2013-05-14 Thread Chris Bell
t; received reports of this behaviour from anyone but you. > > You gave a longer list of further problems. Let's tackle the very first > issues you're having first. > > Thanks, > Ben > It appears to have been a faulty batch of blank DVDs giving random probl

Re: Debian 7.0.0 "Live" images

2013-05-13 Thread Chris Bell
On Mon 13 May, Ben Armstrong wrote: > > On 05/13/2013 09:54 AM, Chris Bell wrote: > >Both the i386 Gnome and KDE versions refused to open without a user > > password and both refused to shutdown without a root password. > > That sounds like live-config is not runnin

Debian 7.0.0 "Live" images

2013-05-13 Thread Chris Bell
er, but my laptop does not have a hard drive that is large enough. Thanks to all concerned -- Chris Bell www.chrisbell.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: htt

Bug#703108: live-config.noroot does not work due to a missing/extra underscore in config.sh

2013-03-15 Thread Chris Malton
}" in There is either an extra underscore on line 100, or a missing one on line 74. This causes sudo & policykit to be configured when noroot is specified. As a workaround, I'm applying this using noconfig=sudo,policykit Please could this be fixed. Many thanks in advance. Regard

live build sid fails

2011-10-27 Thread Chris York
*I can build lenny,but not sid. */build/20111027.135302.655435360... P: Configuring file /etc/apt/sources.list OK Get:1 http://localhost sid InRelease [146 kB] E: Release file for http://localhost/debian/dists/sid/InRelease is expired (invalid since 12d 16h 32min 54s). Updates for this repository

Bug#635933: Installing syslinux themes breaks on squeeze

2011-07-29 Thread Chris Lamb
nux (2:4.02+dfsg-7) ... Setting up syslinux-themes-debian-squeeze (5-1) ... cp: cannot stat `/usr/share/syslinux/themes/debian-squeeze/isolinux-live': No such file or directory P: Begin unmounting filesystems... Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb

Can't boot. syslinux ERROR: No configuration file found

2011-03-22 Thread Chris
got the same error. Then I tried to build a minimal system, but still didn't work. My auto/config file is as follow: #!/bin/sh lb config noauto \ --distribution wheezy \ --binary-filesystem fat32 \ --volatile false \ -b usb-hdd --username chris --apt aptitude \ --p

lb build 404 error for squeeze/updates/main sub directory

2010-12-24 Thread Chris
my auto/config: #!/bin/sh lb config noauto \ --mirror-bootstrap http://mirror.dlut.edu.cn/debian \ --mirror-chroot-security http://mirror.dlut.edu.cn/debian \ --mirror-binary http://mirror.dlut.edu.cn/debian \ --architecture i386 \ --linux-flavours 686 \ --packages-lists

studio.debian.net -- suggest 'cancel' option

2010-08-12 Thread Chris Dennis
st and try again later. But I can't find a way to cancel it. How about adding a 'cancel request' option to the page, so that the system doesn't get bogged down with requests that people have changed their mind about? Good luck with it all. cheers Chris -- C

Re: [PATCH] some fixes for the FAQ page

2010-08-02 Thread Chris Lamb
Tim Retout wrote: > Here are a couple of trivial patches for the FAQ page. Applied and now live, many thanks. Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org `- signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: requested topics for debian-live manual

2009-08-27 Thread Chris Lamb
ey don't get lost? Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org `- signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#543868: live-helper: typos/patch

2009-08-27 Thread Chris Leick
Package: live-helper Version: 1.0.5 Severity: minor Tags: patch Hi, The following patch fixes some typos. I've found them while translating the manpages of live-helper. Regards, Chris diff -ru live-helper-1.0.5.orig/manpages/lh_chroot_symlinks.en.1 live-helper-1.0.5/man

Re: German translation of live-helper

2009-08-27 Thread Chris Leick
Daniel Baumann schrieb: Chris Leick wrote: In the file lh_clean.en.1.po I've found the following strings: "B [I\\] [B<--all>] [B<--cache>] [B<--"... and "B [I]" Are these backslashes correct? If they should mask the blank, there are backslashes af

Re: German translation of live-helper

2009-07-09 Thread Chris Leick
Daniel Baumann schrieb: Chris Leick wrote: http://lists.debian.org/debian-l10n-german/2009/07/msg00056.html do you insist on having copyright assigned to FSF? Sorry. I will change it. It's from the original file. You want receive translations, bug reports or patches i

Re: The problem with --linux-flavours 686. Lenny. amd64.

2009-07-02 Thread Chris Lamb
somehow building amd64 (which doesn't have linux-image-2.6-686) dispite specifying i386. (Try starting in a totally fresh directory and running those two commands?) Regards, /lamby [0] http://live.debian.net/manual/html/collect-information.html -- ,''`. : :' : Ch

Bug#532421: live-magic: unresolvable dependency with python-support

2009-06-17 Thread Chris Lamb
eeded, I bumped the version to 1.5+lenny2 - please let me know if that was not required. -release, please accept this version instead (previous thread was "live-magic 1.5+lenny1 for stable"). Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...

Bug#532421: live-magic: unresolvable dependency with python-support

2009-06-17 Thread Chris Lamb
the version to 1.5+lenny2 - please let me know if that was not required. -release, please accept this version instead (previous thread was "live-magic 1.5+lenny1 for stable"). Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debi

Re: installing from a debian live cd

2009-06-10 Thread Chris Lamb
Daniel Baumann wrote: > > Also is there a way from within a running live system to perform the > > install rather than doing it on boot? > > not yet. i'll be working on that in first week of july. Oh? :) Can you outline your plan? Regards, -- ,'&#x

Re: [PATCH] An example hook script to disable "DRM" on kpdf

2009-06-02 Thread Chris Lamb
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > As I mentioned: some people disagree with the KDE maintainers. > Otherwise there wouldn't be such a flame. That's great. But please *not* on this list, as Fathi as already requested.. Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb

Re: live-magic 1.5+lenny1 for stable

2009-05-28 Thread Chris Lamb
Luk Claes wrote: > > I didn't get the memo on the whole /etc/debian_version thing and > > would like to upload live-magic 1.5+lenny1 to stable. [..] > Please upload. Uploaded. Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la

Re: madwifi-tools removed from testing

2009-05-27 Thread Chris Lamb
Daniel Baumann wrote: > madwifi-* is removed from unstable (as superseeded with mainlined > ath5k). therefore, you only want that hook for lenny or older. FWIW, lenny's 2.6.26 includes ath5k which works great for me. Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chri

Re: get ride of embedded 70-persistent-net.rules inside generated initrd.img

2009-05-18 Thread Chris Lamb
Marco Amadori wrote: > lh_chroot_hacks should take care of it before the generation of the > initramfs. Hm, yes, but the rules file would still be inside the initrd. This was probably broken by 722a1b67907edb0529f38b63aefc9de950e1733b.. Regards, -- ,''`. : :&#x

Re: d-i fails on package install

2009-05-10 Thread Chris Lamb
schoappied wrote: > What could be the problem? As mentioned on IRC, check tty4 for the actual error message. Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org `- signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#527974: stripped hook doesn't get rid of apt lists

2009-05-09 Thread Chris Lamb
warning would be nice 22:28 < lamby> To be clear, if you specify stripped, you get LH_BINARY_INDICES="disabled" by default; it's only because you have an old config/ directory. I've committed a change (ef34dd4) to print a warning here. Re

Re: Fail when boot Debian Squeeze Live

2009-05-08 Thread Chris Lamb
with the "debug" kernel parameter? The error message above is extremely generic and doesn't tell us anything. Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org `- signature.asc Description: PGP signature

live-magic 1.5+lenny1 for stable

2009-05-05 Thread Chris Lamb
e string "5.0\n" for the entirety of the lenny release - just check for a prefix of "5.0". -- Chris Lamb Tue, 05 May 2009 23:29:14 +0100 The entire diff is: --- a/LiveMagic/views/wizard.py +++ b/LiveMagic/views/wizard.py @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ class WizardVi

Re: problem of mirrors... :'( I can't make LiveDVD

2009-03-24 Thread Chris Lamb
e pool merging) would be to run: python -c "import SimpleHTTPServer;SimpleHTTPServer.test()" from inside your mirror directory (or just start a real local webserver). Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org `- signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#520923: live-initramfs: booting with a bad disk in the system takes forever

2009-03-23 Thread Chris Lamb
Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org `- signature.asc Description: PGP signature

"Unioning file systems: Architecture, features, and design choices" on LWN.net

2009-03-19 Thread Chris Lamb
Hi -live, This week's LWN contains an interesting article about union file systems, something we rely pretty heavily on. Here is a link to the first article in the series: http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/324291/78015741fee81598/ Regards, -- ,''`. : :

Re: Small addition to manual

2009-03-13 Thread Chris Lamb
Maximilian Weigand wrote: > Attached is a patch with a small paragraph describing the creation of > a second partition on a usb stick to use as a data partition. Great stuff. Many thanks. Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `&#x

Bug#506410: live-initramfs: error "umount /live/cow device is busy" during shutdown from persistent mode

2009-03-05 Thread Chris Lamb
tags 506410 +pending thanks > tags 506410 +tags I don't think the BTS likes recursion as much as panthera.. :] Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org `- signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Simple Qt GUI which use debian Live

2009-02-24 Thread Chris Lamb
Marco Amadori wrote: > we should in fact all write even emails in LaTeX and link our > preferred typographic stile like CSS do for web pages :-) No, we should be using http://mailmarkup.org/ ! Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `&#x

Re: Simple Qt GUI which use debian Live

2009-02-23 Thread Chris Lamb
avours. Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org `- signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#514916: Slightly better way.

2009-02-19 Thread Chris Lamb
with: for IF in /sys/class/net/* do # ... done Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org `- signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Live Media

2009-02-18 Thread Chris Lamb
and I would not like to rely on their services nor have a project affiliated with them. Incidentally, it does not seem like there are any plans to make SUSE Studio free software (in fact, almost the reverse): http://codepad.org/OTrc2e8E Regards, -- ,''`. :

Re: Live Media

2009-02-16 Thread Chris Lamb
#x27;re officially awesome. Okay, I'll assume I can obtain a reasonable server and do some more development work. > i've currently quite a stack of things i want to do first regarding > debian-live, so that won't happen that soon (couple of month). Okay, *now* I'm interested.

Re: Live Media

2009-02-16 Thread Chris Lamb
very poor reputation in Debian and it would look rather unprofessional to do that. Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org `- signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: I want to use Live installer from USB device, but the installer seems to require a CD.

2009-02-16 Thread Chris Lamb
required. Alas, this is a known issue which we did not fix in time for lenny. Please see #498143 for the technical details and a proposed patch by myself; it could do with additional testing. On the archives of this list I believe there is a binary hook to apply this patch programatically. My

Re: Live Media

2009-02-15 Thread Chris Lamb
believe this last requirement would rule out the use of any DSA-maintained machines. If anyone has any ideas, please let me know. Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org `- signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Font customization on gdm's logon screen.

2009-02-03 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 10:30:31PM EST, Chris Jones wrote: Please ignore .. meant for a different mailing list. I had to recreate my mutt alias file from scratch and debian-user was pointing to the wrong email address.. Sorry I missed that . CJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ

Font customization on gdm's logon screen.

2009-02-03 Thread Chris Jones
Can anyone point me to a document that explains how/where this is done? The gnome desktop config tool works fine in this respect for .. well .. the desktop.. but for some reason it does not have any effect where gdm is concerned. I need to (1) turn off the blur aka "anti-alisiang" that doesn't ma

Bug#511632: live-magic: live magic does not show on panel or alt+tab until build

2009-01-28 Thread Chris Lamb
thanks - it's not a bug in GNOME, I'm setting the wrong window hint. Thanks to Daniel Watkins for testing stuff. Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org `- signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Fwd: Forcing monitor resolutions

2009-01-28 Thread Chris Lamb
h explicit versions because they're so easy to mix up. Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org `- signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#511632: live-magic: live magic does not show on panel or alt+tab until build

2009-01-27 Thread Chris Lamb
environment? I don't believe gnome-panel shows "dialogues" (such as the wizard part). Perhaps you could provide screenshots? Regards, /Lamby [0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=511632 -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org `- signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: d-i build error: wrong package/kernel version?

2009-01-19 Thread Chris Lamb
f it persists, then it's likely your mirror is out of sync - however, as you are using ftp.us.debian.org (a DNS round-robin) it's difficult for me to determine that for you. Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org `- signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#511632: live-magic: live magic does not show on panel or alt+tab until build

2009-01-13 Thread Chris Lamb
Alon Horn wrote: > live magic does not show up on the window list panel or on alt+tab until > it gets to the building stage, Hm, it does appear in the window list for me (awesome 3.0). What window manager are you using? Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lam

Re: How do I customize the contents of initrd images on debian-live?

2009-01-09 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 12:05:41PM EST, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Daniel Baumann wrote: > > for your live system, you'll be best doing this by a custom hook. see > > http://git.debian.net/?p=debian-live/live-helper.git;a=commitdiff;h=b2de9c326e267cc402910f96e51e1a331dff6f3e;hp=ff2bdad21936ba5937b9000

Re: USB stick boot error

2009-01-08 Thread Chris Lale
Thanks, Juergen. Juergen Fiedler wrote: > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Chris Lale > wrote: >> Thanks, Yohann. >> >> Yohann Lepage wrote: >> [...] >>> But i use an other way to install debian live on usb stick (because i >>> use 2 partitions)

Re: USB stick boot error

2009-01-07 Thread Chris Lale
specify the filesystem type I tried various options for "-t" eg "iso9660", "ext2", "msdos", but these also caused errors. What is the filesystem type of the .img file? I thought it might be a gzipped ext2 system, but I could not gunzip the image file

Re: checking for supported hardware

2009-01-07 Thread Chris Lamb
ust of this year. Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org `- signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: USB stick boot error

2009-01-07 Thread Chris Lale
Thanks, Vincent. Vincent wrote: > Chris Lale wrote: >> I have not changed the mbr at any stage. Am I creating a corrupt image? Any >> suggestions would be welcome. > > Hi, > > You may try the images on the website and redo the dd/boot steps to be sure: > > htt

Re: chroots, xnest and gnome

2009-01-06 Thread Chris Lamb
bout what you've changed with respect to vanilla Debian, as well as being able to provide source in a sane manner. Best regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org `- signature.asc Description: PGP signature

USB stick boot error

2009-01-06 Thread Chris Lale
.26-1-486, live-helper 1.0.2-1, live-intramfs 1.154.3-1. I have not changed the mbr at any stage. Am I creating a corrupt image? Any suggestions would be welcome. [1] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/Howto/USB Regards, -- Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Bug#510280: live-helper: installer on hdd image does not work

2009-01-03 Thread Chris Lamb
Hans Ekbrand wrote: > Chris, would you have the time needed to provide the build of d-i that > you made when testing the patch, and instructions for how to make > debian-live use that build of d-i? You can avoid having to build d-i by patching the relevant file inside the initrd whilst

How do I customize the contents of initrd images on debian-live?

2009-01-03 Thread Chris Jones
I would like to add modules to an initrd images and make sure that they are loaded at boot time but I have been unable to find a way to do this in debian-live. On a live system I add the modules to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules followed by a "mkinitramsf -o /boot/initrd.img-$(uname -r)" and this ap

Re: Boot fails with "Can not mount .. /live/image/live/filesystem.squashfs on //filesystem.squashfs"

2009-01-03 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 04:12:04PM EST, Chris Lamb wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: > > > I have a feeling that this means that my binary.iso does not have > > support for squashfs filesystems enabled. > > What makes you think this? Please provide more details. Sorry, I was

Re: Boot fails with "Can not mount .. /live/image/live/filesystem.squashfs on //filesystem.squashfs"

2009-01-01 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 04:12:04PM EST, Chris Lamb wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: > > > I have a feeling that this means that my binary.iso does not have > > support for squashfs filesystems enabled. > > What makes you think this? Please provide more details. Sorry, I fo

Re: gnome-orca

2009-01-01 Thread Chris Lamb
ld not, as Debian Live /is/ Debian. or; b) gnome-orca would have been installed (see 'a') via a Recommends relation, but turned those off for large desktop environments (so they can fit onto a CD). Regards, -- ,''`. : :'

Re: Boot fails with "Can not mount .. /live/image/live/filesystem.squashfs on //filesystem.squashfs"

2009-01-01 Thread Chris Lamb
Chris Jones wrote: > I have a feeling that this means that my binary.iso does not have > support for squashfs filesystems enabled. What makes you think this? Please provide more details. > I have installed the squashfs-modules-2.6.24 .. and squashfs-tools > packages on my host sy

Boot fails with "Can not mount .. /live/image/live/filesystem.squashfs on //filesystem.squashfs"

2009-01-01 Thread Chris Jones
I have a feeling that this means that my binary.iso does not have support for squashfs filesystems enabled. I have installed the squashfs-modules-2.6.24 .. and squashfs-tools packages on my host system but I'm not sure what I need to do to ensure lh-build finds them. Is it just a matter of copyin

Re: pcmciautils and pcmcia_cs

2008-12-31 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:11:01AM EST, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: > > Since others are probably going to be concerned about opening their > > machine's HDD to the outside world, maybe the FAQ or wiki could say a > > word or two about security aspects?

Bug#510280: live-helper: installer on hdd image does not work

2008-12-30 Thread Chris Lamb
ck devices for Debian installation media. If you could report your success with the patch posted to: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=498143 .. it would help. Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org `- signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: pcmciautils and pcmcia_cs

2008-12-29 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 04:58:49PM EST, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: > > But I'm not sure where I should add the "cp" command and where I can > > place the .cis firmware .. I guess it needs to be somewhere where > > it's visible within the ch

Re: syslinux patch for xen flavour

2008-12-27 Thread Chris Lamb
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > Useless use of test: > > if echo ${KERNEL} | grep -q 'xen-' For completeness, you actually want `grep -qs` here, for various portability reasons. Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la.

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