Re: live-config, live-boot not working in sid

2012-03-27 Thread Philip Newborough
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Juergen Fiedler wrote: > Hello, > > This may be another one of those "don't use sid, dummy!" items, but I > thought I'd put it out there, anyway: > I could be wrong, but I think I have read that using the sid/unstable packages is the recommended way -- something t

live-boot syntax errors at shutdown

2012-03-05 Thread Philip Newborough
Hello In similar fashion to a previous report[1] and fix[2], live-boot.init generates more syntax errors at shutdown. [1]: http://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2011/01/msg00162.html [2]: http://live.debian.net/gitweb?p=live-boot.git;a=commitdiff;h=b72b24711cacdb0267c29816a0fd1b96a90836b0 -- Phi

Re: Help debugging startpar live-boot failure

2012-03-02 Thread Philip Newborough
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 03/01/2012 11:32 AM, Philip Newborough wrote: >> >> 'startpar: services(s) returned failure: live-boot ... failed!' > > > please build an image with live-boot and live-config from debian-next branch &

Re: Help debugging startpar live-boot failure

2012-03-01 Thread Philip Newborough
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Philip Newborough wrote: > On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Daniel Baumann > wrote: >> On 03/01/2012 11:32 AM, Philip Newborough wrote: >>> >>> 'startpar: services(s) returned failure: live-boot ... failed!' >> >&

Re: Help debugging startpar live-boot failure

2012-03-01 Thread Philip Newborough
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 03/01/2012 11:32 AM, Philip Newborough wrote: >> >> 'startpar: services(s) returned failure: live-boot ... failed!' > > > please build an image with live-boot and live-config from debian-next branch &

Help debugging startpar live-boot failure

2012-03-01 Thread Philip Newborough
Hello When building for Wheezy/Sid I am experiencing the following error when booting the resulting image: 'startpar: services(s) returned failure: live-boot ... failed!' The system seems to boot okay and I have searched through the log files but I have failed to find any relevant info. If anyon

Re: live-config 104-gnome-screensaver gconf > dconf

2012-02-29 Thread Philip Newborough
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Ben Armstrong wrote: > On 29/02/12 08:14 AM, Philip Newborough wrote: >> I am almost sure that including an equivalent 'sudo -u >> "${LIVE_USERNAME}" gsettings set...' command directly from within >> 104-gnome-s

live-config 104-gnome-screensaver gconf > dconf

2012-02-29 Thread Philip Newborough
Hello When building for Wheezy/Sid, the gconf command in live-config's 104-gnome-screensaver does not seem to produce the desired result. As far as I can tell, the gconf key/value is set, but it is not moved to dconf when 'gsettings-data-convert' is run, post login. I am almost sure that includin

live-config user-setup passwd bug

2012-02-29 Thread Philip Newborough
Hello When building for Wheezy/Sid, there is a bug [1] filed against the passwd package which causes some verbose output when 002-user-setup is run. As far as I can tell, the bug is fairly harmless(?) and there are no negative affects, apart from some fugly console output in the form of:

Bug#604783: needs to have entries for regular installer

2011-01-26 Thread Philip Newborough
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Jose Luis Zabalza wrote: > 2011/1/26 joseangon : >> Hola. >> >> Sorry, I was wrong files, je je, I'm very tired today. >> >> I just wanted them to see that possibility. And now would align it so that >> it can be used as "live" or "normal." >> > > > Confirmed. Thi

[PATCH] Update example path in 'all_binary_debian-installer-banner.sh' example hook

2011-01-22 Thread Philip Newborough
e1cc31c789319bffc0274f977d1e69f323f62192 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Philip Newborough Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 21:22:14 + Subject: [PATCH] Update example path in 'all_binary_debian-installer-banner.sh' example hook --- .../hooks/all_binary_debian-installer-banner.sh|2 +- 1 files changed, 1

Re: live-installer on Squeeze, missing keyboard settings post-install

2010-12-25 Thread Philip Newborough
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote: > i'll give it another try with your combination, and it would be nice if > you could do so too, preferably with the latest daily image from > http://live.debian.net/cdimage/. > I have just tried again with the i386 standard iso-hybrid image

Re: live-installer on Squeeze, missing keyboard settings post-install

2010-12-15 Thread Philip Newborough
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 8:03 AM, Philip Newborough wrote: > On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 7:32 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote: >> On 12/13/2010 01:46 AM, Philip Newborough wrote: >>> >>> the keyboard selections chosen during the install process are not being >>> honour

Re: live-installer on Squeeze, missing keyboard settings post-install

2010-12-13 Thread Philip Newborough
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 7:32 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 12/13/2010 01:46 AM, Philip Newborough wrote: >> >> the keyboard selections chosen during the install process are not being >> honoured > > you're using squeeze, right? what keyboard combination are you

live-installer on Squeeze, missing keyboard settings post-install

2010-12-12 Thread Philip Newborough
Hello list I am facing an issue with live-installer whereby the keyboard selections chosen during the install process are not being honoured post-install. I have searched this list to find out more information and came across Bug#603974: live-installer should depend and use console-setup-udeb [1].

Re: locales on live squeeze

2010-12-11 Thread Philip Newborough
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 8:48 PM, os.n...@gmx.de wrote: > For a German keyboard I use > > --bootappend-live "locales=de_DE.UTF-8 keyboard-layouts=de > keyboard-variants=nodeadkeys" > > Perhaps this is helpful for you. And for a British keyboard I use: --bootappend-live "locales=en_GB.UTF-8 k

Re: live-initramfs 2.x & Squeeze

2010-06-06 Thread Philip Newborough
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 06/06/2010 11:32 AM, Philip Newborough wrote: >> I was wondering, is there a recommended way to test live-initramfs 2.x with >> my Squeeze >> builds? > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=583485

live-initramfs 2.x & Squeeze

2010-06-06 Thread Philip Newborough
Hello I have recently hit the same "no autologin" problem as mentioned in an early thread[1]. I have read Daniel's reply[2] and I was wondering, is there a recommended way to test live-initramfs 2.x with my Squeeze builds? If so, a brief overview of what is involved would be really appreciated, th

Syslinux background image tiling

2010-03-05 Thread Philip Newborough
Hello I am not sure if this has already been mentioned, I have searched the list archive but I could not find anything relative, so here goes... There has been a change to Syslinux 3.85 (now in squeeze & sid) with regards to way it handles background images: > vesamenu.c32: if the image is small