Re: Yet another [cross] installer

2010-03-02 Thread Will Murnane
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 11:48, JLB wrote: > Namely, if there was ALWAYS a way (which could not be turned off) to extract > a kernel's configuration (in a format which could be plunked into > /usr/src/linux and used to build new modules) from the running kernel, > things would be much simpler. > > W

Re: Method http has died unexpectedly

2009-12-05 Thread Will Murnane
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 02:09, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: >> >> I wonder what could cause this. I had removed all the files in build >> directory and it still happens > > using broken proxies (apt-cacher*, apt-proxy, etc) is horribly broken and > not supported, either use a rea

Re: Local DoS in kernel 2.6.26

2009-10-27 Thread Will Murnane
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 08:27, surreal wrote: > I just caught hold of a C source code from 2005. This code is a local DoS > which fills up the entire memory on Linux 2.6.N kernels. After about 15 minutes: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 16799 will 20 0

Bug#540000: live-initramfs: can not mount /dev/loop0 (/live/image/live/filesystem.squashfs) on //filesystem.squashfs

2009-08-05 Thread Will Murnane
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 13:17, Jeff Chimene wrote: > Then just close the bug, Daniel. I don't have more info. It looks like > live-helper is using live-initramfs incorrectly. As far as I can tell, > my job is just to report the bug. What is your problem? If you go to a mechanic and say "my car is b

Re: noninteractive & firmware

2009-04-19 Thread Will Murnane
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 16:29, Kai Hendry wrote: > firmware-ipw2x00 license could not be presented > try 'dpkg-reconfigure debconf' to select a frontend other than noninteractive > > Any ideas how to deal with such a situation? I put a script in config/chroot_local-hooks to accept the sun-java6 li

Re: Question about architectures

2008-11-08 Thread Will Murnane
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 04:58, Maximiliano Marin Bustos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everybody! > > Just a little question: Can I build an iso image for i386 in a amd64 > machine? I wanna build my live cd for 32bits in my debian amd64. > Can it be possible? Not directly. What I do to solve this

Re: Build fails, cannot mount /proc while inside chroot

2008-10-20 Thread Will Murnane
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 20:06, Will Murnane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now, I have /live mounted over NFS; could this be causing the problem? > I don't see why it would, but I thought I'd mention it in case it is > relevant. FWIW, I stopped using the NFS mount to s

Bug#500740: Some variables don't default correctly

2008-10-12 Thread Will Murnane
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 07:11, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I maintain the configuration directory under version control. The old > values that lh_config once generated make little sense to me. Many of > them have changed over time anyway. For the record, I store a Makefile and a shel

Re: Cannot configure MySQL

2008-09-23 Thread Will Murnane
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 21:46, Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I created a new image and mysqld failed to start. The problem may be that some > files have changed owners and groups in the image. Try tar with the '--numeric-owner' flag, or check what the uid of mysql is on the live system an

Re: building root filesystem image killed

2008-09-08 Thread Will Murnane
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 10:40, Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > chroot: cannot run command `/usr/bin/env': Permission denied > > 192.168.0.252:/home/hans on /home/hans/mnt/252 type nfs > (rw,user=root,noexec,nosuid,nodev,addr=192.168.0.252) The key word here is "noexec". Binaries won't be

Re: Build fails, cannot mount /proc while inside chroot

2008-09-01 Thread Will Murnane
On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 18:51, Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > looks good, except of the error :) the only thing left i can image is > that you mounted the partition with nodev. could you please check that > as well (type 'mount' to see it)? It appears to be mounted with the devices opti

Re: Build fails, cannot mount /proc while inside chroot

2008-09-01 Thread Will Murnane
On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 16:09, Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > please post: > > a) your version of debootstrap debootstrap1.0.10 > b) the version of your debian system There are two Debian systems sort of involved; "will" is Linux will 2.6.25-2-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Jul 14 11:05:23 UTC 2

Re: Build fails, cannot mount /proc while inside chroot

2008-09-01 Thread Will Murnane
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 04:21, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> W: Failure trying to run: chroot /live/chroot mount -t proc proc /proc > > I suspect this error is slightly misleading . IIRC you'd get a similar > error if debootstrap failed for some reason. This does appear to be the case

Build fails, cannot mount /proc while inside chroot

2008-08-30 Thread Will Murnane
Hello, I just tried to build debian live again, and got the following message as it failed: I: Extracting tzdata... I: Extracting util-linux... I: Extracting zlib1g... W: Failure trying to run: chroot /live/chroot mount -t proc proc /proc Running this command manually yields: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/l