Re: configuring proprietary drivers at boot time

2011-01-14 Thread Ronny Standtke
Hi all Sorry for the delay, I just had some pretty busy days... > Please Ronny open a bug in the BTS, this seems to be a wheel that anyone is > reinventing (xbmc-live, lernstick, lan-party netboots and I bet also other > game-centric live distros too). Ok, I will do it, but for which package sho

Re: configuring proprietary drivers at boot time

2011-01-14 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 01/14/2011 04:07 PM, Ronny Standtke wrote: > Ok, I will do it, but for which package should I file the bug report? for all ati and nvidia driver packages, but starting with the newest ones only is probably a good idea. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Em

Re: configuring proprietary drivers at boot time

2011-01-14 Thread Marco Amadori
In data Friday 14 January 2011 16:07:46, Ronny Standtke ha scritto: > > Please Ronny open a bug in the BTS, this seems to be a wheel that anyone > > is reinventing (xbmc-live, lernstick, lan-party netboots and I bet also > > other game-centric live distros too). > > Ok, I will do it, but for whic

[PATCH] support for newer grub-common package

2011-01-14 Thread Luigi Capriotti
Hello, Please accept this simple patch that fixes building ISOs using grub2. A recent change in grub-common pachage, see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=584415, has mandated the use of a destination format in calls to grub-mkimage, parameter that was not previously supported.

Re: [PATCH] support for newer grub-common package

2011-01-14 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 01/14/2011 05:50 PM, Luigi Capriotti wrote: > The attached patch checks if the new format specifier is supported and > calls grub-mkimage accordingly. thanks, however, it does call grub stuff from the host system which can be or can not be the same as the target system. therefore, could you pl

Re: [PATCH] support for newer grub-common package

2011-01-14 Thread Luigi Capriotti
isn't LB_BUILD_CHROOT respected by means of the lines following the patch, where the created "binary.sh" is executed with or without chroot accordingly? On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 01/14/2011 05:50 PM, Luigi Capriotti wrote: > > The attached patch checks if the n

Re: Bug#607879: System hangs up with mmap.c:873!

2011-01-14 Thread Ronny Standtke
Hi > I just wanted to let you know that all Debian Live systems I created based > on Squeeze are affected by this nasty aufs bug: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=607879 This bug is really, really bad. It starts to frustrate lots of our users. Ben Hutchings has passed this bug

Re: Bug#607879: System hangs up with mmap.c:873!

2011-01-14 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 01/14/2011 09:14 PM, Ronny Standtke wrote: > Is there any chance that this bug gets fixed soon? i can't reproduce it on any of my machines, so i can't do anything. > Is there anything that we can do to help? ask upstream? -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberi

Bug#610019: live-build: --syslinux-timeout config option no longer recognized

2011-01-14 Thread Michal Suchanek
Package: live-build Version: 3.0~a11-1 Severity: normal The --syslinux-timeout option was recognized in the past and is still documented in the man page but it causes an error. -- Package-specific info: -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable

Bug#607879: System hangs up with mmap.c:873!

2011-01-14 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Ronny Standtke writes: > Just boot the DVD in your home machine, the installer starts up automatically > and makes producing a Debian Live USB flash drive a breeze. Then you can test > on any machine that can boot from USB. Well I don't have any DVDs and the cdrom drive is not easily accessible

Bug#607879: System hangs up with mmap.c:873!

2011-01-14 Thread Ronny Standtke
> I tried booting > http://www.imedias.ch/dateien/lernstick-testversion/lernstick_debian5_2010- > 11-09.iso The bug does not happen with Debian 5. Please use the latest Debian 6 version, e.g. http://www.imedias.ch/dateien/lernstick- testversion/lernstick_debian6_2011-01-11.iso > but it gives me

Re: configuring proprietary drivers at boot time

2011-01-14 Thread Ronny Standtke
> for all ati and nvidia driver packages, but starting with the newest > ones only is probably a good idea. Done (with just the both most recent conflicting *-glx packages): http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=610021 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=610022 -- To UN

live-persistence.binds and live-snapshot.exclude_list with live-boot 2.0.11-1

2011-01-14 Thread Csaba Kormendy
I'd been successfully using live-snapshot (from live-initramfs (1.156.1+1.157.2-1)) with debian-live-507-i386-gnome-desktop.iso I'd been using /etc/live-snapshot.list and /etc/live-snapshot.exclude_list and life was good. I am now testing with debian-sq-live-rc1-i386-gnome-desktop.iso which provid