config/binary_sysinux being ignored

2011-06-18 Thread Daniel Ellison
Hi all, First of all, thanks so much to the live builder team for this excellent tool. It offers by far the most control over the build process. Is there anything else I need to do to have my customizations to syslinux take effect? I've put my own live.cfg and splash.png into config/binary_s

Re: config/binary_sysinux being ignored

2011-06-19 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 11-06-19 02:40 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote: live-build 2.x or 3.x? Sorry, 2.0.12-1. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4dfdcbb1.9090...@syrinx.net

Re: config/binary_sysinux being ignored

2011-06-19 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 11-06-19 06:13 AM, Daniel Ellison wrote: Sorry, 2.0.12-1. Also, building squeeze. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4dfdd44a.8070...@syrinx.net

Re: config/binary_sysinux being ignored

2011-06-19 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 11-06-19 07:02 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote: 2.x is only supported for RC fixes, please use 3.x. Thanks. I'll try 'testing', then (3.0~a17-1). in 3.x, you will need to use a custom syslinux-themes package if you want to change anything but the boot parameters (see syslinux-themes-debian[0] or

Re: config/binary_sysinux being ignored

2011-06-19 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 11-06-19 08:35 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote: since only the newest version of 3.x is supported, you should get what is in sid instead. Done. there were a few changes in the config tree, but if you populate it from auto/, then top of my head i don't think you have to change anything by hand.

live.cfg menu item in syslinux theme not working

2011-06-20 Thread Daniel Ellison
Hi all, I've created a syslinux theme .deb and it's in place and working. The only issue is that the "Start Live" menu item in live.cfg isn't working. I can start up the installer in either standard or expert mode, but choosing the "Start Live" entry has no effect. Here's the contents of the

Re: config/binary_sysinux being ignored

2011-06-20 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 11-06-19 07:02 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote: in 3.x, you will need to use a custom syslinux-themes package if you want to change anything but the boot parameters (see syslinux-themes-debian[0] or syslinux-themes-progress[1] for examples). [0] http://packages.qa.debian.org/syslinux-themes-debian/

Re: live.cfg menu item in syslinux theme not working

2011-06-20 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 11-06-20 01:13 PM, Daniel Baumann wrote: On 06/20/2011 06:01 PM, Daniel Ellison wrote: Is there a way to find out why this entry is failing? what does syslinux tell you when you try to boot it? When I type "live" at the "boot:" prompt, I get "Could not find ker

Re: live.cfg menu item in syslinux theme not working

2011-06-20 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 11-06-20 01:40 PM, Daniel Baumann wrote: On 06/20/2011 07:33 PM, Daniel Ellison wrote: When I type "live" at the "boot:" prompt, I get "Could not find kernel image: /live/vmlinuz". depends on your config tree, look at binary/live and see what you get by de

Re: live.cfg menu item in syslinux theme not working

2011-06-20 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 11-06-20 02:35 PM, Daniel Ellison wrote: For the moment I've renamed the two files back to vmlinuz and initrd.img and have installed that hook. I'm running the build again in the off chance that it works this time :) Holy &^%&!! That worked! Hmmm... I don't like

Re: live.cfg menu item in syslinux theme not working

2011-06-20 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 11-06-20 02:35 PM, Daniel Ellison wrote: For the moment I've renamed the two files back to vmlinuz and initrd.img and have installed that hook. I'm running the build again in the off chance that it works this time :) Just to clarify, I didn't actually rename any files

A new Debian Squeeze-based Linux distribution created with live builder

2011-06-22 Thread Daniel Ellison
Hi all, I just thought I would let everyone know about a new Debian Squeeze-based distribution that I built with the Debian live builder tools. Many thanks to Daniel Baumann for the tools and the help! I'm sure I'll need more help as I develop this distribution. The URL is http://journal.syr

Re: A new Debian Squeeze-based Linux distribution created with live builder

2011-06-23 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 11-06-23 05:29 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote: On 06/22/2011 11:31 PM, Daniel Ellison wrote: I just thought I would let everyone know about a new Debian Squeeze-based distribution that I built with the Debian live builder tools. nice, do you like to submit an entry for live.debian.net/project

Re: A new Debian Squeeze-based Linux distribution created with live builder

2011-06-23 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 11-06-23 07:43 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote: On 06/23/2011 01:01 PM, Daniel Ellison wrote: Thanks! I would love to. What do you need from me? Or do I do it myself? you can do it yourself if you want to, import the commit key (same as for live-manual), and commit to wiki-content.git. Ok, I&#x

Changing architectures

2011-06-24 Thread Daniel Ellison
Hi all, How do people handle building for various architectures? Do you have a separate config tree for each? Or do you "lb clean --purge" before building? I would have thought it was as easy as specifying a different parameter for --architectures, but switching from amd64 to i386 still resul

Can't create an i386 ISO, but amd64 works fine

2011-07-08 Thread Daniel Ellison
Hi all, I've successfully created amd64 ISOs several times. When I want to do the same for i386, I change "--architectures" to i386 and do lb clean --purge; lb config; lb build Eventually it says this: P: Begin executing preseed... P: Begin executing local preseeds... P: Begin queueing insta

Re: Can't create an i386 ISO, but amd64 works fine

2011-07-14 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 11-07-08 04:22 PM, Daniel Ellison wrote: The ISO is created with no errors when I set "--architectures" to amd64 and do the same set of commands. Is there anything I'm doing obviously wrong? I can provide my auto/config, syrinx.list etc. if needed. Any ideas on this? it'

Re: Can't create an i386 ISO, but amd64 works fine

2011-07-14 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 11-07-14 08:30 AM, Ben Armstrong wrote: On 07/08/2011 05:22 PM, Daniel Ellison wrote: Hi all, I've successfully created amd64 ISOs several times. When I want to do the same for i386, I change "--architectures" to i386 and do lb clean --purge; lb config; lb build I do

Re: Can't create an i386 ISO, but amd64 works fine

2011-07-14 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 11-07-14 11:30 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote: i think i already mentioned to you at another occasion on this list, it's best to do different architectures from the same config tree. That wasn't me, I believe. You did point me to this URL: git://vcs.progress-linux.org/images/client-gnome.git

Re: Can't create an i386 ISO, but amd64 works fine

2011-07-14 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 11-07-14 12:28 PM, Ben Armstrong wrote: Daniel meant to say "best to not do different architectures from the same config tree" I am sure. Ah, I suspected that was a typo. That's why I emphasized that I was indeed doing that. :) So generally people have a completely separate config setup fo

Re: Can't create an i386 ISO, but amd64 works fine

2011-07-14 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 11-07-14 01:06 PM, Ben Armstrong wrote: Does that sound like the behaviour expected from archive issues? More like a completely broken archive mirror (or broken apt caching proxy). I was using: --mirror-bootstrap http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ --parent-mirror-bootstrap http://ft

Re: Can't create an i386 ISO, but amd64 works fine

2011-07-15 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 11-07-14 09:28 PM, Ben Armstrong wrote: On 14/07/11 06:39 PM, Daniel Baumann wrote: On 07/14/2011 07:06 PM, Ben Armstrong wrote: if you do both arches from the same tree there would be a risk that one image is "tainted" with stuff from the wrong arch if you didn't take care. provided that

Re: Can't create an i386 ISO, but amd64 works fine

2011-07-15 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 11-07-14 05:39 PM, Daniel Baumann wrote: provided that one does a) ensure the generated config files in config/ are removed in auto/clean, b) the generated config files in config/* are created in auto/config, and c) one does a lb clean before 'switching' the architecture, i see no problem in h

Re: Can't create an i386 ISO, but amd64 works fine

2011-07-15 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 11-07-15 10:31 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote: On 07/15/2011 04:27 PM, Daniel Ellison wrote: Having separate caches kept for each architecture would mitigate the caching issue. Perhaps that could be considered for a future release? sure. it's on todo with the whole multi-architecture thing

Re: Can't create an i386 ISO, but amd64 works fine

2011-07-15 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 11-07-15 11:31 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote: On 07/15/2011 05:16 PM, Ben Armstrong wrote: I don't see how that would be a problem. I have built i386 arch images fine on a 64 bit machine/kernel. ack; and if in doubt, you could do it in a chroot (enter in it with: linux32 chroot $directory, rathe

Re: Can't create an i386 ISO, but amd64 works fine

2011-07-15 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 11-07-15 03:29 PM, Daniel Baumann wrote: On 07/15/2011 09:23 PM, Daniel Ellison wrote: Is there anything in there that looks suspicious? (Aside from the begin/end markers that aren't actually in the files) not in particular, however, as soon as you build anything but stable (or stable

Re: Can't create an i386 ISO, but amd64 works fine

2011-07-16 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 11-07-15 05:02 PM, Daniel Baumann wrote: On 07/15/2011 09:50 PM, Daniel Ellison wrote: I don't like the default in Debian, so I'm configuring my distribution to render fonts more like Ubuntu does. can you elaborate (what packages, what changes, where can one see the diff, etc.)?

Re: Can't create an i386 ISO, but amd64 works fine

2011-07-16 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 11-07-16 02:12 PM, Daniel Ellison wrote: The files that I need to update are the ones I pin in chroot_apt/preferences: libcairo2 libpixman-1-0 libxft2 There's another one that needs to be included but refuses to be pinned for some reason: gtk2-engines-murrine Just to clarify, thes

Re: Can't create an i386 ISO, but amd64 works fine

2011-07-17 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 11-07-15 03:50 PM, Daniel Ellison wrote: Very odd. But if switching to backports works, then I can forget about this issue and move on. I'm still curious as to what is happening here, though. None of the packages I need are in the squeeze backports. I ended up just putting the approp

Re: Can't create an i386 ISO, but amd64 works fine

2011-07-18 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 11-07-14 12:22 PM, Daniel Ellison wrote: On 11-07-14 11:30 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote: Also, it might be worth to publish your config tree so one can have a look at it. do you use public VCS for syrinx os? I don't yet use a public VCS but I plan to. I wanted to get the first release ou

Re: Can't create an i386 ISO, but amd64 works fine

2011-07-19 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 11-07-19 04:25 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote: On 19 July 2011 09:59, Daniel Bamann what changes did you apply to the two packages exactely? do you know why the changes are not included in the vanilla debian packages? As I understand it these are just from Wheezy, not patched. So these are in D

Re: Can't create an i386 ISO, but amd64 works fine

2011-07-19 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 11-07-19 06:48 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote: On 14 July 2011 20:14, Daniel Ellison wrote: If I can't figure this out soon, I might skip the i386 build for now and concentrate on getting the source to a public repository, setting up a bug tracker, website, etc. Note that this might

Re: Can't create an i386 ISO, but amd64 works fine

2011-07-19 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 11-07-19 05:25 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote: On 07/19/2011 11:02 AM, Daniel Ellison wrote: As I understand it these are just from Wheezy, not patched. this is what confused me.. Daniel links in http://journal.syrinxos.com/post/6789632136/fonts-more-important-than-you-might-think to https

Re: Can't create an i386 ISO, but amd64 works fine

2011-07-19 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 11-07-19 10:41 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote: On 07/19/2011 01:49 PM, Daniel Ellison wrote: Yes, in theory that is all you should need to do. It's easy to test: just drop my .fonts.conf in your home directory and log out/in. If you try it, please let me know how it goes. will do, but

Re: Vanillux live iso

2011-08-12 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 11-08-11 10:06 PM, Fabrice Quenneville wrote: So i have now made a syslinux theme based on the progress one. I cannot find where to get it included tho, Any pointers on that ? Take a look at this message: http://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2011/06/msg00188.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Changed location of syslinux theme?

2011-11-17 Thread Daniel Ellison
Hi all, I've been away for a while due to health problems with my wife. I'm the creator of SyrinxOS using the Debian live build tools. I'm now getting back into maintaining my distribution. The first thing I tried was simply rebuilding an ISO. The process was goilg well until I got: -- To

Changed location of syslinux theme?

2011-11-17 Thread Daniel Ellison
Sorry, hit the wrong key. :/ Hi all, I've been away for a while due to health problems with my wife. I'm the creator of SyrinxOS using the Debian live build tools. I'm now getting back into maintaining my distribution. The first thing I tried was simply rebuilding an ISO. The process was goi

Re: Changed location of syslinux theme?

2011-11-18 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 17/11/11 06:53 PM, Daniel Baumann wrote: the layout of config/* did change since you last used 3.x, i suggest you have a look at the changelog and since your last used version and go on from there. we'll provide soon some sample configs that can be used for a more hands-on view on current stuf

Simple default ISO generation fails

2011-11-25 Thread Daniel Ellison
Hi all, I can't successfully create an ISO from a fresh install of live-build. I set up a new virtual machine in KVM and installed standard Debian Squeeze using debian-6.0.3-amd64-netinst.iso. I then installed live-build_3.0~a39-1_all.deb. As root in the VM, I did "lb config", then "lb build

Re: Simple default ISO generation fails

2011-11-25 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 25/11/11 02:23 PM, Daniel Ellison wrote: On running "kvm --cdrom binary-hybrid.iso" as per the 3.x manual, the VM starts up and allows me to get past the screen with the option to boot into a live system. As the boot process progresses, I see: Mount point '/filesystem.squ

Re: Simple default ISO generation fails

2011-11-28 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 25/11/11 02:58 PM, Daniel Ellison wrote: So it seems that squashfs is being mounted successfully. To clarify, I generate the ISO in the VM, then I copy it to my real system and run it with KVM there. There should be no difference, but I didn't want people thinking I had installed KVM i

Re: Simple default ISO generation fails

2011-11-28 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 2011-11-28, at 3:44 PM, Daniel Ellison wrote: > Is this not unusual behaviour? Or am I missing something? I started with a > clean VM install of default Debian 6.0.3 and live-build 3.0 a39. Should I not > be able to create a default ISO using the instructions in the manual? > &g

Re: Simple default ISO generation fails

2011-11-30 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 28/11/11 04:18 PM, Daniel Ellison wrote: On 2011-11-28, at 3:44 PM, Daniel Ellison wrote: Is this not unusual behaviour? Or am I missing something? I started with a clean VM install of default Debian 6.0.3 and live-build 3.0 a39. Should I not be able to create a default ISO using the

A new release of SyrinxOS, my Debian-based Linux distribution created with live build

2011-11-30 Thread Daniel Ellison
Hi all, I've just released a new version of my Debian-based distribution SyrinxOS. It is built entirely with the Debian live build tools. You can read all about it here: http://journal.syrinxos.com/post/13556609295/syrinxos-debussy-0-4-0-alpha-squeeze-released If you do try it out, please le

Re: A new release of SyrinxOS, my Debian-based Linux distribution created with live build

2011-11-30 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 2011-11-30, at 4:16 PM, Éclipse M wrote: > Thanks for sharing your new release. > Juste a word for your site... It should be better if you mention the iso size. Thats a great idea. As soon as I get home I'll add that information. Thanks M. Éclipse! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-re

Re: A new release of SyrinxOS, my Debian-based Linux distribution created with live build

2011-12-01 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 30/11/11 04:31 PM, Daniel Ellison wrote: On 2011-11-30, at 4:16 PM, Éclipse M wrote: Thanks for sharing your new release. Juste a word for your site... It should be better if you mention the iso size. Thats a great idea. As soon as I get home I'll add that information. Thanks M. Éc

Re: A new release of SyrinxOS, my Debian-based Linux distribution created with live build

2011-12-05 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 01/12/11 08:36 AM, Daniel Ellison wrote: ISO size information is now included. Also, new screenshots have been been added for the new release. A new SyrinxOS 0.4.1 ALPHA release, hot on the heels of the 0.4.0 ALPHA release. Read about it here: http://journal.syrinxos.com/post/13777219768

Re: A new release of SyrinxOS, my Debian-based Linux distribution created with live build

2011-12-06 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 05/12/11 08:40 AM, Daniel Ellison wrote: A new SyrinxOS 0.4.1 ALPHA release, hot on the heels of the 0.4.0 ALPHA release. Read about it here: This will be the last release for a while. SyrinxOS is in good shape now, so I'll be concentrating on more back-end issues than anything else

Re: Simple default ISO generation fails

2011-12-12 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 30/11/11 12:31 PM, Daniel Ellison wrote: This issue was never resolved. However, when I went ahead and set up my distribution under the latest 3.x, I was able to produce a working amd64 squeeze ISO. People just starting out with 3.x and who follow the manual to try producing a default ISO

Re: Simple default ISO generation fails

2011-12-12 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 12/12/11 10:10 AM, Ben Armstrong wrote: And if this were generally happening to everyone, you would think there would be more complaints here, wouldn't you?*** I /totally/ agree! I guess nobody else is having this problem because something *is* different about your development environment.

Re: Simple default ISO generation fails

2011-12-13 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 12/12/11 10:56 AM, Daniel Ellison wrote: When I was having this issue a couple of weeks back I got around it by setting the whole thing up in my build environmant as my distribution, with all includes, etc. I'm trying the same thing right now for a wheezy build and will report back wit

Re: Simple default ISO generation fails

2011-12-14 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 13/12/11 09:09 AM, Daniel Ellison wrote: This is an ISO produced in a brand new Wheezy install on an external USB hard drive with the live build in the repos and everything at default. To be clear, I have no problem producing any number of Squeeze variations on USB thumb or hard drives, in

Re: Simple default ISO generation fails

2011-12-14 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 14/12/11 12:27 PM, Ben Armstrong wrote: If I had more time, I'd be helping with this one more, but I'm sure you understand this is a quite busy time of year. Yeah, I hadn't taken that into account. :) Thanks for taking the time to respond. Keep in mind that if you're building wheezy imag

Re: Simple default ISO generation fails

2011-12-14 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 14/12/11 01:34 PM, Ben Armstrong wrote: On 12/14/2011 01:52 PM, Daniel Ellison wrote: I'll take a look in the manual and see what's what. I'm thinking you're referring to section 3.3.3: "From 'snapshots'". Actually (and you should check this,

Re: Simple default ISO generation fails

2012-01-10 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 14/12/11 02:01 PM, Daniel Ellison wrote: On 14/12/11 01:34 PM, Ben Armstrong wrote: Actually (and you should check this, as I don't have it in front of me) I was thinking of the "APT pinning" example. Oh, ok. I added "--archives live.debian.net" to my auto/config,

Re: Simple default ISO generation fails

2012-01-25 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 25/01/12 02:03 AM, Jake Norling aka Snow Keld wrote: i hold these packages to squeeze versions: live-boot live-boot-initramfs-tools live-config live-config-sysvinit this worked for me in october but some change in unstable after that time caused the live boot to fail with error: /init: line

Re: Simple default ISO generation fails

2012-01-25 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 25/01/12 01:32 PM, Daniel Ellison wrote: Thanks for the response, Jake/Snow. I'll try adding udev to my pinned sid live-* packages in chroot_apt/preferences and see what happens. Unfortunately it made no difference. My config/chroot_apt/preferences now looks like this (with no line b

Re: Simple default ISO generation fails

2012-01-26 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 25/01/12 07:37 PM, Ben Armstrong wrote: Ah, never mind. Rechecked apt_preferences(5) on squeeze which says: *snip* So multiple packages in the same line should work. For the record, pinning with multiple packages on the same line does work: $ apt-cache policy live-boot Installed: 3.0~a2

Re: Simple default ISO generation fails

2012-01-26 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 26/01/12 07:40 AM, Daniel Ellison wrote: Believe me, I wish that HAD been the issue. Then I could have made some progress on a wheezy version of my distribution. Just to reiterate, when I boot from the resulting wheezy binary-hybrid ISO into a live system, I see these warnings and errors

Re: Debian live system, booting difficulties

2012-02-01 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 01/02/12 07:09 AM, christoffer krakou wrote: Hello people. I'm trying to build a live system using the Debian Live Builder, But i cannot get it to work. Just building the vanilla image with the default config produces an image wich never gets past the bootloader When i boot the hybrid-iso (i

Re: Simple default ISO generation fails

2012-02-07 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 07/02/12 07:54 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote: [ this time intentionally on CC to ensure you do not miss it :) ] Thank you! sorry for the late answer, didn't read the thread until now, and sorry that it took so long to fix things up; however, as of yesterday, all your issues are fixed with live-

Re: Simple default ISO generation fails

2012-02-07 Thread Daniel Ellison
Ok. This morning I set up a completely clean wheezy/testing system using the latest netinst ISO from here: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/ I added nothing. In fact, it boots to a command line. No desktop, no X11, nothing. I did the following in

Re: Simple default ISO generation fails

2012-02-07 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 07/02/12 12:51 PM, Daniel Baumann wrote: you need 3.0~a43-1. Ah, that would probably help. :) I usually get my live-build packages from http://live.debian.net/archive/packages/live-build/ But there doesn't seem to be a live-build_3.0~a43-1_all.deb available there. It seems like only t

Re: Simple default ISO generation fails

2012-02-07 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 07/02/12 01:02 PM, Daniel Ellison wrote: But there doesn't seem to be a live-build_3.0~a43-1_all.deb available there. It seems like only the source for a43 is currently available. Is that correct? Never mind. Found it. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debia

Re: Simple default ISO generation fails

2012-02-07 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 07/02/12 01:03 PM, Daniel Ellison wrote: Never mind. Found it. :) Didn't work! On my dev machine: # cat /etc/debian_version wheezy/sid # apt-cache policy live-build live-build: Installed: 3.0~a43-1 Candidate: 3.0~a43-1 Version table: *** 3.0~a43-1 0 100 /var/lib/dpkg/s

Re: Simple default ISO generation fails

2012-02-07 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 07/02/12 02:48 PM, Daniel Baumann wrote: what errors exactely? sorry, i'm kind of lost with all this back and forth. Early on in the boot sequence I see: Begin: Mounting "/live/image/live/filesystem.squashfs" on "//filesystem.squashfs" via "/dev/loop0" ... done. But later on I get: Moun

Re: Simple default ISO generation fails

2012-02-08 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 07/02/12 04:00 PM, Daniel Baumann wrote: startpar: service(s) returned failure: udev console-setup live-boot ... failed! what backend do you use, sysvinit? Yes, as in live-config-sysvinit. It's pinned to sid as are live-boot, live-boot-initramfs-tools, and live-config. -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Simple default ISO generation fails

2012-02-09 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 08/02/12 04:32 PM, Daniel Baumann wrote: On 02/08/2012 01:35 PM, Daniel Ellison wrote: On 07/02/12 04:00 PM, Daniel Baumann wrote: startpar: service(s) returned failure: udev console-setup live-boot ... failed! i cannot reproduce that with a sid default image, files are available at http

Re: Simple default ISO generation fails

2012-02-09 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 09/02/12 06:52 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote: On 02/09/2012 12:40 PM, Daniel Ellison wrote: So what could it possibly be? no idea; and, just to be unambigues: the '/filesystem.squashfs' error is just cosmetics (with newer sysvinit in wheezy/sid), the 'only' error that matt

Re: Bug#659199: Acknowledgement (live-build: live wheezy -> cp: cannot stat `/root/syslinux/vesamenu.c32': No such file or directory)

2012-02-09 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 09/02/12 10:12 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote: On 02/09/2012 03:42 PM, upite...@lycos.com wrote: I've done what you suggest and still get this problem: and you are really, really sure that you're using live-build 3.0~a43-1 and have no tained build system? like i said, i cannot reproduce that at

Re: Simple default ISO generation fails

2012-02-09 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 09/02/12 07:19 AM, Daniel Ellison wrote: On 09/02/12 06:52 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote: also, can you build an image where the necessary components (live-boot init script for the beginning should be enough, maybe also live-config initscript later at some point) are run with set -x so that we

Re: Simple default ISO generation fails

2012-02-09 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 09/02/12 12:21 PM, Daniel Baumann wrote: On 02/09/2012 05:24 PM, Daniel Ellison wrote: I'm assuming I would add "x" to the "set -e" command in the "live" hook. But where are the files? Has a newer version of initramfs-tools changed its structure? /usr

Re: Simple default ISO generation fails

2012-02-09 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 09/02/12 02:05 PM, Daniel Baumann wrote: On 02/09/2012 06:50 PM, Daniel Ellison wrote: The mystery is solved. I didn't have live-boot installed in my wheezy development environment because it was an optional step, as I recall. with 'development environment', do you mean the

Re: Bug#659199: Acknowledgement (live-build: live wheezy -> cp: cannot stat `/root/syslinux/vesamenu.c32': No such file or directory)

2012-02-09 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 2012-02-09, at 4:38 PM, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 11:13:05AM -0500, Daniel Ellison wrote: >> On 09/02/12 10:12 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote: >>> On 02/09/2012 03:42 PM, upite...@lycos.com wrote: >>>> I've done what you suggest and still get

Re: Simple default ISO generation fails

2012-02-10 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 10/02/12 09:01 AM, Daniel Ellison wrote: I'll try that tonight and we'll see what happens. I don't have a lot of hardware on which to test this out, so that's about all I'll be able to do. The nomodeset worked and the nx7400 was able to boot. Unfortunately, it al

Re: Simple default ISO generation fails

2012-02-15 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 10/02/12 07:25 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote: On 02/10/2012 12:34 PM, Daniel Ellison wrote: So that rules out my specific laptop as being at fault. ack. Which means it is an actual bug? If so, do I need to file a bug report? Or is that already taken care of? The same "startpar&q

Re: Help debugging startpar live-boot failure

2012-03-01 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 01/03/12 06:28 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 in git, it's supposed to be fixed there. Ack! I've been te

Re: Help debugging startpar live-boot failure

2012-03-01 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 01/03/12 06:24 AM, upite...@lycos.com wrote: I get the same error on my live wheezy hdd and cannot find out howto get it away. This may be related to the issue I've had with building a wheezy image. The error I get is: startpar: service(s) returned failure: udev console-setup live-boo

Re: Simple default ISO generation fails

2012-04-19 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 15/02/12 02:29 PM, Daniel Ellison wrote: On 10/02/12 07:25 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote: On 02/10/2012 12:34 PM, Daniel Ellison wrote: So that rules out my specific laptop as being at fault. ack. Which means it is an actual bug? If so, do I need to file a bug report? Or is that already

Re: Simple default ISO generation fails

2012-04-19 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 19/04/12 10:09 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote: included in live-config 3.0~a34-1. 3.0~a35-1 migrated on 2012-04-13, so wheezy is working out of the box since then again. Thanks, Daniel! So when building a wheezy ISO on a wheezy system, if I pin like this in chroot_apt/preferences: Package: liv

Re: Simple default ISO generation fails

2012-04-19 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 19/04/12 12:20 PM, chals wrote: If you want to pin packages from sid in wheezy I would recommend you using a wildcard as explained in live-manual Package: live-* Instead of pinning packages by name. Because if you do not turn off apt recommends it will also install live-tools from sid inste

Re: Simple default ISO generation fails

2012-04-19 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 19/04/12 12:34 PM, Ben Armstrong wrote: What are you guys talking about? Daniel said: "3.0~a35-1 migrated on 2012-04-13, so wheezy is working out of the box since then again" so I don't understand why you think pinning is required ... Yes, I've since realized that and have removed the sid pi

Re: Simple default ISO generation fails

2012-04-19 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 19/04/12 11:36 AM, Daniel Ellison wrote: On 19/04/12 10:09 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote: included in live-config 3.0~a34-1. 3.0~a35-1 migrated on 2012-04-13, so wheezy is working out of the box since then again. Thanks, Daniel! So when building a wheezy ISO on a wheezy system, if I pin like

Re: Simple default ISO generation fails

2012-04-19 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 19/04/12 02:16 PM, Daniel Ellison wrote: Hopefully this will be it. I'll come back in a while to update all concerned with the results. A big thanks to Daniel Baumann and Ben Armstrong for persevering with what must have been a very annoying thread. Also, thanks to Tim Gibbon

Re: Simple default ISO generation fails

2012-04-23 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 19/04/12 02:16 PM, Daniel Ellison wrote: And... it worked! I have no idea which one(s) of those updated packages made the difference, but at this point I don't care. I can now go ahead and make a wheezy version of my distribution. Woohoo! Let the bells ring out and the banner

synaptic-pkexec fails in live wheezy environment

2012-04-24 Thread Daniel Ellison
Does anyone have an idea why synaptic-pkexec would fail when run in a debian wheezy live environment, but if I install the system to HD from the same ISO synaptic-pkexec works fine? When run from a terminal in a live environment: $ synaptic-pkexec Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyInvalid MIT-MAGI

A Debian Wheezy-based release of SyrinxOS, my Linux distribution created with live build

2012-04-24 Thread Daniel Ellison
Hi all, I've finally released a Wheezy version of SyrinxOS, my Debian-based Linux distribution built with the live build tools. You can read all about it here: http://journal.syrinxos.com/post/21722417863/syrinxos-debussy-2012-04-24-wheezy-released Thanks, as always, to Daniel Baumann and Be

Re: A Debian Wheezy-based release of SyrinxOS, my Linux distribution created with live build

2012-04-27 Thread Daniel Ellison
Just a quick update: I've just pushed out another release of SyrinxOS Wheezy. There have been a few changes, mostly to touch things up so I can get on with updating the Squeeze version. You can read about it here: http://journal.syrinxos.com/post/21910332543/syrinxos-debussy-2012-04-27-wheezy-

Re: A Debian Wheezy-based release of SyrinxOS, my Linux distribution created with live build

2012-04-27 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 27/04/12 11:23 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote: did you consider registering as a debian derivative? I would like to do that! How would I go about it? I'm guessing I would add a new derivative for SyrinxOS here: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: A Debian Wheezy-based release of SyrinxOS, my Linux distribution created with live build

2012-04-27 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 27/04/12 11:51 AM, Daniel Ellison wrote: On 27/04/12 11:23 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote: did you consider registering as a debian derivative? I would like to do that! How would I go about it? I'm guessing I would add a new derivative for SyrinxOS here: Damn. That's the second time

Re: Bug console setup udeb?

2013-01-02 Thread Daniel Ellison
On 02/01/13 10:23 AM, _ wrote: After update debian installer git. make build_cdrom_isolinux generate all initrd after boot: debian installer freeze after selected language. some try it? I have a similar issue (as far as I can tell). live-build 3.0~b4-1, building a wheezy binary-hybrid ISO