| mebrown | cjwatson, evand, ping. | 12:22 |
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| mebrown | https://bugs.launchpad.net/dell/+bug/135602 | 12:22 |
| mebrown | marked as 'invalid', but I see this bug in today's daily. | 12:22 |
| mebrown | hmm... Ok, I see that it is closed as a dup of: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oem-config/+bug/23537 | 12:24 |
| mebrown | which is 'fix released' | 12:24 |
| mebrown | but question remains: when will this hit the daily builds? | 12:25 |
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| mebrown | cjwatson, --^ | 12:25 |
| mebrown | cjwatson_,, did you see my last couple sentences? | 12:26 |
| cjwatson_ | nope | 12:27 |
| mebrown | ok... | 12:27 |
| mebrown | https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oem-config/+bug/23537 | 12:27 |
| mebrown | which is 'fix released' | 12:27 |
| cjwatson | yep | 12:27 |
| mebrown | I dont see it fixed in today's daily | 12:27 |
| mebrown | and I tried your wget manifest| grep trick | 12:28 |
| mebrown | and dont see oem-config listed... :( | 12:28 |
| cjwatson | I'll have to try it out | 12:28 |
| cjwatson | it's not in the live image, grep for it in .list | 12:28 |
| cjwatson | /pool/main/o/oem-config/oem-config_1.21_i386.deb | 12:28 |
| mebrown | which looks to me like it should be fixed... | 12:29 |
| cjwatson | should be | 12:29 |
| mebrown | as lp# shows closed in 1.20 | 12:29 |
| mebrown | but... | 12:29 |
| mebrown | when I tried it out. I installed all language packs on my list and chose 'spanish' as the language | 12:29 |
| mebrown | and the rest of the screens were still in english | 12:29 |
| mebrown | (I speak spanish pretty well, so it is easy for me to test...) | 12:30 |
| mebrown | should I re-open the lp#? | 12:32 |
| cjwatson | let me try it | 12:32 |
| mebrown | I have to go for tonight in a min | 12:32 |
| cjwatson | it's 23:30 here, if I don't respond or fix it or something, sure, reopen it | 12:32 |
| mebrown | ok. | 12:32 |
| mebrown | british time? | 12:33 |
| cjwatson | yes | 12:34 |
| mebrown | ok. Well, have a great weekend. | 12:34 |
| mebrown | send me an email if you need anything. | 12:35 |
| cjwatson | ok | 12:35 |
| mebrown | I have this issue and iirc one other one that are important to me to get the Dell install going | 12:35 |
| mebrown | https://bugs.launchpad.net/dell/+bug/149582 | 12:35 |
| mebrown | is the other critical one. | 12:35 |
| mebrown | for the installer | 12:35 |
| cjwatson | yeah, you mentioned that, I'll look at the same time | 12:36 |
| mebrown | If you need anything from me, I'll be checking email this weekend. I know you are in the last few days worth of changes before the release. | 12:36 |
| cjwatson | I have a lingering suspicion it's because you're preseeding the username and full name when that's not necessary | 12:36 |
| cjwatson | (or shouldn't be anyway) | 12:36 |
| cjwatson | but I can't think of a reason why that would actually break this | 12:36 |
| mebrown | ok. If it isnt needed, I can just as easily take it out. | 12:36 |
| mebrown | just remove the value, or the entire line? | 12:36 |
| cjwatson | leave it there for now | 12:37 |
| cjwatson | maybe it's a generic bug, in which case I can squash it | 12:37 |
| mebrown | ok. | 12:37 |
| cjwatson | Spanish is a good test case BTW, because its oem-config translation is complete | 12:38 |
| cjwatson | the translation team was nice and speedy | 12:38 |
| mebrown | Well, I'm going now. Let me know if you need anything from my side. You have my preseed. | 12:38 |
| mebrown | Yeah, | 12:38 |
| mebrown | I'm considering changing my desktop to spanish by default | 12:38 |
| mebrown | to get more practise | 12:38 |
| mebrown | just noticed testing today that there werent very many untranslated strings around the desktop at all | 12:39 |
| mebrown | (as compared to, say, chinese) | 12:39 |
| mebrown | ttfn. | 12:39 |
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| xivulon | cjwatson,evand I am out of ideas with the mkfs bug | 01:17 |
| xivulon | to make a long story short, if I pause at the end of autopartition-loop and run strace mkfs.ext3 /dev/loop2 it works | 01:18 |
| xivulon | if run mkfs without strace it doesn't | 01:18 |
| xivulon | any hint of what I may try? | 01:18 |
| cjwatson | xivulon: sorry, I have no bright ideas, sounds like a race but who knows | 02:12 |
| CIA-18 | ubiquity: cjwatson * r2324 ubiquity/ (debian/changelog scripts/install.py): | 02:13 |
| CIA-18 | ubiquity: * Remove excessive blank lines in GDM and KDM configuration files in OEM | 02:13 |
| CIA-18 | ubiquity: mode. | 02:13 |
| xivulon | cjwatson is the update of ntfs-3g going to happen? maybe that can address it (hmm might test that) | 02:29 |
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| J-Georg_ | Morning. | 01:36 |
| J-Georg_ | I have a grub-related problem installing Ubuntu, could anyone help me a little? | 01:38 |
| CIA-18 | oem-config: cjwatson * r365 oem-config/ (debian/changelog lib/frontend/gtk_ui.py): | 01:38 |
| CIA-18 | oem-config: * GTK frontend: | 01:38 |
| CIA-18 | oem-config: - Make sure the next button remains the default widget despite being | 01:38 |
| CIA-18 | oem-config: hidden and re-shown. | 01:38 |
| cjwatson | J-Georg_: it's a weekend and I was mostly planning to do other things; if you explain your problem and hang around for a bit, I or somebody may be able to | 01:39 |
| J-Georg_ | Ok, the installation just fails to grub-install (hd0). The root partition is an ext3 at /dev/sda5 and if I chroot to /target and try to do it by hand it fails with "/boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly." | 01:40 |
| J-Georg_ | I had to create menu.lst by myself as it didn't exist. | 01:41 |
| J-Georg_ | I was browsing the forums and checked fstab and mtab as suggested but they look fine to me. | 01:41 |
| cjwatson | just one disk? | 01:41 |
| J-Georg_ | Yes. | 01:42 |
| J-Georg_ | device.map looks ok as well... | 01:42 |
| cjwatson | normally that error is because fstab and menu.lst are out of sync (and beware that grub counts partition numbers from zero not from one) | 01:44 |
| cjwatson | but it's possible that it could also be because grub's internal low-level read-stuff-from-the-disk code is breaking | 01:45 |
| cjwatson | which is liable to be beyond me :-/ | 01:45 |
| J-Georg_ | Right... | 01:45 |
| J-Georg_ | I'll take another look at fstab and menu.lst | 01:45 |
| cjwatson | I'm sorry that may not be a very satisfying answer | 01:46 |
| cjwatson | in extremis, you could try installing lilo | 01:46 |
| CIA-18 | ubiquity: cjwatson * r2325 ubiquity/ (debian/changelog ubiquity/frontend/gtk_ui.py): | 01:46 |
| CIA-18 | ubiquity: * GTK frontend: | 01:46 |
| CIA-18 | ubiquity: - Make sure the next button remains the default widget despite being | 01:46 |
| CIA-18 | ubiquity: hidden and re-shown. | 01:46 |
| J-Georg_ | In fstab /dev/sda5 was identified by UUID. Changed it to /dev/sda5, it didn't help. | 01:47 |
| J-Georg_ | In menu.lst root is set to (hd0,4) | 01:47 |
| cjwatson | if you want to try to dig into exactly what's failing, there should be log and image files left over from grub-install's attempts to read back stage1 lying around in /tmp | 01:48 |
| cjwatson | it copies the files to /boot/grub/ and then tries to read them back using the 'dump' command in the grub shell, then does a binary compare to ensure they're the same | 01:49 |
| cjwatson | I trust you don't have a separate /boot? | 01:49 |
| J-Georg_ | No, it's on the same sda5 | 01:49 |
| cjwatson | the other problem you *could* be having is that maybe you have a sufficiently wacky BIOS that grub is having trouble reading from the logical partition | 01:49 |
| cjwatson | might be worth trying to put a small /boot on a primary partition if possible | 01:50 |
| cjwatson | also, put /boot near the start of the disk | 01:50 |
| cjwatson | depending on the vintage and bugginess of the BIOS, it may have trouble reading from later in the disk | 01:50 |
| J-Georg_ | Ok. Now I can see in the tmp file that: | 01:51 |
| J-Georg_ | Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition | 01:51 |
| J-Georg_ | As a result to dump command. | 01:51 |
| cjwatson | 17 : Cannot mount selected partition | 01:52 |
| cjwatson | This error is returned if the partition requested exists, but the | 01:52 |
| cjwatson | filesystem type cannot be recognized by GRUB. | 01:52 |
| cjwatson | interesting | 01:52 |
| J-Georg_ | Wait a little... | 01:52 |
| J-Georg_ | let me check fdisk output | 01:52 |
| J-Georg_ | /dev/sda5 xxxx xxxxx xxxxxxxx 7 HPFS/NTFS | 01:53 |
| J-Georg_ | Shouldn't it be Linux? | 01:53 |
| J-Georg_ | Or doesn't it matter if fstab says it's ext3? | 01:54 |
| cjwatson | that does matter | 01:55 |
| J-Georg_ | Well, changing id | 01:56 |
| cjwatson | or at least it certainly could matter, ext2fs_mount does check that | 01:56 |
| cjwatson | interesting how it got that way - I'd like to see your installation logs | 01:56 |
| cjwatson | (/var/log/syslog and /var/log/partman if you're still in the installer) | 01:57 |
| cjwatson | if you could try to copy those out before you finish the installation and reboot, I'd appreciate it | 01:57 |
| J-Georg_ | Already rebooted... | 01:57 |
| J-Georg_ | Sry. | 01:57 |
| cjwatson | damn | 01:57 |
| cjwatson | are they in /var/log/installer/ ? | 01:57 |
| cjwatson | I guess you've probably trashed them now so I won't be able to figure out why this happened :-/ | 01:58 |
| cjwatson | if you were using the alternate installer, there's a chance they might still be there | 01:58 |
| J-Georg_ | Well, the partitioning was done in Windows. | 01:58 |
| J-Georg_ | Hence the NTFS setting. | 01:58 |
| cjwatson | ah | 01:58 |
| J-Georg_ | Ubuntu installer didn't complain about it and created ext3 happily on it. | 01:59 |
| cjwatson | could you file a bug on partman-base? (that may not be the right package but it's a start) | 01:59 |
| J-Georg_ | But failed at the grub stage. | 01:59 |
| cjwatson | and explain the situation | 01:59 |
| J-Georg_ | Ok. | 01:59 |
| cjwatson | were you using the alternate install CD or the desktop CD? | 01:59 |
| cjwatson | feel free to just paste this whole IRC log into the bug | 01:59 |
| J-Georg_ | Desktop CD. | 01:59 |
| cjwatson | ok | 01:59 |
| J-Georg_ | Ok, trying to install again now with right ID. | 02:00 |
| J-Georg_ | It's AMD 64 install cd. | 02:00 |
| cjwatson | that shouldn't matter | 02:00 |
| J-Georg_ | Ok. | 02:00 |
| J-Georg_ | Thanks for guidance, anyway :) | 02:01 |
| J-Georg_ | The hint about tmp files was very helpful :) | 02:02 |
| cjwatson | should probably copy the grub log output to the syslog | 02:06 |
| cjwatson | this is weird, it definitely tries to set the partition id | 02:06 |
| cjwatson | J-Georg_: did you use automatic partitioning? | 02:08 |
| cjwatson | I guess not if you did the partitioning in Windows | 02:08 |
| cjwatson | J-Georg_: perhaps you could describe to the best of your memory exactly what you did in the partitioner | 02:08 |
| J-Georg_ | Used manual partitioning. | 02:09 |
| cjwatson | J-Georg_: any more detail? | 02:16 |
| CIA-18 | oem-config: cjwatson * r366 oem-config/debian/ (59 files in 2 dirs): * Update translations from Rosetta. | 02:16 |
| CIA-18 | oem-config: cjwatson * r367 oem-config/ (d-i/manifest debian/changelog): | 02:17 |
| CIA-18 | oem-config: * Automatic update of included source packages: user-setup 1.14ubuntu4 | 02:17 |
| CIA-18 | oem-config: (LP: #149582). | 02:17 |
| CIA-18 | oem-config: cjwatson * r368 oem-config/debian/changelog: releasing version 1.22 | 02:20 |
| J-Georg_ | Right... | 02:26 |
| J-Georg_ | It still doesn't work... | 02:27 |
| J-Georg_ | Wait a little... | 02:27 |
| J-Georg_ | I changed the partition Id but it's again HPFS/NTFS... | 02:27 |
| J-Georg_ | Weird... | 02:27 |
| cjwatson | remember to save the logs this time, please | 02:28 |
| cjwatson | I'm off to do other things for a while (comment about weekend above :-)) | 02:28 |
| J-Georg_ | Ok, thanks anyway. | 02:28 |
| J-Georg_ | There's only version file in /var/log/installer | 02:29 |
| cjwatson | /var/log/syslog and /var/log/partman are the ones you want before reboot | 02:35 |
| cjwatson | they're only copied into /var/log/installer/ right at the end | 02:35 |
| J-Georg_ | Ok. | 02:42 |
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| xivulon | cjwatson, the only way to go around the mkfs issue is to run mkfs on the file and not on the loopdevice (no need to detach the loopdevice) | 09:33 |
| xivulon | how difficult would that be to override the current partman behaviour? | 09:33 |
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