[00:08] <giosue_c> hi.  i'm looking at the error logs of a system that failed while installing.
[00:08] <giosue_c> this may seem remedial, but i'm wondering how to get the logs off the system so I can keep the error messages around.
[00:10] <giosue_c> i see the nc command is available and i'll probably use that, but would be nice to know what the standard approach to getting a copy of the logs is.
[00:13] <cjwatson> the usual advice I give is to go back to the installer main menu, select "Save debug logs", and follow the instructions
[00:14] <cjwatson> it's also possible to run 'anna-install openssh-client-udeb' and after that you'll have scp, or as you observe you can use nc
[00:20] <giosue_c> thanks.  good to know.  switched my build from feisty to hardy today and something's not quite right.
[09:35] <CIA-1> oem-config: cjwatson * r477 oem-config/debian/changelog: releasing version 1.40
[12:15] <xivulon> evand, can you please test wubi within vm with < 256MB?
[12:48] <CIA-1> partman-base: cjwatson * r97 ubuntu/ (debian/changelog lib/base.sh):
[12:48] <CIA-1> partman-base: Don't disable /dev/ramzswap* swap devices (thanks, John McCabe-Dansted;
[12:48] <CIA-1> partman-base: LP: #193552).
[12:51] <CIA-1> partman-base: cjwatson * r98 ubuntu/debian/changelog: releasing version 121ubuntu2
[13:56] <evand> xivulon: sure
[14:18] <evand> xivulon: The 256 MB check is fine, but using today's CD I'm getting an invalid CD detected when launching umenu
[14:43] <xivulon> arg I forgot about umenu
[14:45] <xivulon> !define VERSION "8.04"
[14:46] <xivulon> src/umenu.nsi
[14:46] <xivulon> should be 8.04.1
[14:46] <xivulon> evand please try with the above ^
[14:47] <evand> will do
[15:06] <evand> that worked.  Ok, I'll commit this and ask slangasek if he's willing to regenerate the desktop CDs at this point.
[15:14] <xivulon> sorry for that umenu completely slipped my mind
[15:16] <evand> hopefully slangasek will let another build through :/
[16:49] <evand> xivulon: have you experienced any crashes while testing Wubi.exe?  I seem to be getting them with some frequency in 8.04.1.
[16:50] <chrismat> I want to install Ubuntu from CentOS PXE
[16:50] <chrismat> unattended
[16:50] <chrismat> What should i use debconf, fai or kickstart?
[16:52] <xivulon> evand no, not particularly
[16:52] <xivulon> quite strange because if anything there is less stuff now
[16:52] <xivulon> maybe do you have several ISOs around?
[16:53] <evand> I don't believe so.  I always uncheck the box for backing up the ISO.
[16:53] <evand> I also hit a bug where it asked the timezone question, but I cannot reproduce it now.
[16:55] <xivulon> hmm would have liked to have had more feedback on this a few days ago'...
[16:57] <evand> Indeed, we're probably stuck with it now.
[17:02] <cjwatson> chrismat: I don't recommend fai simply because the Ubuntu installer team has very little experience with it and so it probably hasn't been touched very much for Ubuntu
[17:03] <cjwatson> chrismat: either debconf preseeding or Kickstart is fine; preseeding is more powerful in and of itself while Kickstart is simpler; however, you can use Kickstart and add a few preseeding commands to tweak things that go wrong, if you like
[17:04] <xivulon> evand there is no change in the source that would make segfaults more likely as far as I can see, must be a random change (like behaviour changing because of an extra print statement...)
[17:05] <xivulon> as for the timezone the code is slightly different now, it might be that you had that with the french version?
[17:05] <xivulon> ms has this nice habit of saving configuration values in localized form from time to time...
[17:15] <evand> cute, and yes, I was using the French Windows XP Professional.
[17:16] <evand> However, it only failed once while using it.
[20:26] <james_w> testing today's intrepid daily alternate I get "hotkey-setup: Depends: discover (>= 2.0) but it is not installable". I'm stuck at finding out the cause though.
[21:51] <opapo> how do I use kickstart to automate the install of a lamp server
[23:25] <cjwatson> james_w: I fixed hotkey-setup this morning
[23:25] <cjwatson> opapo: I'm going to bed now, but either stick around and I'll answer tomorrow morning if nobody beats me to it, or send mail as in the /topic
[23:26] <james_w> cjwatson: great, thanks
[23:28] <giosue_c> i'm trying to build a hardy alternate installer cd with cdimage.  germinate isn't finding some dependencies of the xubuntu-desktop package.  I think it is because the packages it requires are in universe, but the germinate command cdimage is using only looks at main.
[23:33] <cjwatson> giosue_c: set CDIMAGE_UNSUPPORTED in the environment. (grep for that and you'll see what I mean.)
[23:33] <cjwatson> see the 'export CDIMAGE_UNSUPPORTED=1' lines in cdimage/bin/build-image-set
[23:33] <giosue_c> i think i already know what you mean :).  I'm pretty sure i bumped my head on that before.
[23:34] <giosue_c> now that you mention it!
[23:34] <giosue_c> thanks
[23:37] <giosue_c> I see it returns a mirror location of ftp-universe instead of ftp
[23:37] <cjwatson> that's due to cdimage's local wacky mirror layout, feel free to override
[23:37]  * cjwatson -> bed, no really
[23:38] <giosue_c> :)
[23:38] <giosue_c> thanks
[23:59] <xivulon> evand yes it matters, because people use the local directory to pass a pre-downloaded ISO, but with a self-extracting wubi I cannot know which one is the local directory