| ago_ | cjwatson, evand I think we'll have to skip dm-loop for the time being: http://img205.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dmloop3pj5.png | 00:47 |
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| ago_ | I will have a quick word with cking tomorrow just in case | 00:47 |
| cjwatson | yeah, that's similar to what I saw I think | 00:52 |
| ago_ | strangely enough in the local code (which should be identical to the interactive commands that generated the kernel panic) I can go past the dmlosetup stage (although I run in the other problems mentioned above) | 01:06 |
| ago_ | local code = /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local | 01:06 |
| TheMuso | cjwatson: I'm trying to debug the failure to install grub on a dmraid array from netboot, and have found a couple of things. 1) the error only occurs when installing alongside windows. 2) installing via netboot onto standard disks, i.e no dmraid array alongside windows causes grub installation to hang. | 01:15 |
| TheMuso | cjwatson: I'll ahve logs/more data to examine later today when you are around. | 01:15 |
| cilkay | Hello. I asked a question on the forum and the Ubuntu Users list about preseeding dpkg-reconfigure console-setup but I didn't get any responses so I suspect it was the wrong place to ask. | 02:45 |
| cilkay | Here is the forum post: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=943668 | 02:46 |
| cilkay | Any help would be appreciated. | 02:46 |
| acoc | hey guys, I'm having some trouble with debian-cd | 04:12 |
| acoc | the error is: mv: cannot stat `/home/acoc/projects/ubuntu_devel/cdimage/work/scratch/ubuntu/daily-live/tmp/hardy-i386/CD1/casper/filesystem.kernel-generic': No such file or directory | 04:12 |
| acoc | make: *** [/home/acoc/projects/ubuntu_devel/cdimage/work/scratch/ubuntu/daily-live/tmp/hardy-i386/bootable-stamp] Error 1 | 04:12 |
| acoc | does anyone know what makes filesystem.kernel-generic or the initrd | 04:13 |
| TheMuso | acoc: livecd-rootfs I would think. | 04:19 |
| TheMuso | But I don't know for sure. | 04:19 |
| StevenK | Yes, livecd-rootfs | 04:20 |
| StevenK | It's the kernel from whatever linux-generic installs | 04:21 |
| acoc | sorry for the delay, I'm a big Phillies fan and they just came back | 04:25 |
| acoc | thanks that helps, I probably should have been looking at that all along | 04:27 |
| evand | cjwatson: if you have a moment, can you look at bug 150872. I suspect I'm missing something fairly obvious in my patch, but I'm not sure what. | 07:58 |
| StevenK | evand: So, I'm trying to install on the Jax. First error was: "ClockSetup failed with code 4", and then I tried again and got: "TimezoneApply with code 1" | 08:04 |
| evand | Noting your comment in the bug, but the code in question adds $device /cdrom udf,iso9660 user,noauto... so I'm still not sure what would be wrong with the patch. | 08:04 |
| evand | hrmm | 08:04 |
| evand | StevenK: Not entirely sure just based on that. Can you stick set -x in the right places and post full logs to a bug report? | 08:05 |
| StevenK | Hm. My set -x hackage didn't work as intended | 09:05 |
| persia | StevenK, Does syslog have anything interesting? | 09:15 |
| StevenK | Ah ha! | 09:16 |
| StevenK | cp: writing '/target/etc/localtime': No space left on device | 09:16 |
| * StevenK kicks it | 09:16 | |
| StevenK | evand: It's not a bug, it's running out of space | 09:17 |
| * StevenK shuts the damn thing down | 09:17 | |
| * davmor2 lends StevenK his big hammer less painful on the foot | 09:17 | |
| StevenK | Hehe | 09:17 |
| cjwatson | cilkay: all the lines that begin "d-i console-setup console-setup/..." or "d-i console-terminus console-terminus/..." are completely broken and you should remove them (as in, they aren't in the right format for a preseed file and you shouldn't need them anyway) | 09:44 |
| cjwatson | cilkay: the rest rings a bell, I'm just trying to find the relevant bug ... | 09:45 |
| cjwatson | cilkay: try deleting console-setup/variantcode too? I'm wondering if having the empty string there is confusing console-setup | 09:48 |
| cjwatson | evand: I commented on 150872 | 09:51 |
| cjwatson | evand: could you fix the way the timezone widget continues to scroll even after the mouse exits the widget for 8.10, please? | 13:51 |
| cjwatson | we don't have a lot of time left so I'd like that to land | 13:51 |
| CIA-52 | partman-ext2r0: cjwatson * r786 ubuntu/ (check.d/nomountpoint_ext2r0 debian/changelog): | 13:56 |
| CIA-52 | partman-ext2r0: * check.d/nomountpoint_ext2r0: | 13:56 |
| CIA-52 | partman-ext2r0: - Make $RET look for a boolean value (thanks, Nicolas Valcárcel; | 13:56 |
| CIA-52 | partman-ext2r0: LP: #256459). | 13:56 |
| evand | cjwatson: will do | 14:01 |
| CIA-52 | partman-ext2r0: cjwatson * r787 ubuntu/debian/control: Maintainer and Vcs-Bzr for Ubuntu | 14:06 |
| CIA-52 | partman-ext2r0: cjwatson * r788 ubuntu/debian/changelog: releasing version 1.15ubuntu1 | 14:24 |
| cr3 | cjwatson: to follow up on sources.list.apt-setup from yesterday, I tried: 1. setting my proxy in mirror/http/proxy; 2. setting my local repo in local0; 3. setting archive.ubuntu.com in local1; | 14:53 |
| cr3 | cjwatson: the problem is that I'm not getting a Broken package error relating to gimp, probably because it's getting some packages from mirror/http/hostname and some from local1: http://people.ubuntu.com/~cr3/syslog | 14:54 |
| cjwatson | cr3: why aren't you setting mirror/http/hostname? | 14:54 |
| cjwatson | that seems like the obvious approach; putting the main mirror in local doesn't make sense | 14:54 |
| cr3 | cjwatson: sorry, mirror/http/hostname is set to my repo taken from the alternate image | 14:55 |
| cr3 | cjwatson: whereas local0 is set to a small repo of my own packages | 14:55 |
| cr3 | cjwatson: previously, local1 and the proxy was being set by a custom udeb which created sources.list.apt-setup and a proxy file under /target/etc/apt/apt.conf.d | 14:55 |
| cr3 | cjwatson: the repo taken from the alternate image is indeed the main mirror from which I want to grab packages | 14:56 |
| cjwatson | I seem to be being unclear somehow. I think you should set your snapshot of archive.ubuntu.com in mirror/http/hostname and mirror/http/directory, not in local. | 14:56 |
| cr3 | cjwatson: I'll upload the preseed too, one sec | 14:56 |
| cjwatson | I thought that was what I'd said yesterday. | 14:57 |
| cjwatson | apt-setup/local* is for things like your small repository of your own packages, not for the primary mirror that goes first in sources.list | 14:57 |
| cr3 | cjwatson: I don't have a snapshot of archive.ubuntu.com though, I only have a copy of the alternate image in mirror/http/hostname which is just a subset of archive.ubuntu.com. so, that's why I set archive.ubuntu.com as local1 | 14:58 |
| cjwatson | you should put it in mirror/http/hostname anyway | 14:58 |
| cr3 | cjwatson: here's my preseed: http://people.ubuntu.com/~cr3/preseed.txt | 14:59 |
| cjwatson | do you ever actually want to retrieve any packages from archive.ubuntu.com? | 14:59 |
| cjwatson | it seems like asking for trouble in your setup | 14:59 |
| cr3 | cjwatson: yes, I need some packages from archive.ubuntu.com which are dependencies for my tests. however, I just want those dependencies from archive.ubuntu.com, the rest should come from the alternate image | 15:00 |
| cjwatson | where do you install those dependencies? | 15:00 |
| cr3 | cjwatson: pkgsel/include typically refers to my own package, which is available on local0 and which specifies dependencies in the package itself | 15:00 |
| cjwatson | cr3: does that package depend on things that need to be retrieved from archive.ubuntu.com? | 15:01 |
| cr3 | cjwatson: yes, because they're not available on the alternate image | 15:01 |
| cjwatson | I see. | 15:02 |
| cjwatson | cr3: The only way apt supports doing this reliably is using /etc/apt/preferences (which the installer has no built-in means of writing although it might be possible in a post-base-installer script). However, in this case I think it probably makes more sense just to append bits to sources.list in late_command and install the package there. | 15:03 |
| cr3 | cjwatson: before, using that sources.list.apt-setup trick worked to cover my special case. however, since this was an undocumented feature, I would like to take this opportunity to reexplore my setup and perhaps come up with something more standard. | 15:03 |
| cjwatson | cr3: You'd have had occasional problems in the old setup too if skew got large enough. | 15:03 |
| cr3 | cjwatson: I might've has sporadic problems indeed, I will definately gain from having a more stable solution in the long run | 15:04 |
| cr3 | cjwatson: ok, so I should handle everything in the post-install. but, I have to be careful, because grub is installed afterwards | 15:05 |
| cjwatson | late_command is done after grub | 15:05 |
| cr3 | cjwatson: ah, but grub is done after sources.list.apt-setup is copied over, right? that might be why I'm confused | 15:06 |
| cr3 | cjwatson: I'll have a quick look at /etc/apt/preferences before jumping into the late_command solution | 15:07 |
| cjwatson | correct | 15:08 |
| cr3 | cjwatson: where can I find documentation or examples for /etc/apt/preferences? I tried looking in busybox during installation, there's no /etc/apt/preferences nor under /target. I also tried grepping the installation-guide-i386 package on Hardy, but not there either. | 15:10 |
| cjwatson | apt_preferences(5) | 15:12 |
| === nxvl_ is now known as nxvl | ||
| cr3 | cjwatson: ok, so I'm thinking that a late_command script will be easier to maintain and more flexible than using /etc/apt/preferences. so, what's the difference between using in-target and chroot /target? | 15:28 |
| cr3 | cjwatson: I think the difference is that in-target logs properly to /var/log/syslog | 15:32 |
| persia | cr3, It also takes care of some other accounting for you : it's essentially a convenience script to make your life easy. | 15:35 |
| cjwatson | cr3: the main relevant difference is that in-target sets up debconf interaction | 15:35 |
| cjwatson | oh, and mounts /proc | 15:35 |
| cjwatson | start with in-target but depending on exactly what you're doing you may find that you need to drop back to chroot /target | 15:35 |
| Zelut | I'm trying to create a custom ubuntu .iso but when I boot the mkisofs-created image in Vbox it errors on finding any of the kernels. | 17:03 |
| Zelut | basically I'm trying to create a customized boot.iso with both 32 and 64bit netinstall kernel options at boot. | 17:03 |
| Zelut | currently I have all kernels and initrd in the root folder of the .iso, pointed to by the isolinux.cfg. | 17:06 |
| persia | Zelut, Does it fail to boot, or fail to detect a valid kernel for install? | 17:07 |
| Zelut | it says it can't find kernel <filename> | 17:18 |
| Zelut | no matter the boot option I select from my custom isolinux.cfg / boot.txt menu it can't find the file. | 17:18 |
| === cjwatson_ is now known as cjwatson | ||
| persia | Zelut, Hrm. That's an isolinux thing, about which I know very little. Sorry. | 17:23 |
| Zelut | does the .iso not allow for renaming the kernel/initrd for some reason? | 17:43 |
| cr3 | when I do a network install, I have debconf/priority=critical as a kernel parameter. however, that doesn't seem to be passed when running in-target apt-get install -y --force-yes in the late_command | 18:32 |
| CIA-52 | ubiquity: evand * r2898 ubiquity/ (debian/changelog ubiquity/zoommap.py): | 18:34 |
| CIA-52 | ubiquity: Stop scrolling the timezone map once the mouse is outside its | 18:34 |
| CIA-52 | ubiquity: boundaries (LP: #251231). | 18:34 |
| cilkay | cjwatson: All that "d-i console-setup console-setup" stuff I put in my preseed file was because the "simplified" file as per the preseed example file provided in the docs did not work. I had the same issues. Once I went through a manual "dpkg-reconfigure console-setup", I paid attention to the questions and answers and found the "d-i console-setup console-setup/" strings in the file created using debconf- | 19:44 |
| cilkay | get-selections. | 19:44 |
| cilkay | I'm at wit's end with preseed installation. | 19:45 |
| cilkay | It seems much more complicated than kickstart. | 19:45 |
| cilkay | I tried using a GUI tool to generate a kickstart file too but when it came to the package selection section, there were no packages to select. | 19:46 |
| cilkay | In case this has fallen off your scrollback, I asked a question on the forum and the Ubuntu Users list about preseeding dpkg-reconfigure console-setup but I didn't get any responses so I suspect it was the wrong place to ask. | 19:48 |
| cilkay | Here is the forum post: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=943668 | 19:48 |
| CIA-52 | ubiquity: evand * r2899 ubiquity/ (debian/changelog ubiquity/zoommap.py): | 20:18 |
| CIA-52 | ubiquity: Iterate through a list of nearby timezones on click, rather than | 20:18 |
| CIA-52 | ubiquity: selecting the absolute closest timezone to the pointer. | 20:18 |
| CIA-52 | ubiquity: cjwatson * r2900 ubiquity/ (debian/changelog ubiquity/i18n.py): Fix translation of Quit button (LP: #277451). | 20:46 |
| cjwatson | evand: are you planning a ubiquity upload today? | 20:47 |
| evand | cjwatson: yes, I was going to wait until later tonight though. | 20:48 |
| Zelut | ok this is driving me nuts. I've downloaded a second linux/initrd.gz and added it to the root of my mini.iso. When I select that option at boot it can't find it. | 21:00 |
| Zelut | permissions seem to be the same. ownership is the same. isolinux.cfg has been updated, using the same path syntax as the original.. | 21:01 |
| MadsRH | Hi. Can anyone tell me if there's any plans to update the GUI in the installer? | 21:10 |
| cjwatson | MadsRH: in what way? | 21:11 |
| cjwatson | oh, you were the person asking about slideshow the other day weren't you? | 21:11 |
| MadsRH | Hi cjwatson - Yes, I was :-) | 21:12 |
| MadsRH | I've been looking in the wiki and the blueprintes, but there's no info about that | 21:12 |
| evand | It's been deferred. | 21:13 |
| cjwatson | MadsRH: the ubiquity-visual-refresh spec is the current plan of record, but it has largely been crowded out by other more urgent goals | 21:13 |
| cjwatson | https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/ubiquity-visual-refresh | 21:13 |
| MadsRH | thanks | 21:14 |
| === ago_ is now known as xivulon_ | ||
| MadsRH | So I read the spec for the ubiquity-visual-refresh and it seems like the TODO task would be the next step here. I really want to see this ubiquity-visual-refresh happen and want to help out (if I may, as I'm not part of the installer-team). | 21:32 |
| xivulon_ | hmm, something does not work in partman/wubi, I am thrown out with "No filesystem is defined" | 21:33 |
| * xivulon_ investigating | 21:33 | |
| xivulon_ | "No root file system is defined" | 21:33 |
| evand | MadsRH: The mockup is done, it's just buried under a pile of papers on my desk. | 21:34 |
| evand | The next step would be to investigate what format to use (animation needed) and how to best overlay translated text on it. | 21:34 |
| MadsRH | evand -> Okay, so I can't find in on the web (wiki, mailinglist...)? | 21:35 |
| === cjwatson_ is now known as cjwatson | ||
| evand | MadsRH: No, it was hand drawn at UDS. Let me see if I can find it, at which point I'll scan it and put it on that wiki page. | 21:35 |
| MadsRH | Evand -> Great :-) you say hand drawn. Perhaps I could do a mockup of it? But that sounds really good, thanks | 21:37 |
| evand | That would be very helpful as my drawing capabilities, as evidenced by the notes I'm about to upload, are quite poor. | 21:44 |
| MadsRH | ;-) | 21:44 |
| evand | hrm, hopefully he'll notice that I updated the wiki page. | 21:53 |
| evand | My notes are not entirely helpful, but I suspect if he has questions he'll be back. | 21:53 |
| charlie-tca | Is there a known issue with Daily-LiveCD crashing on Manual Partitioning? I just tried an install using | 22:23 |
| charlie-tca | today's CD, and got Partman failed with exit code 141 | 22:24 |
| evand | charlie-tca: yes | 22:26 |
| evand | https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/282756 | 22:26 |
| charlie-tca | Thanks | 22:27 |
| evand | it's fixed in tree, just awaiting a new ubiquity upload, which I'll be taking care of in a few hours. | 22:27 |
| charlie-tca | Okay, I'll try this again in about 12 hours then | 22:27 |
| kirkland | evand: hey there, you still around? | 22:55 |
| kirkland | TheMuso: or you, perhaps? | 22:55 |
| kirkland | evand: TheMuso I'm hitting something strange in grub-installer | 22:55 |
| kirkland | evand: TheMuso: line 585 looks like: | 22:55 |
| TheMuso | kirkland: Sure, whats up? | 22:55 |
| kirkland | if [ -z "$frdisk" ]; then | 22:55 |
| kirkland | TheMuso: hey! | 22:55 |
| kirkland | TheMuso: okay, so running grub-installer through set -x, I'm seeing that frdisk=found | 22:56 |
| kirkland | TheMuso: how and where is that getting set? | 22:56 |
| kirkland | TheMuso: specifically, i'm working with virtio devices, eg, /dev/vda | 22:56 |
| TheMuso | kirkland: That gets set if the boot device is either mdadm, sataraid, or multipath if memory serves. | 22:56 |
| kirkland | TheMuso: yup, but it's also getting set when the boot device is vda, and that's breaking me :-) | 22:57 |
| kirkland | TheMuso: I'm trying to find the faulty logic, and I'm thinking it might not be in grub-installer, somehow | 22:57 |
| TheMuso | kirkland: Right, well you will have to look and find what sets it for virtio devices, by following the execution path of the script. | 22:57 |
| kirkland | TheMuso: set -x output: http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/57617/ | 22:58 |
| kirkland | TheMuso: I'm bothered that that doesn't show any frdisk=... | 22:59 |
| TheMuso | kirkland: oh so you want frdisk to be set? You may have to put another if stanza in to do that. | 23:00 |
| kirkland | TheMuso: ah, okay, that's easy enough to do | 23:00 |
| kirkland | TheMuso: below mdadm or some such | 23:00 |
| TheMuso | kirkland: I guess so. | 23:01 |
| kirkland | TheMuso: cool, i have a fix, tested, works | 23:35 |
| kirkland | TheMuso: would you mind having a look and sponsoring, so that it makes it into the next daily build? | 23:35 |
| TheMuso | kirkland: Sure. | 23:35 |
| * TheMuso installs cia-clients again since he is using a fresh install... | 23:36 | |
| CIA-52 | partman-base: TheMuso * r113 ubuntu/debian/changelog: releasing version 121ubuntu8 | 23:37 |
| === ago_ is now known as xivulon_ | ||
| CIA-52 | hw-detect: TheMuso * r88 ubuntu/ (debian/changelog debian/disk-detect.templates disk-detect.sh): | 23:40 |
| CIA-52 | hw-detect: disk-detect.sh, debian/disk-detect.templates: If dmraid arrays are found, | 23:40 |
| CIA-52 | hw-detect: ask the user if they want to use them. (LP: #279288) | 23:40 |
| kirkland | TheMuso: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub-installer/+bug/281492 | 23:40 |
| kirkland | TheMuso: patch attached at the bottom, as well a bzr branch | 23:40 |
| TheMuso | kirkland: Thanks, will attend to it as soon as I upload these two packages. | 23:41 |
| kirkland | TheMuso: cool | 23:41 |
| xivulon_ | cjwatson, evand, I think that /lib/partman/check.d/proper_mountpoints creates issues with wubi | 23:41 |
| CIA-52 | hw-detect: TheMuso * r89 ubuntu/debian/changelog: releasing version 1.63ubuntu4 | 23:42 |
| evand | xivulon_: are you sure about that? It's existed as is since March. | 23:43 |
| xivulon_ | evand doing some tests now, installation stops there with "No root file system is defined" | 23:43 |
| cjwatson | well, maybe it isn't. | 23:43 |
| cjwatson | it's a warning message after all, sometimes its job is to fail | 23:44 |
| evand | I suspect it's failing elsewhere and just bubbling up there. | 23:44 |
| cjwatson | the no_root check is really, really simple. I agree with Evan | 23:44 |
| xivulon_ | yep looks like that, looks for / in fstab.d | 23:45 |
| TheMuso | 8/c | 23:45 |
| james_w | Hi, when using usb-creator with a persistence file does it save all changes to the file system from the live image, or is there a certain location to save to? | 23:50 |
| james_w | or am I missing the intent? or the limits of what it can do? | 23:50 |
| xivulon_ | have that both in vm and real hardware | 23:50 |
| evand | james_w: it's broken so it does neither at the moment | 23:54 |
| evand | but it will be all changes to the filesystem | 23:54 |
| evand | casper affords two options, as I understand it | 23:54 |
| evand | one is to do the entire filesystem, the other is to do /home | 23:54 |
| evand | usb-creator opts for the former | 23:55 |
| james_w | ah, good to know it doesn't work :-) | 23:55 |
| james_w | I thought I was being stupid | 23:55 |
| evand | https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/casper/+bug/274076 | 23:55 |
| james_w | thanks | 23:55 |
| evand | james_w: please do file any bugs you find in it without persistence enabled. I am keen on getting as much testing as possible before release. | 23:58 |
| james_w | with usb-creator? | 23:58 |
| evand | ja | 23:58 |
| james_w | yeah, I've been having trouble with it writing dud images, I can't work out what the cause is though | 23:58 |
| james_w | it's something to do with formatting | 23:59 |
| evand | boot flag not set? | 23:59 |
| james_w | It could be, when I choose USB from the boot menu I get nothing more than a flashing cursor | 23:59 |
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