[11:48] <_ruben> as for preseeding disk layout, http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/svn/debian-installer/installer/doc/devel/partman-auto-recipe.txt seems to be one of the very few reference docs .. any other tips/hints?
[11:49] <cjwatson> you should always use the Ubuntu documentation, not the Debian documentation
[11:49] <cjwatson> at times they differ
[11:50] <_ruben> google wouldnt lead me to an ubuntu version :p
[11:51] <cjwatson> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/debian-installer/ubuntu/annotate/head%3A/doc/devel/partman-auto-recipe.txt
[11:51] <cjwatson> I think that's the only recipe documentation there is, really
[11:54] <_ruben> ok, thanks, then i'll give it a try using that doc
[12:07] <_ruben> is there a way to "test run" such a recipe? initiating a complete os reinstall to test a recipe sounds a bit overkill to me
[12:14] <cjwatson> not really, sorry
[12:18] <_ruben> too bad
[12:38] <Haegin> hi, where can I find the relevant netboot files for ubuntu eee or easy peasy?
[12:43] <cjwatson> we don't yet support the Eee as part of the core Ubuntu project, so I'm afraid this channel is unable to help
[12:44] <cjwatson> though my wife has been on my case to get Ubuntu working on her Eee, so it may happen at some point :)
[12:44] <_ruben> hehe
[12:44] <cjwatson> I assume that you have read https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EeePC/Installation ?
[12:44] <cjwatson> of course, it may be that the standard netboot files work on Eee; I simply don't know
[12:44] <cjwatson> those are here: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/intrepid/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/
[12:50] <Haegin> cjwatson: thanks, I'll take a look. It seems ridiculous that the ubuntu eee project doesn't support netbooting when the device has no optical drive but oh well, some people are fools...
[12:50] <cjwatson> well, depending on the extent of their modifications, it may be that they can just rely on the standard files
[12:51] <cjwatson> as I say - I just don't know
[12:51] <cjwatson> I thought they generally advised USB booting
[12:53] <Haegin> Yeah, I don't have a spare USB device available that works with it and I have a netboot server set up on a nice fast connection.
[13:48] <DogWater> jeez my mirror has been building for 12hr on a gig-e connection
[13:50] <DogWater> cjwatson: d'oh it says that -i error at the beginning of the install but i dont see it until the end when it drops back to the shell
[13:50] <DogWater> i just noticed it
[13:56] <DogWater> cjwatson: it says it immediately after 'configuring the network with dhcp'
[13:56] <DogWater> that must be when it downloads and parses the kickstart file, np?
[13:57] <DogWater> err no??
[14:01] <cjwatson> that's a lot more plausible than it happening at preseed/late_command time, yes
[14:01] <cjwatson> can I get the syslog?
[14:04] <davmor2> cjwatson: Haegin: easypeasy might be a better option for you it used to be the eeebuntu project if memory serves
[14:06] <davmor2> http://www.geteasypeasy.com/
[14:15] <_ruben> woah .. my first attempt at preseeding disk layout actually worked .. not too keen on the chosen names for the vgs/lvs, but i guess i could live with that :)
[14:27] <DogWater> sure, i'll give you the syslog what do you want me to do with it?
[14:28] <cjwatson> put it wherever's convenient, as long as it isn't pasted into IRC
[14:28] <cjwatson> attach to a bug report, paste.ubuntu.com, whatever
[14:30] <DogWater> cjwatson: you mentioned that you ran a ubuntu mirror locally, do you know if you can use any mirror for that or do you have to use the ubuntu archive?
[14:31] <cjwatson> archive.ubuntu.com is a mirror itself, technically :-)
[14:31] <cjwatson> any mirror will do
[14:31] <DogWater> yeah cause i notice that one is particularly slow
[14:31] <cjwatson> obviously it's rather loaded
[14:31] <DogWater> yes, loaded is what i meant to say
[14:34] <DogWater> yikes it started over at the beginning ;-)
[14:34] <DogWater> i figured it would resume
[14:35] <cjwatson> it downloads the indices from scratch each time, but will reuse any .deb files that are there
[14:56] <DogWater> cjwatson: can I send this to you somewhere private? i tried to sanitize it best i could but its a long file
[14:56] <cjwatson> I'd really prefer that you didn't sanitise it, unless there are any passwords in it
[14:56] <DogWater> theres IPs etc in it
[14:57] <cjwatson> mail it to cjwatson@ubuntu.com then
[14:57] <cjwatson> but please don't try to filter it down to what you think I'll be interested in
[14:57] <cjwatson> removing genuinely private data is fine
[14:57] <DogWater> i didnt cut any lines out
[14:57] <DogWater> or anything
[14:58] <cjwatson> some people grep for interesting stuff and only send me the results, which is very frustrating :)
[14:59] <DogWater> should be in your inbox
[15:01] <cjwatson> thanks
[15:52] <davmor2> evand: should m-a pop up now in jaunty on a whole drive install?
[16:10] <DogWater> hrm
[16:12] <DogWater> well aside from not being able to use sed in the installer im pretty pleased with the new version (fixed) cjwatson, did you ever get a chance to release a new initrd for amd64?
[16:25] <cjwatson> no, planning to do that by way of intrepid-proposed
[16:25] <cjwatson> Jan 23 09:34:38 in-target: Unexpected error; command not executed: 'apt-get update'
[16:25] <cjwatson> I guess this must be the problem - let me see
[16:30] <cjwatson> ah yes, I can reproduce it
[17:30] <DogWater> cjwatson so any clue on that one?
[17:54] <cjwatson> DogWater: I was on the phone, give me a minute ...
[17:56] <cjwatson> I'm hitting it with various debugging approaches now
[17:57] <DogWater> oh, i dont mean to rush you or anything i was just curious you killed that one yesterday so fast
[17:59] <cjwatson> yeah, that one I had fixed already though and just had to remember about it :)
[17:59] <DogWater> oh. lol nice
[17:59] <cjwatson> this one almost looks like a new busybox bug
[18:00] <DogWater> i do that sometimes when i write php i create a function like 10 times and do it 10 different ways then eventually i realize i already wrote that function
[18:00] <DogWater> i think i got banned from the ubuntu archive i was trying to mirror =/
[18:01] <cjwatson> I think I can give you a workaround
[18:03] <cjwatson> preseed preseed/late_command string sed 's/http:\/\/10.1.0.1\/Ubuntu8.10\//http:\/\/ubuntu.osuosl.org\/ubuntu/g' /target/etc/apt/sources.list > /target/etc/apt/sources.list.new && mv /target/etc/apt/sources.list.new /target/etc/apt/sources.list && in-target apt-get update
[18:05] <cjwatson> alternatively, you can put the whole sed / apt-get update thing in a script that you download from a server and then run
[18:05] <cjwatson> the problem isn't with running sed, it's with parsing of the -i
[18:06] <cjwatson> it's being parsed entirely incorrectly as a getopt option, which it isn't
[18:10] <cjwatson> there is something very weird going on, though, as I can reproduce this with getopt(1) on a normal system too
[18:10] <cjwatson> $ getopt -o '' -l foo: -- -i
[18:10] <cjwatson> getopt: invalid option -- 'i'
[18:10] <cjwatson>  --
[18:10] <cjwatson> (the -- in the first line is supposed to terminate options regardless of everything else)
[18:11] <cjwatson> oh, maybe I'm confused
[18:12] <cjwatson> DogWater: anyway, that should be a functional workaround and I have to go out now, but I'll continue working this out and get it fixed for jaunty
[18:13] <CIA-3> oem-config: cjwatson * r584 trunk/ (6 files in 3 dirs):
[18:13] <CIA-3> oem-config: If the user backs up all the way out of oem-config (perhaps
[18:13] <CIA-3> oem-config: deliberately, or perhaps by accident), ask whether they want to try
[18:13] <CIA-3> oem-config: again, drop to a recovery shell, or reboot.
[18:21] <CIA-3> debian-installer: cjwatson * r991 intrepid-proposed/ (3 files in 2 dirs): Move mainline architectures to 2.6.27-11 kernels.
[18:28] <CIA-3> debian-installer: cjwatson * r992 intrepid-proposed/debian/changelog: releasing version 20080522ubuntu26