| kirkland | cjwatson: can you point me to the relevant code for adding netboot users, such that I can fix https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ecryptfs/+bug/317895 | 15:51 |
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| ubottu | Ubuntu bug 317895 in ecryptfs-utils "netboot newuser and ecryptfs fails to login" [High,Triaged] | 15:51 |
| cjwatson | kirkland: the netboot installer is just d-i, so user-setup | 17:16 |
| mark | hello | 17:23 |
| mark | can the ubuntu installer do fully automatic preseeding of an install with software raid and lvm? | 17:23 |
| mark | in hardy | 17:23 |
| cjwatson | not raid in hardy I'm afraid, though lvm should be possible | 17:24 |
| cjwatson | raid is possible post-hardy although not yet terribly well integrated in some ways | 17:25 |
| mark | thanks | 17:25 |
| mark | too bad, although we also do non-LTS releases on servers, it's typically those servers with software raid/lvm that need hardy | 17:26 |
| cjwatson | yeah, sorry about that | 17:26 |
| mark | oh well, life will get better in 2010! ;) | 17:27 |
| cjwatson | I know our security team are looking forward to having three LTS releases to support simultaneously ;-) | 17:33 |
| cjwatson | you probably *can* preseed RAID setup by hand in hardy (i.e. preseed/early_command that writes out /lib/partman/display.d/ script that calls mdadm lots), but it wouldn't be very much fun | 17:34 |
| mark | hmm | 17:35 |
| cjwatson | on the general principle that you can do anything with preseeding ... | 17:35 |
| mark | software raid with lvm setups are a bit annoying to do manually as well | 17:35 |
| mark | since you cannot do partitions in a raid volume in the installer | 17:35 |
| mark | and have to setup a separate raid volume for root, since grub can't boot from lvm either | 17:36 |
| cjwatson | right, also because there's no group selection | 17:36 |
| * cjwatson wonders if he should hijack the d-i team at debcamp with a whiteboard and redesign the whole thing | 17:36 | |
| mark | that would be nice :) | 17:37 |
| charlie-tca | Ubiquity is broken on todays desktop cd? | 18:41 |
| mark | hrm, the installer doesn't see partitions inside sw raid arrays at all, not even if I make them on the command line | 18:53 |
| mark | oh well | 18:54 |
| mark | argh | 19:42 |
| mark | so for grub, having /boot on a separate non-LVM partition is not enough, it needs / as well? | 19:42 |
| mark | there really is no nice way out of this is there :) | 19:42 |
| cjwatson | charlie-tca: not that I'd heard - details please? | 20:42 |
| cjwatson | mark: it should see them provided that you set them up before the partitioner starts | 20:42 |
| mark | I did | 20:43 |
| mark | it did see the raid array, but not its partitions | 20:43 |
| mark | or does it cache that info, such that a second run won't work? | 20:43 |
| cjwatson | yes, it caches it | 20:43 |
| cjwatson | rm -rf /var/lib/partman and then rerun would do it | 20:43 |
| charlie-tca | cjwatson: Non of the Ubuntu or Xubuntu LiveCD's will install today. Ubiquity crashes. bug 322978 | 20:43 |
| cjwatson | (nuke all partitioner state) | 20:43 |
| ubottu | Launchpad bug 322978 in italc "ica crashed with SIGSEGV" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/322978 | 20:43 |
| cjwatson | ... | 20:44 |
| charlie-tca | Well bug 332978 | 20:44 |
| ubottu | Bug 332978 on http://launchpad.net/bugs/332978 is private | 20:44 |
| cjwatson | I can't see that either | 20:44 |
| charlie-tca | I will make it public | 20:44 |
| cjwatson | is it a user-setup crash? that one *is* known | 20:44 |
| charlie-tca | now it is visible | 20:45 |
| cjwatson | numpy, interesting | 20:45 |
| cjwatson | hadn't heard of this one | 20:45 |
| charlie-tca | ubiquity crashed with ImportError in <module>() | 20:45 |
| cjwatson | yes yes I'm already past that :) | 20:45 |
| cjwatson | ok, straightforward missing dep by the looks of things | 20:46 |
| cjwatson | charlie-tca: try installing python-numpy and then trying again? | 20:46 |
| charlie-tca | okay. I'll let you know | 20:46 |
| cjwatson | I don't get why Evan used a full-blown array here | 20:48 |
| cjwatson | charlie-tca: thanks for spotting that; I'm not sure I want to just add the dependency though, as it seems strange to me that this particular data type is necessary | 20:51 |
| cjwatson | and python-numpy is 1.5MB of .deb so I don't want to pull it onto the live CD unless it's strictly necessary | 20:52 |
| charlie-tca | I just tried to do the install. I don't know what really happened. | 20:52 |
| charlie-tca | I seem to know enough to tell you | 20:52 |
| cjwatson | right, I'm just explaining why it might take until tomorrow daytime before we fix it | 20:52 |
| charlie-tca | Thanks | 20:52 |
| charlie-tca | cjwatson: that does allow ubiquity to start. But it pulled in 'libblas3gf', 'libgfortran3', and 'libapack3gf' also. | 21:02 |
| cjwatson | charlie-tca: indeed, hence my comment about it being a heavy dependency | 21:44 |
| charlie-tca | Yeah, that makes sense. Unfortunately, there is more wrong. It won't go past the partitioner now. | 21:44 |
| charlie-tca | I'm thinking I'll wait and try this again tommorrow or next day. | 21:45 |
| cjwatson | between now and tomorrow, you have a whole lot of the installer team sleeping; next day is probably more realistic for an actual fix :) | 21:46 |
| cjwatson | (the build happens quite erly in the morning) | 21:46 |
| cjwatson | there are a few possibly-relevant fixes in bzr | 21:46 |
| charlie-tca | That works for me. At least we know it is broken, huh. | 21:50 |
| charlie-tca | Thanks for your time. | 21:51 |
| CIA-3 | installation-guide: cjwatson * r448 ubuntu/debian/changelog: user-setup encryption change fixes LP: #323174 | 22:29 |
| === Daviey_ is now known as Daviey | ||
| * mpt compares <http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/Usb-creator.png> vs. <http://imag.malavida.com/mvimgbig/download/fedora-live-usb-creator-5419-1.jpg> | 23:03 | |
| mpt | Ours is more explanatory | 23:04 |
| mpt | Fedora's has the advantage that it runs from Windows :-) | 23:04 |
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