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kirklandcjwatson: can you point me to the relevant code for adding netboot users, such that I can fix https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ecryptfs/+bug/31789515:51
ubottuUbuntu bug 317895 in ecryptfs-utils "netboot newuser and ecryptfs fails to login" [High,Triaged]15:51
cjwatsonkirkland: the netboot installer is just d-i, so user-setup17:16
markhello17:23
markcan the ubuntu installer do fully automatic preseeding of an install with software raid and lvm?17:23
markin hardy17:23
cjwatsonnot raid in hardy I'm afraid, though lvm should be possible17:24
cjwatsonraid is possible post-hardy although not yet terribly well integrated in some ways17:25
markthanks17:25
marktoo bad, although we also do non-LTS releases on servers, it's typically those servers with software raid/lvm that need hardy17:26
cjwatsonyeah, sorry about that17:26
markoh well, life will get better in 2010! ;)17:27
cjwatsonI know our security team are looking forward to having three LTS releases to support simultaneously ;-)17:33
cjwatsonyou 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 fun17:34
markhmm17:35
cjwatsonon the general principle that you can do anything with preseeding ...17:35
marksoftware raid with lvm setups are a bit annoying to do manually as well17:35
marksince you cannot do partitions in a raid volume in the installer17:35
markand have to setup a separate raid volume for root, since grub can't boot from lvm either17:36
cjwatsonright, also because there's no group selection17:36
* cjwatson wonders if he should hijack the d-i team at debcamp with a whiteboard and redesign the whole thing17:36
markthat would be nice :)17:37
charlie-tcaUbiquity is broken on todays desktop cd?18:41
markhrm, the installer doesn't see partitions inside sw raid arrays at all, not even if I make them on the command line18:53
markoh well18:54
markargh19:42
markso for grub, having /boot on a separate non-LVM partition is not enough, it needs / as well?19:42
markthere really is no nice way out of this is there :)19:42
cjwatsoncharlie-tca: not that I'd heard - details please?20:42
cjwatsonmark: it should see them provided that you set them up before the partitioner starts20:42
markI did20:43
markit did see the raid array, but not its partitions20:43
markor does it cache that info, such that a second run won't work?20:43
cjwatsonyes, it caches it20:43
cjwatsonrm -rf /var/lib/partman and then rerun would do it20:43
charlie-tcacjwatson: Non of the Ubuntu or Xubuntu LiveCD's will install today. Ubiquity crashes. bug 32297820:43
cjwatson(nuke all partitioner state)20:43
ubottuLaunchpad bug 322978 in italc "ica crashed with SIGSEGV" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/32297820:43
cjwatson...20:44
charlie-tcaWell bug 33297820:44
ubottuBug 332978 on http://launchpad.net/bugs/332978 is private20:44
cjwatsonI can't see that either20:44
charlie-tcaI will make it public20:44
cjwatsonis it a user-setup crash? that one *is* known20:44
charlie-tcanow it is visible20:45
cjwatsonnumpy, interesting20:45
cjwatsonhadn't heard of this one20:45
charlie-tcaubiquity crashed with ImportError in <module>()20:45
cjwatsonyes yes I'm already past that :)20:45
cjwatsonok, straightforward missing dep by the looks of things20:46
cjwatsoncharlie-tca: try installing python-numpy and then trying again?20:46
charlie-tcaokay. I'll let you know20:46
cjwatsonI don't get why Evan used a full-blown array here20:48
cjwatsoncharlie-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 necessary20:51
cjwatsonand python-numpy is 1.5MB of .deb so I don't want to pull it onto the live CD unless it's strictly necessary20:52
charlie-tcaI just tried to do the install. I don't know what really happened.20:52
charlie-tcaI seem to know enough to tell you20:52
cjwatsonright, I'm just explaining why it might take until tomorrow daytime before we fix it20:52
charlie-tcaThanks20:52
charlie-tcacjwatson: that does allow ubiquity to start. But it pulled in 'libblas3gf', 'libgfortran3', and 'libapack3gf' also.21:02
cjwatsoncharlie-tca: indeed, hence my comment about it being a heavy dependency21:44
charlie-tcaYeah, that makes sense. Unfortunately, there is more wrong. It won't go past the partitioner now.21:44
charlie-tcaI'm thinking I'll wait and try this again tommorrow or next day.21:45
cjwatsonbetween 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
cjwatsonthere are a few possibly-relevant fixes in bzr21:46
charlie-tcaThat works for me. At least we know it is broken, huh.21:50
charlie-tcaThanks for your time.21:51
CIA-3installation-guide: cjwatson * r448 ubuntu/debian/changelog: user-setup encryption change fixes LP: #32317422:29
=== 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
mptOurs is more explanatory23:04
mptFedora's has the advantage that it runs from Windows :-)23:04

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