[11:01] <kim0> Hi .. I'm almost pulling my hair out
[11:02] <kim0> I'm trying to create a preseed file for the second day, that does raid1
[11:02] <kim0> I am always getting this "No root file system" error message
[11:02] <kim0> Any clues please ?
[16:09] <CIA-8> debian-installer: cjwatson * r936 hardy-proposed/debian/changelog: No-change rebuild to pick up new kernel.
[16:11] <CIA-8> debian-installer: cjwatson * r937 hardy-proposed/debian/changelog: releasing version 20070308ubuntu40.10
[16:55] <CIA-8> debian-installer: cjwatson * r938 hardy-proposed/debian/changelog: Another no-change rebuild since the last one was accepted prematurely.
[16:56] <davmor2> cjwatson: is it known the ubiquity is crashing out
[16:56] <cjwatson> no, bug#?
[16:56] <cjwatson> (well, not to me)
[16:57] <davmor2> uploading apport report now
[16:57] <CIA-8> debian-installer: cjwatson * r939 hardy-proposed/debian/changelog: releasing version 20070308ubuntu40.11
[16:58] <davmor2> cjwatson: 291287 by the look of it
[17:00] <cjwatson> that's a kind of generic error
[17:00] <davmor2> cjwatson: do you want the logs to be sure?
[17:00] <cjwatson> yes
[17:01] <davmor2> two ticks#
[17:05] <davmor2> cjwatson: http://www.davmor2.co.uk/9.10/partman  http://www.davmor2.co.uk/9.10/syslog http://www.davmor2.co.uk/9.10/casper.log
[17:05] <CIA-8> ubiquity: cjwatson * r3308 ubiquity/ (debian/changelog scripts/install.py):
[17:05] <CIA-8> ubiquity: Match up chroot_cleanup start-stop-daemon conditionals with
[17:05] <CIA-8> ubiquity: chroot_setup, to avoid failing if the target filesystem didn't contain
[17:05] <CIA-8> ubiquity: /sbin/start-stop-daemon for some reason (LP: #394669).
[17:06] <cjwatson> davmor2: that's bug 394338
[17:08] <davmor2> okay as long as it is reported I'll carry on :)
[17:12] <CIA-8> ubiquity: cjwatson * r3309 ubiquity/ (debian/changelog scripts/install.py): Fix manifest file handling, broken in 1.13.5 (LP: #395195).
[17:17] <CIA-8> ubiquity: cjwatson * r3310 ubiquity/ (d-i/manifest debian/changelog):
[17:17] <CIA-8> ubiquity: Automatic update of included source packages: debian-installer-utils
[17:17] <CIA-8> ubiquity: 1.70ubuntu1, partconf 1.32, user-setup 1.27ubuntu4.
[17:27] <CIA-8> ubiquity: cjwatson * r3311 ubiquity/debian/ (81 files in 2 dirs): use normal spaces rather than non-breaking spaces in templates file, so that this paragraph gets translated
[17:32] <CIA-8> ubiquity: cjwatson * r3312 ubiquity/debian/changelog: releasing version 1.13.8
[17:33] <cjwatson> ... seeing as lots of people seem to be running into that os.listdir(home) crash
[19:57] <rgreening> evand: enjoying the new carpet? :)
[21:29] <CompBrain> what's the best d-i hook if I want to drop an /etc/passwd in place before packages get installed?
[22:26] <orbitus> hey cjwatson is it normal for a netboot installation to fail fetching packages? ive had a hell of a time fetching lsb-release-udeb from mirrors today for a hardy install (and networking is just fine here, logs say it's getting a 404)
[23:18] <cjwatson> orbitus: no, but it's usually a problem with the mirror or network setup ...
[23:19] <cjwatson> CompBrain: /usr/lib/base-installer.d/ if you're willing to guarantee that you're going to set it up at least as well as base-passwd does; appending to base-passwd's default one in /usr/lib/post-base-installer.d/ might be wiser though
[23:20] <CompBrain> cjwatson: thanks!
[23:20] <orbitus> well there's no proxy or caching device or even firewall affecting me. 9 out of 10 mirrors threw a 404 until i found one that actually threw me what i wanted
[23:21] <orbitus> unrelatedly, lilo-installer/skip -- is that capability available for hardy installs or was it added thereafter cjwatson ?
[23:23] <cjwatson> that's ancient
[23:24] <cjwatson> oh, hmm, unfortunately I think it was broken in hardy
[23:24] <cjwatson> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=471130
[23:27] <orbitus> damn
[23:30] <orbitus> cjwatson, any chance it'll be fixed? otherwise, do you have have a pleasantly disgusting hack up your sleeve?
[23:30] <orbitus> glad to know i'm not losing it at least, addled though my brain may be
[23:32] <cjwatson> d-i preseed/early_command string ln -sf /bin/true /var/lib/dpkg/info/lilo-installer.postinst
[23:32] <cjwatson> assuming that you're OK with simply not installing a bootloader at all
[23:32] <orbitious> yep that's the intent
[23:32] <orbitious> thanks much
[23:33] <cjwatson> (apparently the problem was a missing '. /usr/share/debconf/confmodule' in /var/lib/dpkg/info/lilo-installer.isinstallable)