[03:36] <ViperVenom> Hi I burned the iso to a CD and when it boots a purple screen comes up with a picture of a keyboard, an equal sign, and a stick figure. After awhile, my screen starts flashing red/green/blue/white and the CD drive is going crazy scanning really fast. Is this normal, because after a minute of this going on I decided to force shutdown.
[11:19] <brendand> can anyone give any hints on what i should be looking for when i see a 'No root file system defined' error in d-i?
[11:19] <brendand> to find the root cause
[11:20] <ogra_> i think thats shown if you missed to assign / in the partitioner
[11:21] <cjwatson> indeed
[11:21] <cjwatson> probably broken preseeding
[11:21] <cjwatson> should be some hints in the syslog
[11:22] <brendand> cjwatson - that's what i was getting at. what kind of hints?
[11:24] <cjwatson> don't know, have a look :-)  should be somewhere down near the end if any
[11:32] <brendand> d-i partman-auto/method string regular
[11:32] <brendand> that's in the preseed. shouldn't everything be automatic then?
[11:43] <cjwatson> presumably something went wrong.  I can't guess from only that
[11:43] <brendand> where's the preseed stored on the system installed
[11:43] <cjwatson> it's not
[12:55] <sekon_> Hello,
[12:55] <sekon_> Howdo you change/modify  the ubuntu branding during ubiquity bootup
[12:55] <sekon_> it looks like changing plymouth themes does not seem to have any effect
[12:56] <sekon_> while the live installer is booting up
[12:56] <sekon_> i.e for a kubuntu installation, changing /lib/plymouth/kubuntu-[logo|text]/*
[12:57] <sekon_> does not seem to affect presentation while the installer is being booted up from install media
[13:02] <cjwatson> you might need to update the initramfs
[13:05] <sekon_> cjwatson: i patches files inside $CDROM/casper/filesystem.squashfs
[13:05] <sekon_> while cdrom is booting up text comes up as kubuntu
[13:05] <sekon_> but once the live DVD bootsup
[13:05] <cjwatson> you don't need to repeat; I understand.  some of those files are copied into the initramfs
[13:05] <sekon_> i run plymouth it shows the text that i have done
[13:06] <sekon_> on liveDVD there is an initramfs ??
[13:06] <cjwatson> of course
[13:07] <cjwatson> it wouldn't know how to mount the squashfs etc. otherwise
[13:07] <sekon_> Ah .. thanks :) .. if you dont mind i will ping back if i get stuck (not you personally)
[13:07] <cjwatson> bind-mount /proc /sys /dev into your read-write environment that you pack up into a squashfs, chroot into that environment, update-initramfs -u
[13:07] <cjwatson> something along those lines should do
[14:12] <sekon_> cjwatson: Just FYI ish .. i was  not updating casper/initrd.lz
[14:14] <sekon_> thanks for all your help ..
[18:14] <CIA-4> ubiquity: cjwatson * r5110 trunk/ (debian/changelog ubiquity/plugins/ubi-partman.py):
[18:14] <CIA-4> ubiquity: * GTK frontend:
[18:14] <CIA-4> ubiquity:  - Some automatic partitioning options change the text on the next button
[18:14] <CIA-4> ubiquity:  to "Install Now". Make sure that this works even when changing to the
[18:14] <CIA-4> ubiquity:  automatic partitioning page with one of those options automatically
[18:14] <CIA-4> ubiquity:  selected (LP: #766265).
[18:39] <infinity> cjwatson: Do you see any issues with pushing my mklibs/rootskel changes to Debian?  (Both need to go in together, as rootskel's linking breaks mklibs trying to do sane things)
[18:39] <cjwatson> Not particularly; you have upstream commit access, don't you?
[18:40] <cjwatson> Oh, hm, I wonder if there'll be testing/unstable sync issues
[18:40] <infinity> Not that I know of.
[18:40] <cjwatson> Because I suspect that unstable mklibs will sometimes be used to build testing images or vice versa.  I always forget exactly how the daily build regime wors.
[18:41] <cjwatson> *works
[18:41] <infinity> The testing thing is kinda sticky, given that one is a udeb, and the other a deb...
[18:41] <cjwatson> Indeed.  Is there any way we can decouple this a bit?
[18:41] <cjwatson> I'd suggest posting patches to debian-boot@ and see what thoughts people have
[18:41] <infinity> I could maybe make mklibs fall back on its previous (broken) behaviour if /lib64 exists and is a symlink...
[18:42] <cjwatson> Yeah, something like that
[18:42] <cjwatson> I think it needs a sort of organisational review from people who remember exactly how Debian's daily builds work, though
[18:43] <infinity> Yeah, that's fair.  I'll give some thought to further tidying and then post something.
[18:44] <infinity> After I finish this eglibc merge of doom... 4MB diff, my ass.
[18:46] <infinity> cjwatson: On the positive side, ubiquity/oem-config "Just Works" on armhf, now that we fixed a procps bug that was blocking us. :P
[18:46] <infinity> cjwatson: So, I have an installed-from-official-image precise/armhf on my panda.
[19:15] <stgraber> sweet, guess I'll do that on my panda later this week then (before leaving for a month on another continent)
[20:08] <cjwatson> infinity: nice
[20:08] <infinity> stgraber: Heh.