[13:16] <CIA-11> debian-installer: cjwatson * r1614 ubuntu/ (build/config/armel/omap4.cfg debian/changelog): Move armel/omap4 and armhf/omap4 to 3.2.0-1404 kernels.
[13:18] <CIA-11> debian-installer: cjwatson * r1615 ubuntu/debian/changelog: releasing version 20101020ubuntu100
[16:52] <GrueMaster> Is there any reason why precise netinstall is now prompting me for hostname?  I haven't changed my preseed since UDS, and this appears to be fairly recent (couple of weeks).
[16:53] <GrueMaster> It still gets the hostname from dhcp, but then it is asking for verification.
[16:53] <cjwatson> not that I know of - can I have a DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer log?
[16:53] <cjwatson> netcfg hasn't changed since oneiric
[16:54] <GrueMaster> Sure, I'll pastebin it as soon as possible.
[16:56] <kyleN> ev, Hi. can one preseed ubiquity (oneiric) to enable partners archive in end user sources.list? default is present but commented out.
[16:58] <cjwatson> kyleN: d-i apt-setup/partner boolean true
[16:59] <kyleN> thank you cjwatson
[17:03] <GrueMaster> cjwatson: http://paste.ubuntu.com/814453/
[17:06] <GrueMaster> preseed is :http://paste.ubuntu.com/814457/
[17:12] <cjwatson> GrueMaster: you need to put network preseeding on the kernel command line - your preseed file isn't being processed until after the network is configured, because you're using url=
[17:12] <cjwatson> this hasn't changed in forever, so maybe you changed kernel parameters recently or something?
[17:13] <GrueMaster> I haven't changed much on the cmdline either.  Checking the latest changes now, but url= is what I have used forever.
[17:15] <GrueMaster> Only changes I can see is debconf/priority=critical and DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text
[17:15] <GrueMaster> The first one is now debconf/priority=high
[17:15] <cjwatson> well, that would cause this question to be asked too
[17:16] <GrueMaster> Ah, so switch back to critical?
[17:16] <cjwatson> since this question is asked at priority high
[17:16] <cjwatson> depends why you changed in the first place :)
[17:17] <GrueMaster> More logging info (according to the limited documentation).
[17:17] <cjwatson> that's incorrect
[17:17] <cjwatson> the one and only purpose of dropping the priority is to cause more questions to be asked
[17:17] <cjwatson> it doesn't alter logging
[17:18] <GrueMaster> I initially switched  DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text on, but wasn't getting much of anything on the serial console.
[17:18] <GrueMaster> This is more for serial console monitoring than syslog output.
[17:18] <cjwatson> you only get output from DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text if questions are asked ...
[17:19] <cjwatson> so if you're regarding that as logging, then I guess, but that's not its purpose, it's an interaction method
[17:20] <GrueMaster> Well, my goal is to be able to monitor the serial console during install and either fail the install or script around hiccups (like on some semi-unsupported platforms).
[17:20] <cjwatson> wouldn't anything that requires that kind of thing result in a question being asked?
[17:21] <cjwatson> (actually, progress bars should result in text frontend output too)
[17:21] <GrueMaster> No, progress bars show as:  Attempting IPv6 autoconfiguration; please wait...  ..10%..20%..30%..100%
[17:21] <GrueMaster> As opposed to curl formatting.
[17:21] <cjwatson> that's what I said :)
[17:22] <cjwatson> that's text frontend output for the debconf progress bar type
[17:22] <cjwatson> progress bar output from programs goes to syslog - I don't anticipate changing that
[17:23] <cjwatson> but nothing in d-i should ever hang forever in a subsidiary program anyway - if it's something that may need to be cancelled, it should be a cancellable progress bar
[17:23] <cjwatson> now, admittedly the text frontend has no support for the cancellable capability
[17:23] <cjwatson> but I think at this point it would be worth discussing specifics of what you want to be able to script rather than upgrading bits of plumbing on-spec
[17:24] <GrueMaster> The hangs I experience are partially mirror/pool skew and also missing kernels.
[17:24] <cjwatson> missing kernels will be a question
[17:24] <cjwatson> as will mirror/pool skew
[17:24] <cjwatson> if those aren't showing up as questions even at priority critical then we have a bug
[17:25] <cjwatson> questions of error type are displayed regardless of priority
[17:26] <cjwatson> so I wouldn't expect dropping the priority to have any influence on that
[17:28] <GrueMaster> Ok, I'll rechange it here and try again.
[17:28] <cjwatson> I guess you'd have to have a way to reproduce such errors reliably
[17:29] <cjwatson> temporarily move a package aside on a local mirror or something
[17:32] <GrueMaster> I can reproduce it on a platform that we don't have a kernel in the mirror for.  I think I may have switched priority before switching the frontend, come to think of it.
[17:33] <GrueMaster> Anyways, thanks for the info.  Documentation ... needs work.  :P
[17:39] <borudev> Hello, how is everyone? I had a quick question troubleshooting my ubuntu 11.10 server installation. I installed the same OS on 2 different servers and I'm experiencing the same problem. What happens is I turn on the server, it's ok for few hours, and then when I try to SSH to it, it get a time out, when I plug in the keyboard, and type something then I can connect to it again. Seems
[17:39] <borudev> that it's going to some kind of sleep mode. Note, no desktop was installed just pure server OS. Anyone had this issue before? what could cause it? Thanks
[17:40] <cjwatson> doesn't sound like an installer bug, out of our purview :)
[17:40] <borudev> uh
[17:41] <cjwatson> I guess either a kernel- or server-oriented channel might know more
[17:42] <borudev> thanks ill try there
[22:42] <CIA-11> ubiquity: stgraber * r5126 ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/gtk_ui.py: gtk_ui.py: Update our CSS to fix rendering of GtkComboBox following light-themes update (was dark text on dark background, now light text on dark background)
[22:45] <CIA-11> ubiquity: stgraber * r5127 ubiquity/debian/changelog: Update changelog
[23:03] <antarus> cjwatson: not to be annoying, but is there an ETA for for bug 917905 ?
[23:03] <ubot2> Launchpad bug 917905 in netcfg "netcfg hang bug in autoconfig.c" [Undecided,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/917905
[23:03] <antarus> (also it looks like it is a dup of another one filed in 2011)