Re: bootfloppies 2.2.11 report
Thanks very much for the detailed report.
> - The /dev/sr0 - /dev/scd0 confusion is still there. Actually,
> it's gotten worse: the /dev/scd0 device that USED to exist in 2.2.9 is
I believe this has been fixed in the new makedev upload.
> - The installed system *does* have a /dev/scd0 (it's in base2_2.tgz),
> but still no /dev/sr0 .
> [base]
similarly fixed as in above.
> - On the "syslog" console, I noticed the following messages at this
> point:
>
> user.debug dbootstrap[30]: umount: Device or resource busy
> user.info dbootstrap[30]: depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.14/pcmcia/3c575_cb.o
> [... plenty of these, apparently covered by bug#62100 and/or bug#61544]
<sigh> the boot floppies set you were using was probably not built
correctly. the kernel/pcmcia dependencies are rather intricate and fragile.
> *The interesting thing about these depmod errors was that only every
> other line was reported! (as compared to what was displayed during the
> reboot). This makes one wonder if perhaps the busybox syslog function
> only logs every other line!
> [boot-floppies, at least the syslog stuff]
rather improbable i'd think. Erik, what do you think?
> - I discovered the following problem while reproducing the previous one:
> Choose "configure device driver modules", switch to tty3 (syslog
> output) immediately, and then the modconf output appears on tty3,
> overwriting all the syslog messages. Unfortunately the input is still
> coming from tty1, which was most confusing at first. There's some
> redirection problem here (either too much or too little).
> [boot-floppies]
fixed in newest modconf, and reported several times already :)
> - The example name for the cdrom (while "apt-cdrom add" is running) is
> "Debian 2.1r1 Disk 1", which is pretty wrong for potato.
> [apt]
this is probably a build problem.... or a problem with debian-cd (not apt)
> - When choosing the tasks, I chose:
> * Dialup ISDN (which includes diald and dialdcost, which is wrong)
> * Gnome Apps
> * Gnome Desktop (which doesn't include a gnome window manager?!)
> * Gnome Net
> * X Window System
> Here I must this time choose <Quit>. Note that above I needed to
> choose <Cancel>; a constant user interface seems very difficult :-(
The UI aspect of this will be addressed in a new tasksel upload shortly.
> Same thing with "cdrom", "CDROM", "CD-ROM", "debian" and "Debian";
> there are more examples of this inconsistency. Also, many things are
> capitalized unnecessarily, such as "Installing Drivers from...",
> "Media Change" (see next item).
Realize that there are many pieces of software involved here, and we don't
have a way to change anything. If you can look through CVS and submit
patches, I'm sure we'd all be very grateful.
> - After choosing <Quit> above, it continues :-)
> It says:
> Media Change: Please insert the disc labeled 'foo' in the
> drive as '/cdrom/' and press enter
> I'm wondering what use the "as '/cdrom/'" is here...
> Here the cdrom doesn't get mounted. The /dev/cdrom symlink points to
> /dev/sr0 which (surprise) doesn't exist. I had to manually fix this.
> The surprising thing here is that apt-cdrom didn't have any trouble
> mounting it...
> [boot-floppies]
what does your /dev/fstab say?
> - The following text appears:
> Scanning packages...
> Use of uninitialized value [...]
> I couldn't see the rest of this (perl) warning because it got
> overwritten by the debconf dialog screen. Perhaps the -w flag should
> be removed in the final release of ALL perl scripts.
> [??]
I think Joey is looking into this...
> - The installation finished off with:
> Do you want to erase the downloaded .deb files? [Y/n]
> Press enter to continue.
>
> Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (frozen) boxname tty1
> boxname login:
>
> Firstly, can't it check that there is nothing downloaded? I half
> expected it to try deleting files from the cdrom.
> [apt]
Joey?
> Note the lack of the "Have fun!" message...
> [boot-floppies]
I think this has been fixed as well.
> - The MOTD says to look at /usr/doc/*/copyright for copyright info,
> shouldn't that be /usr/share/doc/*/copyright by now, so that people
> get used to it?
not all packages have /usr/share/doc, but all have, either as a directory or
a symlink, /usr/doc/*, so i don't think this should be changed for potato.
> That's about it for now. I'll wait a day for any comments and then start
> checking the BTS and reporting bugs if not yet there.
Since this wasn't an official build, it's probably best to wait for the
official one to come out. I expect that we will build and release 2.2.11
within a couple of days.
randolph
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