| [02:57] <evand> ok thanks | |
| [05:52] <CIA-8> ubiquity: superm1 * r2410 ubiquity/scripts/mythbuntu/mythbuntu_install.py: add support for modular lircrc generation | |
| [10:11] <tjaalton> cjwatson: I'm merging xkeyboard-config, and I think it's no longer necessary to ship the symlinks in /etc/X11/xkb, do you agree? | |
| [10:13] <tjaalton> x11-xkb-utils (former xkbutils) doesn't ship symlinks there anymore, and the tools use the new path | |
| [10:21] <cjwatson> please keep them to simplify upgrades from dapper until after hardy | |
| [10:22] <tjaalton> ok | |
| [17:37] <mathiaz> Hi :) - what's the option in the preseed file to enable an sshd server during instllation in hardy ? | |
| [17:38] <mathiaz> and also remote syslogging | |
| [17:39] <evand> I imagine it's something like d-i preseed/early_command string anna-install openssh-client-udeb | |
| [17:39] <evand> but I'm not sure if that's exactly correct | |
| [17:40] <mathiaz> evand: openssh-client ? or openssh-server ? | |
| [17:41] <cjwatson> no, I think you're looking for network-console | |
| [17:41] <cjwatson> see the installation guide, under "Using the Ubuntu Installer" / "Using Individual Components" / "Miscellaneous" | |
| [17:42] <cjwatson> oh, and to use it by default, setting anna/choose_modules to network-console should do it | |
| [17:42] <mathiaz> cjwatson: is the installation guide for gutsy on help.u.c ? | |
| [17:42] <cjwatson> remote syslogging is missing at present; Matt Proud at Google was working on it, and I have some back mail on the subject to review | |
| [17:43] <cjwatson> mathiaz: no, but IIRC feisty's will do; otherwise install the installation-guide-i386 package and you can have it locally | |
| [17:43] <mathiaz> cjwatson: ah... thanks. | |
| [17:43] <evand> ah, I misread. Sorry about that. | |
| [17:45] <mathiaz> hum... network-console is used to manually install over ssh. | |
| [17:45] <cjwatson> yes, is that not what you asked for? | |
| [17:45] <mathiaz> What I'd like to do is to use preseed to automate the installation | |
| [17:46] <mathiaz> and if something goes wrong, I'd like to be able to ssh into the box to debug it | |
| [17:46] <cjwatson> hmm, that's not really available | |
| [17:46] <cjwatson> short of network-console | |
| [17:47] <cjwatson> you can install openssh-server-udeb in the same way as network-console above, but it won't be configured, so you'll need to set up a configuration file in a preseed file | |
| [17:48] <mathiaz> hum... I have access to the boxes via a remote serial console server | |
| [17:48] <mathiaz> but I haven't figured out how to switch to another console over the remote serial console | |
| [17:49] <mathiaz> so when something goes wrong, I just see the installation interface. | |
| [17:49] <mathiaz> IIRC I can use ALT-F2 to switch to another console during installation and debug stuff. | |
| [17:50] <mathiaz> Is there an alternate way to open a second console during installation time ? | |
| [17:51] <cjwatson> back up to the main menu and select "execute a shell" | |
| [17:52] <mathiaz> cjwatson: ah.. that should work for me then - thanks :) | |
| [18:18] <CIA-8> casper: cjwatson * r458 casper/ (debian/changelog scripts/casper-bottom/36disable_trackerd): | |
| [18:18] <CIA-8> casper: * Disable tracker-applet as well as trackerd, otherwise the former starts | |
| [18:18] <CIA-8> casper: the latter. | |
| [18:22] <CIA-8> casper: cjwatson * r459 casper/ (bin/casper-snapshot debian/changelog): | |
| [18:22] <CIA-8> casper: * casper-snapshot: Fix argument parsing (thanks, Tormod Volden; | |
| [18:22] <CIA-8> casper: LP: #179411). | |
| [18:30] <CIA-8> casper: cjwatson * r460 casper/debian/changelog: releasing version 1.114 | |
| [21:21] <danp> hi | |
| [21:22] <danp> i'm trying to create a preseed setup where i use an early_command script to set networking parameters | |
| [21:23] <danp> but it doesn't seem to be working. in my script, i source confmodule and use db_set for the relevant netcfg/* things. i've tried messing with it quite a bit and the installer still tries DHCP | |
| [21:27] <danp> my preseed file and early script are at: http://glueless.net/preseed/ | |
| [21:58] <CIA-8> partman-auto-loop: evand * r38 partman-auto-loop.ubuntu/ (3 files in 2 dirs): | |
| [21:58] <CIA-8> partman-auto-loop: * Allow disk images to be created externally (LP: #176019). | |
| [21:58] <CIA-8> partman-auto-loop: * Added template required by autopartition-loop. | |
| [22:00] <evand> I'm not sure I did that merge properly. I merged with lupin-support, but removed some of the changes with the intention of reviewing them with xivulon when he's around. | |
| === cjwatson_ is now known as cjwatson | |
| [23:36] <cjwatson> danp: are you using network preseeding? | |
| [23:36] <cjwatson> danp: if so, the early_command (and indeed the entire preseed file) is processed after netcfg ... | |
| [23:37] <danp> no, i'm using hd-media | |
| [23:37] <danp> my script is definitely run before the DHCP stuff comes up on the console (because if it errors out it stops the process before that) | |
| [23:38] <danp> i was cancelling the DHCP attempt and then using one of the consoles to see if my things got set | |
| [23:39] <danp> it seemed hit and miss. am i missing something? | |
| [23:43] <cjwatson> ok, obviously a bit more complicated; I'd like to help you now but I have to go to bed or my wife is going to get irritated :) | |
| [23:43] <cjwatson> could you post the syslog from the running installer somewhere as well? | |
| [23:44] <cjwatson> and ideally either send e-mail to ubuntu-installer@lists.ubuntu.com, or stay on this channel, so that I can get back to you | |
| [23:44] <cjwatson> you can extract the syslog using the "Save debug logs" entry on the installer's main menu | |