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Bug#492865: marked as done (installation-report: mostly good, some gripes about partitioning and installer error mesgs)



Your message dated Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:31:26 +0200
with message-id <20080729233125.GF25676@qamar>
and subject line Re: Bug#492865: installation-report: mostly good, some gripes about partitioning and installer error mesgs
has caused the Debian Bug report #492865,
regarding installation-report: mostly good, some gripes about partitioning and installer error mesgs
to be marked as done.

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Package: installation-reports
Version: 2.36
Severity: normal



-- Package-specific info:

Boot method: USB-stick
Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/lenny_di_beta2/amd64/iso-cd/debian-LennyBeta2-amd64-netinst.iso
Date: 2008-07-20

Machine: AMD Phenom 9550 4-core CPU, Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H motherboard (AMD 780G chipset)
Partitions:

Filesystem    Type   1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/catnip-root
              ext3      297485    135644    146481  49% /
tmpfs        tmpfs     1902140         0   1902140   0% /lib/init/rw
udev         tmpfs       10240        76     10164   1% /dev
tmpfs        tmpfs     1902140         0   1902140   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1     ext3      241116     24851    203817  11% /boot
/dev/mapper/catnip-home
              ext3   299315840   3409996 280701492   2% /home
/dev/mapper/catnip-tmp
              ext3      388741     10408    358263   3% /tmp
/dev/mapper/catnip-usr
              ext3    15481840   2292308  12403100  16% /usr
/dev/mapper/catnip-local
              ext3   291058880  19180760 257093200   7% /usr/local
/dev/mapper/catnip-var
              ext3     2955216    485968   2319132  18% /var


Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot:           [O]
Detect network card:    [O]
Configure network:      [O]
Detect CD:              [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives:     [O]
Partition hard drives:  [O]
Install base system:    [O]
Clock/timezone setup:   [O]
User/password setup:    [O]
Install tasks:          [O]
Install boot loader:    [O]
Overall install:        [O]

Comments/Problems:

Basically went very well, most probs were due to user
error/confusion/not-reading-the-installer-guide-enough.

1. Used the "easy" method of writing a bootable filesystem onto the USB
   stick.  This worked well, but it was slightly disconcerting when I
   realized I had trashed the partition table and thus made the usb
   stick appear much smaller than it actually is (obvious in retrospect,
   but...).

2. USB keyboard didn't work at boot prompt.  Eventually solved by just
   enabling legacy usb keyboard support in bios.  This is specifically
   warned about in the debian installer guide, but I had missed it.

3. The netinst cd .iso I had put on the USB stick turned out to be
   corrupt.  I don't know where the corruption occured, and it was
   solved eventually by just re-downloading/copying the .iso, but it
   took me a while to figure out what was going on, as the error
   messages were slightly confusing.  Basically in the installer, the
   "searching for .isos" step succeeded, but the next step failed with
   an error message like "Failed to copy file from CD-ROM".  I found
   this error very hard to interpret.

   Opening a shell on another console and examining the mounted "cdrom"
   filesystem seemed to show what I expected, but eventually I found a
   file containing a list of md5sums for files on the filesystem, and
   these md5sums were not the same as what md5sum showed for the actual
   files.

   At that point I re-downloaded the .iso and started everything over,
   and it was fine this time.

4. At some point before I realized the that I had a corrupt .iso, I
   tried to boot the graphical installer (thinking maybe it would at
   least give a better error message).  It "sort of" worked, but
   eventually went into a state where it would flash and redraw the
   screen repeatedly without accepting any input.  The video hardware on
   this board (the 780G chipset's integrated "Radeon HD 3200") is fairly
   new, so I suppose the installer may not support it properly.
   didn't support it properly.  [I gave up trying to use the graphical
   installer quickly and went back to using the text-mode installer.]

5. At the partitioning step, I selected LVM + guided partioning, with
   swap, /tmp, /var, /usr, /home partitions.  The initial automatic
   setup of the LVM logical volumes (LVs) went fine.  However, I decided
   I'd also like to tweak the resulting LVs; I wanted to:

     a) Expand the /usr LV.

     b) Shrink the swap "partition" (LV) [The automatically chosen swap
	size seems excessive for 4GB of ram]

     c) Split the /home LV in half, and use the freed-up space for a new
	/usr/local LV

   These actions seem reasonably simple, but I found I basically
   couldn't do them using the UI:

     a) The UI could only change LV size in one direction (don't remember
	which one offhand).

     b) I tried to split the /home LV by deleting it, and creating a new
	/home LV in the resulting free area with half the size.  That
	went fine, but the now freed up "second half" (of the old /home
	LV) was marked in the UI as being "unusable"!

     c) Because things were getting annoying, I then tried to delete all
	LVs in UI, with the intention of recreating them by hand.
	However, even after deleting all of them, the UI didn't coalesce
	the "free" LVs; instead it simply showed a bunch of "free space"
	LVs, one for each original LV.

     d) I decided I'd rather just redo the partitioning from scratch,
        so I exited the partitioner (without writing to disk) and tried
        again -- but the "bogus" state I had created before was still
        present, with a bunch of un-coalescable "free" LVs.

   Eventually I just gave up on using the partitioning UI, and used a
   subshell to invoke the various LVM "lv..." utilities to delete all
   logical volumes and create new LVs as I wished.  That worked fine
   (the only difficulty being guessing how the lv... utilities worked
   based only on the --help output, since no man pages were available).

Once the partioning problems were solved, the rest of the install went
very smoothly (downloading packages over the network).

When the install was finished, and the X window system started, the
display was sort of screwed up (odd resolution, bottom 32 rows or so not
displayed).  I eventually realized this was just because the "radeon" X
driver didn't support my video hardware correctly; upgrading to the
version of X and radeon driver in "experimental" fixed this nicely.


Thanks,

-Miles


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==============================================
Installer lsb-release:
==============================================
DISTRIB_ID=Debian
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Debian GNU/Linux installer"
DISTRIB_RELEASE="5.0 (lenny) - installer build 20080522"
X_INSTALLATION_MEDIUM=hd-media

==============================================
Installer hardware-summary:
==============================================
umame -a: Linux catnip 2.6.24-1-amd64 #1 SMP Sat May 10 09:28:10 UTC 2008 x86_64 unknown
lspci -knn: 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 Host Bridge [1022:9600]
lspci -knn: 00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (int gfx) [1022:9602]
lspci -knn: 00:0a.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 5) [1022:9609]
lspci -knn: 	Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
lspci -knn: 00:11.0 SATA controller [0106]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 SATA Controller [AHCI mode] [1002:4391]
lspci -knn: 	Kernel driver in use: ahci
lspci -knn: 	Kernel modules: ahci
lspci -knn: 00:12.0 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller [1002:4397]
lspci -knn: 	Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
lspci -knn: 	Kernel modules: ohci-hcd
lspci -knn: 00:12.1 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI1 Controller [1002:4398]
lspci -knn: 	Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
lspci -knn: 	Kernel modules: ohci-hcd
lspci -knn: 00:12.2 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller [1002:4396]
lspci -knn: 	Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
lspci -knn: 	Kernel modules: ehci-hcd
lspci -knn: 00:13.0 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller [1002:4397]
lspci -knn: 	Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
lspci -knn: 	Kernel modules: ohci-hcd
lspci -knn: 00:13.1 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI1 Controller [1002:4398]
lspci -knn: 	Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
lspci -knn: 	Kernel modules: ohci-hcd
lspci -knn: 00:13.2 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller [1002:4396]
lspci -knn: 	Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
lspci -knn: 	Kernel modules: ehci-hcd
lspci -knn: 00:14.0 SMBus [0c05]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller [1002:4385] (rev 3a)
lspci -knn: 00:14.1 IDE interface [0101]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 IDE Controller [1002:439c]
lspci -knn: 	Kernel driver in use: ATIIXP_IDE
lspci -knn: 	Kernel modules: generic, atiixp
lspci -knn: 00:14.2 Audio device [0403]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia [1002:4383]
lspci -knn: 00:14.3 ISA bridge [0601]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 LPC host controller [1002:439d]
lspci -knn: 00:14.4 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge [1002:4384]
lspci -knn: 00:14.5 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI2 Controller [1002:4399]
lspci -knn: 	Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
lspci -knn: 	Kernel modules: ohci-hcd
lspci -knn: 00:18.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] HyperTransport Configuration [1022:1200]
lspci -knn: 00:18.1 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Address Map [1022:1201]
lspci -knn: 00:18.2 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] DRAM Controller [1022:1202]
lspci -knn: 00:18.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Miscellaneous Control [1022:1203]
lspci -knn: 00:18.4 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Link Control [1022:1204]
lspci -knn: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon HD 3200 Graphics [1002:9610]
lspci -knn: 01:05.1 Audio device [0403]: ATI Technologies Inc RS780 Azalia controller [1002:960f]
lspci -knn: 02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8168] (rev 02)
lspci -knn: 	Kernel driver in use: r8169
lspci -knn: 	Kernel modules: r8169
lspci -knn: 03:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) [104c:8024]
lspci -knn: 	Kernel driver in use: firewire_ohci
lspci -knn: 	Kernel modules: firewire-ohci
lsmod: Module                  Size  Used by
lsmod: ufs                    73736  0 
lsmod: qnx4                   16648  0 
lsmod: ntfs                  197216  0 
lsmod: dm_mod                 67832  15 
lsmod: xfs                   495720  0 
lsmod: jfs                   169296  0 
lsmod: ext2                   75792  0 
lsmod: firewire_sbp2          20624  0 
lsmod: firewire_ohci          24192  0 
lsmod: firewire_core          49472  2 firewire_sbp2,firewire_ohci
lsmod: crc_itu_t               6656  1 firewire_core
lsmod: r8169                  36740  0 
lsmod: nls_iso8859_1           9600  2 
lsmod: nls_cp437              11264  1 
lsmod: loop                   22788  2 
lsmod: isofs                  39464  1 
lsmod: zlib_inflate           19072  1 isofs
lsmod: vfat                   17792  1 
lsmod: fat                    58032  1 vfat
lsmod: reiserfs              223744  0 
lsmod: ext3                  138384  7 
lsmod: jbd                    55720  1 ext3
lsmod: mbcache                13952  2 ext2,ext3
lsmod: vga16fb                16536  2 
lsmod: vgastate               12288  1 vga16fb
lsmod: fan                     9736  0 
lsmod: sd_mod                 33408  4 
lsmod: usbhid                 35040  0 
lsmod: hid                    41664  1 usbhid
lsmod: usb_storage            91584  1 
lsmod: atiixp                  9488  0 [permanent]
lsmod: parport_pc             42280  0 
lsmod: parport                44428  1 parport_pc
lsmod: generic                 9732  0 [permanent]
lsmod: ehci_hcd               39564  0 
lsmod: ide_core              144408  2 atiixp,generic
lsmod: ahci                   34564  2 
lsmod: ohci_hcd               28036  0 
lsmod: libata                162608  1 ahci
lsmod: scsi_mod              169784  4 firewire_sbp2,sd_mod,usb_storage,libata
lsmod: thermal                22560  0 
lsmod: processor              44776  1 thermal
df: Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
df: tmpfs                  1895828        20   1895808   0% /dev
df: tmpfs                  1895828        20   1895808   0% /dev
df: /dev/sdb                244480    195528     48952  80% /hd-media
df: /dev/loop0               39914     39914         0 100% /cdrom
df: /dev/mapper/catnip-root
df:                         297485    129976    152149  46% /target
df: /dev/sda1               241116     23464    205204  10% /target/boot
df: /dev/mapper/catnip-home
df:                      299315840    195568 283915920   0% /target/home
df: /dev/mapper/catnip-tmp
df:                         388741     10293    358378   3% /target/tmp
df: /dev/mapper/catnip-usr
df:                       15481840   2096048  12599360  14% /target/usr
df: /dev/mapper/catnip-local
df:                      291058880    195740 276078220   0% /target/usr/local
df: /dev/mapper/catnip-var
df:                        2955216    986756   1818344  35% /target/var
df: /dev/mapper/catnip-root
df:                         297485    129976    152149  46% /dev/.static/dev
df: tmpfs                  1895828        20   1895808   0% /target/dev
free:               total         used         free       shared      buffers
free:   Mem:      3791656      3445168       346488            0       166524
free:  Swap:      5242872            0      5242872
free: Total:      9034528      3445168      5589360
/proc/cpuinfo: processor	: 0
/proc/cpuinfo: vendor_id	: AuthenticAMD
/proc/cpuinfo: cpu family	: 16
/proc/cpuinfo: model		: 2
/proc/cpuinfo: model name	: AMD Phenom(tm) 9550 Quad-Core Processor
/proc/cpuinfo: stepping	: 3
/proc/cpuinfo: cpu MHz		: 2204.688
/proc/cpuinfo: cache size	: 512 KB
/proc/cpuinfo: physical id	: 0
/proc/cpuinfo: siblings	: 4
/proc/cpuinfo: core id		: 0
/proc/cpuinfo: cpu cores	: 4
/proc/cpuinfo: fpu		: yes
/proc/cpuinfo: fpu_exception	: yes
/proc/cpuinfo: cpuid level	: 5
/proc/cpuinfo: wp		: yes
/proc/cpuinfo: flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good pni cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs
/proc/cpuinfo: bogomips	: 4417.49
/proc/cpuinfo: TLB size	: 1024 4K pages
/proc/cpuinfo: clflush size	: 64
/proc/cpuinfo: cache_alignment	: 64
/proc/cpuinfo: address sizes	: 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
/proc/cpuinfo: power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate
/proc/cpuinfo: 
/proc/cpuinfo: processor	: 1
/proc/cpuinfo: vendor_id	: AuthenticAMD
/proc/cpuinfo: cpu family	: 16
/proc/cpuinfo: model		: 2
/proc/cpuinfo: model name	: AMD Phenom(tm) 9550 Quad-Core Processor
/proc/cpuinfo: stepping	: 3
/proc/cpuinfo: cpu MHz		: 2204.688
/proc/cpuinfo: cache size	: 512 KB
/proc/cpuinfo: physical id	: 0
/proc/cpuinfo: siblings	: 4
/proc/cpuinfo: core id		: 1
/proc/cpuinfo: cpu cores	: 4
/proc/cpuinfo: fpu		: yes
/proc/cpuinfo: fpu_exception	: yes
/proc/cpuinfo: cpuid level	: 5
/proc/cpuinfo: wp		: yes
/proc/cpuinfo: flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good pni cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs
/proc/cpuinfo: bogomips	: 4409.56
/proc/cpuinfo: TLB size	: 1024 4K pages
/proc/cpuinfo: clflush size	: 64
/proc/cpuinfo: cache_alignment	: 64
/proc/cpuinfo: address sizes	: 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
/proc/cpuinfo: power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate
/proc/cpuinfo: 
/proc/cpuinfo: processor	: 2
/proc/cpuinfo: vendor_id	: AuthenticAMD
/proc/cpuinfo: cpu family	: 16
/proc/cpuinfo: model		: 2
/proc/cpuinfo: model name	: AMD Phenom(tm) 9550 Quad-Core Processor
/proc/cpuinfo: stepping	: 3
/proc/cpuinfo: cpu MHz		: 2204.688
/proc/cpuinfo: cache size	: 512 KB
/proc/cpuinfo: physical id	: 0
/proc/cpuinfo: siblings	: 4
/proc/cpuinfo: core id		: 2
/proc/cpuinfo: cpu cores	: 4
/proc/cpuinfo: fpu		: yes
/proc/cpuinfo: fpu_exception	: yes
/proc/cpuinfo: cpuid level	: 5
/proc/cpuinfo: wp		: yes
/proc/cpuinfo: flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good pni cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs
/proc/cpuinfo: bogomips	: 4409.42
/proc/cpuinfo: TLB size	: 1024 4K pages
/proc/cpuinfo: clflush size	: 64
/proc/cpuinfo: cache_alignment	: 64
/proc/cpuinfo: address sizes	: 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
/proc/cpuinfo: power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate
/proc/cpuinfo: 
/proc/cpuinfo: processor	: 3
/proc/cpuinfo: vendor_id	: AuthenticAMD
/proc/cpuinfo: cpu family	: 16
/proc/cpuinfo: model		: 2
/proc/cpuinfo: model name	: AMD Phenom(tm) 9550 Quad-Core Processor
/proc/cpuinfo: stepping	: 3
/proc/cpuinfo: cpu MHz		: 2204.688
/proc/cpuinfo: cache size	: 512 KB
/proc/cpuinfo: physical id	: 0
/proc/cpuinfo: siblings	: 4
/proc/cpuinfo: core id		: 3
/proc/cpuinfo: cpu cores	: 4
/proc/cpuinfo: fpu		: yes
/proc/cpuinfo: fpu_exception	: yes
/proc/cpuinfo: cpuid level	: 5
/proc/cpuinfo: wp		: yes
/proc/cpuinfo: flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good pni cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs
/proc/cpuinfo: bogomips	: 4409.43
/proc/cpuinfo: TLB size	: 1024 4K pages
/proc/cpuinfo: clflush size	: 64
/proc/cpuinfo: cache_alignment	: 64
/proc/cpuinfo: address sizes	: 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
/proc/cpuinfo: power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate
/proc/cpuinfo: 
/proc/ioports: 0000-001f : dma1
/proc/ioports: 0020-0021 : pic1
/proc/ioports: 0040-0043 : timer0
/proc/ioports: 0050-0053 : timer1
/proc/ioports: 0060-006f : keyboard
/proc/ioports: 0070-0077 : rtc
/proc/ioports: 0080-008f : dma page reg
/proc/ioports: 00a0-00a1 : pic2
/proc/ioports: 00c0-00df : dma2
/proc/ioports: 00f0-00ff : fpu
/proc/ioports: 0170-0177 : 0000:00:14.1
/proc/ioports: 01f0-01f7 : 0000:00:14.1
/proc/ioports: 0220-0225 : pnp 00:01
/proc/ioports: 0228-022f : pnp 00:02
/proc/ioports: 0238-023f : pnp 00:02
/proc/ioports: 0290-0294 : pnp 00:01
/proc/ioports: 0376-0376 : 0000:00:14.1
/proc/ioports: 0378-037a : parport0
/proc/ioports: 03c0-03df : vga+
/proc/ioports: 03f6-03f6 : 0000:00:14.1
/proc/ioports: 03f8-03ff : serial
/proc/ioports: 040b-040b : pnp 00:02
/proc/ioports: 04d0-04d1 : pnp 00:01
/proc/ioports: 04d6-04d6 : pnp 00:02
/proc/ioports: 0b00-0b0f : pnp 00:02
/proc/ioports: 0b10-0b1f : pnp 00:02
/proc/ioports: 0b20-0b3f : pnp 00:02
/proc/ioports: 0c00-0c01 : pnp 00:02
/proc/ioports: 0c14-0c14 : pnp 00:02
/proc/ioports: 0c50-0c52 : pnp 00:02
/proc/ioports: 0c6c-0c6d : pnp 00:02
/proc/ioports: 0c6f-0c6f : pnp 00:02
/proc/ioports: 0cd0-0cd1 : pnp 00:02
/proc/ioports: 0cd2-0cd3 : pnp 00:02
/proc/ioports: 0cd4-0cdf : pnp 00:02
/proc/ioports: 0cf8-0cff : PCI conf1
/proc/ioports: 4000-40fe : pnp 00:02
/proc/ioports:   4000-4003 : ACPI PM1a_EVT_BLK
/proc/ioports:   4004-4005 : ACPI PM1a_CNT_BLK
/proc/ioports:   4008-400b : ACPI PM_TMR
/proc/ioports:   4010-4015 : ACPI CPU throttle
/proc/ioports:   4020-4027 : ACPI GPE0_BLK
/proc/ioports:   4050-4050 : ACPI PM2_CNT_BLK
/proc/ioports: 4100-411f : pnp 00:02
/proc/ioports: 4210-4217 : pnp 00:02
/proc/ioports: c000-cfff : PCI Bus #03
/proc/ioports: d000-dfff : PCI Bus #02
/proc/ioports:   de00-deff : 0000:02:00.0
/proc/ioports:     de00-deff : r8169
/proc/ioports: e000-efff : PCI Bus #01
/proc/ioports:   ee00-eeff : 0000:01:05.0
/proc/ioports: fa00-fa0f : 0000:00:14.1
/proc/ioports:   fa00-fa07 : ide0
/proc/ioports: fb00-fb0f : 0000:00:11.0
/proc/ioports: fc00-fc03 : 0000:00:11.0
/proc/ioports: fd00-fd07 : 0000:00:11.0
/proc/ioports: fe00-fe03 : 0000:00:11.0
/proc/ioports: ff00-ff07 : 0000:00:11.0
/proc/iomem: 00000000-0009f7ff : System RAM
/proc/iomem: 0009f800-0009ffff : reserved
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/proc/iomem: bfef0000-cfeeffff : pnp 00:0b
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/proc/iomem: e0000000-efffffff : PCI MMCONFIG 0
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/proc/iomem:   fdae0000-fdaeffff : 0000:02:00.0
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/proc/iomem:     fdaff000-fdafffff : r8169
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/proc/iomem: fdc00000-fdcfffff : PCI Bus #03
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/proc/iomem:   fdcff000-fdcff7ff : 0000:03:0e.0
/proc/iomem:     fdcff000-fdcff7ff : firewire_ohci
/proc/iomem: fdd00000-fddfffff : PCI Bus #02
/proc/iomem: fde00000-fdffffff : PCI Bus #01
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/proc/iomem:   fdfe0000-fdfeffff : 0000:01:05.0
/proc/iomem:   fdffc000-fdffffff : 0000:01:05.1
/proc/iomem: fe024000-fe027fff : 0000:00:14.2
/proc/iomem: fe028000-fe028fff : 0000:00:14.5
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/proc/iomem: fe029000-fe0290ff : 0000:00:13.2
/proc/iomem:   fe029000-fe0290ff : ehci_hcd
/proc/iomem: fe02a000-fe02afff : 0000:00:13.1
/proc/iomem:   fe02a000-fe02afff : ohci_hcd
/proc/iomem: fe02b000-fe02bfff : 0000:00:13.0
/proc/iomem:   fe02b000-fe02bfff : ohci_hcd
/proc/iomem: fe02c000-fe02c0ff : 0000:00:12.2
/proc/iomem:   fe02c000-fe02c0ff : ehci_hcd
/proc/iomem: fe02d000-fe02dfff : 0000:00:12.1
/proc/iomem:   fe02d000-fe02dfff : ohci_hcd
/proc/iomem: fe02e000-fe02efff : 0000:00:12.0
/proc/iomem:   fe02e000-fe02efff : ohci_hcd
/proc/iomem: fe02f000-fe02f3ff : 0000:00:11.0
/proc/iomem:   fe02f000-fe02f3ff : ahci
/proc/iomem: fec00000-fec00fff : IOAPIC 0
/proc/iomem:   fec00000-fec00fff : pnp 00:0b
/proc/iomem: fed00000-fed003ff : HPET 0
/proc/iomem: fee00000-fee00fff : Local APIC
/proc/iomem: fff80000-fffeffff : pnp 00:0b
/proc/iomem: ffff0000-ffffffff : pnp 00:0b
/proc/iomem: 100000000-12fffffff : System RAM
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/proc/interrupts:   4:          0          0          0          2   IO-APIC-edge    
/proc/interrupts:   7:          0          0          0          0   IO-APIC-edge      parport0
/proc/interrupts:   8:          0          0          1          0   IO-APIC-edge      rtc
/proc/interrupts:   9:          0          0          0          1   IO-APIC-fasteoi   acpi
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/proc/interrupts:  17:          0          0          3       7233   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ehci_hcd:usb6
/proc/interrupts:  18:          0          0          0          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ohci_hcd:usb3, ohci_hcd:usb4, ohci_hcd:usb5
/proc/interrupts:  19:          0          0          0          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ehci_hcd:usb7
/proc/interrupts:  22:          0          0          0         97   IO-APIC-fasteoi   firewire_ohci
/proc/interrupts: 1277:          0          0         52     844937   PCI-MSI-edge      eth0
/proc/interrupts: 1278:          0          0         96     141026   PCI-MSI-edge      ahci
/proc/interrupts: NMI:          0          0          0          0   Non-maskable interrupts
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/proc/interrupts: CAL:       2214       2361       2341        347   function call interrupts
/proc/interrupts: TLB:      14732      14195      14232      15183   TLB shootdowns
/proc/interrupts: TRM:          0          0          0          0   Thermal event interrupts
/proc/interrupts: THR:          0          0          0          0   Threshold APIC interrupts
/proc/interrupts: SPU:          0          0          0          0   Spurious interrupts
/proc/interrupts: ERR:          0
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/proc/meminfo: MemFree:        346388 kB
/proc/meminfo: Buffers:        166524 kB
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/proc/meminfo: Bounce:              0 kB
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/proc/meminfo: Committed_AS:    17104 kB
/proc/meminfo: VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB
/proc/meminfo: VmallocUsed:    287488 kB
/proc/meminfo: VmallocChunk: 34359450851 kB
/proc/meminfo: HugePages_Total:     0
/proc/meminfo: HugePages_Free:      0
/proc/meminfo: HugePages_Rsvd:      0
/proc/meminfo: HugePages_Surp:      0
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/proc/bus/input/devices: I: Bus=0017 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=0100
/proc/bus/input/devices: N: Name="Macintosh mouse button emulation"
/proc/bus/input/devices: P: Phys=
/proc/bus/input/devices: S: Sysfs=/class/input/input0
/proc/bus/input/devices: U: Uniq=
/proc/bus/input/devices: H: Handlers=mouse0 
/proc/bus/input/devices: B: EV=7
/proc/bus/input/devices: B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0
/proc/bus/input/devices: B: REL=3
/proc/bus/input/devices: 
/proc/bus/input/devices: I: Bus=0003 Vendor=0472 Product=0065 Version=0100
/proc/bus/input/devices: N: Name="Chicony  PFU-65 USB Keyboard"
/proc/bus/input/devices: P: Phys=usb-0000:00:12.0-1.1/input0
/proc/bus/input/devices: S: Sysfs=/class/input/input3
/proc/bus/input/devices: U: Uniq=
/proc/bus/input/devices: H: Handlers=kbd 
/proc/bus/input/devices: B: EV=120013
/proc/bus/input/devices: B: KEY=1000000000007 ff9f207ac14057ff febeffdfffefffff fffffffffffffffe
/proc/bus/input/devices: B: MSC=10
/proc/bus/input/devices: B: LED=1f
/proc/bus/input/devices: 
/proc/bus/input/devices: I: Bus=0003 Vendor=0f62 Product=1001 Version=0110
/proc/bus/input/devices: N: Name="Acrox USB & PS/2 Mouse"
/proc/bus/input/devices: P: Phys=usb-0000:00:12.0-1.3/input0
/proc/bus/input/devices: S: Sysfs=/class/input/input4
/proc/bus/input/devices: U: Uniq=
/proc/bus/input/devices: H: Handlers=mouse1 
/proc/bus/input/devices: B: EV=17
/proc/bus/input/devices: B: KEY=1f0000 0 0 0 0
/proc/bus/input/devices: B: REL=103
/proc/bus/input/devices: B: MSC=10
/proc/bus/input/devices: 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

installation-report depends on no packages.

Versions of packages installation-report recommends:
ii  pciutils                      1:3.0.0-4  Linux PCI Utilities
ii  reportbug                     3.44       reports bugs in the Debian distrib

installation-report suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information



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On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:05:41PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> Basically went very well, most probs were due to user
> error/confusion/not-reading-the-installer-guide-enough.

Good. :)  I am only commenting on issues that you have encountered
but not figured out afterwards.

> 4. At some point before I realized the that I had a corrupt .iso, I
>    tried to boot the graphical installer (thinking maybe it would at
>    least give a better error message).  It "sort of" worked, but
>    eventually went into a state where it would flash and redraw the
>    screen repeatedly without accepting any input.  The video hardware on
>    this board (the 780G chipset's integrated "Radeon HD 3200") is fairly
>    new, so I suppose the installer may not support it properly.
>    didn't support it properly.  [I gave up trying to use the graphical
>    installer quickly and went back to using the text-mode installer.]

"flash + redraw repeatedly" means that the cdebconf frontend segfaults
or has a pretty bad issue.  I would be interested if you could try it
again with a more recent build if you have the opportunity to do so.

> 5. At the partitioning step, I selected LVM + guided partioning, with
>    swap, /tmp, /var, /usr, /home partitions.  The initial automatic
>    setup of the LVM logical volumes (LVs) went fine.  However, I decided
>    I'd also like to tweak the resulting LVs; I wanted to:
> 
>      a) Expand the /usr LV.
> 
>      b) Shrink the swap "partition" (LV) [The automatically chosen swap
> 	size seems excessive for 4GB of ram]
> 
>      c) Split the /home LV in half, and use the freed-up space for a new
> 	/usr/local LV
> 
>    These actions seem reasonably simple, but I found I basically
>    couldn't do them using the UI:

Well… all these actions actually first need to be done in the "Configure
the Logical Volume Manager" option of the partitioning screen. Logical
Volumes that needs to be changed have first to be deleted before being
created again.  Once the Logical Volumes are all good, their usage can
be specified again after exiting the LVM screen.

We are aware that it is suboptimal, but changing this is a fairly big
task and will not be done for Lenny.

>      a) The UI could only change LV size in one direction (don't remember
> 	which one offhand).

It does not anymore.  Like you experienced, it was just misleading.

>      b) I tried to split the /home LV by deleting it, and creating a new
> 	/home LV in the resulting free area with half the size.  That
> 	went fine, but the now freed up "second half" (of the old /home
> 	LV) was marked in the UI as being "unusable"!
>
>      c) Because things were getting annoying, I then tried to delete all
> 	LVs in UI, with the intention of recreating them by hand.
> 	However, even after deleting all of them, the UI didn't coalesce
> 	the "free" LVs; instead it simply showed a bunch of "free space"
> 	LVs, one for each original LV.

The delete option has also been removed for the partition used to
represent the content of a Logical Volume.

>      d) I decided I'd rather just redo the partitioning from scratch,
>         so I exited the partitioner (without writing to disk) and tried
>         again -- but the "bogus" state I had created before was still
>         present, with a bunch of un-coalescable "free" LVs.
> 
>    Eventually I just gave up on using the partitioning UI, and used a
>    subshell to invoke the various LVM "lv..." utilities to delete all
>    logical volumes and create new LVs as I wished.  That worked fine
>    (the only difficulty being guessing how the lv... utilities worked
>    based only on the --help output, since no man pages were available).

Strange that you did not have the idea to look up in the "Configure the
Logical Volume Manager" option.  The manual is really lacking a good
part about how to use partman, but no one took the job, yet.

> When the install was finished, and the X window system started, the
> display was sort of screwed up (odd resolution, bottom 32 rows or so not
> displayed).  I eventually realized this was just because the "radeon" X
> driver didn't support my video hardware correctly; upgrading to the
> version of X and radeon driver in "experimental" fixed this nicely.

That's outside the scope of the debian-installer.  Let's hope X.org
maintainters will fix this for Lenny.

As you have managed to successfully install your system, and that all
issues reported were already known, I am closing your bug report.

Have fun with your shiny new Debian installation!

Cheers,
-- 
Jérémy Bobbio                        .''`. 
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