Proposal of Debian Installer Errata updates
Hello,
Here goes my first proposed diff against current errata[1]. Please
check if I've skiped anything that you can test and check if it works
now or if you know it has been fixed already.
1. http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/errata
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Index: errata.wml
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RCS file: /cvs/webwml/webwml/english/devel/debian-installer/errata.wml,v
retrieving revision 1.118
diff -u -r1.118 errata.wml
--- errata.wml 25 Jun 2008 18:24:01 -0000 1.118
+++ errata.wml 7 Nov 2008 21:26:07 -0000
@@ -22,35 +22,6 @@
Note however that this problem may occur again on subsequent boots.
</dd>
- <dt><q>uninitialized value</q> warnings from Perl during installation</dt>
- <dd>
- As a result of a recent switch to Perl 5.10, the installation logs
- will show some Perl warnings. As far as we know these are harmless
- and can be ignored. A solution for this issue
- (<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/480533";>#480533</a>) is being worked on.
- </dd>
-
- <dt>aptitude errors during installs in Russian</dt>
- <dd>
- This issue will result in a failed installation. We have only seen
- reports for Russian, but some other languages may be affected too.
- The issue (<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/473559";>#473559</a>) is
- expected to be fixed shortly after the release for daily and weekly
- built installer and CD/DVD images.<br />
- In case you do hit this issue, the installation can be completed by
- using the following workaround:
- <ul>
- <li>switch to a debug console on VT2</li>
- <li>run the command:<br />
- <tt>rm /target/usr/share/locale/<lang>/LC_MESSAGES/*apt*</tt><br />
- (replace <q><tt><lang></tt></q> by your language code,
- e.g. <q><tt>ru</tt></q>)</li>
- <li>switch back to the installer menu on VT1</li>
- <li>continue the installation by retrying the selected
- installation step</li>
- </ul>
- </dd>
-
<dt>Buggy routers may cause network problems</dt>
<dd>
If you experience network problems during the installation, this may be
@@ -69,26 +40,11 @@
<tt>echo 4096 65536 65536 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_wmem</tt>
</dd>
- <dt>General issues after reboot because of UTF-8 default</dt>
- <dd>
- The installed system is now set to UTF-8 by default. However, not all
- applications properly support UTF-8 yet, which may result in minor or
- major problems when using them.<br />
- Please check if such problems have been reported yet and, if not, file
- a bug report against the relevant package (not the installer).
- </dd>
-
<dt>Graphical installer</dt>
<dd>
The graphical installer still has some known issues (see also the
Installation Guide):
<ul>
- <li>some non-US keymaps are not fully supported (deadkeys and
- combining characters do not work)</li>
- <li>keys for accented or special characters may not work correctly;
- this is a regression compared to previous releases which will
- hopefully be fixed again soon
- (<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/482335";>#482335</a>)</li>
<li>touchpads should work, but support may not be optimal; if you
experience problems, you should use an external mouse instead</li>
<li>should work on almost all PowerPC systems that have an ATI
@@ -115,31 +71,6 @@
switches to the next kernel version.
</dd>
- <dt>i386/amd64: GRUB installation on cpqarray RAID volumes may fail</dt>
- <dd>
- Affected are systems that have <tt>/dev/ida/cXdX</tt> devices.
- This issue (<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/466600";>#466600</a>) is
- expected to be fixed soon after the release for daily and weekly built
- installer and CD/DVD images when a fixed version of GRUB reaches testing.
- </dd>
-
- <dt>i386/amd64: Reboot may fail with loop-aes encrypted root file system</dt>
- <dd>
- This can be due to a problem in GRUB which results in an incorrect
- <tt>root=</tt> parameter being set in <tt>/etc/grub/menu.lst</tt>.
- See <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/486360";>#486360</a> for details
- and workaround.
- </dd>
-
- <dt>arm: NSLU2 image won't start</dt>
- <dd>
- The NSLU2 installer images from debian.org will not boot. However,
- this problem is not present in the unofficial images from
- <tt>slug-firmware.net</tt>. These images also include the
- proprietary microcode needed for Ethernet to work, so please
- use the images from <tt>slug-firmware.net</tt>.
- </dd>
-
<dt>powerpc: various issues</dt>
<dd>
The PowerPC port has several issues in this release:
Cheers,
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